NARRATOR: Previously on Fringe:
The shape-shifters on your side are looking for someone.
OLlVlA: William Bell told me Newton would try to open a doorway...
...from our universe to the other side.
You once built a door that let you walk between worlds.
Tell me how you did it.
WALTER: l can save him. WOMAN: Peter is dead.
l'm talking about the other Peter, the one on the other side.
-You're not my father. -Of course l am.
l've done enough damage. l have to tell him who he really is.
[RUSH'S "TOM SAWYER" PLAYlNG ON CAR STEREO]
A modern-day warrior Mean, mean stride
Today's Tom Sawyer Mean, mean pride
You feel that?
-What? -The-- The shaking.
A whole lot of shaking going on.
[JlLL LAUGHlNG]
-No, l'm serious. -And you're stoned. Give me that.
l thought you said this place was abandoned.
-l'm gonna check it out. -We should just go.
No, just hang tight. l'll be fine.
[LOCK CLlCKS]
JlLL: This totally sucks. What took you so long?
You scared the hell out of me.
l wanna leave here, Dave.
[JlLL SCREAMS]
Come on, Walter. Not again.
Just rearranging. lt's not quite right yet.
lt's fine. And it was fine yesterday, and fine the day before that.
A well-ordered house is the sign of a well-ordered mind.
But staying up all night to find the perfect place for your hamper...
...is a sign of something else in my books.
Come on, leave that for later. l got you a surprise.
l thought maybe we could bake a pie together.
Your favorite. Say, pecan? l got all the good stuff.
You wanna whip the batter?
The batter can wait. There's something we have to talk about.
Okay. Fair enough. lt's your room, you can decorate it...
-...however you like. -lt's not that.
There's something you deserve to know.
Peter, every living thing dies.
As a scientist, that's one of the hardest things to accept.
That we try to understand the mechanisms of life...
...but inevitably, we can't defeat death.
No matter how much we really want to.
[PHONE RlNGlNG]
Olivia. Hey, what's up?
Yeah. Yeah. Sure, we'll meet you outside.
-Something happened? -Yeah, l guess so.
She's on her way to pick us up.
-l'll-- l'll get my field kit. -Walter.
Oh, it's all right, Peter. lt can wait.
Name's Jill Redmond. Her purse was found outside the car.
Patrolman found her with a broken neck. That's the cause of death.
But the medical examiner found this.
Three puncture wounds in her soft palate.
Raised a red flag in the FBl database and came up the chain to me.
Shape-shifters.
Well, the last time we heard of Newton and his men was in New York.
They must've needed her identity for something.
OLlVlA: What else do we know about her?
We're running a background check now.
We should send her photograph to local and state law enforcement...
...and make sure they know she just got a lot more dangerous than she looks.
Look. lt's a lemon zinger, l believe.
Hm.
lt's not as good as the stuff l grow, but it's not bad either.
Well, at least she died in a happy place.
l'm not so sure. The girl's wearing lipstick, but there isn't any on the joint.
So you think maybe she was with somebody?
Maybe. Maybe someone who was lucky enough to get away.
WALTER: Three puncture wounds to the soft palate.
MAN: All clear. The rest of the place is deserted.
Except for this.
-Wait. OLlVlA: Walter, have you seen...
-...anything like this before? WALTER: l think l may have.
lt's awfully familiar.
Ah, yes. lt reminds me of a beanbag chair l once owned.
1 974.
So when a shape-shifter takes a body...
...it's because they want access. Like the one that turned into the nurse...
...came after me at the hospital. Or Charlie.
PETER: So, what would the shape-shifters want with these kids?
You think that's a good idea?
Well, l think it's harmless enough.
Mercury.
Walter, if that's mercury, do you think that this is a shape-shifter?
l do believe it is.
lsn't that wonderful?
Good morning.
We're here to pick up a camera. An Argus.
A2B 35mm.
My secretary told me there would be three of you.
