Fringe (2008–2013): Season 5, Episode 10 - Anomaly XB-6783746 - full transcript

I never thought I would see you again.

I wanted to reach out so much, but I was
afraid that I'd jeopardize your safety.

We need your help, Nina.

- Give Dr. Bishop anything he wants.
- Oh, it would be an honor.

Who is that?
- It was a case that we worked on.

He started to exhibit empathic abilities.

Why would I need an empath?

We used this place to hide him
until someone could return for him.

There it is.

He's not here.

I think whoever took the boy
left this behind.



It's picking up a signal.
- It's where the signal originates.

What do you want?

He definitely doesn't have the tech.

Maybe it was removed.
- No, there's no scar tissue.

Here. Try this.

Go on. It's good.

Michael, you used to write things
down for me.

You helped us catch a bad man.
Do you remember that?

Michael, you're very special and there's
a lot that we would like to learn about you.

My father was working on a plan
with a man named Donald.

You were a very important part
of that plan. Do you remember that?

You do and you know me.

We should go into his mind like we did
with September.

September was in a coma.



- Put him in one too.
- We're not putting him in a coma.

Then we put an electromagnetic probe
into the base of his skull...

...and ply him full of
serotonin, neurontin and LSD.

Walter, he is just a child.
- He is not just a child!

He is more than a child.
He is an integral part of my plan.

He must know that.
He's not saying anything for some reason.

You said yourself, he wrote things before.
Why is he not doing that now?

Who is Donald? Where is he? Is he alive?
I must find him. Tell me.

- Hey, Walter, calm down.
- How can I calm down?

We're running out of time. Don't you
understand we've got a world to save?

Acid, get back to cutting out those tapes.
We won't get any answers out of him.

Peter, it doesn't make any sense.

He's an empath. We used to have a
connection. He used to feel what I wanted...

...and then he'd communicate it to me.

Now it just seems like he can't.

This is Nina Sharp.

Nina, it's Olivia.

- Is everything all right?
- Nina, we need your help with something.

What, a--?

It's not safe to talk here.
Let me call you in 10 minutes.

Can I help you?

You are a Loyalist.

Then you know how important it is
that you answer my questions.

Where is your superior?

I'm not sure.

She got a call a little while ago and then
told me she was taking an early lunch.

- Who was the call from?
- It came in on her private comm.

- When did this occur?
- About 20 minutes ago.

Bring an LQ7 unit.
We don't have much time.

When is she expected to return?

She's always back by 1:00.

Fugitives we are seeking
recently used a sublimation device...

...to access an abandoned storage facility.

We have traced the device
to the Ministry of Science.

Someone here has supplied them with it.
I suspect from this office.

It is not you I am concerned with.

This is Nina Sharp.

Is everything all right?

We've never seen one before.

A child Observer?

A child Observer?
We've never seen one before.

It's not safe for me to talk here.
Let me call you in 10 minutes.

Nina, thank you so much for doing this.
I know the risk you're taking.

No, nonsense. I'm nothing
if I can't be a resource for you.

Now, where is he?

Hello.

My name is Nina.

What are we doing here?

I'm cold.

I have access to tech that will be helpful
for you to communicate with him.

It's in a lab, not far from here.

- A Ministry lab? You think that's safe?
- Not a Ministry lab. A Black Lab.

I thought Massive Dynamic Black Labs
didn't exist.

I'm glad I can still surprise you.

Since the invasion,
I've allowed it to be used by the resistance.

We should get going.

How's Walter doing?
- Which one?

- Ah.
- He's vacillating lately.

And he dropped acid yesterday,
so that didn't exactly help.

Ha, ha. Wow. He hasn't changed that much.

He catches me off guard.

I look him in the eyes sometimes
and I see a stare that I don't recognize.

He told me you agreed to remove the pieces
of his brain once he completed the plan.

Never underestimate
the power of incentive.

You don't approve?

What happens to him?

After the tissue has been removed,
what happens to Walter?

How many times can
a human brain endure that?

Walter told me that that was a risk
that he was willing to take.

- I don't accept that.
- You may not have to.

If the plan isn't completed in time,
he may regress...

...and no longer want to go through with it.

So you're saying I lose him either way.

What I'm saying is
your father understands...

...anything worth fighting for
comes with a cost.

