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Fringe :: The Road Not Taken (01x19)
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| Title: | The Road Not Taken |
| Episode #: | 01x19 |
| Production Number: | 3T7668 |
| Original Airdate: | Tuesday May 05th, 2009 |
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Broyles is reviewing the work of ZFT with his staff and brings them up to speed on the fact they’re preparing for a war with… someone. They’re funded by William Bell of Massive Dynamic. Olivia and Charlie will be coordinating efforts to provide solid evince connecting Bell to ZFT.
In New York City, a woman runs out of her apartment and tries to hail a taxi. When she doesn’t succeed, she gets on a bus to get to the hospital. She begins to gasp for breath and the notices the temperature rising around her. She tells the bus driver she needs to get off and steps out onto the street, begging for help. As bystanders look on, the woman spontaneously combusts.
Walter is going over his old files and decides to show Peter the fact that the typewriter the ZFT manifesto was written on is Bell’s old machine. Walter insists that Bell wasn’t insane and believes that someone removed pages for their own purposes. Olivia calls to get them to New York and examine the woman’s corpse. Olivia says she’ll have the bodies taken to the lab, but the only person who sees a second body is Olivia herself.
Nina comes to FBI headquarters to meet with Broyles. She knows about the investigation and wants to know what he’s looking for. He tells her about Bell’s involvement but Nina insists that Bell is no terrorist. However, she claims he’s traveling and can’t be reached.
Walter checks the woman’s body and prepares to do an exam, but Peter notes he took apart the electron microscope for parts he needs for a project.
Olivia comes to see Broyles and thinks he changed his office. Broyles has no idea what she’s talking about. He’s more confused when he shows her a report with a photo showing there were two bodies. She turns around to discover Broyles coming into his office, which has reverted back to normal. As she briefs him, they’re interrupted when Sanford Harris comes in and demands answers about why they’re investigating Bell. He warns that Massive Dynamic is heavily connected with the Defense Department and they have nothing to confirm Bell’s involvement. Once he leaves, Broyles tells her to continue the investigation.
Walter and Astrid autopsy the woman’s body and prepare to check her dental records to identify her. Walter wonders if the original manifesto is in his files somewhere. As Walter discovers Peter has taken some more parts, Astrid identifies the victim as a Susan Pratt. Olivia and Charlie go to her apartment and find that the bathroom is burned out, and she received a $30,000 check from an Isaac Winters.
Peter returns to the lab as Olivia arrives and reports what they find. Walter rules out spontaneous human combustion and suggests pyrokinesis is responsible. Susan was a pyrokinetic and anxiety set her off. Olivia wonders what is responsible. Charlie calls to tell Olivia they’ve located Isaac Winters, a lawyer in Charlestown. Olivia and Charlie go there but find the office empty. They do find an answering machine with a message from Susan saying that something was happening to her and Winters knew about it. As Olivia goes outside, a fire engine drives past. Olivia sees them heading toward several burning skyscrapers. However, Charlie interrupts her and the vision disappears.
Walter checks Olivia at the lab but can’t identify the cause of the hallucinations. He proposes that she’s suffering from <em>déjà vu</em> caused by her glimpsing an alternate reality. However, he has no idea why she’s having the visions. Olivia asks him about the Cortexiphan trials and whether the fact she as a subject as a child could be causing them. Walter doesn’t know, but insists that there’s a reason she’s having the visions. Astrid learns that there was another victim and his death was reported on a web site.
Peter and Olivia go to home of the web site owner, Emmanuel Grayson. He’s suspicious of Olivia as an authority figure, but Peter convinces him to explain the death occurred in Budapest. Grayson claims that Bell was responsible and he founded Massive Dynamic to continue his experiments. The dead victim was a test subject and Bell tried to activate him to see which of his ”soldiers” could handle the process. However, Peter soon realizes that Grayson is obsessed with <em>Star Trek</em> and delusional, and they make a hasty exit.
Nina gets a call and tells her people not to do anything until she gets there. She changes her plans and departs.
Back at headquarters, Olivia notes that some of what Grayson says jibes with what they know about Bell’s drug testing. She notes that there are always two bodies in her visions, and believes if she can have another vision, she can identify the body from the parallel dimension. Sanford arrives with a new assignment for Olivia: a psych exam. She accuses him of trying to undermine her but he warns she has no choice. As Olivia returns to her desk, she suddenly finds herself in a different FBI headquarters. A scarred Charlie is putting out a shoot-to-kill order and has no new info on the Susan Pratt death. He gives her a file on a second victim, Susan’s twin sister. Olivia snaps back to “her” reality, then identifies the person as Nancy Lewis, who they figure ran away. They locate her in Boston and go to see her.
At Nancy’s apartment, a man arrives to see her: Isaac Winters. Olivia and Peter arrive a little later and discover the door and the furniture overturned. The glass in the windows has melted, and Peter has an idea. He removes the pane of glass as Walter and Astrid arrive. As Peter sets up his equipment, Walter notices that Nancy looks familiar. Peter explains that he has been working on a project to reconstitute vinyl to restore Walter’s old LPs. With some software modifications, he believes he can use his equipment to get an impression of the sound left on the glass when it melted due to Nancy’s stress of being kidnapped. They play back the sound, shattering the glass. Referencing the digital scan, Peter and Walter working together manage to play back the conversation as Nancy screams at the person who came for her. They hear her abductor make a call and recreate the phone number from the keypad noises. They play back the noises on Olivia’s cell phone and they discover that the phone number belongs to… Sanford Harris.
Olivia calls Charlie and asks him to help her follow Sanford as he leaves. They follow him to a warehouse where he uses a warehouse to enter. Olivia and Charlie call in a team and they break into the building. Meanwhile, Sanford meets with Winters, who has Nancy strapped down within a laboratory. Olivia comes into the office and finds photos of Nancy, Susan, other individuals… and herself.
One of Winters’ men shoots an FBI agent, and Olivia shoots the man down. She finds the laboratory and shoots down Winters, then goes into the laboratory room. Sanford locks her in as Nancy “activates” and the temperature in the room goes up. Sanford calls her employer and tells him what’s happening. Olivia notices a light box like the one that Mr. Jones “tested” her on. She tries to get through to Nancy and convince her to focus and redirect the heat. Nancy sees Sanford and stares at him, and he burns up.
Peter and Walter are at a diner. When Peter goes to the restroom, Olivia comes in and demands to know what Walter and Bell did to her and the other children. Nancy and Susan were also from Jacksonville, and they were part of the same experiments that were conducted on her. Walter says the drugs were Bell’s and they didn’t mean any harm. He explains they were trying to prepare Olivia and the others against something terrible that is coming, but he doesn’t know what. Breaking into tears, he admits he can’t remember what they did to Olivia and the others. A disgusted Olivia gets up and leaves. Peter returns to the table and sees his father, upset, and holds his hand.
Later, Nina comes to Broyles’ house and shows her photos of the Observer, having been seen in dozens of locations. She warns him of what happened the last time the Observer appeared with such frequency.
Walter is in his lab, alone, listening to his records. He notices a box with his files and finds the original copy of Bell’s manifesto with the extra pages. He starts to read of how it talks of preparing children so they can protect them. Walter turns to discover that the Observer is standing in the doorway. He tells Walter that it’s time to go. Walter gets his coat and then leaves quietly with the Observer.
Nina goes to her apartment and takes the elevator up. She steps out to find masked men waiting for her with guns.
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