- The team investigates a number of people who died faceless after their orifices are sealed while German agents investigating David Robert Jones' escape question Olivia.
- Olivia finds what ZFT stands for. Walter examines a man who was infected by something that caused his orifices to close. Jones turns himself in and demands to speak to Olivia. Soon more people become "faceless" and Olivia believes Jones is behind it. She therefore gets permission to see Jones, who dares her to take a test. If she passed, then Jones would stop killing people. The test requires Olivia to awake her true "ability".—Andreea D
- When a newsdealer dies with his orifices close after receiving a two-dollar bill, Dr. Bishop finds a virus that infected him. Meanwhile Peter discovers the meaning of ZFT, a German acronyms for "Destruction by Advancement of Technology" and goes with Olivia to a bookstore where they get a copy of the ZFT. David Robert Jones turns himself in to the FBI suffering from the effects of teleporting and demands to speak with Olivia. However Sanford Harris does not allow and soon an FBI agent dies also infected by a two-dollar bill. When Olivia is allowed to interview Jones, he discloses that there is a bomb that will blow-up in thirty-six hours. He gives instructions to her to find a package of puzzles and toys. Now he challenges Olivia to pass in a test to give the location of the bomb. She cheats Jones with the support of Peter and he gives its location. When Olivia finds the bomb, she needs to solve the same test to disarm it. What will happen to Olivia?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Wissenschaft Prison, Germany
Jones (Jared Harris) sketches in prison, kills his lawyer, pops in some eye drops... We've seen this all before. Jones teleports to Boston via some device Walter (John Noble) designed.
Back in the prison, lots of frantic Germans try to figure out where the heck their guy went. How do you say "teleport" in German?
Harvard, two weeks later Olivia (Anna Torv) looks for Walter, who is busy doing something to the cow's udder. She tells Peter (Joshua Jackson) about Jones' mysterious escape. "How come when nobody knows and it doesn't make sense, they come to us?" asks Peter.
Olivia asks Walter again about his invention Loeb (Chance Kelly), who was working with Jones, stole, the transportation device. He called it "dis-ray," involving disintegration and re-integration. If someone survived, they'd need time in a barometric chamber. "If they survived that, based on what happened next, you'd likely wish you hadn't," Walter says. Olivia asks if he's saying Jones could have zapped himself out of prison. Yes.
Cut to a man getting out of a barometric chamber. Well, hello, Mr. Jones. Over tea he thanks his men for their sacrifice. He asks if everything is in order. They have a lab ready for him. Jones' hand shakes.
A man buys a paper with a $2 bill. We don't see his face. A young woman walks up to the newsstand after the man and the man running the newsstand starts scratching his eyes. His eyes start to close over with skin followed by his mouth (The Observer (Michael Cerveris) stands nearby). His mouth closes shut and he can't breathe. He collapses on the street.
Charlie (Kirk Acevedo) and an agent look over the records of Jones' attorney, Kohl, who was found dead in Jones' cell.
Olivia waits as a humvee pulls up and men in camo help a prisoner out of the truck. It's Loeb. She tells him she knows about David Robert Jones, and that they kidnapped her the night he escaped.
He's not feeling cooperative. She threatens him with a transfer. Loeb says it doesn't matter if they find Jones or not, he's just part of the army. "What was written will come to pass, nothing you do can stop that," he says.
Broyles (Lance Reddick) calls Olivia, telling her to round up the Bishops. They stand over the body of no-holes man.
Olivia thinks Jones is involved. She gets a text.
She tells Peter what Loeb said and that someone has turned up what the initials ZFT might mean. Per her text: "Destruction by Advancement of Technology." It was an unpublished manuscript, destroyed after a police raid 10 years ago. She was hoping he might have one of his "weird connections" to find it.
Astrid (Jasika Nicole) and Walter work over No Holes. Walter deflates him - cutting a hole in his non-mouth and inserting a tube to inflate a bag.
At the FBI the new agent has gotten a list of Cole's clients from an ex at the SEC.
Peter visits a bookseller, Markham, for a favor. He asks about the ZFT manuscript.
Charlie tells Broyles a warehouse nearby leased to Cole's attorney had the power turned on two weeks ago. As Broyles calls in for a search warrant an agent interrupts to say that David Robert Jones is in the lobby.
Indeed, he is. And he says he'll only talk to Olivia.
Sanford Harris (Michael Gaston), Broyles and Olivia meet in the observation room while Jones waits. They found a key on him. Harris says the U.S. doesn't negotiate with terrorists and Olivia says that's exactly the kind of arrogance Jones is expecting. "The man was clever enough to Star Trek himself out of a maximum security prison, elude Interpol, arrive in Boston and get himself apprehended simply because he liked the idea," she says. She thinks he's there for a reason.
Sanford won't let her talk to him. He sends her on the raid of the warehouse.
Peter calls with the ZFT manuscript, which says scientific advances could destroy the world as we know it and it's already started.
The teams raid the warehouse. They find Jones' drawing of Olivia and his tea service.
Harris heads in to talk to Jones, who reiterates he'll only talk to Olivia. Jones coughs sickly. He wants to talk to Olivia as soon as possible to avoid any other unnecessary deaths. He'll require a standard walkie talkie with removable crystals, a metallic ball point pen, an eyeglass repair kid and an analog wrist watch. Harris isn't amused.
At the warehouse, the new agent finds a $2 bill in a drawer.
In the other room, Olivia and Charlie hear screams and run to find him with skin covering his eyes. Olivia tries to save him by "trach"-ing him. She cuts a hole in his throat and tries to create an airway. It works for a minute until skin grows over that, too. He suffocates.
