01x05 - Power Hungry

[bunniefuu]

Hi, how are you today?

And we're still on

For the regional
manager's meeting oh.

Tomorrow at 4:00?

Great.

Yeah, thank you.

Okay, great.

Okay, thank you. Bye-bye.

Oh,
I'm so--

I did not mean to interrupt.

No pblem.

Don't you usually have

The little tablet thingy with you?

Yeah.

Uh, I usually do.

Is there something else, or...

I used to be a webelo.

[laughs] and?

Um, the webelos... Cub scouts?

Your brownie patch.

Oh! Oh, yeah.

No,
I--

I tually found that online.

It's kitschy, right?

I was gonna put it
on one of my jackets.

Oh,
that's--

Oh, that's, uh--
yeah, that's cool.

Hey, bethany,

We still on for drinks tonight?

Of course.

You better not keep me
out too late this time.

We'll see.

(bethany) no, no, no, no.

No, no, please.

Don't do this to me!

No. What happened?

Damn it! Oh, my god!

Do not crash on me.

This is not happening.

Hold it! Hold it!

Please hold the elevator.

I've got to find an I.t. Guy.

This is a disaster.

Oh, you dropped
your ph--

Are you okay? Get away from me!

Oh, no.

Bethany?

Bethany!

Stop it!

Stop it!

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I'm telling you because
you knew about john

And you didn't say
anything, so I trust you.

At least enough for me to not think

You're gonna think I'm crazy.

Oh, of course not.

I saw him last night.

You saw john.

(olivia) yes, in my kitchen.

Standing about as far from me as you.

Hello, liv.

(olivia) I grabbed my g*n,

But he was gone.

I know he wasn't there.

Obviously.

I--I
just--

Let me see.

You fall in love with your partner...

Who betrays you...

And your country.

He dies in your arms.

Then he shows up in your kitchen

And you're wondering
if that's grounds

To recuse yourself.

Yeah, okay, well, we
can start with that.

I say no.

You're the one that exposed him.

Bare minimum,

That makes you indispensable.

You want my advice?

Next time john shows
up for a nightcap...

Give him one.

I'm being serious. So am I.

You think a few weeks pass

And everything you went
through just goes away?

Don't fight it.

Don't beat yourself up.

You're good at that.

That's a character flaw.

It'll get easier.

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Did she say what it was about?

Olivia? No.

She'll tell us when she gets here.

How are you feeling?

Never been better.

Oh? You look quite the opposite.

Maybe that's 'cause
I had a little trouble

Sleeping last night.

Oh, I had trouble sleeping myself.

I was thinking about that man.

The one who tortured you.

Something about him.

So familiar.

Peter, when I was
in st. Claire's--

We don't have to talk about this.

It's not important.

But it is important.

You cannot imagine what it's like

For a man like me

To not have access
to parts of his mind.

You're doing fine, walter.

Dr. Bishop. Peter.

Ah, visiting hours.

Everybody put on their
best straight jacket.

At approximately 10:17 a.m.,

A massive power surge
struck a downtown high-rise

In worcester, massachusetts.

As a result, an elevator
on the 26th floor

Plummeted straight to the basement.

Eight passengers died.

Did the cable snap?

That's what's strange.

The elevator didn't fall.

It drove itself into the ground.

That's not possible.

Nine months ago, a
maglev train in tokyo

Plowed through a crowded station.

Publicly,

Reported as human error.

In reality, caused by a power surge

Of unknown origin.

Intelligence chatter speculated

That it might be a demonstration

Of a new weapon technology.

(olivia) it's possible
that this morning's event

Was another demonstration.

To override the elevator's circuitry

Would require
a-- a discharge

Of immense power

And precision.

I've made arrangements for you

To be received at the building.

We need to know what happened,

How it happened,

And who's behind it.

I'm peter simmons, the
building's engineer.

Olivia dunham, fbi.

This is my team,

Peter bishop and dr. Walter bishop.

So you've been briefed
on what's happened?

Mm-hmm.

Damn elevator powered
itself into the floor.

Never seen anything like it.

Shouldn't the brakes have
come on automatically?

Well, that's the thing. They did.

I mean, the safety's clamped
onto the rails all right,

But for some reason, the
motor just kept going.

Nearly melted the shoes,
which is technically--

Impossible?

Yeah, we're seeing
a lot of that lately.

You know your elevators.

Mit drop-out.

Is there any security camera footage?

Nope. All the cameras fritzed.

Hey, can you people
move out of there?

Fbi coming through.

So how could an
elevator drive itself?

