- Walter and Olivia travel to the parallel universe, and the anticipated face-off between Walter Bishop and William Bell occurs.
- Olivia and William Bell rescue Walter from the hospital. Then Olivia meets her double, who is a dangerous woman, trying to find Peter; however they fight but Olivia subdues her. Olivia poses as her double to lure Charlie and convinces Peter to return. Meanwhile Walter and William bring a piece of equipment from Walter's laboratory in Harvard to the theater to let them return to their universe. However, the FBI and the Fringe Division also arrive and there is a shootout. Will Olivia, Walter, Peter and William Bell return to their universe?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Peter goes with the The Secretary to the other side. Olivia and Walter are worried since they have been advised by the Observer that Peter should never go to the parallel universe; otherwise he would be responsible for the end of the world. The Fringe Division looks for Nina Sharp and they work together with the Massive Dynamic. Walter explains Olivia that she can open a breach to the parallel universe; however she needs the support of Nick Lane, Sally Clark and James Heath that have been also submitted to Cortexiphan to increase her power. They succeed to cross but stumble upon the Fringe Division. Nick, Sally and James die and Walter is shot and goes to a hospital. Olivia hides but William Bell meets her, however can she trust him?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Fringe HQ, NYC
An alert goes out for a breach and Charlie Francis (Kirk Acevedo)), responds in a super high tech, tricked out HQ with full staff. He's joined by a red-haired Olivia (Anna Torv) in command central and Agent Lincoln Lee (Seth Gabel). Broyles (Lance Reddick) in a tough guy t-shirt oversees everything.
They investigate a "hole" in a theater. Agent Lee sprays something and reports stage 3 degradation to Broyles. He doesn't want "another Boston."
Back in the office, Astrid (Jasika Nicole) reports quarantine will result in 10,000 casualties. Lee sets up a device for quarantine. It warns him casualties will occur.
Astrid watches a screen in command central and finally relaxes, saying the event has passed. Lee disarms the quarantine device.
Charlie calls them to the balcony to look at a tumor-covered corpse. Olivia says witnesses reported a blue flash and a tearing sound, "the usual."
The body doesn't have the usual "show me" ID card, and they find it odd Andrew Jackson is on the $20 in his wallet.
We pan over and see our world Walter (John Noble) and Olivia and some other folk hiding behind some seats nearby. Pan up to zeppelins in the sky over a decidedly different NYC skyline.
Harvard University, 36 hours earlier
Walter watches video of Walternate (John Noble) talking to Peter (Joshua Jackson), inviting him to the other side and warning him he won't be able to come back. Peter says "let's go" and they disappear.
Olivia has a drink in a bar. An Observer walks behind her and leaves a note.
Back in his lab, Walter frantically calls Olivia, telling her he thinks something terrible is going to happen to Peter.
Olivia looks at the note in her hand, a flier that shows a drawing of a machine and Peter's face with fire coming out of his eyes. Probably not a good sign.
Later, she shows Walter the flier. Walter tells her when an Observer visited him years ago he made him promise never to let Peter return to the other side. He thinks he knows what the flier means: "My son is going to be responsible for the end of the world."
Olivia wants to know how they get him back.
Massive Dynamic
Broyles, Olivia, Walter and some agents bust into the office of Nina Sharp (Blair Brown) and show her the flier. She recognizes the machine on the flier as William's technology, but says they didn't build it.
They meet with Brandon (Ryan McDonald) in the MD lab. He says to get to the other side, a person's cells have to separate and come back together. The problem is when they come back together, they don't come out right. He thinks William Bell crossed so many times he became molecularly unstable.
Walter worries that building another door would destroy both worlds.
Nina dismisses Brandon and suggests Olivia could cross over. But she can't control it. Walter thinks she could do it with more Cortexaphan children. He thinks she's the only one left. "Actually," Broyles says, "she's not."
Massive Dynamic Experimental Campus
Broyles takes Olivia to see three Cortexaphan kids MD has been working with. James Heath (Omar Metwally) , the guy who created havoc with cancer, can now cure disease instead of cause it. Sally Clark (Pascale Hutton) is a functional pyrokenetic and Nick Lane can control his ideopathic transfers. Olivia walks in, Nick recognizes her and he makes everyone giggle.
FBI HQ
Broyles shows off some new technology Peter helped get the funding for. James recognizes Walter and Walter apologizes, saying they had noble goals and thought the world needed protectors. "Today is the day for which you were created," he tells them.
