Fringe: Season 3, Episode 9

3 - 9: Marionette

The Fringe team tracks down cases of people having had donated organs removed. One particular man had his heart removed, yet remained alive for several minutes afterwards. They come to learn the organs all belong to the same person, Amanda, a young ballerina that had committed suicide. Walter recognizes evidence that suggests the culprit is following on previous work he and William Bell had done on restoring life to dead bodies, that he has been injecting his victims with a serum that virtually halts cellular decay, in order to assuage his conscience, and then calling paramedics to help them, as there is a possibility that they could be saved by modern medicine with the help of the serum. They trace the culprit to Roland Barrett, a man that had met Amanda at a suicide counseling clinic and became enraptured with her. Having reassembled her body from the corpse and donated organs, Barrett is able to bring her back to life but, when he looked at her, realized that it wasn't really Amanda he brought back. The resurrected girl later dies again. Meanwhile, Olivia attempts to adjust to life back in her world, and finds it emotionally difficult to cope with how Fauxlivia integrated herself into Olivia's life, particularly her relationship with Peter. She breaks down at the end of the episode, reprimanding Peter for how he couldn't tell it wasn't Olivia that he had been sleeping with. Peter is unable to answer her. As Walter and Peter later go out for a milkshake, the Observer is seen watching them, and he reports on his phone that "He is still alive".