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Recapped by Daniel · Aired 10-14-2011

Now that Walter and Olivia are united in their respective Peter-glimpsing insanities, they can work together! Walter has set up all kinds of video cameras to try to capture (for posterity) the apparition, and he's calmed down now that he knows he doesn't have to lobotomize himself. But Olivia's feeling a little more stress, because she wakes up with some sort of energy coalescence in her bedroom.

Walter, eager to prove that he's much too valuable to be recommitted to St. Claire's (which is Dr. Sumner's recommendation), ventures outside the lab as he and Olivia track down a former Cortexiphan experimental victim, I mean SUBJECT, who had some kind of astral projection ability. Cameron no longer has that, but involuntarily affects electromagnetic fields, meaning he can't even go on a date with a woman lest he pull the fillings from her teeth. But seeing as how Dr. Freak (aka Walter) is not the intimidating presence he used to be, Cameron agrees to use that power to destroy the visiting energy bugging Olivia. But when it comes again, it manifests itself into a humanoid form that looks like Peter -- to Olivia, that would be the man in her dream -- so she calls off the energy assassination. Also, she got the sense that it didn't mean her any harm.

So the energy coalescence goes away, right into Reiden Lake, where an actual, physical Peter surfaces. He knows about Fringe, and Olivia and Walter and everybody, but Fringe has no IDEA who this guy Peter is. But now he's back, he's at the hospital, so hopefully Olivia can figure out that this stubbly stranger is Walter's son and the man of her dreams.

Daniel is a writer in Newfoundland with a wife and a daughter. He thinks Peter was lucky that the Reiden Lake fishermen weren't using dynamite. Follow him on Twitter (@DanMacEachern) or email him at danieljdaniel@gmail.com.

It's early morning at Olivia's place -- 5:58 a.m., to be exact. No, wait, 5:59. Forgot about the movies/television rule that states any shot of a clock has to have the clock tick up by one minute. Olivia sleeps, and morning light starts to creep across her face, shining in through the curtains, which rustle despite there not being any wind. Olivia's keys slide off her nightstand, followed by a couple more objects, and a bluish-white cloud of energy takes shape at the foot of her bed, hovering over her.

Her clock goes from 5:59 to 6:00, setting off the alarm clock, and she stirs, and is understandably startled to see this thing in front of her. She throws off her blanket and goes for her gun (Wait! Maybe it brings you peace and love!), but then the thing is gone, and Olivia's left with nothing but a bunch of metallic objects on the floor. (Thank god she keeps her more, um, intimate items in the drawer).

And then, strangely enough, her clock goes from 5:59 to 6:00 again, and the alarm goes off. Olivia looks around her bedroom, but there's nothing but the Bieber posters on the wall.

Over at the lab, Walter's mood is much improved from last week, and he seems to have suffered no untoward effects form having rammed a spike into his face. He and Astrid are working on some project that seems to consist of throwing a peanut into the air and photographing it from a bunch of different angles, via the many cameras set up in a ring.

Olivia strolls in, with Walter delighted that she's visiting (and momentarily confused when she reminds him that she works there) and tells her the setup they have going on is to capture the "apparition" that's been haunting them: "I believe the apparition may be out of phase with our reality. And for that reason, he is not visible from all directions. Instead he's visible only from one specific angle, which is why I can see him and no one else can. So: multiple camera taking pictures from multiple angles. He got the idea from watching The Matrix, we learn. That, and dirty bong water.

Anyway! Olivia tells them about her morning visitor, and about the droning noise, and about the metal objects in a pile on her floor, and the fact that it touched her. She takes off her jacket and hands it to Walter so she can roll up her sleeve and show them the ugly burn on her forearm. She wonders if she's causing this, like when she was a child and set fire to that room. Walter suggests they get a DNA scraping, so they can figure out exactly what form of energy is doing this. He strides over to a desk and puts Olivia's jacket on a chair, and a letter in her pocket catches his eye, especially the St. Claire's logo on the return address.

