Fringe s05e02 Episode Script

The original Fringe Team didn't vanish.
They aren't missing.
- You're right.
They're in amber.
- Previously on Fringe Olivia! Olivia, breathe.
You're in the year 2036.
I want you to meet Etta.
Hi, mama.
Where's Walter? Don't move! Who freed you and your team from the amber? What plan? To defeat us? Air control malfunction.
Walter! Do you recognize this? It's meant to collect and make sense of the scrambled plan in your mind.
What plan? You know, I think that I would be happy to stay here for the rest of my life.
We should probably get her home soon, get her into a bath, which is never easy.
I nominate you for that one.
Etta.
Come on, kiddo.
It's time to go home.
Etta! Etta, come here now! Excuse me.
What happened? You were caught in a blast.
She was with us.
She was a little girl.
I'm sorry.
No children were brought in.
That can't be right.
She was standing right in front of me.
People are lost all over the city.
- She's around here someplace.
- Where are they taking the kids? - Etta! - Peter! Etta! You're okay.
You were dreaming about her? You said her name.
I'm still trembling.
For us, it's like it all just happened a couple of months ago.
But it didn't.
She's here, and we're here.
We're okay now.
Good morning.
- Not for Walter.
- Something's wrong.
Why? What's up? Not the thing working can't it's not.
The thought unifier's having adverse effects.
He's talking out of sequence.
Two hours ago the Christmas tree Macy's sale to have a nap.
- Get that thing off of him.
- Okay.
I'm not an amateur, Peter.
I need this contraption if I am to retrieve the plan to defeat the observers from the depths of my memory.
We don't know if there's anything left to retrieve, and we don't know what that thing is doing to you.
- Swedish? - He was speaking Portuguese earlier.
Good morning.
I hope the floor wasn't too bad.
Oh, no, I slept well.
Thank you.
Thanks.
So how's it coming? So far we know that, at some point in the past, Walter knew both Portuguese and Swedish.
Other than that, nothing.
Walter, you've always documented things.
So are you absolutely sure that you didn't write anything down? I can't remember, but anything's possible.
Even if there were files, you can't go back to Harvard.
We can't get in.
Why not? It was taken over by observers five years ago.
Some kind of base or no one knows exactly.
The entire four-mile radius is a no-go zone.
What's wrong? Why can't we get into Harvard? It's been taken over by observers, Walter.
Well, that's not a problem for someone who's done acid.
So are these barriers around Walter's lab checkpoints? Yeah.
No one gets in without paperwork.
Tunnels.
We don't have time to dig tunnels, Walter, or the manpower.
We don't have to dig them.
They're already there.
Steam tunnels.
Right beneath us, 3.
5 kilometers of tunnels that house the steam pipes that heat Harvard.
They stretch from the Cambridge electric company plant on Western Avenue, to Soldiers Field, to the Law School, to the science labs.
They made sure the entrances were well-hidden.
Few have seen the mysterious passageways.
Peter.
Yahtzee.
Fringe S05E02 "In Absentia" Your papers are in order.
Please proceed.
The temperature in the tunnels usually hovers around 100 degrees, sometimes as high as 120.
You might want to take that coat off, dear.
Sometimes Belly and I would wear swim trunks and speedos.
What was that? Quick, out of the way! I've been looking for you.
This way.
Oh, my.
I must have ambered it.
Why? To protect it, I imagine.
What is it? It's my betamax recorder on a tripod.
Look where it's standing.
Look at the blast pattern.
This is the amber point of origin.
I must have been standing right here when I ambered this lab.
I don't think I wrote anything down.
I think I was making a video.
The question is, is the tape still in there? There's only one way to find out.
When did I switch to grape? On your knees.
Who are you people? What are you doing here? He's a Loyalist.
He's not gonna tell us anything.
Gael Manfretti.
Nothing but bread crumbs.
Baldies feed you well, Gael? Maybe this was part of his patrol.
Why would he have come here? I mean, the place is abandoned.
For all we know, we tripped some silent alarm.
Either way, someone's gonna notice him missing sooner or later.
We need to stay.
If that camera's the key to helping Walter remember, we have to get it.
I need the laser.
What about the device I used to free you with? No, it won't work.
The amber's too thick.
It'll probably push the camera further in.
I need a proper laser.
Well, Walter, could you make one? Where there's a will, there's a way.
There's no power.
At all.
All the ambering must have blown everything.
Yeah, Walter, I think it's blown all the way back to the campus substation.
Well, a laser needs power, Peter.
The substation's in the basement of the science building.
That's the only way we're gonna get power.
We can get there using the tunnels.
Well, wait a minute.
We don't even know if it's the science building anymore.
We have no idea what's in there or what could be waiting for us.
We don't.
But he does.
I'm sure he knows plenty.
You don't seem to talk much.
I'm gonna give you one more chance.
