Fringe (2008–2013): Season 3, Episode 13 - Immortality - full transcript

I'm going for a week,
not until the end of time.

NARRATOR:
Previously on Fringe:

Our Agent Dunham,
has she made contact?

WALTER: She's on the Other Side,
focused on the task at hand.

PETER: Since you got back from the
Other Side, you're a different person.

How'd you do it?
How'd you replace our Olivia?

Whatever happens to me, know
this started out as an assignment...

...but it became...
PETER: More.

That would be so much easier to believe
if you weren't in handcuffs right now.

ASTRID: Colonel Broyles
is late to work this morning.

His wife said he did not
come home last night...



...and that is very unlike him.

WOMAN (OVER PA):
Paging Ms. Lemon.

Your party is waiting for you
at Terminal 7, Gate 3.

- Final boarding for Robin Air, Flight 83.
MAN: Guess who.

(OLIVIA CHUCKLES)

Uh, ahem, well, the voice isn't familiar...

...but the hands I like.

They're kind of rugged and sexy.

Oh. No, sorry. I don't recognize you.

Oh. It's my fault.
I thought you were someone else.

Oh. You should leave. I'm waiting for my
boyfriend, who I haven't seen in months.

And he's really big and strong,
so yeah.

Well, actually,
now that I think about it...

...there is something in your face
that's kind of ringing a bell.



Really? Yeah, maybe...
Maybe it's my, um, lips.

OLIVIA:
Hm.

FRANK:
Mm?

Come here.

- It's so good to be home.
- Are you hungry?

WOMAN 1 (OVER PA): ... Midwest,
the following flights have been cancelled.

That includes Flight 7
bound for Chicago.

Gotham Air 3 bound for St. Louis.

WOMAN 2: Hey.
MAN: Hi, how are you?

Everybody talks about the weather,
nobody does anything about it.

I'm quoting Samuel Clemens.

Are you stranded too?

In a way, yeah. I'm, uh, waiting
on someone who got delayed.

Could you pass me the salt, please?

Sure.

SILVA:
Thank you.

- How was the shower?
FRANK: It was hot.

Thought there wasn't
a hot shower in Texas.

- Welcome back to civilization.
- Well, to what do I owe the honor?

You're a national hero. I figured
you deserve the good stuff. Cheers.

Cheers.

Mm.

It's good.

(OLIVIA CLEARS THROAT)

Liv.

- Everything all right?
- What do you mean?

I don't know.

It's just, uh, you didn't say a word to me
on the drive back from the airport.

And when I'd call from Texas,
you seemed a bit distant.

(RANDY COLEMAN'S "I WANT YOU TO
WANT ME" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS)

- Well, we were distant.
- Yeah, I know.

Just you almost
didn't seem like yourself.

I want you to want me

Oh.

You know,
work's just been kind of crazy.

Look, I know when I'm away,
we can be a bit off.

I just wanna make sure
it's not something more.

No.

Everything's a little overwhelming
since Broyles went missing.

FRANK:
Do you have any leads?

No. They, uh, found his car
at the edge of a no-go zone...

...but nobody knows why
it was in there.

- Hm, something classified?
- Possibly, yeah.

Uh, Lincoln's taken over in his absence.

Keeps pressing the channels,
but we're not getting answers.

They've stopped the search.

I'm sorry I couldn't be here for you.

- I know how you feel about him.
- Well, you're here now.

- And I'm glad about that.
- Me too.

(OLIVIA CHUCKLES)

(OLIVIA LAUGHS)

Didn't I see you cryin'?

(PANTING)

(HARRY VOMITS)

(HARRY RETCHING)

Ugh, help.

Please help.

(HARRY COUGHS)

(LATCH CLICKS)

(HARRY RETCHING)

(THUD)

Fringe
s3e13 Immortality

Do you have any idea how much
I missed watching you get dressed?

(OLIVIA CHUCKLES)

What time is it?

Uh, it's about 8.
I thought you might like to sleep in.

Yeah, thank you.

Hey, uh...

...you wanna get away
this weekend?

