Fringe (2008–2013): Season 2, Episode 21 - Northwest Passage - full transcript

Peter teams up with a local law enforcement official, Sheriff Mathis, on a serial murder investigation with ties to Newton. Meanwhile, Walter copes with the possibility of being sent back to St. Claire's, and someone from the "other side" pays a visit .

NARRATOR:
Previously on Fringe:

Surgeries that Newton performed.

He was removing
transplanted brain tissue.

You nearly died when you were a boy.

Walternate found a cure for Peter.

- Walter, Peter is dead.
- I'm talking about the other Peter.

The one on the Other Side.

I'm not from here, am I?

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

Peter checked himself out
of the hospital three hours ago.

He's gone.



Drink that, avoid radar,
you'll be in Oakland in no time.

And that is for you, Raymond.

And your burger
should be up in a minute.

So where was I?

You were telling me
how you moved around...

...but now I'm hopelessly intrigued
with these CDs.

I'm sort of known here
by the regulars for my play-lists.

I base my tracks on people's aura.

How often do I have to come here
to be considered a regular?

I might be able
to get you on the list.

First you have to tell me
where you're from.

Technically? I'm from no place
you've ever heard of.

But let's just say Boston.

So how long are you here for?



Well, I was just planning
on the one night, passing through.

To?

I don't know yet.

Okay, Peter from Boston.

I'll burn you one.

Really? What did I do right?

KRISTA:
It's a long road to "I don't know yet."

I wanna make sure
you stay awake out there.

And I... I like your eyes.

So there's that.

Where are you staying?

I'm staying at the Drake's Bay Motel.

I'll drop it by after my shift.

Okay, I'll see you then.

I'll see you then.

(PETER CHUCKLES)

(GROANS)

(ELECTRIC HUMMING)

(PANTING)

(STAMMERING)

What are you doing to me?

Fringe
s2e21 Norhwest Passage

(MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY
OVER TV)

Your room's got a bed, you know.

What time is it?

Six am.

Did a pretty girl
happen to drop by here?

(CHUCKLES)

(PHONE RINGING)

Hello?

(CLICKING AND WHIRRING
OVER PHONE)

Krista?

(MUFFLED STATIC OVER PHONE)

Hello?

PETER: Destination.
CAR: Please say a city name.

- Portland.
CAR: Portland.

- Please proceed to the highlighted route.
- That was obviously way too easy.

- Destination.
CAR: Please say a city name.

Mars.

CAR:
Sorry. Please say the city name.

How you doing? Sheriff Mathis.

This is Deputy Ferguson.

Hi, there. Peter Bishop.

Were you a customer here last night?

PETER:
I was.

Do you remember your waitress?

Krista. Sure.

Why, did something happen to her?

You have any identification on you?

Of course.

Krista told a co-worker she was
planning to meet you after her shift?

Are you going to tell me
what's going on?

You first.

Yeah, we made plans.
But she never showed up.

She was gonna meet at my motel.
Drake's Bay. I fell asleep in the lobby.

You can call the front desk,
ask the guy there.

Why don't you just
hang here a sec, okay?

MATHIS:
Where are you going?

- Who are you looking for?
- Um...

No one.

- Aw, come on. You gotta be kidding me.
- Krista Manning went missing last night.

You talked to her. You two spent
some time, I'd just like to hear about it.

And I'd like to do that
at the station, okay?

B-I-S-H-O-P.

Uh, six feet, brown hair.

PETER: Officer, I wasn't staying
under the name Bishop.

I was registered
under the name Stewart.

Yeah, he says he stayed
under the name Stewart.

Right. Okay, thanks, Tom.

Tom at Drake's Bay confirms he was
passed out in the lobby all night.

Why did you check in to the motel
under an assumed name?

DISPATCHER (OVER RADIO):
Sheriff?

This is Mathis, go ahead.

DISPATCHER (OVER RADIO):
Dogs found a body.

Spillway off Route 219,
at Mile Marker 8.

White female. Coroner's on his way.

Oh, my God.

DISPATCHER: Noyo Search and Rescue,
what's your 20?

MAN (OVER RADIO): ETA about 45.
Confirm this is recovery, not rescue.

DISPATCHER: That's right, Wes.
It's a bad one. Coroner says victim...

...had some sort of operation done to her.
A piece of her skull cut out. Over.