What do you know about the science building? You're a real open book.
It's okay.
I'm good at opening books.
Where did you get that? It's not important.
What's important is that I have it.
What do they use the science building for? I don't think you want to waste any more precious time.
Criterion collection, forgive me.
Walter, it's just a laser disc player.
We need the laser.
Peter.
No, no.
No, it should be me.
Walter, I don't think this laser disc tube can generate enough power.
We need a better gain ratio.
Flying vermin.
You'd think after 21 years the observers would have found a way to get rid of them first.
Or at least found a use for them.
Maybe freeze-dry them and hand them out to the poor as sustenance.
We're gonna need a helium-neon mix.
- There should be one or two canisters - In the storage room off my office.
I'll get them.
I'm gonna ask you again.
What do we need to know about the science building? Etta? What are you doing? It's called an Angel Device.
It stirs up and destabilizes every atom in his body.
Full-charge steals around 25, 30 years.
But this is a long way from a full charge.
He's so disorientated by the process he loses the will to lie.
Or he holds out until his heart fails.
But most of them give us what we need to know.
And if they don't? - What are you doing? - I'm giving him water.
You want to kill him, go ahead.
That's how you'll do it.
He can't have water yet.
Not for another three hours.
He's not worth a single tear.
Loyalists sell out their own kind like rats.
I know you just woke up, but look around you, mom.
Can't you see what the observers have brought? This is war.
And we're losing.
Etta! I'll be right back.
Just don't get too near him.
Walter, what's up? Don't you wear a necklace? The clasp was loose.
I took it off to try to fix it.
- Why? - Then you won't mind me melting it down.
Don't worry.
We just need the silver for solder.
Thank you.
How do I look? Like you're in pain.
You know, my absence won't go unnoticed.
I don't believe that anybody's coming to look for you.
See, I don't think that you're here because we were seen or because we triggered some sort of alert.
I think that you came here to feed the birds.
Look, I'm guessing you're probably not even supposed to be in this building, so even if you are missed, this would be the last place anybody would look.
You need to tell her what she wants to know now.
You need to tell her before you get worse.
You've already lost years of your life.
Now come on.
You must have something to live for.
I'm trying to help you.
You don't have the authority to do that.
Do you? Well, what authority do I need? You know, a Loyalist just doesn't walk away when they've been captured by the Resistance.
How can you be so sure? Where are you from? - Why? - You're new to the Resistance.
I've been around a lot longer than you may think.
Look I'm not gonna survive this.
And I'm not afraid to die, so I will tell her what she needs to know if you will go and tell my son I'm not coming home and that I loved him very much.
I don't want him to keep looking for me.
I don't want him hoping he'll see me again.
I've seen that too many times, people waiting for people who never come home.
Everyone has an access code.
You can't get in without one.
And what's in the building? The main power grid is still there.
Other than that, I don't know.
I don't go below the first floor.
We don't ask.
Rumors mainly.
- What kind of rumors? - Experiments.
On what? On everything.
My access code is a two-part code.
The first part is 010567.
And the second part? Me.
Can we beat an ocular scanner? We have his code to access the building, but there are scanners at every point.
Well, that didn't take long.
What's wrong? Where did this come from? Barbaric.
What has the world come to? How could the Resistance create such a device? We didn't.
The Loyalists did.
It's old second-gen observer tech.
It was designed to prepare observers for time travel.
But, as you can see, the Loyalists figured out a new way to use it on us.
No reason we shouldn't use it on them.
It's just a transport truck.
We're okay.
Well, as far as ocular scanners go, the only surefire way is to bring him with you.
It's impossible.
Look at him.
I'm gonna look at your eye.
And, if you can't bring him with you, there's only one way.
- I agree.
- Walter, you can't.
Of course I can.
Rather easily in fact.
Astril I'm gonna need a sharp scalpel and my long-handled stainless spoon.
I'll need another.
Pay attention to the texture.
Make sure it's spongy.
You know, the vietnamese consider pigs' eyes to be a delicacy.
Even ones that have been sitting in formaldehyde for 20 years? Yes, that should do nicely.
Are you sure this will work, Walter? "In a pig's eye.
" - I wonder what the origin of that term - Walter.
Certainly.
An iris is like a fingerprint.
Each has its own unique pattern.
And, if we can mimic that pattern, we can trick the scanner into thinking that this pig's eye is our tattooed friend there.
The world has changed so much.
It can be difficult to understand it.
I'm not sure I want to understand it.
Not bad.
Yeah? You're next.
How's he doing? He's getting there.
Thank you.
For what? When I said it was logical for me to go turn the power on instead of you.
That I know protocol if something goes off track and that Peter should go because he's the engineer.
I appreciate you respecting my experience.
'Cause I know you'd rather it be you.
I know you like to be in control.
So do I.
I did my best, but it has to be exact.
Well, is this exact? We'll find out.
