Fringe (2008–2013): Season 2, Episode 4 - Momentum Deferred - full transcript

NARRATOR:
Previously on Fringe:

We have evidence indicating William Bell
may be involved with biological attacks.

I'll turn this world over looking for him.

William Bell is not in this world.

MAN: I've been waiting for this.
- Who are you?

- I'm William Bell.
- Where am I?

WALTER: You were missing
from your car for an hour...

...before you came crashing back.

OLIVIA:
He told me something.

CHARLIE: Who?
OLIVIA: I don't know. I can't remember.

There's something I have to do.



PETER: Walter thinks it was
a shape-changing soldier...

...from another universe.

Charlie, what if I don't wanna remember?

(TYPEWRITER CLACKING)

Mind if we speed things up, Kurt?
Hate for these popsicles to melt.

I don't think we have to worry about that.

MAN 1:
Cargo secure.

(BUZZES)

MAN 2:
Who is this guy?

Hey, I was wondering
if I could get some directions.

You're trespassing, pal. Why don't you
get in your car and turn around?

Yeah. Sure.

(BOTH GRUNTING)

MAN 3: Oh, my God. Son of a bitch.
We gotta go.



(GUNSHOT)

(THUDS)

Anyone else in the warehouse?

That's it. Keys are in his pocket.

(SECURITY PAD BEEPING)

(BUZZES)

Let me know if he's in there.
You know where to reach m...

(GUNSHOT)

(GROANS)

(MAN COUGHS)

(YELLS)

(GROANING)

Fringe
s2e04 Momentum Deferred

(DOOR OPENS)

One hundred, Walter.

Almost. Fifty more chops.

- Ah, Agent Dunham.
- Walter, hey.

So you said you wanted to see me?

Oh. I had an idea. I think I may be able
to help you retrieve your memories.

From the accident. When you disappeared
from the automobile in New York.

- I remember that bit.
- Of course you do.

Walter, I thought we agreed
this was a stupid idea.

(BLENDER WHIRRING)

No, you decided. I still maintain
that the principle is perfectly sound.

He wants you to eat worms.

WALTER:
Not just worms, flatworms.

The thing is, Agent Dunham, I recalled an
experiment that Belly and I did...

...where we trained a handful
of flatworms to respond to light...

...then crushed them up
and fed them to other worms.

It was Belly's idea.

Because who wouldn't think to do that?

The point is that these other worms,
without having been trained...

...began to respond to light.

It seems the first worms
transferred their memories...

...to the other worms through ingestion.

But that still has nothing to do
with stimulating Dunham's memories.

How will we know unless we try?

That's why it's called
an experiment, Peter.

- If Archimedes had never decided
to take... ASTRID: Uh, guys.

- Astrid, water.
- Uh...

WALTER: I was going to
mix them with strawberries.

(PHONE RINGING)

Bishop's Deli.

(SIREN WAILING)

(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)

BROYLES:
This is what we know so far:

facility manager arrived to work
this morning at 6:30.

Saw the bodies and called the local PD.

Robbery took place
in the middle of the night.

Three cryogenic facilities in a week.

- Same MO as Chicago and New York.
- Though Chicago was a straight B&E.

- All three cases the target was the same.
- Frozen heads.

Which brings up
several obvious questions.

First of which, what the hell for?

Police recovered 10 shell casings
from a 9 mm.

A single perp rolled up
and dropped four men...

...two of whom were armed.

Excuse me. Can I see the body
that's bleeding silver now?

WALTER:
Fascinating.

PETER:
Walter.

Perfect, son.

It has the consistency of mercury.

The robberies are obviously connected.
Pull the files on New York and Chicago.

I'll make some calls. Tell the local agents
we're taking over the investigations.

OLIVIA:
Yes, sir.

Olivia.

(BELL RINGS)

PETER: You okay?
- Uh, yeah.

So, what does Walter think?

Meet Mr. Silver Blood.
Walter thinks it's actually mercury.

OLIVIA:
Mercury?

- Agent Francis. Hello.
- Hey.