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With Olivia and Astrid occupied getting the DNA sample, Walter furtively takes the letter out (we can see the purplish bruise on his eye from the attempted lobotomy), and reads that Dr. Sumner's recommendation is that Walter be remanded back into care immediately. But he doesn't appear to have final say -- there's a spot for someone to check off whether they think it's a good idea or not, because AS IF this is how you commit someone for mental illness. So Walter puts the letter back, and the Olivia and Astrid come over, and Walter tells them he needs an "atmospheric sample" from Olivia's apartment, and they say that's no problem and then he says they need to leave so he can sit there looking conflicted and forlorn for about five hours.

With Walter watching on the videophone, Astrid waves a Wand of Science over the metal objects on the floor. The closer she gets, the higher the reading: "Two whole rads at this proximity," she says. That's a lot of rads! I suppose! Walter asks Olivia if she left a window open. She did, so he asks her to go to another room, like the bathroom, to find something metal so they can test to see if it's been magnetized too.

Walter's getting some sort of feedback on the video feed, but before he can figure it out, he hears Olivia yelling, "Astrid!" and then Astrid saying, "What's wrong?" and he watches the video feed -- very Blair Witch Project -- go the bathroom, where Olivia seems to slam up against the wall by an unseen force, and then something slams the bathroom door. Walter's all, "What's going on in there?" but then we see Astrid still taking readings from the metal objects and asks what he's talking about. And then we immediately get the sequence that just played out for Walter, with Olivia calling for Astrid and Astrid running to the bathroom. In the bathroom, the energy shimmers into view. The medicine cabinet directly behind Olivia's head rattles, so she ducks, and then everything metallic inside flies out at the energy, which dissipates. The objects fall to the floor, and Astrid busts in to find a scared Olivia on the floor.

After the opening credits, everyone's back at the lab, where they're discussing the impossibility of Walter's equipment recording the encounter before it actually occurred. "Whatever it is, it seemed somehow to affect time." Olivia wonders if he has any theories, and he says he's not sure it caused a time effect before. Astrid's all, "'Before'? I thought you said you'd never seen anything like this," only in a surprise twist it reminds Walter of something from back in his Belly-partnering days, during the Cortexiphan trials. "There was a boy who displayed the beginnings of an ability for astral projection," he says, which, for anyone who doesn't know and yet for some reason watches Fringe anyway, is the ability to travel outside the physical body. "And the matter to energy transformation had similar results. That would explain the radiation levels in Olivia's apartment," he says, adding that a harmful side effect was that every time he did it, he created a distortion in the magnetic field and attracted metal objects to him. So in other words it's EXACTLY like what's happening here. Olivia still doesn't understand what this would have to do with her, since the Cortexiphan trials were twenty-five years ago, and Walter says Bell theorized that the Kortexiphan Kids would share a psychic link, an emotional bond because of their shared experience (of being experimented on by two genius lunatics, you mean). "Maybe this person is trying to reach out to you, and the harmful side effects are unintentional," says Walter.

Still, why her and why now? Olivia wants to know, but Walter doesn't know, and he becomes increasingly uncomfortable as he explains that not all of the kids handled the treatments as well as she did. Really? Considering Olivia burned down a room, what did the other kids do? Walter says some of the other kids had adverse reactions, but Olivia was the strongest and the others recognized that, and so Olivia was everybody's favorite. Aw. The most popular girl in the hellish laboratory of things that should never be!

But back to the task at hand: this stuff is dangerous, so they've got to find the kid before it escalates beyond trapping and second-degree burns. No problem -- what was his name, asks Olivia. Walter thinks for a moment before coming up with it. "I remember! He was Subject Nine!" "Subject Nine"? That's a girl's name! Over to Massive Dynamic now, where Nina is giving a speech about nanotechnology to a bunch of suits in a cinematically lit room. Nice to see that Massive Dynamic is back to being more or less evil; Nina alludes to the concerns about the applications and affects of nanotechnology, and what might be done to mitigate those risks. "This is not Massive Dynamic's concern. We create technology. How it is used is not our concern. We just own the patents," she says. No Oppenheimer-like concerns for Nina. You half-expect to see the actual devil as one of the people listening, rubbing his hands in glee.

