Fringe - FBI Borderline Cases / Episode List

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This episode list contains all episodes of the US American mystery series Fringe - Borderline Cases of the FBI , sorted by the US American first broadcast . Between 2008 and 2013, 100 episodes were created in five seasons, each around 42 minutes in length.

Overview

Season Number of episodes First broadcast in the USA German-language first broadcast
Season premiere Season finale Season premiere Season finale
1 20th September 9, 2008 May 12, 2009 March 16, 2009 August 10, 2009
2 23 17th September 2009 May 20, 2010 March 8, 2010 October 25, 2010
3 22nd September 23, 2010 May 6, 2011 January 10, 2011 September 26, 2011
4th 22nd September 23, 2011 May 11, 2012 June 25, 2012 20th August 2012
5 13 September 28, 2012 January 18, 2013 1st February 2013 March 16, 2013

season 1

The first broadcast of the first season was from September 9, 2008 to May 12, 2009 on the US broadcaster Fox . The German free TV channel ProSieben and the Swiss free TV channel SRF Zwei broadcast the German - language first broadcast from March 16 to August 10, 2009.

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German title Original title First broadcast in the USA German language first broadcast (D / CH) Director script
1 1 Flight 627 pilot Sep 9 2008 16. Mar. 2009 Alex Graves JJ Abrams , Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci
Flight 627 lands in Boston, but when the aircraft is opened, the ground crew discovers that all passengers and crew have been mysteriously killed. FBI agent Olivia Dunham is investigating the machine. During the investigation, her colleague and partner John Scott is exposed to an unknown, life-threatening chemical substance. Desperate Olivia wants Dr. Ask for help from Walter Bishop, who is known for his research in the supernatural realm, but he cannot help her as he has been in a mental hospital for 17 years. The only way to get to him is through his son Peter, who initially doesn't want to have anything to do with his father. Olivia succeeds in persuading Peter to help, whereupon his father Walter is released from the institution under his supervision and his former laboratory at Harvard is returned.

Olivia's research leads her to the company "Massive Dynamic", which belongs to Walter's former laboratory partner, but is now managed by Nina Sharp. It turns out that an employee of Massive Dynamic is responsible for making the chemicals that poisoned Scott. However, it also becomes clear that Scott himself was involved in the attack on Flight 627. Although Walter Bishop succeeds in starting Scott's healing, Scott tries to continue his role as double agent and dies in a chase with Olivia. Without their knowledge, his remains are brought to the laboratories of Massive Dynamic, which try to use their technical means to obtain information about the attacks from his brain.

2 2 The experiment The same old story 16 Sep 2008 23 Mar 2009 Paul Edwards Jeff Pinkner, JJ Abrams, Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci
A man seduces a young woman who is dropped off in front of a hospital just a few hours later, heavily pregnant. She does not survive the imminent birth of the child. The infant develops supernaturally quickly and dies shortly afterwards as an old man. Together with Walter and Peter Bishop, Olivia Dunham takes on the case under Phillip Broyles' direction. It appears to be part of a series of mysterious occurrences known as the "Scheme" by the FBI. The evidence points to an unsolved serial killer case that Olivia previously worked on with her late partner, John Scott. This killer always removed a part of the brain from his victims, the pituitary gland, which is also responsible for human growth. Walter remembers his own experiments that he carried out in this context, but the documents are no longer available.

Olivia and Peter turn to a medical specialist in aging and growth diseases, Dr. Penrose, which, however, cannot help them at first. After the FBI visit, however, this doctor warns his son Christopher about the agents, who is himself affected by aging too quickly. He only needs a few women to complete the project. Meanwhile, another victim of the serial killer is found, whose pituitary gland has actually also been removed. Walter tries to find out the crime scene of the murder through the last images on the retina, which he finally succeeds. When Olivia finds the culprit, however, he succumbs to his rapid aging and dies. His father is also shot. Walter and Peter become official members of the FBI's special unit.

