- A man uses a toxin to target specific groups of people. Walter finds out that the toxin was created by his father in Berlin, long before DNA was even discovered.
- The Fringe team are puzzled when a specific group of guests are targeted at a wedding.As the investigation goes the team is at a loss as to how the toxin was delivered and targeted.As they gather evidence and taken back to the lab, it's discovered that the wedding ceremony was a testing ground for a weaponed science experiment. Adding to the intense lab investigation, Walter uncovers an alarming formula that reveals a link to a branch on the Bishop family tree. With the escalating threat of more deadly attacks and unexpected familial ties to the case, the Fringe team stops at nothing to prevent further catastrophic events.—davron
- When a specific group of guests at a wedding in Brookline, MA, suffocate from the inside out, the upsetting and disconcerting crime scene has the Fringe team investigating how the toxin was delivered and targeted. As evidence is taken into the lab, it's discovered that the wedding ceremony was a testing ground for a weaponized science experiment. Adding to the intense lab investigation, Walter uncovers an alarming formula that reveals a link to a branch on the Bishop family tree. With the escalating threat of more deadly attacks and unexpected familial ties to the case, the Fringe team stops at nothing to prevent further catastrophic events.—FOX Publicity
- During the reception of a Jewish wedding, only the descendant from a Holocaust survivor die. The Fringe Division is assigned to investigate and Dr. Bishop suspects that the action is part of a scientific experiment with a toxin and another specific group will die. When the clients of a diner with brown eyes die, Walter confirms the signature of his father with a seahorse in the formula. Walter also recalls the research of his father in Germany and seek his books that have hidden formulae of researches carried out by him. However Peter discloses that he sold the books to a bookstore. Now the only chance to stop the murder spree seems to be to locate the buyer's whereabouts.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Open at a wedding. It appears that the groom's side of the family is Jewish. A few minutes before the ceremony is to begin, the groom starts having trouble breathing and goes to his inhalers While the guests wait for the groom to appear an older woman on his side notices a 30-something man in glasses (from here on out to be known as 'Glasses') standing in the back. The older woman points at the man, screams "It's him," before she and a number of others guests turn blue and fall down.
As they pull up to the church, Walter (John Noble) talks to Peter (Joshua Jackson) about the importance of family. The final toll is 14 guests killed. Dr. Bishop finds out they all were all the groom's side and all died of asphyxiation. The older woman has a number indicating she was a Holocaust survivor.
While Peter and Olivia (Anna Torv) check out a side room, the groom falls out from a door and dies.
The Fringers find out all 14 victims were related to the old woman. Bishop cuts into the groom and we see the blood has turned blue from lack of oxygen. Bishop can't figure out how the toxin was delivered.
Olivia meets with the groom's mother, who remembers her mother-in-law being agitated by Glasses (Craig Robert Young). She mentions all of the candles are Jasmine. This raises suspicion when Peter notices one of them smells like cinnamon.
Bishop analyzes the cinnamon-smelling candle. Astrid (Jasika Nicole) is able to pull a blurry photo of Glasses off the wedding video. Bishop finds the toxin in the candle is a variant of hydrogen cyanide and activated by heat. They aren't sure why it wouldn't have killed more of the guests. Bishop points out Nazi scientists had wanted to find a weapon capable of killing specific people and this may be a modern realization of that evil goal. He thinks a wedding would be a perfect laboratory for testing such a weapon and believes another test of the weapon is coming.
Cut to a coffee house. Glasses orders a cup of tea and asks for the water to be very hot. He sits down and drops a cinnamon-smelling liquid into his water.
Broyles (Lance Reddick) is on the scene at the coffee shot telling Olivia nine people have died in exactly the same manner as the wedding. None were related to each other. They find the cup which probably delivered the toxin and Bishop figures out every victim had brown eyes. Bishop has an idea and wants to head to back to lab. We see Glasses is in the crowd and while looking at Bishop, asks a cop whether "that man over there, is his name Bischoff?" The cop corrects him and Glasses says "he looks just like his father."