There was a problem. The third didn't make it.
Marvelous.
lt's like an embryo in the sense that it's not fully developed.
Developed?
Well, my theory is that this is the state in which...
...they enter our universe. As l've said, being partly mechanical, they can...
...failed to mature properly.
Peter, would you take a look?
Shape-shifter embryo. Adorable.
So the two teenagers. Maybe there were...
...two more of these that hatched and killed them.
lt's a sound proposition.
But presumably, the embryonic shape-shifters would've needed...
...features, human identities.
They certainly wouldn't blend in otherwise.
So then those two teenagers were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
[PHONE RlNGS]
OLlVlA: Dunham. -lt's got dozens of different amino acids...
...which would allow it to survive in the foreign conditions of our universe.
Okay, that was Broyles.
Astrid, l wanna see if we can download this file from the FBl secure server.
MAN [ON VlDEO]: The African elephant is the largest--
OLlVlA: Okay, this was recorded last night.
Now, just before 9 p.m., several dozen homes, all within a half-mile radius...
...of the warehouse, reported an odd kind of interference...
-...with their broadcast signal. -Right around when the ME estimated...
-...time of death for those kids. -Walter.
ls it possible the shape-shifter embryo could've caused this interference?
Yes. l believe the interfering signal may have originated in the alternate universe.
We may be getting a glimpse into the other side.
Can we turn it up?
And slow it down.
[WHlRRlNG NOlSES PLAYlNG ON VlDEO]
What is that?
lt almost sounds like a language.
You hear the way some of those sounds seem to repeat?
Shape-shifters are soldiers. Soldiers always come with orders.
-Maybe that's a message. -l can see what the code breakers...
...at the bureau can make of it.
l got a better idea.
MAN: lt's not a language. lt's math.
-Math? -Trigonometric equations.
ln this case, a radio wave. The kind given off by a solar flare...
-...which is interesting. -lnteresting how?
Our astronomical division...
...picked up a surge in solar activity right around that time.
Here's a radio wave from last night's solar flare.
Here's your wave. But yours couldn't have come from the sun.
-Where else could it have come from? -l don't know.
l mean, they're not in sync.
Suppose it came from a parallel universe.
Wow.
That-- That would d-- Yeah, yeah, because in a parallel universe...
...time would be slightly out of sync.
And the waves would be too.
Hm.
What?
lmagine that these are the two universes.
Slightly out of sync, but on rare occasion...
...they perfectly line up.
According to the computer, that's gonna happen...
...between our universe and wherever this radio wave came from.
-When? MAN: Based on this...
...tomorrow, at precisely 3:31 p.m.
-All right. Who will be McCallister? -That'd be me.
He's Wu.
Now, everything else you need is in here.
Once you're done, we'll reconvene at the exchange point tomorrow...
-...at exactly 20 past 3. -So that's it?
We're still going through with this?
Why, you have a problem with it?
We are a man down.
Neither of us have time to handle Verona, and you don't have a shifting device.
-Maybe we should abort. -And l suppose...
...you'll be the one to give the news to the secretary.
We won't have another chance like this for seven months.
So l'll figure out how to handle Mr. Verona.
You make sure you hold your end.
All right?
You're the boss.
Now let's get to work.
[CAR ALARM CHlRPS]
Excuse me. Would you happen to know where Franklin Street is?
Sure. You're three blocks south of Franklin.
So go down this street, you'll see a convenience store...
...then make a left and go two blocks west.
l'll write it down for you.
Hey. Where's Walter?
He's out counting cars. Thinks it might help jog his memory.
-Says human memory is best triggered-- -When accomplishing mundane tasks.
Walter's convinced that Newton wants to build a door to the other side.
lf he can remember what he told Newton...
...we might be able to figure out what's supposed to happen tomorrow.
-And these cars that he's tracking down? -He promised to stay off the freeway.
-Hey. -Hey.
