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344:) admits to Olivia that while she may be losing part of her memories, she is still considered an asset and is allowed back to active duty. Walter speculates that Jones may be using these transformed humans as part of a scheme to take control of the fate of humanity. Marshall Bowman's sister, who had earlier claimed ignorance, is shown trying to motivate another man to inject the transformation formula. The episode ends by revealing a container ship that contains a number of other transformed humans and other creatures at sea that are kept locked in cages in pairs. 441: 582: 568: 337:
likely acquiring fat from the residue of plastic surgery clinics. Further recognizing that the Hicks creature is nocturnal and can fly, Lincoln leads the team to stop the creature along with the woman who was caring for it. The creature is killed, while the woman is unable to supply answers about where the designer virus originated from.
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Watching Lincoln's behavior, Walter identifies that those infected with the drug use fat stored in their body as energy to fuel the transformation, while drugs carried by Bowman would be used to slow the transformation, allowing the user to survive it. Walter further identifies that the creatures are
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However, Astrid discovers that Conrad Moreau, the bio-terrorist Peter says was responsible for Bowman and Hicks' transformations in the original timeline, died five years previously. This and the fact that Bowman didn't make the plane crash, as Peter remembers, suggest that events are playing out
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Peter is able to use his recollection of the Bowman case to lead them to Daniel Hicks, who was to receive the designer virus before he too transformed. Olivia joins them at Hicks' house, where Hicks, now transformed, escapes, injuring Lincoln.
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symbol of a cult that wants to create a new evolution of mankind, or "mutation by design". (And indeed the transformed Hicks is welcomed by a woman (
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The song playing in Olivia's apartment while she talks to Peter is "Time Spent in Los Angeles" by
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The opening sequence and main case of the episode were allusions to the first-season episode "
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The Fringe team is alerted to a case involving a passenger, Marshall Bowman (
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and later speaks a sentence in Yiddish. In real life as well, Bell's actor
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Peter breaks the ice with bookdealer Edward Markham by asking if he has
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Walter mentions that William Bell's father taught him
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Index

Fringe
Frederick E. O. Toye
Jeff Pinkner
Akiva Goldsman
Neal Huff
Gina Holden
Clark Middleton
Gabrielle Rose
A Short Story About Love
Everything in Its Right Place
Fringe season 4
List of episodes
fourth season
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science-fiction
drama
television series
Fringe
parallel observation
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The Transformation
Jeff Pinkner
Akiva Goldsman
Frederick E. O. Toye
Neal Huff
The Transformation
Olivia Dunham
Anna Torv
Peter Bishop
Joshua Jackson

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