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Season 4, Episode 3: Alone in the World Genre: Drama | Horror | Mystery Original Air Date: October 7, 2011
Walter reluctantly meets with his psychiatrist, a condition of his release from St. Clair's. The shrink (William Sadler) asks about the covered reflective surfaces and the man Walter saw..
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(warning! contains spoilers)
Walter dismisses it as a mild hallucination and says he hasn't had any
more. As he's saying this, he sees Peter's face in the shrink's laptop.
A young boy runs from bullies on a wooded path. He goes to hide in a sewer tunnel access room. The older boys prepare to beat him up. One older boy freaks out about something running up his leg. It happens to the other bully. Something creeps up their skin, freezing them in place. The bullied boy runs away.
Olivia checks in with Lincoln, to make sure he's handling all the Fringe stuff well. She tells him he can talk to her if he starts to freak out. Olivia gets a call to Hyde Park.
There are two bodies, totally decomposed in a matter of hours. Director Broyles (Lance Reddick) wants to know what Walter thinks it could be. Walter rants in the lab to Astrid via her earpiece, making sarcastic remarks directed toward Broyles, but isn't very helpful. Astrid looks pained and tells Broyles that they don't have anything yet.
Lincoln finds the other boy's footprints, they wonder if they have a witness or another victim.
Back at the lab, they find the bodies have a particular stench. Broyles drops by, saying Walter's shrink thought he was hiding something. Walter hears Peter's voice and tries to drown it out by speaking loudly. Peter's voice gets louder and Walter covers his ears. Finally, he says he's not losing his mind and Astrid and Broyles can only stare.
Olivia and Lincoln track down the third boy at school and take him to the lab. He's a 10-year-old named Aaron who doesn't have many friends. His dad is dead and mom is out of the country, so he's staying with neighbors. Olivia goes to talk to him and finds him drawing designs in his notebook.
Olivia wants Walter to examine him, but Aaron is afraid of doctors. In a hysterical moment, Olivia tells him that Walter is not like other doctors and would never scare him - Walter walks out from the autopsy, apron, leather gloves, mask - and tells the boy to hop up on the table. The look on the child's face, and Olivia's, is priceless. Walter talks to Aaron calmly before he draws blood. He puts the blood in a centrifuge and Aaron looks around the lab. He picks up a toy soldier and Walter snaps at him. Then he apologizes and explains that it belonged to his son, who died.
Astrid comes to get Walter, showing how the body drew smoke form her scented candle. They do a reading and find it's giving off oxygen. Then Walter notices it's growing mold rapidly. They quickly dump the body into the incubation case, seconds before it explodes in a poof of mold spores. Walter thinks they're dealing with an aggressive fungi.
Astrid calls Lincoln and Olivia, who are on their way to get the second body from the morgue, to warn them what's about to happen. They're not there yet. Next she calls the morgue, where the coroner won't put down his lunch to answer. The body lays out on an exam table and he notices it swelling in places, and growing mold. He calls the other coroner over. Lincoln and Olivia arrive outside the morgue just in time to see the mold (and other stuff) splatter on the observation window, there are mold spores everywhere. Olivia won't open the door to let the hacking coroners out, she says they're already dead.
Later, a team of Fringers in biohazard suits examines the mold-covered morgue. Walter says it's a fungi that releases neurotoxin to paralyze the host. He says as long as no one touches the mold, they should be fine. Lincoln notices some going down the sink.
Walter tries UV light to kill them. Olivia thinks they'll need something more for the tunnel where the first two boys died. She's thinking flame-thrower.
Walter tells Aaron he can go home, but he says there's no one to talk to there. Walter says he knows what it's like to be alone and mentions his time in the mental hospital. He asks Aaron if he wants to stay. He can't promise to entertain him, he says.
