Matthew Ziegler is the main antagonist of "The Ghost Network", the third episode of Fringe.
He is portrayed by David Lansbury.
History[]
Matthew Ziegler is an assassin who was assigned to recover a high-tech chip from several DEA agents that possessed it at one point or another. One agent was Evelina Mendoza who was on a commuter bus at 8:14 AM. Ziegler committed mass murder releasing a canister of amber mist (putting on a gas mask to protect himself), which solidified killed Evelina and eleven other people. Before he exited the bus, Ziegler stole Evelina’s backpack believing it had the chip in it. However, it turned out Evelina actually had the chip in her hand.
Ziegler's superiors were not revealed, but the purpose of his attack on the commuter bus was to gain control of a crystalline disk possessed by Agent Mendoza. An accomplice of Ziegler's, Gerard, spoke only Latin while speaking on the secure communication system they utilized.
Having failed to recover the chip from Mendoza, Ziegler arranged a meeting with her handler, DEA Agent Grant Davidson. During their arranged meeting at the South Station rail terminal, Ziegler assassinated Davidson with a single gunshot to the chest and grabbed a case he had. As he fled with the high-tech chip, FBI Agents Olivia Dunham and Charlie Francis isolated him as they followed him with the help of Roy McComb. To avoid arrest, Ziegler committed instant suicide by stepping in front of a bus.
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