He excuses himself to go have a bit of a cry.
Broyles tells them they'll be crossing over to Brooklyn the next morning. James Heath wants a night off. Broyles says they can do whatever they want.
James goes to a hospital and cures strangers.
Nick and Sally hop into bed where he can make the most of his emotional manipulation skills.
Walter packs up and says a quiet prayer.
Olivia says goodbye to her niece Ella (Lily Pilblad), giving her her crucifix necklace before she goes. It was from her mother. Olivia overhugs her sister Rachel (Ari Graynor), who worries about her. She worries more when she sees her daughter wearing her mom's crucifix.
Olivia tells Broyles that Nina sent a message to William Bell (Leonard Nimoy) asking him to meet them on the other side. They're standing in a closed up version of the theater they end up in on the other side.
Walter explains he'll lead the Cortexies, over Broyle's initial objections. Walter positions the four in a circle and stands in the middle, directing them to clear their minds and spread their arms. He takes them back to their childhood and the power of imagination, telling them to think of slipping to the other side. All of a sudden, James falls over, covered in tumors. He looks up and sees a zeppelin through the skylight. They made it.
Sally isn't feeling so well either. They hear the sirens of Fringe Division and run to hide. Nick can't use his mind to make them go.
We're caught back up to the beginning as the other side team examines James. (On the other side money, MLK Jr is on the $20.)
They scan the bill and get word the secretary wants to see them.
Department of Defense HQ (in a still-bronze Statue of Liberty).
The Other Side Fringies go see the Secretary of Defense, Walternate. He addresses Agent Lincoln Lee (Seth Gabel). Walternate quizzes Olivia about Fringe Division, although he created it. She says it's a part of DOD investigating natural disasters occurring since the "zero event" in 1985 at Raden Lake (where Walter crossed over). The natural disasters are "holes in the fabric in the universe." She knows this from the ZFT which Walternate wrote in 1995.
He tells them his ZFT is a half-truth, the tears aren't natural. They lead to a parallel earth. He thinks the dead man didn't come over alone and he thinks the "invaders are anything but peaceful."
Out on the street, Sally has a fever and Olivia looks wobbly. They get on a bus, but have to get off because the bus requires an ID scan. They have to walk 3 miles to the meeting spot with Bell.
Cut to Peter lying in bed, hooked up to machines. He wakes up in a country home. Elizabeth (Orla Brady), his mother, is cooking breakfast. She tells him he's been sleeping for three days. She's not sure how to talk to him, but gives him a tearful hug.
Sally is doing worse but Walter tells her he hopes William can help her.
Peter tries to talk to his mom about a childhood memory but thinks she won't want to hear it. He tells her what happened to his Other Mother. He tells her she was very, very sad. He thinks it was because of him, but she tells him we have to take responsibility for ourselves.
She gives him something from Walternate.
Walking down the street, Nick tries to hold Sally up as she tells him she's going to stay on this side.
Peter examines the blueprints for the machine on the flier.
Walter, Olivia, Nick and Sally reach their meeting spot and look for William. He's not there. Instead, sirens race toward them.
The Fringe Division arrives. Olivia and Walter race for cover but Sally can't make it. Nick gets shot by Agent Lee, who recognizes him. He tells Sally to step away, but she responds with a "screw you" and a ball of fire which takes all three of them out.
Other Olivia is tracking Walter and gets a shot off when she gets the word about Lee being incinerated.
Later at night Walter stumbles down a city street. He thinks he's in hemorrhagic shock, but then realizes he was shot. He reassures himself he'll be fine right as he collapses in front of a hospital.
Peter keeps looking over the blueprints. His mom says good night.
Olivia takes cover and looks someone up on an Internet console.
Other Olivia comes home to Frank Stanton (Philip Winchester), reporting Lee has burns on 90 percent of his body but after three months in something high tech sounding, he'll be OK.
It's his last night there for a week and he offers a back rub. They have matching vaguely tribal tattoos on their backs. From outside, our Olivia watches.
William Bell startles her. He tells her he got Nina's message too late to get to the park. He tells her Walter's in trouble and he's quite confident they don't have much time.
Walternate walks into some sort of secret chamber where we see the flier with the machine and Peter with fire eyes depicted on some sort of old parchment paper. There are drawings that seem to suggest alien technology. Walter removes something that looks like a fancy waffle iron, but most definitely isn't.
To be continued...
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