Fringe 3x03, "The Plateau" woman Murder By Pen in a chain reaction

On the busy streets and crowded sidewalks of Hoboken, New Jersey, a very focused man stands and stares at the activity as he uses the fingers on his right hand like an abacus. He studies a woman strolling on the opposite side of the street as she checks her watch and donates some coins to an older street urchin. She enters a flower shop to purchase some daisies. The man, Milo Stanfield, adjusts his focus to the timing of the traffic lights at the nearby intersection, then to a city bus as it stops for passengers. He then studies a man sitting on a bench near a postal drop box. A deep pothole filled with water ruts the street not far from the mail drop. Milo has his plan in mind and walks through traffic directly to the mailbox. A car stops and honks just short of striking Milo, who continues undistracted on his path. Milo reaches the mailbox and places a ballpoint pen on top of it. He doesn't just lay it there, he stands it up vertically on end. Still focused on his plan, he takes a second to study the balanced writing utensil, and seems to be temporarily delighted with his actions. On the street, a bike messenger races from a distant intersection and down the sidewalk toward Milo's location. Milo notes this and moves away from the box and the balanced pen. The woman he studied earlier exits the flower shop and walks to the intersection to wait for a crossing opportunity... she seems preoccupied and not paying an inordinate amount of attention to her environment.
The detonator to Milo's planned chain reaction goes off -- a cab hits the pothole and splashes water onto the mailbox and the pen. The pen loses balance and falls to the sidewalk. The man sitting on the bench notices the rare item that has fallen from the mail drop and walks over to pick it up. The bike messenger racing on the sidewalk clips the man reaching for the ballpoint pen and crashes into a fruit stand in front of an inner city grocery store. The street urchin quickly grabs some fruit that fell on the ground. Nearby onlookers hurry to assist the two involved in the collision, and the grocer fights with the homeless man over the fruit. The ensuing commotion on the sidewalk distracts the driver of the bus as he continues after his stop. The traffic lights change and the distracted driver fails to notice the lights - and that pedestrians have started to cross in front of him. Jillian Foster crosses at the intersection, with the right-of-way, and carrying her daisies. Seconds later, the large passenger bus strikes her broadside and sends her sliding down the pavement to her death. Milo walks from the scene unaffected by the carnage - all he lost was his pen.

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Music

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• Fringe
• 3x03
• The Plateau
• woman
• Murder By Pen
• chain reaction

[srigisk]

@TheDuerder this is how in USA people do. They learned to trust to light so much, that they don't need to verify them. This "system" is both great and awfull.

[TheDuerden]

This is why I stopped watching Fringe to be honest....why would someone walk into the middle of the road without looking, just because the sign said walk? When the green man lights on here, I always look at the road I am about to cross.

[Cloud1997FF7]

the pen was all the hype , bu tthen came in the bus T_T