The skin-grow virus. Right up until the point when Peter and Olivia who wore gas masks during this sequence found Broyles. But hey: Broyles! Had an epiphany. Reboot is cheating! Live strong and creatively! The mystery of this object captured my imagination, and the emotional power of the scene floored me.
Walter — dressed in a warm wool sweater instead of the white lab coat he has worn in the other scavenger hunt videos — looked into the camera and said:. I sent you a letter. It contains something of mine. I imagine you called to ask why I would send such a strange letter. So you came to find me at the lab but I was not to be found. I was here one moment and then vanished off the face of the earth the next. I want you to know I am fine, living many, many years from now.
You will never see me again. You will never see me again to insure the future of humanity. Your future. The future of Olivia. The future of Etta. The time together we stole. I cheated fate to be with you. Peter absorbed all of this with shock-faced numbness. Time and again, the younger Bishop had challenged fate and won. Not this time. A big part of the war to come had already been fought and lost long ago.
It will do so by deleting me and the boy at the moment of invasion. The boy and I will disappear after Apparently, self-aware, self-regulating Nature would prevent these anomalies from another history from migrating to the new past they were about to create. I rationalized this as another example of how J. Abrams dealt with time travel in his Star Trek film, i. I want to give you your life back.
As a father, how could I not do that for you. What I said on the tape, about stealing tome to be with you, I mean it. It would be their last hug. So many things to say about this scene, including what I saw a verbal pun.
Two Walters. A pair of grandpas. A pair of doctors. Grandfather Paradox. Yes, groan. They are coming. I think Fringe was sticking to past precedent. Fringe logic: Your reboot, you get rubbed away. Which was — all at once — a revelation, a relief, and a mystery. How was this possible? Well, yes, it is. It might not even be science.
The argument was known as The Grandfather Paradox. All of our assumptions that a timeline reset MUST go all the way back to Reiden Lake, all of our assumptions that knowledge and identity are irretrievably is lost when time travel reboots history — who says it HAS to be that way?
Perhaps this took the form of creating a different kind of Observer, one that played the role of September at Reiden Lake in the old timeline…. There always is! He is the secret fixer of master plan problems, paradoxes, and other perplexities. Like father, like son. Walter left a detailed set of Betamax Video Tapes, detailing where all of the pieces of The Plan could be found.
This was meant to act as a failsafe should something happen to Walter. It was meant to allow people from the future to execute the plan, regardless of whether or not Walter was still alive.
The videotapes were ambered in the Harvard Lab but stored out of sequence. The Fringe Division began to watch the tapes after Walter's memories were damaged by Windmark. However, because of their old age and the ambering process, the tapes were extremely damaged, making it difficult, but not impossible, to decipher their messages.
It was to be used to reorganize the pieces of the plan in Walter's brain so that their intent could be fully understood. Walter sent Olivia to retrieve the Thought Unifier in He also gave her an ambering device should she be compromised. She was able to retrieve that device but was unable to return to Boston in time. She ambered herself and the Thought Unifier on her way home.
Even the Thought Unifier, however, was unable to decipher Walter's memories after the trauma he endured at the hands of Captain Windmark. The crystalized quartz was discovered in the mines a rural Pennsylvania dwelling. According to Walter's tapes, they will supply a powerful energy source essential to executing the plan. Walter estimated about forty pounds were needed for the plan. Donald was dragged away by Observers years before at this very site. The quartz would act as an energy source to power the device.
While it would not start the device, it would continue to power it once it had been activated. An equation, recognized by Walter as being physics, was hidden at the Newark-Penn terminal in a vent. The equation was written in Walter's handwriting on a large piece of parchment, but Walter was unable to understand it.
He believed it was dictated to him, perhaps by September. The team met with Broyles, but the reunion was cut short after they were discovered by Observers. Broyles took the equation to keep it safe. The Observer Child discovered by the Fringe Division during the beginning of their Pattern investigations was rediscovered by Walter.
Walter and Donald created a Pocket Universe to store the child in until he was needed. However, at an unknown time, Donald moved the boy to a family in the woods.
He left behind a radio that would transmit the location of the boy, named Michael , to anyone seeking out pieces of the plan in the Pocket Universe. Suddenly they're surrounded by humans with severe, bark-like scabbing on their skin. Their leader, Edwin Massey , knows Walter, Peter Bishop , and Olivia from the secret library of holographic data cubes his people are keeping. Started by his father, the library records every major historical event from the day of the invasion onward.
Edwin explains they noticed the skin condition after settling there: small patches at first, spreading over time. He tells the Fringe team that they should leave unless they want to develop it too. Walter says he has to stay to obtain something from this area, something needed for his plan to defeat the Observers. Edwin's young son, River, knows about the Fringe team too. He's even made comic books about them, which he shows to Etta, Olivia, and Peter, calling them the last real heroes.
Walter eventually decides the skin condition is a severe immune reaction to the byproducts of the Observers' atmosphere-changing machinery in Central Park. It's like an extreme kind of psoriasis.
Astrid checks in, having gotten more information from the tape. She tells them that they have to find a mine. Edwin leads them to a nearby mine, formerly a gold mine where they find a body deep in a mineshaft, his body completely calcified. Walter determines that the immune reaction flares up intensely in anyone who enters the mine, causing immediate paralysis through the acceleration of the scabbing.
But one Loyalist, a resistance member, secretly contacts Etta's friend Anil, who warns her. Edwin shows the team a hologram from one of the data cubes: five weeks after the invasion, a man named Donald - dark-haired, in his late 30s - gathered several reddish rocks from the mine. He was waiting for a scientist from Boston when he was captured by two Observers.
Walter doesn't know, or remember, Donald. He's very puzzled For now, Walter can remove them. Olivia privately tells Peter her belief that Etta's disappearance was her punishment for feeling conflicted between motherhood and some other destiny. Peter reassures her and says their family's getting a second chance.
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