It's almost like another
generator came online,

Jacked into the system,
and overloaded it

With double or triple the voltage.

Exit wound burns.

Subconjuctival hemorrhages.

This woman displays

All of the symptoms
of a classic--

Thermoelectric trauma.

What are you two saying?

He's saying that all these
people were electrocuted.

Electrocuted.

May I?

That's lovely.

24 carat gold.

Traces of nickel,

Possibly cobalt.

How are you doing that?

This entire space is charged

With electromagnetic energy.

Far beyond that which
occurs in nature.

There's still
residual magnetic energy

From whatever
electrocuted these people.

I need to examine the
victims' belongings.

And one of the bodies as well.

Are you saying you may
know how this happened?

No, not yet.

But I can tell you

Every one of the
passengers in this elevator

Was dead by the time
they hit the ground.

I've worked on a project
where I've seen this before.

The government had asked
me if it was possible

To make a human being
trackable by pigeons.

Like homing pigeons?

What possible use could that serve?

Well, I'm sure it had something

To do with the commies.

It always did back then.

Regardless, our theory was that

Human beings are merely

Highly complex electrical systems.

Um...

Battery, please, olivia.

The heart, the brain

Driven by electrical impulses.

And because everyone has

A unique electromagnetic signature,

Like a fingerprint,

Then we theorized
that properly altered,

Pigeons should be able to
hone into that signature.

Like the way they know how
to fly south for the winter.

Precisely.

But the human field was too weak,

So we tried to augment it

And make it strong enough
for the birds to detect.

Did it work?

Oh, yes.

But the side effects
negated our plans.

There was one test subject,

Every time she hiccupped,
the lights would dim.

So you're saying these people

Coulcontrol electronic devices?

No, not deliberately.

But I did surmise that
it should be possible.

[electric zapping]

Oh.

Did you just make that
thing come back to life?

No, not in this particular instance.

But it does confirm my theory.

What theory?

Didn't I say?

No.

Well, someone has pursued this idea.

They have amplified

A person's electromagnetic field.

And in fact,

It is the residual
energy from that person

That is making this heart pump.

And further,

It is that person

Who is responsible for
the deaths in the elevator.

So you don't think it was a weapon

That electrocuted those people?

No.

It was a human being.

[male reporter #1 on tv] accident
occurred just after 10:00 a.m.

Here at the herndon building
in downtown worcester.

Hey, ron wanted to see you.

...haven't yet been released,

Dropped 26 stories to their death

When the building's elevator system

Failed catastrophically.

What's wrong with you?

Investigators are now
looking into possible answers

As to why the emergency brakes...

You look sick.

[male reporter #2 on
tv] thank you, daniel.

Excuse me, mr. Boynton.

Where have you been?

Excuse me?

Do you remember last
week what I said to you?

The words I used?

How sympathetic I was?

What did I--
what did I say?

That--that
you--

Yeah, that you were
watching my performance.

I said you had to
stay on the damn grid

And stick to the schedule.

Because the system here,

Even when things are working,
depends on people like you

Being, at the very least, reliable.

I've--I've--

Had a really hard day.

Guess what?

Your day is fantastic
compared to mine.

No, it's not.

What the hell's on your uniform?

What? What is that?

I don't--I
don't know.

And I'm--I'm
not sure.

I'll tell you what.

I'll make it easy.

It's not your uniform anymore.

Get your a*s down
to the locker-- wait.

Take it off and leave it there.

No, but--but
please.

I take care of my mother.

Yeah, and I take care of my family.

And one of the ways I do that

Is to employ smart,
reliable, capable people.

And you are none of those things.

Please.

You're fired. Go.

Mr.
Boyn--

Get outta here, meager.

I don't want to see you
in this building anymore.

Get the hell outta here!

Here.

Thanks.

I thought you left hours ago.

I could say the same about you.

What are you reading?

"neural distortion
in human subjects."

And what's all this for?

I'm just trying to wrap my head

Around an idea walter had.

He believes that it may be a person

Who was responsible
for the herndon incident.

Not a person wielding
some kind of device.

A person who has somehow
developed the ability

To affect, or maybe even
control, electrical devices.

And I suppose the good doctor

Has a theory how that's possible.

He thinks this person
was altered in some way.

Extensive procedures.

Chemical therapy.

What?

In the course of investigating

Other pattern cases,

We've come across a
handful of clinics.

Off the grid operations
that solicited clients

By making the same kinds of claims

You see advertised on tv at 3:00 a.m.

Only they weren't actually
providing weight loss

Or hair growth.