Sheriff, can you let me out
of this car?

Please, I'm sorry, but you're
gonna have to be patient.

Hold on for one second.

I was listening to your radio. They said
she had a piece of her skull cut out.

Is she missing a part of her brain?

I know that's a weird question.
Ask the coroner...

...whether she's missing
a piece of her temporal lobe.

Please.

How the hell did you know that?

MATHIS:
You're FBI, huh?

What exactly is a civilian consultant?

Sometimes people
with certain areas of expertise...

...can offer them to the Bureau
on a consulting basis.

- My area of expertise is weird.
- What, you mean difficult to explain?

No, I mean the strange.
The inexplicable.

So, uh...

...can you talk me through this again?

- You knew that they took her...
- Temporal lobe.

Temporal lobe because it's like a case
you worked on before?

Exactly. We were never able
to catch those responsible.

So that's why you're out here?
You're tracking them down?

No.

But I think that they may be
tracking me down.

- What would they want with you?
PETER: I'm not sure yet.

I thought I saw one of them earlier
at the crime scene. His name is Newton.

And I think they called me
at the Drake's Bay Motel.

There was no voice
on the other end of the line. Just static.

And then a series
of strange noises and clicks.

I think they killed Krista to find me.

By taking her brain?

I told her where I was staying.
She's the only person who knew.

Why wouldn't they just ask her
where you were staying?

Or force her.
I mean, why cut out her brain?

It's possible they needed details about me
she didn't know she had.

- I'm sorry, I'm not following.
- I know that this is complicated.

I'm sorry that I can't give you all
the answers, but the case is classified.

It is possible, however,
that I could show you what I mean.

Just give me a minute.
I'm gonna go make a few calls, Peter.

Of course.

(RINGING)

Bishop. Where are you?

I'll save you the trace.
I'm in Washington State.

(OVER PHONE)
Look, I need a favor.

You're to get a call from
Noyo County Sheriff's Department.

They're checking my credentials.

BROYLES (OVER PHONE):
Are you in trouble?

In fact, just the opposite.

I stumbled into an investigation,
and I offered them my services.

We'll ask them
to extend every courtesy.

PETER (OVER PHONE):
Thank you. Listen.

I don't want you
to tell Walter where I am.

(OVER PHONE) In fact, I don't even
want you to tell him that we spoke.

If you owe me anything,
you owe me that.

Okay. But Bishop...

...if you change your mind,
I'll send someone to pick you up.

Thanks. I gotta go.

Take care of yourself.

PETER: Krista seemed like a sweet girl.
You know her?

MATHIS: She and my sister
went to school together.

So explain this to me.

PETER: The temporal lobe
is responsible for memory.

Think of the brain as the greatest
recording device ever created.

Every sight, sound, smell,
all recorded in perfect detail.

Imagine that there was a way
to get that data out of the brain.

So, what I said, what I was wearing,
what time it was...

...where I was staying...

I know how it sounds.

But believe me, if you can imagine it,
it's possible.

If that's true...

...if they were trying to find you, why
didn't they just come for you last night?

I don't know.

These are not your ordinary bad guys.

- The tissue's pink.
- Yes, and it's not normally like that.

It happens when our
bodies metabolize adrenaline...

...so her adrenals must have spiked
right before she died.

Oh, my God.

"Find the crack"? That is the worst
police slogan I've ever heard.

It's not a slogan.

In the darkness
there's always a crack.

It's how the light gets in.

Ferguson gave it to me
on our first case together.

Nobody else thought
I could hack it, but...

It's an inside joke.

- Looks expensive.
- Yeah.

That's what he keeps telling me.

(CHUCKLES)

If that's an accurate account
of your statement, please sign it.

It is very.

I'm gonna get a room
at the Northwest Passage.

Staying under the name of...

...Gene Cowan.
If you need me, that's where I'm at.

You sure you don't want
a police escort?

Ha, ha. No, I'll be fine.

You say there are people...

...cutting people's brains out
to find you and you're smiling?

They may have found me, but now that
I know they're here for sure...

...I've found them too.
And now we're gonna catch them.

What?

I don't know about this guy.

He knew his way around there.
He was like a medical examiner.

He knew the brain, biology, medications.

FERGUSON:
Doesn't mean he's legit.

You read books about UFOs and Roswell,
whacked-out theories...

...and government conspiracies.
I think that you want to believe.

