- An elevator crashes, killing a number of people, leading Olivia and the Bishops to a man who appears to unknowingly be able to manipulate electricity.
- Agent Dunham, Dr. Bishop and Peter investigate a number of deaths resulting from an elevator free falling in an office tower. The conditions they find suggest that a high intensity power source may have overridden the electrical system in the elevator. Dr. Bishop recalls experiments in the past that tried to alter a human's energy profile and concludes that the accident was caused by an individual. It is also likely that it was a genuine accident, rather that an overt act. Agent Dunham's prime suspect is a Doctor Jacob Fischer who is wanted by the FBI and is known to have experimented in this area in the past. Meanwhile, Olivia continues to see her dead partner John Scott and is concerned that she may be having a breakdown of some sort.—garykmcd
- The worker Joseph Meegar delivers a package to the receptionist Bethany and they take the elevator together with seven other passengers. However there is a power surge, the elevator crashes on the well and only Meegar survives. Agent Dunham is assigned to investigate the accident and why the brakes have not hold the elevator. Dr. Bishop recalls experiments altering the human energy and they suspect that Dr. Jacob Fischer might be the responsible. Meanwhile Agent Dunham continues to see John Scott and Dr. Fischer abducts Meegar, who was his activated guinea pig for the experiment. Soon the FBI identifies Meegar as the man that caused the deaths and Dr. Bishop also finds a means to track him down. Will they succeed to find the "electric man"?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Worcester, Mass.
A man lies in bed. His digital clock is flashing, the time needing to be set. He takes his pulse. His mother nags him as he leaves. He goes to work in a shipping company. He has an ad for something that says "Unlock Your Hidden Potential" in his locker. He moons over a woman's photo on his phone. This supervisor comes over and gives him a hard time. The package reader shorts out, the second one in a week.
He delivers a package to an office building, nervous to talk to the secretary, the woman on his phone. He tries to talk to her, noticing her Brownie patch and outing himself as a former Webelo. She found it on-line, it's kitchsy. A slick man in a suit comes over to check with her that they're still on for their date. As the delivery man looks upset her computer starts to short out.
He runs for the elevator. As he gets on, Baldy McHairless (Michael Cerveris), "The Observer", gets off. The secretary runs for the elevator, she pushes her floor button, knocking his phone out of his hand. It opens and she sees her picture on it. The elevator starts to fall. It stops just long enough for her to tell him to get away from her, then it freefalls, crashing in the parking garage below.
He lives. The secretary and everyone else appear dead. He gets up and walks away, unscathed. As he walks through the garage, empty cars start, their lights on. Freaked, he runs.
Boston Olivia (Anna Torv) confides in Charlie (Kirk Acevedo). She says she doesn't want him to think she's crazy, but she saw John (Mark Valley) the night before in her kitchen. She drew her gun, but he was gone. She knows he wasn't there. Charlie thinks it doesn't seem all that odd given that John and Olivia were lovers. Also, John betrayed her and his country and then died in her arms.
Harvard The Bishops wait for Olivia in the lab. Walter (John Noble) is still bothered Peter (Joshua Jackson) was tortured. He wants to tell Peter about what it was like in the mental hospital. Peter reassures him he's doing fine.
Broyles (Lance Reddick) enters, telling them about the elevator plummeting 26 floors and killed eight people. There was a power surge. It drove itself into the floor. A train in Tokyo did the same thing months ago. He wants to know if they're related.
At the building, they meet with the engineer, who describes how the elevator busted through all sorts of back-up safety measures, like another power source came on-line and drove it. Walter finds an exit wound burn on a victim, symptoms of a thermoelectric trauma. The people were electrocuted.
Walter uses Olivia's gold necklace to demonstrate the space is charged with electricity. It hangs in the air. He says the passengers were dead by the time they hit the ground.
Back at the lab he performs an autopsy, removing a victim's heart. He describes an experiment he once worked on to track humans like pigeons, using their electromagnetic signatures. The human field was too weak and they tried to amp it up, but the side effects of the subjects shorting out nearby electronics meant it couldn't work. He jumpstarts the heart he has removed and it beats, which makes him think someone has perfected the experiment and the charge came from a human being.
Sparky returns to work and finds his boss, who immediately starts chewing him out. He notices blood on the man's uniform. He fires him. The man begs. The boss says no and goes back to work on a huge machine. He sticks his arm in it. Uh oh. Soon he has a shredded arm.
At the office, Broyles brings Olivia some coffee as she works at her desk late at night. She's reading up on the Electric Man theory. Walter thinks the person would have been altered in some way. Extensive procedures, chemical therapy. Broyles tells her about companies that do experiments on people and a Dr. Jacob Fisher (Max Baker) who led the experiments. Later, she looks at Fisher's file. The power goes out in the office. Armed with a flashlight, she goes to investigate.