- Are you all right? You look pale.
- Yeah. I didn't get much sleep last night.

Oh. I may be able to help you with that.

A little cannabis before
bedtime does wonders, huh?

(WALTER CHUCKLES)

I recognize this.

This is the device the shape-shifter used.

(TOOL WHIRRING)

(MAN PANTING)

You look like hell.

That was, uh...

That was sloppy.

You killed four men last night.

Including one of our own.

There's nothing to link him to us.

Maybe not. Now the FBI, they have him.

They understand what he is.

You've been in this body too long.

You're dying.

You need to get back home and
get fitted with a new conversion device.

I'd let you use mine...

- ...but what would be the point?
- Yeah.

It wouldn't do anything anyway.

(TOOL WHIRRING)

- You've asked for extraction?
- They say not until the mission is done.

They're real sweethearts.

Damn. That's the last one.

He's not here.

There's another facility in North Carolina.

I have another idea.

Olivia Dunham is starting to remember
her time on the other side.

I'm thinking she may know
where it's hidden.

- His head?
- Yeah.

What makes you think that?

If Bell knows that we're looking for it...

...it seemed like a likely reason why he'd
bring her over to the other side.

Well, if you're right...

...and you don't want that body
to be your last...

...then I suggest you do whatever
it takes to make her remember.

BROYLES:
Why?

OLIVIA:
Why...?

Why are shape-shifting soldiers from
another universe stealing frozen heads?

The most likely explanation
that we can think of...

...is they're looking for a specific head,
but they don't know where it is.

- Okay. Then who?
- We don't know. These facilities...

...pride themselves on secrecy.

Despite the thefts, none of them have
been willing to give up their client lists.

What about the other device?
The one we found a few weeks ago.

Any indication who these people are?

Unfortunately, the other device
was broken.

We asked Massive Dynamic,
but apparently they've been stumped.

Well, this one doesn't appear
to be damaged.

So maybe Peter can figure
something out.

I suppose he knows a guy?

He knew enough
to fake his way into MIT.

Well, let me know if you learn anything.

In the meantime, I'm considering
giving you a protective detail.

A protective detail? Why?

The last time Peter showed me
one of these devices...

...its owner had just tried to kill you.

I'm not worried.
Because that was six weeks ago.

So if a shape-shifting assassin
wanted me dead...

...then I would be.

WALTER:
Let's see how this thing operates.

What are you saying,
that this is not a person?

My dear, I'm not certain you're not
simply a figment of my imagination.

No, this is certainly not human.

Rather, a highly advanced technology.

A mechano/organic hybrid.

I suspect the producer
possibly ingests the mercury...

...and that it controls the tissue...

...instructing it
to take and maintain shapes.

- What?
- We have to call Agent Dunham.

- I need to talk to her right away.
- Okay.

PETER:
You know what this reminds me of?

You ever see that movie,
Invasion of the Body Snatchers?

Which version?
Don Siegel or Philip Kaufman?

(CHUCKLES)

The remake.

I remember when I saw that,
I was so scared I didn't sleep.

I was convinced I was gonna
be replaced by a pod person.

Is this your way of trying to ask me
if I'm scared?

Of course not.

I figured if you were scared
you'd tell me, right?

Besides, I figure between the two of us...

...you're the one that carries the gun.

(MACHINE BEEPS)

- What the hell?
- What is it?

I'm not sure.
I was just trying to turn it on.

Looks like this thing is streaming data.

And lots of it.

(PHONE RINGS)

WALTER:
I've got good news and bad news.

The bad news is that the shape-shifter's
blood is 47 percent mercury.

- Which means?
- I'm not sure.

But I went back and reexamined
the autopsy reports...

...for the first shape-shifter.

And?

And her blood sample
is perfectly normal.

Just traces of mercury.

Which would suggest that despite
what we thought back then...

- She wasn't a shape-shifter.
- I'm afraid so.

OLIVIA:
So the shape-shifter is still alive.

Which means by now
it could be disguised as anyone.

WALTER:
And you could still be in danger.

Would you like to hear
the good news now?

