Fringe (2008–2013): Season 2, Episode 19 - The Man from the Other Side - full transcript

Two teenager are smoking grass in a car parked at an abandoned area. Out of the blue, they hear a noise in a warehouse and the youngster Dave decides to snoop around. A shape-shifter catches him and assumes his form while another one catches his girlfriend Jill to use her body. When the teenagers are found dead with three marks on the palate, the Fringe Division investigates the case and soon they find a shape-shifter embryo at the warehouse. After a visit to the Massive Dynamic, they conclude that Thomas Jerome Newton is the responsible for the transference. Further, he is trying to bring something big from the parallel universe that will be synchronized with our universe. Now they have to find where the transfer will happen.

NARRATOR:
Previously on Fringe:

The shape-shifters on your side
are looking for someone.

OLIVIA: William Bell told me Newton
would try to open a doorway...

...from our universe to the other side.

You once built a door
that let you walk between worlds.

Tell me how you did it.

WALTER: I can save him.
WOMAN: Peter is dead.

I'm talking about the other Peter,
the one on the other side.

- You're not my father.
- Of course I am.

I've done enough damage.
I have to tell him who he really is.

(RUSH'S "TOM SAWYER"
PLAYING ON CAR STEREO)



A modern-day warrior
Mean, mean stride

Today's Tom Sawyer
Mean, mean pride

You feel that?

- What?
- The... The shaking.

A whole lot of shaking going on.

(JILL LAUGHING)

- No, I'm serious.
- And you're stoned. Give me that.

I thought you said this place
was abandoned.

- I'm gonna check it out.
- We should just go.

No, just hang tight. I'll be fine.

(LOCK CLICKS)

JILL: This totally sucks.
What took you so long?

You scared the hell out of me.

I wanna leave here, Dave.



(JILL SCREAMS)

Fringe
s2e19 The Man From The Other Side

Come on, Walter. Not again.

Just rearranging.
It's not quite right yet.

It's fine. And it was fine yesterday,
and fine the day before that.

A well-ordered house is the sign
of a well-ordered mind.

But staying up all night to find
the perfect place for your hamper...

...is a sign of something else
in my books.

Come on, leave that for later.
I got you a surprise.

I thought maybe
we could bake a pie together.

Your favorite. Say, pecan?
I got all the good stuff.

You wanna whip the batter?

The batter can wait. There's something
we have to talk about.

Okay. Fair enough.
It's your room, you can decorate it...

- ...however you like.
- It's not that.

There's something you deserve
to know.

Peter, every living thing dies.

As a scientist, that's one
of the hardest things to accept.

That we try to understand
the mechanisms of life...

...but inevitably,
we can't defeat death.

No matter how much
we really want to.

(PHONE RINGING)

Olivia. Hey, what's up?

Yeah. Yeah.
Sure, we'll meet you outside.

- Something happened?
- Yeah, I guess so.

She's on her way to pick us up.

- I'll... I'll get my field kit.
- Walter.

Oh, it's all right, Peter. It can wait.

Name's Jill Redmond.
Her purse was found outside the car.

Patrolman found her with a broken neck.
That's the cause of death.

But the medical examiner found this.

Three puncture wounds
in her soft palate.

Raised a red flag in the FBI database
and came up the chain to me.

Shape-shifters.

Well, the last time we heard of
Newton and his men was in New York.

They must've needed her identity
for something.

OLIVIA:
What else do we know about her?

We're running
a background check now.

We should send her photograph
to local and state law enforcement...

...and make sure they know she just
got a lot more dangerous than she looks.

Look. It's a lemon zinger, I believe.

Hm.

It's not as good as the stuff I grow,
but it's not bad either.

Well, at least she died
in a happy place.

I'm not so sure. The girl's wearing
lipstick, but there isn't any on the joint.

So you think maybe
she was with somebody?

Maybe. Maybe someone
who was lucky enough to get away.

WALTER: Three puncture wounds
to the soft palate.

MAN: All clear.
The rest of the place is deserted.

Except for this.

- Wait.
OLIVIA: Walter, have you seen...

...anything like this before?
WALTER: I think I may have.

It's awfully familiar.

