 A mysterious man involved in a downtown Manhattan collision with a SUV flees the scene to a nearby apartment building . He enters the building and attacks a random man , hooking up equipment to the man 's inner mouth , which allows him to adopt his external appearance and shapeshift . The crashed SUV is discovered to be Olivia 's ( Anna Torv ) , though she is not inside . Peter ( Joshua Jackson ) and Walter ( John Noble ) arrive and investigate the scene while being accosted by a new junior agent , Amy Jessup ( Meghan Markle ) , who wonders what they do for the FBI . After Walter searches through the SUV , he shuts the door and Olivia suddenly ejects through the windshield . She is rushed to the hospital and declared brain dead . Peter and Broyles ( Lance Reddick ) drink at a bar together in sorrow , and Broyles reveals the Fringe Division is being shut down because of their failure to provide " usable results " . Suspicious and curious of Fringe Division , Jessup begins a personal investigation into their past activities . 