Perhaps she has been alerted
to our presence here.

It would not be the first time.

Every conspiracy has a network.

I want to see the facility from which
the sublimation device was taken.

It's okay.

It's better if he stays back there
for a moment.

The resistance experimented
on Observers here?

Yes. Among other things, we wanted
to understand how they were reading us.

Create technology that would give us
the same advantage.

Did it work?

No. We were only able to extract
bits and pieces of data.

Images, words in their conscious minds,
but not enough to be useful.

However,
if you were able to communicate...

...with the Observer child
using neural stimulation once before...

...this technology might be able
to help you do it again.

You all right?

You're thinking about her.

Yeah, every time I see one of those posters
my heart jumps.

Yeah, mine too.

It's hard to see her face,
but at the same time, I want to.

You ready in there?

Yeah. Yeah, it's all good.

Like ours...

Observer brains translate external stimuli--
Language, sights, sounds.

--Into patterns of electrical activity,
which we commonly call thoughts.

Come on, Michael.

This is an electrocognitive translator,
an ECoG for shod.

How does it work?

By interpreting patterns
of electrical activity...

...into words and images
that we can understand.

- Allowing you to read their thoughts.
- For all intents and purposes, yes.

This will suffice.

Prep the subject.

His name's Michael.

Captain Windmark, we're not able
to locate Nina Sharp's comm device.

Continue looking.

Mr. Roe.

We have determined that Nina Sharp
is a traitor.

She is working for the resistance.
Do you have any knowledge of that?

No.

Do you know where she is?

No.

I believe you.

This is going to be a little cold.

We're just gonna do a test,
but it won't hurt. I promise.

- His cortical activity is off the charts.
- The neural link is good. We're ready.

Okay.

Michael, if at any point you want to stop,
you just squeeze my hand.

Okay?

Michael, do you remember why
you're so important to Walter's plan?

His mind is responding to the question.

Hmm. The ECoG is attempting to translate
his neural activity.

But he's processing information
in a way I've never seen before.

This is not like any of the other Observers
from our trials.

The software can't interpret it.

Something has fundamentally changed
with the subject.

Michael.

Whatever allowed us
to communicate before is no longer viable.

You said the boy formed a bond with Olivia,
helped her solve a case once.

That's right.

So he did so
because he knew what you wanted.

He could feel it through
the empathic connection with you.

Maybe he can't help us now
because that connection no longer exists.

So you're saying he can't understand
what we want.

So how can he help us?

We've been trying to get into his mind...

...maybe the answer
is letting him get into ours.

Yes.

That is brilliant, Nina.

We need to create a link between
one of our conscious minds and the boy's.

- How do we do that?
- It's going to take some time.

I have to reconfigure the ECoG software.

You've got to return to the warehouse
at the Ministry of Science...

...to get another ECoG halo and
a neural adaptor for the second person.

- Is that a problem?
- No, I've got a man in Archives.

- He'll give us what we want.
- Hastings?

Yes.

Next.

Name.

Hastings, Darryl R.

I still can't get through to Hastings.

This is intolerable.

Without the adaptor
to the second ECoG halo...

...we have no way to communicate
with the boy.

- Don't worry, Walter. We'll get it.
- Nina will have the passcode.

Well, her comm doesn't work underground,
so there's no way to contact her.

Do you think that we can bypass this?

- Hey, guys.
- Astrid.

- I need help breaking through a security lock.
- I'm on it. Give me the model number.

Next.

I'm a quality assurance engineer.

I assess and maintain the technology
warehoused in this facility.

I don't report directly to Nina Sharp...

...but indirectly sometimes I do.

Mr. Hastings, we believe--

Doctor.

It's Dr. Hastings.

Dr. Hastings.

Okay, you're gonna want to take
the brown wire from the pad...

...and attach it
to the comm's receiving node.

All right, comm is attached.

Now I'm going to send a continuous stream
of data to your comm device.

Hopefully it'll short out
the locking circuitry.

Hopefully? I thought she knew
what she was doing.

Okay, I'm sending it now.

You might want to step back.

Okay, we're in.

We believe a sublimation device
from this facility...

...was provided to known fugitives.

Are you aware of this?

No.

I do not believe you.

Restrain him.

Dismiss the rest.

