- A woman gives birth to a baby who ages eighty years in just a few minutes. Olivia soon finds connection between the incident and a serial killer she had been chasing.
- The team investigates another phenomena that may be part of the pattern. In this case, a woman who claims not to be pregnant gives birth to full-term child and in the space of four hours, the newborn grows old and dies. Dr. Bishop had conducted some experiments in this field with a colleague that also involved the man's son. Meanwhile, some aspects of the case convince Agent Dunham that it's the work of a serial killer who has been sought by the FBI for many years. To solve the case, she must rely on Nina Sharp to provide the necessary technology.—garykmcd
- After having sex in a motel, a woman called Loraine Daisy feels pain in the stomach and her partner drives her to the hospital. The medical team finds she is pregnant and she gives birth to a child that moments later grows old and dies. Olivia and Peter investigate the case and Dr. Bishop recalls an experiment he carried out to develop a young army with his colleague Dr. Claus Penrose. Olivia finds cases of women with the pituitary gland removed and she recalls an unsolved case that she worked in the FBI many years ago. Could the cases be connected?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Boston, Mass.
A man dresses after paying for the services of a young woman. Out of her sight, he takes out a kit of scary-looking surgical tools and prepares some sort of cocktail as the hooker babbles on the bed. Then she gets up, screaming. Something is happening to her stomach. He drives her somewhere as her stomach swells and she continues screaming. He leaves her at a hospital.
They ask her how many months pregnant she is. She says she's not pregnant, but her now-huge stomach says otherwise. The doctors prepare to cut her open, and there's a tearing and ripping noise. She dies, and they cut her open. Whatever they pull out of her is so nasty, the nurse screams.
Broyles (Lance Reddick) convenes a group of people to talk about the case. Nina Sharp (Blair Brown) is among them. Broyles introduces dossiers of his new team, including Dr. Walter Bishop (John Noble) and his son Peter (Joshua Jackson). Nina isn't thrilled he recruited Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv), who was having "an illicit affair with her partner", she notes. John Scott. (Mark Valley) Interesting choice of words.
Dunham, at home, looks over Agent Scott's still unsolved case. She gets a call from Broyles, telling her to pick up the Bishops and meet him at the hospital. She goes to Peter's, where his dad is hiding in the closet. Seventeen years in a prison psych ward will do that to you.
They arrive at the hospital, where Peter clarifies he's not officially on the team. Broyles briefs them on the case. The baby kept growing as they transferred it to intensive care. It lived for half an hour. They see the body of a dead elderly man. Dr. Bishop has some fancy scientific analysis, but wants to go back to his lab, which he doesn't remember having.
Broyles briefs Olivia and Peter on "the Pattern," the series of unexplained events.
Olivia gets word someone called about a woman at a hotel. Olivia wants Walter to go with her, but he barks at her. Peter goes instead to collect samples. He finds an orange gel on the sink.
Olivia looks at the bedsheets and notices something amiss. She tells Peter to open the cabinet; there will be sheets in it. There are. She knows the killer. It was a murderer she and Scott tracked but didn't catch.
The killer would kill five women in a short period of time, giving them a muscle paralyzer and cutting their mouth up to their brain. "And all of this relates to Magic Old Man Baby, how?" asks Peter. The muscle paralyzer he used was bright orange.
The same guy meets a woman at a strip club.
At FBI HQ, Agent Charlie Francis (Kirk Acevedo) briefs the troops on Agent Scott, who will be considered innocent until proven otherwise. Olivia arrives. Charlie wants to know why she wants to open a 12-year-old case and what Broyles has her working on. She blames herself for not stopping Scott.
Stoughton, Mass.
The creepy guy and his date arrive at a warehouse. He wants her to check out the view of the bridge. He starts to take out his tools, holding a syringe. When she finishes gazing at the bridge, they kiss and he injects her.
Harvard.
Peter drops by his father's lab. Walter is milking the cow. His tests on the man-baby are done. The DNA shows the woman was impregnated by a man who was the result of experiments he used to do. He's fuzzy on the details. He's very excited; he has remembered where he parked his car 17 years ago. They go to a garage, where he remembers the combination to the padlock. He says he has things hidden around town. He finds some files in the car.