What were they really doing?

Have you ever heard of a
man named jacob fischer?

No.

Doctor of biotechnology.

Wanted in four states
and three countries

For ill*gal human experimentation.

Surgical alterations,

Radical hormone therapy.

Using average citizens
as unwitting guinea pigs.

One subject s pumped
full of stimulants

And kept awake for a solid year.

Fed on a steady visual
diet of horrific images.

I only bring it up

Because if dr. Bishop is right,

And there is a person

With these extraordinary
capabilities,

It might very well be that
someone made him this way.

I'd like to read the
files on dr. Fischer.

I'll have them transferred
to your terminal.

But it's not easy stuff to look at.

[distant clanging]

Hello?

[elevator dings]

Hey, liv.

It's okay. It's okay.

It's just me.

I know this doesn't
make any sense to you.

Even if it did,

I know you don't have
any reason to trust me.

But that's what I'm asking you to do.

We don't have much time.

I'm here to help.

You tried to k*ll me.

No, liv.

I loved you.

[gasping]

You know that.

You know I loved you.

I did. Always.

I can prove it to you.

But not here.

It's--it's just not
the way it works.

You're on the right track.

I'm here to tell you that.

You're looking for a person,

But jacob fischer is after him also.

You need to get to him first,

Before fischer can use him.

Use him for what?

[breathing heavily]

Use him for what?

How do you know that?

I will prove it, liv.

That I love you. Always.

But not just yet.

You're just gonna have to wait.

(olivia) there were weight
sensors in the elevator.

So just before impact,

The car weighed 1,440 pounds.

The combined weight of the victims,

1,275 pounds.

Leaving a discrepancy of 165 pounds.

Meaning someone walked
out of there alive.

Okay.

Somebody got lucky. So what?

Walter's theoretical test subject.

I think he's real

And that this might be him.

The only problem with that scenario

Is that it doesn't make sense.

If he was in the elevator car,

He should've been electrocuted

Just like everybody else.

And that's if the impact
didn't k*ll him first.

Not necessarily.

If this person is both the
source and the conductor

Of a large amount of
electrical current,

Then it could well induce a form

Of electrodynamic levitation.

That's the technology
behind maglev trains.

They essentially float on
an electromagnetic cushion.

So he floated.

Like my necklace in the elevator?

Um, no, but...

It is possible that
he could've levitated

Long enough to escape
the brunt of the impact.

That still doesn't make sense.

If you can sabotage machines,

You wouldn't sabotage one you're in.

[chuckles]

Unless it was unintentional.

An accident.

Maybe whoever we're looking for

Isn't in control of their abilities.

Maybe they don't even
know what they're doing.

Then we shouldn't be
looking for big events.

We should be looking for small ones.

Unintentional ones.

[zap] oh, come on!

Damn it!

Just a small discharge.

Negligible compared to the voltage

Coursing through that elevator.

I say we need to find
this person and soon.

Before he finds out exactly
what he's capable of.

Wool socks.

(olivia) charlie, thanks
for waking up the team.

Sure, look, we got
reports of anomalies

Clusterearound the outlying parts

Of worcester and
the herndon building.

Parking garage, gates,

Automatic doors, a few cctvs.

Well, we need more.

Enough to discern a pattern.

You know, saying
somebody's doing all this.

You do know that's crazy, right?

If it weren't, we wouldn't
be looking for him.

Mmm, joseph. Mom.

What time is it?

Where the hell have you been?

Mom.

I think I made a big mistake.

You? Surprise.

No,
pl--

Please just listen to me.

Please.

A few months ago,

I was reading this magazine,

And there was this ad in the back

About tapping into your
hidden potential, you know?

And I--I figured
it couldn't hurt.

So I went down to this office.

They did some tests.

Did you give them
money? No, just listen--

What the hell's the matter with you?

They put me under some hypnosis.

I don't know.

And they--they said they
were gonna, uh, realign

The electrical impulses of my brain.

Make it mimic a more
confident person.

Oh--

No, but they did something to me!

They changed me.

I can't remember.

And now all these things
have been happening.

I don't know what to do.

I don't know what
to do. What do I--

I'm dying--
stop it!

Get a hold
of your--

Damn it, mom!

For once, please!

Please help me.

Pills.

Oh, my god, oh, my god.

No, no, no, please.

Pills.

Hello? Hello?

Hello?

Joseph meegar.

You don't have to be scared, joseph.

We want to help you.

We're here to adjust your medication.

You did this to me.

What
did you--

Looking for anything unusual.

