- In the parallel universe, a kidnapper called The Candy Man abducts the boy Max. The Fringe Division is assigned to investigate the case and soon Olivia learns that Broyles' son Christopher was also abducted two years ago and returned blind and with physical deficiencies to his family. She asks Broyles to interview Christopher to see any missing information but Broyles does not accept; however his wife agrees that Olivia meets Christopher. Olivia recalls an old case and guess whether The Candy Man would be draining the pituitary gland from the children to use the hormones to stay young. Based on the received information, Olivia and Broyles meet Reverend Marcus, who was a former physician and now is responsible for a church where they believe the abductor is a member. Meanwhile Olivia meets Henry and asks him to help her to go to the Liberty Island to use the deprivation tank to return to her universe.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- When a serial kidnapper "over there" strikes again, the emotional and familiar case hits home for Colonel Broyles, sending a determined Olivia to uncover additional details about the abductions. In the meantime, Olivia fights on and reunites with Henry to enlist his services on an intense and covert mission to return home.—Fox Publicity
- An old man shaves his head, revealing a port wine stain birthmark.
He examines a vial of liquid, then dumps it into a bowl of water. He recites verse about "from pitch dark comes a cleansing fire" and performs ablution. He holds up a metal mask.
New Yonkers In a young boy's bedroom at night, he cowers from the monster in his closet. Max wakes up his mom to check and she finds nothing there or under his bed. She turns out his light and leaves him. The closet looms.
Slowly, his door closes. A man is there. The man in the mask holds a cloth over his face until he passes out, then snatches the boy away in the night.
Over There, New York Olivia (Anna Torv) hops in the back of a cab driven by Henry, the cabbie she met on her first day there Over There. She asks if she can take him to breakfast. She tells him she needs a ride across the water to Liberty Island. She worries her time here is growing short and he's the only one she can trust.
His cousin has a boat.
She gets beeped to New Yonkers.
He asks if the people who were after her still are. "Not if they keep believing I'm somebody else," she says.
At the kid's house in Yonkers, they adhere to the Peter Bishop Act of 1991, which says every kidnapping of a child is treated as a possible Fringe event.
A detective upstairs tells them about eight-year-old Max (Michael Strusievici). They think the suspect went out the second floor window -- which leads Olivia to believe the kidnapper is a young man in good shape. Lincoln (Seth Gabel) finds sucrose residue on a fingerprint. It's the Candyman, he secretes sugar through his sweat and he's back.
Back at Fringe, Broyles (Lance Reddick) reviews photos of worn-out looking children. Walternate (John Noble) stops by to tell Broyles it's OK to pass on the case if it's too personal. It's been four years since the Candyman took Broyles' son. "When I got him back he wasn't a little boy anymore," Broyles says. "If there's anyone you want on this case, it's me."
Broyles asks when their Olivia is coming home. Walternate tells her they found something unique in Olivia's brain chemistry and he'll have his team together soon.
They have until the next night to find Max, Scarlie (Kirk Acevedo) explains. The Candyman's last kidnapping was two years ago. They came back with the life drained out of them, acute deterioration of organ tissue, depleted immune system, some even came back with cancer.
Reviewing the files they find incisions on the back of one victim's neck. Astrid (Jasika Nicole) reviews the pattern: they're always 7 to 9 years old, gone for 48 hours and return with massive internal degredation. Two of the victims reported being held by a young and an old man.
Olivia is surprised when Christopher Broyles' name comes up. It was before Faux-Livia joined the team. Charlie and Lincoln try to warn her off talking to Broyles, but that's just what she does.
She asks him to let her talk to his son, saying maybe she could get more because Broyles was too close. He sends her away.
We see Max lying on a bed with a metal gadget of some sort stuck to the back of his neck, draining fluid.
The man in the iron mask visits him, but he sounds young as he says: "Through suffering comes redemption, through sorrow comes exaltation, through the pitch dark comes the cleansing of the fire and through the fire we shall find the spring of new life."
Glen Cove, NY Chris Broyles (Curtis Harris) sits and listens to an audio tape. We see he's blind. Broyles comes home to his wife Dianne (Karen Holness). He tells him Olivia wants to talk to Chris, but he said no. His wife says Olivia seems smart. She says their son is strong enough to talk about it, even if Broyles isn't.
In the Fringe cafeteria, Olivia talks about the kids' symptoms, saying they're also symptoms of old age, which is linked to the pituitary glad which can be accessed from the back of the neck. She explains she worked an old case where someone stole hormones. She's stuck on the two suspects, old and young, and the fact the kids never saw them at the same time.
