- The Fringe team investigate a child that is supposed to have mind control abilities. Peter is kidnapped and controlled by him. Walter is extremely worried and afraid he might lose Peter again.
- When the fourteen year-old boy Tyler Carson is kidnapped, the NYPD surround the car with the abductors; however they kill each other and the kidnappers drive away with Tyler. The Fringe Division is summoned to investigate the mysterious case and soon they learn that Tyler is the son of the engineer Dr. Carson, from the Massive Dynamic. Their further investigate shows that Tyler has mind control powers and the supposed abductors are two respectful car salesmen. When Tyler kidnaps Peter, Dr. Bishop tries to find a means to save his beloved son from the evil teenage boy.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- When a kidnapping rapidly escalates into a hostage situation in New York, local authorities close in on the suspects only to discover a mysterious force with mind-blowing consequences. As the investigation intensifies, the mystery and threat deepen to unimaginable proportions when the Fringe Division connects a link between the kidnapping and Massive Dynamic.—FOX Publicity
- Previously: weird events, "the Pattern," blah blah blah, Walter Bishop, Massive Dynamic, Nina Sharp, spooky, and we're done.
Police cars race through town to a parking garage.
On the top level, two men and a boy sit in a car. We're in Queens, NY. They're dealing with a hostage situation.
The two men get out of the car, hands raised. The boy in back is OK. One of the suspects squints really hard and an officer appears affected. He starts backing up and drops his gun. Then he steps off the side of the garage and falls. Another officer shoots her two fellow officers and turns the gun on herself. Tyler watches.
The Fringies hit the scene. The kid is 15-year-old Tyler Carson, who disappeared 36 hours ago.
Walter is bored. He doesn't want to bother with autopsies. He thinks it was hypnotism. But Peter points out that hypnotism can't make you do anything you don't want to do.
Tyler's dad works for the aerospace division of Massive Dynamic.
Olivia and the Bishops visit Nina Sharp. Walter is bowled over by the, uh, massiveness, of Massive Dynamic.
They meet with Dr. Carson, who didn't know his son was missing until the kidnappers called. Nina says the suspects have no connection to MD.
They've made no demands. They think they're after MD secrets. Dr. Carson performs highly classified work on guidance systems. He mentions that Tyler's mom died when he was a boy.
Walter wanders off. Peter follows. He's having career envy. He mentions that his former lab partner William Bell introduced him to Peter's mom.
Tyler eats Pez in the back of the kidnapper's car, calm. He announces he's hungry and they stop for a stick up.
The same kidnapper who squinted before asks for all the money in the register. A big tough guy tries to stop him. Next thing he knows, he's pouring hot coffee on his head and bashing himself with a coffee pot, then running into a freezer.
The clerk pulls a gun on Squinty, who then makes him put it down, pick up his keys, and stick them in an electric outlet.
Tyler watches.
The Fringies hit the scene and check out the surveillance video. The victims are in intensive care. They wonder why Tyler hasn't run yet.
Broyles calls Olivia, reporting that the suspects' boss at the car dealership says they were model employees.
Back at the lab, Walter saws open the female cop's brain, looking for lesions. He reports to Olivia and Peter: it's not hypnosis, it's mind control. He found bruises on the brain, indicating a conflict of mind and body.
Olivia asks him to find out how to block it.
Broyles is with Dr. Carson when his son calls. He tells his dad to give them what they want. They ask for $2 million by 5 p.m. The trace doesn't work.
Olivia is puzzled that all they want is money. Nina says MD will cover it. Olivia thinks the cash is a distraction.
In the lab, Walter mutters and digs through his things. He comes up with a teddy bear that generates white noise that simulates the sound of being in utero.
Later, Walter briefs the FBI guys on their white noise headphones, including the instruction not to remove them lest they meet a "gruesome and horrible death."
Snipers set up and watch the kidnappers pull up without Tyler. Walter turns on the womb noise. They watch as one kidnapper grabs the money from Dr. Carson and runs. The FBI chases him but the Squinty kidnapper busts out of a warehouse in his car, flipping it and crashing. Olivia dives to avoid hit then gets up and gives chase.
Peter motions at his dad to stay put as he runs off.
Olivia finds the other kidnapper in the warehouse with a gun to his chin. He begs for help.
Peter races to her but stops in his tracks. He finds Tyler with the briefcase around the corner. Tyler tells him to lose the stupid headphones, which, he says, don't work. He tells Peter to take him to his car.
After, Walter tells Olivia that Peter is missing.
Olivia and Broyles talk to the second kidnapper, who says he and Squinty were the kidnap victims, that Tyler made them take him and watch all those people die. Tyler even made him saw off his own finger when he tried to escape. He says they better pray Peter isn't with Tyler.