3 3 Roy The Ghost Network 23 Sep 2008 30th Mar 2009 Frederick EO Toye David H. Goodman & JR Orci
Roy McComb draws disasters before they happen. He also foresees a bus accident that Olivia and her team investigate a little later. During the investigation, Roy is initially suspected of being behind the attacks; however, it quickly becomes clear that he is only foreseeing them. He has had his visions for around 9 months since the FBI noticed the "scheme". He was used as a guinea pig by Walter as a child. Olivia has an unknown substance found during the bus accident investigated at Massive Dynamic. Walter also finds out that Roy's blood contains metallic components, which reminds him of research with his former laboratory partner Walter Bell, in which the aim was to transfer secret messages from brain to brain without this being externally noticeable. Accordingly, it becomes clear that someone seems to have perfected this technique and that Roy acts as something of a receiving device. The FBI team succeeds in decoding incoming messages, which leads to the pursuit of some suspects, but all of them die. However, a small hard drive is found, which Olivia's superior Broyles Nina Sharp of Massive Dynamic hands over for investigation. Roy McComb will receive no further visions from the breakup of the network.
4th 4th The arrival The Arrival Sep 30 2008 Apr 6, 2009 Paul Edwards JJ Abrams & Jeff Pinkner
In this episode, the so-called "Observer" appear for the first time: bald, alike men who seem to grapple with the course of history. In this case one of these observers observes the explosion of a gas pipe and informs others with the message that “it” has arrived. Olivia Dunham's FBI team is investigating this "it", a mysterious object that vibrates at irregular intervals. Walter finally incapacitates his assistant Astrid to meet with one of the bald men and return the object. He later explains to Peter that he owes a lot to these men for saving their lives in a previous accident. Peter is now also convinced of the existence of a "scheme" and finally declares that he is ready to help the FBI, even if the relationship with his father has not yet been finally clarified.
5 5 Under power Power hungry Oct 14, 2008 Apr 20, 2009 Christopher Misiano Jason Cahill & Julia Cho
Joseph Meegar has the ability to control electrical fields in his direct environment. For example, he triggers an elevator disaster that kills everyone except himself. However, he is kidnapped by a scientist who is experimenting with these special skills. However, Walter got the idea of ​​using pigeons, which can detect electrical fields, to find what actually works. Meanwhile, Olivia keeps reappearing to John Scott. Through these visions she finally finds a hiding place of his, in which there is some information about his role as double agent and other cases of the "schema". When her boss also hands her Scott's personal belongings, she also finds an engagement ring.
6th 6th The cure The Cure Oct 21, 2008 Apr 27, 2009 Bill Eagles Felicia D. Henderson & Brad Caleb Kane
A confused woman shows up in a cafe. She no longer remembers what happened to her. When too many questions are asked, the other guests' brains begin to boil, and they die. She does not survive either. The FBI team encountered a strikingly high intensity of ionizing radiation in the restaurant. It turns out that the woman was kidnapped and now another woman has disappeared. Both women had / suffer from a rare disease called Bellinian Lymphosemia . They took part in a study on a new drug that was supposed to fight the incurable disease with the help of radioactive capsules. However, the pharmaceutical company behind it, Intrepus , actually pursues the goal of abusing patients as remotely triggered human bombs. With the help of Nina Sharp, the second victim can be found in time and the antidote administered.
7th 7th The mysterious Mr. Jones In Which We Meet Mr. Jones Nov 11, 2008 May 4, 2009 Brad Anderson JJ Abrams & Jeff Pinkner
A colleague and friend of Broyles', Agent Mitchell Loeb, collapses at a meeting. A heart attack is initially suspected until a parasite spreading from the heart is discovered in its body. Walter examines the foreign body, which seems to be supernatural, but doesn't know what to do next. Olivia then flies to Frankfurt to speak to a biochemist who is in solitary confinement. However, he refuses to provide information until he has spoken to a colleague, who has since died to gain access to certain information. It turns out that both belonged to an association called "ZFT", which seems to be directly related to the "scheme".