What makes you trust him?

I don't know.

I'm a good judge of character.

I'm the only one here who likes you.

(FERGUSON CHUCKLES)

(DOORBELL BUZZES)

Closed. What do you want?

You open up,
I'll make it worth your while.

(PHONE RINGING)

Mathis?

(MUFFLED STATIC OVER PHONE)

(PHONE RINGING)

- What do you want from me?
- Peter, it's Mathis.

- Who did you tell?
- What are you talking about?

Just now,
I got one of those phone calls.

They know where I'm staying.
And I only told you.

- I didn't...
- Then ask your partner.

That's what I'm calling about, Peter.

Ferguson's... Ferguson's disappeared.

PETER: The last time you spoke with him?
- About two hours.

He went back to where
Krista's body was found.

Felt we missed something.

That means he disappeared a half hour
before I got the last phone call.

You think they used him to find you.

Like they used Krista?

What is it that makes you special?

Why haven't they taken you?

I don't know.
I don't even know what it all means.

But I do know
that these people have the answers.

That's why I need to find them.

All right. Call your friends
at the FBI, let's get them.

- No.
- The FBI has the expertise, resources.

And if we call the FBI,
they're gonna descend on this place...

...and these people will disappear.

I am this close
and I am going to get my answers.

You said you got calls at Drake's Bay
and Northwest Passage, right?

PETER: Yes.
- Mm-hm.

We pulled those phone records.
Those calls never happened.

These people can pull memories
out of brains.

Think they can't make a couple
calls disappear?

People have been doing that
since the '70s.

I understand.

You don't want me to be right.

Because if I'm right, that means
your partner is most likely dead.

Hey, Peter...

...with the exception of who you are...

...I haven't been able to verify
anything you've said to me.

It's either classified, or it's
incredible... I'm calling the Bureau.

But your partner did disappear.

And I did talk to Krista.

And I did get those phone calls.

What if he's alive?

What if he's out there thinking
I'm doing everything in my power...

...including calling the FBI, to save him?

Then that is all the more reason
for us to find him ourselves.

If you make that phone call,
we never will.

Excuse me, please.

Thank you.

"Toaster Pastry."

Cornstarch.

Soy lecithin.

"Potassium bromate."

Potassium bromate!

This supermarket is trying to kill us.

You. Potassium bromate.
Do you know what that is?

- Are you okay, sir?
- It is known to induce renal cell tumors.

- Mesotheliomas of the peritoneum.
- Can I call someone for you?

Do you know what
you're putting into our bodies?

Death.
Delicious strawberry-flavored death!

- Okay, I'm calling Security.
- Yes!

(SOBBING)

They had no right to make me wait
at the police station.

It's the makers of those Toaster Pastries
that should be in jail.

ASTRID:
Let it go, Walter.

You're home now and you're safe.

I wasn't expecting guests.

Walter, why didn't you tell me
you needed help?

What am I going to do, call you
every time I run out of pudding pops?

- Yes, if you need them.
- I need to learn to care for myself.

If Peter doesn't come back...

Walter.

They'll send me back
to the hospital, won't they?

I won't let that happen.

WALTER:
Thank you.

I do.

I do need pudding pops.

We don't know if he made it, but this
is the last place he said he was going.

Isn't it protocol for him to call
once he gets here?

Well, sometimes he doesn't do that.

Dummy.

(MUFFLED STATIC NEARBY)

(BEEPING)

(GUNSHOT NEARBY)

Bishop!

Bishop.

(MUFFLED STATIC NEARBY)

MATHIS:
Peter.

- Mathis.
- What did you see?

I saw Newton and one other guy.

You didn't see them too?
They came running right past you.

What's wrong?

What the hell are you doing, Bishop?
Put down that gun.

Who are you?

Bishop, lower your weapon.

In the morgue, you dropped something.
Who gave it to you?

What is wrong with you?

Answer the question!

The... My pen? It was a gift
from Ferguson, my partner.

Why is there blood on your jacket?

There is blood on my jacket
because there is blood on my wrist...

...which I got when I fell running.

Show me.

I'm sorry.

I needed to know
that your blood was still red.

What other color would it be?

So these, uh, shape-shifters...

...they make themselves
look like other people?

Yeah, it's a technology unlike
anything you've ever seen before.

Peter...

(SIGHS)

...I wanna level with you.

