Fringe

Previously on Fringe...

Olivia Dunham, FBI.

A series of events has occurred.

It's been referred to as The Pattern.

Anybody you need, you can have.

His name's Walter Bishop.

He worked out of Harvard,

in an area called fringe science.

Certain private inidividuals have been granted clearance

regarding The Pattern, including Nina Sharp.

Massive Dynamic is one of the ten largest

economic entities in the world.

No matter where my investigations take me,

they always come back here.

You should know what you're getting into, agent Dunham.

Get out of the car! Hands on your head!

This is officer Williams.

Hostage appears unharmed.

I said get out of the car, now!

Step away from the car. Then on your knees.

You okay?

You have no idea what you're dealing with.

Is that right?

What the hell are you doing?

Gibson, I'm talking to you.

Gibson!

We're running the security photos

through facial recognition software.

We should have the kidnappers' names within the hour.

Preliminary ballistics confirms that officer Williams

fired all three shots. Including the one that killed her?

Self-inflicted.

As far as we can tell, the kidnappers don't even have guns.

- Who's the kid? - Tyler Carson. 15 years old.

According to NYPD, he disappeared 36 hours ago.

They're still running leads.

Walter, remember that conversation we had

about personal space?

I'm bored.

No cadavers at this crime scene.

Or food.

Walter, they're transferring the bodies to your lab now.

There's no need-- I've already formed an hypothesis

as to what happened here.

Mesmerism. Hypnotism.

The victims have obviously been subjected

to subliminal suggestions of a violent nature.

Walter, hypnosis can't make you do anything

that you don't want to do.

Take a look at this.

The kidnapped kid's father-- he works for Fleming-Monroe.

The aerospace division of Massive Dynamic.

I already have a call in to Nina Sharp.

Ms. Sharp's office is right this way.

Dr. Carson is in there waiting with her now.

Uh, miss?

The screen in the elevator said there are 73 laboratories.

Is-- is that right?

Yes.

Ms. Sharp's office is right this way.

It's amazing.

Dr. Carson, why didn't you call the police sooner?

I didn't even know he was gone

until I got the call from them--

The men who took him.

Tyler and I don't talk much.

I-I just figured it's because of his age.

You know what teens are like.

I guess that's just an excuse, isn't it?

So what did the kidnappers say?

Just to wait for further instruction.

Ms. Sharp, the two men identified in those photographs,

are you absolutely certain

they have no connection to your company?

yes, we cross-referenced their names

with our employee database.

Patrick Hickey and Tom Dobbins have never worked for us,

and they've had no peripheral involvement

with any of our clients or partners.

According to the police, they're used car salesmen.

And there's been no indication of their demands?

No, not yet.

So is it possible that these men are trying

to extort secrets from Massive Dynamic?

We have come to the same conclusion.

Well, would you care to share what kind of secrets?

Dr. Carson performs sensitive and highly-classified work

on military aircraft designs, piloting software,

guidance systems.

What I do here, it's-- it's my life.

It's the only--

Tyler's mother died when he was just a boy.

And now if-- if I lose him,

I don't know what I'd do.

I'll get him. Excuse me.

Dr. Carson, we will do everything we can

to try and find your son.

Hey, Walter.

What are you doing?

Massive Dynamic...

it was just a name until now.

Did you know that I once shared a laboratory

with William Bell?

You might have mentioned that once or twice.

Look how much he's achieved.

You know, he introduced me to her.

To whom?

Your mother.

After the neurobiology conference in Berlin.

It was our idea, you know,

that Belly and I would one day

form a company together.

He just couldn't wait, I suppose.

But thankfully she was still there for you

while I was gone.

I'm hungry.

Give me all the cash in the register.

You kidding me?

You don't even have a gun.

Just do it, before somebody gets hurt.

Hey, buddy, is there gonna be a problem here?

You really don't want to get involved in this.

I think I just did.

Aah!

Get out of my store.

You should have just given up the money.

unh!

Remind me to never get a job as a convenience store clerk.

Any witnesses?

Both victims are in intensive care

at University Hospital.

So no statements anytime soon.

Stealing food and knocking over convenience stores?

These kidnappers don't really seem like

they have much of a plan.

No. There's a second feed on the door.

He looks so scared.

So why doesn't he run?

He could just make a break for it.

Far too soon for Stockholm syndrome to have kicked in.

Well, maybe your father's right.

Maybe one or both of them are controlling people

through hypnotic suggestion.

Then they could just get the clerk to give 'em the cash.

Why all the carnage?

Maybe they're silencing the witnesses.

They don't want us to know how it works.

Dunham.

Just talked to the owner of the car dealership

where the kidnappers worked.

Said Hickey and Dobbins were his best salesmen.

So is there anything out of the ordinary

about these two guys?

Model employees.

The owner was completely mystified

as to how they got mixed up in this.

Says they each made a sale that morning,

took one of his loaner cars out for lunch,

and never came back.

Okay.

Broyles says the suspects were good at their jobs.

No criminal record. Boss loves 'em.

So how do these two become kidnappers?

You think they could be spies?

Maybe they're hiding out in plain sight.

Foreign intelligence agents often take mundane jobs

so they can blend in while they're gathering information.

There's certainly nothing more mundane

than being a used car salesman.

So throw in Massive Dynamic

and your father's theory on hypnotism

and it all starts to add up.

Chicken. You serious?

Just a hypothesis.

What do you think, more like pork?

Truthfully, I don't really spend a lot of time

thinking about what human brains would taste like.

Then why did you ask?

I was asking what you expected to find

with this brain.

Oh. And normally

hypnosis would simply...

boost the Alpha wave of the brain

with no visible effect.

But given the extreme nature of the suggestions

in this policewoman's case,

I suspect there might be lesions on the brain.

And visible damage.

Oh, yes...

oh, my.

Thank you.

Now, this is not hypnosis. It is mind control.

- There's a difference? - Oh, yes. Peter was right.

Hypnosis can only go so far--

Suggesting, but not forcing behavior.

Look, look, look.

Hematomas on the brain matter.

Indicating actual trauma.

The result of conflicting neural impulses.

A conflict of mind and body.