Junior Jessup, not at all happy with the way her first assignment is going, has gotten her hands on someone's password (this show is so not security conscious) and accesses all of the Fringe Division files from the last year.
Peter meets up with Olivia's sister, Rachel, who is waiting till morning to pull the plug on her sister. Peter goes into Olivia's to say goodbye. She is all machined up - perhaps taking too many style notes from Ms. Nina Sharp. Peter is too overcome to speak but still manages to say a lot (well done, Mr. Jackson.) Olivia jacknifes out of bed and starts spewing gibberish.
Give her a minute, people, she's been mostly dead all day. Olivia realizes that she is in a hospital and is injured. However she is desperate to talk to Peter. Somebody told her something and now she has to do something. Needless to say, the fate of the world rests upon it. If only she could remember who told her and what it is she's supposed to do.
Peter goes to the FBI building to track down Broyles and Charlie. However he can't get through reception because his credentials have been revoked. Junior Jessup offers herself as liason. She's been examining Olivia's accident scene and the crash looks deliberate. She has a photo of the other driver taken from a security camera. She and Peter track down the driver and, behold, find him dead in his living room. Mystery Man's first appearance was also stolen. Peter and Walter take the body back to Walter's lab (which I can only assume hasn't been dissassembled yet even though Peter's credentials are gone).
Now for something really cool. Mystery Man enters a typewriter shop and asks for a model that was never made. The owner says that it's been six years since someone wanted that model. Mystery Man goes into a back office and sits down at a desk that has a Selectric 251 right beside a mirror. He types his message, and the typewriter in the mirror types the response.
Mystery Man: Target terminated in fatal car crash. Meeting prevented. Request extraction.
Mirror: Negative. Mission failed. Meeting occured. Target still alive.
Mystery Man: Request orders.
Mirror: Interrogate target. Then kill her.
At the hospital, Olivia's not doing too well. Although she says she's fine, Special Agent Charlie Francis doesn't believe her. She scared, she can't remember what happened, and her hands are shaking too badly to load her gun. Poor Olivia.
Meanwhile, back at the lab, Peter tells Junior Agent Amy Jessup the history of Walter and Fringe Division. She gets a quick introduction to Special Agent Astrid Farnsworth and then a trial-by-fire initiation when Walter simultaneously performs an autopsy and instructions Astrid on how to cook a custard.
Walter finds the three holes in the roof of dead-guy's mouth. He remembers an old experiment where a woman having some kind of vision describes this injury as well as soldiers from another dimension. Peter instructs Astrid to run a search for corpses with similar injuries.
Great recap, Featherlite! I think I am going to have to watch this episode again, because I have obviously missed some key points that you mentioned in your recap. What was up with Smishy-faced man, I wonder?
>because Supernatural (coincidentally running in the same timeslot on the CW)
Thankfully I don't have to worry about that- however Fringe and FlashForward run concurrently for me. :(
Thanks, Ebonyrose.
Near as we can tell, Smishy-faced man is a soldier from the other side. His mission was to ensure that Olivia didn't make her meeting (presumably the one with William Bell.) Since she did meet Bell, the new mission is to find out what Bell told her and then kill her. But since she can't remember because of her head injury, Not-Charlie has to hang around and wait and see.
Great recap, Featherlite! I think I am going to have to watch this episode again, because I have obviously missed some key points that you mentioned in your recap. What was up with Smishy-faced man, I wonder?
>because Supernatural (coincidentally running in the same timeslot on the CW)
Thankfully I don’t have to worry about that- however Fringe and FlashForward run concurrently for me. :(
Thanks, Ebonyrose.
Near as we can tell, Smishy-faced man is a soldier from the other side. His mission was to ensure that Olivia didn’t make her meeting (presumably the one with William Bell.) Since she did meet Bell, the new mission is to find out what Bell told her and then kill her. But since she can’t remember because of her head injury, Not-Charlie has to hang around and wait and see.
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