I, uh...

...believe in the unknown.

Yeah. "Find the crack," I get it.

No, I mean I read books about UFOs...

...and conspiracy theories,
but I do think...

I mean, I am wondering right now...

...if you are not
completely off your rocker.

- They were there.
- Didn't see them.

- Or the dart they shot.
- You didn't because they removed it.

I know how this must look from your
point of view. I was there, too, but...

You just did it.

- Did what?
- You just questioned your own sanity.

- I'm not questioning...
- When was the last time you slept?

I'm not hallucinating.

And I'm not paranoid
and I'm not questioning my own sanity.

I was wondering
why you would listen to me.

You're desperate.

Ferguson is more than
just your partner, isn't he?

So there is something
between the two of you.

You said back at the precinct...

...that I was trying to rationalize
that he was still alive.

You may be right. I may be doing it
right now. He may be dead.

But I won't believe it
until I see his body.

I can't.

(CELL PHONE RINGS)

Mathis.

You want me to go look?

Sheriff, the victim's a white female,
she has part of her skull missing.

I don't recognize this girl.

- You've never seen her before?
- No, I've never seen her before.

Who is she?

HEATHER: I talked to Gwynn
right before her shift ended.

We'd talked about her coming over
last night to help me color my hair.

I figured she just got tired.

I should have called her.

You couldn't have known.

I'm sorry.

Did your sister ever hang out
at the Hilltop Cafe?

I don't think so.

What about the Mosser Brothers
gas station on Route 202?

I filled up there on the way in.

Her pickup's a diesel, and I don't think
Mosser's carries...

Drake's Bay Motel?
Would she ever go there for any reason?

What's this about?

Just part of our investigation.

If you could just write down
your address for us?

She is grieving and you are not
getting anywhere.

(VIOLET SEDAN CHAIR'S "SHE'S DOING
FINE" PLAYING ON RECORD PLAYER)

Hadron super-collider is less complicated
than that infernal dishwasher.

Next time don't use laundry detergent
and the dishwasher will work fine.

Thank you, Astrid.
You're a federal agent.

I doubt during your years of training
that you had dreams...

...of babysitting a helpless old man.

You are not that helpless.

A little disorganized maybe.

Don't you usually
keep this in the bathtub?

Walter?

I took this car
from the Zelazny building.

Objects from the other universe,
like this...

...emit a glimmer.
A distinctive energy signature.

It may be possible to detect
that signature.

- So?
- So I need you...

...to gather objects from the Other Side...

...that we recovered
from the Zelazny Building.

- Bring them to the lab.
- Why?

To build a device
to read that energy signature.

Peter emits the same energy,
don't you see?

This is how we will find Peter.

I must have seen Gwynn somewhere.
Or she had to have seen me.

She has to have had some value to them.
Some knowledge they needed.

Go to your motel, get your things.

We'll get you something to eat and
you can stay at my house tonight.

It's okay, I'll be fine.

You're my only connection to finding
Bill right now. I want you safe.

What color was Gwynn's truck?

Tan brown.

Driver's side window's rolled down.

Glove compartment's open.

Okay, so this girl pulls over her truck...

...rolls down the window
and then opens up the glove box.

- You tell me, why would she do that?
- She got pulled over by a cop.

Or someone pretending to be a cop.
Or Bill.

- Pretending to be Bill?
- These shape-shifters...

...they take on the appearance
of people in positions of authority.

- Where are you going?
- I'm calling the FBI.

PETER:
Why?

First you said they cut out
his brain to find you...

...now you tell me he may
have been shape-shifted?

Which is it, Peter?

Did I make a mistake
not calling the FBI?

I am very scared right now.

Wait. Wait, wait.
Just hold on for one second.

When they were taken,
they must have been afraid.

And when killed, they were terrified.

- So?
- So I know how to find them.

You know how airplanes
have black boxes?

To record flight data, sure.

Yeah, well, human bodies
collect data as well.

Both Krista and Gwynn's muscle tissue
was flooded with adrenaline.

Yeah, I remember.

Well, the tissue would have partially
metabolized the adrenaline.

We can measure the absorption rate.

Which will tell us when the adrenaline
was produced.

What about Newton?
How does that help us find him?

Look, normally,
your adrenaline levels are flat.

Then you experience fear.

A spike in adrenaline.

Sometime later,
you experience more fear.

