By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 17
Olivia pushes a woman to her death onto the subway tracks in front of her baby (think of the children!), but in typical sixth-grade creative writing style: it was all a dream. BUT! When Olivia is having coffee and watching TV in the morning she sees the story on the TeeVee (so she knows it was real). Olivia drags Walter and Pacey to New York to investigate the so-called suicide. While Pacey thinks it was just a bad dream, Walter (obviously) thinks of a number of ways she could have been in New York while she was in her sleep. Olivia takes a copy of the suicide surveillance tape back to Boston for the whole team to enjoy. Walter thinks Olivia may have killed this girl with her mind and he is going to wait to see if it happens again. Despite everything he has witnessed, Pacey still thinks his dad is ridiculous. Pacey, get on board already!
So the night, Olivia helps a woman steak knife her husband to death. After that, the Captain totally lets her investigate herself, 'cause obviously that's where this show was going. At the restaurant, the crack team learns of a man with blonde hair and a scar, who was also on the subway tape. Peter and Liv go to the psychiatric ward where the guy with the scar, Nick, lived for a long time. They find out Nick thought he was being prepared to become a soldier in a parallel war. Yes, like Ender, leave me alone Sci Fi people. They find out that Nick's emotions were "infecting" to others in the psychiatric ward and that he and Olivia were from the same small town in Florida. No, not Disneyland. Obviously Walter used to work on a project that was testing on children (motto: not tested on animals) that allowed traveling between realities. So obviously Olivia had been treated with the same drug as Nick, and they are passing each other in parallel realities. Obviously, right? This is good news, because Walter may be able to find Nick now.
The night is filled with hottt. Fake Olivia is making out with a stripper while real Olivia is telling Walter everything via hypnosis. Then Fake Olivia is infecting the stripper, who slits her throat. Ew... snuff film! Luckily, Liv was able to figure out where Nick lives. Unfortunately, Nick has already split the scene, swallowed a handful of pills (probably not Zoloft) and headed out with a loaded gun. He is quickly joined by a parade of lemmings willing to follow him anywhere. He chooses the roof of a building and is prepared to make everyone jump to their death unless Olivia shoots him. He wants to stop hurting people, but can't figure out how to say no. To prove his point he sends someone to take a long walk off a short roof. So Olivia shoots him. In the leg! Oh the tricks they teach these FBI folks. Nick gets put into a drug-induced coma until the FBI can figure out how to use him for war or whatever evil scheme they will come up with to bring him back season.
Later, Walter is looking through an old box. He finds an old VHS tape of the experiments he and his partner did on kids with the drug. The little blonde girl all scared and freaked out in the corner is Olivia, and a younger Walter is talking to her telling her that things are going to be okay.
A woman and her baby stroll down an improbably empty Grand Central station. The woman is improbably singing to her child (improbable because sane people in New York are generally too image conscious to sing in public. No jokes about the rarely-spotted sane New Yorker, please.) The woman then manages to drag her stroller down one flight of stairs, through the gauntlet of New York subway turnstiles, and down another flight of stairs with no cursing, fist shaking, alarms going off, or doors being kicked. New York City subways and strollers are the number one cause of turnstile kicking and have increased the profits of swear jars by twenty percent, even in this economy. Obviously she misses the train, finally letting a mild oath rip and then apologizing to her baby's tender ears. As the woman and child stand on the completely empty subway platform (I'm sure 7 train riders were thrilled when they couldn't use the station because they were filming this episode) we become aware that they are not alone. As the baby loses her balloon, another train pulls into the station, and someone who looks a lot like Olivia shoves the woman in front of the train! to falling into an open cellar door or tumbling through a subway grate, that is every New Yorker's nightmare. As the train slows, we see that not only did the person look like Olivia, it was Olivia.
