Fringe

For those of you just joining us...

...what you're looking at is the work of ZFT...

...a terrorist organization responsible for at least half a dozen biological attacks.

Everything we know, in your packets...

...including a copy of their manifesto, their ideology and their methods.

Destruction by technology, which boils down to the following:

Attempting to provoke or prepare for war.

- War? With whom? - That's the question, isn't it?

What we do know is these acts seem to be increasing in frequency.

And that their targets are unpredictable and therefore unprotectable.

Taxi! Taxi!

Evidence suggests ZFT is funded by an unlikely source...

...and a name I'm sure you've all heard of.

William Bell, founder of Massive Dynamic.

Wait, wait! Hold the bus!

You go up Park? Past Lenox Hill Hospital?

Yes, six stops away. Are you feeling okay?

Fine. Just go, please.

Those of you assembled in this room now have a single clear-cut goal:

To provide actionable evidence...

...establishing a link between Bell and ZFT.

Agents Olivia Dunham and Charlie Francis...

...will be coordinating the investigation.

All efforts and information go through them.

Now let's go to work.

Stop the bus. Stop, please, I have to get off.

Ma'am, please sit. I'm not allowed to...

- Stop the bus. I have to get off now. - Okay, okay.

Open the door.

Oh, my God, please. Please help, somebody.

Oh, my God. Oh, I can't breathe.

Oh, my God.

- Miss, you need some help? - Lady, you okay?

Yeah, 911? I'm standing on the...

Find anything new in there, Walter?

You've read the manifesto about a dozen times cover to cover, so just wondering.

I need to show you something, Peter.

- Hey. - Hey.

- What's going on? - I don't know.

Show and tell, apparently.

What is this? I don't know what I'm looking at.

This typewriter is Belly's.

I remember the day he purchased it. It was raining.

Do you understand what you're saying?

That William Bell doesn't just fund ZFT...

...he wrote their manifesto and is responsible for everything?

Absolutely not.

William Bell was many things.

He was ambitious, he was egotistical, he was temperamental.

But he wasn't a madman.

Although the ideas in this manifesto are radical...

...he wouldn't do this. These horrendous things.

He would never do it.

There are references all throughout to the chapter of ethics...

...but there is no such chapter. It is missing.

And I believe that someone has removed it to suit their own evil purposes.

- And I can prove it. - How?

Get another copy of the book. With all the pages...

There is no other copy. This is the only one.

- I'll get it. - He wrote it here.

In this lab. It could still be here somewhere, the original.

- And what if you're wrong? - I'm not wrong.

And when I find it, you will see.

It will absolve him, Peter.

Peter, it's Olivia.

So this is what I got so far.

Bus driver called 911. Reported an agitated woman got off his bus.

Moments later she caught fire and exploded.

Police combed the area...

...they couldn't find any evidence of an accelerant or an incendiary device.

There's something strange in your neighborhood.

Who you gonna call?

So, what do you make of this, Walter?

Well, from what Agent Francis described...

...it's possible we're dealing with a case of spontaneous human combustion.

I thought that was just a myth.

A myth is just an unverified fact.

- Maybe she was hit by a tiny meteor. - That's also possible.

Until I get this body to the lab...

...I won't be able to say anything with certainty.

I'll get the coroner to prep the bodies.

Bodies? Is there another somewhere?

You okay?

Yeah, I just...

Broyles.

Send her in.

- Philip. - Nina.

I won't play coy, Philip.

I understand the FBI has opened an investigation into Massive Dynamic.

As you can imagine, we spend a lot of money on counterintelligence.

And any probe into our finances raises red flags.

So, what are you fishing for?

Industrial espionage? Treaty violations?

We have evidence that William Bell may be involved...

...with several biological attacks perpetrated this past year.

- But that's ridiculous. - Perhaps.

But as long as you're here...

...if you have something to offer, now would be the time.

I'm not one of your street thugs that you can bully, Philip.

- And William Bell is not a terrorist. - I'd like to hear him tell me that himself.

I'm afraid that's not possible. He's traveling.

