[standing by Olivia he waves Peter over] Peter! [whispers] While collecting samples just down the road, I saw a sign for a place that serves delicious, homemade rhubarb pie. Who's hungry?
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
What's she like?
Pardon me?
[smiles] The other Olivia. I'm just curious.
I don't know. She's -- she's driven. She's very, very stubborn. She doesn't like to lose. She sees the best in people, even when they don't see it in themselves. When she first found me I was in Baghdad trying to run this scam on two Iranian businessmen.
I didn't picture you as the scamming type.
[chuckles] That's what made me so good at it. Anyway, it was all supposed to be temporary. She told me I just had to babysit Walter while he was working on a case with the FBI, and when it was done I could leave back to my old life. Despite, of course, how gorgeous she is.
Well, you've got good taste.
She gave me something that I hadn't had since -- really since my mom died. She gave me a place to call home. A place I'd want to go home.
[answers the door, smiling] Hey.
Hey. [smiles] Um, this might be a little weird, but I was wondering if I could just come in and have a look around.
Yeah, of course. How you feeling?
[looks toward the couch] That's where Walter used to sleep.
How did you know that?
[turns to look at him] We had that case, that couple in apartment 6B, the woman who lost her husband. After I came back here and then we went upstairs. I remember.
That's not possible.
Peter, I remember William Bell. I remember crossing over to bring you back. I remember Jacksonville and seeing you shimmer the first time we kissed. I remember you walking to the machine and getting inside and being scared that you were going to die.
I don't know what's going on, but something must be going on.
I remember. I remember us. I remember everything.
I know what you're doing. I know what it's like to want something back that you love. I've succumbed to that temptation myself.
Walter, whatever's happening to Olivia, I'm not doing it.
I think you are, even without meaning to, and it's wrong, Peter.
Look, in case you were wondering, it's hard for me too, you know. I keep expecting to see that look in your eye and it isn't there, or it is and you're pulling back.
As I'm sure you can understand, I'm confused.
I'm confused, too. I feel incredibly close to you. I feel like I know you better than anyone else in the world, and when you look at me it's like none of that is true.
Olivia, I don't know what you want from me.
I want you to behave naturally. I want you to treat me like you know me better than anyone in the world too, because you do.
[motions toward storage container] I think that's the one we're looking for.
The last time I opened one of these it was rigged with Semtex.
You mean with John Scott?
Yeah.
How did you know it was Semtex?
Because when we were trying to figure out what happened to him we traced it back to a munitions trader in Hong Kong. Why?
Because I didn't know it was Semtex until right now.
Okay.
Meaning Walter's theory can't possibly be right. I'm not projecting my memories onto you! You can't have memories that I've never had. I don't understand how this is happening.
I don't understand it, either, but whatever this is, whatever the cause, I told you I'm not scared. I like the feeling.
Now that the case is over, we would go back to one of each other's houses. I know that's what we would do. That was one of the things we would do. I know that. So now I don't know if I'm just supposed to ignore that for what you want, and I guess I just -- Peter, how do you want to play this? You don't have to answer now, I just want you to think --
Olivia. I'm thinking about it. It's all I've been thinking about. I'm afraid. Afraid because I've made this mistake before. I betrayed the Olivia that I love. What I'm really afraid of is when I look in your eyes I know it's you. I know it's you.
It's not Nina working for them that worries me. I've been wracking my brain, why would Nina be dosing Olivia with cortexiphan? Then it occurred to me: the only person who's ever done anything like that, at least in my timeline, is David Robert Jones. Maybe he's trying to do the same thing again.
Do what?
Activate Olivia.
For what purpose?
I don't know. We could never figure it out, but maybe it's for the same reasons now.
[having appeared out of thin air] Yes. His goal is the same. [collapses]
[rushes to September's side] You! Talk to me! What do you know about David Robert Jones? What do you know about Olivia?
She needs you.
In my desire to witness the moment, I inadvertently distracted him from discovering it.
I already know all that. Walter told me, but what were you doing there?
It was important. You are important. It was why I could not allow you to drown at the bottom of Reiden Lake. It was necessary to allow the other Dr. Bishop to cure you instead. Despite my efforts to set things right, these actions only culminated to further corruption of the timeline. The war between the two universes, drastically altered destinies, brought about a child that was not meant to be.
What child?
Your son: Henry.
My what?
He was born to the wrong Olivia Dunham, due to a series of circumstances that never should have happened. This event would have irrevocably altered everything that was to come.
Henry. [smiles] I have a son.
Had. When you made the sacrifice to step into that machine, you were not the only one that ceased to exist; so would he. I believed at the time that would be the end of it. I can't explain, but it is clear that I was wrong. You have managed to return to physical form. I suspect this will provide an opportunity to set things right. She is the one. The Olivia Dunham from whom your shared future was meant to spring. This must be, and everything will be as it was intended. You must find a way. [becomes distracted] They are coming. You need to go.
What's happening?
