Previously on Fringe...
Walternate said that there's a very powerful piece of ancient tech.
Has he finished assembling it?
He was missing several pieces.
This machine is dangerous.
Which is why we need to understand it.
Our Agent Dunham, has she made contact?
She's on the other side, focused on the task at hand.
I had a really nice time tonight.
Me too.
I don't know what your mission is.
I imagine it requires you to gain Peter bishop's trust.
You're in over your head.
Your emotions betray you,
And you question your ability to pull this off.
And that will lead to your undoing.
I would like to talk to you.
I lied to you. About what?
I don't want to talk.
Stockton harbor, Stockton harbor, come in.
Requesting clearance.
Tide is coming in strong.
Pulling a fog bank in from the East.
It's close to shore, so watch yourself
And take it slow.
Copy that. We see it up ahead.
Looks like pea soup.
Maintain a bearing at three-five-eight.
I've hung a lantern out for you.
Shen, are you seriously not coming?
Dude, when I crack this thing,
They are gonna write books about me.
Hey, Beck. You want a tea?
Love one.
Hey, Aaron. You gonna make mommy a tea?
It's starting.
Okay, I'll leave you alone.
Captain Barrett to fort point light station.
Come in. Over.
Fort point, we're lost in the fog bank.
We can't see the light. Over.
Fort point, are you there?
This is Swedish fish. Come in.
Murray, it's Dave. I've got no eyes out here.
Hey, I forgot my I.D.
Dude.
Shen?
Becky.
Stay away from me. Whoa.
I said stay back!
Who are you?
It's me, laird.
Who am I?
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This is better than room service.
What did I do to get so lucky?
Nothing.
It's just for being you.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
So what's the latest catastrophe I want to know nothing about?
Well, uh, earthquakes, oil spills,
Financial disaster.
It's not really the best way to start the day.
Here I thought there was nothing good
Until the entertainment section.
What's in the entertainment section?
I don't know, but you should find out.
I love u2.
I figured we were way overdue for a normal date.
That is just so sweet and so kind of romantic.
Try not to sound so shocked.
Thank you.
Walter?
Walter, is that you?
Of course it's me.
I came in this morning and found your little project.
And what project would that be?
You know very well what project.
You are continuing to work on this infernal device...
The one depicted in the blueprints.
That's correct. I'm running diagnostics.
I thought I made my...
You have no idea what it does.
You might as well be building a nuclear bomb in my lab.
I don't think that's entirely fair.
Do you? Well, fine.
If you end up breaking the universe,
This time, it's on your head.
What was that about?
It's nothing.
Apparently, Walter doesn't want me
Playing with his toys.
Dunham.
Yes, sir.
We'll meet you there.
Broyles.
Guess that means we're doing the crossword in the car.
So 15 people all up and down the eastern seaboard
All suffered from retrograde amnesia at the same time?
Around 10:45 P.M. Collective memory loss.
That's a new one for the medical books.
According to the Pentagon, the victims were all using
Shortwave radios.
Ham-radio enthusiasts...
Maybe their brains were erased by the magnetic winds
From the solar storm?
If it hadn't happened four hours after sundown,
You might be on to something.
Becky Woomer.
Her husband said he left her alone
For roughly three minutes.
In that time, she forgot all details
About her life, including her name.
The d.O.D. Is concerned
This could be a test run for a potential terror attack.
The doctors at the hospital don't understand it.
They can't even tell me if she's gonna get her memory back.
Did your wife ever tell you what it was she was listening to?
Becky was a moderator in a chat room.
They listen to number stations.
Number stations?
I don't know much about them.
They're kind of a mystery.
A reel-to-reel.
I used to have one exactly like this.
I remember hours spent ripped out of my gourd
Listening to Beatles albums backwards for secret messages.
They weren't there.
So apparently Becky recorded last night's broadcast.
Whatever she heard should be on that tape.
Listening to what they recorded last night could cause us
To forget why we wanted to listen
In the first place, Einstein.
Did he say what he thinks is on it?
He said that she spends her nights listening
To numbers on random ham-radio stations.
She's trying to crack some code.
Number stations?
You heard of them?
Number stations...
Nobody knows what they are or even where they come from.
As far as anyone knows,
They're artificially generated voices
Reading streams of random numbers
In a wide variety of languages.
The department of defense hired us to investigate them.
Other than the fact that they were first discovered
More than 70 years ago, we came up with nothing.
We could never triangulate their point of origin.