Cut to Walter and Aaron drinking milkshakes and wearing tinfoil hats. Aaron asks how Peter died. Walter says he was sick for a long time, but he couldn't save him. Then he goes on to explain how he crossed over to save the other Peter, but the frozen lake where he created the portal was unsound and he drowned so he lost him all over again. "And you don't think you belong in a mental institution?" Aaron asks.
Olivia and the team check out the underground origin of the mold. She finds drawings like Aaron's on the walls. The walls are covered with mold. As Lincoln peers into the cracks on the wall with a bright light, Aaron starts complaining about a bright light in the lab - but there isn't one.
Olivia orders the teams to burn the mold. Aaron passes out on the lab floor with a burning fever. Walter realizes what's happening and calls Olivia to tell her to stop whatever they're doing.
Walter comforts Aaron in an ice bath. He tells Olivia he's sure he's connected to the mold. Olivia says they need to find out how Aaron is connected to the mold.
Walter confronts Aaron about his drawings, which show he goes to the tunnel a lot. He says he goes there to get away and after a while he would start to feel better, like there was something there that was sad whenever he was sad. Aaron says it felt like it understood him and wanted to protect him.
Aaron confesses it told him to bring the bullies there, but he didn't know what was going to happen.
Walter tells Olivia the mold isn't a fungi, it's a single organism, and each spore is like a brain cell. He decided to call it "Gus." He thinks Gus forged a link with Aaron over their shared sense of isolation. Until they break the link, any assault on Gus will hurt Aaron.
Broyles calls with a report of another attack, on a homeless man six miles from the tunnel. The Boston sewer line connects them. They have a major infestation and Broyles wants to eradicate it now. Walter gets upset, telling Broyles that he'll die. "You're going to kill Peter!" he shouts. Olivia corrects that he means Aaron.
Broyles gives him a few hours. They're evacuating around the sewer lines. Massive Dynamic is giving them a potent toxin for the job.
Walter has found the link in Aaron's brain, but doesn't know how to get it out without lobotomizing him. Broyles tells Olivia the fungus is on a subway platform and they have to act. He's sorry about the boy, but tells her that they can't lose hundreds to save one. Olivia calls Walter back. He goes in his office to think.
Lincoln, Olivia and an MD worker go into a central room for the fungus and locate a central point to inject it. Olivia gives the order, and the tech stabs Gus. Aaron screams in the lab. Gus reaches out and grabs the tech with some sort of fungus arm and he's toast.
Walter has a brainstorm. In the tunnel, Lincoln sees that Gus has ahold of his foot. Walter realizes the fungus is connected to the emotional center of Aaron's brain. The fungus crawls all over Lincoln, immobilizing him. The poison had no effect.
Walter injects Aaron with epinephrine and pleads with him to let Gus go. Aaron protests that it's his friend. Walter says he's his friend and he doesn't want to lose him. "Not again," Walter says. Aaron says that no one will miss him, that no one cares about him. Walter tells him that he (Walter) cares. He assures Aaron he won't leave him and begs him to let the fungus go. Astrid sees Aaron's vital signs improve.
In the tunnel, Olivia sees something happening. Astrid checks the monitors and sees that Aaron's brainwaves have separated from Gus. Olivia sees that the fungus is dying. She wrenches Lincoln free from its grasp. "You look a little freaked out, wanna talk about it?" he jokes.
Astrid wheels Aaron out of the lab. Walter gives him Peter's old toy, saying it should be played with. Astrid says he has to get to the hospital. Aaron wants Walter to come with him, but Walter has things he needs to do. He looks at a reflection of Peter. He promises Aaron that he will visit later.
Walter takes out a book on the brain. He has a metal spike and hammer ready, with diagrams of the brain. Olivia arrives and finds Walter with a spike in his eye, assuring her he knows exactly what he's doing. She calmly takes the hammer from him and removes the spike.
He tells her he doesn't want to go back to St. Clair's. He tells her about the hallucinations of a young man. Olivia takes a drawing out of her pocket. It's Peter. She shows it to Walter and says she's been seeing him in her dreams for the last three weeks. Walter is relieved that he's sane.
