Power Hungry - Recap

In Worcester, Massachusetts, delivery worker Joe Meegar wakes up late because his electronic alarm clock is on the fritz. His mother Dora tells him to clean up and get going, but Joe takes time to note his pulse and temperature in a logbook. He gets to the parcel company and as he goes through his locker, finds an old newspaper ad offering to "unleash your potential." Joe goes to work and looks at photos of a woman on his cell phone. His boss Ron notices and sarcastically asks if it's Joe's girl friend, which he denies. As Joe starts scanning parcels with a handheld unit, it burns out.

Joe delivers a package to an office building and after signing in, drops off the parcel with the receptionist Bethany, the woman on his cell phone. They make small talk but Bethany is casually polite at best. As a co-worker comes over to ask her out, her computer starts to malfunction and Joe panics and runs to the elevator. Bethany enters with him on her way to IT and knocks his phone out of his hand. She sees the pictures and realizes he's been stalking her. She tells him to get away and the elevator suddenly starts plummeting toward the basement level at maximum speed. It crashes at the bottom and Joe walks out, unharmed despite the fact everyone else in the elevator is dead, crushed. As he walks away, every car in the parking garage starts up on its own.

Olivia meets with Charlie and talks about how she saw John in her kitchen. When she turned her back to grab her gun, he disappeared. Charlie figures she's hallucinating or imagining things out of grief and she's entitled, but not to worry about it. At Harvard, Walter asks if Peter is doing okay after his recent torture. The scientist worries about the fact he can't access parts of his own mind and Peter assures him he's doing fine. Olivia and Broyles arrive at the lab and brief father and son about the elevator crash. The elevator didn't just fall: it drove itself down to the bottom of the shaft. Broyles note that the MO matches that of a maglev file in Japan that went out of control.

The team goes to the office building where PK Simmons, the inspector, tells them that it looks as if a second generator overrode the elevator generator and drove the car into the bottom of the shaft. Olivia tries to check the security cameras but the electrical pulse from the second unindentified generator fried them all. Walter examines the bodies and determines that it wasn't the crash that killed them: they were electrocuted. Using Olivia's necklace, Walter demonstrates that a strong electromagnetic field was generated and is still present, strong enough to suspend the metal necklace in mid-air.

Back at the lab, Walter notes that he worked on a government project that involved enhancing human bodies so they could be tracked by homing pigeons. Each person has a unique electromagnetic field and Walter was experimenting in ways to augment it so that it could be perceptible. Conducting an autopsy, Walter determines that someone so enhanced was present in the elevator when it crashed.

Joe returns to the company, covered in blood from the victims in the elevator, and sees a newscast about the elevator crash. Ron notices the blood and finally fires him. Joe starts to panic again... and a parcel machine pulls Ron's arm in.

Broyles visits Olivia and informs her that they have files on other cases of individuals who were "enhanced" at advertised clinics, and they're all connected to Pattern incidents. The person tied to all of them is Jacob Fischer, who is wanted by Interpol for human experimentation in several countries. That night, Broyles gets her the files on Fischer and Olivia is reviewing them alone in her office when the lights go out. She hears the elevator door open... and finds John Scott inside. He asks Olivia to trust him and says that he can prove he didn't betray her, but not right now. John tells her that Fischer is responsible and she needs to pursue the case. He says he loves her and gets on the elevator. As the car descends, Olivia runs down a few floors and stops it... but it's empty.

Olivia goes to Peter and Walter's hotel room and goes over the records. She finds a weight discrepancy on the elevator records that indicate that one person left it after it crashed. Walter speculates that someone with an enhanced electrical field could have levitated himself and avoided dying in the crash. They conclude that the person responsible doesn't know what he's capable of, but Walter warns that if he does, he could be extremely dangerous.

While Charlie and his team compile a list of reported electrical anomalies, Joe returns home and tries to explain to Dora what happened. She snaps at him and wonders how he could waste money on an "enhancement program" that used hypnosis. The clinic claimed that they realigned the electrical impulses in Joe's brain to make him more confident. As Joe gets more excited, the lights flicker and Dora's pacemaker goes out. As she collapses, Joe tries to call 911 but the phone shorts out. He packs and runs downstairs, but two men are waiting for him in the lobby: Fischer and his associate, Crewcut. While Fischer says he want to "adjust" Joe's medication, Crewcut hits Joe with a tranquilizer dart.

The FBI find out about the malfunctioning machine that cost Ron his hand, and they connect the name of the company to Joe's name on the sign-in sheet at the office building. Olivia goes to Joe's apartment and finds Dora dead. As the FBI go over the apartment, Olivia calls Walter. He asks what electrical devices are in the apartment. She finds a Walkman with a tape and he tells her to bring it to the lab. Walter manages to find Joe's unique electrical signature imprinted on the magnetic tape and has Olivia order homing pigeons so he can recreate his earlier experiments.

Joe finds himself strapped to a table in a clinic, where a technician gives him an injection.

Walter and Astrid enhance the pigeons and start putting GPS trackers on them. Olivia goes to get a cup of coffee form a vending machine and sees John in the hallway. She runs after him and tells him to stay away from her. He insists he didn't betray her and then kisses her. She gives in but when Peter comes up behind her, she's distracted long enough for John to disappear again.

The pigeons are ready: Walter and Astrid release them and then track their flight path on the computer and relay it to Olivia, Peter, and the FBI agents. They follow the pigeons across town to the clinic, where Fischer is experiment on Joe. Joe insists he just wants his life back but Fischer assures him that he is now special.

The FBI team is spotted as they approach the clinic. Crewcut gets Joe to a van while Fischer goes to distract them. He denies knowing anything and they arrest him, and then search the clinic. In the garage, Joe activates the van and runs over Crewcut, then runs outside. Olivia chases him until finally Peter ambushes Joe and knocks him out.

As Joe is taken away, he asks if they're going to release him and Olivia has to inform him that they'll also need to administer tests. She goes back to the lab where Walter notes she's looking pallid and realizes that she's seeing John. He explains that when he linked her consciousness to John's when he was dying, part of John's mind and memories were left in hers. Now her brain is manifesting an image of John that only she can see and hear, as a way of ridding herself of the extra memories. Walter asks Olivia if that's what she wants to happen.

As Olivia drives home that night, she sees John ahead of her on the street. He keeps walking into a basement apartment and she enters... and finds files and photos of Pattern-related cases. Broyles goes over the place with his team and informs Olivia that John was ahead of them on the research into the Pattern and had located seven other people that Fischer had "enhanced." They take all seven into custody, and none of them have yet displayed any abilities. As he leaves, Broyles gives Olivia something John wanted to have: an engagement ring.


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