Season 2, Episode 17:
Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.
In Providence, Rhode Island, lawyer Miranda Green takes a lunch meeting with sickly young man, James Heath. While he claims to have been with her in preschool, she doesn’t remember him. She does believe that her firm can help him against those who made him sick. Driving back to her office, Miranda spontaneously develops tumors all over her body and dies in her car.
Olivia has a sleepless night, owing to her recent discovery that Peter was abducted from the alternate universe by a grief-stricken Walter. She goes to the bowling alley managed by Sam Weiss, where he tells her she’s one of the best people he’s known, and he’s sure she’ll do the right thing.
In the case, it transpires that victims of attacks similar to Miranda Green’s have been connected to the Cortexiphan trials in Jacksonville, Florida. Olivia visits Nina Sharp at Massive Dynamic and demands a full list of the subjects, one of which she knows is herself. Nina claims not to have any such list. They also discuss Peter, and Nina guesses that Olivia is looking for a reason not to tell him.
Heath confronts Olivia in the hall of her apartment building. When he sees her badge, he attacks her but Olivia fends him off with a candlestick. He tells her the story of how he was sick with cancer as a child, and a man visited him in the hospital claiming he could help him fight the disease. But instead of getting better, he got worse, and contagious.
At the end of the episode, Olivia has decided not to tell Peter about his origins. Walter says that he has made the opposite decision, and that the truth must be known.
Tropes in this episode include:
- Actor Allusion: Miranda Greene (portrayed by Diane Kruger) mentions the name Gorlami, an alias for Brad Pitt's character in Inglourious Basterds.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: In keeping with the Clue themed episode title, each of the murder weapons from the original game make brief cameo appearances.
- Typhoid Mary
