Fringe

Philadelphia, PA.

Officer Gillespie sends his partner on a coffee run.  While the cop's in the donut shop, Gillespie gets a mysterious phone call telling him to go to the train station, meet a man in a black trench coat and pick up a briefcase.  Gillespie takes off, leaving his partner stranded.

At the station, Gillespie spots his contact.  However, the man won't give up the briefcase.  Gillespie gets upset and the electronics in the area - TV schedule display monitors, etc - go wonky.  Gillespie begins to freak as his hand, then arm, begin to metamorph into some kind of rock.  The crystalline infection quickly spreads through his body.  The now-statue vibrates for a few seconds... then explodes.

Olivia doesn't know this yet.  She's back in the bowling alley debating the merits of bunny-ears vs. over-under-and-through shoelace tying techniques with Sam Weiss, the man who Nina Sharp said could help her after her accident.  He is surprised that Olivia isn't having headaches yet and Olivia seems a little put out that he wants her to experience more pain than her current bruises and limp.  He can't even help her tie her shoes.  He does it for her and she leaves.

In the lab, Peter desperately searches for a 2-bedroom apartment so he and Walter can get out of their hotel room.  Astrid quickly jumps to Walter's defense when Peter says Walter woke him with his singing but she remains quiet when she discovers Walter was singing while doing jumping-jacks naked.  Dear Fringe, you can traumatize Peter with that but must you traumatize us with that information too?  Walter does not want to move but if he does the apartment must face east.  Astrid interrupts the location-location-location discussion with a news article that talks about a bomb that left no residue.

The bomb site is a mess.  Unfortunately the security tapes have been wiped, presumable by magnetic static, and the images are gone.  But Peter knows a guy who may be able to recover the data.  Walter determines that the shrapnel is as hard as a diamond and - he tastes it - is salty.  Ew, Walter, that's a people part, even if you don't know it yet.  Broyles says that no terrorist group has claimed attack.

Peter gets an idea.  He searches the area and finds Officer Gillespie's badge.  But no body.  Walter comes up with another piece of crystalline shrapnel - an ear.  Peter knows where Gillespie went.  All over.

Walter and Astrid sort the person pieces by anatomy in an attempt to reconstruct  Gillespie.  His foot is intact.  I guess it was protected by the boot.  Still, Walter notices 47 injection sites around the toes, a spot addicts use to keep the visible signs of shooting up hidden.  Walter believes that Gillespie purposefully injected himself with the agent that made he blow up; he made himself into the bomb.

Peter's friend isn't able to do much with the video.  They see Gillespie enter the station then the images are gone.  Olivia raises a good question.  If the bomb erased the images, why do they vanish twenty seconds before detonation?

Peter and Olivia interview Gillespie's widow.  She tells them that Gillespie was doing well after serving in Iraq.  The interview is cut short when Olivia is hit with her first headache.  It's a doozy.   She has another hallucination/memory; the flashes of images include William Bell, the intact World Trade Centre and an oxygen mask.   She races to the widow's bathroom and while she is calling Ralph, she spots a not-flush tile in the bathroom wall under the sink.  She removes the tile and finds a drug kit with several vials still full.  A clue!