This one we picked up four years ago.
Some people think they may be covert communications
Between spies or drug traffickers.
Problem is no one has been able to find proof
To support any theory at all, so at the moment,
They remain unexplained.
But the number broadcasts
Have never caused amnesia before.
Not to the best of our knowledge.
Perhaps Peter would like to play last night's tape
Aloud to everyone,
Given his recent fondness
For dangerous activity.
As soon as she's up to it,
I would like to examine the woman who lost her mind.
And I think I know a way
To analyze the tape without losing our memories.
Oh, I need something from the child development center.
Sixth floor?
Actually, the seventh.
You might want to escort him, Peter.
Yesterday, he spent 15 minutes in front
Of a utility closet thinking it was the elevator.
Right.
Be right back.
Would you mind if Astrid took a look at your research?
She might pick up something that your code bre
Of course.
Olivia, are Peter and Walter okay?
Yeah.
You know we found a piece of the machine
That walternate is building,
And Peter's trying to figure it out.
He should.
We need to know what we're dealing with.
Except Walter doesn't agree. He won't help.
He's setting up roadblocks for Peter.
You know, you two go back a long way.
Maybe you could talk to him.
What, you're not having any luck?
Oh, I haven't tried.
But that's not like you.
You're usually more direct with Walter.
Well, it's complicated between them.
I don't want to make it worse.
I'll speak with Walter.
Dunham.
Yes?
Where?
Homeland security traced the broadcast.
When they tried to contact the tower employees,
They didn't get a response.
As far as we can tell,
The break-in happened around 10:30.
Security system was state-of-the-art.
Whoever did this was a pro, but there's something else.
How the hell is it doing that?
It's not floating exactly.
Apparently it's got some sort of magnetics inside.
So do you think that this was the source
Of last night's number broadcast?
It's definitely wired to output a transmission.
Hold on.
I want to see that panel.
I need the print powder.
It's impossible to do microelectronics
With gloves on.
Let's get this to Dr. Bishop.
This should keep me busy for...
Eternity.
Thank you.
Okay, that was Olivia.
They're analyzing the fingerprints they found
Up at the radio tower, and they think they found
The device used to upload last night's broadcast.
What?
What's that?
"property of massive dynamic"?
It's not theft if you own the company.
I've found a way to listen
To the tape of the numbers broadcast
Without losing what faculties I have left.
Well, how'd you manage that?
The key is analog demodulation.
I knew my Jimi Hendrix
Wah-wah pedal would come in handy.
Take a look.
This is the sound of the transmission,
Modified so it's safe, of course.
But if we demodulate...
so there are two signals?
Precisely.
The top wave is the numbers.
The bottom wave, which I have suppressed,
Is a pulse.
And I believe that this is responsible for the amnesia.
Someone found a way to attach
This pulse to the numbers broadcast.
Well, that explains why nobody's
Been affected by listening to the number stations before,
Because they're not causing the problem.
So we still don't know where the numbers are coming from,
But I suspect that the device that Agent Dunham found
Is the source of the pulse.
Okay, but who would do this,
And why give these people amnesia?
Because they cracked the code,
Or they came damn close to figuring out
What number stations are.
And somebody wants to keep that a secret.
Well done.
You sounded very Sherlock Holmes just then.
That would make you Watson, dear.
Walter...
Is this the soundboard I was using
To run diagnostics on the weapon?
I was using it to down-convert the signal.
Really?
I was focused on solving the case at hand.
I'm not concerned with preserving
Your wretched experiment.
Now, if you don't mind, I have some thinking to do.
This has got to stop.
Walter...
I asked you not to work on that device in my lab.
They're working on it on the other side.
We need to understand exactly what it does.
What's to understand?
You're playing with fire.
Stop being so bullheaded and put a stop to this.
Walter...
When I touched that device on the other side...
It came alive in my hands...
Like it was bonded directly to me.
How can you expect me to ignore that?
I just talked to Olivia.
They pulled a picture of our suspect from his prints.
She's taking it to the Woomer house now
To show it to the husband.
Becky was released from the hospital.
She's back home now. Oh.
His name is Joseph feller.
Earlier today, we picked up his prints
From a radio tower
Just outside Boston.
His last known address
Was, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
That was 1997.
But since then, he's been off the map.
I've never seen him before in my life.
Do you mind if we poke around a little bit?
There's some things here that could be useful to us.
Maybe check out her computer, her address book?
