Fringe

Our Observer and Observer #3 are in a restaurant adding hot sauce to their meals.  Observer #4 shows up and says they have a "situation" with August.  They don't know who the young woman is but she was supposed to be on a flight.  Which has already left the terminal.  Observer #3 notes that August "has created an irregularity. We'll have to correct it.  Call Donald."

Donald pulls out a very non-standard cell phone with the three-green-one-red light configuration.  He activates an old, old printer and receives a photo of Christine.  He screws a silencer onto his gun and goes to work.

Oh, they did get her home address.  But she doesn't live there anymore.  Her roommate will be subletting her room while Christine spends a semester in Italy.  Peter finds an old family photo.  Roommate informs them that Christine's parents were killed in the San Francisco quake of 1989.  Peter shows Olivia the photo - there is an observer in the background.

Christine is a fighter.  She's been pulling so hard that the bed frame collapses.  She falls free, hands still tied, to the floor.  Then August returns with Chinese food for her.  He sets her upright and is distressed when he sees the damage she's done to her wrists in her escape attempt.  "What do you want from me?" Christine asks.  August opens the entertainment cabinet doors and turns on the television.  "It would be easier to show you.  It'll be just a moment."

Olivia and Peter are on their way back from the roommates when Olivia calls to check on her niece.  She shares a story from her childhood and Peter assures her that she and Ella will have other girls days out to make memories.  Then they hear the news of the crashed flight 821 (US to Italy).  They check Christine's itinerary and that's the one she should have been on.

August tells Christine that she was going to die but he saved her.  But she isn't safe yet.  He needs to go out again.

Peter is still hung up on why he was saved.  Walter surreptitiously continues to read/translate the journal.  Astrid discovers the stain is not blood but rather a very rare pepper imported by only one individual in the city.  Peter and Olivia go to check it out.  Walter tricks Astrid into leaving him alone at the lab; she runs an errand and he runs away.

August meets with the other Observers.  He admits to interfering, which they aren't supposed to do unless it is to "correct a mistake of their own making."  Observer #3 says that Christine doesn't have a future.  August insists she does because he has seen it.  Observer #3 tells him that his perception must be in error but that his oversight is being corrected.

Walter arrives at a restaurant.  (I don't know if it is the same one where he met the Observer last time.)  August is waiting.  He left a code in the notebook that he was sure would catch Walter's attention.  Walter begs him not to take Peter away.  August assures Walter that is not why he contacted him.  He asks for Walter's help.  Walter says they should enlist Peter and Olivia's help.  August says that he suspects they are currently occupied.

Killer Don arrives at the apartment and sees pictures of Christine which span her short lifetime.  He psychically(?) finds the page in the phone book that names the hotel Christine is stashed at. Peter and Olivia arrive.  That woman does *not* know how to clear an apartment because Peter gets taken hostage... again.  Don escapes and Peter and Olivia investigate the apartment, which contains century old newspapers and other stuff.  Wow, that's a long lease.

August says that since Walter saw past his own limitations, Walter should be able to find a solution for him.  August says there is no way for him to protect Christine indefinitely.  He knows she is important but he can't explain how.  Walter tells him that if he truly believes it, he must prove it and be prepared to face the consequences.