Fringe/Recap/S01/E20

Season 1, Episode 20:

There's More Than One of Everything
Just as Olivia is able to identify David Robert Jones as the culprit behind the shooting, Nina comes out of surgery and reveals that Jones stole a power cell from her mechanical arm. Olivia wants to speak to William Bell, but Nina claims that the reason she can't is the reason behind what's happening: William Bell is living in the alternate universe, and Jones plans to travel to it and kill him. Nina offers Olivia a chance to meet with Bell if she can first stop Jones. Meanwhile, Jones attempts to open a doorway between universes in the middle of a New York intersection, but its unstable. He tries again later at a soccer field out of town, but that attempt fails too and causes several deaths.

At the same time, the Observer brings Walter to the Bishop's old beach house and tells him that something important must be found before it's too late. Peter arrives, having heard a police report that Walter was up near the beach house, and together they manage to find a device that Walter built and hid away in case he needed it: a device capable of closing a hole between universes. Walter reveals that he created the doorway between universes because he'd lost something very precious, but it still existed on the other side so he went through the doorway and took it. The pair travel out to Reiden Lake, the place where Walter first created the doorway.

Olivia, Broyles and Nina Sharp try to determine the pattern behind Jones' attempts to travel between universes, and finally realise the significance of the Pattern: all the fringe incidents are spiralling outwards from three epicentres, the first being the New York intersection, the second being the soccer field and the third being Reiden Lake. Jones, the Bishops and Fringe Division all converge on Reiden Lake at the same time: ZFT members try to fight off FBI agents as Jones creates the doorway. At the last moment, Peter gets close enough to use Walter's device and it closes the doorway just as Jones is halfway through, killing him.

At the end of the episode, Walter visits a grave that reads "Peter Bishop: 1978-1985". Nina Sharp brings Olivia to New York and without realising, she is transported to the alternate universe to meet William Bell, in his office at the top of the World Trade Center's south tower.


 * Holy Shit Quotient: Quite high in the final minutes of the episode.
 * Title Drop: From the Observer, explaining where the coin he found came from.
 * Wham! Episode: Peter died when he was 9! William Bell is alive, in another world, and is Leonard Nimoy! And the alternate universe still has the Twin Towers, but lost the White House! And John F. Kennedy's still alive!
 * Wham! Line: "Peter Bishop: 1978-1985"