Ah, yes. It reminds me
of a beanbag chair I once owned.

1974.

So when a shape-shifter takes a body...

...it's because they want access.
Like the one that turned into the nurse...

...came after me at the hospital.
Or Charlie.

PETER: So, what would the shape-shifters
want with these kids?

You think that's a good idea?

Well, I think it's harmless enough.

Mercury.

Walter, if that's mercury, do you think
that this is a shape-shifter?

I do believe it is.

Isn't that wonderful?

Good morning.

We're here to pick up a camera.
An Argus.

A2B 35mm.

My secretary told me
there would be three of you.

There was a problem.
The third didn't make it.

Marvelous.

It's like an embryo in the sense
that it's not fully developed.

Developed?

Well, my theory is that this is the state
in which...

...they enter our universe. As I've said,
being partly mechanical, they can...

...cross over in a way
that humans can't, but this one...

...failed to mature properly.

Peter, would you take a look?

Shape-shifter embryo. Adorable.

So the two teenagers.
Maybe there were...

...two more of these
that hatched and killed them.

It's a sound proposition.

But presumably, the embryonic
shape-shifters would've needed...

...features, human identities.

They certainly wouldn't
blend in otherwise.

So then those two teenagers were just
in the wrong place at the wrong time.

(PHONE RINGS)
OLIVIA: Dunham.

- It's got dozens of
different amino acids...

...which would allow it to survive in
the foreign conditions of our universe.

Okay, that was Broyles.

Astrid, I wanna see if we can download
this file from the FBI secure server.

MAN (ON VIDEO):
The African elephant is the largest...

OLIVIA:
Okay, this was recorded last night.

Now, just before 9 pm, several dozen
homes, all within a half-mile radius...

...of the warehouse,
reported an odd kind of interference...

- ...with their broadcast signal.
- Right around when the ME estimated...

- ...time of death for those kids.
- Walter.

Is it possible the shape-shifter embryo
could've caused this interference?

Yes. I believe the interfering signal may
have originated in the alternate universe.

We may be getting a glimpse
into the other side.

Can we turn it up?

And slow it down.

(WHIRRING NOISES PLAYING
ON VIDEO)

What is that?

It almost sounds like a language.

You hear the way some of
those sounds seem to repeat?

Shape-shifters are soldiers.
Soldiers always come with orders.

- Maybe that's a message.
- I can see what the code breakers...

...at the bureau can make of it.

I got a better idea.

MAN:
It's not a language. It's math.

- Math?
- Trigonometric equations.

In this case, a radio wave.
The kind given off by a solar flare...

- ...which is interesting.
- Interesting how?

Our astronomical division...

...picked up a surge
in solar activity right around that time.

Here's a radio wave
from last night's solar flare.

Here's your wave. But yours
couldn't have come from the sun.

- Where else could it have come from?
- I don't know.

I mean, they're not in sync.

Suppose it came
from a parallel universe.

Wow.

That... That would d... Yeah, yeah,
because in a parallel universe...

...time would be slightly out of sync.

And the waves would be too.

Hm.

What?

Imagine that these
are the two universes.

Slightly out of sync,
but on rare occasion...

...they perfectly line up.

According to the computer,
that's gonna happen...

...between our universe and
wherever this radio wave came from.

- When?
MAN: Based on this...

...tomorrow, at precisely 3:31 pm.

- All right. Who will be McCallister?
- That'd be me.

He's Wu.

Now, everything else you need
is in here.

Once you're done, we'll reconvene at
the exchange point tomorrow...

- ...at exactly 20 past 3.
- So that's it?

We're still going through with this?

Why, you have a problem with it?

We are a man down.

Neither of us have time to handle Verona,
and you don't have a shifting device.

- Maybe we should abort.
- And I suppose...

...you'll be the one to give the news
to the secretary.

We won't have another chance like this
for seven months.

So I'll figure out how to handle
Mr. Verona.

You make sure you hold your end.

All right?

You're the boss.

Now let's get to work.

(CAR ALARM CHIRPS)

Excuse me. Would you happen to know
where Franklin Street is?

Sure. You're three blocks south
of Franklin.