As the parasite continues to spread in Loeb's body, the agents are running out of time. Walter comes up with the idea of ​​connecting Peter to the brain of the dead colleague so that he can get the information he needs. The project succeeds, the arrested agent receives the necessary information and Loeb can be saved. The team does not notice, however, that the incident was staged solely for the sake of information and that Loeb also belongs to the "ZFT".

8th 8th the equation The equation Nov 18, 2008 May 11, 2009 Gwyneth Horder-Payton JR Orci & David H. Goodman
A boy is kidnapped to solve an unfinished equation using his musical skills. There have also been kidnappings in the past in which children who are gifted in a special field were used for this purpose. So far, however, the equation has never been solved. Such a child, who had meanwhile grown old, was also imprisoned in Walter's institution. Walter goes back to the institution accordingly and despite some arguments with the director of the institution, he gets some information that should help the team to find the boy again. In fact, with the help of this information, the team is able to find the child. However, his kidnapper escapes with the now completed formula. This is used by Mitchell Loeb, known from the last episode, to build a machine with which it is possible to overcome solid matter.
9 9 Butterflies in the head The Dreamscape Nov 25, 2008 May 18, 2009 Frederick EO Toye Julia Cho & Zack Whedon
An employee of “Massive Dynamic” imagines he is being attacked by butterflies with razor-sharp wings and, in desperation, jumps out of the window, where he dies. Olivia receives an email supposedly written by her late colleague John Scott, in which she is given an address. Once there, she comes across toads that contain fear-inducing hallucinogens. A further examination reveals that the dead man's brain was exposed to a high dose of these hallucinogens.

Walter lets Olivia into a water tank again in order to establish a subconscious connection to John Scott in order to obtain further information. Here it becomes clear that Massive Dynamic apparently has more to do with the cases of the “schema” than previously assumed.

10 10 Through the wall safe Dec 2, 2008 May 25, 2009 Michael Zinberg David H. Goodman & Jason Cahill
Mitchell Loeb and his accomplices steal things from various bank lockers and vaults. In doing so, they use the technology discovered thanks to the completed formula, with which one can walk through walls. However, something goes wrong in one of the raids and one of the thieves is trapped in the resolidifying wall and killed by his accomplices. In this case, Olivia and her team are called.

Walter slowly remembers that these individual lockers were created by himself in the past and contain parts of a teleportation device he invented. Loeb kidnaps Olivia and wants to teleport David Robert Jones, the biochemist who is in solitary confinement, out of prison with Walter's invention, which ultimately succeeds.

11 11 The runny nose virus Bound Jan. 20, 2009 June 8, 2009 Frederick EO Toye JJ Abrams, Jeff Pinkner, Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci
After undergoing medical intervention, Olivia is able to flee from her kidnappers. She even manages to take some medical samples and hides them before being captured by Sanford Harris. This was hired to check the activities of the "Fringe" department and is known to Olivia from earlier times: she had prosecuted him for the sexual harassment of three women. Now he sees his opportunity to take revenge for the inconvenience caused.

Back at the FBI, Olivia and her team are investigating a case in which an epidemiologist died of a giant virus inside his own body. By comparing the virus in his body with those taken during the kidnapping, a link can be established between the murderers and the kidnappers. Olivia finally recognizes the shoes of her kidnapper Agent Mitchell Loeb, so that he is exposed. His wife is shot dead during a persecution. The information he can give the team, however, is rather rare: he just claims there are two sides and that he was trying to save and protect Olivia. Meanwhile, Olivia receives a visit from her sister Rachel and her daughter Ella.

12 12 Brain eater The no-brainer Jan. 27, 2009 June 15, 2009 John Polson David H. Goodman & Brad Caleb Kane
Olivia's team is investigating a case in which several people died of liquefied brains after watching a video on their computers. During the investigation, Olivia also receives the video, but it is accessed by her niece. She can save them just in time.