Olivia has run facial recognition but has found nothing. Walter thinks if they're sharing the vision, it must be real. "If it's real, we have to find him," Walter says.
A young boy runs from bullies on a wooded path. He goes to hide in a sewer tunnel access room. The older boys prepare to beat him up. One older boy freaks out about something running up his leg. It happens to the other bully. Something creeps up their skin, freezing them in place. The bullied boy runs away.
Olivia checks in with Lincoln, to make sure he's handling all the Fringe stuff well. She tells him he can talk to her if he starts to freak out. Olivia gets a call to Hyde Park.
There are two bodies, totally decomposed in a matter of hours. Director Broyles (Lance Reddick) wants to know what Walter thinks it could be. Walter rants in the lab to Astrid via her earpiece, making sarcastic remarks directed toward Broyles, but isn't very helpful. Astrid looks pained and tells Broyles that they don't have anything yet.
Lincoln finds the other boy's footprints, they wonder if they have a witness or another victim.
Back at the lab, they find the bodies have a particular stench. Broyles drops by, saying Walter's shrink thought he was hiding something. Walter hears Peter's voice and tries to drown it out by speaking loudly. Peter's voice gets louder and Walter covers his ears. Finally, he says he's not losing his mind and Astrid and Broyles can only stare.
Olivia and Lincoln track down the third boy at school and take him to the lab. He's a 10-year-old named Aaron who doesn't have many friends. His dad is dead and mom is out of the country, so he's staying with neighbors. Olivia goes to talk to him and finds him drawing designs in his notebook.
Olivia wants Walter to examine him, but Aaron is afraid of doctors. In a hysterical moment, Olivia tells him that Walter is not like other doctors and would never scare him - Walter walks out from the autopsy, apron, leather gloves, mask - and tells the boy to hop up on the table. The look on the child's face, and Olivia's, is priceless. Walter talks to Aaron calmly before he draws blood. He puts the blood in a centrifuge and Aaron looks around the lab. He picks up a toy soldier and Walter snaps at him. Then he apologizes and explains that it belonged to his son, who died.
Astrid comes to get Walter, showing how the body drew smoke form her scented candle. They do a reading and find it's giving off oxygen. Then Walter notices it's growing mold rapidly. They quickly dump the body into the incubation case, seconds before it explodes in a poof of mold spores. Walter thinks they're dealing with an aggressive fungi.
Astrid calls Lincoln and Olivia, who are on their way to get the second body from the morgue, to warn them what's about to happen. They're not there yet. Next she calls the morgue, where the coroner won't put down his lunch to answer. The body lays out on an exam table and he notices it swelling in places, and growing mold. He calls the other coroner over. Lincoln and Olivia arrive outside the morgue just in time to see the mold (and other stuff) splatter on the observation window, there are mold spores everywhere. Olivia won't open the door to let the hacking coroners out, she says they're already dead.
Later, a team of Fringers in biohazard suits examines the mold-covered morgue. Walter says it's a fungi that releases neurotoxin to paralyze the host. He says as long as no one touches the mold, they should be fine. Lincoln notices some going down the sink.
Walter tries UV light to kill them. Olivia thinks they'll need something more for the tunnel where the first two boys died. She's thinking flame-thrower.
Walter tells Aaron he can go home, but he says there's no one to talk to there. Walter says he knows what it's like to be alone and mentions his time in the mental hospital. He asks Aaron if he wants to stay. He can't promise to entertain him, he says.
Cut to Walter and Aaron drinking milkshakes and wearing tinfoil hats. Aaron asks how Peter died. Walter says he was sick for a long time, but he couldn't save him. Then he goes on to explain how he crossed over to save the other Peter, but the frozen lake where he created the portal was unsound and he drowned so he lost him all over again. "And you don't think you belong in a mental institution?" Aaron asks.