We may as well be looking
for a needle in a haystack.

It's all arranged
according to serial number. Look.

There's a terminal.
Maybe we can access the database.

- Can you run a search?
- Yeah.

There. 18-C-6.

Up there, on the top shelf.

Windmark's here.

- What?
- He's with Hastings.

It was an outdated model.
I didn't know what they were using it for.

You wanted to help them.

You admire them.

You admire Dr. Bishop.

Yes.

I admire him.

Where is Nina Sharp now?

I swear, I don't know.

Where are the fugitives?

Your loyalty will be rewarded.

I don't know. I don't know.

Michael, I need you to stay here.
I'll be right back.

There, that's her signal.

- Components are intact.
- We gotta get out of here now.

- It's Nina.
- Olivia, is everything all right?

Nina, I need you to listen to me.

- You've been compromised.
- What?

The Observers and Windmark are here.
They're interrogating Hastings now.

You can't come back to the Ministry
and you can't go home.

It's okay.

I have to go now.

I'm sorry.

- Okay, we're ready. Let's go.
- Wait.

They're gone.

A guard just came in and told
Windmark something and then they left.

- We're going to make an example out of you.
- My thoughts exactly.

Dr. Hastings, can you hear me?

I tried. I tried.

- It's okay.
- He knows.

What? What does Windmark know?

Nina. They tracked her.

They know where she is.

It's okay. Everything's gonna be fine.
I'm just...

It doesn't matter.

There's nothing for you to worry about.

Oh, my God.

Michael. Come with me. Quickly.

What's wrong? Why are we stopping?

Checkpoint.
- We need to turn around.

If I turn around, we'll draw too much
attention. We need to ditch the car.

One at a time. Walter, you first.

Get out now.

Okay. Go.

Find them.

Captain Windmark.

The fugitives. Where are they?

You're too late. They're long gone.

You are trying to protect them.

What is it about the fugitives, I wonder...

...that instills such misguided loyalty?

You are trying to block
your thoughts from me.

But it will not last.

You animals.

You are thinking of him.

The boy.

This morning you were contacted
in your office.

You said something about a child Observer.

He is important to the fugitives.

Why is he important to them?

What is his purpose?

Why does a child worry you so much?

He is merely a curiosity.

And you are mistaken about him.

He is no child.

He is a chromosomal mistake.
A genetic anomaly.

Progeny XB-6783746.

Like all anomalies,
he was scheduled to be destroyed.

But he went missing.

It was a great mystery in my time.

No one knew what became of him.

Until now.

I would very much like to meet him.

Tell me where he is.

Captain Windmark,
there's no sign of anyone else here.

Then I will have to resort
to a deeper extraction.

Why?

Why?

Why are you not frightened?

Do you know why you tilt your head
in that way?

It's an involuntary reflex
in your physiology.

It changes the angle at which sound waves
hit the eardrum...

...allowing in more stimuli.

Like a lizard.

I've studied them too.

Intriguing characters.

Their brains have evolved
over 320 million years.

Yet, for all their evolution,
they form no bonds.

Love does not exist for them.

They are incapable of dreaming...

...of contemplating beauty...

...of knowing something
greater than themselves.

Not unlike your kind.

The experiments we conducted
right here in this lab...

...yielded a surprising result.

Because for all your years of evolution...

...you inadvertently redeveloped
and honed primitive instincts...

...that we moved beyond long ago.

So in reality, you're the animal.

Restrain her.

You cannot hurt me with that.

I know.

Walter, maybe you should stay
in the van.

I'm coming with you.

Nina?

They've got the boy.

Who knows what they'll do to him?

What did he do to her?

Where's she going?

She stopped Windmark from reading her.

To protect us. To protect the plan.

And to protect the boy.
They left without him. He's still here.

Michael.

Michael?

Michael, you can come out now. It's safe.

Michael!

Michael.

Michael. Peter!

You all right?

It's okay.

Michael.

He's crying.

- You ready?
- Yeah.

If you understand me, touch your nose.

Good. That's very good.

Do you remember meeting me,
a long time ago...

...with a man named Donald?

He does. He remembers.

Do you know why I needed you
for my plan?

Can you tell me why you're important?

The boy is important.

He has to live.

What happened?

I know who Donald is.

Donald is September.