- As the Fringe team hopes to alleviate Olivia's possession quickly, Agent Lincoln Lee of the F.B.I. meets them for the first time over the curious case of what he calls "the compassionate soul vampire."
- When a woman mysteriously survives a fall from the top of a building, the Fringe Division investigates the case and stumbles upon FBI Agent Lincoln Lee that is investigating the woman Dana Grey that apparently cannot die. Meanwhile William Bell promises to leave Olivia's body within 48 hours but it is hard to find a compatible donor.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- When the Fringe team investigates an apparent suicide victim, they uncover a second set of fingerprints leading them to a woman with uncanny characteristics that cannot die.—Fox Publicity
- In the lab, with electrodes on her head, Olivia-as-William-Bell assures the concerned Fringies that Olivia is resting comfortably. She, as Bell, explains that he conceived his plan when he met her on the other side and gave her a glass of tea with the soul magnets inside.
Walter runs a brain scan is delighted to see two different wave lengths, including one that's resting. She explains he needs a more suitable home to move to. She says Olivia will be fine with him inside for a couple of weeks. Peter is horrified.
S/he explains if she leaves Olivia now, he'll die. Peter isn't keen about having his girlfriend inhabited by Leonard Nimoy.
Broyles gives them 48 hours to find a good host. She sends Peter for a box at Massive Dynamic labeled "re-entry."
Meanwhile, on a roof in Massachusetts, a woman arrives to find a man named Jim waiting. He says she doesn't have much time. She assures him everyone has a purpose.
In response he leaps up and runs to the edge of the roof. He reminds her she said she wanted to kill herself, too, and asks what her purpose is. He starts to fall and she grabs him. He tells her he doesn't believe in hope anymore and we're all going to die. She holds onto him and intentionally plummets off the roof with him, landing on a car below.
They crush the roof in and he's broken, bloodied and dead. She gets up and walks away, unharmed. A late night crowd gathered around a food cart stares.
Back in the lab, Peter brings Willivia the re-entry files. The host has to be biological without its own consciousness. He looks at the drawing of the Peter doom machine. He tells Peter the machine might be his fate and Walter might not be able to stop it. Willivia tells Peter that sometimes trying to avoid fate is the best way to end up on fate's doorstep. Peter is clearly disturbed by the whole thing.
Astrid shows Peter video taken by someone at the food cart. It shows the crushed car and the woman walking away. Walter thinks it's about the location, not the woman. Willivia guesses he thinks it's spatial decay.
S/he wants to go check it out. When Peter objects he reminds her she's the only person on the planet familiar with inter-dimensional decay.
Hartford, Conn. At the FBI, someone brings a photo of the woman to Agent Lincoln Lee (who we know from the other side).
Willivia scans the area with a Geiger counter and finds no indication of spatial decay. Walter is tickled to be doing scientific work with William again, just like old times.
Broyles introduces Lincoln. Willivia says he's with "Fringe Division". Lincoln explains the not-dead woman is Dana Grey -- she was murdered 18 months ago. She was shot in the head, along with her husband and children in a home invasion.
They caught the killer, but he died in an FBI shoot-out. Then a few weeks later Lee got a call that Grey's body was gone.
Then there was a report about two people jumping out of a dorm room, but when the cops got there there was only one body. The second set of prints was matched to Dana Grey.
Over the next two months her prints were found at three other double suicides and eye witnesses reported seeing her die. He doesn't think she Grey can die.
Lincoln comes to the lab. Walter reports Dana Grey's DNA molecules were held together by a strong electromagnetic bond. Walter suggests she's drawing her energy from her victims. Each one of the victims tried to commit suicide previously.
"A compassionate soul vampire?" Lee concludes. "Who are you guys?"
Peter takes Lee to find places with suicidal people.
Dana visits the graves of her two children and her husband Henry. She gets a cell phone call and answers it "help line."
She talks to a guy named Brian, who says he might hurt himself. She says she wants to help, but has to do it in person.
At a suicide crisis center, a woman confirms a picture of Dana is someone she knows as "Joan". She says Joan's one of their best counselors, who handles high risk cases. She mentions "Joan" was struck twice by lightning and survived.
Dana goes to visit her caller, Brian. He greets her with a gun. She remains calm and he lowers it. He says he wanted her to come visit him. He says he doesn't want to hurt people, but he always does. He mentions people on a train. He directs her to a seat on a train, where he says his bomb is. She picks up the phone and watches calmly as he shoots himself. She hangs up the phone.
In the lab, Walter enjoys a joint as he and Willivia look for the right brain dead host for Bell. Willivia contemplates Gene the cow. Walter thinks that'd be problematic because he'd have to milk William. Willivia suggest Astrid could go it.
Peter and Lincoln go through Dana's things. Lincoln finds a religious book on the soul. Peter wonders if maybe Dana's the one who wants to die.
Lincoln gets a call that Dana was spotted. They go to Brian's apartment. Lincoln wonders if Dana's trying to latch onto the person as they die, like a "stowaway to heaven".
Dana goes to a church, where a nun tells her about the ascension of Azreal, whose soul was freed from purgatory by the angels. They convinced God that the collective innocence of their souls outweighed Azreal's sin.
Dana has the info about the bomb location on a piece of paper.
At Brian's apartment, Broyles finds a trap door. The find his torture chamber and dead animal carcasses. They find an invoice for plastic explosives.
Dana gets on the train, in the seat above the bomb. She holds it in her lap. A guy gets off his phone and tells her about going to visit his new nephew. She says she's on her way to see family, too.
Broyles alerts the bomb squad. The find evidence of a time detonator in Brian's apartment. Lincoln has a theory. Dana has failed in her past attempts to die, so she might be trying to increase her chances to get to the afterlife by killing herself with a group of people.
Peter checks Brian's phone and finds Dana's number.
On the now moving train, Dana watches a pair of young lovers get on. Her phone rings. She ignores it. Peter has the tech change the caller ID. Dana's phone rings with Henry Gray, her husband's number.
She answers. Peter tells her he knows about her family and what she's going through. He promises the people he works with can help her.
She says killing a bunch of people is her best chance. She says she's stuck here, like some sort of cosmic joke. Peter says he knows what she's going through.
He says this isn't the solution and she says they'll find out. She hangs up. The trace doesn't work.
They replay her call and focus on the ambient noise. Astrid finds three trains from the area leaving at different times. Walter and Willivia start calculating. They ID which train she's on.
On the train, the guy on his way to see his nephew gets up to use the restroom. The train stops and police cars pull up. Bathroom guy sees Dana's photo and directs them to her. She's gone. They bring the bomb dogs on and start evacuating.
In a field away from the train, Dana carries the bomb and breaks down crying, saying she doesn't understand. She puts down the bomb and walks away. The bomb goes off -- in the empty field.
They check out the wreckage. They find Dana nearby. She's dead.
Lincoln is stumped over why she was able to die this time. Peter says it's the usual for Fringe Division. Lincoln invites Peter to call him anytime they need help.
Peter comes home to find his dad asleep, and Willivia there. He offers Peter tea. Willivia theorizes that the energy from the bomb reset the electromagnetic charge in Dana's body and allowed her to die. Or, she couldn't die because she had to be here to save the lives of the people on the train -- her fate.
He suggests it's odd they met a woman who couldn't die at the same time his consciousness returned from the grave, and everything has meaning.
A church bell rings.
Willivia shudders and is Olivia again for a second. Then she's Willivia again. "Oh no, I think that I may have been wrong. This may be a little more complicated than I first thought," she says.
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