- Peter grapples with the aftermath of recent events as Olivia desperately searches for an ally. Meanwhile, the Fringe Team discovers a critical device that communicates between universes.
- The alternate Olivia feels that has failed to understand the Greek sentence spoken by Peter and she dopes him to flee. She sends a message requesting to return to the alternate universe. Peter, Walter and Broyles chase Olivia and they find the typewriter store in Bronx. They discover that she is going to train station in Newark and Broyles sends the FBI and the police to the station. Meanwhile, in the parallel universe, Broyles feels in debt with Olivia and decides to help her to return to her universe with tragic consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- We begin where the previous episode left off...
Peter snuggles in bed with Fauxlivia as his phone rings. A woman tells him she's calling from New York and just saw a woman disappear in front of her. "Her name was Olivia and she has a message for you: She's trapped in the other universe," the woman says, then hangs up.
Peter tells Fauxlivia it was a sales call. He rolls over and tries to sleep. Two hours later, he's still wide awake.
He gets up. He looks through her things. He gets on her laptop -- which is the exact same Apple as his. He tries and fails to guess her password. She surprises him. He says he's emailing a friend in Greece. He tells her a Greek phrase that his Olivia would know. She doesn't. She goes back to bed.
He's going back to the other room when he sees her gun is gone. She's standing there, aiming it at him. She knows she failed the test.
She tells him it's not realistic to think that she wouldn't do what she came here to do. She gives him a syringe to inject himself. She asks if he's going to come after her.
"No, I'm going to get answers. And then if I find out that you did anything to Olivia, then I'm going to kill you," he says.
He injects himself and is paralyzed. She tells him it'll wear off in a few hours. She leaves.
Cut to Fauxlivia going to communicate on the inter-dimensional typewriter. "Cover blown. Extraction needed."
Walter sits with Peter as Broyles and an FBI team search her apartment. Walter says they can't cross over without Olivia's help. Broyles asks what Peter was doing at her place in the middle of the night. He tells him they were seeing each other.
Peter realizes Olivia took the wrong computer.
Fauxlivia waits for word back on the typewriter. She realizes she has Peter's laptop.
On the other side, Walter reads Fauxlivia's message. He wants to get her back. They need to swap something of equal mass -- which they happen to have in the real Olivia. Brandon the Nerd asks whether Walternate wants to send Olivia back alive or dead, because he thinks there are parts worth studying.
Walternate talks to Broyles, saying a traitor helped Olivia get to the island. Walternate tells him their Olivia's mission was a success and she'll be returning.
Down in the basement, Broyles sees orderlies dragging a screaming Olivia down the hallway.
In the lab, Astrid goes through Fauxlivia's computer. So far she's only found Olivia's recording debriefings and the cases they worked.
Walter comes in, beside himself for not having a plan for crossing over.
Broyles come in reporting that Fauxlivia took one of the 17 pieces of Walternate's machine. They think she might be going home soon.
Walter blames the "temptress" who tricked his son with her "carnal manipulations" causing him to fall right into her "vagenda." (That's not a typo.)
He says, as he gnaws on another pastry, that she tricked him with sweets. Astrid realizes the bakery is in the Bronx, where Olivia would have no reason to be.
Back at the typewriter store in the Bronx, the machine types furiously. Fauzlivia reads it and lets out a small smile. She tells the store owner there's one more thing she needs from him.
Meanwhile, the team pulls up to the bakery and tries to figure out where she was going nerby. Peter walks into the typewriter shop, where the owner tells him he doesn't recognize her picture. Peter sees his laptop laying on the counter.
The owner lets them in back to the interdimensional typewriter, saying he only helped her because they promised him new legs (he uses arm braces). Peter looks at the ribbon and sees that it says Penn Station in Newark.
On the other side, Broyles has a beer as the patrons watch a news program recognizing a vortex from 20 years ago. The bartender comps his drink, saying they need heroes like him.
Broyles goes to visit Olivia in the padded room. There are pre-surgery markings on her head. He thanks her for not giving him up. He asks if there's anything he can do to make her more comfortable. She tells him he's only there to make himself more comfortable.
She shows him the marks on her forehead.