Olivia and Astrid show up outside the door of the world-destruction seminar, and then Nina's walking down the hall with them, telling them that the Cortexiphan files were sealed for twenty years. "I'm not even sure if all of them still exist. The files were lost, so to speak," she says. "So to speak?" You're not even trying to not be evil! An angry Walter, listening in, shouts at Astrid that they never destroyed files. "Maybe she did! Viper!" Astrid threatens to turn him off, but he wants Astrid to ask Nina why she destroyed files. Nina, on the other hand, wants Astrid to ask Walter if he remembers what group the boy was in, because that may help. That may help provide information on the files that were, so to speak, "lost"? How does that work? Astrid asks if Walter heard that. He did: "Her voice goes right into my inner ear and rattles around like razor blades. Of course I heard it." Yeah, well, razor blades in the head is probably another Cortexiphan side effect. We're cut off from hearing him tell Nina to go fuck herself, which Astrid translates as, "He said that he is not sure, but thank you for the suggestion." Nina doesn't for one second buy that Walter said "thank you" to her.

Anyway, they're at the file storage room, and Astrid goes on ahead while Nina wants to talk to Olivia for a moment. Apparently Olivia told her about the energy but didn't let on that it happened to her, but Nina's figured it out. Olivia doesn't want to fess up. "Now, come on. I haven't seen this much fear in your face since Bobby Hastings asked you to the prom," says Nina, and they share a giggle at some long-ago shared story. INNNNN-teresting! Anyway, Olivia's PRESUMABLY ADOPTIVE MOTHER asks how she can help. Olivia says she's already done it; Walter thinks he knows how to deal with it, but they just need to find the file. Later, Olivia gives Astrid the nutshell history of the Cortexiphan trials while they go over the files (Walter's listening in -- but he shuts off the television when Astrid expresses surprise that kids were experimented on. Goddamn! You conduct one series of reprehensible experiments on children and no one lets you forget it!). Astrid asks what happened to the program. "I left. I ran away. Walter said he and Bell shut it down a few years after that," says Olivia. Anyway, Olivia's found Subject Nine: Cameron James.

And when Olivia and Astrid get back to the lab with banker's boxes full of files, they're surprised to see Walter sitting there with a suitcase, waiting for them. Astrid wants to know what he's doing. "Going with Agent Dunham, of course. Now that we know who he is and where we have to go to find him," he says. There's just the matter of him not having left the lab in three years, of course, but Walter's adamant. "You could be killed. I know the patient. I know his capabilities. You do not. You need me. Without me, you can do nothing," he says, and he pulls his jaunty little traveling cap down on his head with authority. Here's hoping Walter's got some kind of old man kung fu that comes in handy -- some sort of task that requires mall-walking and crossword-puzzle-solving. Then he asks Astrid -- calling her "Claire" -- to man the cameras while he's gone. "Really? 'Claire?' That doesn't even start with an A," says Astrid, miffed -- because the significance of that particular name has gone right over her head. Olivia seems to have noticed, though. And while Walter goes to urinate -- thankfully he made their goin'-to-New-York sandwiches already, because I wouldn't trust him to remember to wash his hands after -- Olivia's got some time to reflect.

And then they're walking the mean streets of Vancouver -- I mean, "New York," and Walter's doing his best to show what a fun time he's having, despite being jostled by strangers, getting cigarette smoke blown in his face and the possibility that ropes hoisting safes into high-rises could snap and send hundreds of pounds of steel plummeting towards his genius head. "I should've gotten out of the lab years ago," he says, fake-brightly.

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At Cameron's apartment, there's no response when Olivia knocks on the door. While Walter babbles on about all the legal ways in which they can try to track him down, Olivia wordlessly pulls out her FBI-issue lock-picking set and goes to work. "Can we do that?" asks Walter. "Do what? We got here, and the door was unlocked," says Olivia, opening the door and walking in. Breakin' the law! Breakin' the law! Walter's positively giddy at the thought.