There is no time. I am going to need you to do something for me.
I'm not doing anything until you tell me where to find Olivia.
For that you have only to go home.
First responders are on the way. You're going to be fine.
No, that's okay. I'm feeling better now. I guess all the energy that I expended did a number on my nervous system.
Maybe, or maybe it was me. Just by being close to you, like Walter said.
Walter isn't always right.
Neither am I. At the gas station, just before you got taken, you were ready to come home with me and I was ready to think that as okay, but it wasn't. It was a mistake. One that I promised myself that I'd never let happen again.
This isn't what happened --
I saw her! I saw my Olivia. The one that I'm supposed to be with. The only one that I'm supposed to be with.
Peter, I don't understand what's happening to me anymore than you do, but that doesn't change what I do know, what you know, that if you look at me, if you look into my eyes, then you can see that I am her.
No. No. You have her memories. You have my memories of her or your projection, but when I looked into your eyes, what I saw was what I wanted to see. I know she's out there. My Olivia in my timeline, waiting for me, and I let myself forget that. So I'm sorry, Olivia, but I'm sure Walter can fix you up somehow and give you back your life, but right now it's better if I stay away.
Okay, Peter, I'm in love with you and I can't just turn that off now. I don't want to lose you. Where are you going?
Home. I have to go home.
I'm in love with Peter. I know it sounds absurd, and to you I hardly know him, but it's like I've known him my entire life and everybody, including him, keeps telling me that it's impossible.
Well, when Walter told me what you were going through: two sets of memories, two sets of experiences. He said the Cortexiphan dosing might be enabling you to remember things that Peter wants you to remember.
But I can remember things Peter couldn't have known, like details or cases he wasn't on or names, places that he's never been. I mean, how can that be if he's controlling it? I don't know how this is happening, but I'm scared.
We're going to figure out what's happening to you, Olive. And as for Peter? All wound heal over time.
I just wish that time would move quicker.
[teasing] Well, that's a coincidence, because we just filed a patent on that last week.
It's so good to be with you. We should do this more often. [notices Nina's alarm] What's wrong?
We always have breakfast together on Saturday mornings. We were here last week. Are you saying you don't remember? I'm worried. You're having these experiences at what cost?
So what's in New York?
I told you, Walter, it's what's not in New York: Olivia.
I admire you, Peter.
And why is that, Walter?
I told you what the right thing ethically was to do: leaving Olivia. But I don't know that I would have had the strength to do it myself.
Is that your way of thanking me for taking your advice?
It's a particularly obtuse way to admit that you are a better man than I.
Na eisai enas kalyteros andras apo ton patera sou.
Is that Greek?
Yes. It means "be a better man than your father." It's something I was told a long time ago, but it is very strange to hear you say it.
How are you feeling?
I'm okay. I talked to Walter.
What did he say?
Well, it doesn't matter. I met a woman today. She just lost her husband and as she was talking about him and her marriage, as much as she wanted to be, she wasn't in love. As I was listening to her, I realized what she was saying: she had let go of he possibility of love, of finding love, and I could see myself in her. I didn't like who I was. All of these memories and feelings that I'm experiencing, they're from a better version of me. I just decided to let things run their course.
No, you've had an emotional day. You don't have to decide anything right now.
I've made my decision.
You have so much in your life, Olive. Are you just going to let that all disappear? And be replaced by what? Memories of a life that you didn't live?
Yes.
Well, how long do we have?
I don't know. Neither does Walter.
Well my mother used to say "encourage the quest for happiness in your children, even if it takes them very far away from you."
When the day comes, if I don't remember this, I want you to try and build something with me again. Don't give up on me. [Nina nods tearfully] I love you, Nina.
I love you, Olive.
I have tried everything that I can think of, everything that I know how to do to get back home, and none of it has worked. Nobody here can help me, but you can. I know you can. Please help me get back home.
You have been home all along.
I don't understand. I was erased.
There is no scientific explanation, but I have a theory. Based on an uniquely human principle, I believe you could not be fully erased because the people who care about you would not let you go, and you would not let them go. I believe you call it love.
And Olivia?
She is your Olivia.
You want to talk about it or should we just pretend that we already did? Olivia.
She's your Olivia. I get it. I mean, I don't really get it, that she could suddenly become this other version of herself. Different circumstances I might think that you were drugging her or doing something to her, but -- I don't know if she told you this, but when I first met her I had lost my partner Robert. He and his wife Julie, they had this incredible relationship. The way she looked at him. Olivia looks at you that same way. So why don't we just leave it at that.
You're a good guy.
MMarkham
Can I help you?
I hope so. The lady here is looking for a book called Lake of the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe, do you know him?
MMarkham
Are you kidding me? I worship him. [to Olivia] And a girl as beautiful as you who likes Sci-Fi is a girl after my own heart. I'm Ed, by the way.
Olivia. [motions toward Peter] Sorry, taken.
MMarkham
All the best ones are. Story of my life.
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