I think I may know how to find him.

WALTER:
Rebecca Kibner.

PETER: You showed us this.
The girl you experimented on.

WALTER:
Yes. To see things others could not.

Oh. He's a soldier.

(SIGHS)

From somewhere else. Ha, ha.

- There.
REBECCA: He's glowing, man.

If she was able to identify
the shape-shifter once...

...she may be able to do it again.

He's from a place that looks like this
but it's not here. He's...

(REBECCA SIGHS)

He's from another universe, man.

We may have some leads
on how to identify the shape-shifters.

Walter has an idea and I have
a thought about the device.

Can you check in with Broyles...

...see if there's something new
from the crime scenes?

Sure thing.

(SIGHS)

CLERK:
Starting your own pharmacy?

(GROANING)

(PANTING)

(BELL RINGS)

NINA:
You found another one?

OLIVIA: Peter says this device
is streaming loads of data.

He also believes it's possible
that these devices...

...store a pattern of their last victim.

Our scientists have the same theory.

In fact, they thought they
might be able to extract an image.

They also theorize each device
is tuned to a specific user.

Which suggests that since the
shape-changer that tried to kill you...

...no longer has his device,
he's trapped in his current body.

Our scientists have been working on
revealing that shape-shifter's identity.

What with all the damage to the unit...

Well, this one is intact.

Then let's take a look, shall we?

NINA:
So can you fix it?

You understand you're asking me
if I can repair a piece of technology...

...that is entirely unlike anything
that has ever existed here on Earth?

- Brandon...
- Now that I have one that works...

...I can do it in three hours. Tops.

- Good. Then get started right away.
- Yeah.

I'm gonna head to Boston.
Call me if it works.

Oh, I can do better than that.

I can set up a rendering program
and patch you in...

...in real time.

If you want,
you can see it all for yourself.

Computer, from your cell phone.
I can log you into our server.

NINA: Ahem.
- Public one. Public server, of course.

If it's okay with you.

PETER: Nice house.
WALTER: Yes. Lovely.

Rebecca always had fine taste.

Do you think she'll remember me?

(PETER CHUCKLES)

PETER: I think she might.
There's not too many men in her life...

...who strapped her down...

...and pumped her full of
a massive amount of psychedelics.

- Walter, you didn't...?
- What, son?

Uh, nothing.

(KNOCKS ON DOOR)

Peter, wait.

Could you do the talking? Please, son.

Sure.

PETER:
Ms. Kibner? Hi. I'm Peter Bishop.

Walter?

- Is it you?
- Hello, Rebecca.

Oh, my God.

Hello.

(REBECCA SIGHS)

- Hi.
REBECCA: Walter.

At first I assumed that it was all
just a figment of my imagination.

And the LSD, of course.

But after a while, it wasn't just during
the experiments.

I would see their faces in front of me.

They seemed to have, I don't know...

...a certain glow about them.

- The shape-shifters?
REBECCA: Mm-hm.

It took me a year or two
to really understand it.

But I realized...

...that I was recognizing people...

...that didn't belong.

You know, like that children's song.

"One Of These Things
Is Not Like The Other."

One of these things
is not like the other.

One of these things just doesn't belong.
Sesame Street.

- Yes, that's it.
WALTER: Our experiment.

Triggered an ability to see beyond
the limits of your vision.

(SIGHING)

You gave me a great gift, Walter.

You opened my mind for a time.

In fact, I even tried to look you up
about 10 years ago.

Tried to contact Harvard...

...but no one knew where you were
or how to reach you.

- I was...
- Traveling.

My father was traveling.

Ms. Kibner, you said "for a time." Does
that mean that the ability has faded?

Not entirely, no.
It comes and goes as it pleases.

I just have memories.

These people, the shape-shifters. We
believe some of them are amongst us now.

We were hoping that you might
be able to help us identify them.

I told you. It's mostly gone.

What if you could get it back?
Your ability?

You mean do the experiment again?

Which I must advise against.

Any time one exposes one's brain
to that amount of hallucinogens...

Yeah, sure.

I'll help you.

