I Cant Let Peter Die Again

Fringe What Lies Below
Flavor ii, Episode 12

Air date	January 18, 2010
Written by	Jeff Vlaming
Directed by	Deran Sarafian
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"What Lies Below" is the 12th episode of the 2d season of Fringe.

Synopsis [ ]

When a human enters an office in Boston for a coming together, he becomes disoriented and collapses, only to have his veins erupt and spray blood everywhere. Presently after Olivia and Peter go far at the scene to investigate the bizarre example, information technology'due south discovered that a lethal virus - with deep ties to something very valuable - is spreading, so the CDC moves in to quarantine the building and eradicate the pathogens. Isolated within with the rest of the exposed office employees, Peter and Olivia face life-threatening circumstances, sending Walter, Broyles and Astrid on a frantic search for a solution to salvage them.

Plot [ ]

In Boston, a visibly sick man named Radjan Vandenkemp from the Netherlands arrives on the sixteenth floor of an office building, merely to collapse and die. The veins in his body erupt with blood, spraying surrounding witnesses. The Fringe squad arrive on-site, and while interviewing the witnesses, Mike who rode up with the victim also becomes sick. The sick human being attempts to leave the edifice, only to be stopped by Walter, who sees the human being spray out blood and realizes there is a contagion. The building is quarantined with Peter Bishop, Olivia Dunham, and the rest of the witnesses still within.

The CDC gear up base outside the edifice, and shortly clash with Walter, who wants some blood samples to take dorsum to his lab at Harvard. As another witness, Linda the receptionist falls sick, the rest begin panicking that the virus is an airborne contagion. Olivia discovers that the Dutchman was an oil consultant who arrived to meet with Vincent Ames, i of the other role workers trapped in the edifice.

Walter explains that viruses take forms of "personalities," that influence their hosts to deed in certain ways. He postures that the virus is non airborne after all, but needs more samples for further tests. Meanwhile, the infected receptionist is influenced by the virus, jumps out a window, and also scares Peter into falling into an infected pool of blood. The adult female is sprayed with decontaminate spray, equally Peter quickly rinses himself off. Knowing he is likely infected, Peter searches through the Dutch man'due south pockets, finding a set of car keys that contains a briefcase infected by the virus.

Walter continues his theory that the virus wants to escape the building, hence the Dutchman spraying out blood only when surrounded by people, and the receptionist jumping out the building to spread it further. The virus was institute on a sample taken 10 miles below the earth, and may exist 75,000 years old that was responsible for wiping out the Ice Age mammals. As a biohazard team enters the building to exam people for the virus, a CDC official makes the order for the regular army to ready for a "level six eradication" because they all the same do not know how to comprise information technology.

Subsequently Peter manages to imitation the exam and hide his infection, he and Olivia brainstorm leading a squad of healthy people outside the building. Before he is able to exit however, his nose bleeds, conspicuously revealing he is infected. While the virus overtakes Peter'south health and sanity, Walter becomes more and more than distressed as he fears losing his son again, and accidentally blurts out that he "tin't allow Peter dice over again" to Astrid Farnsworth. Despite the threat of eradication and expiry, he and Astrid remain in the edifice to run further tests on the Dutchman. He realizes that sulfuric ash killed the virus thousands of years ago, and successfully finds a cure with some horseradish he plant in the office pause room.

The CDC agrees to allow Olivia to enter the building and re-plow on the air ventilation organization and spread some fentanyl gas to proceeds time while the cure is synthesized. While within Peter attacks her, but Olivia is able to turn information technology on, successfully knocking out the building's occupants. Everyone, including Peter, is given the cure. Astrid subsequently approaches Walter and asks what he meant when he said he couldn't let Peter die once more, to which he responds past saying "some things are better off left lonely."

Notable Quotes [ ]

Peter: I'm sorry.
Olivia: You lot weren't yourself.
Peter: It's lucky for me that you lot were.

Walter: When the Victoria, the last surviving transport, return to its harbor of departure after the first circumnavigation of the earth, but 18 of the original 237 men were on board.
Small Child: What happened to them?
Walter: They all died, young lady. Horrible and well-nigh likely painful expiry. You lot see, when you open new doors, there is a cost to pay. Now imagine... tonight, you look nether your bed, and, lo and behold, you find a monster! And you're immediately eaten. At present, if you hadn't looked for the monster, yous wouldn't accept found information technology and you'd all the same be happy in your beds, instead of beingness slowly digested in the tummy sack of the beast. Simply, with whatever luck, your sister or your brothers might accept heard your screams, and your endeavor volition serve as a valuable lesson to them.

Scientific discipline Centre Worker: May I help you lot?
Astrid: Yes, uh, I'm looking for someone who seems to have gotten lost.
Science Heart Worker: Okay, what school is he from?
Astrid: He's not from whatsoever schoolhouse. He's a human. His name is Dr. Walter Bishop.
Science Eye Worker: Hmm, I come across. A special needs individual.
Astrid: Heh, you have no thought.

Notes [ ]

The Observer is spotted nigh ii/3rds of the manner through the episode. He is exterior of the building and passes from correct to left behind the CDC Field Director as he is talking with his assistant.
Although credited, Blair Dark-brown (Nina Precipitous) does not appear in this episode.
The X-Files connections: Likewise the appearances of two actors with recurring roles on The Ten Files, namely Brendan Beiser, who played Pendrell and is hither portraying Steve, and Megan Leitch as Elaine, who was Fox Mulder'south sister Samantha in four episodes, the team is confronted with one of the X Files' principal themes: Black oil; an conflicting virus inhabiting secret petroleum deposits and being able to take command over infected humans. This marks the at to the lowest degree tenth episode out of twelve so far in Season 2 in which an actor who worked on The Ten Files has a function in a Fringe episode.
In the graphic predicting the spread of the virus should it breach containment, most of the globe turns red, indicating infection, however, Republic of madagascar does not. This seems to be a reference to the games Pandemic ii and Plague Inc. in which Republic of madagascar is the hardest expanse to infect.

Goofs [ ]

The Dutch commuter's licence has some incorrect details: positioning of the information is off, and Dutch licenses never contain address data.
Ane of the red areas from which the infection spread in the simulation shown to Olivia is in primal Quebec, north of Manicouagan Reservoir, in an surface area completely unpopulated. (some other is in Thompson, Manitoba, an isolated town of ca. 13K inhabitants in the north of that province...).