Massive Dynamic. Nina strides down an austere corridor (are there any other kind at this place?), and uses her keycard to enter a room filled with keepsakes, artwork and artifacts. Old helmets on display. Outdated books like (ahem) Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care. She gives the items a brief look, but she's there with purpose. Looking at what appears to be a heat vent, Nina slides the thermostat all the way to "Off", and the grille shimmers out of existence, revealing a safe behind it. Just in case the hologram didn't trip people up, someone has scrawled "Stay out! This means you!" on masking tape affixed to the door of the safe. Nina enters in a code -- 052010#, in case that winds up being important -- and swings open the safe.
Then she starts going through his things -- a red matchbox car makes her smile. There's what appears to be the preliminary sketch for the Massive Dynamic logo. There's an old Photoshopped picture of John Noble and Leonard Nimoy together, and there's Leonard Nimoy's massive head superimposed on the body of someone embracing a young Blair Brown. She lingers over the photos for a moment, then moves on, and pulls a well-worn book out of its protective leather wrap. Die Ersten Menschen is the title, and Nina helpfully translates for us: "The First People," she says, adding, "You and your secrets." She takes out her cellphone and dials and tells someone else to call Agent Dunham, like Nina herself doesn't have Olivia's number in her cellphone.
Nevertheless, Olivia's now in Nina's office, thumbing through one of four copies of The First People that Nina has collected. "So they all say essentially the same thing?" says Olivia, and Nina says, "Not essentially, precisely. Despite being attributed to different authors." She also has no idea why William Bell was pursuing it, but tells Olivia just in case Olivia forgot the information in the books led to the co-ordinates where they found pieces of the doomsday device. "Which makes them impossible to discount," says Olivia.
Nina wonders if Fauxlivia's journal might shed some light, and Olivia says that she read them and there wasn't anything like that in there. Nina suddenly feels a little embarrassed, not realizing that Olivia had read the journal. "I imagine that must have been awkward, reading her account of her time with Peter," she says, and I swear to god the first time I watched this I thought she said "her time in Peter."Sponsored Links
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