I seen all good people
Turn their heads each day

(SINGING) So satisfied
I'M on my way

Boom!

I seen all good people
Turn their heads each day

So satisfied
be just on my way

PETER:
Just a couple more.

REBECCA: Actually that one goes
more on my temple.

(PETER SCOFFS)

You're an old pro at this, huh?

Drug-infused mystical awakenings
guided by your father...

...aren't exactly something
you can forget.

OLIVIA:
Hi.

I'm Agent Olivia Dunham.

Rebecca.

- Thank you so much for doing this.
REBECCA: Sure.

Walter, you said you wanted to start
her with salvia. We don't have salvia.

WALTER: Huh?
- You used to. Um...

In that cabinet on the second shelf
over on the right.

ASTRID:
Got it.

I don't suppose you recall
where I left my slippers?

Excuse me.

Astrid, could you do me a favor? Do you
think you could log on to this site?

Massive Dynamic.
This looks like their secure FTP.

OLIVIA:
Mm-hm.

Sure thing.

(SIGHS)

This is the first of the psychedelics.

Ready to begin?

(SIGHS)

I think I've been ready
for the past 10 years.

(SIGHS)

PETER:
Okay.

It's working. The tech must be
rebuilding the image from the device.

It looks like
a department store mannequin.

OLIVIA: Okay, now let's just load it up
on my phone.

When Belly and I first did this,
we prepped her for 36 hours.

I am thinking...

...with this type of spatial disorientation
we can reduce it to a few minutes.

Isn't that dangerous?

More than injecting her
with substantial amounts...

...of untested homemade
psychoactive drugs?

Astrid, get me three syringes
of phenothiazine.

It's on the top shelf,
under "A" for Antipsychotics.

And two vials of Valium, just to be safe.

PETER: Ready?
WALTER: Yes, son.

Tell me if this starts
to get uncomfortable.

Thank you. I met you once before.

You were just a baby,
but I could've sworn I saw...

Oh...

(SINGSONG)
Oh, here we go.

I think we're ready, Walter.

Rebecca?

- Focus on my voice.
- (IN NORMAL VOICE) What?

Concentrate on the people
who don't belong.

You mean the ones that change
their appearance?

Yes. There's no need to be afraid.

- You can see them.
ASTRID: Hey, Peter.

WALTER:
They can't see you.

(REBECCA SOBBING AND PANTING)

Listen to my voice.

I'm going to take you over the threshold.

We're walking through Johnson's Gate
at Harvard Yard.

Can you see it?
It's autumn and it's late.

The leaves crunch under our feet,
past the statue of John Harvard.

Now we're passing University Hall.
Memorial Church is up ahead.

Ring.

PETER:
Walter. Hey, Walter.

- Olivia? Olivia? Can you hear me?
ASTRID: Olivia?

(BELL RINGS)

MAN:
Olivia.

After all these years.

It is so nice to finally see you again.

You'll have to forgive me. The method
by which I brought you over here...

...was crude, and I'm sorry for that.

But there were people who were
trying to prevent our meeting.

This is not at all the kind of reunion
I'd always envisioned.

The reunion that you had envisioned?

Dr. Bell, I've been trying
to meet with you for over a year.

Please, call me William.

Or "Willam,"
if that feels warmer to you.

"Willam." That's what you always
called me when you were a girl.

How do you like your tea?

I don't want any tea. I want answers.

(CHUCKLES)

You're still a little disoriented
from the time slips, aren't you?

Happened to me when I first came here.

You're out of sync with this side.

You're lucky.

Most people who cross dimensions
without your natural talent...

...are simply torn apart.

Well, "lucky" isn't the word
that I would choose.

(ECHOING) Well, "lucky" isn't the word
that I would choose.

(BELL BREATHING DEEPLY)

I don't know how much
Walter has told you by now.

I don't know how much he remembers.

He told me what you two did to me
when I was just a girl.

How you conducted drug trials
on young children.

We weren't trying to hurt you, Olivia.

We weren't trying to hurt anybody.

Hey, guess what.

You did.