Inside, Olivia starts going through the mail and is INSTANTLY prepared to give up because it's addressed to "Mark Little." Some slick investigative skills goin' on here. "Cameron James must have moved on," she says, but Walter, looking around, notes that nothing in the place is metal. Well, except for the door and the lock, at least.

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Then the landlady -- or a very vigilant member of the apartment's neighborhood watch -- comes in and wants to know what they're doing. Olivia flashes her ID and says they're looking for Mark Little. "You wouldn't happen to know where we could find him?" she asks. The landlady asks if he's in trouble. "He looked like the sort who could get into all sorts of trouble," she says. Uh, black? Come on, lady. It's 2011. Walter introduces himself and makes sexagenarian bedroom eyes at her, softening her up, and she says Mark will back in the morning -- he drives a supply truck for a furniture company back and forth to Maine. "At least that's what he says he does. You never can tell with people," she says. Plus -- since they tracked Cameron James to this apartment, doesn't that mean he changed his name since he moved in here? You'd think that might have come up.

So anyway, at the hotel, Walter marvels that they're paying two-hundred dollars a night for a hotel room that's a "veritable Petri dish". He plays it off like he's joking, but he's clearly uncomfortable. "I can't imagine what I would see with a black light. Or worse, I can imagine," he says. He does look afraid to touch anything.

Olivia ignores his concerns and shows him the remote control for the curtains and the television, like that's supposed to be marvelous to him or something. Apparently Belly would be delighted. It was something they used to argue about: "At what point does technology outpace its usefulness?" he says. Man, traveling with Walter must be exhausting. Olivia's not really up for any philosophical debate and says she's going to try to get some sleep. She asks if she can get Walter a glass of water. "Do you have any idea how many viruses a simple water glass can carry?" he asks. That would be a "no" to the offer of a glass of water, then. Olivia says she'll be right door if he needs her.

Of course, Olivia's jumpy all on her own; she heads down the hall and puts the key in her lock and she's freaked out by the sound of the ice-machine directly across from her room -- all the finest hotels put their ice machines out in the hallway -- making cubes.

Once in her room, she discovers that the lights aren't working, and she's in the process of calling the front desk when she hears thumping and banging calling from Walter's room. Jesus, she left him a minute ago!

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She races back to discover him trashing the place, or, as I like to call it, "Playing Led Zeppelin." He's screaming about the hair on the bedspread, dead skin cells, strawberry juice, seminal stains and phlegm and urine on the carpet. Holy crap! Did he bring a blacklight?

Olivia yells that there's nothing there that can hurt him (which isn't exactly true) and that it's all in his mind and he calms down long enough to see the he clenched his fists hard enough to draw blood from his palms.

And then Olivia's wrapping bandages around his hands while Walter talks about his wounded pride, and the fact that he hasn't had an attack of mysophobia in years. Olivia marvels that with all that they investigate, some harmless germs make him shake in his boots. "Elizabeth, my wife, used to say I was a man of contradictions. She liked that about me," he says, and then gets serious as he says he liked everything about her. And hey, Olivia didn't know that his wife committed suicide after their son died. "I'm glad she never knew me like this ... afraid of things I can't even see," says Walter. Now, who's up for a root beer float? Walter cheers up immensely at Olivia's suggestion.

So down to a restaurant for a couple of floats, and Walter has a certain technique for drinking the float that he teaches to Olivia, and once he softens her up with superior float-drinking technique, he says, "'Does he pose a significant threat to himself or others?'"Olivia doesn't catch on at first, so he admits to having seen the envelope by (mostly) accident. Olivia apologizes and says he wasn't supposed to see it. "It's all right. I've known for three years that this day would come sooner or later, that I was a burden to Fringe Division and to you," he says. Olivia tries to protest, but he says there's no need to sugarcoat it, that he has no illusions about the nature of the relationship. "I merely work for you. We're not family. If I should cease to be useful, if my behaviours are outweighing my value, well..." he says.

As he's saying this, things click into place for Olivia, and she says that's why he left the lab: to prove he's capable. Walter concedes that tonight hasn't been his "strongest showing," which I hope means that the damage to the hotel room will come off his paycheck instead of being passed on to the taxpayer.

