Fringe

At the ransom drop site, Walter has hooked the bear up to several headsets.  The cops are instructed not to take them off under pain of death.  Dr. Carson waits with the briefcase full of money.  One kidnapper comes on foot but there is no sign of Tyler.  The kidnapper grabs the suitcase and runs into a neighbouring warehouse. Olivia pursues.   He comes barreling out in a car, which crashes.  Peter sees another figure slip out the back and gives chase after signing to Walter what he was going to do.  Olivia finds a kidnapper cowering in the corner, holding a gun to his head.  "Help me!" he says.  The figure Peter chased is Tyler.  Tyler commands him to take off the stupid headphones; they won't work anyway.  "Take me to your car."  Peter does.

Walter comes looking for Peter.  The kidnapper tells Olivia that Tyler is the kidnapper. He makes you do things.  Olivia takes this information to Nina, who admits that Dr. Carson had one project that carried over into pharmaceuticals.  He was designing an automatic-pilot project that was controlled by a person's mind.  They think that Tyler must have stolen some of the drugs used in the project and that, combined with teenaged hormones, have given him the ability control people's minds.

Tyler is a sociopathic little bastard.  He keeps Peter in pain until Peter agrees to co-operate.  When Peter fights, Tyler almost causes the car to crash.  Then, after they are pulled over by a patrolman, Peter begs Tyler not to make him shoot the cop.  Tyler has Peter knock the cop out instead.  (The actor was wonderful.  Scared the hell out of me, but wonderful.)

Olivia checks on Walter and asks if he can come up with a way to neutralize Tyler.  Walter is in bad shape.  "I can't lose him again." He says that Peter is the one who helps him come up with ideas and that he doesn't think he can do it without him.  (John Noble was amazing here).   Olivia says that Peter helps her too but that she also believes in Walter.  Walter comes up with some Fringe hocus pocus - they will try using an EMF scrambler to disrupt Tyler's beta wave transmissions.

At the same time, Astrid hits the motherlode on Tyler's computer.  She found computer searches for women who died in car crashes 14 years ago.  Specifically a woman named "Renee Davis".  Dr. Carson said that his wife, Renee, took off after Tyler was born and he assumed she was dead.

Tyler the teenager has taken Peter to a strip joint.  Peter tries to bond with the young psycho, who says that he started this whole escaped because his father lied to him.  His mother didn't die, like he was told.  She's alive and they are going to find her and then she and Tyler are going to live happily ever after and she's going to bake him chocolate chip cookies after school and life will be bliss.  When Peter points out that she will probably not be pleased with the fact that Tyler killed all those cops and hurt a lot of other people, Tyler shrugs his actions off as accidents.