Gentlemen.
Why does someone join the Loyalists? Pain.
There were Resistance fighters near my building.
They were gonna blow up a city bus full of them.
Invaders.
My children were outside.
One of them was killed.
My oldest boy.
I'm sorry.
I know something about losing a child.
So, after that moment, I just wanted to be safe.
You know, I was angry at the Resistance because it's hopeless.
So I do this job.
They give us a safe place to live, get taken care of, they look after us.
And I don't have to worry, at least about my boy.
I'll never understand you people.
You can't win.
The world would be a much safer place if you just stopped trying to fight them.
What's Manfretti doing in building four? That's not his sector.
Manfretti, come in, over.
Manfretti? Answer it.
We had an agreement.
Now answer it.
Hey, there.
What's up? The hell you doing accessing the medical science wing? You're supposed to be in sector seven.
Tell them that you needed to change a fuse.
A fuse blew.
I went to fix it.
Since when does security change fuses? Who asked you to do that? Number 19.
Big guy 19, really? Yeah.
Really.
Change your stupid fuse and get back to your post.
You knew if they went to that area they wouldn't be cleared.
No, I didn't.
I've never been anywhere I wasn't supposed to be.
Simon.
Etta? Etta, no, no, stop, stop.
What are you doing? We have to keep on moving.
Think of the tape.
Think about what's on it.
Think about your future.
There will be a time for vengeance and a time for grieving, but it is not now.
Stop! Stop.
They'll pay for what they've done.
I promise.
Do you really think you can win? Well, we have to win.
So that all the people that died, including your son, didn't die for nothing.
POWER REROUTE SUCCESSFUL Now.
Let there be light.
Walter, we have to turn them off or someone could see us.
Wait.
Let's see if this still works.
Yes.
You ready? Yeah.
Invigorating.
You want a go? Peter? What happened? Etta.
I'm really sorry about Agent Foster.
Freedom has its costs.
Simon knew that.
Get up.
You're traveling.
Where are you taking him? He's useless to us now.
I'm turning him over to the Resistance.
He says no one ever comes back.
And Resistance fighters don't come back when they're taken in by loyalists.
HQ will get whatever else they can from him and dispose of him, and the world will be a tiny bit safer.
Look, I know you're upset right now, but he did give us the code.
Yeah, of course he did.
It's natural human instinct.
To live as long as possible.
It's the same quality they use to turn us into slaves.
He joined them in order to protect what was left of his family, you know, his son.
He's a liar.
That's what they're trained to do.
He has no son.
He gave you the code because he saw in your eyes a weakness.
He saw in your eyes that you could be manipulated, that maybe, maybe he could convince you to let him go.
But that's not gonna happen, sweetheart.
Etta, - I understand how hurt you must be.
- You don't know my world.
You're right.
I don't know your world.
But I had hoped for you that, wherever you were, you weren't hardened by what had happened to you.
And it's not that I don't see what the observers have brought, I do.
But what concerns me more is what they've taken away.
This is the world.
It is what it is.
Don't move.
Number seven.
His name is Oscar.
I keep my word.
I know you do.
Walter.
I need a sedative.
That can be arranged.
That's a comm device.
If Walter needs anything else for the laser, I'll be able to get it for him.
There you are.
You don't have a son, do you? No.
I was hoping, right up until the last minute, that she could somehow convince you.
You were right about me.
I became a Loyalist because I'm a coward.
Get out of here.
I'm gonna fight.
For the Resistance.
I want you to know that.
You don't have to lie anymore.
I already let you go.
Well, that's why this time I'm hoping you believe me.
I mean, this can come in useful.
There aren't many Resistance fighters with an active tat ID.
You said I saw something in her eyes.
You were right.
There was a certainty that I've never seen before, and I don't know how to explain it other than to say I felt for the first time that we were supposed to win.
Why are you letting me live? Something that I saw in her eyes as well.
Pity.
Pity for who? For all of us.
Got it.
It looks like the heat from the laser might have damaged the PVC.
It might have damaged the tape.
I told you we should have gone slower.
Whoever you are, if you found this tape, you've retrieved it from amber.
If you are watching this, then you know very well that the observers have invaded.
I am most probably dead, and unfortunately my plan to stop them has failed.
I have documented all the parts of the plan on videotapes.
You must recover each tape and follow the instructions on each of those tapes to retrieve all the parts of the plan.
Once you do so, what you need to do will be clear to you.
If successful, this plan will restore us and rid the world of the observers.
You were chosen for this.
This is your destiny.
I understand if you're frightened.
It will not be easy, but I trust that the same will that brought you here will keep you going.
It Gentle, Peter.
I'm on my way back.
Okay.
Here we go.
But I trust that the same will that brought you here will keep you going.
It is important that you follow the tapes.
You must begin this journey right away.
You are humanity's only hope.
Now you must retrieve the first tape.