Stowaway

Fringe Stowaway
Season 3, Episode 17
Air date	March 18, 2011
Written by	Story by: J.H. Wyman Jeff Pinkner Akiva Goldsman Teleplay by: Danielle Dispaltro
Directed by	Charles Beeson
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"Stowaway" is the seventeenth episode of the third season of Fringe.

Synopsis

Bell, in possession of Olivia's body, promises that no harm will come to her and will leave it after finding a suitable host. The Fringe team tracks down an apparently immortal woman, Dana with the help of an FBI agent, Lincoln Lee.

Plot

Olivia Dunham's body has been possessed by William Bell. Though he promises that no harm will come to Olivia while he seeks a suitable host for his mind, Phillip Broyles demands that Bell leave Olivia in 48 hours. Bell begins searching local hospitals for a host.

They are alerted to eyewitness accounts of a woman that, after jumping with another man from a high roof and crashing onto a taxi parked below, simply walked away. As the Fringe team investigates, they are approached by another FBI agent, Lincoln Lee, who identifies the woman as Dana Gray. Dana, who had been struck by lightning twice, was killed eighteen months earlier along with her family during a robbery of their home, but she apparently was able to walk away. Since then, she has appeared to commit suicide with several others, but always managing to walk away. Walter Bishop and Bell, in studying Dana's blood samples, find that her body may have been altered by several past lightning strikes, making her incapable of dying.

Peter Bishop and Lincoln find that Dana worked as a suicide hotline operator, and in investigating her belongings, find that she appears to have a strong desire to take her soul to heaven or hell. Lincoln comes to believe that Dana may be looking for way to have her soul "stowaway" with that of another to join her family in the afterlife, and used the suicide hotline position to find those that are close to committing suicide.

Another man is found dead by a self-inflected bullet wound, though Dana was seen leaving his apartment. Evidence in his apartment point to the construction of a bomb, and the Fringe team suspects that Dana knows its location and may be using it to kill several people simultaneously to increase her own chances of death. Peter calls her, using caller ID spoofing to disguise his number as that of her late husband, and the signal enables her location to be pinpointed to a commuter train. The train is stopped and searched, while Dana leaves on her own with the bomb, moving it far enough away from the train. The bomb soon explodes, and when Peter and Lincoln search, they find Dana's body nearby, finally dead, and the only fatality from the explosion.

Peter returns home where Walter has invited Bell to stay the evening. Bell explains that he believes that Dana was finally able to die after serving a purpose—saving the lives of the people on the train. When church bells go off nearby, Olivia's personality slips through warning Peter before Bell regains control, fearing that his possession of Olivia's body has become more complicated than he thought.

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