Olivia strolls over to an ambulance to collect Walter, who's sitting there glumly. He's so beside himself that he has turned down an offer of soup from a paramedic. "This is because of what I did to all of you. This is because of me," says Walter. Olivia doesn't have much of an argument to make.

They're back over to Cameron's apartment and Walter is still berating himself for the experiments on thirty-seven innocent children. "I just turned you into numbers, numbers in my head. I didn't follow up on a single child, not even you." Olivia's basically "Speaking of that, shut up about that" and says Walter told her before that the doses were so low that none of the children's abilities lasted any longer than twenty-four hours. Walter can't explain that, but he has come to the conclusion that Cameron must be doing this inadvertently and therefore possibly not aware of the damage he's causing, but Olivia's not buying that: "This is purposeful. I can feel it."

At the steps of the apartment, Olivia makes Walter wait outside (he doesn't like it), presumably because he won't like being surprised by Dr. Crazypants all these years later. Walter bargains for her cellphone so he can call Astrid "to check on my project," and it sounds like he's lying to cover up his plans to look at online porn, or at the very least finally pass that Plants Vs. Zombies level that's bedeviling him.

Olivia heads up to Cameron's apartment and knocks, and the door is opened by "Mark Little" (aka Cameron James) -- he's wary, but he invites Olivia in when she says she has a few questions. In what seems a foolish mistake that I don't buy Olivia making, she leaves Little by the open door when she casually says she's actually looking for Cameron James. He bolts and starts racing down the few flights of stairs to the lobby, where Walter, evidently tired of having had to wait for thirty seconds, is pushing the buttons on the elevator. Cameron collides with him, and the two of them fall. "Cameron?" says Walter, on the floor, and Cameron is absolutely horrified to see Walter. The metal light fixture starts swinging, a nearby door swings back and forth.

Olivia makes it down to the first floor, and she angrily throws Cameron up against the wall, demanding to know why he's doing this to her, but he doesn't know who she is -- at least not until Walter says, "Olivia, please don't kill him," and he realizes she's Olive. Olivia thinks he's only pretending not to know what she's talking about, but he insists he hasn't thought about her in years. Well, you don't have to go that far, Cameron. Girl's got feelings! Walter brings up the astral projection, and Cameron calls him "Dr. Freak" and shouts, "I haven't being able to astral project since you stopped shoving needles in my arm when I was seven years old! Now all I have are the bad side effects!" Olivia's got to stop him from ripping Walter's head off, and then Cameron does his best to calm himself down, since any time he has any kind of anxiety, metal starts flying.

Then he starts talking about the last date he went on, like Walter and Olivia want to hear about his sex life, and he says he said something stupid, and he realized that she thought it was stupid, and all the metal fillings are being pulled out of her mouth. Hmm. Makes dating hard, I'll concede. But I can see it coming in handy during breakups.

Olivia asks why he changed his name, what he's hiding from. "If I was hiding, I would've moved," he says. Turns out Cameron James was the name of his father, who signed his kid up for the experiments and made his son use his dad's name so Dad could access the trust fund. "He took money from you so you could pump me full of drugs, then turned around and spent it on drugs himself," says Cameron, who didn't want to share a name with someone like that.

Anyway Cameron wishes that Walter had at least left him with the power so he could at least have been useful in some way. Or, you know, failing that, been left alone to have a normal life with normal friends (conveniently forgetting the fact that his father was a fraudster junkie). Walter quietly apologizes and says he never meant to harm Cameron, who stares at him. Anxiety growing! The mailbox doors in the lobby start flapping open and shut. Well, they'd be locked, though, wouldn't they? Anyway, the energy ball materializes and starts moving towards them. "I have nothing to do with this!" says Cameron, and when the energy gets closer, he starts yelling, "Nooooooo!" which I normally appreciate but I generally prefer it be accompanied by someone jumping clear of an explosion or jumping in the path of a bullet to save someone else.

Anyway, the energy vanishes again. Cameron stopped it. "Walter, if he isn't doing this, what is?" asks Olivia, frightened. By this point I'd really like to know what Cameron's neighbors think about everything going on just outside their doors. Nobody comes out to investigate. Hey, is this Kitty Genovese's old neighborhood?

