EPISODE

1. A New Day in the Old Town

After her trip to an intriguing Alternate Universe to meet Massive Dynamic founder, William Bell, Olivia's shocking return to this reality pits the team unknowingly in a race against time with an ominous adversary. Pursing information about Olivia's time in the Alternate Universe, this new adversary will stop at nothing to discover what Olivia has learned, threatening the lives of anyone who gets in their way.

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Olivia's SUV is discovered after a car accident in Manhattan, however, Olivia is not inside. Minutes later, she suddenly ejects through the windshield having traveled to the parallel universe and is hospitalized with brain damage. FBI agent Amy Jessup ( Meghan Markle ) takes an interest in Fringe Division and begins to investigate deeper. The male driver of the car that crashed into Dunham's is revealed to be a shapeshifter 'soldier' from the parallel universe, and is ordered to question Olivia then kill her. When Olivia suddenly awakens from the coma she cannot remember any details and the shapeshifter (now in the form of a female nurse) tries to kill her. Agent Jessup interrupts this, and the shapeshifter escapes into the basement, where Agent Francis appears to shoot the shapeshifter. Broyles travels to Washington, D.C. to defend the Fringe Division, where Peter hands him the shapeshifter's device so Broyles can justify the need for the Division. At the end, it is revealed the shapeshifter had killed Agent Francis and assumed his form.

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