- An act of kindness by Peter draws attention to Etta. The Observers deal with an infiltrator, and we learn of a resistance leader known as the Dove and, coincidentally, that Phillip Broyles is working with the Observers.
- Buying a gift for Etta proves risky for Peter and draws unwanted Observer interest. Walter discovers the whereabouts of the second component to the Observers' downfall and prepares a proactive approach against them. Capt. Windmark deduces that some people are able to block Observer mind-reads. The reunion of an old friend coincides with the loss of a loved one.—statmanjeff
- After collecting gas in a car, Peter sees a necklace in a pawnshop and decides to buy to Etta. However an Observer tries to read his mind and Peter succeeds to flee. Walter finds another partially damaged tape with Astrid but he recalls he hid documents in a highly protected subway station in Manhattan. They planned to use a chemical developed by David Robert Jones and succeed to retrieve the documents. But The Observers and the Loyalists arrive and Captain Windmark catches Etta with tragic consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Late at night on the burned out streets, Peter covertly siphons gas from a car's tank.
He goes into a kind of pawn/curio shop and before he can say what he was looking for, an Observer hands him a necklace, saying it will look good on the young blond woman.
The Observer reads his thoughts as Peter focuses on the Red Sox. He hands over too much money and leaves the shop quickly. The Observer tells the others there is something wrong and to detain Peter.
He runs and gets away in a tunnel. He runs when a grenade-like device is thrown is his direction. It explodes and knocks him off his feet.
Peter wakes up lying on the ground with a young boy with a harmonica standing over him. He tells Peter that he came out of a storm drain.
Former Harvard University Walter and Astrid carefully remove another Beta tape from the amber. He's annoyed at how slow the process is. Peter returns looking banged up. He tells Etta the Observer got an image of her from his head. The Observers always seem two steps ahead and Peter worries how they'll beat them. Etta plans to teach them all how to plan a labyrinth of random thoughts to slow the Observers mind reading down. He gives her the necklace to replace the one she gave up.
Captain Winmark plays with a Simon game in the shop, remembering the flashes easily. Broyles joins him. Winmark shows him the surveillance of Peter buying the necklace. He thinks the Resistance is getting information to the Fringe team. Two days ago someone on Broyles' team failed a security check, which has Winmark concerned, especially since Broyles is just now learning about it.
Back at Harvard, they watch Walter's tape 2, which is garbled. He shows plans, like blueprints, that outline the plans to defeat the Observers. He says he plans to hide them where he would his most prized possessions, then segues into a childhood story about "Manhattan Mystery Tours" his mother used to take him on, where they'd go to the station and hop on the first train that came.
The tape cuts out, but Walter knows where the tube is: in the wall of the subway station in Manhattan, which is blockaded by Observer checkpoints.
Walter decides he needs to get at a cabinet in the amber, to get under it. They laser through and he opens a door in the floor.
They head down to find Walter's cold storage of all the Fringe events they ever encountered, from creatures to gadgets. "There was a time when we solved Fringe cases, now I think it's time we created a few of our own," he says.
He never told anyone about it, not even Astrid.
Broyles watches a video feed of an Observer interrogating the guard who failed his security test. He got tripped up answering what the weather was like the day of his graduation from the academy. He cites his graduating class to the Observer, who probes his mind and accuses him of being in the Resistance.
He asks about Peter.
The guard resists the mind-reading until blood trickles from his nose. The Observer finds Anil, the Resistance fighter, in the guard's mind and also reference to "The Dove." Broyles pays close attention as the Observer asks what the Dove's real name is. "I don't know, nobody does," the guard says.
Broyles arms his gun and waits for the Observer to report.
It's the third time they've heard the name "the Dove." He knows Anil mentioned a lab in sector B, he thinks Broyles knows it as Harvard. Captain Winmark knows Broyles "had a relationship" with the fugitives. Broyles says it was a long time ago. The Observer leaves and Broyles exhales and takes his hand off his gun.
Back at Harvard, Walter plays with his findings.
Olivia sees Etta restringing her bullet on the necklace chain. She found it in their old house, in Olivia's jewelry box and has been wearing it since she was 13. Peter used to call it "the bullet that saved the world."