So go down this street,
you'll see a convenience store...

...then make a left
and go two blocks west.

I'll write it down for you.

Hey. Where's Walter?

He's out counting cars.
Thinks it might help jog his memory.

- Says human memory is best triggered...
- When accomplishing mundane tasks.

Walter's convinced that Newton
wants to build a door to the other side.

If he can remember
what he told Newton...

...we might be able to figure out
what's supposed to happen tomorrow.

- And these cars that he's tracking down?
- He promised to stay off the freeway.

- Hey.
- Hey.

- How goes it?
- Broyles sent over a list...

...of state and local events
taking place tomorrow.

Oh.

Star Trek Convention at
the Worcester Centrum. That's not good.

I told Walter I'd take him. Maybe we'll
just pretend like we didn't see that.

Sure.

I think I finally figured out
why it is...

...that Walter's been
acting so strange lately.

He's been carrying this picture
around with him...

...a family photo from when
I was a kid.

I think he wants to talk to me
about how my mother died.

About a month after I got
to Europe...

...I got a call from St. Claire's,
from Walter.

He told me that she died
in a car crash.

There wasn't a car crash.

My mother committed suicide.

That was the only time
I spoke to him...

...in the 17 years that he was
locked up in St. Claire's.

He must've known the truth.

I think in his way,
he was trying to protect me.

For whatever reason, he wants to
talk about it now.

Peter...

...you know that Walter loves you
very much.

Peter.

Our synthetic friends. I believe I know
how to figure out what they're up to.

- You remember what you told Newton?
- No.

- As they say in Finland:
- There's more than one way...

- ...to roast a reindeer.
- But I'll need some supplies.

I need six car batteries,
a voltage transformer...

...and several yards
of 10-gauge electrical wire.

Oh, and a corpse. Any corpse will do.

But it shouldn't be dead
for more than two days.

NEWTON: Hello.
- Hello. Can I help you?

Yes, I'm here to see your manager,
Mr. McCallister.

He's... He's expecting me.

So, boss, you felt the need
to check up on me?

Yeah.

- Figure out what to do about Verona?
- I have some thoughts.

(DEVICE POWERING UP)

(DOOR OPENS)

- Mr. McCallister?
- Yes.

Approval for an overdraft withdrawal?

Oh, thank you.
I'll be there in just a minute.

Okay.

You can handle the rest. Just make sure
the device remains undisturbed.

Tied into the house power,
and the volt meter is ready to go.

So, Walter, you're sure
that I'm doing this right?

WALTER: Perfect, Olivia. Just make sure
they're tightened down.

ASTRID: Walter, you really think
that this is gonna work?

No reason it shouldn't. I mean,
something stopped this creature...

...from developing,
and because it's part mechanical...

...if we pump it with enough electricity,
we should be able to restart it.

Like jump-starting a car.

ASTRID:
So, what's the corpse for?

Is this embryo supposed to
reanimate it?

Oh, don't be ridiculous.

But if we intend to question
this creature...

...then it will need an identity
to shape-shift into.

Because that's not ridiculous at all.

WALTER:
I think we're ready, Olivia.

- Eighty amps.
- Eighty amps.

WALTER: Not enough power,
but it seems to be working.

- Um... Try 110.
- One-ten.

One-forty.

PETER:
One-forty.

(MACHINES POWER DOWN)

I think we must've blown a fuse.

Oh, my. Look!
Astrid, quickly, some candles.

Something's wrong.

When I cut into it
I must have damaged it.

Peter, the corpse.

All right. Good on my side.

(GASPING)

(ASTRID SCREAMS)

SHAPE-SHIFTER:
Help me.

Contact Newton.

Thomas Jerome Newton? Where is he?

Verona.

Daniel Verona.

Who is Daniel Verona?

SHAPE-SHIFTER: Blood type, AB negative.
Cellular polarity...

We're losing it.

Tomorrow afternoon,
what is happening at 3:31?

I'm sorry.

(SIRENS CHIRPING)

Daniel Verona?

FBI.

MAN (OVER PHONE):
911, what is your emergency?

There's a man,
he's middle-aged, Caucasian.

