Stowaway - Recap

Pete brings Olivia's body to the Harvard lab, where the consciousness of Bell inside of her explains to the team that Olivia's consciousness is safe, but in a state of rest. Bell tells them that he planned the transfer of his consciousness several months ago when she met him in his office on the Other Side, and he slipped her the micro-magnets for the soul transfer in a cup of tea. Walter confirms that Olivia now has two distinct brain patterns, one active and one inert. Bell assures Broyles that Olivia's mind can accommodate her consciousness for several weeks, and Walter will find a more stable home for her before then. Peter and Broyles limit him to 48 hours in Olivia's body: after that, Broyles will have Walter come up with a way to drive out Bell's consciousness. Bell then asks Peter to get his files from Massive Dynamic on re-entry.



On a rooftop in Roxbury, Massachusetts, Dana Gray comes out to find a man, Jim, waiting for her on the roof. She notes that he said she doesn't have much time, and Jim admits that she was right about the rain. Dana insists that each person has a purpose, and Jim runs onto the edge of the roof. He asks Dana if she believes what she's saying about purpose, and that she said she also wanted to kill herself. Jim asks her why she stays around, and if she's found her purpose. Dana grabs him and he falls, and she holds him up. Jim insists that he's lost hope and knows they're all going to die, Dana grabs him and then throws both of them off the roof. They fall to their deaths, slamming onto a taxi. After a few seconds, Dana gets up and walks away, while astonished pedestrians look on.



Peter returns with the files for Bell, and Bell outlines his plan to find a new biological host. As he talks, Bell notices the drawing of Peter strapped into the machine and warns Peter that Walter may not be able to prevent that event because it's destined, and Peter trying to walk away may lead him directly to what Fate intends. Broyles sends a video one of the pedestrians made of the double-suicide, and Dana walking away. Walter suspects that the location is the cause, because of spatial decay from the degradation of the universes. Bell prepares to go with them to investigate, overriding Peter's objections and noting that for now, the computer has to do all of work of sorting the reentry data.

In Hartford, FBI agent Lincoln Lee receives a fingerprint report on Dana Gray.

Walter and Bell run a radiation test on the taxi and detect nothing unusual. They collect DNA while Broyles arrives with Agent Lee, who has no idea what Fringe Division is. He explains that Dana Gray is the woman who walked away, and she was shot and killed instantly 18 months ago during a home invasion. Her husband and two children were killed as well. The killer drew on the agents when he was caught and they were forced to kill him. Dana's body disappeared from the morgue, and Lee dismissed the incident until he received a report of a double-suicide at a dormitory. The police only found one body, but there were two sets of fingerprints, and the second set belonged to Dana's. Lee flagged her in the system and found her prints at three other double-suicides, and eyewitnesses have confirmed she was present. He suggests that Dana is invulnerable to harm.



Later, Bell invites Lee to the lab. Walter and Bell analyze the DNA and determine that the molecules in Dana's body were held together by an unusually strong electromagnetic force. The attractive force makes Dana almost unbreakable. Walter speculates that Dana is taking the life force from her victims to hold herself together, and Bell agrees with his conclusion. According to the files, each victim tried to commit suicide previously, and Bell and Walter figure that Dana is preying on people willing to give up their own lives. Peter takes Lee with him to check out suicide hotline offices and therapy groups.

Dana is visiting her family's graves when she gets a call from a would-be suicide, Brian. She tries to calm him down and asks to meet with him person. Brian thinks it's a trap, but Dana convinces him that she won't bring the police.

Peter and Lee find the hotline center where Dana works, and talk to her boss, Lucy. Lucy insists that Dana was the best hotline worker that they had, as she's saved 37 people in three months. Dana apparently learned the value of hope after being struck by lightning twice. As Lucy goes to get Dana's address, Peter and Lee wonder why Dana is committed to saving the lives of those she eventually kills.