You're wasting your time. William Bell is not the enemy.

Is there something else?

Matter is just energy waiting to happen.

The average adult at rest contains enough potential energy...

...to explode with the force of five very large hydrogen bombs.

You know, theoretically, you're actually right.

Ha-ha-ha. My son finally agrees with me.

- Agent Farnsworth, take a note of that. - We're not good at releasing it.

Well, it needs a spark, of course, a trigger.

What do you think released it in her?

Some say a particle is to blame.

The appropriately named pyroton.

Maybe we could finally prove that it exists.

Peter, fire up the electron microscope.

- I might have taken that apart. - What on earth for?

I needed the parts for a project I'm working on.

As I said, the potential for destruction in each of us is infinite.

Yes, Jim, I understand.

Right away.

I had you pegged as a creature of habit. Heh.

You changed your office.

- Come again? - Your desk. You've moved it.

Uh, ahem.

We know from the driver what stop she got on.

He's worked up an artist's sketch rendering...

...so we'll canvass the area, see if we can ID her.

What about the other victim?

Did the bus driver see her get on too?

Were they not together?

I'm sorry, you mean one.

- There was only one victim. - I'm confused.

Agent Dunham?

Where are we on this?

The bus driver remembered what stop she, uh...

What stop she got on. He gave us an artist's sketch rendering.

We're gonna show it around and see if we can ID her.

- What the hell is going on here? - Sanford.

Why is the entire 13th floor trying to link William Bell to biological terror attacks?

- We have evidence Bell... - I know what you have.

Testimony from a dead man who was an admitted terrorist.

Well, his testimony confirms what we've long suspected.

Massive Dynamic may be involved or behind events we've been witnessing.

William Bell and Massive Dynamic...

...are the Defense Department's largest contractors.

These waters are much too deep for a fishing expedition.

Are you seriously suggesting we ignore...?

I am telling you to drop this, considering you have nothing more...

...than an unsubstantiated report from a hostile source. Clear?

- Are we really going to...? - No.

Get more evidence.

Just a few more centimeters.

You know, Walter, working with you...

...it's amazing the sort of things you get used to.

- You're not the first person to tell me that. - Wow.

Looks like somebody could have flossed more.

Okay. Let's just hope that she has her dental records on file.

File? Of course.

My filing system. Perhaps that's where I hid the manifesto.

Like how you seal things in the walls of your house?

Or how you squirrel things in deposit boxes around the country?

I would hardly call that filing.

I was trying to hide things because I was afraid someone...

...would unlock all my secrets.

I didn't realize that the someone would be me.

Where's my Geiger counter? I left it here.

A radiation detector is gonna help find the manifesto?

No, but I find that the rhythmic ticking it emits helps me think.

Oh, Walter, Peter actually cannibalized that for his project too.

Oh, no. Look, this has got to stop. Lab rule number one:

Do not borrow Walter's equipment without asking.

- Walter. We found a match on the victim. - Oh?

Her name is Susan Pratt.

Thank you. We'll take it from here.

Susan Pratt. She's 29 years old.

Single, worked for New York Highway Department.

Toll-booth operator.

That's a Ionely line of work.

Doesn't look like she had much of a social life either.

She's definitely a table for one.

Hey, Liv. Do you think there was something wrong with her?

- What do you mean? - You know.

Good-Iooking woman in the prime of her life...

...no evidence of a boyfriend, or any friends, for that matter.

Just doesn't exactly strike me as being normal.

Well, I guess that depends on what your definition of normal is.

Liv.

Charlie, I think I found something.

She has a $30,000 check from an Isaac Winters.

I found something too. I think you should take a look at this.

What the hell happened to her?

Walter, I'm back.

- Did you get it? - No, I told you, they don't have it.

It has to be Frankenberry, that's what I ate back then.

If I'm to remember where I hid the manuscript...

...it's simple sense memory, Peter.

They don't have it. For all we know, they don't make it.

I did, however, get you this.

All the artificial sugary sweetness a growing scientist needs.

Hello, Agent Dunham.