She tells him they're sending her back, but they're going to kill her first and cut out her brain. She begs him to help her. He says he can't because his world is dying due to what hers is doing to it.
She tells him this all started 25 years ago when a man came over to save a boy, then she came over to save the same man. She says if he lets her die her world will strike back, but if he lets her live they can find a way to let both worlds survive.
She tells him if he gets her to the tank she can get herself home. He asks why he should trust her. She says if he doesn't, there's no hope.
An orderly comes in with injections. Broyles says he can't help and leaves.
Later, he takes a stroll with his wife, telling her he has a decision to make. He tells her they might be able to stop the vortexes but they'd have to go to war and a lot of people will die. He says there might be another option, "but who am I to play god with other people's lives?"
She tells him they need to restore hope.
Back on our side, Broyles gives orders for Fauxlivia to be taken alive. Peter stares blankly out the window.
Walter doesn't know why she'd go to Penn Station. Broyles tries to reassure Peter. "If there were anyone I would bet on to survive over there, it would be her," he says.
In the operating room, Olivia is groggy up awake as Brandon the Diabolical Lab Nerd picks up a saw. Olivia is facing down but hears someone come in and Brandon tell them they can't be in there. Then Brandon goes down. Olivia can't move but Broyles stabs with her adrenaline.
They go down to the lab. Olivia finds bags of fluid that she thinks have cortexafan in them. She finds that the tank has been drained. An alarm sounds.
She gathers up the cortexaphan bags, telling Broyles she wants to try to make it to Boston. She thinks Walternate might have a tank there. Broyles tells her she won't make it swimming, they've changed the harbor patrols. He offers to take her.
At Penn Station, Fauxlivia meets up with a shapeshifter. In the bathroom, he injects something in her palm. Broyles and teams of FBI pull up outside.
In the bathroom, he tells her the transfer is scheduled for 23 minutes from now.
They walk out of the bathroom, but Peter sees her. They trade shots. Fauxlivia comes out holding a woman hostage. She tells them to put their guns down or she'll kill her hostage. The woman's teenage daughter runs up and screams when she sees her mom.
Peter assesses and asks the woman hostage her daughter's name. She doesn't answer. He asks again and when she doesn't answer he shoots her through the forehead. She bleeds mercury -- it was the shapeshifter. Fauxlivia is caught.
Peter asks how they get Olivia back and she says she doesn't know. She tells him that whatever happens, it started as an assignment, but became something more. "That'd be so much easier to believe if you weren't in handcuffs right now," he tells her.
Peter goes through her stuff and finds a picture of them together.
On the other side, Olivia and Broyles reach Walternate's closed up lab. She finds the tank and fills it with water and salt.
Troops reach the lab. Broyles tells her he's got a subcutaneous tracker. He puts her in the tank, saying he has to believe in hope.
She floats there and hears the troops come in.
Back on our side, in Walter's lab Astrid is startled to hear something coming from the tank. A dripping wet Olivia gets out and immediately collapses.
Back at Penn Station, Fauxlivia is put in the paddy wagon. Walter examines a tiny piece of metal found in her stuff and thinks it's familiar, but he's not sure were from.
In the back of the paddy wagon, Olivia's hands start to glow.
Walter taps the small metal on metal and it makes a note. Broyles relays the call he got about Olivia being back and on her way to the hospital. They think she had a seizure.
Walter realizes why the thing is familiar. It's a harmonic rod, like he and Bell used to help objects cross between universes.
The paddywagon rocks with light. Peter and Walter race to open it. They stop Broyles from looking, but he does and sees a dead chopped up version of himself.
On the other side, Fauxlivia returns to Fringe Division. No one even knows she was gone. Astrid reports that Broyles is late to work.
Back on our side, Broyles contemplates his alternate, chopped down to Olivia size.
The typewriter shop owner meets with a man with a needle. He allows himself to be injected. The man encourages him to try walking. The man stands up. He's wobbly, but he takes a step without his braces. The other man takes the part from Walternate's machine.
Peter is by Olivia's bed in the hospital when she wakes up. He tells her he's sorry. She tells him he's the only thing that got her through.
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