A computer scientist who uses his skills for the purpose of revenge is responsible for the video of blurred shapes and tones. Harris interferes heavily in the investigation, so that finally even Broyles has to intervene to protect Olivia from his thirst for revenge. In addition, Jessica Warren, the mother of Walter's late lab assistant, contacts him and confronts him with a dark chapter in his past: the question of guilt for this death.

13 13 Conrad The transformation Feb 3, 2009 June 22, 2009 Brad Anderson JR Orci & Zack Whedon
During a flight, a man succumbs to a serious mutation that turns him into a monster, after which the plane crashes. Walter Bishop already recognizes at the scene of the action that the monster must once have been human. Olivia recognizes the monster from John Scott's memories and knows that he was on his way to meet another person, Daniel Hicks. While he is being interrogated, Walter finds another memory card in the victim's hand, as it has appeared before.

After Hicks has started to transform into a monster, Walter must quickly find an antidote. A third memory card is also found in his hand. He informs the team about the existence of "Conrad", an arms dealer who appears to be connected to the incidents. Olivia demands to see Scott's corpse again: he too could have had such a memory card, which would finally expose him as part of the conspiracy. It becomes clear that his body is being kept at Massive Dynamic and that the memory card that is actually present is also being examined here. It turns out that Scott was not a member of the alleged terrorist cell, but rather tried to stop it. Walter informs Olivia that her and Scott's memories are now finally separated, whereupon she takes the opportunity to speak to him one last time. He confesses to her that he has always loved her and that she wanted to marry. This finally gives her the chance to end her doubts.

14th 14th The manifest Ability Feb 10, 2009 June 29, 2009 Norberto Barba Synopsis: Glen Whitman & David H. Goodman
Acting: Robert Chiappetta
A newsagent dies after an infected banknote has closed all of his body orifices. Meanwhile, Olivia learns of David Robert Jones' prison break and realizes that "ZFT" is a book and not a terrorist organization. The title is written out “Destruction through advances in technology”. With Peter's help, she manages to get a copy that Walter in particular immerses himself in immediately.

Jones surrenders himself to the FBI; he suffers more and more from the physical side effects of teleportation. However, he only wants to speak to Olivia and claims that she is the only one who can prevent a bomb explosion in 36 hours. During the interrogation, from which she initially wants to keep Harris away, she learns that Jones regards her as one of his soldiers who are supposed to fight the fight against the system with special skills. She is said to have taken part in a test with the drug Cortexiphan. Thanks to a trick by Peter, who falsifies a pre-test, the team gets to the address of the bomb. However, this should be switched off by pure willpower, which Olivia manages at the last moment. After these incidents, Jones manages to escape. Walter finds out that "ZFT" was obviously written on his own typewriter.

15th 15th Without words Inner Child Apr 7, 2009 July 6, 2009 Frederick EO Toye Brad Caleb Kane & Julia Cho
Shortly before the demolition, a mute boy is found in a demolished building who has apparently never seen the light of day. Olivia seems to have a special connection with the child: she is the only one he communicates with.

At the same time, a serial killer is once again up to mischief who exposes his victims in public. The boy appears to have some form of empathic skills tied to the case so that he can foresee murder victims and crime scenes. He is able to communicate this to Olivia in writing and by means of signs, so that the FBI team will soon be able to track down the killer. However, this dies when Olivia can confront him. The boy, meanwhile, has piqued the interest of the CIA, who would like to use him for research to see if he could be useful for further investigation. To protect him from these influences, Olivia places him in a foster family. At the end of the episode it turns out that the boy seems to be connected to the observers.

