- Young observer remains muted. The team seeks Nina Sharp's help to understand him, but the mission is compromised.
- Walter, Olivia, Peter, and Astrid do not succeed to contact Michael and they decide to ask for help to Nina Sharp at the Ministry of Science. She takes them to a secret laboratory that belonged to the Massive Dynamic and is used by the resistance to study Observers. However, the software does not recognize his mind and the group leaves Michael with Nina while they go to a Ministry of Science facility to bring a second interface to let Michael read Walter's mind. Captain Windmark suspects of Nina and track her down. When he arrives at the laboratory, Nina hides Michael and when Windmark interrogates her, she commits suicide to protect her friends. When the Fringe group arrives, they find Michael and take him to the Harvard laboratory. Soon they learn who Donald is.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- In the lab, Peter scans Michael, the child Observer. He doesn't have Observer tech in him. Olivia tries to find a way to communicate with him. Walter suggests going into his mind like they did with September, even though it involves putting him in a coma and on LSD. Walter gets pushy, demanding answers. "We've got a world to save!" he says.
Olivia doesn't understand why she doesn't have the empathic connection she had with him before in the other timeline.
Ministry of Science Olivia calls Nina for help. Her secretary eavesdrops outsider her office, so Nina says she'll call back.
Windmark and two other Observers come into her office a bit later. Windmark asks her Loyalist secretary where Nina is. She took an early lunch, but the secretary says she's always back by 1 p.m. He calls for an LQ 7 unit.
They traced the sublimation device back to the Ministry of Science.
Observers hook up a machine with electrodes on the office glass doors. They run a scan and pick up traces of Nina's conversation.
Nina meets with Olivia on a busy street. Peter and Walter are nearby with the boy. She has tech that she thinks will be helpful in communicating with him, in a Massive Dynamic "black" lab that she let the Resistance use.
Nina asks Peter about Walter. Peter admits he's changing. Peter doesn't like the idea of removing the pieces of Walter's brain again, but Nina points out if the plan isn't completed in time, Walter may be too far regressed for the procedure. Oliva sees a "Resist" poster of Etta.
Back at Nina's office, Windmark waits as 1 p.m. approaches. He wants to see where the sublimation device was taken from.
Meanwhile, Nina leads the team to a lab via a secret entrance. The lab is cold and industrial with chemicals in tanks and bright lights and glass chambers with Observers in them.
The Resistance experimented on Observers there, but didn't learn much about how they read minds. She thinks the neural stimulation might work on Michael. She shows them an electro-cognitive-translator, or ECOG.
Walter calls for "the subject," and Peter reminds him his name is Michael.
At the Ministry facility, Windmark prepares to interrogate a lab worker. He says they've determined Nina is a traitor working for the Resistance. He says he knows nothing about it. Windmark believes him.
Peter puts the ECOG sensor on Michael's head. Olivia assures him it won't hurt. Walter and Nina monitor the readings.
Olivia asks if he remembers why he's so important to Walter's plan. The software can't interpret his thoughts. "Something has fundamentally changed with the subject- Michael. Whatever allowed us to communicate before is no longer viable," Walter says.
Nina thinks he can't understand what they want. "We've been trying to get into his mind, maybe the answer is letting him get into one of ours," she says.
Nina has to reconfigure the software, but she says they'll need another ECOG device from the lab. She says they can get one from Hastings.
Meanwhile, at the lab, the Observers go down the line of employees interrogating them. It's almost Hasting's turn. His phone rings, but he ignores it.
Walter, Peter and Olivia pull up outside the lab, but need the passcode to get in. They can't reach Nina underground.
Inside, it's Hasting's turn with Windmark.
Outside via comm, Astrid walks Peter through bypassing security. The door opens.
Windmark asks Hastings about the sublimation device, and doesn't believe Hasting's answer.
Peter, Olivia and Walter access the warehouse storage but have to look up the ECOG to find it among all the pallets.
Olivia climbs to the top of the shelves to pull down the ECOG and when she removes the bin she has a clear view up into the office where Windmark is interrogating Hastings.
He's cracking under the strain, but doesn't know where the fugitives are. Olivia watches from across the warehouse, helpless.
Nina goes upstairs to make a call. As soon as she's outside the lab the Observers pick up her comm signal.
Olivia watches as the Observers leave Hastings alone. They rescue him and he tells them they tracked Nina. Olivia calls her and tells her she's been compromised. Nina says it's OK, then smashes her phone.
Back down in the secret lab, Nina returns to Michael but is clearly shaken. She tells him there's nothing for him to worry about. He places his hand on her face and she sees something.
Then they watch on the security camera as Windmark and a car full of Observers pull up outside. She turns off the security cameras and hides him.
Peter, Water and Olivia race to get back to the lab, but get stopped at a checkpoint. They can't turn around, so they take turns getting out of the car, first Walter then Olivia, each carrying cases with ECOGs in them. Peter gets out and follows them down to a parking garage, where he hot wires a minivan.
Loyalists pull up outside the secret lab. Windmark teleports down into it followed by Observers and Loyalists. Nina is waiting for him. She has turned the security cameras back on again.
She faces down Windmark and tells him the fugitives are gone. She tries to block her thoughts from him and he tells her it will not last. As the Observers search the lab, Windmark goes to a covered container and pulls a sheet off. He sees the Observers that were experimented on, and calls her and the resistance "animals".
He sits down and starts trying to pry into Nina's brain. She's thinking of Michael. Windmark gets that Michael is important to the fugitives.
Windmark corrects Nina, telling her that Michael is not a child. He's a chromosomal anomaly, designated XB-6783746. He was scheduled to be destroyed, like all other anomalies, but he went missing.
An Observer reports that there is no one else in the lab. Windmark says he'll resort to a deep extraction method. He's intrigued when Nina isn't afraid.
She compares his listening head tilt to a lizard, with whom Observers also share lack of emotion, and then tells him the experiments they conducted in the lab revealed that Observers inadvertently honed primitive instincts that humans moved beyond long ago. Humans are more advanced and the Observers are the "animals".
"Restrain her," Windmark orders. As the loyalist is handcuffing her to her wheelchair, she grabs his gun.
"You cannot hurt me with that," Windmark tells her. "I know," she says, as she turns the gun on herself and shoots herself in the head.
Peter, Olivia and Walter arrive at the lab and head down. It's been ransacked, but it appears empty.
They see Nina slumped over dead in her chair. Walter rushes to take her hand and cries while Olivia covers her.
Walter thinks they have Michael and worries what they'll do to him. Peter notices the surveillance cameras and pulls up the footage. They see Michael place his hand on Nina's face and then leave with her to hide.
Next they watch her confront the Observers then shoot herself. They realize she did it to protect them -- and Michael.
They search for him. Olivia sees condensation in the corner of the glass on one of the containers holding a dead Observer. She spies MIchael underneath the grate the body is lying on. She and Peter pull Michael out. Walter notices Michael cries when he sees Nina's body.
Boston Back in the lab, Walter and Michael try on the ECOGs. Michael signals he understands Walter and remembers meeting Donald.
When Walter asks Michael why he's important, Michael lifts off the ECOG and places his hand on Walter's face. A million scenes flash before his eyes, of getting Peter from the other universe, September pulling Peter from the lake, saving Michael the first time, working with September, working with William, meeting Etta, and finally of meeting a non-Observer version of September.
"I know who Donald is. Donald is September," Walter says.
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