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2. In Absentia

Determined to retrieve the plan to defeat the Observers from his memory, Walter Bishop tries again with the Thought Unifier to little avail. Olivia suggests the team revisit the old Harvard lab, now under Observer control, to try and find any potential information Walter may have documented as the team fights on in their mission to save the world.

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After Walter's mind has been damaged by Windmark's telepathic probe, the team secretly enters Walter's old Harvard lab to find the information they need to defeat the Observers. The lab, now in use as an Observer base, has been half-encased in amber. Seeing a video camera embedded in the amber, Walter suspects that he recorded the plan on it. They assemble a laser to cut out the camera. Since they need power from the science building, Etta interrogates a Loyalist guard, Manfretti, using an Observer device called an "Angel Device," which ages him several years. Olivia discovers and condemns this, and is able to convince Manfretti to cooperate. Peter and Etta, disguised as Loyalists, infiltrate the science building and activate the power. Etta allows Manfretti, who now plans to fight for the resistance, to flee. The Fringe team retrieves the camera. On the tape, Walter instructs the viewer to follow the instructions on a series of tapes he has hidden to implement the plan to defeat the Observers.

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