Uh, sure. Where?

I don't know, how about we hop on
an airship to Annapolis like we used to?

- Annapolis?
- Yeah.

Could go to the crab shack
on the wharf.

- Or...
- Obrecky's?

- Ha-ha-ha.
- Remember how great their jukebox was?

I would love that.

(HEADSET RINGING)

Dunham.

Okay. I'm on my way.

Bye.

(OLIVIA CHUCKLES)

Hey. I heard they're rerouting
all flights from Newark. Bomb scare?

Nope. Spontaneous bug eruption.

A guy named Harry Millman,
42 years old.

- Mm-hm.
- They found him in the bathroom.

Bugs had eaten their way
from the inside out.

Oh, fabulous.

Gosh, I was just here last night
picking up Frank.

- So bugs?
- Yup.

Ugh. You know how I feel about bugs.

Not Charlie. Charlie loves bugs.

Look lively, people.

New boss is here.

LINCOLN: How is it that when you say
"boss," it sounds like insubordination?

It's my tone. Maybe that's why
I didn't get the promotion.

Yeah, maybe.
Or else I'm better than you.

- Huh.
- Oh, yeah?

- Okay, they're pretty, but what are they?
- No idea.

We've been through three different
insect databases, still can't find a match.

What happened
to the other passengers?

We contacted about half of them.

CHARLIE: Apparently the bugs
don't live outside the body too long.

Somebody had been infected,
we'd have heard by now.

Maybe, maybe not.

Maybe some kind of mutant insect
bit him and laid eggs under his skin.

That's comforting.

Looks like we got a live one.

Gotcha.

I'm sorry to keep you waiting,
Mr. Secretary.

I see the piece that Agent Dunham
obtained was finally sent over.

Yes, and it seems to be functional.

We'll integrate it with the machine
by week's end.

Good.

That's actually not
why I asked you here.

The experiments with the chemical
we synthesized...

...from the other Olivia's brain.

It appears
there's been a breakthrough.

This subject was given
his second dose of the day.

Forty-three minutes later,
this happened.

- He crossed over?
- No.

WOMAN (ON MONITOR):
Danny? How are you doing this?

DANNY (ON MONITOR):
I... I don't... Don't know.

I'M just... Just thinking it...

...and it's happening.

(DANNY SCREAMS)

WOMAN:
Oh, my God, Danny.

(DANNY GRUNTING)

Call Dr. Jackson.

(DANNY SCREAMING)

Nine test subjects get an injection
and die within 30 minutes.

This one develops
a telekinetic ability.

What's the difference?

We'll know more after we dissect
his brain, but I have a theory.

Age.

This subject was the youngest
of the group.

Which would make sense
given your notion...

...that the human brain
is infinitely capable at birth.

We simply need younger subjects.

- I think that children...
- No.

- Sir, we may be close.
- No children.

That is not an option.

Have to try something else.

Drop your file request on the table.
I'm a little busy right now.

Ahem. Fringe Division.
I'm Agent Olivia Dunham and this is...

Agent Charlie Foster. Francis.

I'm Foster. Mona Foster.

We, uh... We met before?

I treated you for your
arachnid infestation.

I'm not surprised you don't remember
me. You were in a lot of pain.

So how are the spiders?

Uh, they're good.
Sometimes they just itch a little bit.

Maybe you just need someone
to scratch it.

CHARLIE:
Hmm.

So, ahem,
what brings Fringe here today?

MONA:
It's order Coleoptera for sure.

Archostemata maybe, but species?

No clue.

- Where did you find this?
- Uh, the Empire Docking Station.

Kind of an unusual habitat for beetles.

They ate their way out of a person.

Interesting.

Yeah.

Wait here a minute.

- Don't even start with me. Don't...
- Oh.

Bug girl's got a crush on Charlie.

Bug girl has a crush on the fact
that I got spiders in my blood, kiddo.

Everybody's looking for someone who's
gonna like them for who they are inside.

- Are you kidding me right now?
- Ha-ha-ha.

Skelter beetle.
Mansohnium Boogliosus.