Dana arrives at Brian's apartment and he draws a gun on her. He realizes that she's not scared, and explains that he wanted her to come there. Brian insists that he doesn't want to hurt people, but he always does and he doesn't like his purpose. He says that he doesn't want to hurt the people on the train, but he will unless she saves them. Brian tells her that he's hidden a bomb on a train and gives her the specific location. As she goes to the phone, Brian talks about Azrael and angels carrying his damned soul to heaven, and then shoots himself. Dana starts to call 911 but then hangs up.



Walter and Bell go over the information and try to find a suitable host. Bell looks at Gene, gets an idea, and Walter realizes what he intends. In the lab office, Lee and Peter go over Dana's belongings. Lee finds one religious book on the afterlife, with highlighted references to Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. Peter figures that Dana wants to die. Out in the lab, Bell suggests that once they put his consciousness in Gene, that Walter could decipher his thoughts using an EEG machine. Peter comes out and asks if Dana being hit by lightning twice would cause her invulnerability.

The police put out a report on Dana's description, and Pete, Lee, and Broyles go to Brian's apartment with a FBI team. They confirm that Brian died with a single shot, and Lee conclude that Dana is trying to "hitch a ride" with her victims, rather than power herself. However, they don't know why Dana didn't stay.

Dana goes to a church and has a nun look up the story of Azrael. Azrael was a sinner whose soul was condemned to Purgatory. The angels eventually appealed to God, who refused. They then lifted Azrael up on the wings of their innocent souls, and God agreed to allow Azrael's soul into Heaven. After the nun leaves, Dana looks at the piece of paper that she wrote the bomb's location on.



At Brian's apartment, Broyles finds a concealed trapdoor to a lower apartment, filled with the skeletons of animals that Brian collected. They find an invoice for 20 pounds of plastic explosives and realize Brian was making a bomb, but have no idea where it is.

Dana goes to the train station and boards the train. She goes to the designated seat and finds the bomb hidden underneath. A male passenger across the aisle finishes a call to his sister and explains that he's going to see his family. He asks where Dana is going, and she says she's also going to see her family.

At Brian's apartment, Peter suggests that they track Dana. Lee figures that Brian told her where the bomb is, and she went there so that she could be present at the site of mass deaths. She plans to use that to try to move on to the afterlife. Peter checks Brian's phone and figures the last call he made was to Dana.



The train departs the station and Dana sits nervously with the bomb on her lap. Her phone rings but when she realizes it's from an unknown caller, she doesn't answer. They need her to answer to have a chance to get a trace, and Peter has them reprogram his call so it identifies him as Dana's husband Henry. She answers and Peter insists that can understand from personal experience, and that Walter and Bell can undo her condition. Dana asks him if he can promise they can reunite her with her family, and Peter says she can't guarantee her method will work. She insists it's the best chance she has, and says that she's trapped on Earth, separated from her family. Dana hangs up before they can get a trace. Broyles analyzes the background noise from the call and sends it to Astrid. She determines the train left from Norwood, and there are three trains. Bell and Walter work out the travel time algorithms and work out which train Dana is on.



The male passenger asks Dana to watch his stuff while he goes to the bathroom. Dana realizes that the train is stopping and the FBI is pulling up. Broyles and the others approach the train and tell the conductor that there's a bomb onboard. The male passenger recognizes the photo they have of her and take them to her seat, but she's gone. As they evacuate the train, Dana carries the bomb into a nearby field. Crying, she puts it down and begs for understanding, and then starts to walk away. Aboard the train, Peter and Lee hear the bomb explode. They go to investigate and find Dana's body nearby. Lee wonders why she was finally able to die, and Peter admits that in Fringe Division, answers just lead to more questions. Lee tells Peter to call him anytime that he needs help.



Peter arrives home and finds Walter asleep on the couch. Bell explains that Walter invited him to stay the night, and speculates that the bomb reset the magnet charge in Dana's body, allowing her to die. However, Bell has another suggestion: that it was Fate that Dana needed to be invulnerable so that she could be there to save the people on the train from Brian's bomb. Further, Bell believes it is somehow connected to her "resurrection." Church bells ring nearby and Olivia's consciousness briefly awakens. When the bells stop, Bell's consciousness is restored and he admits that the situation may be more complicated than he thought.



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