Olivia and Charlie return to HQ where she glares at Harris as he puts his analog watch in an envelope.
Harris watches from the other room as Olivia goes in to talk with Jones. She tells him about the agent that just died. "Yes, I tried to prevent that," he says. "Your agent Harris needed some convincing."
She gives him the items he requested and he gets to MacGyvering on them. Whatever he makes emits a high-pitched whine that short out the listening equipment so they can talk in private.
He admits he has something far worse planned, but first he needs her to pass a test. He wants her to take the key and go to a park. He's left something there for her. He coughs again, wracked in pain. He says he cannot be cured. "It seems that when one is dematerialized on a molecular level and reassembled there are certain unadvertised side effects."
He says there is a van carrying an explosive device that will kill several hundred more people in the No Holes fashion within 16 hours. He says she'll disable it, but first there's the matter of the key. Harris busts in to break it up.
Olivia tells Harris and Broyles about the van and that she needs two hours alone.
She calls Peter. The No Holes is caused by a powder that triggers protein in skin responsible for scar tissue. Walter is working on an antidote.
Peter says the ZFT manuscript reads like a call to arms. She tells Peter she'll be back after she gets the package Jones left her. Walter has been reading the ZFT. He reads from it about a way to travel between universes. It will begin with a series of unnatural occurrences, but in the end, only one world will survive. Us or them.
Olivia fetches Jones' box. It's a set of kids' toys with directions to complete the test to prove herself.
They only have eight hours until the next attack. Peter reads the directions of the first test, in which you have to turn off lights on a lightboard using just your mind. Walter notices the same word "recruit" in the manuscript and the directions. The manuscript says a recruit will be unwilling at first.
Olivia stares at the lights. Her cell phone rings.
Charlie found a record of a rented white van. To Olivia Dunham.
She leaves for HQ. Harris doesn't want to let her talk to Jones again, but she reminds him the last time he got his way a good agent died. Jones is disappointed she didn't bring the test, but impressed she read the manuscript. He's looking worse and shaking.
He tells her she was among those treated with a drug called Cortexaphan, the only way to test for it is a spinal tap, which they did on her. She knows nothing about it.
She says he needs to cooperate, but he says she's the one who needs to cooperate. Jones twitches more and then collapses.
They bring him to Walter's lab. Walter says Jones' molecules are disintegrating and reintegrating.
Olivia talks to Charlie on the phone. He tells her Cortexaphan is patented but not approved by the FDA. Made by Massive Dynamic. She asks Peter if they might be able to trick Jones into thinking she passed the test.
Olivia goes to NYC to visit with Nina Sharp (Blair Brown). She looks up the drug. Her hand has been acting up. Cortexaphan was a drug Dr. Bell, Walter's old partner, invented in 1981. It was meant to prevent the natural shrinking of brain power he theorized happen during the course of someone's life. It was tested on children. But it was unsuccessful. The trials were conducted at Ohio State University, Wooster campus. Olivia asks if it was tested anywhere else. Nowhere, Sharp says.
In 1981, Olivia was three, living in Jacksonville on a military base she tells Peter. He reprogrammed the lightbox and Walter thinks he's close to reviving Jones.
Back at the lab, with two hours to go. Jones wakes up and she tells him she passed test No. 1. Jones recognizes Walter and says it's an honor to meet him.
Olivia turns on the lightbox and stares at it. Nothing happens. Then a light goes off. Then another. She stares intently, concentrating, as Jones watches. She acts exhausted. He thanks her.
Then he gives her an address. She calls in to have it evacuated. When she gets there Charlie says the bomb squad says they can't move it or diffuse it because they've never seen wiring like this before. Olivia looks at it. It looks like the lightbox.
It's on a high floor of a downtown building, by the windows. If it goes, it'll spread far. She calls back to the lab to talk to Jones. The timer counts down from under three minutes. He has confidence in her. He says there's only one way to disable it, which she knows. She tells him if he doesn't deactivate it, she'll die and he seems to think she's worth keeping alive. He has faith in her. "There is only one way out, and it's you."
Olivia tells everyone to clear out and prepares to stare at the lights. Peter tries to get her to leave. The timer hits one minute. Peter leaves, telling her she's out of her mind.
She stares at the lights. Peter comes back. She stares. Two lights click off, then more. Peter watches in disbelief. More lights fade out. Olivia looks serene.The last light goes out with two seconds left.
Peter asks how she did it, but she has no idea.
As they wheel Jones out of the lab, he checks that she did it. "My girl," he says. She tells Peter she didn't do anything with those lights, it was all just a mind game. Jones programmed it, she thinks. Peter says she was in the zone. She thinks Jones chose her because he wanted to meet Walter. Peter asks her if she wants to get a drink. But Olivia wants to talk to Jones at the hospital.
At the lab, Astrid tells Walter she can't believe he created a teleportation machine. She says even if it kills you, it's pretty damn cool. Walter says it does something "unthinkable," but it doesn't kill you.
Olivia arrives at the hospital, where an announcement is telling everyone to follow emergency guidelines. She arrives in Jones' room, where a big Hulk-like hole has been busted through the wall. He's gone. A note on the wall says: "You passed."
At the lab, Walter reads more ZFT, getting wrapped up in definitions of reality. He notices the "y" is offset.
At home, Olivia's phone rings. It's Nina. Her hand is back to normal. Nina tells Olivia she was curious if there was anywhere else Cortexaphan was tested. There was, in fact. In Jacksonville, Florida, on a military base.
At the lab, Walter pulls out an old typewriter and punches out "Ability." The "y" is offset, meaning that he wrote the book himself.
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