List of Fringe episodes

This is a list of episodes from the FOX science fiction television series Fringe. The series first aired on September 9, 2008 and is currently in its first season.

Season 1: 2008-2009

Ep#	Title	Writer(s)	Director	Original airdate	Viewers (in millions)
1	"Pilot"	J.J. Abrams & Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci	Alex Graves	September 9, 2008	9.13
After an international flight lands in Boston’s Logan Airport, its crew and passengers dead from a mysterious and gruesome plague, a team of investigators begins investigating the nature and source of the toxin causing the plague. When Special Agent Olivia Dunham’s partner, John Scott, is infected by the same plague, she recruits Dr. Walter Bishop, a mentally unstable researcher in fringe science, and his estranged son, Peter, in helping her to save John's life. They discover a cure to the man-made plague, but learn that the mass infection was but an experiment, and part of a larger mystery called "The Pattern". Her newly healed partner betrays her, and might be involved with the Pattern, as well as one of the largest companies in the world, Massive Dynamic, headed by Bishop’s former lab partner. At the end, in an underground corridor, a man wheels Agent Scott's body down the hallway. Nina Sharp, who works for Massive Dynamic, asks how long he's been dead. The man replies 'Five hours'. Nina then tells him to question Agent Scott.
2	"The Same Old Story"	Jeff Pinkner & J.J. Abrams & Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci	Paul Edwards	September 16, 2008	13.27
Olivia, along with Peter and Walter Bishop, reopens a cold case involving a serial killer who extracted the pituitary glands from his victims after investigating the strange death of a woman who had an even stranger child. The woman was pregnant for only hours, yet the baby she birthed was fully developed - then aged eighty years in the span of a few minutes. They discover that the killer is an artificially-aged human, who is using the enzymes extracted from the removed glands to halt his rapid aging. The team is able to track him and his creator down, causing the man to die from being deprived of the enzymes keeping him young.
3	"The Ghost Network"	David H. Goodman & J.R. Orci	Fred Toye	September 23, 2008	9.42
A man seems to be having visions of Pattern-related terror attacks before they occur. The team, led by Dr. Bishop, discovers that he is receiving signals from the Ghost Network, an otherwise undetectable frequency range on which the masterminds are communicating. With his help, they are able to intercept a strange crystalline disk, which is given to Nina Sharp for analysis.
4	"The Arrival"	J.J. Abrams & Jeff Pinkner	Paul Edwards	September 30, 2008	9.91
A mysterious cylinder emerges from beneath the Earth in New York City, so Broyles enlists the trio of Olivia, Dr. Bishop and Peter to investigate the significance of the object. However, others also seek it, including a bald man known as the Observer who only watches events as they unfold and another willing to kill to retrieve the cylinder. Dr. Bishop hides the cylinder against the wishes of the rest of the team, owing a debt to the Observer for saving his life and that of his son many years earlier. The object burrows back underground before either side can discover its purpose. At the end of the episode, Olivia, who is standing in the kitchen, sees John Scott standing in the kitchen entrance.
5	"Power Hungry"	TBA	Christopher Misiano	October 14, 2008	TBA
The team discovers a man with the power to harness electricity and Olivia has an encounter with someone from her past.
6	"The Cure"	TBA	TBA	October 21, 2008	TBA
A woman diagnosed with a rare disease vanishes from the hospital and resurfaces in Massachusetts, inexplicably causing those around her to die.