Elsewhere, the real Olivia wakes with a start, because it was all a dream. Obviously she decides to do some sit ups to shake off the awful nightmarish feeling. I mean sit ups, right? So much better than bourbon or chocolate ice cream or Lifetime movies. Later in the morning, Olivia does the crossword, drinks coffee, teases her sister, and engages her niece while the television blares in the background. She looks up when the local news reports on a suicide in New York City. It's the woman she saw in her dream. I mean, "dream." The giant floating titles tell us that Olivia is now at the Federal Building in Boston. You would think Homeland Security would be a little wary about making the building so obvious. Hop on that, Janet Napolitano! Liv asks her boss for permission to go to New York and investigate the suicide. But she doesn't really give him many details to go on and he is hesitant. I guess I would be reluctant to tell my boss that "I had a dream," but in their line of work having a prescient nightmare should earn her a merit badge. The Boss Man gives her 24 hours, but warns her that she's been distracted lately and he needs her to focus. She thanks him and heads off to Harvard to talk to the team about her dream. Obviously she feels comfortable talking to them about her nightmare. As per usual, Peter is pragmatic about the vision, while Walter is scanning her for teleportation residue, because in his view that is the most likely scenario. Unfortunately there's no evidence for teleportation or for astral projection. Olivia knows it wasn't just a dream. She could smell the platform and see the woman's face. Peter and Walter prepare for a trip to the Big Apple. But when Walter starts singing show tunes Peter ditches him with all apologies to Astrid, who is probably happy to have a purpose on the show, even if that purpose is merely to babysit Walter.
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 17
Back at Grand Central Station, Peter and Olivia meet an NYPD officer who wisely warns Peter against eating one of those giant pretzels. Although he scoffs at the warning, the pretzel is gone as soon as they descend into the subway. It probably teleported. The NYPD officer is concerned about the FBI showing up and she wants to know if they are safe. Olivia helpfully tells her that she doesn't think anyone is ever safe. Like, nice. Peter gracefully steps in and says they are safe as houses. Good thing Walter has him so well trained to skillfully maneuver around insanity and the accompanying commentary. The entire station is still closed, but the officer takes them through the police tape. Before they hit the platform Olivia tells Peter that there will be a red balloon still floating near the ceiling. Peter stares at her and goes to look. Olivia follows and uses her FBI profiling skills to point out that the victim doesn't fit the mold for suicides: she was happily married, she had her baby with her, she was going to the circus. Peter points out the red balloon floating over their heads to illustrate the point that this was not your average suicide. At the police station, Peter and Olivia talk to the victim's husband, who confirms that there is no way his wife would have done this to herself. Olivia and Peter review the surveillance tape. The woman clearly jumped in front of the oncoming train. In front of her baby. I can't even really think about that. So I won't. Olivia asks for a copy of the tape.
Back at the lab, Olivia is still not convinced it was just a dream. Peter, however, is still determined to prove to her that it was. Luckily, Walter has Olivia's back. He is now thinking that Olivia managed to convince the woman to kill herself with her mind. If I was Olivia, I would be a little concerned if I found myself siding with Walter over Peter. Walter calls Peter to task over the fact that he isn't whole-heartedly supporting his friend in her belief that she killed someone despite all the evidence indicating that she didn't. Yeah, Peter, what kind of lousy friend are you? Walter embarks on rambling a vaguely incoherent anecdote about cavemen and their desire to kill with their mind. Peter rolls his eyes before pointing out that Walter's theory is ridiculous. Walter shrugs and agrees that it is, unless it happens again. Whump! Hello, Anvil of Foreshadowing, welcome to my world.
Olivia girds herself against another unpremeditated murder with a pack of "No Sleep" pills, which I am pretty sure are anti-malaria drugs. She sits in a restaurant drinking coffee and hoping to not sleep. I think I remember this scenario from the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. If you don't know the films, fear not, I hear Hollywood is working on a re-make with Zac Efron as Freddy and John Goodman stepping in for Johnny Depp. Since she is dining alone, Olivia kills time by watching the restaurant's other patrons. Geez, Liv, get an iPhone or something, because sitting and staring is still considered pretty creepy. Speaking of creepy, a woman starts screaming at her husband for cheating, grabs a steak knife and with Olivia rushing in with an assist, she stabs him to death. Olivia wakes with a start. No Sleep fail! She stares at her hand, like Lady Macbeth (don't know it? don't worry they are remaking it with Beyonce and Norm MacDonald), grabs her phone and calls Charlie. She has a murder to report.
