- An FBI agent experiencing huge pain is brought to a hospital where it is discovered that there is a strange parasite wrapped around his heart.
- When FBI Agent Mitchell Loeb collapses in Philip Broyles office, he is rushed to hospital. The doctors there open his chest only to find a creature of some type wrapped around the man's heart. Dr. Bishop believes the creature to be a parasite of some type, but one that is man made. Olivia Dunham learns that the pattern is made up of several quasi-independent cells and that Agent Loeb may have been on to one of them. Dunham travels to Germany to follow-up on Loeb's investigation However, to get the information they want, Dr. Bishop has to get information from a dead man.—garykmcd
- Weymouth, Mass. A boat on the water approaches its target, surveilling through night vision. A truck rounds the corner. The FBI swarms the truck. They open the back, in which they find...nothing useful.
Broyles (Lance Reddick) meets with the team leader, who briefs him on Joseph Smith, the guy involved. Agent Mitchell Loeb (Chance Kelly) suddenly collapses on the floor and starts convulsing. They take him to the ER. Broyles reassures Loeb's wife, Jessica (Trini Alvarado).
Doctors shock him to no avail and then open him up. They split open his ribs, his heart starts beating and then the doctor and nurses see something exceptionally gross, a bug-like parasite surrounding his heart. Ew.
Olivia (Anna Torv) and the Bishops are briefed by Broyles. The "thing" isn't communicable. Broyles tries to prepare Walter (John Noble) for what he's about to see. The man, Broyles' friend, is still alive.
Walter finds it "spectacular." It's partly organic. It looks like Audrey from "Little Shop of Horrors" wrapped around the dude's ticker, except gray.
They take Loeb back to Harvard. Walter can't examine the parasite until it's removed from Loeb. Also, Walter would like some gum, or perhaps a mint. Olivia speaks with Jessica Loeb, who wants to know why her husband was transferred there.
Loeb was recently on a mission in Frankfurt. Jessica gives Olivia a list of numbers he brought back with him.
Walter tries to cut into the thing, but it chomps down more on Loeb's heart. Peter (Joshua Jackson) injects him with something while Walter goes to examine a tissue sample of the parasite. Loeb stabilizes.
Walter says the parasite is of human design. He found a repeating pattern in the DNA sequence, Astrid (Jasika Nicole) thinks it might be a code, the "Caesar shift," a simple alphabetical code. Astrid throws out some letters.
Olivia recognizes the sequence ZFT. Off to Broyles. She remembers something from Loeb's file. Broyles recognizes it. A man was arrested in Germany in possession of state secrets. Loeb was investigating a Mr. Jones (Jared Harris) of ZFT. (Honestly, it could be EFT, they don't enunciate.) There's a lot about the Pattern Olivia doesn't know, Broyles says. There are privately funded cells in 83 countries that traffic in scientific progress. The thing they found in Loeb could be one of those experiments. But they're not allowed to see Jones.
Olivia begs to differ. She's off to Germany.
At Harvard, Loeb is dehydrated. Peter sees something in his IV, a root of the parasite spreading up through Loeb's arm.
In Germany, Olivia meets up with Lucas Vogel (Bunya Nakamura), a man from her military past who has contacts.
Wissenchaft Prison, Germany They show up at the prison when Lucas introduces her to the warden. Lucas speaks some German. Olivia says it's very important to her and she'd sign anything. Then she speaks some German to sell her point. The warden warns her Mr. Jones speaks with no one. She asks the warden to pass him a note.
Broyles thanks Walter for his work. Walter responds by talking about fruit cocktail, which prompts Broyles to go talk to Peter, who explains that Walter becomes fixated on certain foods. He acknowledges Walter is, shall we say, a pineapple short of a fruit cocktail.
Charlie Francis (Kirk Acevedo) calls. They discovered the paper Loeb brought back has number corresponding to cases and agents out of the Boston office. Another mole? One of the names is the same Joseph Smith whom Loeb was briefing Broyles on when he collapsed.
Broyles sents SWAT to Smith's address.