16 16 Unleashed Unleashed Apr 14, 2009 July 13, 2009 Brad Anderson & JR Orci Zack Whedon
As animal rights activists search an animal research laboratory, they accidentally release a dangerous, artificially created hybrid creature made up of different animals - for example a lizard, bat and wasp. Walter can determine this so precisely because he was involved in research on such a being himself, but he was never successful. During the investigation, Olivia's partner Charlie is also attacked by the creature. After it initially seems as if everything is in order, it turns out that the creature has placed a larva in its body. If the team does not manage to remove, Charlie is threatened with death. Finally, Walter succeeds in shooting the hybrid, and a poison against the larva can be extracted from his blood, which saves Charlie's life.
17th 17th nightmares Bad dreams Apr 21, 2009 July 20, 2009 Akiva Goldsman Akiva Goldsman
Olivia murders people in her dreams who actually die. However, the cause of death is always suicide. During their research, the team comes across a man named Nick Lane, who was already undergoing psychological treatment for being overly emotional. It gradually emerges that he too - like Olivia - was previously treated with Cortexiphane. In his case, however, the drug causes his feelings to be passed on to others and in this way he could drive them to suicide. At the end of the episode, Walter watches a video showing little Olivia during the Cortexiphan experiments.
18th 18th Nightshade Midnight Apr 28, 2009 July 27, 2009 Bobby Roth JH Wyman & Andrew Kreisberg
A woman seduces men to suck their spinal cord. The investigation leads the FBI team through a large pharmaceutical company to its chairman Nicholas Boone, whose wife Valerie was infected with a virus that is responsible for the fact that she is now dependent on someone else's spinal cord. He also says that it is the "ZFT" that infected his wife with this virus. Since Valerie has since disappeared, Olivia and her colleagues have to go on a search while Boone works with Walter on an antidote. When Valerie is found, the antidote that has meanwhile been found works, but Boone has already donated too much of his own spinal cord to her and is now succumbing to the consequences. However, he informs Olivia that "ZFT" was founded by Massive Dynamic owner William Bell.

Meanwhile, Olivia's sister's husband is demanding a divorce and sole custody of their daughter. Olivia asks her boss Broyles for help because of his divorce experience.

19th 19th The other way The Road Not Taken May 5, 2009 Aug 3, 2009 Frederick EO Toye
Synopsis : Akiva Goldsman Acting: Jeff Pinkner & JR Orci
A woman goes up in flames in the middle of a busy street. The FBI team is soon certain that it is a case of pyrokinesis - Walter and his colleague William Bell also worked on this ability. In the meantime, Walter also realizes that it was not he who wrote the “ZFT” manuscript, but Bell. However, he doubts that he did this for bad motives, and justifies this with repeated references in the book to a chapter on ethics, which is missing in the present document.

Olivia keeps having visions of a second victim and a burning city, but she cannot explain them. When she turns to Walter with this, he expresses the assumption that it could be a kind of déjà vus, which, however, are not real, but reflect a variant of reality. During the investigation, the investigators discover the existence of a twin sister of the burned woman, who, however, was kidnapped. When a connection with Agent Harris is revealed, the woman can be located. However, she burns Agent Harris in her rescue. Afterwards, Olivia finds out that the twin sisters - like herself - have been subjected to cortexiphane experiments, and speaks to Walter about them. He still knows that they were William Bell's experiments, but no longer knows for what specific purpose he carried them out. Nina Sharp points out to Broyles in an interview that the observer has turned up noticeably often in the past few days. She also advises him that he knows what happened the last time at that frequency. When she returns to her hotel, she is attacked by several men and taken away. Walter also gets a visit from an observer who tells him it is time to go, whereupon Walter leaves the laboratory with him.

20th 20th Nothing is unique There's More Than One of Everything May 12, 2009 Aug 10, 2009 Brad Anderson Synopsis : Akiva Goldsman & Bryan Burk
Acting: Jeff Pinkner & JH Wyman
Nina Sharp is recovering from the attack on her in the hospital and wants to speak to Olivia as soon as possible. The FBI team finds out that one of the assassins is David Robert Jones, the prison inmate who teleported himself out of captivity.