Commercial break, and then Olivia and Walter are in Cameron's apartment trying to figure out what to do . Cameron doesn't at first believe Walter when he says he doesn't know what the thing is and why it's coming after Olivia, but Walter's sadness and pathetic-ness convinces him. "You're not at all like I remember you. What happened to you?" It's like he'd prefer it if Walter was still in young Mad Scientist mode.

Walter just keeps absorbing the blows, and Olivia tries a little tenderness and says he must be able to think of something, and after a moment he wonders if the electromagnetism isn't the root cause but a side effect of field distortions in time. "If Cameron's reflexive magnetic discharge dispersed the energy event, then this thing, whatever it is, does not create magnetic fields. It distorts those that already exist around us, focusing them, maybe tearing them open..." By this point Cameron's looking at these two like, "Yeah, I just got in from work, and I'm really tired, sooooo..." but Walter and Olivia don't care. Walter figures the thing will keep coming back until it's demolished, growing so big that it will consume everything in its path. Olivia wants to know how they stop it, and Walter says if they gather a large enough field to neutralize the electromagnetism, it should shatter it -- and that's something only Cameron can do.

So they're off! Cameron's skeptical that he can even gather and direct the power they need, and Walter points out he just did it in the hallway. "Once when you were a boy, you blew up a toaster oven with your mind simply because of an irrational hatred of raisin toast," says Walter. Cameron is all, yeah, have you HAD raisin toast? Just what are you implying, young man? Anyway, Walter blah-blahs about him focusing his emotions and he needs to do what he did to the toaster oven, but on a grand scale. Olivia gets off the phone with Astrid and tells them there's a power grid terminal on the West Side. I would imagine there are a few, yes.

So they show up at the power terminal, with Walter telling Cameron that when the force attacks Olivia again, he will combine his energy with the energy of the power grid to destroy it. What could be simpler?

While Olivia sits on a bench in front of the transformer or whatever, I don't know, Cameron stands a few away while Walter goes wandering over by some other equipment, which sparks a thought: what are their theoretical odds of surviving this encounter? Olivia and Cameron don't seem super-concerned about the possibility of dying, but aren't we talking about a potentially huge explosion with three people at the epicenter? Cameron would rather ask if Olivia's heard how any of the other Cortexiphan kids are doing. She hasn't, and likewise she's the first he's been in touch with. He says he used to wonder about them a lot.

He asks her if she's had any side effects from the experiments. She hasn't, and he says she's really lucky -- or maybe it's something else: "When I had my first experience, I thought something was coming after me, too, until I realized I was doing it to myself," he says. Olivia doesn't really seem to take well to the suggestion that she's doing this to herself (even though yesterday she was the first one to suggest it), and Cameron seems uncomfortable with having brought it up. "The question is, would he tell you if he thought you were?" he says, indicating Walter.

Olivia thinks about it a moment while Cameron comes closer and says that she was already gone, but Walter was not happy when the experiments ended. They watch as Walter barely conceals himself taking a whiz behind a concrete block. Then he notices a chain that appears to moving along the ground on its own and he hurriedly zips up. Careful with that!

He goes racing back to Olivia and Cameron as it grows windy and the energy starts to appear in front of her. "This isn't me. I am not doing this," Olivia tells Cameron, who closes his eyes and holds out his hand. The transformer sparks as the energy approaches Olivia, Walter cheering as he yells, "It's working!" But in front of Olivia, the energy starts to coalesce into a humanoid shape -- the particular humanoid shape of Peter (still too vague to accurately render his stubble). "You!" says Olivia, and she tells Cameron to stop. Cameron ignores her, or he can't hear her -- he's still got his eyes closed and is frozen in his tai chi pose. Walter's no help; he's practically salivating and yelling, "Finish him!" So Olivia fires her gun in the air to break Cameron's focus. He opens his eyes. The energy is gone.

