We open with Olivia examining pictures of Observers that have been captured over time, until ultimately identifying Buddy. She tells Broyles about the Buddy’s strange message. She also reports that Astrid’s test on the Observer’s blood did not reveal any DNA matches, but it did have antibodies for the Spanish flu, of which there has not been a reported case for 90 years.

Broyles wants to give Olivia a security detail, but she doesn’t think she was being threatened, but rather warned. Olivia promises to tell Broyles if she sees Buddy again.

Cut to a woman sitting in public, drawing an outdoor café across the street. She closes her eyes, winces, and begins a new sketch on the next page. She draws frantically, looking tensely around as her hand moves. She then rips the page out, runs after a man, and hands him the sketch before walking away. He and his companion look at the picture, calling the girl talented but twisted. Next thing we know, he walks through a work zone and is impaled by a falling steel beam. The woman with him begins screaming, and when the picture is revealed, it is an image of his death scene.

After the theme, we cut to Peter and Walter working in the lab together. The machine seems not to recognize Peter, so they are going to reprogram it. Olivia joins them, and Walter promises that his project with Peter won’t distract him from his usual work. She gets a call from Lincoln, who relates that morning’s tragedy to her. When Olivia hears that the man’s death was predicted, she at first thinks it was Buddy, but Lincoln tells her it was a teenage girl.

We next see that same girl coming home to her family, who all seem oblivious to her paranormal talent. She goes up to her room and seems to have another vision, but her dad interrupts her. It seems that he knows about her talent after all. They have been moving around a lot on her account. He thinks that her visions have not happened for a while.

Back at the federal building, Olivia is working at her desk, examining the drawing. Lincoln is off looking for witnesses and traffic camera feeds. Broyles seems concerned about her because she has been going to health services a lot recently for migraines. She asks Broyles if he believes in fate, but he responds in the negative. She once shared his opinion, but the similarity between their present case and her incident with Buddy has her doubting. Broyles thinks perhaps they should keep her out of harm’s way for a while.

Olivia then goes to take her medicine, and Lincoln returns with good news: the girl has been identified. They set out to look for her.

The girl is next seen on a bus. After another vision, she begins drawing again. The victim is on the bus with her. She tears the page, ready to give it to him, but he has gotten off the bus. She chases after him, desperate to warn him, but he’s gone. Looking despondently up to the sky, she apologetically says “I tried.”

Meanwhile, Olivia and Lincoln pay a visit to the girl’s family. They show her father a picture, but he claims not to know her. They say they’ve seen her at a nearby park a few times. After the door closes, Olivia mentions to Lincoln that the backpack from the picture was in the background. On their way out, they meet the girl in question.

Olivia asks if the girl drew the picture, and how she knew the accident would happen. The girl replies that whenever she’s around someone who will die soon, she simply sees it in her head. (I must say, I’ve missed episodes about random freaks like this.) Lincoln asks about the picture she’s holding, but the father interrupts, saying they can’t question his daughter without parental consent (her name is apparently Emily.)

Olivia says that no consent is needed, and it’s up to Emily. But Emily doesn’t want to continue talking. The father begins ranting, saying that it always starts with a few questions. Massive Dynamic in particular has been after her, treating her like a lab specimen. This seems to resonate with Olivia, who went through the Cortexifan trial. Olivia gives the man her card, saying she wants to help.

Back in the house, the girl admits to her father that she saw something bad on the bus. He tells her that there’s nothing they can do when she sees these things.

Next we see Nina sharp, on the phone. A secretary shows Olivia into the room. Olivia asks Nina about what she was told. Nina said that they once tried to catalogue the girl’s precognitive abilities, even offering to pay for Emily’s school, but the father refused. Olivia is disgusted that Nina could see how she suffered as a child and see nothing wrong with pursuing Emily.

Olivia’s phone rings, interrupting them. Emily has decided she wants help. Olivia hurries to meet her on a bench by a lake. Emily hands Olivia a picture of many dead people, saying a lot of people are going to die.

