- Olivia continues to cope with the ominous warning from the Observers, while Peter and the team track a girl with the mysterious ability to predict death.
- A girl delivers a sketch to a man showing him impaled by a girder. A couple of minutes later, there is an accident at a construction site, and the man is indeed impaled by a girder. The Fringe Division investigates the case and Olivia and Lincoln identify the girl. Emily Mallum talks to them but her father Jim does not allow the conversation, afraid to turn her into a Massive Dynamic guinea pig. However, Emily contacts Olivia and meets her in a park. She explains that when her head hums, she can foresee death. Further she is haunted by a vision of a pile of dead bodies. Olivia brings Emily to Walter's laboratory to help the girl and identify where the tragedy will happen. Will they succeed?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Olivia looks back through Observer photos and IDs the one who warned her that in all possible futures, she has to die.
The sample Astrid ran of his blood showed antibodies for the Spanish Flu, the last epidemic of which was in 1919.
Broyles wants to assign her security, but she doesn't feel threatened. She thinks the Observer was trying to warn her.
A teenage girl draws a downtown flower stand on the street, but hears a high whine and starts her drawing over. She's agitated and drawing quickly as she scans the faces in the crowd. She finishes and hands the drawing to a man passing on the street.
The woman he's with thinks the drawing is sick. They walk by a construction site and a beam breaks free from a crane and falls to the ground, skewering the man against a Dumpster. The woman looks down at the drawing -- which shows that very image.
Back in Walter's lab, Walter thinks they need to make a biomedical interface for Peter to be able to use the machine.
Lincoln calls Olivia from the construction site. She wants to get all the surveillance from the area.
The girl returns to her apartment. Her dad (Currie Graham), comes home, announcing he just got a new job. In her bedroom, Emily gets another high pitched headache, but is interrupted by her dad. She worries about them having to move around so much because of her. He's just trying to protect her and is glad "it" has happened in a while.
Federal Building Broyles got a call from health services that Olivia's been three times in the last month. She tells him about her migraines. She's unnerved that the day after the Observer told her she was going to die, she ends up on a case where a death was foretold. He suggests the keep her out of harm's way for a few days. Her head hurts now and she pops a pill.
Lincoln reports that the dead man's coworker ID'd the girl. They have a surveillance photo of her.
The girl's riding the bus when there's a whine and she starts sketching. She realizes she's drawing someone on the bus, but when she goes to give him the drawing, he's already off the bus. She tells the driver to stop it and gets off and chases after the man, but she can't find him. She feels helpless.
Olivia and Lincoln knock on apartment doors, but her dad says he doesn't recognize her. They leave but run into her on the street. Olivia talks to her gently, telling her she's not in trouble, but asking how she knew. Emily explains she gets a feeling whenever she's around someone who's going to die.
As they're talking her father comes out and interrupts, telling her to go inside. He lectures Olivia, telling her that it always just starts with questions, but it gets worse. He mentions people at Massive Dynamic hounding them. He says they find her where ever they move and watch her, waiting to grab her and poke and prod her. Olivia gives him her card, saying if they are being harassed, she can help.
Inside, Emily's dad says she did the right thing not talking to the FBI. She says she saw something awful on the bus. He reminds her what happened when they tried to help before.
Olivia visits Nina Sharp at Massive Dynamic. She asks about Emily. Nina says they approached her and wanted to study her. Olivia doesn't understand how Nina can think that's OK when she knows everything Olivia went through as a child. She thinks it's abuse.
Olivia gets a call -- from Emily, she wants to meet. Olivia excuses herself.
Emily is drawing in a park by the lake. She gives Olivia a picture with a lot of bodies in rubble.
Walter examines her in his lab. She tells them the first time she heard the hum, when she was 11. She saw her teacher covered in glass and three days later she got hit by a car. People ran tests on her and got scared, so they moved.
Walter shows her her brain scan, showing elevated levels of oxygen and blood. He and Bell theorized that traumatic events hummed back in time, and he thinks with her sensitive brain, that's what she might be hearing. She says the images are like dreams, vivid at first, then they fade. She's never been able to stop a death, but she wants to give people a chance to say good bye.