Say, in the moments before you're killed.

Another spike. Two points of fear.
We know where the girls were abducted.

So if we can determine the
amount of time between intervals...

Then we can figure out
where they were killed.

Exactly right.

There is one more thing.

We're gonna need a control sample.

Could you stick that in the centrifuge?

- It's that thing right over there.
- Oh.

- Hey.
- I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

I just needed to scare you.

(SIGHS)

I'm gonna need to take
a tissue sample from you.

BROYLES:
How is Dr. Bishop doing?

Walter's trying to adjust
to a very difficult situation.

He's concerned about
being sent back to St. Claire's.

(SIGHS)

Will he be able to function
if Peter doesn't come back?

I'm sure that Peter will come back.

Do you know something?

Have you spoken to him?

Krista's spikes were 42 minutes apart.

So assuming that Newton drove
the speed limit, 60 miles an hour...

On these roads that'd be a good way
to get killed. He'd stick to 45.

All right, 45.

Okay, center point
is where Krista was taken.

At 45 miles per hour...

...farthest they could have gone
is 31 and a half miles.

Gywnn, our second victim...

...was taken much farther out.
Almost the other side of county.

Her adrenaline spikes
were 57 minutes apart.

Again, factoring 45 miles per hour...

I think that's it.

That's our kill zone.

You're assuming he killed them both
in the same place.

They were using complex equipment.
Not easy to move.

Much simpler to bring them
to a specified location.

Some place out of the way.

Like an old dairy farm?

PETER: Just ask him something
only he would know.

MATHIS: Hello there. It's, uh,
Craig, right? CRAIG: Yeah.

MATHIS:
I don't know if you remember...

...but, uh, I think you were in choir
with my sister up at St. Andrew's.

Actually, I was at Good Shepherd.
Good memory, though, heh.

Yeah. Good Shepherd. That's right.

So, uh, what can I do for you?

Your old dairy farm up the hill,
could there be people up there?

- People?
- Yeah, you get up there often?

CRAIG:
No, not much since we shut it down.

Why?

Okay. You got 12 outbuildings.

The milking parlors, the barn,
and the holding stalls.

MATHIS: Those are all good places to hide.
- That's a lot of ground to cover.

I'm gonna go call backup
to help with the search.

CRAIG: Need any help with the search?
- I think it's best if you stay here.

- Let me get you the keys.
- Sure.

(BOTH GRUNTING)

Who are you? Where's Newton?

Peter, stop.

I couldn't stop.
The girls, I wanted to be close to them.

I just couldn't stop.

Where is he? Where's Ferguson?

What did you do to him?

MATHIS:
Bill?

Bill.

Peter.

Bill.

Bill.

He's still breathing, thank God. Bill.

It's just ink, there's no incision here.

I'm gonna go call an ambulance.

Bill, stay with me, baby. I'm here.

I'm here now. I'm here for you.

I don't know what to say.

You saved Bill's life and you tracked
a killer, what else is there to say?

I wish there was something
I could do for you.

Whatever your experiences are...

...whatever you can't or won't
tell me about...

...I think you're looking for meaning
in things that have no meaning.

I don't know who I am anymore.

When I was in college...

...my family was killed. Murdered.

I'm sorry.

Sometimes I still think one day
I might catch whoever did it.

I was alone for a long time...

...but I've found my place.

You will too.

WALTER: Once we isolate the glimmer,
we can find Peter.

Is the spectrograph ready,
Agent Farnsworth?

- Walter, you put in the wrong numbers.
- No, I believe they are correct.

No, they're not.

But then you know that already,
don't you?

I thought you wanted to find Peter.

What if he won't forgive me, Astrid?

All I have now is hope.

Hope he'll come to understand
why I did the things I did.

But if I find him, and he won't
forgive me, what do I have then?

- Hey.
ASTRID: Hey, Olivia.

OLIVIA:
Walter.

- I found Peter.
- Where?

OLIVIA: He's in Washington State.
I'm heading to the airport now.

Would you like to come with me,
Walter?

I'll need to pack a bag.

(BAND OF HORSES' "IS THERE A GHOST"
PLAYING OVER HEADPHONES)

I could sleep

I could sleep

I could sleep

I could sleep

When I lived alone

Is there a ghost in my house?

My house...

Peter. Peter.

Mr. Secretary.

Hello, son.