Olivia and Lucas wait at the prison. He's happy to see her again. The warden comes out. Mr. Jones will see her, but not until tomorrow morning. And only for 14 minutes. He gave her a note.
She calls Peter. Jones wants to talk to Joseph Smith first. They need him alive.
Peter races there. They're radio silent.
The SWAT team advances. Peter rolls up in his beat-up station wagon, but no one will listen to him. With Olivia on the phone, Peter watches helplessly as Smith comes out of his window, drops to the ground then pulls a gun. And is then taken out with a bullet to the head. Oh dear.
Peter briefs Broyles, explaining his men just killed their bargaining chip. Astrid calls Peter for Walter, then hands the phone over. "Hello, Peter, this is me, your father, Walter Bishop." "Thank you, Walter, I know who you are." "Excellent," Walter says. He thinks they need to talk to Mr. Smith. Peter informs him he's dead. Walter inquires if Mr. Smith's head is still attached. He tells Peter to bring him in.
Lucas says good-bye to Olivia at the airport. He asks her to spend the night. Peter calls, checking if Jones knows if Smith is dead. No.
At the lab, they prep for something. But Walter's perturbed that Mr. Smith was shot in the head. He'll need to alter the procedure. They put Smith in ice and salt water, chilling him to slow degeneration. They attach wires to his brain to run an electrical current. Walter says the FBI wanted to use the procedure in 1975 on a murder victim named James, maybe Jimmy. A union leader. Jimmy Hoffa, Peter suggests. Yes, that was it. But Hoffa's electrical tolerance was low and he fried his brain. Peter remembers Walter did the same thing on him with a car battery when he was a kid.
They zap him. The circuit blows.
Olivia shares a glass of wine with Lucas. He asks who broke her heart, or is he misreading her. She tells him about Agent Scott.
Lucas says he knows he screwed up with Olivia. He was scared.
He takes her face in his hands and kisses her gently. She pulls away, starting to say she can't. But then, she can. And does.
The phone interrupts Olivia, Peter saying he thinks the dead guy will answer questions.
Olivia tells Lucas she's going back to the hotel.
The next day, Peter is hooked up to Mr. Smith's brain. They get nothing from the first two zaps.
Olivia's 14 minutes with Jones begin. He tells her she's made two incorrect assumptions: that there is nothing more valuable than his freedom and he is responsible for the infection of agent Loeb.
At the lab, Walter thinks Peter's brain functions are interfering with receiving the dead guy's thoughts. He injects his son with a sedative and something to make him euphoric.
Mr. Jones suggests he and Olivia are being manipulated and asks if she believes her people are loyal.
Broyles and Loeb's wife come into the lab to see Peter and dead guy hooked to a machine and Loeb under plastic.
Mr. Jones wants them to ask Mr. Smith where "the gentleman lives." Before they can ask the dead guy, Loeb starts to crash and Astrid (or "Asteroid" as Walter calls her) hangs up on them. Peter hears nothing after the first zap. They increase the voltage.
Peter calls for paper as Olivia is being told her time with Jones is up. Peter draws a series of lines on paper. But it means nothing to him.
Olivia is, presumably, ordered out of the cell in German. They try to make sense of the six then five sets of lines. Walter theorizes that the part of Smith's brain processing horizontal lines may be zapped. Peter fills them in and produces "Little Hill."
Olivia relays the message and Mr. Jones tells her the chemicals to inject Loeb with. It works.
In the car with Lucas, Olivia puzzles over Jones' insinuations about loyalty. Lucas says he has other means of getting at Jones. He offers to give it a try.
Back at the hospital, Broyles asks a recovering Loeb if he knows of any other double agents besides Scott. He doesn't.
Olivia shows up at the hospital, wanting answers about Little Hill and everything else. Broyles tells her he could tell her to quit asking questions and get some sleep. Instead, he says that's what makes her a good agent.
A woozy Peter greets her. They decide they're thirsty while soaking up the sweet reunion of the Loebs.
When they walk away, Mrs. Loeb tells her husband what they did worked. Mr. Jones asked the question. She leans close and tells him the answer: "Little hill."
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