The next scene shows Emily in Walter’s lab, allowing him to examine her. She explains that she started getting the visions when she was eleven years old. She hears a strange sound and sees the death of any one nearby. The family then moved when people around her began getting scared.

Walter then reveals a theory that he and William Bell had, that traumatic events resonate so loudly that they ripple backward through time, and that especially sensitive people can detect these ripples. The girl explains she draws the images because they fade after the initial vision. She tries to warn the people so they can say their goodbyes.

Peter and Astrid begin trying to identify the man on the bus while Olivia talks with Emily. Olivia wants to know if Emily senses anything now. She gets a strange look on her face, but they’re interrupted. Lincoln has brought Emily’s father. The FBI contacted Emily’s parents so that they would not worry.

Peter and Astrid have identified the man, and Olivia and Lincoln set off to find him. Peter wants Walter to try hypnotizing Emily to recover details of the tragedy she’s seen.

Olivia and Lincoln enter the bus man’s apartment, meanwhile. The man is at work—construction. Back at the lab, Walter is beginning the process of hypnosis. Emily sees herself on the bus, on the way home. The man is not on the bus with her, but she hears the vision’s humming sound. She finally spots him getting off the bus. Emily follows him, but there’s a loud sound. It’s some kind of explosion. There’s flying debris and dead bodies everywhere. There’s a sign in Latin, which means “By the judgment of God let justice be done.” They are at a courthouse.

Emily sees Mr. Duncan. He’s holding a detonator. He is the one who set off the explosion, because he lost custody of his child in that courthouse.

The FBI swarms the courthouse. They believe the explosives are in the parking garage beneath the building. Peter and Lincoln go to look for it while they evacuate the building.

On their way home, Emily and her father spot a van across the street. It looks like a surveillance vehicle. The family begins packing frantically. Halfway through packing, Emily stops and begins to draw.

Back at the courthouse, the bus man (his name escapes me) is looking for the judge who took his child. An announcement comes on that people should respond to an emergency. Downstairs, Lincoln locates the bomb. It’s under a tarp in a pick-up truck. Broyles encourages Olivia to go up help set up the perimeter, but Olivia refuses, saying she can’t live her life or do her job if she lives in fear.

Peter gets an idea to figure out the bomb’s frequency. He has the FBI change their radios to the correct megahertz.

Around this time, bus man locates the judge he’s been looking for. He tries to set off the bomb, but the signal has been blocked. The FBI surrounds him, but he has a second bomb strapped to his body. Olivia tries to talk him down, but the man (Albert, apparently) is desperate. Olivia tells Albert that he is in control, not his circumstances. Finally Albert gives it up and lets the FBI take him.

Olivia calls Emily’s family to let them know the bomb didn’t go off. The father goes to tell Emily, but she’s gone, and so is the van. According to the plate number, it was only a dry cleaning van. Olivia goes back to the lake, where Emily is waiting. She’s cold, with a weak pulse. Emily says her time has come. Her father comes, seeing her picture of him on the bench with her and Olivia watching from behind. (At this point she is so pale she looks like a vampire.)

Emily is happy that she saved the people in the courthouse. Ambulance sirens can be heard in the distance, but they’re too late.

Back at the lab, Olivia is looking over some paperwork when Peter walks in. Apparently Emily’s unusual brain activity gave her some kind of stroke, and it couldn’t have been prevented. Peter sees the picture of an Observer she’s holding. He tells her what he knows about them, and how they experience time. He tells her they’re never wrong about the future. Peter asks if she’s heard from any of them, but she lies and says they have not.

Later, Nina pays Olivia a visit. Nina apologizes for what happened earlier. Olivia tells Nina that she’s the closest thing she has to a mother. Olivia then feels a migraine coming on, and Nina goes to get her some soup. She also promises to send new medication over the next day. Outside, an Observer is watching.