- Olivia joins forces with the mysterious Sam Weiss in a desperate race against time.
- While the doomsday machine creates many lightning storms, Olivia seeks out Nina and she discloses that Sam Weiss might have the answer. Olivia chases Sam while Walter and Astrid research the storms. Meanwhile Peter awakes with amnesia, but he takes a taxi and asks the cab driver to go to New York; then he buys a coin at a pawnshop. Walter asks Broyles to take the machine to the Statue of Liberty to be close to the machine of the parallel universe and reduce the damages in our universe. Sam goes with Olivia to the machine and he suggests to use a device to open the field that is protecting the machine and let Peter go. When Sam Weiss retrieve a box with the information about the crowbar, he learn that Olivia is the crowbar. However she does not know how to use her ability.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- With Peter hospitalized, Astrid channels Walter's despondency into tackling the problem of dry lightning storms unleashed by the machine. Olivia, meanwhile, joins Sam Weiss to raid a crypt for an ancient lockbox containing "a crowbar" that will help her open up the doomsday machine for Peter, followed by a raid on an electrified museum for its hidden key. With everyone gone and the hospital inundated with burn victims, Peter awakens, alone, suffering memory loss, and wanting to go home.—statmanjeff
- Peter still lies unconscious in his hospital bed. Walter sits vigil. He checks Peter's pulse. Astrid reports the doctor wants to keep Peter sedated another 12 hours. Walter's worried about the effects of Peter interacting with the machine.
Astrid lures Walter away with promises of cafeteria tapioca.
A boy rides in a car with his parents. He notices strange weather and that the hair on his arm is standing on end. Suddenly, a lightning bolt streaks out of the sky and zaps the car in front of them, flipping it. His dad gets out to investigate.
He sees a line of cars immobilized on the road and bolts of lightning dotting the air in front of him.
Olivia takes Sam Weiss to the machine. "It wasn't supposed to happen this way," he says. He doesn't understand how it's been on already for 36 hours without Peter, since it was built for him.
Sam throws a pen at it and it shoots the pen back across the room. He concludes that the device is hardwired to think Peter is already in it so it's repelling everything.
"It's not a doomsday device, but it's acting like one," he says.
He thinks there's a way to disarm it so it'll let Peter in safely. He takes out the manuscript the "First Peoples" books are based on.
There's a crowbar of sorts to open the force field long enough for Peter to get in. He doesn't think Peter will die.
Walter and Astrid hear doctors talking about a freak lightning storm, Broyles verifies it when he arrives. Astrid suggests they go to the lab, but Walter wants to sit by Peter. Then he has a Ben Franklin-associated epiphany and decides he has to go get his kite.
Saint Arthelais Cathedral Sam Weiss explains to Olivia that he's not the first Sam Weiss. His great-great-great-grandfather discovered the manuscript. The fifth wrote the "First Peoples" and third and fourth searched for the missing sections.
Sam and Olivia pry open a crypt and take out a box. Sam worries that maybe they shouldn't use the "crowbar" yet. He's been prepped for this his whole life, but nobody said anything about the Other Side turning on the machine first.
Walter flies a kite covered in wires and is promptly struck by lightning --twice. He draws a conclusion from this that prompts him to run for the lab.
In the hospital, Peter wakes up. He takes off all his sensors, gets out of bed and gets dressed. The hospital is empty.
He hears a phone ring and a nurse tells whoever it is they don't have many free beds. He sees all the lightning burn victims being wheeled in.
A nurse asks him his name. He's not sure. She has to tend to someone else and leaves him. He walks outside to see the sky going haywire and lightning everywhere.
He takes a cab and tells the driver to go to 42nd & Lexington.
Sam and Olivia pull up outside a museum, where the key is. They meet the museum director. She shows them blueprints and Sam IDs where the key is. There's lightning inside the museum. Olivia says they have to go in.