Systems going offline,

Random power surges.

Hey, I've got another incident.

Hold on.

Bicoastal parcel.

Guy lost his hand in
a conveyor malfunction.

Bicoastal parcel?

Yeah.

I gotta call you back.

What?

Herndon building
security sign-in sheet.

Bicoastal parcel.

Joseph meegar.

She was found dead.

A pacemaker malfunction.

Olivia thinks they
may have found our guy.

Yeah, now we just have to find him.

Time of death was around 1:15 a.m.,

So god knows where
he could be by now.

Ask her what's visible
in the event perimeter.

Electronic, specifically.

Walter wants to know
what's in the apartment.

What kind of gadgets.

(peter on phone) uh,
specifically electronics.

Um, okay, there's
a answering machine.

An answering machine.

(olivia on phone)
telephone. Telephone.

Boom box. Boom box.

Fan. Fan.

B--boom
box.

That's a device for playing music.

Cassette tapes, yes?

Yes, but now's not really the time.

Anything else, olivia?

(olivia on phone) television.

(peter) a television.

(olivia on phone) lamps.

(peter) a lamp.

Walter, walter.

Pay attention, would you?

We're doing this for you.

Tell olivia to come home.

I know how to find him.

So...

So what is this?

This is the sort of
work I was born for.

You were hoping for something
more specific, maybe?

Everyone has a unique
magnetic fingerprint.

I said that, yes?

But it is limited.

Barely traceable,

Except in
people like mr.--

What's his name?

Meegar.

Meegar.

But since mr. Meegar
has been enhanced,

He'll give off a stronger
signal than your average joe.

So what's that got to do
with the cassette tape?

The cassette tape is
as simple as it gets.

Once exposed to a magnetic field,

It remains permanently magnetized.

Given the strength of mister...

Meegar's electromagnetic signature,

Plus his proximity to the tape,

I have little doubt

That that cassette has been imprinted

With meegar's electrical signature.

It--it's kind of like
when a film camera

Double-exposes a picture.

Gotcha.

Now we just take out the music

And see what we have left.

Uh-huh.

Well...

Wait, wait,
wait-- there it is.

[slaps knee, stomps foot]

That's him.

That's mister...

(all) meegar.

Yes.

Now to find meegar.

How?

Birds.

Wait, you mean that pigeon thing?

Mm-hmm.

You believe we can
find him using pigeons?

It's possible.

As I've said,

I can program carrier pigeons

To track a strong
electromagnetic field.

We have his signature.

Now all we need are birds.

I--I wish you
told me earlier,

Because then I could've
been working on it.

So how many?

Not many. Two dozen.

Two dozen.

[scoffs] great.

[door slams]

Wait...where am I?

Tell fischer he woke up.

What is-- what
is this place?

Hey, what are you doing?

What
are you--

No, no, no!

No, wait,
no--please!

Please, please, please!

[electric zapping]

(peter) you ready?

(walter) yes, ideal.

Walter, you're not
gonna accidentally fry

One of those pigeons?

Stranger things have happened.

That's his motto.

As I said,

Pigeons contain traces of
magnetite in their beaks.

Like hundreds of tiny

Compass needles.

The tesla coils will create

An artificial electromagnetic field,

Which I have already matched

With mister...

Uh, whatever's unique signature,

And will now imprint onto the pigeon.

So we set all of these
birds free and they...

Fly to joseph meegar.

Yeah, I know.

Me too. I'll believe
it when I see it.

Step back.

Work to be done.

[crackling]

Gps chip's ready?

Yep.

So we're putting gps
chips on carrier pigeons

To find a man who can
control electricity?

I have you to thank
for that, don't I?

Yeah, that's me.

[unintelligible whisper]

No!

You listened.

You're not real.

The last time we spoke,

You listened.

You stay the hell away from me.

Liv.

I didn't betray you.

You know that. In your heart.

You know I wasn't the one.

[footsteps approaching]

(peter) hey.

I think this bird thing

Might actually work.

You okay?

Hey, charlie.

Oh, thanks.

Did I miss anything?

I think the show's about to start.

I know we've only been
together for a short time,

But I think I'm going to miss them.

Such majestic creatures.

They're rats with wings.

You'll get over it.

[electronic beeping]

All right, gps is active.

Excellent.

Then we're ready.

Ladies and gentlemen,

Start your engines.

[engine revs]

Start it up.

(walter) come on, come on.

[whistles sharply]

[laughing]

Are you sure this is gonna work?

Of course not.