Of course.
Read this and then do what it says.
"stand up, then sit down."
Wonderful. Thank you.
Earlier, I told you the names of three things.
Cat, horse, cotton candy.
Very good.
It's beautiful.
I don't remember doing this.
I suppose I was knitting it for the baby.
I don't recognize him.
I don't recognize that man who is out there.
I look at the pictures everywhere,
And I see myself in them,
But I-I don't know them.
The human brain is a miracle...
A most resilient organ...
A storage unit for everything you have ever known...
Seen, or felt.
It's all still in there,
Whether or not you're conscious of that.
This is a list of everybody that Becky talked to
About the number stations.
You recognize anyone?
Ed Markam?
Bookstore owner, purveyor of rare manuscripts,
Your favorite ladies' man?
Oh, right. How could I forget?
I'm gonna give him a call,
See if maybe he has some idea about this.
Walter, are you all right?
I know what it's like,
What this woman's going through.
I lived it.
To not recognize your life...
It's awful.
I'm sorry, Walter.
Don't be.
Let's just focus on putting a stop to this
Before more people get hurt.
Baltimore center, this is landau 287.
Request to divert to Richmond. Over.
Roger, landau 287.
Weather is...
Level five thunderstorm...
You'll have...
Baltimore center, say again. You're breaking up.
A small plane
Went down just outside of Owings mills, Maryland.
NTSB just released a statement.
It looks like the plane's radio
Was tuned into the same frequency
As the second numbers broadcast.
Precisely what I was worried about.
A second attack, and now not only do we have
20 new amnesiacs, but 6 people died.
Damn it!
Why can't I get a current?
Maybe you reversed the poles?
No.
It just doesn't make sense.
Everything that I know about the physics of electricity
Says that this device shouldn't work at all.
Walter, I know that you're angry right now, and I get it.
I cannot make heads or tails of this code.
It's immense.
It's not even just one code. The... the numbers are a code.
The time between the numbers is a code.
Yes, sir?
Okay, I will make sure that he gets it.
That was Agent broyles.
There was another radio tower break-in.
It was unmanned, so nobody was hurt,
But they found another cube...
The one that must have downed the aircraft.
They're sending it over right now.
Wonderful.
Another cube I can't make any sense of.
Well...
Maybe this will do us some good?
All right, let's get back to work.
Number stations?
It was a hobby.
I banged my head on that wall for five years and gave up.
Stamp collecting...
Now there's a hobby with dividends.
Well, all the people who listened
To the last two number broadcasts
Have had their memories wiped.
We're trying to identify who's behind it.
Are you serious?
Whatever they knew and whatever they figured out
About the numbers,
Somebody made sure that they forgot it.
So whatever you know about what they mean would really help us.
Okay... I'll help you,
But you have to promise me I'll be safe.
Sure. Done.
Just tell us what you know about the stations.
First of all, they're as old as Di.
They say when Marconi invented the radio,
The first thing he heard was the numbers,
Like they were floating around in space
Just waiting for someone to listen.
So you're trying to tell me that Marconi
Picked up a transmission before humans invented
The technology to send one?
Creepy, right?
Wow, the first people.
By Seamus wiles, 1897.
There was only one edition.
You're holding one of the last copies.
And this will tell us what the numbers mean?
No, but it'll tell you where they came from,
Or one theory at least.
By "first people," what are we talking about...
Adam and eve?
No, before dinosaurs,
Before all of it, there were the first people...
The first humans to evolve on this planet.
If you don't know anything, you can just say that. I'm serious.
Look, just read the book. It's all in there.
How much do you want for it?
I don't want your money. I want protection.
What if someone comes to erase my memories?
I should be so lucky.
Thanks, Markam.
Fantastic.
Now I have bookends.
Definitely a conversation piece.
Nina... If I had known you were coming,
I'd have baked a cake.
He means that...
Literally. Next time I'll call.
Hello, Astrid.
Walter, I need to speak with you.
I forgot how serious this campus has become.
I remember my time here quite differently.
We did have fun, didn't we?
Don't know what happened to this generation.
I have a prescription.
So do I.
Look at all these students.
When did they become so afraid?
We had the courage to think against the grain
Of what we were told.
We let our curiosity be our guide.
So why stop Peter from following his?
What Peter's doing is different.
He's bent on pursuing something despite the grave risks
It poses to his well-being.
You can't create a vaccine without working with the virus.
No, but I have experienced what this kind of hubris can do.
