Hi, how are you today?
And we're still on
For the regional manager's meeting oh.
Tomorrow at 4:00?
Great.
Yeah, thank you.
Okay, great.
Okay, thank you. Bye-bye.
Oh, I'm so--
I did not mean to interrupt.
No pblem.
Don't you usually have
The little tablet thingy with you?
Yeah.
Uh, I usually do.
Is there something else, or...
I used to be a webelo.
[laughs] and?
Um, the webelos... Cub scouts?
Your brownie patch.
Oh! Oh, yeah.
No, I--
I tually found that online.
It's kitschy, right?
I was gonna put it on one of my jackets.
Oh, that's--
Oh, that's, uh-- yeah, that's cool.
Hey, bethany,
We still on for drinks tonight?
Of course.
You better not keep me out too late this time.
We'll see.
(bethany) no, no, no, no.
No, no, please.
Don't do this to me!
No. What happened?
Damn it! Oh, my god!
Do not crash on me.
This is not happening.
Hold it! Hold it!
Please hold the elevator.
I've got to find an I.t. Guy.
This is a disaster.
Oh, you dropped your ph--
Are you okay? Get away from me!
Oh, no.
Bethany?
Bethany!
Stop it!
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I'm telling you because you knew about john
And you didn't say anything, so I trust you.
At least enough for me to not think
You're gonna think I'm crazy.
Oh, of course not.
I saw him last night.
You saw john.
(olivia) yes, in my kitchen.
Standing about as far from me as you.
Hello, liv.
(olivia) I grabbed my gun,
But he was gone.
I know he wasn't there.
Obviously.
I--I just--
Let me see.
You fall in love with your partner...
Who betrays you...
And your country.
He dies in your arms.
Then he shows up in your kitchen
And you're wondering if that's grounds
To recuse yourself.
Yeah, okay, well, we can start with that.
I say no.
You're the one that exposed him.
Bare minimum,
That makes you indispensable.
You want my advice?
Next time john shows up for a nightcap...
Give him one.
I'm being serious. So am I.
You think a few weeks pass
And everything you went through just goes away?
Don't fight it.
Don't beat yourself up.
You're good at that.
That's a character flaw.
It'll get easier.
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Did she say what it was about?
Olivia? No.
She'll tell us when she gets here.
How are you feeling?
Never been better.
Oh? You look quite the opposite.
Maybe that's 'cause I had a little trouble
Sleeping last night.
Oh, I had trouble sleeping myself.
I was thinking about that man.
The one who tortured you.
Something about him.
So familiar.
Peter, when I was in st. Claire's--
We don't have to talk about this.
It's not important.
But it is important.
You cannot imagine what it's like
For a man like me
To not have access to parts of his mind.
You're doing fine, walter.
Dr. Bishop. Peter.
Ah, visiting hours.
Everybody put on their best straight jacket.
At approximately 10:17 a.m.,
A massive power surge struck a downtown high-rise
In worcester, massachusetts.
As a result, an elevator on the 26th floor
Plummeted straight to the basement.
Eight passengers died.
Did the cable snap?
That's what's strange.
The elevator didn't fall.
It drove itself into the ground.
That's not possible.
Nine months ago, a maglev train in tokyo
Plowed through a crowded station.
Publicly,
Reported as human error.
In reality, caused by a power surge
Of unknown origin.
Intelligence chatter speculated
That it might be a demonstration
Of a new weapon technology.
(olivia) it's possible that this morning's event
Was another demonstration.
To override the elevator's circuitry
Would require a-- a discharge
Of immense power
And precision.
I've made arrangements for you
To be received at the building.
We need to know what happened,
How it happened,
And who's behind it.
I'm peter simmons, the building's engineer.
Olivia dunham, fbi.
This is my team,
Peter bishop and dr. Walter bishop.
So you've been briefed on what's happened?
Mm-hmm.
Damn elevator powered itself into the floor.
Never seen anything like it.
Shouldn't the brakes have come on automatically?
Well, that's the thing. They did.
I mean, the safety's clamped onto the rails all right,
But for some reason, the motor just kept going.
Nearly melted the shoes, which is technically--
Impossible?
Yeah, we're seeing a lot of that lately.
You know your elevators.
Mit drop-out.
Is there any security camera footage?
Nope. All the cameras fritzed.
Hey, can you people move out of there?
Fbi coming through.
So how could an elevator drive itself?