When Olivia comes to Nina Sharp's hospital, she learns that Nina's artificial arm was damaged in the attack. Jones and his helpers took an energy source developed by Bell from it. Also, it turns out that Jones is a former Massive Dynamic employee who once had a very close relationship with Bell but was then dishonorably fired. Sharp suspects that Jones' attacks were meant to prove something to Bell. Meanwhile, Jones is using Sharp's power source to build a device. However, the implementation does not go as planned and a truck causes a serious accident while attempting. The investigation shows that the truck is completely unregistered. Another attempt also fails, so that a human being cut in half is found. Walter is on a beach at the same time as the observer. He told him that he had to find what was needed as quickly as possible, but that he could not help him any more. Walter knows that his old beach house is in the same place, but not what to find. Only when Peter joins him, who found him with the help of a surveillance camera, and they talk about shared childhood memories, Walter realizes what he has to find. It is a device that was developed by him and William Bell to close windows on a parallel world. Walter and Peter finally manage to close another window that Jones opened just in time. In the process, however, Jones dies by being cut in half between the two worlds. At the end of the season, Walter can be seen standing in front of a grave on which "Peter Bishop" is carved. In addition, Olivia sets out to meet William Bell and ends up using an elevator in an office in the World Trade Center, which in reality no longer exists.

season 2

The first broadcast of the second season was from September 17, 2009 to May 20, 2010 on the US broadcaster Fox . The German-language premiere broadcast of the German Free TV transmitter ProSieben from 8 March to 25 October of 2010.

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21st 1 return A New Day in the Old Town 17 Sep 2009 March 8 2010 Akiva Goldsman JJ Abrams & Akiva Goldsman
Olivia has disappeared, but suddenly reappears in a car accident. She is passed out while the other driver involved escapes. It turns out that he's a shapeshifter. Meanwhile, Olivia is declared clinically dead - her brain trauma is too severe and her devices are said to be turned off the next day. When Peter visits her, however, she wakes up, pronounces a Greek sentence and panics that they are all no longer safe.

The shapeshifter asks for a "251" in a shop and is then led into a back room by the owner. He communicates with his client in a mysterious way via a mirror and a typewriter located there. He informs him that the job is done, the subject eliminated and the meeting prevented. However, his client immediately denies this and gives a new assignment: questioning the subject and then killing him. The shapeshifter then takes on the appearance of Olivia's doctor and asks her about what happened before her accident. When he realizes that she can't remember anything, he tries to kill her, but is stopped in time. The shapeshifter escapes, but is pursued by several agents, including Charlie Francis - but the result consists only of the doctor's body. Peter asks Olivia about the Greek sentence she uttered when she woke up, but Olivia cannot remember it. He explains to her that it is the same sentence that his mother always said to him when he went to bed. It means: "Be better than your father!" Meanwhile, Broyles is fighting for the survival of the "Fringe Division". Their use is questioned by their superiors and they have to explain the purpose of the department to a jury. He only succeeds when Peter hands him the shapeshifter's device, which obviously does not come from this world. At the end of the episode it turns out that its owner survived and has now taken on the appearance of Charlie. He killed the real Charlie.

22nd 2 object of desire Night of Desirable Objects Sep 24 2009 15th Mar 2010 Brad Anderson Jeff Pinkner & JH Wyman
A road construction worker hears strange noises in a corn field and pursues them when he is pulled underground by an unknown creature. Although he survives at first, he finds himself among various carcasses before he becomes a victim of the unknown being himself. When the FBI team arrives at the scene, they come across a liquid that Walter immediately investigates. It is a neurotoxin that numbs its victims.

During the cornfield investigation, Peter and Olivia come across the name Andre Hughes; he has now visited the two victims. When they visit Hughes' house, Olivia can hear another person's breath, but Hughes denies such presence. Instead, Olivia finds a laboratory. Over and over again during the episode it becomes apparent that Olivia can suddenly hear exceptionally well. A later search also found an altar with photos and newspaper articles on the death of Hughes' wife and child. The two coffins are dug up again, whereby it becomes apparent that the child's coffin is empty and that there is a passage into the earth's interior at the place of the pit. During the autopsy of the wife, Walter discovers that she should have been sterile due to a lupus disease. To circumvent this infertility, her husband apparently mixed her genes with those of a scorpion so that the child would survive the aggressive disease. The creature is apparently Hughes' child and is killed while searching for it. Nina Sharp recommends Olivia visit a Sam Weiss who would certainly help her in her situation. Although she doubts at first, she visits him at the end of the episode in his bowling alley. Sam seems to know exactly what's going on with Olivia, but doesn't tell her. The shapeshifter in the form of Charlie asks for new instructions via a typewriter in the back room of the shop.