I've met some of the others.

To say that they
are permanently damaged...

...would be an understatement.

Yes.

In any search for knowledge...

...there are always
unintended consequences.

Victims, you might say.

But not you.
I can see that just by looking at you.

In fact,
you're just coming into your abilities.

(ECHOING)
You're just coming into your abilities.

I've seen history repeat itself
enough times to know a war is coming.

Just as we predicted, Walter and I,
years ago.

And we knew
that we had to prepare a guardian.

Someone to watch the gate.

The gate?

Between this side and yours.

I would like to say "ours"
because that's where I came from...

...but I'm afraid
I would sound disingenuous.

Go on.

For reasons that will become clear
in time, I cannot go back yet.

Maybe not ever. But now we know
how difficult it is to cross over.

I can count on my hand the number
of people who have done it safely.

But on this side,
they've become more insidious.

They have designed hybrids,
part organic tissue, part machine...

...that can do things that humans can't.

They can change shapes,
taking the form of human beings.

Over here, they call them the first wave.

So you're saying that these hybrids
are already on our side?

- I know it's difficult to grasp.
- Oh, I can grasp it just fine.

I don't trust you, Dr. Bell.

Or "William," or "Willam"...

...or whatever cutesy name you think
might appeal to my childhood instincts.

It won't.

Your company has been involved in,
if not directly responsible...

...for some of the most horrific things
that I have ever seen...

...to say nothing of the fact that you
just yanked me into a parallel universe...

...to warn me about
an inter-dimensional war...

...that I believe you are responsible
for starting.

So, what I want is not warmth or tea.

It's the truth.

The truth will come out. It always does.

Livvy, you don't have to trust me,
you don't even have to like me...

...but you can't deny
I have a unique perspective...

...shaped by having lived in two worlds.

I know the difference
a wrong choice can make.

Or a right one.

For example,
this building is still standing...

...because different choices were made.

So, Livvy,
if you can look past your anger...

...you may find that I'm more
of an ally than you think.

(ECHOING)
More of an ally than you think.

A storm is coming,
perhaps the last and worst storm of all.

And when it is over, I fear
there will be little left of our world.

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

Someone to open the door
between universes.

And if they find him,
there will be no stopping them.

And that is why you must find him first.

Me?

You are the one, Olivia.

Of all the children
that Walter and I prepared...

...you were the strongest.

You were always the strongest.

Remember this symbol.
It's hidden on their leader.

That's how you'll know him.

Show this to Nina Sharp.
She can help you.

We're out of time.

- Olivia.
PETER: Livvy.

Olivia.

PETER:
Olivia. Olivia. Olivia. Can you hear me?

Astrid. Nitroglycerin, 30 cc's.
Peter, tilt her head to the side.

- Make sure she can breathe.
PETER: What's happening?

WALTER: She's receiving a flood of
memories. It could be too much too fast.

You should stand.
I think it'll be less painful that way.

What will?

BELL:
And remember this:

(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)

Tell that to Peter.
You're gonna need him by your side.

Tell it to him.
He'll know what it means.

(ECHOING)
Tell that to Peter.

WALTER:
We're going to have to shock her heart.

There's a vial of adrenaline on the shelf.

BELL: And there's no avoiding
what has to happen next.

I pulled you out of a moving car.

Momentum can be deferred,
but it must always be paid back in full.

Okay. lnto her heart. Between the ribs.
Count to three. One. Two.

BELL:
Well, I always said to Walter:

"Physics is a bitch."

- Three.
- Sorry, Olivia.

(OLIVIA GASPS)

(GROANS THEN PANTING)

I need to speak to Nina Sharp.

NINA (OVER PHONE): Nina Sharp.
- Nina, we need to talk.

- Olivia?
- Look, I'm on my way there now.

- I'm just about to leave for Hong Kong.
- I have a message from William Bell.

Cancel the plane.

I wish I could've been
more of a help to you.

You did great.
You sure you're all right to drive?

Oh, she's fine.
The injections I gave her...

...would've counteracted
any hallucinogenics in the system.

