Fringe
Fringe

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Necks and Balances

Then Olivia's calling to let him know that the corridor is opening near Lexington and 86th today and they have about thirty minutes. Peter's barely talking to her though, because he's still sliding pieces of the cube into place, watching the Observer while Olivia's all, "Peter, are you still there?" Having put the last piece in place, Peter turns the handle on the top. Some sort of indicator light flashes green, and then red, which is kinda the universal sign for "try again" but Peter says he's on his way. "But first I'm going to stare at the Observer for a while longer," he adds.

Over at Lexington and 86th, the air is crackling. Nearby, Anil puts the pilfered cube down and turns it on, while the Loyalists and Observers are getting theirs ready. Peter and Olivia are in a nearby building, Peter loading the anti-matter baton into a T-shirt cannon or something. The Observers are about to stick the final, glowing-hourglass piece thing into their machine when the Resistance portal opens up. "I have not activated the stabilizing mechanism," says one of them and the other says, "Something is wrong," so it doesn't appear the Observers exactly sent their best and brightest.

In the building, with Peter waiting to take his shot, an Observer suddenly appears, and starts kicking Peter all over the room, knocking the guns out of his hand and gives a little too on-the-nose demonstration of what the other Observer was talking about, with the dark skies actually being the Observer's shoe about to drop. I mean, the Observer literally stands above Peter and lifts his foot to give Peter a pounding, but then Olivia's got the drop on him. "Yeah. It is that type of gun," she says coolly -- god, I love Olivia -- before shooting the guy.

Peter recovers and grabs his gun -- the shipment has already started to float through the opening -- and fires. It's an easy shot from this distance, and in seconds the hole is collapsing, sucking the crates back through along with nearby debris, mailboxes, a bike, a car and bricks from the street.

Olivia and Peter hop in Anil's getaway van, and the gleeful team peels on out of there in delight -- at least until Anil glances into the mirror and stops the van. They get out and can see through the alley to the street on the other side, a shipment coming in through another portal. "We destroyed it. We created a black hole. How could they recover so quickly?" asks Olivia. BECAUSE IT'S COMING FROM AN UNSPECIFIED TIME IN THE FUTURE, OLIVIA.

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