Cut to Peter with Tyler, driving down a highway. Peter is driving and sweating profusely. Tyler explains the pain comes from trying to fight it. He wants to see how fast Peter's car can go. They tear down the road, swerving into oncoming traffic. As they come up on a semi, Tyler asks Peter if he's ready to behave. Peter says yes and they stop. Tyler explains that he can make Peter do whatever he wants, controlling all of him or part of him.
Olivia tells Nina about Tyler. She says Dr. Carson has been working with the pharmaceutical division on a project. Electrodes are hooked to a pilot's head and a plane flies by thought. The pilots are given a drug. As Nina explains that employee's family aren't allowed to be test subjects, Dr. Carson says he took some samples home and Tyler might have gotten them.
In the car, Tyler pops pills. Peter explains that the moment he took him, they knew he was behind it. He laughs at him for not having a plan.
Back at MD, Dr. Carson doesn't understand how Tyler could use drugs meant to work with computers to control people. Walter angrily explains that the brain is a computer and guesses Tyler was on other medication. He was, for ADD, which is the perfect cocktail with mind control drugs, apparently. Olivia has to pull Walter off Dr. Carson.
On the road, a cop blasts his sirens at Peter. Tyler tells Peter if he doesn't take care of it, he will. The cop orders Peter out of the car. He gets out and lets the cop pat him down.
Tyler gets to work. The cop pulls his gun and puts it on the roof of the car then makes Peter pick it up. Peter begs him not to make him shoot the cop. He decks the cop instead.
Olivia calls out the troops for Peter, but warns them to stay at a safe distance.
Olivia is called to Broyles, who tells her Tyler has just been classified as a national security threat. Fringe is being taken off the case. She thinks Peter might be collateral damage.
Olivia checks on Walter. "I can't lose him again," he says. Olivia asks him to find a way to disable Tyler, but Walter feels like he can't do it without Peter's help. Nina Sharp listens, then leans in and tells him that he's the only one who can help him. Walter comes up with a plan.
Astrid comes in saying she found strange searches on Tyler's computer-- all of women who died in car accidents in their mid 20s. His most recent search is of Renee Davies.
Dr. Carson explains it's his ex-wife, Tyler's mom.
Tyler and Peter sit courtside in a strip club, where Peter actually eats the food. He palms his steak knife as he asks what Tyler's dad did to him. Tyler says he lied to him, telling him his mom was dead.
Dr. Carson explains to Olivia that she was an addict and used to disappear all the time. He didn't know what happened to her, but told Tyler she died in a car wreck so he wouldn't know his mother abandoned him.
At the strip club, Tyler tells Peter they're going to be a family again. Peter starts to say that the cops Tyler killed had families too, but Tyler takes control of his steak knife. Peter stabs it into the chair next to him. Tyler says it would have been his thigh if he didn't need him to drive.
Olivia checks on Walter and Astrid, who are wearing tinfoil hats. He's worried MD is trying to read his thoughts. Dr. Carson told him the pilots who took the drugs were susceptible to magnetic fields so he wants to use an electric magnetic pulse to target Tyler, disorienting him.
At Renee Davie's house, Tyler confronts his mom in the yard. He runs to hug her. She's surprised but seems happy to see him, but she wonders who Peter is.
Inside, Tyler tells his mom he doesn't blame her for leaving. She says it's not like that. Her husband walks in. Tyler is not pleased. He makes Peter stand up and take out a gun.
Outside Olivia and Broyles help surround the house. Broyles looks in and sees Peter with the gun in his hand. He busts in and Tasers Tyler. But his mind control still works. He makes Peter shoot Broyles through the arm. They leave.
After Broyles says he's fine, Olivia runs outside and gets into a car with Astrid and Walter. They race after Peter and Tyler. Walter activates the pulse.
In the car, Peter senses he's free and sees Tyler sitting next to him, not moving. He steers for a telephone pole.
Peter wakes up on the grass with his dad over him. Broyles gets his arm bandaged. Peter tells Broyles that Tyler wanted to shoot him in the head, he's lucky he was able to pull it off center. Tyler has a concussion and is sedated. He's being taken to the hospital.
At their apartment, Peter gets a call informing him that Tyler's powers wore off when the drugs did. He won't face time. Walter tries to baby Peter, making him crepes, the perfect cure for an abduction.
Walter says Peter used to call them "creeps" when his mom made them. His mother was a strong woman, Walter tells his son.
At MD, Nina writes to William Bell, telling him that "one of the Tylers did display a dramatic ability for mind control." She explains that there were some unintended consequences, he tried to reunite with his surrogate mother.
We see Dr. Carson flip through a file of Tylers, including 05 and 03.
Nina writes: They're suspending the project indefinitely, but Bell was right, mind control is possible.
We see Dr. Carson wheel his Tyler on a gurney down a hallway where other shapes, presumably Tylers, also lie comatose.
Nina continues: despite the "unfortunate circumstance, we can consider the project a success."
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