- He's having a heart attack.
- What is your location?

The corner of
Longwood and Huntington.

What is your name, sir?

Oh, my God.
Hey, this guy needs help!

Does anyone know CPR?
Someone call an ambulance, quick!

OLIVIA:
He's not a shape-shifter.

We'll run his blood anyway.
Test it for mercury.

Maybe we got to him
before they could.

Why him? I mean, why Daniel Verona?
What could they want with him?

BROYLES: Medical Examiner.
Works out of Boston General.

It's anybody's guess.

(POWERING UP)

PETER:
Yeah, you too. Okay. Good night.

WALTER:
Agent Dunham?

Yeah, Verona was a bust.

Walter, you've been awake for two
straight days, you need to get some rest.

The shape-shifters.

I should have been more careful
with my initial dissection.

If I hadn't caused so much damage
it could have told us everything.

But you couldn't possibly
have known that.

Still, it was stupid and inexcusable.

Calm down.

- It's gonna be okay.
- Okay. Yeah.

We're gonna figure it out
just like we always do.

- Okay.
- Okay?

I want you to get some rest, Dad.

I'm gonna hit the sack.
I'll be upstairs if you need me.

- Dad.
- Huh?

You just called me Dad.

Yeah, I guess I did.

- Peter!
- Yeah.

Newton.

I think I know
what he's planning to do.

(KNOCKING)

She's here.

Agent Dunham.
Sorry to get you out of bed.

It's okay.

Geometry and harmonic vibrations.
That's how we did it. Belly and I.

Did what?

Sent Belly's
Monte Carlo from this universe...

...to the other side.

As I've said, the two universes
vibrate at different frequencies.

So we set up three harmonic rods
raised as an equilateral triangle.

And then we activated the rods.

(TUNING FORKS RINGING)

The car began to vibrate
at just the right frequency...

That's how we sent Belly's car
to the other side.

- It's what Newton did with the building.
- Newton's attempt failed.

Yes, indeed it did. Because
the building that Newton brought over...

...landed in a location
that was already occupied by another.

But I suspect Mr. Newton
has found a way around that problem.

He has something
that Belly and I never had.

- What's that?
- Agents in both universes.

Yes, Peter.

If we set up the harmonic rods
in exactly the same position...

...in each universe...

...like so...

...and we activate the rods...

...then whatever is in the center
of each triangle...

...will simply be exchanged.

Of course, that would likely require
the universes be in sync.

3:31 this afternoon.

Okay, so what could
Newton bring here?

Last time he brought a building, so
supposedly anything that would fit inside.

- A machine.
- An army?

Yes, if the triangle is large enough
that is possible.

We have roughly 10 hours to figure out
where the center of Newton's triangle is.

Yes.

But it could be anywhere.

MAN (OVER RADIO): Wu, you're supposed
to be fixing a transformer...

...at Third and Spencer.
Where the hell are you?

Wu.

Three points. Newton would
have to place the harmonic rods...

...at three locations across the city.

So Newton's going after Verona because
he had access to one of the three points.

That would suggest either Boston
General Hospital or Verona's home.

Okay, so Verona lives in Beacon Hill,
520 South Garden Street.

Only a couple blocks from the hospital. So
for our purposes, that's our first point.

ASTRID:
I might be able to help.

Boston PD found a corpse in Chestnut
Hill. Three punctures to his soft palate.

Ben McCallister, branch manager at
Pinewood Savings Bank.

He was found outside his office.

- Not easy to access a bank.
OLIVIA: Okay, 185 Mason Ave.

PETER: Mason. Excellent.
So that's our second point.

And now we have
the first leg of our triangle.

We have more. We're looking for
an equilateral triangle, the third point...

Can only be in one of two places.
Right.

Right.

All right, so the third point is either
Arlington or Cedar Grove.

Try both, see what's in the center
of each triangle.

It's either Hyde Park...

...or right on the Charles River.
Gotta be targeting Hyde Park.

Is there a bridge? On the Charles?

Yeah. A condemned railway bridge.
Why?

The water would absorb any excess
energy caused by Newton's procedure.

He must be making
the exchange on the bridge.

WALTER:
She's right, Peter.

