FRINGE: "Need To Know" - PAGE 12

• OLIVIA
  
• They’re connected.
  
• PETER
  
• And I only know of one thing that connects an upstate mental hospital and a 50 billion dollar technology concern.
  
• Both stand up above the cube walls and spot Walter, his head sticking out above the cubicles like a super-intelligent whack-a-mole. He dumps a packet salt on the top edge of a cube wall. Disappears down. Repeats with pepper in the same spot. Disappears down. Reappears and mixes them together.
  
• OLIVIA
  
• What is he doing?
  
• PETER
  
• Knowing him - which I am reminded frequently that I don’t - snorting it. I don’t know.
  
• Walter waves his hand over the pile. The pepper separates from the salt and jumps to his palm, clinging to his hand.
  
• WALTER
  
• Ambient static electricity here is very high.
  
• Peter and Olivia look to each other, ignoring his remark, instead concerned..
  
• WALTER (CONT’D)
  
• Here being here. Not where you are.
  
• And now, just a little puzzled.