- In the alternate universe, Olivia and the Fringe Division investigate weird accidents with casualties apparently with no connection except ballpoint pens found on the spots. But when Olivia sees the freak Milo, she suspects that he might be the responsible. Olivia and Charlie investigates and soon they follow a lead to a hospital where they learn what happened to Milo.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- In this case, timing is everything as a series of anomalous events lead the Fringe Division to investigate deadly incidents with unimaginable coincidences. As the freaky crimes continue to occur, the team is in a race against time to protect potential victims. Meanwhile, Secretary Bishop shares his strategic plan with Colonel Broyles as Olivia grapples with a heart-stopping vision.—Fox Publicity
- Hoboken, New Jersey A man stands on a street, watching a woman on the opposite side buy flowers. He walks purposefully across the street in front of traffic and rests a pen on its end on top of a mailbox. A bicyclist races down the street. The man passes the woman he'd been watching.
A taxi drives by and sets off a chain reaction, splashing the pen over so that a man goes to get it, getting in the bicyclist's path and knocking him into a fruit stand. The woman looks at the fruit, so does the driver of the bus coming down the street. The light turns red, but he doesn't notice. The woman steps in front of the bus. The man walks away.
At Fringe HQ on the other side, Olivia reports for work, seeming to believe she's Fauxlivia. Charlie welcomes her back and she remembers that he owes her $70. Broyles and Walternate watch.
Broyles thinks putting an impostor on his team is too big a risk. Walternate says over time Olivia will reach a plateau and her identity will be fixed.
Walternate explains what they have to gain: Olivia can move between worlds without risk. They want to experiment on her, with her cooperation.
And if her new identity doesn't hold. "Then she will no longer be necessary," Walternate says.
Charlie briefs the team on the seemingly random bus accident yesterday, and the one today that happened in the exact same way.
Agent Lincoln Lee is out of his burn chamber for 8 hours, leading the investigation. Olivia talks to the shaken bus driver. Lee tests for environmental degradation and finds none. He sees the pen. They haven't seen one since preschool. They figure out the pen started a chain reaction.
Randomly, Olivia looks across the street and sees Peter. But then he's gone.
Olivia comes home to Fauxlivia's boyfriend, Frank. There's a report on the TV about an outbreak of smallpox in Texas, which is his field of medicine.
She tells him about seeing "a face" in the field. She mentions "the secretary's son."
He tries to tell her to take it easy and to tell Broyles.
Back at Fringe HQ, Charlie finds no links between the victims. Lee tells Charlie he would have known Olivia was an impostor. He tells Lee what Olivia was saying during her "breakdown" about them trying to convince her she was someone else. Lee thinks that sounds nuts.
He sees a ballpoint pen in the photo of the first accident. Astrid calculates it as impossible for someone to use a ball point pen to set off a chain of events that kills someone -- twice.
Then she sees that it happened again.
They go to the scene of the latest bus accident.
At the scene, the victim is alive. Olivia looks around and sees a ball point pen nearby. She announces it's not over. Down the street, a man puts in earbuds and steps into the street -- into the path of an oncoming ambulance.
Olivia sees the odd looking man on a footbridge and races toward him. He throws a nearby bike over the side of the bridge. She reaches him, telling him to put his hands on his head. He waits, then leaps over the side, onto the roof of a van that happens to be passing by and has slowed to avoid the bike he threw in the street.
Dept of Defense Hospital Lee gets back in his burn chamber. He tells Olivia to focus on why he's targeting the victims. He's cutting the burn thing close and his face starts bubbling as he gets back in.
The odd man gets home to a nervous young woman, telling him "they" have been calling. She's his sister Maddie. We learn he's Milo.
She holds up a small plastic horse, a reminder from their mom that he didn't have to do more than he was able to. He says that's irrelevant now.
"I made a mistake when I signed you up, I didn't mean this," she says, reminding him he has to follow the rules.
The horse briefly snaps him out of it, but then he leaves.
Olivia and Charlie interview witnesses from the office. She's stumped when she needs a code to access the system.
He decides to remind her about riding an amusement ride, when she threw up all over the guy next to her. Except, she reminds him, he's the one who threw up. She passes his test.
Olivia notices the first victim worked for an electric company that has a medical subsidiary where the second victim worked. They go to the hospital.
They want to see the chief medical officer. Olivia looks into a room of patients and sees her Walter. Charlie notices the box of ball point pens on the table.
They show him photos of the two victims, one of whom was conducting a drug trial at the hospital. He knows the third, too.
He tells them they're looking for a patient.
He tells them they've been working on "smart drugs." They started with patients with an IQ of less than 65. Olivia recognizes Milo in the footage.
Five months ago he had a 56 IQ, now he can recite the digits of pi to 1,000 decimals. That was after one treatment -- they gave him five.
The final part of the trial is to return the subject to their original state. They assume he didn't want to be regressed. All three victims were involved with the regression and the third had only been ordered on the case yesterday, but not assigned.
He tells them about Milo's sister. They go to visit her as Milo watches them and calculates all the possible outcomes.
At the sister's house, they tell her about the three people he's killed. Charlie goes to check out his room.
Olivia talks about siblings with his sister, saying her own died a few years ago. It leads her to a weird place.
Olivia tries to tell her Milo is dangerous now. She gives Olivia a good bye note he left, with a way to contact him. Outside, Charlie wonders if Milo is ten steps ahead of them, expecting them to go to the hotel. They finally opt to go there. Milo expects them there, then expects to see Olivia crushed with cinder blocks. He envisions things backwards, with her running under a sign at 4pm.
Olivia and Charlie pull up. Milo watches on the street, they walk toward him. He runs, the time changes to 4 p.m. They race after him just like he expected. They run down an alley and split up, which he thinks will lead to an air alert going out and Olivia running into a pallet of cinder blocks.
Except that when the compromised air quality alert goes out, Olivia doesn't know what it means, so she doesn't slow down and has a step to evade the cinder blocks. She reaches Milo, but starts choking on the bad air.
Charlie runs up and shoots Milo in the leg to keep him from running. Charlie has to tell Olivia how to use the emergency air canister.
Later, Charlie asks her why she ignored the air quality alert. He thinks she's a dare devil.
Maddie goes to visit her brother. Olivia tells her Milo has been on the drugs too long to go off and he's now so advanced, he can only communicate with a computer.
Maddie grabs holds his hand and he stops calculating for a moment, then resumes. She gives him the small plastic horse, but it has no effect.
DOD HQ The nerdy doctor Brandon gets a visit from Walternate. He has some of Peter's clothes there in the hope it'll spark Olivia to link to the other side.
Walterate suggest a sensory deprivation tank for his experiment.
Olivia watches Frank pack to go help with the smallpox outbreak and reassures him to go. Olivia sees Peter standing in her bedroom. He tells her she didn't die because she didn't know the protocol and didn't stop for oxygen.
He tells her she knows why she did it. "You're not from this world, Olivia. You're not her," he says. He urges her to remember who she is and where she's from. He kisses her.
Frank comes back and she tells him she'll miss him. He leaves and she suddenly looks very lost.
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