2. The Same Old Story

Our unlikely trio's strange partnership begins as they investigate the mysterious death of a woman who conceives, carries to full-term, and births a baby in the span of hours, and her baby who ages 80 years in a matter of minutes. As the bizarre and seemingly unexplainable occurrences are explored, quirky Dr. Bishop runs extensive testing in the lab; his reluctant son Peter endures his new role as his father's keeper; and Olivia turns to Massive Dynamic Chief Operating Officer Nina Sharp for assistance.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

Olivia, along with Peter and Walter Bishop, reopens a cold case involving a serial killer ( Derek Cecil ) who extracted the pituitary glands from his victims after investigating the strange death of a woman ( Betty Gilpin ) who had an even stranger child. The woman was pregnant for a few minutes, yet the baby she birthed was fully developed - then aged eighty years in the span of another few minutes. They discover that the killer is an artificially aged human, who is using the hormones extracted from the removed glands to halt his accelerated aging disease. The team is able to track him and his creator ( Mark Blum ) down, causing the man to die from being deprived of the hormones keeping him young.

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