'Fringe' Recap: Making Angels

As the episode opens, a poor man just received the news that he has malignant cancer. Despite his high chance of survival, he can't help but be depressed. Sitting on a bus bench, he is approached by a strange man who starts explaining the painful healing process the cancer patient is about to undergo. Now, the ailing man is adamant about his survival, but the stranger won't allow it. As the bus pulls by the station, the man is sprawled across the bench, dead.

The alternate version of Astrid is passing through the barrier to our world. However, this was not a sanctioned visit, and Agents Dunham and Lee chase after her.

Peter is still working with Walter, but their progress is interrupted by Walter's constant need to be distracted. This is where the alternate Astrid has decided to run off to. When the two Astrids meet, our Astrid screams in shock. The alternate Astrid wanted to meet her other self because she is distraught over the death of her father. She thought meeting her doppleganger would make it better, but Olivia needs her Astrid to come with her to investigate the death of the man from the opening scene.

Walter stays behind, as he always does, and the other Astrid watches as he attempts to explain the tears of blood on the man's face. As the body is being brought back to his lab, an Observer appears. After relaying a message that they have located "it," he vanishes.

The Fringe team is busy investigating in the lab, where Walter thinks he has found the chemicals that killed the man. It's an impossible poison, which alarms Peter.

As the alternate Olivia arrives, Walter's insults are interrupted by alternate Astrid's revelations about how the poison works as a dues ex machina. The news that the mixing of the chemicals was orchestrated by a God-like figure makes Walter very happy.

Elsewhere, a woman who is trying to recover from alcoholism is confronted by the same man who spoke to the first victim. After telling her what will come of her alcoholism, he grabs her and sprays her face with the poison.

Still angry at her, Walter gives back everything that the alternate Olivia left behind when she posed as our Olivia. The rest of the team is investigating the second death. But Walter feels slighted when Peter is one step ahead of him in deciding what to do with this body. Even at the lab, Peter keeps trying to do his best, but Walter sends him off to do busy work.

The alternate Astrid attempts to analyze their relationship with Walter, but it does nothing to ease Walter's mind. However, she comes up with a radical suggestion for Walter to believe what Peter says.

The two Olivias are searching for a connection between the two victims, while the killer is stalking his next prey at the airport. He works at security, and that is where he gets the names of those he kills. He picks a hectic business man, telling him how he will die driving while on the cell phone. By poisoning them, he is giving them a merciful death. Yet the business man runs away, only to be hit by a car.

At the hospital, he gives his statement to Olivia and Peter. When they hear about the spray, they think they have found the killer. He also tells them the man's predictions and that he was told he'd break his spine in a car accident. Now that the business man is indeed crippled, he wishes that he was killed.

Still at the lab, the two Astrids have coffee together, which is apparently a rare commodity in the alternate universe. Alternate Olivia is still set on tormenting Walter, who wants to be left in peace in order to think. He thinks that the killer is using the Tears of Ra, which were used in Egypt to kill pets in order to bring them together in the afterlife.

At the same time, the alternate Astrid has found the connection between all the victims, which is the airport. She also sees that they were all screened by the same agent. With that, Peter and Olivia head to the airport to find him. But another security agent stops them from pursuing him.

Without another option, they do a background check. The killer was an MIT professor who went mad from trying to unlock the secrets of the universe with math. According to his work, he could use math to see the past, present, and the future at the same time.

Upon hearing that the killer lives by the same lake he appeared in, Peter begins to make connections. He feels that this math provides the same powers that Observers have. Because an Observer saved his life at that exact same lake, Peter feels that there is more going on at the lake and with the Observers.

Alternate Astrid, still upset over her father's death, sees the connection between Walter and his Astrid. It makes her long to be normal so she could have been loved by her father.

At the lake house, Olivia and Peter walk in to investigate the killer's work and life. His walls are lined with equations and cut outs of different religion's saviors.But he is elsewhere and has retrieved a gun. He confronts his mother over the fact she wished he had died instead of his twin, who died with their father in a car accident. Through all his work, he thinks he can be redeemed for living. To him, seeing the future is a gift from God, and he will use it to bring mercy.

With this ability, he can also see the FBI coming for him. He tries to shoot Olivia but misses, and she kills him. She sees that he shoots the window instead of her. He knew he had to die, and this was his ticket to heaven.

As the alternate Olivia and Astrid prepare to leave, Walter hugs the still upset Astrid and befriends Olivia. The two Astrids say goodbye, and our Astrid tries to comfort her doppleganger by reminding her that she and her father aren't close either. Still, she knows that her father loves her.

The Observers are on the move, and have gone to take something from the serial killer's vault. It is a blue tool of the Observers, which belonged to the one who tried to save Peter. And yet, the news that Peter is back in this timeline startles the two Observers.