Bishop compares the molecular models of the two toxins. The toxin is capable of targeting any genetic similarities. It features Chromium Trioxide, which Peter points out is highly regulated. Within the toxin, Bishop finds the chemist has left a signature in the shape of a sea horse. This revelation startles Bishop, who tells them the toxin was created by his father, Dr. Robert Bishop. Bishop tells Peter his father worked for the Nazis, but was really a spy for the Allies. When Bishop looks for his father's notes, Peter has to admit he sold several of the old books to earn a few bucks. Bishop is furious at his son and believes his father's has gotten in the wrong hands and is now being used to kill people.
We see Glasses poking around Bishop's apartment and snagging what looks like a sweater.
Peter and Olivia go to the store where he sold his grandfather's books. Peter confesses to Olivia he sold the books to get back at his father. The store owner is able to tell them the books were purchased a year ago by a "weirdo" named Eric Franko (Max Train).
We see Glasses working in his lab.
Peter and Olivia break into Franko's place and find swastikas everywhere. It turns out Franko is an artist who bought the books to use in some of his work.
Since Franko is the only one to have possessed the books, Peter tells the still-pissed Bishop his father's notes could not be responsible for the current toxin. Bishop was able to get Glasses' DNA off the tea cup, but laments the degradation indicated (probably falsely) the man is over 100 years old. Since the toxin can target as many genetic traits as possible, it is basically the Final Solution in one simple formula.
We see Glasses arrive at a part of town where the homeless sleep. Glasses tells a homeless man he's conducting a test "to monitor the dispersion rate of my experiment." He places what looks like a chafing dish candle on the floor and lights it. After a second it explodes, sending smoke all over the area. Glasses walks away with a smile and we see the homeless man lying on the ground.
Bishop is working on replicating the toxin so he can eventually stop it. A search into the chemicals needed to make the toxin leads them to a residential home in Newton, MA.
We cut to Glasses working on a fake ID.
The FBI busts into the house in gas masks, find nothing and clear the area. It appears Glasses is in somewhere below them. We see him load up a box of the warming candles, turn a burner on underneath a glass with dark liquid and run off. Olivia is able to spot the hidden entrance to Glasses' laboratory. She head down with Peter and Bishop. They figure out Glasses was working on isolating the master race and putting together the. Peter spots Bishop's sweater just as Bishop begins gasping for air. They rush him upstairs.
We see Glasses waiting in line.
Bishop seems to have gotten out of the room in time. When Olivia asks why he was targeted, Bishop suggests it may have been because his father betayed the Nazis.
Glasses and his killer candles are entering a place with a sign reading: "World Tolerance Initiative." Olivia and Peter rush to a World Tolerance conference at the Boston Center for the Performing Arts. Peter thinks they should evacuate the building, but Broyles tell them with the amount of dignitaries on hand it may not be possible.
Bishop has returned to Glasses' lab and grabs a strange-looking device.
At the conference we see Glasses is posing as a caterer and is placing his candles under all of the large serving dishes.
Bishop works on a liquid of some sort, then asks Astrid to take him to the Performing Arts center: "I can stop this."
Peter seems to figure out the warming candles are the problem before any can be lit. Just then we hear a commotion on the other side of the room. Glasses is on the ground and his face has turned blue from the toxin. He points in the air and yells "Bischoff! Traitor!" Peter turns around and sees Bishop holding a handheld humidifier.
Bishop apologizes to Broyles for taking such drastic action but doesn't appear as if he will get in any trouble.
Peter brings Bishop some of the pictures and notes he got back from Franko. They look at an old picture of Bishop's father, who had been named Bischoff before coming to America in the 1940s. Peter asks how Glasses could have made the toxin without his father's notes, to which Bishop replies: "Perhaps there are some mysteries that are destined to remain unsolved." The camera focuses on the 70-year-old picture of Robert Bicshoff and we see Glasses standing in the background, looking the same age he was during the episode.
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