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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2009
Following his escape from a German prison, David Robert Jones turns himself in to the FBI, having begun to suffer side effects of the teleportation in “Safe”. Walter mentions that the teleportation side effects won’t kill Jones but will do something terrible to him. As insurance, Jones has developed a toxin which causes the orifices of those exposed to it to seal up, suffocating them. A bomb containing the toxin is set to go off if Olivia cannot pass his tests. The first test is to shut off a series of lights using only her mind. Jones says this is possible due a chemical present in Olivia, one designed by William Bell and patented by Massive Dynamic. The team discovers a manuscript, which explains the letters ZFT (Zerstörung durch Fortschritte der Technologie, “Destruction by Continuing Advancement of Technology”), which is essentially a Bible to Jones and his followers. According to the manuscript, there is a conflict going on between our world and a parallel universe. Jones wants Olivia as a “recruit” and the tests are the part of the selection process. Initially, Olivia believes Jones is playing mind games with her and refuses to cooperate, but when she is forced to disarm the bomb in the same manner as the test, she succeeds. During this time, Jones escapes by apparently breaking through a wall. Afterward, Olivia gets confirmation from Nina Sharp that she was indeed injected with the chemical. At the end of the episode Walter finds out that the “ZFT” was originally written on his own typewriter.
When a plane crashes after a passenger transforms into a monster, the team suspects a possible smuggling of bioterror weapons, which is linked with John Scott. They also find a crystalline disk, similar to one seen inside the woman killed in “The Ghost Network”, in the passenger’s and his accomplice’s body. While solving the case, Olivia learns that John Scott was working undercover for the National Security Agency and his body is being kept by Massive Dynamic for extracting more information. Following Olivia’s successful operation to take down the weapons dealer, she returns to the sensory deprivation tank and bids farewell to John’s consciousness, which has finally left her own.
The trio investigates the deaths of a teenager and a car salesman whose brains have been liquefied after watching a video sent to their computers. All of the victims are connected to a computer programmer who has lost his job. The murderer then sends the video to Olivia’s laptop, almost killing her niece Ella, before Olivia is able to intervene. In order to catch the suspect, Olivia defies an order from Agent Harris, and Broyles puts his friendship with Harris on the line to defend her.
Olivia’s former adversary, Sanford Harris (Michael Gaston), conducts a formal review of the Fringe division. Olivia manages to free herself from her abductors. She, along with Walter and Peter, investigates the murder of an epidemiologist, who is killed by a chemical which creates a giant, slug-like single cell of Acute viral nasopharyngitis in his stomach. Olivia succeeds in connecting the murder to Loeb and obtains the necessary evidence to capture him. Olivia tries to question him about her abduction but he tells her that he was trying to save her. Olivia’s sister Rachel (Ari Graynor) pays a visit with daughter Ella.
Agent Dunham investigates a body trapped inside a wall in a bank. He turns out to be a member of Mitchell Loeb’s team, who uses the technology he obtained in “The Equation” to engineer a string of bank robberies, targeting safe deposit boxes Walter used to hide a teleportation device. He succeeds in recovering the device and uses it to teleport David Robert Jones right out of a prison in Germany. Furthermore, Massive Dynamic’s plan to resurrect John Scott is halted when they realize a crucial piece of his memories are inside Dunham’s mind, after Olivia discovers she is mistaking his memories for hers. Jones instructs his partners to retrieve Olivia, and she is abducted while trying to track Loeb’s group.
A Massive Dynamic employee jumps out of a window when he believes he is being attacked by butterflies. Olivia’s connection with John Scott leads her to breaks in the case, but she becomes fed up with his manifestations and decides to return to the sensory deprivation tank to rid herself of them. Meanwhile, Peter’s past catches up with him when his enemies find out he’s back in Boston. Walter discovers that a hallucinogen produced by frogs is being used to literally scare victims to death, and the frogs are tracked to a suspect with whom John was involved. The suspect points to Massive Dynamic as the real culprit and tries to make a deal to testify, but is himself poisoned by the hallucinogen before this happens.
The abduction of a young musician is highlighted by a sequence of flashing lights which causes the boy’s father to be hypnotized into a suggestive state and upon ‘waking up’ does not have any memory of what happened while hypnotized. Similar cases have ended with the victim being returned, but left insane from the trauma of the incident. As they investigate, they discover that each case dealt with a genius of some sort working on an unfinished equation. To discover the child’s whereabouts, Olivia encourages Walter to return to St. Claire’s Hospital and speak with his old bunkmate, a former mathematician who disappeared under similar circumstances. The visit does not go well, and Walter is held by the hospital administrator, who remains unconvinced of Walter’s sanity. Walter manages to coerce his bunk mate into giving up a vague idea of his whereabouts, which Olivia and Peter use to find the boy once they arrange for Walter’s release. However, the kidnapper escapes with the completed formula, which she gives to Mitchell Loeb, who calibrates a frequency generator in such a way to allow him to pass through solid matter.
Agent Mitchell Loeb, a friend of Broyles’ collapses on assignment, his heart being constricted by an engineered parasite which is slowly working its roots into his circulatory system. To find a cure, Olivia must talk to David Robert Jones, a biochemist held incommunicado in Frankfurt, Germany. Problems arise when David demands to speak to a colleague of his in exchange, who is unfortunately killed in a raid set up by Broyles. Walter, however, devises a way to wire Peter into the dead man’s brain, enabling Peter to speak on his behalf. The procedure is successful and the parasite is removed, but the team doesn’t realize that the entire incident was set up by Loeb to get the information Peter extracted from the dead man.
A woman with a rare disease, “Bellini’s lymphocemia,” is kidnapped and given a drug that makes her brain emit a microwave burst, killing her and the patrons of a diner she stumbles into. When the team investigates, they find that another woman with the same rare disease has been kidnapped. After talking to the doctor who was treating them, Olivia learns that the chief scientist of a competitor of Massive Dynamic is the one who gave her the drug. Peter makes a deal with Nina Sharp, who tells him where to find the second victim before she can be turned into a radioactive bomb.
The team discovers a man with the uncontrolled ability to affect electrical energy, made the way he is by a scientist performing illegal experiments on humans. With the help of carrier pigeons modified to track the man’s electromagnetic signature, the team manages to track him down and arrest the scientist. Meanwhile, Olivia begins seeing visions of John, which she learns are caused by memories transferred to her during their experience in the first episode. Through these memories, she discovers one of John’s secret hideouts, where a large number of investigation files relating to the Pattern are found.
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