It's Dunham.
I think we have something.

WU:
We're all set.

- Any problems?
WU: All good.

(SIRENS CHIRPING)

Go deal with it. Now.

OLIVIA (OVER PHONE): We sending anyone
to look for the rods?

Agents are on their way to
the morgue and McCallister's bank.

PD have been deployed to the
Andrews' Avenue Bridge. Status?

Few minutes away. Whatever Newton's
bringing, Walter thinks he can stop it.

- Okay. Call me when you get there.
- Walter, how is this thing gonna work?

Vibrations are composed
of shock waves.

Like sound waves,
they can be nullified by their opposite.

- Right, like noise-canceling headphones?
- Yes.

Seismograph should pick up
the vibration from Newton's device...

...the laptop will calculate its opposite,
transmit it to the pneumatic hammer.

Vibrations that would cancel out
Newton's device.

We have to get the hammer as close
to the center of the bridge as possible.

- It could be dangerous.
- Dangerous how?

The vibrational waves that Newton
will need to generate...

...the intensity,
it would be devastating.

- What do you mean, devastating?
- I suspect it would tear a man apart.

Walter, I need you to stay here and
finish putting that thing together, okay?

Hey. We need to get on that bridge.

I'm afraid that's not possible.

I'm with the FBI.

You're the boss.
Let me just check with the sergeant.

- How'd you know?
- Cop wouldn't call his sergeant on a cell.

Walter! No!

(EXPLOSION)

OLIVIA: It's 3:32. Walter's not
gonna make it in time.

PETER:
I'm going up there. Cover me.

WALTER:
You need to get off this bridge!

I have to put this on. I started this.

It's gonna go faster
if we do it together.

- What?
- The two on the bridge, get them out.

(SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE)

(GUNSHOT)

OLIVIA: Peter and Walter are on the bridge.
It started.

- Pneumatic's ready.
- Seismograph is ready.

Turning on the program.

Something's wrong.

I don't understand.
It should be working.

There's something wrong with your
frequency recognition program. I'll fix it.

- How are we doing?
- Get off this bridge.

- Off the bridge.
- Walter, nothing else you can do.

- Get him off this bridge.
OLIVIA: Come on, Walter!

- Walter.
WALTER: No.

(HIGH-PITCHED SCREECHING)

You okay?

Welcome back.

How long was I out?

About a day and a half.

Here.

The doctor said you'd be fine,
but Walter was worried.

I'm fine.

- Is he here?
- Yeah.

He wouldn't leave.
He'll want to know that you're up.

Olivia.

I'd like to speak to him alone
if that's okay.

Sure.

Peter.

(WALTER LAUGHS)

They told me you'd be all right,
but I was so worried, son.

There was another man
on that bridge.

When Newton's device started to work,
I saw him there.

Just walking down the bridge.

He had to have been
from the other side.

You said the effects of Newton's
vibrations would be devastating.

And they were.
They destroyed that FBI agent.

They just disintegrated him,
like he wasn't even there.

But they didn't kill the man
from the other side.

And they didn't kill me.

I'm not from here, am I?

You didn't just open up
a hole to the other side...

...you went through.

And you brought me back.

That's why I was able to survive
Newton's device.

Why I can't remember my
childhood.

- You were dying.
- That's why my mother committed suicide.

Isn't it? She knew, didn't she?

And when I left, the guilt was too
much for her to live with. The lie.

Peter, you need to understand...

I understand, Walter.

I understand everything now.

- Son...
- I am not your son.

I'd like to be alone now.

It would be easier if you don't try
to talk just yet, Mr. Secretary.

You see, despite the preparation...

...crossing over is quite an ordeal
on your body.

And the consequences
are unpredictable.

This... This should help.

You should...

You should be able to sleep
for a while.

And hopefully when you wake up,
you'll be stabilized.

Walter, it's 6:00.
Peter's probably still sleeping.

I have to go to the hospital. Are you
going to drive me or shall I call a cab?

(KNOCKING)

OLIVIA:
Hey.

Walter.

Peter checked himself out of the hospital
three hours ago.

He isn't at the lab.

And he's not answering his phone.

He's gone.