Lincoln says in theory processed pituitary hormones could reverse aging but there would be side effects, such as hypoglycemia -- high blood sugar.
Olivia gets a call from Mrs. Broyles.
Cut to her going to speak with Chris. She asks him where his favorite place to go is. They walk on the beach, out of earshot of Broyles.
Walternate calls Broyles to tell him their Olivia is almost done and they might not need Olivia anymore after tomorrow morning.
Meanwhile, she talks to Chris, who says his dad tells him to forget what happened. He remembers a musty smell like an attic and something stuck in his neck which drained his energy. He says he doesn't remember the men talking to him, but then he says the Candyman threatened to hurt his parents if he talked. Olivia tells him about the other missing boy and he can help.
He says both men said the same prayer and remembers the pitch dark, cleansing fire line.
Back at Fringe Division they research prayers.
Chris brings shells back for his mom. Olivia thanks him. Broyles gets a call saying Charlie traced the prayer. Olivia gets a call from Henry telling her to meet him at 10 p.m.
Olivia and Broyles go to the church. They want the names of male parishioners. Rev. Marcus (David Nykl) is a former doctor whose wife died and he now has a bit of a faith healer reputation. Broyles says they have someone who can ID the kidnapper's voice: his son.
Olivia and Broyles split up the 40 names and start making visits. After a while, Olivia knocks on the door of a man named Wyatt, who lets her in. She shows him Max's picture. Wyatt is a young man, maybe early 20s, with braces. He raves about his reverend.
Olivia notices a doll in the living room and asks if he lives there alone. He freezes and runs. Olivia calls for backup. She finds a secret door in the back of the closet and goes into the room where Max is being held. She checks on him, announcing she's with the FBI. When Wyatt busts in, she shoots him dead.
Later, the Fringers search his apartment, including a complicated lab set up. Lincoln thinks it looks like he was making an age-regression serum. They find Wyatt's ID, showing he's an old man. He worked in sanitation, they wonder how he knew the science.
Broyles tells her he won't forget what she did.
Later, Olivia finds Henry down at the pier. He admits he doesn't know how to drive the boat, his cousin showed him how. This triggers something for her.
She calls Broyles, who just tried and failed to reach his wife. She tells him Wyatt didn't invent the serum, the Reverend showed him how -- he was dosing his congregation and healing them. Broyles remembers he told the reverend his son could ID the kidnapper's voice and he can't reach his wife now.
Olivia asks Henry to wait for her and rushes to Broyles' house.
At the house, Chris wakes up when he hears his mother scream. The reverend knocks her out and goes for Chris, who hides in a cabinet. The reverend says he's only carrying out god's plan. The reverend finds him and grabs him. He's struggling to knock him out with chloroform when Broyles busts in and shoots the reverend, with Olivia right behind him.
At the hospital, Olivia watches Broyles with his family. Henry calls and she says she's on her way. Then Max's mom asks her to check in on him. She does.
He asks her what the FBI is, reminding her she said she was FBI when she saved him. She says it's another word for police. Broyles stands in the doorway.
In the hall, he tells her doctors think Wyatt's serum might help Chris and the other victims. Then he pauses and tells her the FBI ceased to exist over a decade ago. "You know who you are, don't you?" he asks. She asks what happens now.
He tells her he's going home. He goes to kiss his wife, and Olivia's gone.
Henry gets Olivia across the harbor. She thanks him. He asks where she's from and she tells him a parallel universe then dives off the boat and starts swimming.
She scales the cliffs of the island and makes it inside. She accesses the lab.
Walternate gets a call about the security breach.
Olivia starts the tank. She injects herself with something then hops in.
She ends up in the Liberty Island gift shop. It's late at night and the doors are locked. A cleaning woman (Elizabeth McCarthy Meek) finds her. Suddenly, her vision starts to shift and she realizes what's about to happen. She tells the cleaning woman she has something important to tell her that's going to sound insane.
Then she's back in the tank, being yanked out by guards. A very angry Walternate greets her and orders her sedated as she yells she doesn't belong there.
Back on our side, Peter (Joshua Jackson) and Fauxlivia lie in bed. She admits she's never seen the end of Casablanca, which she thinks stars Reagan.
They turn out the lights to go to sleep. Peter gets a call.
A woman pauses before saying she's calling from New York, where a woman just disappeared in front of her eyes. Her name was Olivia and she had a message for Peter: "She's trapped in the other universe."
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