- Young Observer's origin is revealed. And his existence and an additional time travel are necessary to change the history of Observers' invasion.
- Walter uses the deprivation tank to explore the vision of September and find where he is. Walter finds that he is in Brooklyn, in New York, and he goes with Peter, Olivia, Astrid and Michael to the place. They meet September who The Observers have removed his implant and trapped him in 2016, since he had interfered in the timeline. He also explains that in 2167, the scientists have sacrificed the emotions to increase the capacity of intelligence in the brain. Later the Observers have created a technique for asexual procreation and Michael was considered an anomaly and would be destroyed. But September hided him in the past since his genes have been used to create Michael. The plan to destroy The Observers is to send Michael to 2167 to demonstrate to the scientists that emotions can exist with increased intelligence. If the plan works, time would be reset from the moment of the invasion. When the group returns to the laboratory, they have to go using monorail since all the area is under siege of Loyalists and Observers. However Michel surprisingly leaves the monorail when the doors are closing and is arrested.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Peter works on the amber in the lab with a laser to free the next tape. He stops when he thinks he hears something, but it's just Walter. It's the middle of the night. Walter thinks they can use the tank to get at his subconscious memory of Donald and get more information.
Olivia checks on him in the tank, he's feeling sufficiently free and open with his swim trunks off.
Olivia monitors Walter's blood pressure as it rises. In the tank, he remembers being in the same apartment from the flashes Michael showed him. Donald, aka September with hair, is there. Walter sees water and buildings out the windows. It's New York City. He's under a bridge.
Astrid looks it up later and figures he was in Brooklyn near where the base of the Williamsburg Bridge was. Out of the tank, Walter is optimistic they'll find September.
Windmark listens to a snippet of Nina mentioning a child Observer. Another brings word that "he" is ready to see Windmark. Windmark teleports through an Observer time grid to Manhattan 2609.
Walter, Peter and Olivia drive to the building where he thinks he saw September. Peter is worried at how chipper Walter seems. He assures Peter that everything is fine and he no longer needs pieces of his brain removed. He realized and saw things when the boy touched him, including memories of Peter from the other timeline.
"Who is this boy? How could he enable you to see a life you didn't live?" Peter wonders. "Why would he give you back all those memories but not give you the plan?" Walter doesn't know.
Walter loves Peter even more knowing everything they've been through. They share a good dad-son hug.
In 2609, Windmark goes to meet with the Commander. He informs him the Anomaly (the boy) has been found in their timeline. "Someone ensured its survival because they thought it was important," he says.
Walter finds the window from his vision. They go inside and knock on the door. Donald/September answers. He's surprised to see Walter, but even more so to see the boy.
Sitting down inside, they catch September up to speed. Peter mentions they've lost a lot of good people to find him. He was apprehended before the invasion for his "continued interference in the timeline." As punishment, they removed his device, so he can't move through time. They experimented on him. Now he's human. The first movie he watched with Walter was "Singing in the Rain," and he chose the name Donald O'Connor. The boy joins them and Donald plays a tiny music box for him. The boy was born hundreds of years from now, created in a lab. It all began in 2167 when a scientist in Oslo was trying to find ways to increase human intelligence. He realized if he tinkered with the part of the brain that dealt with jealousy, he could boost intelligence, sacrificing emotion. The discovery was the catalyst for the creation of Observers. One by one, emotions were sacrificed to boost intelligence.
In the Observer creation center, Windmark looks up the boy.
Donald explains the boy developed differently. Windmark asks whose genetics were used to create him.
Donald had been moved by fathers' affections for their sons before and helped them, as he did with Peter. So he took the boy and hid him in the past. He's Donald's son.
Windmark briefs the Commander on September, making the link between him and the Fringe team. They still don't know why he'd want the boy. Windmark asks for a protocol suspension to go back and intervene, but is denied. The Commander tells Windmark the fugitives are inconsequential. There's a 99.99% chance the Observers will succeed. Windmark admits the idea of ending the fugitives consumes him.
Back at Donald's, he explains Michael is even smarter than the Observers and has emotions. If they can send Michael into the moment of discovery he can show the scientists his more advanced kind of intelligence and emotion blend. "When they study him, they will realize all that he is: living proof that they don't have to sacrifice emotion for intelligence and they don't have to go down that path," Donald says. "And the Observers will never exist, they will never invade," Peter says.
Donald came to Walter when he lost the ability to move through time. "That was the plan, we were going to send the boy forward in time," Donald says. They have to build a device, including tech from September's timeline in the future that he has hidden nearby.
Olivia tells Peter she thinks it means they'll get Etta back. "I want to believe that more than anything but we've still got a long ways to go," Peter says.
Back at Observer HQ, Windmark learns about September extracting rocks at a mine. He orders September tracked.
Windmark and other Observers transport into September's now empty apartment. They find a bloody device in the sink, he removed his chip. But a drink is still warm.
Windmark looks through September's things including a Bible and snow globe of New York. His radio is set to jazz.
The group pulls up to a storage facility to get Donald's tech. He sees Windmark in his home on a surveillance uplink. Windmark notices an Observer tapping his foot with the music, then the surveillance camera. They transport out just before the apartment is consumed by an anti-matter explosion.
A loyalist brings Windmark surveillance footage of the group getting into the van. He orders a perimeter.
In the storage facility, September finds what he's looking for. Walter tells him about his regained memories, including the night at Reiden Lake when September told him: "The boy is important, he must live." "You weren't talking about my son, you were talking about yours," Walter says. The boy also showed him that for the plan to work, Walter would have to sacrifice himself. September says that's true.
Walter thinks the boy showed him all his experiences to make it easier for him to do what he has to do. September says it was Walter's decision to sacrifice himself for the plan, he would not have it any other way.
"Do you remember getting a white tulip?" September asks, of the hand drawn tulip Walter got in the mail. (In Season 2, Episode 18 "White Tulip") He thought it was a sign from God. September took it from the other timeline because he knew it would give Walter strength. He gives Walter an envelope, but it's empty. Only Walter knows where he put it.
Walter and September return to the van. Seeing their two small crates, Peter asks if that's it. "You say that as thought we're not carrying technology that can bend space and time into a mobius strip," September says.
September says he's not coming with them, he has a few more things they'll need before they get started on the plan. He places his hand against Michael's and promises him he'll see him again.
Peter, Olivia, Walter and the boy hit a checkpoint on their way out of Brooklyn. They pull into an alley to call Astrid. She pulls up the surveillance feed and sees that they're surrounded.
They pack up the contents of the van and head out on foot to a monorail stop that Astrid says is safe. They split up, with Olivia taking Michael. They walk past the check point unnoticed. Peter and Walter are about to follow when a car of Loyalists pull up with guns. Peter waits for it to leave then he and Walter walk past the check point.
At the monorail, Olivia gets a call from Peter who says they'll be right behind. The station is swarming with Loyalists. Peter and Walter make it to the platform. Olivia watches them approach from inside the car, but they have to turn around when a squad of Loyalists comes. They get on the train in another car. The Loyalists come to search Olivia's car. She turns her back and Michael purposely steps off the train, face to face with the Loyalists. The train takes off and Olivia can only watch as the Loyalists walk away with him.
Michael is brought to Windmark.
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