"The Cure"  VITALS
Episode #: 6
| Season: 1 | Original Air Date: October 21, 2008
| | Writer: Felicia Henderson, Brad Kane | Director: Bill Eagles | | Special guest(s): Chris Eigeman (David Esterbrook), Maria Dizzia (Emily Kramer), Marjan Neshat (Claire Williams), Robert Eli (Ken Williams) | | Featured song(s): | | Episode synopsis: A young woman is dropped out of the back doors of a van and left on the dark city streets alone. She stumbles into Holly's Diner and sits at the counter obviously disoriented. A waiter takes her order, then calls a police officer and says he has a customer who might need some help. Shortly after he arrives, the other customers start screaming and bleeding from their eyes. Everyone in the diner bleeds out. The FBI team detereminesdetermines the young woman, Emily Cramer, was abducted for an unauthorized human trial to create weaponized humans because her radiation level was three times higher than anyone else's. On the day of Emily's wake, another woman, Claire Williams, is abducted. Both she and Emily had a rare disease and had joined with other patients to treat themselvedthemselves with an unapproved isotope therapy. Dr. Patel, the rhuematoid specialist treating both Emily and Clair, admits to Agent Dunham that he was sending periodic updates to David Esterbrook, the head of Intrepus, a pharmaceutical giant. In remorse, Dr. Patel commits suicide in front of Olivia Dunham before she can disarm him. Peter makes a deal with Nina Sharp of Massive Dynamics for information about Intrepus's secret lab; she will give him the location in exchange for a favor sometime in the future. Back in the lab, Walter has divined the source of the biological agent administered to Emily rfomfrom the smell of hyacinths that emanates from her remains. He also builds a Mr. Papaya head, blows it up, and asks for some blue cotton candy. With the antidote concocted by Walter in hand, Olivia is able to save Claire Williams when the FBI storms the Intrepus facility. Also in this episode, some of Olivia's backstory is revealed. An abusive and psychotic step-father sends her a card on her birthday every year to let her know he is still on the loose. She leaves the FBI office relieved to not have a card in her mail this year, only to find the envelope slipped under her door at home. | | | |
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