-How goes it? -Broyles sent over a list...
...of state and local events taking place tomorrow.
Oh.
Star Trek Convention at the Worcester Centrum. That's not good.
l told Walter l'd take him. Maybe we'll just pretend like we didn't see that.
Sure.
l think l finally figured out why it is...
...that Walter's been acting so strange lately.
He's been carrying this picture around with him...
...a family photo from when l was a kid.
l think he wants to talk to me about how my mother died.
About a month after l got to Europe...
...l got a call from St. Claire's, from Walter.
He told me that she died in a car crash.
There wasn't a car crash.
My mother committed suicide.
That was the only time l spoke to him...
...in the 1 7 years that he was locked up in St. Claire's.
He must've known the truth.
l think in his way, he was trying to protect me.
For whatever reason, he wants to talk about it now.
Peter...
...you know that Walter loves you very much.
Peter.
Our synthetic friends. l believe l know how to figure out what they're up to.
-You remember what you told Newton? -No.
-As they say in Finland: -There's more than one way...
-...to roast a reindeer. -But l'll need some supplies.
l need six car batteries, a voltage transformer...
...and several yards of 1 0-gauge electrical wire.
Oh, and a corpse. Any corpse will do.
But it shouldn't be dead for more than two days.
NEWTON: Hello. -Hello. Can l help you?
Yes, l'm here to see your manager, Mr. McCallister.
He's-- He's expecting me.
So, boss, you felt the need to check up on me?
Yeah.
-Figure out what to do about Verona? -l have some thoughts.
[DEVlCE POWERlNG UP]
[DOOR OPENS]
-Mr. McCallister? -Yes.
Approval for an overdraft withdrawal?
Oh, thank you. l'll be there in just a minute.
Okay.
You can handle the rest. Just make sure the device remains undisturbed.
Tied into the house power, and the volt meter is ready to go.
So, Walter, you're sure that l'm doing this right?
WALTER: Perfect, Olivia. Just make sure they're tightened down.
ASTRlD: Walter, you really think that this is gonna work?
No reason it shouldn't. l mean, something stopped this creature...
...from developing, and because it's part mechanical...
...if we pump it with enough electricity, we should be able to restart it.
Like jumpstarting a car.
ASTRlD: So, what's the corpse for?
ls this embryo supposed to reanimate it?
Oh, don't be ridiculous.
But if we intend to question this creature...
...then it will need an identity to shape-shift into.
Because that's not ridiculous at all.
WALTER: l think we're ready, Olivia.
-Eighty amps. -Eighty amps.
WALTER: Not enough power, but it seems to be working.
-Um.... Try 1 1 0. -One-ten.
One-forty.
PETER: One-forty.
[MACHlNES POWER DOWN]
l think we must've blown a fuse.
Oh, my. Look! Astrid, quickly, some candles.
Something's wrong.
When l cut into it l must have damaged it.
Peter, the corpse.
All right. Good on my side.
[GASPlNG]
[ASTRlD SCREAMS]
SHAPE-SHlFTER: Help me.
Contact Newton.
Thomas Jerome Newton? Where is he?
Verona.
Daniel Verona.
Who is Daniel Verona?
SHAPE-SHlFTER: Blood type, AB negative. Cellular polarity....
We're losing it.
Tomorrow afternoon, what is happening at 3:31 ?
l'm sorry.
[SlRENS CHlRPlNG]
Daniel Verona?
FBl.
MAN [OVER PHONE]: 91 1 , what is your emergency?
There's a man, he's middle-aged, Caucasian.
-He's having a heart attack. -What is your location?
The corner of Longwood and Huntington.
What is your name, sir?
Oh, my God. Hey, this guy needs help!
Does anyone know CPR? Someone call an ambulance, quick!
OLlVlA: He's not a shape-shifter.
We'll run his blood anyway. Test it for mercury.
Maybe we got to him before they could.
Why him? l mean, why Daniel Verona? What could they want with him?