Astrid gives Walter raw data from Massive Dynamic. He's interested in the frequency of the lightning strikes, radiation thermal spikes and seismic events. They find a rift is forming between Boston and New York, between where their machine is and Liberty Island. Walter realizes that's where Walternate is.
Walter takes iron shavings into Broyle's office and puts them on a board above two magnets to demonstrate how the filings end up concentrated in the middle because of the magnetic field -- just like how the events are happening between the two machines.
He wants to move their machine to Liberty Island. He thinks they just have to contain the damage until Olivia can find a way to get Peter in the machine.
Sam takes Oliiva to the key inside the museum. She doesn't see it, but he says no one can. Lightning strikes near them. Sam grabs a stone tablet. The alarm short circuits and starts to seal them in. Sam picks up a rock, hurls it down the hall and knocks over a large vase to stop the alarm gate from closing them in. "I work in a bowling alley," he reminds Olivia.
Outside, he chips at the tablet and takes out a 4 inch long piece of metal that's the key. Olivia doesn't see anywhere to put it in the box which has no holes, but as she's holding the box, the key flies onto the box, like it was pulled by a magnet. The box opens and Sam takes out the piece of paper inside. There's a drawing of Olivia on it.
Back at the lab, Walter looks at the document. It means she has a connection to the machine, too. She must be the crowbar. The drawing shows rays of something coming off her head. He thinks they're brainwaves. Walter curls the paper around and sees that it shows he manipulating the machine with her mind. Telekenesis.
Walter and Sam think she can control the machine with her mind, and it has to be the one over there, but she can do it from here. Walter reminds her about how she turned on lightbulbs just by thinking about it two years ago during a bomb scare.
He wants her to practice. He takes her to the inter-universe typewriter and tells her to look at the mirror and imagine she's looking at the typewriter on the other side and type with her mind. He tells her to try with a word or phrase.
Back at the hospital, a nurse finally notices Peter is gone. She finds a note from him: "I am going home."
Back at the lab, Olivia is frustrated she can't make her powers work. Walter gives her a pep talk, telling her she's extraordinary. He encourages her to try.
She looks at the type writer again, but nothing happens. Astrid comes in with the news that Peter is missing.
Peter wanders the streets of New York, asking people on the street where a pawn shop is.
He finds one. He asks to see a collection of coins. He picks out a silver half dollar, saying it always brought him luck.
Walter tries, and fails, to remain calm about Peter. Olivia checks his credit card and finds the cab company and pawn shop charges.
Peter goes to Liberty Island. He tells a marine guarding the island that he needs to talk to his father, Walter Bishop, the secretary of defense.
Broyles gets a call about Peter. Olivia and Walter go to him on Liberty Island. He seems off. He looks at Walter and asks "There are two of you, aren't there?" He thinks he was confused.
Walter checks him over. He remembers the president and date and that he tried to get into the machine. He now knows Walter is not the Secretary of Defense.
Olivia tells him about trying to type with her mind. He says she tried a phrase but got nowhere. He asks what the phrase was.
In the lab, Astrid hears typing. She calls Olivia. It keeps typing the same phrase: "Be a better man than your father."
Olivia goes to the machine. Walter advises her to think of it as a giant typewriter.
Olivia and Peter hold hands and approach the machine. She walks up to it and closes her eyes. There's a loud hum and then the machine shuts off.
On the other side, Brandon notifies Walternate that there's something happening to the machine.
Olivia kisses Peter and tell him she loves him before he goes into the machine. He stares it down.
He steps into it. It closes on his hands and feet, one at a time. He remembers all his times with Olivia. It closes on his hand, completing the circuit, and a current charges through him.
When he opens his eyes he's on a war-torn street with fires, people and troops running everywhere. He sees a monument to September 11, dedicated on September 11, 2021. He looks up and sees a tower standing where the Twin Towers were. A soldier runs up to him. He calls Peter "Agent Bishop." He's wearing a patch from Fringe Division.
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