| [–] |
Show Menu |
•
•
•
• (14)
•
•
•
•
•
•
• (2)
• (10)
• (3)
• (1)
• (30)
• (5)
•
• (6)
• (9)
•
• |
| [+] |
Empty Sections |
• (0)
• (0)
• (0)
• (0)
• (0)
• (0)
• (0)
• (0)
• (0)
|
| [+] |
Show Contribs |
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
• |
| [+] |
Episode Contribs |
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
• |
|
Fringe :: A New Day in the Old Town (02x01)
 |
Episode Information |
| |
| Title: | A New Day in the Old Town |
| Episode #: | 02x01 |
| Production Number: | 3X5101 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday September 17th, 2009 |
|
| |
|
|
|
In Manhattan, New York, George Reed wakes up from the aftermath of a car crash with a SUV. He gets out of his car and runs to a nearby apartment, and then buzzes a resident to let him in. Once George is in the building, he grabs the resident, Lloyd Paar, knocks him out, and drags him into Paar’s apartment. “George” then crushes the bones of his face and attaches a device to the mouth of his victim. George attaches the other end of the device to himself and activates it, and his face starts to change into that of Paar.
Junior Agent Amy Jessup arrives at the crash site and tries to identify the driver of the SUV. There’s nobody in it but there is an ID. It belongs to FBI Agent Olivia Dunham.
In Boston, Walter takes Peter shopping for the ingredients for custard. Walter plans to make custard for Peter’s birthday and insists his son loved it as a child. Pete says that he has always hated custard. They get a call summoning them to Manhattan. Jessup is there and confronts Peter, demanding to know what he and Olivia due as part of Fringe Division. Walter gets into the SUV and toys with the radio. There’s a burst of static and the headlights go on and he hastily gets out. As Peter, Walter, and Jessup look on, Olivia suddenly comes shooting through the windshield and crashes onto the ground. They accompany her to New York General Hospital. As Peter and Walter go inside, Broyles arrives and gives Jessup a report saying that the car crash was a simple accident. When she refuses to sign the report, Broyles orders her to do so and she complies.
The doctor tells Peter and Walter that Olivia has suffered irreversible brain trauma and will remain in a coma for the rest of her life. Walter examines her but is unable to do anything for her. Crying, he apologizes to the unconscious woman. Peter goes to a bar for a drink and Broyles finds him. The FBI supervisor says that he’s going to Washington to report to a Senate subcommittee, but they plan to shut down Fringe Division because they haven’t produced anything useful. A depressed Peter notes that they haven’t done anything but clean up after a series of deaths and that they’ve never been able to stop any of them before they happened. Broyles tries to disagree but Peter points out that they couldn’t save Olivia. The two of them toast their friend.
At the New York Federal Building, Jessup discovers that the Fringe Division files are security locked. Someone has given her a password and she uses it to access the database containing photos of the various cases Fringe Division has handled.
Peter meets Olivia’s sister Rachel at the hospital. She tells him that Olivia had a living will and that her orders were to not take any extraordinary measures to preserve her life. Rachel plans to turn off the life support in the morning. Peter goes in to say goodbye to the comatose Olivia, but she suddenly sits up and speaks in Greek, and then screams in terror. Once she recovers, she talks with Peter and hesitantly explains that she was somewhere else, but she can’t remember where or who was trying to stop her. She tells Peter to get her gun, warning that someone will come for her.
Peter goes back to the Federal Building to meet with Broyles but is told that the supervisor is in Washington. He discovers that his credentials have been revoked and loses his temper, attacking an agent. Jessup arrives and gets him outside. As they drive to an address in Lexington, Jessup explains that the skid marks at the crash site indicate that the driver of the car deliberately drove into Olivia's SUV. Jessup has confirmed George's identity from surveillance cameras that captured him at the crash, and they now he lives in Lexington. She demands to know what Fringe Division does and Pete says that right now, they don't do anything. They arrive at George's apartment and discover that he's dead and has been dead for several days, long before the crash. Walter comes to examine the body and Jessup okays his request to take it to the lab. Peter wonders why she's being so helpful and doesn't believe her when she says she's just going wherever the case leads her.