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 17
Over at St. Vincent's Hospital, which is in New York, so consider me confused. Did they go back to the lab? And then back to New York? Go high-speed rail! Or teleportation. Hmm...I wonder which is more likely to happen first? Olivia tells Peter that she knows she killed this man, and Peter once again assures her that they were 300 miles away. So wait...why did she call Charlie? To report that an unknown guy in an unknown restaurant in parts unknown in New York City was killed? What the heck is Charlie going to do about it? I'm sure he loved getting that call in the middle of the night. Olivia does not want to be bothered with the "facts" Peter keeps spewing. She opens the hospital room door of the man "she killed." The doctor tells them that his wife shredded his intestines and he is going to die. So they decided to let his wife, and killer, sit there with him. She is distraught and handcuffed so I guess it's okay. Olivia speaks with the woman who strangely insists on being called Mouse. The woman tells her tale: she and her husband went out to dinner. Then she doesn't know what happened, because it doesn't make any sense to her. Her husband was devoted to her, but somehow she got it in her head, she knew, that he was going to leave her. So she freaked out. And by "freaked out" I mean stabbed her husband to death with a steak knife. Reasonable in the situation, really. "Mouse" starts shaking and crying and Olivia leans in to comfort her. Olivia makes the most of her proximity to her ear and asks if it felt like someone else was in her head. The woman says no, but Olivia presses her, asking if she felt compelled to knife her husband. At that, Peter tries to drag Olivia away from the woman, because she is breaching FBI cool-and-detached protocol and is more or less yelling that "Mouse" didn't do it. As the woman keeps crying and stating that she did it, and Peter keeps saying he needs to speak to her, Olivia finally jumps up to take a breather. Olivia is almost hyperventilating and is convinced that she made that woman kill her husband. Peter tries to calm her down and reminds her that she is operating on no sleep. But Olivia looks really freaked out about what is happening to and around her and Peter ends up just pulling her in for a hug. Aw.
Olivia has calmed down by the time they reach the scene of the crime. Peter distracts the annoyed and annoying restaurant owner who is ticked off that all his customers rushed out without paying their checks yesterday. You know, after the murder. Peter gets mouthy with the guy and they piss each other off until Olivia proves that she has more cojones than either one of them. She found a piece of a broken cup on the floor of the restaurant and thinks that it is a clue. So following FBI protocol she instantly grabs the douchebag restaurant owner by the lapels and throws him against a booth, demanding to know who was sitting at that table. The owner says it was a blonde guy with a scar. Olivia knows who that is. She releases the douchebag, and marches out for justice leaving Peter and the guy staring in her wake. Peter catches up with her outside and asks to know what is going on. Olivia knows the blonde guy. She has seen him before.
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 17
She and Peter must have made the trip back to Boston in silence, because Olivia doesn't tell him how she knows the blonde guy until she points him out on the subway surveillance tape back at the lab. Bet that was a fun car ride. Astrid zooms in on the man's face. He is blonde and has a scar. Walter is intrigued...with the coffee. Peter moves to snatch it out of his hand, but Walter manages to focus and drink coffee simultaneously. See? He is a genius. So with the pictures of Scarface at the subway and a witness placing him at the restaurant (or at least some other blonde guy with a scar), they have a man who was at both crime scenes. He's the link. He was at the table where Olivia dreamt she was sitting and at the platform where she dreamt she was standing. But she never saw him. So obviously she was him. Duh. Dreams aren't always literal, Walter explains, so she must have been dreaming about Scarface. Olivia is much relieved that he was actually the one murdering people, not her. But there is still that hanging question about why she was dreaming with him. I don't know about you, but I totally have "Dream a Little Dream of Me" stuck in my head.
As a viewer of this show, I love the sixty second commercials. As a recapper? Not so much. Seriously, commercials are a recapper's secret girlfriend. Anyway. Over at FBI HQ, the agents have left defending the nation against terrorism aside for a minute to all focus on perusing every single crime-fighting database in the entire galaxy for a blonde guy with a scar. Good thing they have a partial fingerprint from the broken cup at the restaurant or that could take at least several minutes of the agents' valuable time. The Boss totally derails their train of thought by demanding to know what they are doing that is so important as to put our national security on the back burner. Walter explains: a man is killing people with his thoughts and Olivia is watching in her dreams. Recap done! Byeeee! Just as the Boss is about to put the kibosh on the whole operation, the crack investigative team and their rampant database use gets a hit. And presto! They have a name and a former address for their suspected mind killer. If the real FBI has even one fifth of the resources of this fake FBI I'm donating all my money to the ACLU. The suspect used to live at St. Jude's Hospital. The Boss drags Olivia by the ear into his office and demands to know why she authorized all of the FBI's resources to her odd little cause. Dude, I was asking that same question! We must be mind linking! Olivia takes a deep breath and gives the Boss the lowdown on the mind killer. She looks a little abashed, which increases my faith in this show, like, she still has enough sense to be sort of embarrassed at being embroiled in the crazy. The Boss asks her if she knows how this sounds, and she does. She looks increasingly uncomfortable as the Boss gives her the what for about the scrutiny they are under and how it is unethical to investigate a case in which you are a participant. Olivia asks for a few days off to investigate, but the Boss goes to the phone, calls Charlie, and opens a case to investigate Scarface. Olivia is running the case. So much for professional ethics! Olivia thanks him and promises to take care of herself.
