- A series of Fringe events leads the team to the home of a woman grieving over the death of her husband, while Peter and Olivia make an effort to repair the emotional rift between them.
- When a group of guest falls during a party from the veranda of an apartment building in Brooklyn to sidewalk, the Fringe Division is assigned to investigate. Olivia, Peter and Walter learn that the building is considered haunted and the residents are moving away. Walter sees the position of the bodies and conclude they have felt through the balcony and concludes the place has a crack to the parallel universe. Olivia notices a glow from the apartment 6B and the widow Alice Merchant believes she can contact the ghost of her husband Derek from the beyond. But soon Walter, Olivia and Peter conclude she is contacting Derek from the parallel universe. Meanwhile Peter tries to mend Olivia's broken heart and rekindle her feelings for him.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Park Slope, Brooklyn A couple prepares for the boyfriend to meet her friends. They go to an apartment building. In the lobby they pass a woman lugging her suitcases down the stairs. But she says the elevator is working fine.
She tells the doorman she's going to stay in a hotel, she can't take it anymore.
Upstairs at the dinner party, the blender turns on spontaneously. The hostess says the stove did the same thing earlier. Sylvia takes a bite of the chicken and can't breathe. Chris runs for her purse.
Down on the street, the woman and the doorman are startled when a body falls. Then another, and another and another -- six in all.
At the Bishops', Walter makes blueberry pancakes. He has invited Olivia over, but Peter tells him not to force things.
Olivia arrives for a candlelit breakfast and Walter literally runs out the front door, leaving them alone.
Olivia doesn't even take off her coat and goes to leave. Peter suggests they talk.
Olivia tells Peter that she knows he has feelings for Fauxlivia and hasn't been honest with her. He says he knows she has trust issues. He tells her he imagined being with her for a long time, then finally had it. Olivia says "she" took that away from them. He asks who's stopping them now.
Olivia gets a call.
Outside the apartment, Walter describes the group jumpers as "like a flash mob for suicide."
Olivia talks to the doorman, Jimmy. "Maybe it's true what they say about this place," he says.
From above, an old woman looks down.
Upstairs, Broyles talks to the hostess and her boyfriend. Sylvia's attack was triggered by her peanut allergy. They were dealing with her when they heard screams.
Peter looks over the balcony. He realizes the bodies are not in the right place to have jumped. They would have had to fall through the balcony.
Olivia reports back that people think the building is haunted.
Walter flips a coins then reports that he got 10 heads in a row. "That's very inconceivable, the laws of physics are being disrupted here," he says.
"Like the other universe, our world is coming apart at the seams. And the tear is beginning right here."
Back in the lab, Walter is in a serious snit. He's sure it's a hole that could lead to a vortex. He wants all the data he can get from the location. He shooes Peter and Olivia away.
Walter asks Astrid for the chemical attack on the commuter bus file (from the first season).
Outside the apartment building, Walter calls, telling them to stay put. Peter suggests they stay warm in a nearby bar.
Mrs. Merchant, the older woman who lives upstairs, comes home. She's in a hurry. She has the fixings for dinner. She closes the drapes.
At the bar, Peter plays the jukebox. Olivia tells Peter she wants to know what it feels like for them to be together. She kisses him, but something's wrong. She runs outside.
He follows her. She tells him he glimmered. She admits she's afraid that she can't fix things, that's this is just who she is.
She looks up and sees bright light coming from an apartment.
Upstairs, Mrs. Merchant looks through photo albums and smiles when she sees the light.
In the lab, Water's equipment goes nuts.
Olivia and Peter race upstairs and bust in.
There's an old man glimmering in her living room. He disappears.
Olivia asks who it was.
"My husband. His ghost," Mrs. Merchant says.
In the apartment, Walter finds no evidence of anything weird. Peter wonders if it was really a ghost. Walter doesn't believe in them, but says William Bell did. He promised to try to contact Walter from beyond, but Walter hasn't gotten a message yet.
Olivia talks to Mrs. Merchant, who says her husband Derrick has been visiting for a few months. She says the way he died was dumb. The fuse blew and they flipped a coin, like they always did, to see who would deal with it. He lost and when he flipped the fuse there was a short and he died instantly.
She saw him a few days after he died.
They lived in the apartment over 40 years. Derrick owned the apartment.
In the hall, Walter explains that if he lived there that long, his double might, too. So Mrs. Merchant isn't seeing his ghost, she's seeing the other Derrick, which is why Olivia could see him, too.
He's not worried yet about why Mrs. Merchant can see him. "I'm worried about what happens next," he says.
Astrid brings the chemical attack file. He says they would have to do the same thing the other side did if there was a breach -- encasing things in amber.
At Massive Dynamic, they examine hunks of amber. He thinks they might have to encase the building, maybe the block. He says it's better than a vortex eating half of Brooklyn.
Olivia tells Peter and Broyles how the other side deploys amber. Peter wants to know why that building. They look at geologic reports.
In the lab, Walter waits while Brandon tinkers. Nina sees Walter is shaken. He's upset to be arguing for exactly what Walternate did when he thinks Walternate is evil.
Peter wonders again why Mrs. Merchant can see her husband's double. Olivia wonders why she's not seeing her own double, too. They wonder if maybe on the other side, Mrs. Merchant lost the coin toss. So they're seeing each other because on each side, the other died.
Olivia explains it to Walter, wondering if maybe it's about emotions not physics -- two people in the same spot grieving intensely at the same time.
Astrid calls to report there's another disturbance.
At the apartment, there are teams everywhere and Walter has the amber canister ready to go. Olivia tells Broyles her theory. Peter explains that some emotions are like Cortexaphan in Olivia. They don't know why she can see things only when she's afraid, but that's how it works.
They get a report that Mrs. Merchant in 6B is refusing to leave. Walter says moving her won't help since distance has nothing to do with it. They have to try to convince her to let go.
Broyles let Peter and Olivia go in, but warns them to get out on his command.
Olivia tries to talk to Mrs. Merchant, explaining she's not seeing her husband's ghost. As the building shakes and rattles and windows breaks, Olivia tells Mrs. Merchant she can stop things if she just lets go. But then Mr. Merchant starts talking to her.
Broyles calls for them, but they can't hear it.
Outside, Walter can tell the vortex is starting. He hands Broyles the remote for the amber canister.
Inside, Olivia is trying to get through to her, but getting nowhere. Peter tries, telling her they had a great life together, all anyone could ever hope for.
Suddenly, Mr. Merchant says he misses her and the girls miss her too.
They never had children.
"I'm not your wife, your wife is gone," she tells him. "And so's my Derrick."
He disappears and suddenly everything stops.
Later, Olivia tries to explain things to Mrs. Merchant. Mrs. Merchant says if the impossible is possible, maybe she will get to see her husband again.
At Massive Dynamic, Walter can't rejoice in the victory. He knows there's more to come and he doesn't know how to stop it. "Well then, I think you need to learn," Nina tells him.
Olivia knocks on Peter's door. She comes bearing booze. They toast to disaster narrowly averted -- or at least postponed.
Olivia tells Peter she wants what he described to Mrs. Merchant. He asks what she thinks they should do about it. She kisses him.
She stops. He's not glimmering.
She takes him upstairs.
Back at the building, we flash to the other side. Lincoln and Fauxlivia scan the building but find nothing. They knock on 6B.
Derrick answers, but says he hasn't seen anything weird.
They leave.
Inside, he looks through photo albums, alone.
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