Olivia looks over the files from the Brain Surgeon, as the killer was called. He removes women's pituitary glands.
Back at the lab, they look through the files. He says it has something to do with the pituitary. They find the name Dr. Claus Penrose in the files on the pituitary. Olivia and Peter head to his lab at Boston College.
The Brain Surgeon starts to work on the immobilized and terrified hooker.
Boston College...
Olivia shows Penrose the pictures of the Man Baby. Penrose renounces what he and Walter did and says he's tried to forget it.
At the lab, Walter examines the body of a recent victim Charlie had sent there. Her pituitary glad was removed. Walter thinks he might know why. He worked for the Defense Department years ago on a program designed to grow soldiers. It was theoretical, and the problem was how to slow the aging process once it started. He thinks the killer is a product of that experiment. Walter thinks, to slow his aging process, the killer has to inject himself with the women's pituitary gland juice. The woman who gave birth to the man baby was an accident. He impregnated her and the process took off, which is a whole new thing to worry about after a one-night stand.
At the warehouse, the killer gets a visit from Dr. Penrose who calls him "son." He asks him how the pain is. It's getting worse. Penrose says he just needs to get one more and killer guy/son will be OK again.
Walter talks science over a dead female body. He cites Jules Verne to Peter, who doesn't buy the Verne-posited "last image seen by a dead person can be recreated" theory. Walter thinks the fact she was given a muscle relaxer means the electrical impulse of the last image she saw might be stuck on her optic nerve. But they need a fancy-sounding machine to translate it into image.
Peter finds Olivia in the park and tells her their crazy idea. Only one company has the patent for the machine they need.
Massive Dynamic, NYC
Olivia and Broyles wait for Nina Sharp. Olivia tells him what Scott said about it being more than a coincidence she was recruited. He asks her if she was safe the last time she was with Scott. She starts writhing as something pokes out of her stomach.
Then she's startled back to the real world when a woman comes to tell her Nina is ready for her (and Broyles isn't there).
Nina offers her condolences for Agent Scott and makes a joke about how Olivia's male colleagues probably think she was sleeping with him. An employee arrives with the electronic pulse camera.
Back at the lab, the Bishops extract the victim's eyeball and hook up the camera.
At a noisy bar, the killer, not looking that swell, arrives to meet his next date.
He and dear old dad work on her in the warehouse.
Back at the lab, they see an image of a bridge. Astrid Farnsworth, played by (Jasika Nicole), (that female agent in the background you haven't noticed 'til now) recognizes it as being from Stoughton. They pull images and triangulate where the angle would come from, identifying a warehouse.
Olivia and Peter go to the warehouse. They find Penrose standing over the woman, who is still alive. Peter holds him at gunpoint while Olivia chases the killer. While he's calling in for field support, Penrose manages to flick the switch on the pinned hooker's IV. Peter calls Walter, asking him what to do about a young woman going into cardiac arrest. Walter asks if Peter has any cocaine. Failing that, he needs a defibrillator, which he also doesn't have.
Killer guy is running and graying at the same time.
Peter is jimmying something out of a power cord and duct tape--MacGyver-style emergency medicine. It works. The woman's heart starts beating.
Olivia follows the Brain Surgeon's coughing noises. She finds him, elderly and near death. He says they should have let him die, but Penrose kept him alive because he loved him. He croaks.
Olivia returns the camera to Nina. Nina tells her she doesn't think Olivia should be in public service. She offers her a job, citing the company's powers: the right to direct private armies overseas, developing weaponry. She thinks working at Massive Dynamic might help Olivia find answers, to the Pattern and other things.
At the Boston HQ, Broyles says Penrose is on the run. He reminds Olivia every aspect of the case is classified. He wants to know if Nina asked questions. Olivia tells him about the job offer. She tells Broyles she told Nina he was giving her a raise.
At the lab, Peter reads his contract with the FBI, which includes signing his rights away to the government. When he leaves, Walter mentions something about Peter's medical history, but it's news to her.
At the hotel, Walter wakes Peter up, saying numbers to himself, unable to sleep. Peter counters with "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," the song someone in the mental ward used to sing each night. Walter drifts off to sleep.
Fade out and in to three men on beds in a white room. Two are under plastic tubes. They might not be alive.
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