The elevator dings in an otherwise darkened hallway. John Scott steps out and starts talking to her. He asks her to trust him and says they don't have much time. He says he's there to help and he loved her. He says he can prove it, but not there. That's not the way it works. She has to find the mysterious Sparky. Fisher is also looking for him. She has to find him first, before Fisher can use him. As she tries to get him to tell her for what use, he says that he will prove he loves her, always, but she'll have to wait. The elevator doors close and it descends. She races down to the next floor, but it's empty when the doors open. But she notices the maximum weight capacity.
She visits the Bishops late at night, having calculated that the weight before the elevator dropped and after has a discrepancy of 165 pounds. She thinks someone else was in it and got off. As Walter shuffles his feet on the carpet, Peter spins a scientific explanation about electric cushions that could have protected the 165 pounder, suspending him like her necklace.
They think it might have been an accident, and he doesn't know what he's doing. Walter shocks Peter with static electricity to demonstrate a fraction of what they're dealing with. Fun with wool socks on carpet.
Francis and the team start looking for small events.
Sparky Man, Joseph (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), goes home to his cranky mother, Flora (Marylouise Burke). He tells her about the ad he responded to. They did tests, hypnotizing him, re-aligning the electrical impulses of his brain. He's freaking out. The lights in the apartment go out, so does is mother's presumably pacemaker-powered heart. He packs and runs. On his way out he runs into Dr. Fisher and a henchman. Fisher says they're there to adjust his medication. Before he can ask too many questions, Henchman shoots him with a dart.
The team keeps looking, someone gets a call. The conveyor malfunction at Bicoastal Parcel. Francis recognizes the name. Joseph Meegar from BCP signed into the security sheet at the elevator building.
Francis and Dunham go to his apartment and find his short-circuited mother. It was a Pacemaker, she tells Peter over the phone. Walter wants to know about nearby gadgets. He's intrigued by the boom box she mentions. Olivia can come home, Walter knows how to find him.
At the lab, Walter puts a tape in a stereo and explains the unique magnetic fingerprint Joseph has and how it would have magnetized the tape with his signature. He looks at soundwaves and isolates Joseph's. He wants to use birds to track him.
Joseph wakes up in a lab with metal nodes on his temples. He's strapped down. A man injects him with something.
At the lab, Walter attempts to program the pigeons with Joseph's signature, hopefully not Kentucky Frying them. He turns a dial and after some Frankenstein-like electric sparks, he's ready to put GPS on the pigeons. Olivia goes for a soda in the hall and sees John again. He says she listened. She says he's not real and tells him to stay the hell away from her, but he kisses her instead. He says he didn't betray her.
Peter comes around the corner to see Olivia standing there alone.
Peter and Olivia wait for the releasing of the birds. They open the cages. The birds go nowhere. Walter whistles and they fly. "Are you sure this is going to work?" Farnsworth (Jasika Nicole) asks him. "Of course not," he says with glee. Back in the lab, they watch the GPS dots on a map, telling Peter and Olivia where to go.
Meanwhile, Fisher is doing something to Joseph that hurts his head. Fisher tells him the probes can be removed later. Fisher rhapsodizes about what science hath wrought while Joseph whimpers.
The birds stop.
Henchman tells Dr. Fisher they have visitors. He tells Hench to move Joseph.
Olivia tells Peter to wait in the car. Francis breaks a window to get in while Henchman puts Joseph in a car. Joseph appears much more in tune with his power and starts the car, running over Henchman.
Olivia and the team confront Dr. Fisher, who denies knowing Joseph. As someone arrests Fisher, Olivia goes after Joseph and soon finds him. As they run through a lot full of cement mixers and other big trucks they turn on as Joseph passes. He also shorts a power line, blocking Olivia. Just when it seems like he's going to get away, Peter steps from behind a parked school bus and takes Joseph out with a crowbar.
Paramedics take Joseph away, heavily sedated. Olivia tells Joseph they're going to help him, but they can't let him go home and she's going to have a lot of questions.
In the lab, Walter forgets Farnsworth's name for the 1,000 time. He tells Olivia that Peter is returning the pigeons. He asks her if she's OK. She says she hasn't been sleeping. She starts to say something else, but stops. She turns to leave.
"You've been seeing him, your friend, John Scott," Walter says. He says there's a reason, but they're not hallucinations.
He says he believes when she was in the mindmeld tank part of John's consciousness crossed over into her and it's still there. He says the visions are her mind expelling John, exorcising his thoughts. But he doesn't know if John will go away.
Olivia drives home, passing John walking down the street. She pulls over and gets out, following him down dark, spooky stairs to a locked door. She shoots it open and goes in.
Through a dark hallway, she follows flashes of him, coming upon a room full of files.
With the team on site later, Broyles tells her back in the office that the files were John's, doing his own investigating into the Pattern. He knew more about Fisher than they did, even IDing seven other sparky test subjects who hadn't been activated yet. Fisher is now stewing in solitary.
Broyles gives Olivia John's personal effects, including some apparently intended for her. He leaves and she opens the tackle box. It contains childhood photos and...an engagement ring, inscribed "Always."
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