Olivia and the team check out the underground origin of the mold. She finds drawings like Aaron's on the walls. The walls are covered with mold. As Lincoln peers into the cracks on the wall with a bright light, Aaron starts complaining about a bright light in the lab - but there isn't one.
Olivia orders the teams to burn the mold. Aaron passes out on the lab floor with a burning fever. Walter realizes what's happening and calls Olivia to tell her to stop whatever they're doing.
Walter comforts Aaron in an ice bath. He tells Olivia he's sure he's connected to the mold. Olivia says they need to find out how Aaron is connected to the mold.
Walter confronts Aaron about his drawings, which show he goes to the tunnel a lot. He says he goes there to get away and after a while he would start to feel better, like there was something there that was sad whenever he was sad. Aaron says it felt like it understood him and wanted to protect him.
Aaron confesses it told him to bring the bullies there, but he didn't know what was going to happen.
Walter tells Olivia the mold isn't a fungi, it's a single organism, and each spore is like a brain cell. He decided to call it "Gus." He thinks Gus forged a link with Aaron over their shared sense of isolation. Until they break the link, any assault on Gus will hurt Aaron.
Broyles calls with a report of another attack, on a homeless man six miles from the tunnel. The Boston sewer line connects them. They have a major infestation and Broyles wants to eradicate it now. Walter gets upset, telling Broyles that he'll die. "You're going to kill Peter!" he shouts. Olivia corrects that he means Aaron.
Broyles gives him a few hours. They're evacuating around the sewer lines. Massive Dynamic is giving them a potent toxin for the job.
Walter has found the link in Aaron's brain, but doesn't know how to get it out without lobotomizing him. Broyles tells Olivia the fungus is on a subway platform and they have to act. He's sorry about the boy, but tells her that they can't lose hundreds to save one. Olivia calls Walter back. He goes in his office to think.
Lincoln, Olivia and an MD worker go into a central room for the fungus and locate a central point to inject it. Olivia gives the order, and the tech stabs Gus. Aaron screams in the lab. Gus reaches out and grabs the tech with some sort of fungus arm and he's toast.
Walter has a brainstorm. In the tunnel, Lincoln sees that Gus has ahold of his foot. Walter realizes the fungus is connected to the emotional center of Aaron's brain. The fungus crawls all over Lincoln, immobilizing him. The poison had no effect.
Walter injects Aaron with epinephrine and pleads with him to let Gus go. Aaron protests that it's his friend. Walter says he's his friend and he doesn't want to lose him. "Not again," Walter says. Aaron says that no one will miss him, that no one cares about him. Walter tells him that he (Walter) cares. He assures Aaron he won't leave him and begs him to let the fungus go. Astrid sees Aaron's vital signs improve.
In the tunnel, Olivia sees something happening. Astrid checks the monitors and sees that Aaron's brainwaves have separated from Gus. Olivia sees that the fungus is dying. She wrenches Lincoln free from its grasp. "You look a little freaked out, wanna talk about it?" he jokes.
Astrid wheels Aaron out of the lab. Walter gives him Peter's old toy, saying it should be played with. Astrid says he has to get to the hospital. Aaron wants Walter to come with him, but Walter has things he needs to do. He looks at a reflection of Peter. He promises Aaron that he will visit later.
Walter takes out a book on the brain. He has a metal spike and hammer ready, with diagrams of the brain. Olivia arrives and finds Walter with a spike in his eye, assuring her he knows exactly what he's doing. She calmly takes the hammer from him and removes the spike.
He tells her he doesn't want to go back to St. Clair's. He tells her about the hallucinations of a young man. Olivia takes a drawing out of her pocket. It's Peter. She shows it to Walter and says she's been seeing him in her dreams for the last three weeks. Walter is relieved that he's sane.
Olivia has run facial recognition but has found nothing. Walter thinks if they're sharing the vision, it must be real. "If it's real, we have to find him," Walter says.
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