It's almost like another generator came online,
Jacked into the system, and overloaded it
With double or triple the voltage.
Exit wound burns.
Subconjuctival hemorrhages.
This woman displays
All of the symptoms of a classic--
Thermoelectric trauma.
What are you two saying?
He's saying that all these people were electrocuted.
Electrocuted.
May I?
That's lovely.
24 carat gold.
Traces of nickel,
Possibly cobalt.
How are you doing that?
This entire space is charged
With electromagnetic energy.
Far beyond that which occurs in nature.
There's still residual magnetic energy
From whatever electrocuted these people.
I need to examine the victims' belongings.
And one of the bodies as well.
Are you saying you may know how this happened?
No, not yet.
But I can tell you
Every one of the passengers in this elevator
Was dead by the time they hit the ground.
I've worked on a project where I've seen this before.
The government had asked me if it was possible
To make a human being trackable by pigeons.
Like homing pigeons?
What possible use could that serve?
Well, I'm sure it had something
To do with the commies.
It always did back then.
Regardless, our theory was that
Human beings are merely
Highly complex electrical systems.
Um...
Battery, please, olivia.
The heart, the brain
Driven by electrical impulses.
And because everyone has
A unique electromagnetic signature,
Like a fingerprint,
Then we theorized that properly altered,
Pigeons should be able to hone into that signature.
Like the way they know how to fly south for the winter.
Precisely.
But the human field was too weak,
So we tried to augment it
And make it strong enough for the birds to detect.
Did it work?
Oh, yes.
But the side effects negated our plans.
There was one test subject,
Every time she hiccupped, the lights would dim.
So you're saying these people
Coulcontrol electronic devices?
No, not deliberately.
But I did surmise that it should be possible.
[electric zapping]
Oh.
Did you just make that thing come back to life?
No, not in this particular instance.
But it does confirm my theory.
What theory?
Didn't I say?
No.
Well, someone has pursued this idea.
They have amplified
A person's electromagnetic field.
And in fact,
It is the residual energy from that person
That is making this heart pump.
And further,
It is that person
Who is responsible for the deaths in the elevator.
So you don't think it was a weapon
That electrocuted those people?
No.
It was a human being.
[male reporter #1 on tv] accident occurred just after 10:00 a.m.
Here at the herndon building in downtown worcester.
Hey, ron wanted to see you.
...haven't yet been released,
Dropped 26 stories to their death
When the building's elevator system
Failed catastrophically.
What's wrong with you?
Investigators are now looking into possible answers
As to why the emergency brakes...
You look sick.
[male reporter #2 on tv] thank you, daniel.
Excuse me, mr. Boynton.
Where have you been?
Excuse me?
Do you remember last week what I said to you?
The words I used?
How sympathetic I was?
What did I-- what did I say?
That--that you--
Yeah, that you were watching my performance.
I said you had to stay on the damn grid
And stick to the schedule.
Because the system here,
Even when things are working, depends on people like you
Being, at the very least, reliable.
I've--I've--
Had a really hard day.
Guess what?
Your day is fantastic compared to mine.
No, it's not.
What the hell's on your uniform?
What? What is that?
I don't--I don't know.
And I'm--I'm not sure.
I'll tell you what.
I'll make it easy.
It's not your uniform anymore.
Get your ass down to the locker-- wait.
Take it off and leave it there.
No, but--but please.
I take care of my mother.
Yeah, and I take care of my family.
And one of the ways I do that
Is to employ smart, reliable, capable people.
And you are none of those things.
Please.
You're fired. Go.
Mr. Boyn--
Get outta here, meager.
I don't want to see you in this building anymore.
Get the hell outta here!
Here.
Thanks.
I thought you left hours ago.
I could say the same about you.
What are you reading?
"neural distortion in human subjects."
And what's all this for?
I'm just trying to wrap my head
Around an idea walter had.
He believes that it may be a person
Who was responsible for the herndon incident.
Not a person wielding some kind of device.
A person who has somehow developed the ability
To affect, or maybe even control, electrical devices.
And I suppose the good doctor
Has a theory how that's possible.
He thinks this person was altered in some way.
Extensive procedures.
Chemical therapy.
What?
In the course of investigating
Other pattern cases,
We've come across a handful of clinics.
Off the grid operations that solicited clients
By making the same kinds of claims
You see advertised on tv at 3:00 a.m.
Only they weren't actually providing weight loss
Or hair growth.