Which answers one question,
but raises a whole bunch of others.

CHARLIE:
Hmm.

- Such as?
- Such as how is this here?

Skelter beetles are parasitic.
They lived exclusively in sheep.

Sheep.

And given that all the sheep
died out 10 years ago...

The bugs died with them.

What was it doing inside of a person?

SILVA: Specimen Number 7
was harvested 12 hours ago...

...after a 20-minute gestation period.

I have extracted the epigastric tissue
from the beetle's abdomen.

And...

And placed it into the substrate.

I am now adding...

...10 milliliters
of the protein complex...

...to catalyze a reaction.

If the enzyme is present...

...the indicator will turn pink.

(SIGHS)

Come on.

(GLASS SHATTERS)

Get local PD to check the house
if she's not answering her phone.

SOLDIER: Passenger 23 is clear.
- Passenger 9 is clear.

We've fully accounted for
zeppelin crew and ground personnel.

FRANK: The food for the airship,
it's supplied by an LFC Food Services.

- It checks out clean so far.
ASTRID: Wasting your time.

We're not dealing with an outbreak.

We've cleared 62.237 percent of
people who could have been exposed.

That's enough to make
a statistical inference.

This is not an epidemic.

Where do I get one of you?

OLIVIA: I bet she drives a Beetle.
- You're not funny.

(OLIVIA LAUGHS)

If you go on a date with her
and you're late...

...then at least you know
she won't bug out.

Wow, you're original.

- Hey. What you doing here?
- Hey.

Uh, Lincoln requested a CDC liaison,
said I could help.

Hey, Frank. How was cow country?

Let's just say I'm happy to be back.

- You find anything?
- Yeah.

Mansohnium Boogliosus.

Skelter beetle.

They died out with the sheep in '01.

Huh. Never heard of them.
Let me look at that.

I guess for you two, this is romantic?

Brings back memories, huh?

- Hoboken?
- Uh-huh.

Nothing like a little cholera outbreak
to bring two people together.

(LAUGHS)

- I can only imagine what you see in him.
- Oh, he's kind of perfect, isn't he?

No, I am perfect,
but he's a close second.

- Right.
- Right.

Still nothing on how
our victim got infected?

No. If you learn anything,
you let me know.

- Mm-hm.
- I'll be in Broyles' off...

I'll be in my office.

See, what's odd is with the sheep,
they have a symbiotic relationship.

Now they attack their host,
eat their way out.

They look the same,
but they're not the same.

Yeah. Yeah, to put it simply.

The question is why? What changed?

ASTRID:
Why don't you just ask?

- What's that?
- When you don't know the answer...

...you ask someone who does.

Put out a Fringe alert to the public.

Odds are that someone will recognize
this beetle and call in a tip.

In fact, statistics suggest
you will get at least two calls.

I don't know what they pay you here,
but I definitely need you in my life.

Uh, do you mind?

WAITRESS:
Hi. What can I get you?

Uh, cup of Earl Grey
and a piece of, um, cherry pie.

WAITRESS:
Okay.

That looks complicated.

What is it?

Uh, I'm a scientist.
This is my, uh, research.

But, uh,
you probably wouldn't understand.

Well, try me.

Do you know the name Jonas Salk?

Sure, who doesn't? He cured polio.

Have you heard of Watson and Crick?

Uh, they're those DNA guys, right?

That's right, yeah.

How about, uh, Dr. Armand Silva?

Armand Silva.

- No, I don't know that one.
- Hmm.

You will.

(ALARM BEEPING ON TV)

MAN (ON TV): Attention, citizens,
this is a Fringe alert.

If you have seen,
or have information...

...regarding this bug,
known as a skelter beetle...

...please call 711
and speak to Fringe Division.

WAITRESS:
Have you decided?

- Yeah.
WAITRESS: Yeah.

I'll have what he's having.

Hey.

You got a minute?

- Can I ask a favor?
- Of course. What's up?

If the case wraps up this weekend,
could Olivia have a few days?

Why? You two got, uh,
big plans or something?