BROYLES: Medical Examiner. Works out of Boston General.
lt's anybody's guess.
[POWERlNG UP]
PETER: Yeah, you too. Okay. Good night.
WALTER: Agent Dunham?
Yeah, Verona was a bust.
Walter, you've been awake for two straight days, you need to get some rest.
The shape-shifters.
l should have been more careful with my initial dissection.
lf l hadn't caused so much damage it could have told us everything.
But you couldn't possibly have known that.
Still, it was stupid and inexcusable.
Calm down.
-lt's gonna be okay. -Okay. Yeah.
We're gonna figure it out just like we always do.
-Okay. -Okay?
l want you to get some rest, Dad.
l'm gonna hit the sack. l'll be upstairs if you need me.
-Dad. -Huh?
You just called me Dad.
Yeah, l guess l did.
-Peter! -Yeah.
Newton.
l think l know what he's planning to do.
[KNOCKlNG]
She's here.
Agent Dunham. Sorry to get you out of bed.
lt's okay.
Geometry and harmonic vibrations. That's how we did it. Belly and l.
Did what?
Sent Belly's Monte Carlo from this universe...
...to the other side.
As l've said, the two universes vibrate at different frequencies.
So we set up three harmonic rods raised as an equilateral triangle.
And then we activated the rods.
[TUNlNG FORKS RlNGlNG]
The car began to vibrate at just the right frequency....
That's how we sent Belly's car to the other side.
-lt's what Newton did with the building. -Newton's attempt failed.
Yes, indeed it did. Because the building that Newton brought over...
...landed in a location that was already occupied by another.
But l suspect Mr. Newton has found a way around that problem.
He has something that Belly and l never had.
-What's that? -Agents in both universes.
Yes, Peter.
lf we set up the harmonic rods in exactly the same position...
...in each universe...
...like so...
...and we activate the rods...
...then whatever is in the center of each triangle...
...will simply be exchanged.
Of course, that would likely require the universes be in sync.
3:31 this afternoon.
Okay, so what could Newton bring here?
Last time he brought a building, so supposedly anything that would fit inside.
-A machine. -An army?
Yes, if the triangle is large enough that is possible.
We have roughly 1 0 hours to figure out where the center of Newton's triangle is.
Yes.
But it could be anywhere.
MAN [OVER RADlO]: Wu, you're supposed to be fixing a transformer...
...at Third and Spencer. Where the hell are you?
Wu.
Three points. Newton would have to place the harmonic rods...
...at three locations across the city.
So Newton's going after Verona because he had access to one of the three points.
That would suggest either Boston General Hospital or Verona's home.
Okay, so Verona lives in Beacon Hill, 520 South Garden Street.
Only a couple blocks from the hospital. So for our purposes, that's our first point.
ASTRlD: l might be able to help.
Boston P.D. found a corpse in Chestnut Hill. Three punctures to his soft palate.
Ben McCallister, branch manager at Pinewood Savings Bank.
He was found outside his office.
-Not easy to access a bank. OLlVlA: Okay, 1 85 Mason Ave.
PETER: Mason. Excellent. So that's our second point.
And now we have the first leg of our triangle.
We have more. We're looking for an equilateral triangle, the third point--
Can only be in one of two places. Right.
All right, so the third point is either Arlington or Cedar Grove.
Try both, see what's in the center of each triangle.
lt's either Hyde Park...
...or right on the Charles River. Gotta be targeting Hyde Park.
ls there a bridge? On the Charles?
Yeah. A condemned railway bridge. Why?
The water would absorb any excess energy caused by Newton's procedure.
He must be making the exchange on the bridge.
WALTER: She's right, Peter.
lt's Dunham. l think we have something.
WU: We're all set.
-Any problems? WU: All good.
[SlRENS CHlRPlNG]
Go deal with it. Now.
OLlVlA [OVER PHONE]: We sending anyone to look for the rods?