What were they really doing?
Have you ever heard of a man named jacob fischer?
No.
Doctor of biotechnology.
Wanted in four states and three countries
For illegal human experimentation.
Surgical alterations,
Radical hormone therapy.
Using average citizens as unwitting guinea pigs.
One subject s pumped full of stimulants
And kept awake for a solid year.
Fed on a steady visual diet of horrific images.
I only bring it up
Because if dr. Bishop is right,
And there is a person
With these extraordinary capabilities,
It might very well be that someone made him this way.
I'd like to read the files on dr. Fischer.
I'll have them transferred to your terminal.
But it's not easy stuff to look at.
[distant clanging]
Hello?
[elevator dings]
Hey, liv.
It's okay. It's okay.
It's just me.
I know this doesn't make any sense to you.
Even if it did,
I know you don't have any reason to trust me.
But that's what I'm asking you to do.
We don't have much time.
I'm here to help.
You tried to kill me.
No, liv.
I loved you.
[gasping]
You know that.
You know I loved you.
I did. Always.
I can prove it to you.
But not here.
It's--it's just not the way it works.
You're on the right track.
I'm here to tell you that.
You're looking for a person,
But jacob fischer is after him also.
You need to get to him first,
Before fischer can use him.
Use him for what?
[breathing heavily]
Use him for what?
How do you know that?
I will prove it, liv.
That I love you. Always.
But not just yet.
You're just gonna have to wait.
(olivia) there were weight sensors in the elevator.
So just before impact,
The car weighed 1,440 pounds.
The combined weight of the victims,
1,275 pounds.
Leaving a discrepancy of 165 pounds.
Meaning someone walked out of there alive.
Okay.
Somebody got lucky. So what?
Walter's theoretical test subject.
I think he's real
And that this might be him.
The only problem with that scenario
Is that it doesn't make sense.
If he was in the elevator car,
He should've been electrocuted
Just like everybody else.
And that's if the impact didn't kill him first.
Not necessarily.
If this person is both the source and the conductor
Of a large amount of electrical current,
Then it could well induce a form
Of electrodynamic levitation.
That's the technology behind maglev trains.
They essentially float on an electromagnetic cushion.
So he floated.
Like my necklace in the elevator?
Um, no, but...
It is possible that he could've levitated
Long enough to escape the brunt of the impact.
That still doesn't make sense.
If you can sabotage machines,
You wouldn't sabotage one you're in.
[chuckles]
Unless it was unintentional.
An accident.
Maybe whoever we're looking for
Isn't in control of their abilities.
Maybe they don't even know what they're doing.
Then we shouldn't be looking for big events.
We should be looking for small ones.
Unintentional ones.
[zap] oh, come on!
Damn it!
Just a small discharge.
Negligible compared to the voltage
Coursing through that elevator.
I say we need to find this person and soon.
Before he finds out exactly what he's capable of.
Wool socks.
(olivia) charlie, thanks for waking up the team.
Sure, look, we got reports of anomalies
Clusterearound the outlying parts
Of worcester and the herndon building.
Parking garage, gates,
Automatic doors, a few cctvs.
Well, we need more.
Enough to discern a pattern.
You know, saying somebody's doing all this.
You do know that's crazy, right?
If it weren't, we wouldn't be looking for him.
Mmm, joseph. Mom.
What time is it?
Where the hell have you been?
Mom.
I think I made a big mistake.
You? Surprise.
No, pl--
Please just listen to me.
Please.
A few months ago,
I was reading this magazine,
And there was this ad in the back
About tapping into your hidden potential, you know?
And I--I figured it couldn't hurt.
So I went down to this office.
They did some tests.
Did you give them money? No, just listen--
What the hell's the matter with you?
They put me under some hypnosis.
I don't know.
And they--they said they were gonna, uh, realign
The electrical impulses of my brain.
Make it mimic a more confident person.
Oh--
No, but they did something to me!
They changed me.
I can't remember.
And now all these things have been happening.
I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do. What do I--
I'm dying-- stop it!
Get a hold of your--
Damn it, mom!
For once, please!
Please help me.
Pills.
Oh, my god, oh, my god.
No, no, no, please.
Pills.
Hello? Hello?
Hello?
Joseph meegar.
You don't have to be scared, joseph.
We want to help you.
We're here to adjust your medication.
You did this to me.
What did you--
Looking for anything unusual.
Systems going offline,
Random power surges.