23 3 The Colonel Fracture Oct. 1, 2009 22 Mar 2010 Bryan Spicer David Wilcox
Policeman Gillespie receives an order from a policeman to collect a briefcase at a busy train station. However, upon delivery, it crystallizes and finally explodes. One assumes a terrorist attack, but the recordings of the surveillance cameras were deleted shortly before the event, so that the actual process can no longer be clearly reconstructed. However, Walter finds out that Gillespie himself appears to have been the bomb. During an interview with his wife, Olivia comes across medication, but she does not know anything about it. Walter is convinced that Gillespie must have been taking these drugs for at least a year for his body to change in this way. At that time he was on a war mission in Iraq - at the same time an experiment called "Tin Man" was taking place there, which was canceled due to lack of success and danger to those involved. During investigations in Iraq, Olivia and Peter come across the name of Colonel Raymond Gordon, who was against this abortion. At the same time Astrid and Walter discover that the human bombs are triggered using a certain radio frequency. When the next test subject, a woman named Diane Burgess, becomes known, the FBI team tries to prevent the attack at Washington train station. This succeeds barely and Colonel Gordon can be asked. When asked, he claims that the end is near and that "they" are constantly watching humanity. Therefore, this information should be given in the briefcase. The briefcase actually reappears at the end of the episode: in the hands of an observer who takes photos of Walter from it and looks at them.

In her conversations with Sam Weiss, Olivia realizes that he knows more about her recurring memory than he openly admits. He is aware of her lack of sleep and the incipient headache attacks that she has not told him about. Meanwhile, Walter and Peter keep discussing their future home.

24 4th Mass times speed Momentum deferred Oct 8, 2009 29 Mar 2010 Joe Chappelle Zack Stentz & Ashley Edward Miller
In the company "Elias Cryonics" canisters with frozen heads are stolen. One of the criminals dies in the theft. Upon examining his body, the FBI team found that almost half of his blood was mercury. This was different when the body was first found, which leads the team to suspect that the real shape-shifter still exists and may even have crept into the team. In addition, another shapeshifting device is discovered at the crime scene. Upon examining it, Peter finds out that it is able to transfer data. Because Peter and Olivia get stuck with the examination themselves, they bring the device to "Massive Dynamic". There the researchers are already further with their findings and suspect that they can even determine the last assumed shape of the wearer. Sharp promises to let Olivia know as soon as she has details.

Meanwhile, the shapeshifter with Charlie's appearance meets the man who stole the canisters. They sort them out and don't seem to find what they're looking for. The shapeshifter wants to keep trying to get information about Olivia. Since he is now having problems maintaining Charlie's appearance, he has to regularly replenish his body with new mercury and for this purpose buys clinical thermometers from pharmacies. To find the shapeshifter in her team, Walter includes one of his former victims in the investigation: Rebecca is able to recognize beings that do not come from this reality. When it comes to the shapeshifter, her abilities yield nothing, but she sees a strange glimmer when she meets Peter. Walter creates a potion made from living worms for Olivia to help her regain her memory. In fact, she remembers her meeting with William Bell. He warned them of an impending war between the two parallel worlds and explained that the "first wave" in the form of hybrid human-machine beings was already on their world. They were looking for the person who would be able to open a gate between the two worlds in order to destroy Olivia's world. He asked Olivia to find this person herself and showed her the mark of the hybrid humans, a circular symbol. When she visits Nina Sharp after the memories have returned, she confirms the theory of the two worlds and their possible collision. Meanwhile, Olivia remembers a company name she read in Bell's office that is believed to be where the shapeshifters find what they're looking for. Olivia suddenly receives a message from Charlie, who informs her that Nina Sharp is the shapeshifter. She says goodbye, goes outside and is expected by Charlie, to whom she gives the company name. Meanwhile, however, she receives another message through which she realizes that Charlie is indeed the shapeshifter. He can still pass on the information about the company before he is finally shot by Olivia. At the end of the episode, the shapeshifters find a head on which is the symbol that Olivia received from Bell.

