Fringe

Lansdale, PA.  A construction crew works clearing drainage ditches and laying culverts on a gravel road beside a corn field, replete with scarecrows.  The radio is on in one of the work trucks; the local news announces that there are no new leads in the disappearance of six Lansdale residents.  One construction worker notices a crow sitting on the obviously faulty scarecrow.  He walks off the road into the corn, perhaps guided by the unheard-by-the-audience laughter of children.  He sees a blueish object half-buried in the soil.  He bends over to try to pull it out, but a hand erupts from the dirt, grabs him, and pulls him under, leaving no trace he was ever there.

New York City.  Olivia is being released from the Head Injury Institute after her amnesia-causing accident.   Peter is there to drive her home.  Not-Charlie watches from the shadows.  Peter feels eyes on him but doesn't spot the spy.

Somewhere under the cornfield of dreams and nightmares, Construction Worker Guy flicks his Bic and finds himself in an underground cavern, surrounded by rotting, half-eaten corpses.  He himself is covered in blood, and half of his leg is missing.  Gollum crawls out of a tunnel and drags off the screaming construction worker for a second course.

Boston.  Peter and Broyles talk.  The broken insta-disguise device from last week impressed the hell out of the committee.  Thanks to Peter, they've pretty much given Fringe Division a blank cheque.  Peter and Broyles got everything they wanted, except the jet.  Peter's been looking for cases that involve disappearances similar to Olivia's and has zeroed in on Lansdale, where seven people have vanished; four of them in front of witnesses.  Broyles gives him the go-ahead to investigate.

Meanwhile, back in the lab, Walter and Astrid (he even gets her name right!) are trying to recreate Olivia's accident.  Olivia was missing for at least an hour between the car crash and when she came flying through the windshield.  The general consensus is that she was in an alternate reality.  Walter has an emotional moment when he tries to explain how distraught he was upon learning of her death.  He also warns her that she will suffer side effects from the trip.

Lansdale, PA.  Walter continues to introduce himself to everyone he finds at a crime scene; such a polite man.  Sheriff Go-lightly doesn't want the F.B.I. horning in on his disappearances.  Personally, if seven people disappeared from my hometown, I'd be screaming for help.  I digress.    He does, however, allow Walter to keep the blueish object he found in the cornfield.  Eventually, Peter charms the sheriff by bonding over fishing lures - the night-of-desireable-object referred to in the title.  (I Googled it - no such thing, by the way.)  Sheriff Go-lightly eventually hands over the files.  While in his office, Olivia experiences her first flash of hyper-sensitivity when her hearing goes off the chart and she can hear the individual footfalls of a fly walking on the edge of the desk.

Olivia calls Not-Charlie and gives him the names of all the missing people to run through the various F.B.I. databases.  He promises to get right on that after he runs an errand...

to the Selectric shop.  The typewriter-store owner doesn't recognize him, since Mystery Man is now wearing Charlie's face, but he hands over the key to the back room.  Not-Charlie, in some kind of intestinal distress, grabs the key and sits down in front of the inter-dimensional typewriter.

Not-Charlie:  Target trusts me completely.  She still believes I'm her partner. Awaiting your instructions.