Hey, I've got another incident.
Hold on.
Bicoastal parcel.
Guy lost his hand in a conveyor malfunction.
Bicoastal parcel?
Yeah.
I gotta call you back.
What?
Herndon building security sign-in sheet.
Bicoastal parcel.
Joseph meegar.
She was found dead.
A pacemaker malfunction.
Olivia thinks they may have found our guy.
Yeah, now we just have to find him.
Time of death was around 1:15 a.m.,
So god knows where he could be by now.
Ask her what's visible in the event perimeter.
Electronic, specifically.
Walter wants to know what's in the apartment.
What kind of gadgets.
(peter on phone) uh, specifically electronics.
Um, okay, there's a answering machine.
An answering machine.
(olivia on phone) telephone. Telephone.
Boom box. Boom box.
Fan. Fan.
B--boom box.
That's a device for playing music.
Cassette tapes, yes?
Yes, but now's not really the time.
Anything else, olivia?
(olivia on phone) television.
(peter) a television.
(olivia on phone) lamps.
(peter) a lamp.
Walter, walter.
Pay attention, would you?
We're doing this for you.
Tell olivia to come home.
I know how to find him.
So...
So what is this?
This is the sort of work I was born for.
You were hoping for something more specific, maybe?
Everyone has a unique magnetic fingerprint.
I said that, yes?
But it is limited.
Barely traceable,
Except in people like mr.--
What's his name?
Meegar.
But since mr. Meegar has been enhanced,
He'll give off a stronger signal than your average joe.
So what's that got to do with the cassette tape?
The cassette tape is as simple as it gets.
Once exposed to a magnetic field,
It remains permanently magnetized.
Given the strength of mister...
Meegar's electromagnetic signature,
Plus his proximity to the tape,
I have little doubt
That that cassette has been imprinted
With meegar's electrical signature.
It--it's kind of like when a film camera
Double-exposes a picture.
Gotcha.
Now we just take out the music
And see what we have left.
Uh-huh.
Well...
Wait, wait, wait-- there it is.
[slaps knee, stomps foot]
That's him.
That's mister...
(all) meegar.
Yes.
Now to find meegar.
How?
Birds.
Wait, you mean that pigeon thing?
Mm-hmm.
You believe we can find him using pigeons?
It's possible.
As I've said,
I can program carrier pigeons
To track a strong electromagnetic field.
We have his signature.
Now all we need are birds.
I--I wish you told me earlier,
Because then I could've been working on it.
So how many?
Not many. Two dozen.
Two dozen.
[scoffs] great.
[door slams]
Wait...where am I?
Tell fischer he woke up.
What is-- what is this place?
Hey, what are you doing?
What are you--
No, no, no!
No, wait, no--please!
Please, please, please!
[electric zapping]
(peter) you ready?
(walter) yes, ideal.
Walter, you're not gonna accidentally fry
One of those pigeons?
Stranger things have happened.
That's his motto.
As I said,
Pigeons contain traces of magnetite in their beaks.
Like hundreds of tiny
Compass needles.
The tesla coils will create
An artificial electromagnetic field,
Which I have already matched
With mister...
Uh, whatever's unique signature,
And will now imprint onto the pigeon.
So we set all of these birds free and they...
Fly to joseph meegar.
Yeah, I know.
Me too. I'll believe it when I see it.
Step back.
Work to be done.
[crackling]
Gps chip's ready?
Yep.
So we're putting gps chips on carrier pigeons
To find a man who can control electricity?
I have you to thank for that, don't I?
Yeah, that's me.
[unintelligible whisper]
No!
You listened.
You're not real.
The last time we spoke,
You listened.
You stay the hell away from me.
Liv.
I didn't betray you.
You know that. In your heart.
You know I wasn't the one.
[footsteps approaching]
(peter) hey.
I think this bird thing
Might actually work.
You okay?
Hey, charlie.
Oh, thanks.
Did I miss anything?
I think the show's about to start.
I know we've only been together for a short time,
But I think I'm going to miss them.
Such majestic creatures.
They're rats with wings.
You'll get over it.
[electronic beeping]
All right, gps is active.
Excellent.
Then we're ready.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Start your engines.
[engine revs]
Start it up.
(walter) come on, come on.
[whistles sharply]
[laughing]
Are you sure this is gonna work?
Of course not.
(peter) seriously, if this works--
You're gonna have some more faith
In your father?
No.