- Peter.
PETER: Yeah?

I think I'd like to drive home with her.

You just said that all the drugs
were out of her system.

How are you gonna get
back home, Walter?

The bus.

(SIGHS)

Okay.

Peter, I need some money.

- He said okay.
- Terrific.

- It was a pleasure meeting you.
- You too, Peter.

And say goodbye to Agent Dunham
for me, will you?

- What?
- Nothing. I...

I'm sorry. Probably just the drugs. Ha, ha.

(ENGINE STARTS)

ASTRID: Hey.
CHARLIE: Where is everyone?

Peter and Dr. Bishop are out...

...and Olivia went to New York
to see Nina Sharp.

- But I can call her if you want me to.
- No, it's okay.

Talk to her when she gets back.

(COMPUTER BLEEPING)

What is this?

ASTRID:
Oh, that's Massive Dynamic.

They're rebuilding the image
from the broken device.

- Dr. Bell showed you this?
OLIVIA: Yeah.

Have you ever seen that before?
That symbol?

No.

Well, that's what he told me.
He said it would be hidden...

...somewhere on their leader's body.

Well, then I suspect
it would be on his head...

...assuming that's what
the cryogenic hijackings are about.

And that's all Dr. Bell told you?

He said that the man with that mark...

...would try to open a door
between our two worlds.

That a storm was coming,
and that the only way to stop it...

...would be for me to find him
before the shape-shifters did.

A storm?

Yeah.

What?

It was a phrase he used.

When Dr. Bell realized the existence
of the other side...

...the thing he dreaded most
was the inevitable collision...

...if our two universes
ever came together.

Collision?

NINA:
The Pauli exclusion principle...

...means that no two objects can occupy
the same space at the same time.

Dr. Bell was afraid...

...that if the doorway between
the two sides was ever opened...

...that the unavoidable conclusion:

Only one world would remain.

It's what he called the last great storm.

BELL (ECHOING):
Laston-Hennings Cryonics.

(PHONE RINGS)

I'm sorry, I have to go.

NINA:
Olivia.

Whatever Massive Dynamic can do
to help find this man...

...we are at your service.

(THUNDER RUMBLING)

OLIVIA: How'd you know?
CHARLIE: Listen to me carefully.

Car's around the corner.
We got a SWAT team inbound.

As soon as I verify
you're out of this building...

...they're gonna shred this place.
Let's move.

Oh, God, Charlie,
I almost told her everything.

- I gotta call Broyles.
- What do you mean, "almost"?

I just realized where it is,
the head they're looking for.

Bell told me.
It's at Laston-Hennings Cryonics.

(GRUNTING AND PANTING)

(CHARLIE GRUNTING)

(COUGHS)

It's me. Laston-Hennings Cryonics.

MAN:
What are you doing?

(SIGHS THEN PANTING)

Won't you come in?

I don't think I should.

The bus leaves every half-hour, and...

Oh. I only have 14 minutes
to walk to the stop.

(SIGHS)

Some day, huh?

(CHUCKLES)

Not at all what I expected
when I woke up this morning.

That's the way of things.

The best of days and the worst of days
rarely are.

Rebecca, what I did to you, it was wrong.

- Walter.
- No, no. You were young...

...and I took advantage, and...

I've wanted to do that for so long.

Oh, Walter, what you did, you made me...

...special.

The truth is...

...I believe you were always special.

I must go.

Under 12 minutes.

BROYLES:
You had no choice.

If you didn't kill him,
he would've killed you.

(BOTH SIGH)

It's not your fault.

Whatever that thing was,
it wasn't Charlie.

They killed him for what?

To open a door to the other side?

And who are these people?
And what do they want?

What did we do to them?

Laston-Hennings Cryonics...

...was hit 15 minutes
before our protective detail arrived.

They took everything.
All the cryo-capsules are gone.

So they found
who they were looking for?

I assume so.

William Bell pulled me to
another universe to give me a warning.

That's how important this is.

- And I failed.
- Olivia.

We'll find them.

(ELECTRIC RAZOR WHIRRING)