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 17
Back at the mental hospital where Walter spent some quality time, Peter and Olivia wait for the director. The waiting room makes Peter contemplative (I think it was actually the wallpaper that did it) and he opines that he needs to rethink Walter's crazy. He always felt like it was something Walter inflicted on him and his mother, but in reality it was probably pretty hard for Walter, too. Olivia forgives it as youthful naiveté, but Peter's not so sure. The doctor finally shows up to meet the agents and she gives them all the details on the suspect, Nick something or other. I'm going with Scarface, because, really, does the guy's last name matter? The doctor remembers Scarface well because he was in the volunteer residential treatment program when she arrived and, man, you should have seen the insurance policy on that guy! The accountants are still talking about it. All military with its own case worker. Bookkeeping was in heaven. Then one day an attorney showed up saying Scarface had inherited a great deal of money (from his namesake drug dealing uncle, no doubt) and a few days later he checked himself out of the hospital. The doctor explains that Scarface was hyperemotive and could change the entire mood of a room depending on his feelings. He was also prone to delusions and could be suicidal. Sounds like a hoot at a party. He suffered from typical paranoid fears, namely, thinking he was recruited as a child to be a soldier in a secret war against denizens of a parallel universe. That's funny, because I am a child soldier in a secret war against alien life forms. Olivia throws a look at Peter, but he is too busy looking very concerned to notice. Cut to Astrid getting her requisite screen time. She has the giant book of the coming war -- you know, the one that Olivia and Peter found in a secondhand bookstore about the end of the world and the crazy technocult people? The ZFT manuscript that Walter wrote? Anyway, it's a big book and Astrid is reading a section aloud to Olivia on the phone. It's a word for word recounting of what's in Scarface's patient records. Astrid wonders when he was recruited and Olivia answers by asking what year he was born. Peter flips through the folder and finds that Scarface was born in 1979 in Jacksonville, Florida. And while some of you Floridians out there may think I am not acquainted with the town because I failed to mention it by name in the recaplet. Let me assure you, I do. Jacksonville has a population of 1,503,182. Population growth rate (2008): 2.035%. Ethnic groups: Balanta 30%, Fula 20%, Manjaca 14%, Mandinga 13%, Papel 7%, others 16%. Religions: Indigenous beliefs 50%, Muslim 40%, Christian 10%.
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 17
Languages: Portuguese (official), Creole, French; many indigenous languages--Balanta-Kentohe 26%, Pulaar 18%, Mandjak 12%, Mandinka 11%, Pepel 9%, Biafada 3%, Mancanha 3%, Bidyogo 2%, Ejamat 2%, Mansoanka 1%, Bainoukgunyuno 1%, Nalu 1%, Soninke 1%, Badjara 1%, Bayote 0.5%, Kobiana 0.04%, Cassanga 0.04%, Basary 0.03%. Education: Years compulsory--4. Literacy (2005)--39.6% of adults. Health: Infant mortality rate (2005)--200 deaths/1,000 live births. Life expectancy (2005)--45.8 years. Work force (480,000): Agriculture--85%; industry, services, and commerce--13%; government--2%. GDP per capita, purchasing power parity (2005): $600 (est.). Natural resources: Fish and timber. Bauxite and phosphate deposits are not exploited; offshore petroleum. Agriculture: Products--cashews, tropical fruits, rice, peanuts, cotton, palm oil. Arable land--11%. Forested--38%. Industry: Very little industrial capacity remains following the 1998 internal conflict between Gator and Rays fans. The cashew processing industry is nascent. Trade: Exports--$110 million (f.o.b., 2006): cashews ($66 million, 2006), fish and shrimp ($1 million, 2006). So yeah, I know Jacksonville. When Peter reminds Olivia that she too was born in Jacksonville, she stomps on the gas. She has to talk to Walter.Olivia and Peter find Walter in good spirits in his hotel room. After Olivia bolts the door, she asks Walter to tell her everything he knows about the drug Cortexiphan. I made up that spelling. He starts another drug story and