So what do we do now?
We gotta tie the gps to the mainframe.
Genius.
And we're in.
And there are the birds.
I don't see them.
Yeah, we lost the birds.
They're going northwest
Towards mill street.
[peter on speaker] we're approaching mill now.
Uh, make a left.
Take a left.
[tires squealing]
I see them.
(peter) all right, we got 'em.
I see 'em.
Glad you got the car washed?
Ah! Ah!
What is that?
It is unfair.
And I appreciate that.
The position you find yourself in now
Must be so surreal for you.
Oh, my god! What did you do to me?
My head...hurts so much.
Those had to be subdermal.
They can be removed later.
What am I doing here?
No-no-no--ah!
You don't realize
What you are.
I'm scared.
Okay?
You wanted to be confident.
That's why you came to us.
No, I don't want to be confident.
I don't need to be confident.
But you are now.
I just want my life back!
I just want to go back to how it was, please!
Look what science has made you, joseph.
You are special.
No.
Make a right on tempest.
Take your next right.
[tires squeal]
All right, I think they've stopped.
There.
(peter) all right, I got 'em. I see 'em.
Okay, we're heading there now.
Then our work is done.
Good luck.
Hey, you stay here.
Whatever you say, boss.
I'm not gonna ask.
Good.
What is it?
Visitors. Front entrance.
Take him out through the back.
Wait at the depot.
You'll be contacted there.
What about you?
He's the priority.
No movement.
Stand back.
Where are you taking me?
Get in.
Get those hands up.
(charlie) I said get your hands in the air.
Joseph meegar.
Where is he?
I'm sorry. Who?
Take upstairs.
We'll go around.
Freeze!
Stop!
Joseph!
Stop or I will shoot!
They're gonna keep him heavily sedated for a while.
Don't want him pulling his whole electro-man thing.
. Meegar.
Miss, no one will tell me where I'm going.
To the hospital.
They're going to perform some exams.
Check to see that your head's okay.
And then I'm gonna have some questions for you.
I want to go home.
I didn't want to hurt anybody.
We're going to help you.
That's what they said.
Please... I want to go home.
I'm afraid we can't let you do that.
That one can go out the back.
Thank you, my dear.
What's my name?
Starts with "a."
Yes?
Astrid.
[laughs]
I knew it.
Ah, olivia.
Peter told me to tell you, if I saw you,
That he was returning the pigeons.
Walter.
What's--
It's milk.
From gene.
Do you want some?
(olivia) I'll pass.
Are you certain? Mm-hmm.
Hmm.
The color in your face.
You're looking a little pallid.
Are you feeling well?
Fine.
I'm a little tired. That's all.
Well, I don't yet know you
Well enough to ask this,
But, uh...
You haven't seemed yourself lately.
I haven't been sleeping very well.
I've been...
Nothing.
See you tomorrow.
You've been seeing him.
Your friend.
John scott.
I'm not surprised.
There is a reason.
I've been having hallucinations.
No.
Not hallucinations.
Walter.
What's happening?
I can't be sure.
The brain is a mystery.
But I believe
When you were in the tank,
John scott...
That part of his consciousness
Crossed over into yours.
And it's still there.
His memories.
Experiences, thoughts.
You understand me, yes?
These aren't memories.
He appears right in front of me.
He talks to me.
Yes, he would.
Like a waking dream.
Because he doesn't belong there.
There's only room for one voice in your head,
Not two.
This is your brain's way
Of working it out.
Your mind is expelling him.
Exorcising his thoughts.
He'll go away.
Is that what you're saying?
I don't know.
[tires screech]
[gunshot]
[door opens]
John?
(broyles) our team's still cataloging
All the files that we found in the cellar.
Apparently john scott was conducting
His own investigations.
Did the files give any indication
Of who he might've been working for?
Not that we can see.
But it appears that many of the cases
Were pattern-related.
He knew about the pattern.
He also knew about our friend dr. Fischer.
In fact, he knew quite a bit more than we did.
Including seven other potential josephs
That fischer was subjecting to treatments.
Fortunately, none of them had activated yet.
We were able to locate all seven.
Medical services is examining them now.
But they appear to be fine, thanks to you.
Fischer's still refusing to cooperate,
But I suspect six weeks in solitary
Might change his mind.
(olivia) well, I hope you're right about that.
And there was also something else.
John scott's personal effects.
(john) I will prove it, liv, that I love you.
Always.