There's More Than One of Everything

• Nina has kevlar parts in her ribcage.
• Jones worked for William Bell 15 years ago.
• Bell was a father figure to Jones.
• All of the fringe-related incidents center around a few local soft spots, explaining why every event happened so closely together and so locally.
• Bell theorized that with Cortexiphan children could magnify and intensify their natural abilities to see and travel into other worlds.
• The oldest fringe events concentrate around Reiden Lake, where Walter opened a hole between universes.
• Walter bought the beach house for its proximity to Reiden Lake.
• Walter put Peter's coin on Peter's grave.
• Peter's grave says he died when he was 7. (Image 1)
• Newspapers in Bell's office say "Obamas Set to Move into New White House", "Former Pres. Kennedy to Address UN". (Image 2)
• We finally meet Bell and the alternate universe.

• The elevator was between floors 15 and 16 when it transported Olivia to the top of one of the World Trade Center buildings in the Redverse. (Lost) (Image 1)

• The Obamas were to move into a new White House. (Image 1)
• Former President Kennedy is alive.
• Len Bias played for the Celtics and never overdosed.

- Project 617 - Exploration 9 -

... all mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice...

But I resisted the translation. There was one chapter I simply could not let go.

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. ... I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

The patch worked. But if the walls continue to crumble, anomalies will occur with increasing frequency, the ripples spreading ever wider. Is there any chance we can heal the breach in time?

Keeping time, time, time
As he knells, knells, knells
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells -
Of the bells, bells, bells -

It was Belly all along. He always knew how to prod the deepest thoughts from my brane. I remember that lunatic perched a bucket of icy water over the lab door, so I'd douse myself upon returning from the coffee shop. I didn't mind the water so much as the knot in my head from the pain crashing down. But the clashing rhythms of shivering body and throbbing head (13 shivers to every 8 throbs, 21 to every 13) focused my attention on out-of-phase frequencies. Kenneth, what is the frequency? Simply the limit of an infinite sequence.

I finally put the pieces together, but the answer should have been obvious all along. S. S. Kresge would have understood. After all, it was he who specified the precise dimensions of the laboratory. All I had to do was follow the golden spiral to its center, and there it was -- buried, right where the tank used to be.

A hole in the fabric of the universe, and another in my heart. Now I must return to it. No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.