(peter) seriously,
if this works--

You're gonna have some more faith

In your father?

No.

So what do we do now?

We gotta tie the
gps to the mainframe.

Genius.

And we're in.

And there are the birds.

I don't see them.

Yeah, we lost the birds.

They're going northwest

Towards mill street.

[peter on speaker] we're
approaching mill now.

Uh, make a left.

Take a left.

[tires squealing]

I see them.

(peter) all right, we got 'em.

I see 'em.

Glad you got the car washed?

Ah! Ah!

What is that?

It is unfair.

And I appreciate that.

The position you find yourself in now

Must be so surreal for you.

Oh, my god! What did you do to me?

My head...hurts so much.

Those had to be subdermal.

They can be removed later.

What am I doing here?

No-no-no--ah!

You don't realize

What you are.

I'm scared.

Okay?

You wanted to be confident.

That's why you came to us.

No, I don't want to be confident.

I don't need to be confident.

But you are now.

I just want my life back!

I just want to go back
to how it was, please!

Look what science
has made you, joseph.

You are special.

No.

Make a right on tempest.

Take your next right.

[tires squeal]

All right, I think they've stopped.

There.

(peter) all right,
I got 'em. I see 'em.

Okay, we're heading there now.

Then our work is done.

Good luck.

Hey, you stay here.

Whatever you say, boss.

I'm not gonna ask.

Good.

What is it?

Visitors. Front entrance.

Take him out through the back.

Wait at the depot.

You'll be contacted there.

What about you?

He's the priority.

No movement.

Stand back.

Where are you taking me?

Get in.

Get those hands up.

(charlie) I said get
your hands in the air.

Joseph meegar.

Where is he?

I'm sorry. Who?

Take upstairs.

We'll go around.

Freeze!

Stop!

Joseph!

Stop or I will sh**t!

They're gonna keep him
heavily sedated for a while.

Don't want him pulling his
whole electro-man thing.

. Meegar.

Miss, no one will tell
me where I'm going.

To the hospital.

They're going to perform some exams.

Check to see that your head's okay.

And then I'm gonna have
some questions for you.

I want to go home.

I didn't want to hurt anybody.

We're going to help you.

That's what they said.

Please... I want to go home.

I'm afraid we can't let you do that.

That one can go out the back.

Thank you, my dear.

What's my name?

Starts with "a."

Yes?

Astrid.

[laughs]

I knew it.

Ah, olivia.

Peter told me to tell
you, if I saw you,

That he was returning the pigeons.

Walter.

What's--

It's milk.

From gene.

Do you want some?

(olivia) I'll pass.

Are you certain? Mm-hmm.

Hmm.

The color in your face.

You're looking a little pallid.

Are you feeling well?

Fine.

I'm a little tired. That's all.

Well, I don't yet know you

Well enough to ask this,

But, uh...

You haven't seemed yourself lately.

I haven't been sleeping very well.

I've been...

Nothing.

See you tomorrow.

You've been seeing him.

Your friend.

John scott.

I'm not surprised.

There is a reason.

I've been having hallucinations.

No.

Not hallucinations.

Walter.

What's happening?

I can't be sure.

The brain is a mystery.

But I believe

When you were in the tank,

John scott...

That part of his consciousness

Crossed over into yours.

And it's still there.

His memories.

Experiences, thoughts.

You understand me, yes?

These aren't memories.

He appears right in front of me.

He talks to me.

Yes, he would.

Like a waking dream.

Because he doesn't belong there.

There's only room for
one voice in your head,

Not two.

This is your brain's way

Of working it out.

Your mind is expelling him.

Exorcising his thoughts.

He'll go away.

Is that what you're saying?

I don't know.

[tires screech]

[g*nsh*t]

[door opens]

John?

(broyles) our team's still cataloging

All the files that we
found in the cellar.

Apparently john scott was conducting

His own investigations.

Did the files give any indication

Of who he might've been working for?

Not that we can see.

But it appears that many of the cases

Were pattern-related.

He knew about the pattern.

He also knew about
our friend dr. Fischer.

In fact, he knew quite
a bit more than we did.

Including seven other
potential josephs

That fischer was
subjecting to treatments.

Fortunately, none of
them had activated yet.

We were able to locate all seven.

Medical services is
examining them now.

But they appear to be
fine, thanks to you.

Fischer's still
refusing to cooperate,

But I suspect six weeks in solitary

Might change his mind.

(olivia) well, I hope
you're right about that.

And there was also something else.

John scott's personal effects.

(john) I will prove it,
liv, that I love you.

Always.