The shapeshifter, still using the appearance of Lloyd Paar, goes to a shop and asks for a Selectric 251 typewriter. The store owner gives him a key and directs him to the back, and tells the shapeshifter to tell his superiors he's not waiting around forever. The shapeshifter goes to the back room where there's a typewriter on a desk. He types out a report saying he eliminated the target. The typewriter seemingly types by itself, saying he's failed. The shapeshifter request new orders and he's told to interrogate the target and then kill her.
Peter takes Jessup to Harvard to meet with Walter at his lab and explains his father's background. Walter is busy dissecting George's corpse and making custard.
Charlie goes to see Olivia and asks if she's doing okay. When she insists he is, he talks about the time that he was a policeman and investigated a domestic abuse situation with his partner. The girlfriend shot Charlie's partner and then shot Charlie. Charlie spent months recovered and claimed he was okay afterward, but he admits he wasn't. He asks about the gun Peter said he gave to Olivia, and she admits that she can't bring herself to load it because she's too scared.
Walter performs the autopsy on George and discovers three punctures in the soft palate. He realizes it's something he stumbled across that does the unthinkable. Walter shows them a videotape of one of his and Bell's experiments on a girl named Rebecca. They used drugs to stimulate her spiritual charkas, giving her the ability to see spiritual presences. On the tape, Rebecca says she can see a man with a machine that uses three nails into his victim's mouth. She describes the man as a soldier from another universe. Pete has Astrid check the database for reports of other corpse with punctures in their palates.
Olivia tries to load her gun but is unable to.
Broyles testifies before a Senate subcommittee and insists that Fringe Division is necessary to protect the country. However, the Senate is unable to do anything unless Broyles can provide them with something to justify its existence. After the meeting, Broyles meets with Nina Sharp, who says there's nothing she can do. She tells Broyles to do what he always does and save the day, and then kisses him.
Peter and Jessup go to the morgue where the corpse of Lloyd Parr has turned up with similar punctures in his mouth. Jessup's father is a soldier and she figures that the shapeshifter would do the same thing her father would: stay on mission no matter what. They realize that the shapeshifter will go after Olivia again.
At the hospital, the shapeshifter confronts a nurse and uses his device on her. A few minutes later, the shapeshifter goes to see Olivia and asks her what she can remember. Olivia starts to remember that she talked to someone and that somehow she came back to the accident in the middle of her meeting. She finally remembers that something is hidden, but doesn't know where despite the shapeshifter's insistent queries. The shapeshifter realizes that's all that Olivia knows and then starts choking her.
Jessup and Peter arrive at the hospital and Charlie tells them only the nurse is allowed in to see Olivia. Jessup bursts in and shoots the shapeshifter twice, but it shakes off the wounds, leaps out the window, drops several stories, and runs into a nearby building. Charlie, Jessup, and Peter split up to search the place. Charlie finds the incinerator room and goes in. The shapeshifter drops from the ceiling and come at him.
Peter hears four gunshots and runs to investigate. He runs into Jessup and they enter the incinerator room to find Charlie standing over the dead shapeshifter, still in the nurse's form. Lying next to it is the device.
Later, Peter goes to see Olivia and he says back the Greek phrase she said when she woke up. She doesn't remember saying it and he translates, explaining that it means "Be a better man than your father." Peter explains that his mother said it to him when he went to bed, after Walter left. It was code from her to him, saying to take care of the people he cares about. Olivia says that he's good at that. As the doctor checks on Olivia, she asks Peter if it's true the government is shutting down. He tells her it won't happen.
Peter goes to Washington to see Broyles and give him the shapeshifter's device. It's broken but if the government can fix it, it'll justify Fringe Division's existence and the government can have an army of shapeshifters. Broyles takes the device and congratulates Peter.
Later, Jessup is at home reading on the Fringe Division incidents and correlating them to verses in the Bible.
Walter, Astrid, and the cow throw Peter a surprise party at the lab and serve custard.
Olivia finally manages to load her gun.
"Charlie" goes back to the incinerator room and removes the real Charlie's body from where it's hidden in a laundry bin. The shapeshifter dumps it into the incinerator.
| There Are No Foreign Summaries For This Episode
Contribute Here |
|
Go back to main episode page |
|
Digg
Furl
Del.icio.us
Google