Yeah. Yeah, you could say that.

Sure.

Can you, uh, keep a secret?

Are you kidding me?

Heh. I have my own, like, Cone of Silence
when it comes to secrets.

What is it?

Ma'am, nobody's gonna
eat your dog, all right?

- Bugs do not have control of your wife.
- These people are freaks.

What's going on in this city?

I'm gonna get a sandwich.

No, sir, I promise,
that is not the way they work.

Yes, you can feel free to call us
if something changes. Okay, thank you.

How's it going?

(CHUCKLES)

Um, well, we have had 200 phone calls.

OLIVIA:
Nut-jobs and scared old ladies.

Frank's gonna ask you to marry him.

I'm serious.

This weekend. He just told me.

I promised I'd keep it a secret.
But you know me, I can't keep a secret.

Hey, I think I got
a legitimate call here.

- Something up?
- No.

Oh, no.

Okay, guy used to work at
a biology annex.

Guy next door to him used to be
an expert on skelter beetles.

Go... Go check it out.

Great.

LINCOLN:
So...

...what are you gonna say?
To Frank?

What? I can keep a secret.

DOLAN: Yeah, that's it.
God, I wish I could forget these things.

His name was Armand Silva.
He was in Virology down the hall.

Those things were always getting out.

I'm a scientist, but I hate bugs.

- Do you know what he was doing?
- We worked our own projects.

I was harvesting sheep hearts
for valve replacement surgeries.

So how are they back, the bugs?

That's what we're trying to figure out.
You know where we can find Dr. Silva?

No. A few years ago,
I heard he tried to kill himself.

I didn't really know him
that well, but, uh,

it's like those bugs
were his whole life.

When the sheep died out,
he was a mess.

But he's definitely
the guy you wanna talk to.

If anyone'll know how those bugs
have come back, it'll be him.

(ENGINE RUNNING)

OLIVIA:
Jerry Bissell, aged 42.

Uh, worked as a data systems repairman.

It says that he ate at the Avenue Road
Diner about three hours ago.

CHARLIE: I know that place.
It's around the corner.

No luck on Dr. Silva. His last
known address was outside Boston.

Nothing in the system on him
since the city was ambered.

- No record of his death either?
- No.

So that means
he's still out there somewhere.

CHARLIE:
Hey, look at this.

Right there.

These are so much different.

They're so much bigger.

I'm gonna take it to Forensics,
see what they come up with.

Send someone to the diner as well.
Maybe somebody saw something.

Oh, great.
Now I got, like, two bosses?

(CHUCKLES)

What's wrong?

I keep feeling like
I'm missing something.

- Broyles would see something I'm not.
- Lincoln, you're doing fine.

Don't worry.
We'll catch this guy together.

WOMAN: Do you want me to give you
some time alone?

No. Please don't.

What is it?

- You're lovely, you know that?
- You're sweet.

And you're also avoiding
answering my question.

(WALTER SIGHS)

It's...

It's many things.

If you had asked me a week ago...

...I would have told you
that I would sacrifice anything...

...to save our world.

And in fact, there are lines
I simply cannot cross.

(SIGHS)

Does that make me weak?

No.

It's what makes you the most
brilliant man I've ever known.

And the fact you beat yourself up
over these decisions...

...now that's what makes me
sure of your strength.

(WALTER CHUCKLES)

I wish I had the same faith.

(WALTER SIGHS)

I'm afraid I failed, Reiko.

Peter was here.

He was here of his own choosing,
as he needs to be...

...and I lost him.

I underestimated his attachments
over there.

I hadn't factored in the girl.

But now you know about the girl.

And you know Peter better.
You'll get him back.

(CHUCKLES)

How could you be so sure?

Do you trust me?

More than anyone.

Well, then,
trust my perspective on this.

I know you, Walter.

I have seen your determination,
your will.

I don't have a single doubt in my mind
you'll find an answer.

You always do.

(SPOON TAPPING)

(GLASS CLINKING)

- Hi.
FRANK: You're home.

Hey. Mm.