she barks at him to focus. He does. He and his partner William hypothesized that the drug might enhance certain abilities in pre-disposed children. William started testing the drug. On children. So at least they could put the "Not Tested on Animals" label on their pill bottles. The ability they were looking for was an ability to perceive reality as subjective and malleable. If you could dream a better world, you could make it happen. Olivia puts it together: If Scarface was treated with the drug, theoretically, he could warp people's reality and make them do what he wanted. Walter mumbles something about the drug using feelings (aw, it has feelings!) and Olivia remembers what the doctor at the nut house said about Scarface's contagious feelings. She puts together a theory that maybe Scarface was on the subway platform considering suicide, causing the happy mother on her way from the circus to jump in front of the train. Then at the restaurant, all the happy couples caused his hatred and isolation to burble up and made that woman gut her husband. Wow, he really would be fun at parties! Peter points out that it's a nice theory and all, but it doesn't explain why Olivia is able to see the murders as they happen. Walter can help out with that. He explains that William always followed protocol when experimenting on children. (Peter stops the conversation to marvel at the general fucked upness of that statement.) Walter ignores him and continues, they would always pair the kids up like in the buddy system at summer camp. Peter stops the explanation again to point out that he is comparing scientific testing on children to summer camp. May I have a word? While I agree, and really like Peter generally, first, quit stealing my lines, two, let Walter finish the explanation already, and three, dude, get with the program. Your dad is a stereotype of a mad scientist. He's crazy and did a bunch of fucked up things and is now using his powers for good. No need to point it out every time it rears its ugly head. Now back to the program: Walter and Olivia both ignore Peter's MST3K commentary and Walter explains that the pairing of children helped prevent isolation and created bonds. Sometimes really intense bonds. As Walter puts his hand on Olivia's face and stares into her eyes, she looks really wigged out. She reels away from Walter and Peter tells them both to knock it off because they are freaking him out. Peter reminds them both that Olivia was never treated with Cortexiphan. Walter asks her if that's true. She thinks she might have been. She doesn't look happy to admit that. Walter looks concerned, but then says it is good news. Olivia doesn't really agree, but asks why. It's good news because Walter may be able to find Scarface.
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 17
Olivia sort of struts down the street and enters a club. She leans against the bar and ogles a girl twirling around a pole. While I'm no expert on strip clubs, I think the girl's boy briefs and full coverage push up bra make her more suitable for primetime television than for a strip club. Also, she's a lame dancer. Olivia stares at the girl intently and the girl notices, and then starts crawling along the bar towards her and kisses her. If I was a guy I'm sure I would think that's hotttt. But I'm not. Olivia clinically reports that "he's sexually excited"; she adds that they are leaving the club together. Astrid comes in and asks what's going on. Walter explains that he is simulating REM sleep to enhance Olivia's connection to Scarface. Olivia's "connection" gets a little more interesting when she starts moaning and everyone realizes that she's having an orgasm. All in the line of duty, people. Move it along, nothing to see here. Man is she going to be embarrassed when she wakes up. Olivia reports that he feels dirty and shameful and wishes he was dead. The dancer is being infected by his emotions. The girl smashes a glass and cuts her throat. Olivia wakes up with a start and Walter puts her back to sleep. Astrid is concerned about her boss and Walter tells Peter to help her calm down. He takes her hand and she goes back to sleep. Olivia's avatar is now walking down a street under a bridge and then through a door. Olivia wakes. She knows where he lives.
