Safe
Season 1, Episode 10

Safe

SYNOPSIS

When a suspect in a bank robbery is found stuck inside a vault wall, the team is called in to investigate. While Walter realizes the thieves are looking for something of his, a member of the team is ambushed.

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THE GLYPHS

This episode's glyphs spell:

T-R-A-D-E

Loeb left one of his own men behind to die in exchange for getting an object he needed.

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THE OBSERVER

The Observer is on the security monitor just before it gets shut down.

Observer Timestamp: 00:37

EPISODE CLUES

Previous Episode Clue

A logo and symbol for Trevisanus Bros Estimators are briefly seen in on the side of a van in 'The Dreamscape' as Olivia and Charlie chase down George Morales. This same logo and symbol are seen on the side of a van (possibly the same van) in 'Safe' as Loeb and his crew prepare to receive David Robert Jones at Little Hill Field.

Previous episode clue Timestamp: 39:59

Next Episode Clue

ITEMS OF INTEREST

  • The locations of the safety deposit boxes are known by Jones, given to Loeb.
  • Jones told his lawyer to go to his personal tailor so the tailor could fix the lawyer's suit up for Jones.

VIDEOS

JJ ABRAMS EASTER EGGS

  • The safety deposit boxes were all purchased 23 years ago. Lost
  • Charlie said the villains landed in Providence "47 minutes ago." 47
47
J.J. Abrams projects tend to feature the number 47 in some way.
Lost
Lost is famous for its number sequence 4-8-15-16-23-42 and the sum of those numbers, 108.

FRINGE DIVISION CASE FILE

U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
121 105th Street • Washington, DC 20735
Phone: (202) 555-2100 • Fax: (202) 555-2101
E-mail: washington.fbi@fbi.com

FRINGE DIVISION CASE FILE #110-12208

FRINGE EVENT: High-frequency vibrations allowing matter breakdown with David Robert Jones/ZFT connections

CLASSIFIED CASE CONNECTION(S): Dr. Bishop's designs for a device intended to cross the time-space continuum

AGENTS ASSIGNED: Dunham, Francis

SUPERVISING AGENT: Broyles

FILE ARCHIVED BY: Jodi Harrington, Seewai Hui

WITNESSES/CONTACTS: Susan Lugo (ex-wife), Dr. Bruce Miller, Ed Smith, Evan McNeil, Mr. Grimes, Ryan Shawn Eastwick (suspect)

LOCATION: Philadelphia Mutual Savings Bank, PA; VA Medical Center, DC; Fairmont Savings Bank, Providence, RI; Little Hill Field, Westford, MA

VICTIM(S): Raul Lugo (suspect)

CASE REPORT SUMMARY:

Incident related to a recent series of bank robberies in Cleveland and Baltimore. Each time, the only thing taken was a single oversize safety deposit box, in each case without a breach of the vault. Dr. Bishop determined that the robbers used high-frequency vibrations on a solid, disrupting its atomic structure and allowing another piece of solid matter to pass through it. However, it rendered the humans using it radioactive.
 Dr. Bishop discovered the safety deposit boxes belonged to him and were numbered—233, 377, and 610—according to Fibonacci sequence twenty-three years ago to hid his time-machine device. The robbers were tracked to VA patient Raul Lugo, former Marine Force Recon with a history of PTSD, and also to Ryan Shawn Eastwick, Staff Sergeant, First Special Forces Group, 3rd Battalion. Both had been hired and trained for the heists.

*File addendum—Agent Dunham Kidnapped.

WALTER'S FOOD

Walter asked to go out for breakfast.

WALTER'S LAB NOTES

- Project 1069 - Exploration 1 -

The Transcendentalists had the right idea, they merely lacked the technological tools. How did Ralph Waldo put it? Oh yes;

Nature shows all things formed and bound. The intellect pierces the form, overleaps the wall, detects intrinsic likeness between remote things, and reduces all things into a few principles.

Or in this case, a few particles. Yet those particles fill less than one percent of the space within the atom, virtually all of it contained within the nucleus. The protons and neutrons themselves consist mostly of space between their constituent up and down quarks. Subatomic vibration (of an origin that I cannot fathom) could in principle disturb the energy fields between, allowing the penetration of other particles through the open doors. To break on through to the other side!

Yet just as some small fraction of Rutherford's electrons failed to pierce the gold foil and bounced back instead, some fraction of the particles within the perpetrators' atoms must have collided with particles in the wall -- resulting, of course, in the release of ionizing radiation! It is perfectly obvious, upon reflection: "Space is ample, east and west, But two cannot go abreast." Although that well-endowed Baltimorean woman might beg to differ. Harmony of the spheres, indeed! Pythagoras, you dog.

- Cleveland: homeless man with superfluous nipple hidden beneath his grimy coat
- Baltimore: idle ditty whistled by street vendor, every D was just a little flat
- Philadelphia: fabulous crusty cheesesteak sandwich at Beach and Palmer

So many details, yet none that actually matter! Where oh where have my details gone? Lost -- or stolen. I asked the Summoner if I could search for my errant thoughts in his lost & found, but he refused, said I'd find the missing friars in Satan's hindquarters. Curse him! I know the rule: "cannot build phallic puzzles inside the lab." I still know the numbers, too -- well I damn well should, it's a simple second-order recursive algorithm -- but a mnemonic is worthless without its contents. Like a sad coat rack with empty pegs.

Walter's lab notes

EPISODE CONNECTIONS

Callbacks (4 earlier episodes)
  • Olivia (in "Pilot"):
    "[Walter worked on] things like mind control, teleportation, astral projection. Invisibility, genetic mutation, re-animation, fertility..."

    In "Safe" David Robert Jones was teleported out of prison using equipment retrieved from Walter's safety deposit boxes.

  • Walter (in "The Same Old Story"):
    "You have no idea where I've hidden things!"

    In "Safe" the Fringe team learns that Walter has hid pieces of a machine in safety deposit boxes around New England.

  • Walter (in "The Same Old Story"):
    "It's one of the inherent pitfalls of being a scientist. Trying to maintain that distinction between God's domain and our own. Sometimes I forget myself, but then you already know that. If you've read my file then you know the truth about Peter's medical history."

    Walter elaborates on Peter's medical history in "Safe" when he discusses the device he made to help save Peter which the villains try to steal to free David Robert Jones.

  • Massive Dynamic Technician (in "Safe"):
    "We managed to resolve the last image in Agent Scott's optic nerve before he died."

    This is the same technique Walter used on one of the victims in "The Same Old Story".

  • Jones asks the cryptic question "Where does the gentleman live?" in "In Which We Meet Mr. Jones", to which the answer is "Little Hill". Jones is teleported out of prison to an abandoned airstrip called Little Hill Field in "Safe".
  • The mathematical equation completed in "The Equation" is used vibrate matter in a way that lets objects effectively move through walls, as seen in "Safe".
Setups & payoffs (4 later episodes)

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