So I called Atlanta.

I found out some information
on Dr. Silva.

CDC had a grant he applied for on file.

Back in '97, claims he was close
to a vaccine for the avian flu.

- If that's true...
- I know, it would've saved millions.

Thing is, his research,
it reads a little off-the-wall.

Here, take a look at this.

The vaccine was based on an enzyme
that the skelter beetle produced.

And that got me thinking.

He's trying to bring the skelter beetle
back from extinction?

- Is that even possible?
- Possible, yeah.

Certainly not easy.

He'd have to clone DNA
from a preserved specimen.

The problem would be
that the eggs never hatch.

- They only live in sheep.
- He'd have to modify them...

- ...to live in a different host.
- Like people.

Sheep and humans share 96 percent
of the same DNA.

That could account for why
the bugs are killing their hosts.

But I just called the lab.

Bugs they got from the victim weren't
mature enough to create the enzyme.

But the bugs got bigger
with the second victim.

- They did?
- Yeah.

Maybe he is modifying his work.

Okay, so say you're right.
What would he need?

- Like, equipment?
- Yeah. Call Lincoln.

OLIVIA (OVER PHONE): Retro-viral samples.
- Retro-viral samples...

OLIVIA: Plasmid array, liquid spectrometer.
- Slow down.

An electron microscope
and also liquid nitrogen.

You got all that? All right, I'm leaving.
I should be there in 20 minutes.

Uh, Lincoln said that if he were here,
he'd kiss you.

- I'm glad he's not here.
- You'll keep the lasagna wa...?

- Of course, of course. Keys?
- Keys, yes, thank you.

- And my ID.
- And you forgot this.

Oh.

I was gonna wait till this weekend.

Uh, I know we have a lot to figure out.

There's your job and there's my job,
and there's my mother.

Look, being away from you
made me realize...

...how much I can't stand
being away from you.

(SIGHS)

Olivia Dunham.

Will you marry me?

Yes.

(OLIVIA CHUCKLES)

(HEADSET RINGING)

Seriously?

(HEADSET BEEPS)

Hello.

LINCOLN (OVER HEADSET):
Hey. Where are you?

OLIVIA: It's Lincoln. I'm
leaving the house. What's up?

LINCOLN:
Don't come down here. We got a hit.

Six months ago,
Silva purchased a plasmid array.

He had it shipped to
a warehouse in Brooklyn.

I'm sending you the address now.

Silva's unit is Number 21.

I already walked the perimeter.
No sign of any other cars.

What?

I said yes.

- Frank asked me and I said yes.
- And?

You happy?

Yeah. I am.

Good.

Then I am too.

Watch your step.

(OLIVIA CHUCKLES)

OLIVIA:
Thank you.

(CLATTERING)

I think someone's here.

Hey!

Hey!

Olivia!

Unh! Olivia!

Damn it.

(PANTING)

WOMAN'S VOICE (OVER HEADSET):
No signal. Please try again.

(CREAKING)

(SHRIEKS)

(COUGHING)

Where's Lincoln?

(SCOFFS)

(LINCOLN PANTING)

(GRUNTING)

Come on. There's gotta be something.

There's gotta be...

(GRUNTS)

Yeah. Yes.

(GRUNTING)

There are more agents
on their way here now.

I think we both know that's not true.

Come on, do yourself a favor
and just let me go.

They'll thank me.

The whole world will thank me.

Thank you for what? Your vaccine?

Is that what you're talking about?
Your vaccine?

For someone who wants
to save lives...

...you sure don't have much
of a problem killing people.

How many did Salk sacrifice
trying to get his answers?

Pasteur, in the name of science?

When the sheep died out,
I tried cows, goats, primates.

None of them could host the beetles.

Humans were my only option.

What about stopping the research?
That wasn't an option?

No.

Because I was too close.

And now...

Now my work is nearly complete.

Did you ever ask yourself
what you're leaving behind?

I have an ability.

I was on a path.

I had a calling
and the world changed on me.

It simply changed
and robbed me of my legacy.

This world...

