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Recapped by Daniel · Aired 2009-09-17

Outside, Jessup wonders in Peter's general direction why she just sent Walter a body when the FBI says Fringe division has been shut down, and Peter asks why she's doing this. "Just following the case," says Jessup, but Peter doesn't believe her, telling her not to "bluff a bluffer." Continuity note: in the first episode of last season, Peter also referred to his mad bluffing abilities. "You know, a lot of people would be scared by this. Most, actually," he says. So Jessup says, "There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt..." and Peter interrupts her to smirk at her butchered Shakespeare.

And then an ecstatic Walter comes running out of the house and yells, "Peter! They said I can ride in the back with the body! Can I?" Like a little kid, heh. "Sure. Of course you can," says Peter, somehow managing not to add the word "champ" to the end of that. As an afterthought, though, he does order Walter to stay out of the medications. Walter starts to sulk when he hears that. Heh. "I think I've been waiting for you people my whole life," says Jessup, whatever that's supposed to mean.

The bell jingles over the door of an antique typewriter shop as the faceshifter strolls in. The clerk, walking with elbow crutches, asks what he's looking for. "I'm looking for a Selectric. Selectric 251," he says, and the clerk says, "Doesn't exist. They never made one. It's 245 straight to 255." "I know. I'm still gonna need the 251," says the faceshifter, looking right at the guy, and the clerk understands. "Ah. You're one of them," he says.

He goes around the cash register. "You know, it's been six years. I just kind of figured that, uh..." Anyway, he opens the cash register, digs out a key and hands it to the faceshifter. "Last door," he tells him, and the faceshifter heads to the back of the shop. The clerk calls out, "Hey. You, you tell 'em. I'm not waiting around forever." The faceshifter nods and heads back into a room, empty save for a desk with a typewriter, a mirror and a stack of white paper. It's just like my home office except it doesn't have dirty cocktail glasses all over the desk. He sits down and rolls a sheet of paper and types: "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED/TARGET TERMINATED/IN FATAL CAR CRASH/MEETING PREVENTED/REQUEST EXTRACTION."

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He gets up and tells her to get some rest, and heads out the door, and she stops him to ask if it's true that they're shutting Fringe down. "No," he says, and walks out the door.

So, yeah, Peter has a plan. And that involves stopping Broyles on the steps of the capitol building and presenting him with the facePod, so he can show it to the senators and tell them that Fringe can get them this tech so they can create an army that looks like anyone they want it to look like, but they are not shutting Fringe down. "From now on, we're calling the shots. We're done reacting. We're not going to be too late anymore," he says. "You surprise me, Mr. Bishop," says Broyles, instead of something like, "Yeah, kid. I got it covered. I've done this through three administrations, and have stuff in my briefcase here that would make you shit your pants if you knew what it was."

Elsewhere, Amy's working away, looking at pictures of the porcupine man from the plane, and appears to typing in Biblical references from the book of Revelation -- lines about the beast from Chapter 19.

Peter strolls into the darkened Fringe lab, and then the lights come on, and apparently Walter and Astrid have been waiting there in the dark for god knows how long to give him a surprise party, and since Olivia's in the hospital and Peter has no friends, they have to put a party hat on Gene, who moos at the indignity.

In the hospital, Olivia successfully loads her pistol, and puts a round in the chamber.

And in the basement -- not so much a reveal as a confirmation -- Charlie pushes a laundry cart up to the furnace doors, and pulls some bags off to reveal a naked, dead Charlie, whom NotCharlie throws into the furnace. I guess if your character is going to be killed off, you might as well have it done by a shape-shifter so you can continue to play the part. It's either that or frigging dream sequences.

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