Etta gets notice that the lab has been compromised from someone she trusts.
Broyles puts his phone in his pocket.
Etta tries to convince them to leave, but Walter is unwilling to leave the tapes containing the plan. They know if the Observers see they've been there, they'll never be able to get back in. Olivia suggests re-ambering the lab.
Broyles watches video with Captain Winmark of Loyalists busting into the lab and finding it empty and ambered.
Winmark can't believe the reading from the guard about the lab was deceptive. Etta hid her thoughts from them. He wonders if others have access to their readings.
Walter pulls up to an Observer check point to ask for directions. After scanning him, an Observer zaps him with a small taser. Walter quickly puts on a gas mask and sprays something in the faces of the Observer and guard, sealing their faces shut with scar tissue. He and Peter drive through the check point, but Walter is in the system with an apprehend alert.
Peter and Walter go down to the old subway station and Walter remembers where to look. They find the metal tube the plans are in. Olivia and Etta wait in the car up top and put on gas masks when they hear sirens.
Down in the station, Peter shoots the guards who respond. Etta and Olivia shoot canisters of the toxin that seals people's faces shut so they suffocate and guards drop like flies.
Peter and Walter shoot their way out of the station and, wearing masks, rejoin Etta and Olivia above. They get in the car and drive off.
Broyles sits alone in his office. He takes out a worn photo of Peter and Olivia.
Walter looks at the plans, which contain pages of dense physics equations that make no sense to him. Olivia wants to get back to the lab, but Etta says someone wants to see them.
Broyles pulls up. Olivia gives him a big hug. He asked Etta not to tell them in case they were read.
He met Etta for the first time at a crime scene five years ago and had her transferred into his section when he learned who she was. She recruited him into the Resistance and spent a year teaching him how to block his thoughts.
Captain Winmark gets the report of Walter and Peter's efforts. A guard shows him a device one of their men died holding. He thinks they'll be able to find the Fringe team.
Broyles gives his former team a small arsenal, including anti-matter batons with a 100 meter blast radius that can't be disarmed once they're activated.
They close the trunk and see an Observer standing there. Broyles stalls him long enough to shoot him. They see the tracking device on their car.
Broyles tells them to run. Etta gives him the plans and tells him to protect it at all costs. Broyles drives off as the team runs. Winmark and another Observer transport in.
The team runs and Winmark tracks them with teams of guards. They surround the Fringe team in a warehouse and cover every entrance. Obsevers transport in in front of them and the team shoots as they appear.
Etta and Walter get separated from Peter and Olivia, who run upstairs to double back for them.
As Peter and Olivia head for the roof, Etta is separated from Walter. She's looking for him when Winmark appears behind her and knocks her to the ground.
Peter and Olivia find Walter back inside hiding in a crate.
In another area, Winmark lifts Etta to her feet by her throat, choking her. He sees her bullet necklace and asks why Peter bought it for her.
She shuts her eyes and thinks random thoughts of blowing dandelions and her picnic with her parents as a child. Winmark reads "love" in her thoughts. As he puzzles over this, she takes out a dagger and tries to stab him, but he stops her. "You never know when to give up," he says. He steps back and there's the sound of a shot.
Olivia hears it and worries about Etta. Winmark watches as Etta slumps to the ground. He walks away. Peter and Olivia find her, she's shot through the stomach and mortally wounded. Peter tells her they'll move her, but she says she'll slow them down and they have to leave.
Peter looks in her hand to see she's armed an anti-matter baton and it's counting down. Etta hands Olivia the bullet necklace. Peter holds his daughter and cries as Walter says they have to go. The baton counts past 30 seconds.
Outside, Winmark says Peter and Olivia will go back for Etta because of love.
Winmark and other Observers go back inside and see Etta's body slumped against a wall. He sees the necklace is gone and then that the baton has 3 seconds left. He transports outside just in time to see the anti-matter device explode and erase the building.
Olivia holds onto the necklace from a distance as they watch the explosion. Walter gently tells Peter that she's gone and they have to leave.
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