Well, and yet you didn't heed anyone's warnings.
I begged you to stop, but you insisted
On finding a way to cross over.
Peter wouldn't be here now if you hadn't.
If he continues to investigate...
Yes, well, he will continue to investigate
Whether you like it or not.
Then he will play right into Walternate's hands.
I... what do you mean?
If only one world can survive,
Then it stands to reason that walternate will use Peter
To ensure that it's his world that does.
He's already built as much of the machine as he can.
He gave the blueprints to Peter
And asked him to complete it...
Even though... This...
It could kill him.
I remember, Walter,
But who says this is the only outcome?
It's a drawing, not destiny.
Even if you're right about Walternate's plan,
I mean, you don't know if he'll succeed.
And given the stakes,
Won't Peter need your guidance more than ever?
Walter...
One of the things I have most admired about you
Is your optimism.
Don't become a fatalist now.
So according to this...
Something happened,
Some sort of cataclysm that so completely decimated
The first people, they were just wiped out
Of the historical record.
So how did Seamus wiles know about them?
Yeah, exactly.
They were apparently very technologically advanced.
They discovered the vacuum.
Oh, the vacuum cleaner?
No.
The vacuum as in "the source of all creation and destruction."
Interesting.
This book is useless. There's nothing here.
What were the numbers on the first broadcast?
Why?
Well, if you were to believe the book,
The first people measured time in months
That had wildly different numbers of days in them.
But humor me. What were the numbers?
12...
34, 17...
9, 15, and, uh...
8, 42, 40.
Yeah.
The numbers of the first broadcast
Correspond exactly with the numbers in this book.
They match the numbers of this calendar exactly.
Never thought I'd say this, but I think Markam's right.
Somehow the number stations are connected
To these first people.
What the hell does that mean?
It's fascinating. Remarkable.
Read more.
You don't actually believe this?
An ancient people who evolved before the dinosaurs
Just vanished without a trace?
It's... it's absurd.
Why should we be so arrogant as to assume
That we're the first homo sapiens to walk the earth.
I mean, history is full of extinction events...
Climate change, meteorites, Atlantis.
Atlantis? Peter, come on.
Help me out here.
I don't know what I believe yet.
All I know is that the numbers in their calendar
Correspond with the numbers of the first broadcast.
That can't just be a coincidence.
"they were a people of great technological prowess
"who made the ultimate discovery.
"a mechanism known to them as the vacuum,
"containing at once
Both the power to create and to destroy."
"the vacuum."
What a wonderful name, and it verifies some of my theories.
What theories, Walter? Create and destroy what?
Well, everything.
Many religions speak of such a power.
And science, the big bang,
And it's counterpart, the big crunch.
The universe expanding and contracting
And expanding...
An endless cycle of creation and destruction.
Okay, let's run with that.
Let's say that these first people
Did create this mechanism
And then somehow translated into a code.
And now someone is wiping people's memories
To keep the code a secret?
Not so surprising.
It's the key to the universe.
It's a secret worth protecting.
Hey.
Sorry I'm late,
But I thought these might cheer you up.
Oh! Malassadas!
Oh, it's wonderful.
Anything new in the book?
I'm sure the numbers hold the answers,
But beyond that, nothing tangible.
Wait a minute.
Hey, Walter?
Come here. Take a look at this.
This transistor
Is newer than the rest of them.
Somebody must have replaced it.
It's polish, and it's military grade.
There's only couple places that are licensed
To sell parts like that, and they're all regulated,
Which means that you have to give
A verified address to buy one.
I'm gonna make some phone calls.
May I borrow that?
I feel a bowel movement coming on.
Walter.
Can you tell Peter I'll be back?
I'm gonna let broyles know where we're at.
Avocado, cucumber, and cheese.
In 1974, the c.I.A. Asked me to develop
The best sandwich for clarity of thought.
There's too much information here.
But of course the chips
Are just because I like foods that crunch.
There has to be a pattern here.
Every code relies on a pattern.
I just need to see it. But you can't.
That's your problem.
Thanks for the vote of confidence.
Oh, oh, no, no, no, no, no.
No, I-I simply meant that to break the code
You would have to think like they did,
And they lived millions and millions of years ago.
I-I mean, for one thing, look at their concept of time.
Nine days in a month?
If you're not going to eat those chips,
May I?
What? What? What happened?
Here.
Read me this calendar.
How many days are in each month?
Why?
Humor me.