The real Scarface wakes up and, hey, he's kind of cute. He totally could have nailed that dancer without the whole mind meld thing. Well, with those looks and fifty bucks anyway. He wakes up, does some push ups (really am I the only person who doesn't get up and exercise?), drinks some coffee, takes a pharmacy load of pills, puts on a coat, and picks up a gun. You would think years in a psychiatric facility would make it hard for him to get a sidearm. Guess not. Boy would Mayor Bloomberg be disappointed. Outside, Olivia, Peter, and Walter jump out of a car. Are they all going on the raid? Olivia and Charlie and the real FBI swoop inside. The apartment is clear. Except for the vision board he has covering an entire wall. Charlie thinks it's a clue, but I think it just means Scarface watches a lot of Oprah. Olivia studies the board closely and sees articles referencing the drug experimentation done on children. Outside, Scarface walks down the street. As he walks, people start following him. Inside, Peter and Walter survey the scene. Walter is noting the chessboard, but Peter is drawn to the vision board. Olivia wants to know what triggered Scarface to start his murder spree now considering he was given the drug almost twenty years ago. Peter hypothesizes that it has something to do with the mysterious attorney who showed up at the loony bin and gave him his supposed inheritance. Walter thinks it has something do with what is scrawled on the wall: What was written will come to pass. I'm guessing that's from ye olde ZFT manuscript. Meanwhile it's quite the come-as-you-are parade following Scarface now. Charlie reports a phone call reporting Scarface and a crowd of people following him into a building.
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 17
The Scooby Gang jumps into a car and drives towards the reported Scarface sighting. They aren't quite sure how to approach the killer because they will fall under his spell if they get too close. Walter theorizes that Olivia might not be affected because she was also treated with the drug and thus might be immune. Peter doesn't think Walter is telling them everything, and Walter agrees. When they reach the building, a cop stops them at the door. He says they don't want to go up there because he doesn't know what's going on up there, but he sent a guy up and now he is standing on the ledge, too. Olivia swears she is going to be okay, shakes off Peter's warning hand, and heads inside. On the roof, all the people Scarface had following him are lining the roof, peering down, poised to fall. Olivia surveys the scene calmly (again with the no swearing!) and looks for Scarface. She approaches him slowly and when he hears her voice he turns around with a huge smile on his face, so happy to see her. He can't believe she's here, and reminds her that she was always the strong one who made him feel better when he was scared. Olivia doesn't remember and Scarface says that is okay because they were supposed to forget. He tells her that he tried really hard to do everything they asked. He stayed fit, he wore black and grey, he stayed alert, he blended in, but the call to be a super soldier never came. Then the man came to the hospital and said they were ready for him and he knew the words to wake up his inner soldier. Now he is wracked with guilt -- he wants to stop hurting people, but doesn't know how. He pulls out a gun, not to shoot, but so Olivia can shoot him. She won't do it. He makes an angry face and some poor schlub in a trench coat falls to his death. He lands on a car to Walter and Peter. Walter pauses his conversation long enough to hope that Agent Dunham meant to do that. Sometimes this show is really well written. I mean, that was funny! Up on the roof, Scarface tells Olivia that if she doesn't shoot him he will jump and all the unfortunate souls will follow. Did I mention that Scarface keeps calling her Olive? I'm not sure what it means, but Scarface keeps begging Olive to shoot him. He swears that she was meant for that job. Olivia looks at all the people, apologizes to him, and shoots him. In the leg! D'oh! Everyone collapses. They all manage to gracefully fall away from the edge, preventing any further property damage. Scarface tells Olive he wishes that she had really shot him.
By LuluBates | Season 1 | Episode 17
Back at FBI HQ, Olivia walks down a corridor while the Boss tells her the results of their investigation: Scarface's parents died several years ago, there are a lot of false documents surrounding him, they've asked Massive Dynamic for information on the Cortexiphan drug testing protocol, but they swear all the names of "participants" were deleted from their records. He asks Olivia is she has any recollection of the experiments. She doesn't and she doesn't know why Scarface does. They arrive at their destination. It's a medical holding cell where Scarface is being held in a medically-induced coma, indefinitely. He said sometimes what we wake up can't be put back to sleep. The boss asks if she is okay. She says she is.
Back at her house, her niece sleeps on the couch and wakes up when Olivia comes in. She complains about the vaccines she got and Olivia says it is just bad dreams. With a straight face even! She puts the girl back to bed. Later, Charlie arrives with some files obtained when he broke about a thousand regulations. It's Scarface's file. It's filled with clippings about Doppelgangers among us. She leafs through it looking puzzled. Back at the lab, Walter sifts through a box of VHS tapes. He finds the one he's looking for. He sits down to watch. It's a recording of a little girl scrunched up in a corner with the voices of two men talking over her. One is saying she got scared and the other voice, Walter's, tries to sooth her. The little girl? Olivia.
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