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Previously on fringe

Olivia dunham FBI.

They're calling these events a pattern

As if someone out there is experimenting

Only the whole world is their lab.

Anybody you need you can have.

His name's walter bishop.

My father. He worked out of harvard.

He was part of a classified u.s. Army experimental program

In an area called fringe science.

You're telling me

My father was dr. Frankenstein.

So much happened here

And so much isbout to.

Are those notes you're writing ben?

I thought we talked about this.

You know about taking a break from the music

So you'd have time for other things.

Maybe something new.

Dad don't get mad at me

But the windshield wipers can you slow them down?

Slow them down?

The tempo.

It's messing me up.

Sorry bean I can't.

I need to be able to see.

Stop,I need help.

What is it?

Don't know. Let's see.

You okay?

Oh I'm fine.

I can't say the same for my car.

It kind of shuddered and then stopped.

And my phone's dead.

Oh hold on.

Be right back.

Thank you.

It's not a night you wanna get stuck out here.

Yeah I need a tow.

I'm on route 12

About two miles north of fair oak.

Yeah massachusetts plate

3-3-2-e-w-d.

All right thanks.

Ah they're busy. It's gonna be a while.

Then I definitely am not gonna make it

To this business meeting which would normally be a blessing

But this one's really important.

Listen I-I know hardly a thing about cars.

But why don't you let me take a look?

No no you've done enough. No.That's alright.

Transmission's dry.

Some kind of electrical short.

Hey easy.

Didn't mean to scare you.

It's okay. I didn't hear you.

Yeah listen sorry it took so long.

Man you okay?

Where's her car?

Ben.

Ben?

Ben!

The boy's name is ben stockton.

According to his father they were driving home

From a school function last night

When he saw a woman having car trouble.

The father claims that while he was looking

At the woman's car something happened.

He said it was like time jumped.

And his son the woman and her car were suddenly gone.

So he just blacked out.

In the statement he gave police

He insisted he never lost consciousness.

So any other witnesses to back up the dad's story?

No but this is not the first time this has happened.

These are from the files of three other missing person cases

Dating back ten years.

In each one witnesses describe seeing the same woman.

We've tried running facial recognition software.

Nothing.

So what happened to the other victims?

The first was found wandering the shoulder of I-91

Near northampton.

The second in the supermarket

Curled up in the freezer bin.

Meaning what? They were let go?

Apparently.

But not before whatever'd been done to them

Drove them insane.

Two weeks after she was found

One of the victims actually tried to lobotomize herself

Using a butter knife.

And all of them completely incapable of recalling

What happened during the abduction.

Even under hypnosis.

So they're all academics.

A probability theorist

Structural engineer...

If we're looking at a serial abduction

Then a ten-year-old kid really doesn't fit the bill.

No but other than that

The details surrounding his disappearance

Are identical to the others.

Interacting with the woman in the sketch

Then experiencing an interval of lost time.

Peculiar flashing lights.

Green green green red.

Like christmas lights.

How did you know that dr. Bishop?

I don't know.

But that's what happened isn't it?

Yes.

Think you might be able

To jog your mind walter?

Could be kind of helpful.

Christmas lights.

That's all I can recall. Sorry.

I know what it sounds like.

Like I'm crazy. I'm not.

I talked to her.

I touched her car.

Police grilled my brother for hours.

They treated him like a suspect.

I know what I saw. She was real.

Why doesn't anyone believe him?

You're wasting time.

We need to find ben.

Yeah I believe you.

In fact we think that the same woman

May be involved in a number of other abductions.

This has happened before.

Why would anyone want to take my son?

I don't know.

Honestly he doesn't really fit the profile

Of the other victims.

For one they were all adults.

And another they were all academics.

Experts in various fields.

What?

Ben is kind of an expert himself.

What do you mean?

Nine months ago my wife was walking ben to school.

Some idiot late for a dentist appointment ran a red light.

And they were hit in the crosswalk.

Abby was killed.

The doctors told me they didn't know

If ben was gonna make it either.

He was in a coma for six days.

And when he woke up--

It's easier if I just show you.

This is the day I took him home from the hospital.

He hadn't spoken said even a word

Since I told him his mother died.

And we got home

And he just sat down at the piano

And started to play.

He's very talented.

Before this

He had never taken a single lesson.

His doctors told me there had been other cases.

People with severe brain traumas

Waking up with the ability to do things

They'd never done before.

Two weeks later he was composing his own music.

One piece in particular.

Stopped being interested in everything else.

You said the other people that had been taken

Were accomplished at something.

Do you think

That that's why they took ben?

I don't know.

Thank you so much for your time.

Uh agent dunham...

After abby died

My brother...

He barely held it together.

Without ben I don't think he'll make it.

I'll do everything I can.

Thank you.

How are you feeling ben?

I wanna go home.

I just wanna see my dad.

Well I have something better for you.

There's someone else here

Who would very much like to see you.

I don't care!

I wanna see my dad!

Well your mother will be very disappointed to hear that.

My mom's dead.

Are you sure about that?

Hey,Walter

Don't you think it's a little early in the season

For the yuletide cheer?

I'm reciting christmas carols

In an attempt to jar loose

Some details from my subconscious

To remember where I heard mention

Of the green and red lights.

But sadly it hasn't yet worked.

So you thought it would be more useful