“The Ghost Network” is episode three of season one of Fringe.
A man is giving confession at St. Anne’s Cathedral. He’s asking the priest if he believes God can speak to you. And can the devil too? He sees things. It’s happening again and it scares him. Elsewhere, a man gets on a bus, glancing at a woman holding a backpack. When the bus enters a tunnel, the man takes a gas mask and a cannister from his briefcase, releasing a gas from the cannister as he puts on the mask. He takes the woman’s backpack and exits the bus, driving off. The man giving confession runs off and the priest calls him by name, Roy. Roy has dropped a sketch showing screaming people in a bus. A cop has pulled up at the bus and sees everyone inside. Apparently encased in glass.
Olivia is at Mount Briar Cemetery where a funeral is being held for Scott. Scott’s mother stares at her all the way through. Afterwards, Charlie tells Olivia she did the right thing; Olivia is having problems pretending Scott is a hero and thinks Scott’s mother blames her for his death. Charlie makes Olivia laugh by saying Scott told Charlie he lived him when Broyles shows up.
Peter and Walter are in a diner; Walter is self-medicating with psychotics he made in his lab. Peter excuses himself and confronts a man with a camera who was following them; it seems he was supposed to check in before he came home. Whilst Peter was away, his phone rang. Walter isn’t familiar with mobiles and, when Peter returns, says it moved. Walter stopped it. There’s something important. Walter has decided on pancakes. The phone? Oh, that’s what’s important. Something about a bus.
At the scene, Broyles says it wasn’t biological in nature. Olivia wonders why not use something conventional. Peter thinks whoever did it wanted attention. Walter imagines the substance was released as a gas and wants a sample.
The man who did the attack and another are searching the backpack. It doesn’t haver what they are looking for. One calls this in on what looks like a sat phone in what sounds like Latin.
Walter says it’s silicon-based and wants Peter’s assistance. By playing the piano. Walter has forgotten Astrid’s name again, but wants her to get a piano. He also asks about the man Peter spoke to. Peter lies.
The passengers haver been carved out and one has a phone with video of the bus. Olivia realises the woman’s backpack is missing. She’s identified as an undercover DEA agent. Her handler comes in and explains she was infiltrating Nicaraguan drug cartels on the east coast. She wanted out after hearing chatter about something called ‘the pattern.’
Walter has his piano when Olivia arrives; according to Astrid, Peter playing it focused Walter’s mind and Walter identified the compound. And Peter is good. The company who could make the compound is Massive Dynamic. Charlie calls; they’ve got something.
The priest called them about Roy. Roy’s apartment has depictions of dozens of accidents and disasters over the past year. Including Flight 627. All dated before the incidents.
Roy is brought in. Broyles doesn’t think he’s involved, but would like to know where he got the info. Several were not reported and all were drawn or constructed prior. Charlie interviews and Roy talks about his latest drawing, a woman with bleeding hands.
Olivia speaks to Nina Sharp again. She mentions how Massive Dynamic has been involved every time. Sharp says the company is so massive just about everything in science and technology ties back. And what about Olivia? Three cases in her own backyard. And this is the second attack of this kind.
Roy has visions and they started about when they became aware of the Pattern. Olivia wants Broyles to share secrets. Peter is also keeping secrets. Walter has weird definitions of the simplest explanation and what isn’t preposterous. And has hidden more things about town.