And somewhere, a naked (easy now, folks) Peter Bishop breaks the surface of a lake near where a couple of people are fishing in a boat. The camera pulls up so we can get the view of the Looming Location Letters, and we see that this is -- naturally -- Reiden Lake. The fishermen row their boat over to where Peter is while we see -- from a distance -- the back of Observer's head as he, well, you know, observes.

Back at the power station, Olivia's trying to convince Walter that she was not imagining seeing the man from her dreams and Walter's hallucinations in the energy. Walter wants to know why, if it's the same person, that Olivia tried to stop Cameron from destroying it. She says she can't explain it, she just had a feeling that he didn't want to hurt her, that he wanted her help. Hey, Walter! This is the part where you could tell Olivia that the voice you hear as part of your hallucinations ASKS FOR YOUR HELP because that would kind of fit in with what Olivia's saying here. Anyway, all this electromagnetism stuff has gone on at this ridiculously unsecure power station without attracting any attention, so Olivia and Cameron are strolling back to the car, with Olivia saying, "You know, Cameron, if there's anything I can do for you," and Cameron frowns in Walter's general direction and says, "Make him forget about me." She (eventually) smiles and doesn't tell Cameron that Walter forgets EVERYTHING relevant until the last possible second when they're working on a file.

Getting in the car, Olivia asks Walter if he thinks they destroyed the thing. He's not sure, but he wonders if what Olivia did may have compromised Cameron's ability and just displaced the energy. Sounding almost like he's scolding her, he says, "You acted against all reasonable agreements and expectations," and I have to say that when the plan is "We'll use the man with the astral-projecting and electromagnetic powers I experimented on when he was a kid to destroy in a power station this sentient energy that's menacing another person who I experimented on as a kid" then I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL HE MEANS by "reasonable agreements and expectations." He also says she behaved irrationally with regard only to her intuition and instincts.

Olivia's all, "Yep" and Walter says when he does that, people say he's crazy. I think they actually roll their eyes and sigh and say things like, "Oh, Walter," or "My name is Astrid," but Walter thinks he's learned that "crazy" is a lot more complicated than people think, and I'd like to point out to him that if Olivia didn't already know that, I bet you'd have been shipped back to St. Claire's two years and fifty-one weeks ago and changed all the Fringe division phone numbers. Olivia gets a call from Broyles, who says he got a disturbing call about a father and son who pulled a man from the middle of Reiden Lake. To emphasize that this is a rebooted universe, Olivia says, "Where's Reiden Lake?" WHICH I DON'T THINK WOULD BE THE FIRST QUESTION and Broyles quickly tells her it's in upstate New York. "Details are sketchy, but apparently whoever he is knows a lot of classified information -- things no one outside this division could possibly know. What's more, he claims to know every one of us," says Broyles. Behind Olivia, in the SUV, Walter says, "I had a house at Reiden Lake." Olivia says nothing, but looks like she wouldn't mind hurting somebody.

By Daniel

Over at the hospital, the doctor apologizes for keeping them waiting so long, and then tells them the man has stabilized and his vitals are good. "He keeps talking about an Olivia Dunham," says the doctor. Olivia's all, "Present!" and she asks to be taken to him.

She goes, and Broyles excuses himself to take a phone call, and Walter sees that, if Olivia's jacket is anything to go by, she still hasn't learned a valuable correspondence-concealing lesson.

Walter pulls out the St. Claire's form and sees -- much to his relief, as he almost breaks down crying -- that Olivia has checked the "I do NOT recommend hospitalization." Also, she's ordered the kosher meal!

Thankfully, Peter, who's looking out his hospital room window when Olivia comes in, has one of the hospital gowns that don't leave your ass hanging out. He turns around when Olivia comes in. "Olivia. Thank god you're here." Olivia stares at him. "Who are you?" she says. Peter's smile fades. Come on, Peter! Didn't it occur to you that maybe you never actually existed?

Daniel is a writer in Newfoundland with a wife and a daughter. If he were fishing and a man suddenly surfaced out of nowhere, he'd paddle the other way quickly because he'd assumed he'd read the map wrong and was actually at Crystal Lake. Follow him on Twitter (@DanMacEachern) or email him at danieljdaniel[at]gmail.com.

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