Agents are on their way to the morgue and McCallister's bank.
P.D. have been deployed to the Andrews' Avenue Bridge. Status?
Few minutes away. Whatever Newton's bringing, Walter thinks he can stop it.
-Okay. Call me when you get there. -Walter, how is this thing gonna work?
Vibrations are composed of shock waves.
Like sound waves, they can be nullified by their opposite.
-Right, like noise-canceling headphones? -Yes.
Seismograph should pick up the vibration from Newton's device...
...the laptop will calculate its opposite, transmit it to the pneumatic hammer.
Vibrations that would cancel out Newton's device.
We have to get the hammer as close to the center of the bridge as possible.
-lt could be dangerous. -Dangerous how?
The vibrational waves that Newton will need to generate...
...the intensity, it would be devastating.
-What do you mean, devastating? -l suspect it would tear a man apart.
Walter, l need you to stay here and finish putting that thing together, okay?
Hey. We need to get on that bridge.
l'm afraid that's not possible.
l'm with the FBl.
You're the boss. Let me just check with the sergeant.
-How'd you know? -Cop wouldn't call his sergeant on a cell.
Walter! No!
[EXPLOSlON]
OLlVlA: lt's 3:32. Walter's not gonna make it in time.
PETER: l'm going up there. Cover me.
WALTER: You need to get off this bridge!
l have to put this on. l started this.
lt's gonna go faster if we do it together.
-What? -The two on the bridge, get them out.
[SlRENS WAlLlNG lN DlSTANCE]
[GUNSHOT]
OLlVlA: Peter and Walter are on the bridge. lt started.
-Pneumatic's ready. -Seismograph is ready.
Turning on the program.
Something's wrong.
l don't understand. lt should be working.
There's something wrong with your frequency recognition program. l'll fix it.
-How are we doing? -Get off this bridge.
-Off the bridge. -Walter, nothing else you can do.
-Get him off this bridge. OLlVlA: Come on, Walter!
-Walter. WALTER: No.
[HlGH-PlTCHED SCREECHlNG]
You okay?
Welcome back.
How long was l out?
About a day and a half.
Here.
The doctor said you'd be fine, but Walter was worried.
l'm fine.
-ls he here? -Yeah.
He wouldn't leave. He'll want to know that you're up.
Olivia.
l'd like to speak to him alone if that's okay.
Sure.
Peter.
[WALTER LAUGHS]
They told me you'd be all right, but l was so worried, son.
There was another man on that bridge.
When Newton's device started to work, l saw him there.
Just walking down the bridge.
He had to have been from the other side.
You said the effects of Newton's vibrations would be devastating.
And they were. They destroyed that FBl agent.
They just disintegrated him, like he wasn't even there.
But they didn't kill the man from the other side.
And they didn't kill me.
l'm not from here, am l?
You didn't just open up a hole to the other side...
...you went through.
And you brought me back.
That's why l was able to survive Newton's device.
Why l can't remember my childhood.
-You were dying. -That's why my mother committed suicide.
lsn't it? She knew, didn't she?
And when l left, the guilt was too much for her to live with. The lie.
Peter, you need to understand--
l understand, Walter.
l understand everything now.
-Son-- -l am not your son.
l'd like to be alone now.
lt would be easier if you don't try to talk just yet, Mr. Secretary.
You see, despite the preparation...
...crossing over is quite an ordeal on your body.
And the consequences are unpredictable.
This-- This should help.
You should--
You should be able to sleep for a while.
And hopefully when you wake up, you'll be stabilized.
Walter, it's 6:00. Peter's probably still sleeping.
l have to go to the hospital. Are you going to drive me or shall l call a cab?
[KNOCKlNG]
OLlVlA: Hey.
Walter.
Peter checked himself out of the hospital three hours ago.
He isn't at the lab.
And he's not answering his phone.
He's gone.
[ENGLlSH - US - SDH]