The first two are 12 and 34.
Then 17, 9, 15.
What are you thinking, Watson?
That maybe what we're missing is a cipher matrix...
Our decoder ring.
Okay, what are the next months?
8, 42, 40, 27...
We got a problem.
The secretary said we weren't supposed to meet.
Well, the secretary is on the other side.
He can't foresee every turn of events.
Now, you replaced a transistor in one of the boxes.
Polish... they found it.
They're tracking the sale as we speak.
Who are these people?
Look, you were sloppy. You've jeopardized the mission.
I'm supposed to upload another pulse tomorrow.
I think you've done enough.
We've got their attention.
There's no need to hurt any more innocent people.
What do they say on this side?
"all's fair in love and war"?
If they were in our shoes, they would do exactly
What we're doing. Dunham.
We've got an address on the suspect.
Joseph feller. 989 Nelson street, Medford.
We're en route with backup.
Okay, I'm on my way.
They're coming.
Where should I go?
Do you have any information on my next mission?
Yeah, I do.
Olivia's already here.
It's a shape-shifter.
Olivia...
Thank God you're all right.
Tell me what happened.
He... he came at me. I had no choice.
But you're all right? Yeah, I'm all right.
But, uh, he was coming out as I got here, and...
But you're all right? Uh-huh.
Any breakthroughs?
I don't know.
I thought that maybe if I added up
All the numbers.
Well, keep at it.
And I wouldn't go in the bathroom, dear.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on!
I need to look at that body.
You got a pair of gloves on you?
What is it?
Well, it makes sense now why Walter couldn't figure out
The tech that emitted the amnesia pulse.
It must have come from the other side.
Which suggests walternate knows what the numbers mean.
He must be the one protecting the code.
What?
Data storage unit.
I'm guessing we're not gonna get anything off of that.
It's toast.
Dunham.
I think I cracked the code.
I know what number stations are.
It's a coordinate system.
These numbers indicate locations.
Latitude and longitude.
35 degrees and 40 minutes south
By 58 degrees and 40 minutes West,
That's just outside Buenos Aires, Argentina.
All of these numbers indicate specific locations
On a globe... Ethiopia, Spain, China.
So what's there at the end of the points?
So far as I can tell, nothing special...
A farmhouse, public swimming pool,
And random stuff like that.
We're not looking for a man-made structure.
If this message is millions of years old,
Then we're likely talking about something
Buried beneath the earth.
How many locations?
I haven't finished plugging in all the numbers,
But so far, 22.
And what's the closest one?
What'd I miss?
Oh, uh, thank you. Nothing yet.
They just pulled up an old buried football, so...
I had to go back. Forgot to say "skim."
you walked there twice?
You didn't have to do that. Well, I had a motive.
It's the little things that make me irresistible.
What if he's right?
Walter? Right about what?
I've been thinking, Peter.
Your father's concerned about building Walternate's device.
What if it does mean the destruction
Of one universe or... or the other?
We don't know that yet.
That's not really my point.
If you knew that only...
One of our worlds could survive
And if it was up to you, and you alone,
To defend your side...
You'd have no choice, right?
I mean, you would have to do what you had to do...
No matter the cost to protect...
Our world.
There are billions of innocent people over there...
Just like here...
People with jobs, families, lives.
I got to believe there's another way.
And whatever my part in all of this is...
I got to believe there's another way.
There's always hope, right?
We got something!
Oh, my.
Dunham.
I just identified the last coordinates...
Milton, Massachusetts, the house where the first piece
Of Walternate's machine was buried.
Do you think it's possible
That these locations are all a part of the machine,
That Walternate's device is the vacuum
Described in the first people book?
Uh, yes.
I think they're one and the same.
Astrid finished the code.
There are 37 more locations.
In that case...
It seems we have work to do.
We have to recover the pieces,
Assemble it, and figure out how it works.
Okay, let's clear this out!
Creation and destruction...
I suppose we'll have to hope for the former.
Dunham.
Agent Dunham, this is Brandon Fayette.
Oh, Brandon, hey. Uh, I'm on my way.
I should be about an hour.
Actually, that's why I'm calling.
The secretary has decided to postpone today's procedure.
So when do you want me to come in?
It may not be necessary.
We'll let you know.
Okay.
Bye.
You have to get out of here.
You know why they canceled the last test, don't you?
Whatever they needed from you, they have it now.
It's not safe for you here anymore, Olivia.
You have to go home.
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