...this decaying madness...

...it robbed me.

Come on.

(GRUNTING)

This is Agent Lee.

I need a tactical unit immediately
at my location.

SILVA: See, the second batch of specimen
were almost mature enough, but not quite.

And then, I realized...

...a queen can hatch her own eggs.

She can create a legion,
enough for my vaccine.

One more human host...

...to bring the queen beetle to term.

But it's over now...

...because we know who you are.

You don't understand.

The gestation has already begun.

What did you give me?

What the hell did you give me?

(RETCHING)

LINCOLN:
Don't move.

Lincoln. Lincoln, don't shoot him.

- That's up to him.
OLIVIA: No. We need his help.

I've been infected.

LINCOLN: Don't worry, Liv.
I'm gonna take care of you.

(HANDCUFFS CLICKING)

CHARLIE:
Down! Now!

AGENT:
Down. Put them together!

OLIVIA: Frank. Oh, Frank.
LINCOLN: He dosed her.

- Frank, he made me drink the water.
- Bag that glass.

What do we do?
To stop the infestation.

- What do we do to stop it?
LINCOLN: Get her to the hospital.

Get her to the hospital.
You're running out of time. Go.

She's been infected
with a deadly parasite.

Next 10 minutes are critical.
There's a vial of metrifonate.

It's an antiparasitic. Liv, I'm gonna
do everything I can. Just hold on.

Everybody out. Now!

Tell me how to save her.

(SILVA GROANS)

You have one more chance.

Tell me!

If you want your friend to live...

...put down the gun
and do exactly as I say.

(LINCOLN GRUNTS)

What do you want?

Bring me those panels over there.

I'll tell you how to save your friend.

EMT:
BP's 140 over 90. Heart rate's elevated.

That could just be the adrenalin.

Okay. Oh, Frank, my stomach.

FRANK: The antiparasitic
I'm gonna give you is powerful.

Kill the bugs before they hatch.

Why do I sense that
there's a "but" coming?

Because it's a lot for
your system to take.

Uh-huh.

So, what do we do?

I don't think we have a choice.

(GRUNTS)

Hand me the wand.

(OLIVIA GRUNTING)

FRANK: Can you zoom in?
- What do you see, Frank?

- I see movement.
OLIVIA: Wha...?

- What am I putting together here?
- You'll work faster if you don't talk.

LINCOLN:
I gave you what you wanted.

Now you tell me how to save her.

She doesn't need saving.

- I didn't infect her.
LINCOLN: Uh-uh.

- She was sick.
- Not because of me.

She's not the final host.

(SILVA GRUNTING)

EMT:
Syringe is ready.

- Look at me. It's gonna be okay.
- Okay.

- Stop.
FRANK: What?

EMT:
Take a look at this.

- What is it, what is it?
FRANK: Are you sure?

EMT: Look at the beta hCG levels
in her blood.

- The picture on the sonogram.
- Uh-huh.

You're not infected.

You're pregnant.

(GASPS)

I've done it.

(SILVA GRUNTS)

The queen is ready.

(GROANING)

SILVA:
Come here.

(SILVA GRUNTS)

Make sure they...

(GRUNTS)

...spell my name right.

- Can I come in?
- Of course.

What'd the doctor say?

That the baby's healthy.

And that the, uh, fall and the adrenalin...

...triggered some kind of
morning sickness.

How far along are you?

- Frank.
- Liv.

How long you been pregnant?

Six weeks.

Are you in love with him?

The father?

That's all I needed to know.

- Frank.
- You were gonna marry me.

(HEADSET RINGING)

Hello?

BRANDON (OVER HEADSET):
Mr. Secretary. There's been a development.

I think I might have another way to bring
Peter back from the other universe.

(KNOCKING ON DOOR)

- Sir.
WALTER: Forgive my intrusion.

I hope this isn't a bad time.

Please, come in.

I heard the news
about your pregnancy.

Don't worry.

Your position with Fringe Division
will remain intact.

You'll have whatever resources
you need.

After all...

...you are the mother
of my future grandchild.