Astrid and Peter try to identify the man she saw on the bus. He's Albert Duncan.
Olivia talks to Emily alone, thanking her for calling. Olivia asks if she's sensing anything with her. Emily is quiet. Her dad comes, they called him.
Peter suggests Walter could hypnotize Emily to recover the rest of her memory of the event she drew. Peter has seen him do it before where he's from.
Olivia and Lincoln check out Duncan's apartment. He's not home, but his boss says he hasn't shown up at his construction job for a week.
Walter gets to work on Emily. She sees herself back on the bus. Walter tells her to follow Duncan. Emily sees a white light and then she's walking through the disaster scene. People are running through a falling building and debris. There are bodies everywhere.
Walter tries to get her to describe where she is. She's scared, so Peter suggests her dad talk to her. She sees a Latin sign on floor. Peter recognizes it as from a courthouse.
They find that Duncan just got divorced and lost custody of his kids. Emily sees something in his hand that they guess is a detonator. He's not the victim, he's a bomber.
Duncan goes through security at the courthouse.
At the Courthouse, teams from the Bomb Squad sweep it. They have surveillance showing Duncan going into the building 20 minutes earlier. Based on Emily's description of the floor falling out, they assume it's too a large an amount of explosive for Duncan to have carried it in, so it must already be there.
Emily apologizes to her dad for going to the FBI, but he says he's proud of her. On the street outside, he notices a black van and orders her inside to start packing. She goes to her room, but hears the hum. She starts sketching more of the scene of a park bench at the late.
In the courthouse, Duncan is looking for a judge when there's an announcement for people to leave the building.
They check the parking garage and Lincoln finds a truck with a lot of something in the back. There are giant barrels filling it. It's rigged to a remote detonator. Broyles wants Olivia to leave the scene, just in case, but she doesn't want to live her life in fear.
The bomb squad guy says it's going to take hours to dismantle. Peter wants to know what frequency it's on. He tells everyone to set their radios to it.
Inside, Duncan stops the judge he was looking for and confronts him. He tells the judge he's going to take him from his family. He takes out the detonator, but nothing happens. Olivia and Broyles and a team of agents confront him -- they blocked the signal.
They try to get him to just walk out, but he reveals another bomb strapped to his chest. Olivia tries to talk him down. He says this is how it has to end. Olivia tells him nothing is written in stone, Duncan is in control. "I'm not ready to die today and I don't think that you are either," she tells him.
She tells him to think about all the people around who have families, too. He releases his detonator and they swarm and cuff him.
Olivia calls Emily's apartment and leaves a message, letting them know they stopped the bombing and a lot of people were saved.
Her dad goes to check on her, but she's not in her room. The van outside is gone. He thinks she's been grabbed.
They trace the plate number the dad wrote down and find it: it was just a drycleaning van. Olivia thinks she knows where Emily is.
Olivia and Lincoln drive back to the park bench by the late. Emily's freezing cold from sitting outside. She says there's nothing she can do, it's her time.
The drawing is of Emily and her dad on the bench, with Olivia watching over them. Emily says it's her time.
She thinks saving the people from the bomb was her purpose. Blood slowly trickles from her nose.
Peter finds Olivia in the lab. Emily had a stroke from the overload of electrical activity in her brain. Walter said they couldn't have done anything to stop it.
Peter sees her going through their Observer photos. He tells her they show up at significant events throughout history and don't experience time the same way they do. Olivia asks if they could be wrong about the future. Peter explains they don't predict the future, they've already experienced it. He asks if one of them contacted her. She says no.
Later that night, Nina drops by Olivia's apartment. She apologizes to Olivia. Olivia explains she thought she was going to die today and she worried Nina wouldn't know how she felt. "You're the closest thing I have to a mother, and I love you," Olivia says.
Her head hurts and she mentions her migraines. Nina goes to make her soup. Nina says tomorrow she'll send over some new medication they've been working on.
Outside her apartment, an Observer watches.
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