25th 5 Dream catcher Dream Logic Oct 15, 2009 Apr 12, 2010 Paul Edwards Josh Singer
An office worker in Seattle suddenly sees his colleagues as monsters and is then admitted to the hospital. After his questioning did not reveal anything due to his lack of memory, he died of a kind of seizure. His wife tells Peter and Olivia that he was a sleepwalker but was successfully healed six months ago. During the autopsy on his corpse, Walter finds a computer chip in his brain and a scar on his back. Shortly afterwards, a second case occurs in which a woman who also has a chip and a scar dies suddenly.

Through the renewed collaboration with "Massive Dynamic" it can be found out that a doctor in Seattle had worked with such chips as part of sleep studies. However, when the team went to see him, he was just attacked and all of his computer data was lost. However, Peter has now found out that the body functions of the connected people can also be controlled with the aid of the chip. With this finding, some of the test subjects can have their chips removed, but not all of them are known. Walter tests the functionality of the chip on a stranger and finds that it is not used to control bodily functions, but rather to record the dreams of those connected. He suspects the perpetrator to be someone who uses the dreams of others as a kind of drug. Continuing it in reality is probably an undesirable side effect. The sleep study doctor himself is ultimately found to be the culprit fairly easily, but dies while being arrested by the FBI.

26th 6th The cosmonaut Earthling Nov 5, 2009 Apr 19, 2010 Jon Cassar JH Wyman & Jeff Vlaming
A man turns to dust in his own apartment after being attacked by a ghostly shadowy being. Broyles is reminded of a case from four years ago: At that time, the connection between the victims was a recent hospitalization together. After the third murder, Broyles was tasked with finding a formula to end the killing. Although he did not succeed, the series broke off after two more deaths. The formula still exists and should now be completed by Walter. This time, too, the killer seems to be looking for his victims in the hospital.

During the investigation, the FBI team comes across a Russian nurse named Tomas Koslov. With the case now crossing national borders, Broyles must prevent a CIA takeover. He also manages to get files that say Koslov's real name is Timur Vasiliev and that he has a brother who was a cosmonaut before he fell into a coma. Vasiliev has now apparently kidnapped his brother from the hospital and is trying to save him on his own. Walter suspects that the cosmonaut brought a being with him in the form of a projection who appears to be committing the murders. Vasiliev finally turns to the FBI himself for help. While solving the formula, Peter found out that there was nothing more to help his brother: he and the projection have now become inseparable. Timur becomes the last victim of the projection before the FBI kills the cosmonaut and with it the projection itself. At the end of the episode it becomes clear why the case was so important to Broyles: Four years ago Broyles was so busy with him that his marriage broke up.

27 7th control Of human action Nov 12, 2009 Apr 26, 2010 Joe Chappelle Robert Chiappetta & Glen Whitman
Police officers find two men with a kidnapped boy but mysteriously die during the incident. The kidnapped boy is Tyler Carson, the son of a "Massive Dynamic" employee. Nina Sharp suspects that the kidnappers are trying to extort secret information from the company because Dr. Carson is involved in top secret research. Corresponding demands have not yet been made.

When Tyler and his kidnappers go into a shop to provide food and they finally demand money from the shop employee, a customer bravely intervenes, but then scalds himself with a pot of coffee. Even when the employee tries to call for help, he is injured as a result of an electric shock. When the FBI team sees the surveillance videos, they suspect that Tyler has some kind of hypnosis ability. However, Peter actually rules this out, as the power that Tyler wields over strangers seems too great to him. When examining the corpses of the police, Walter finds out that it is instead a matter of mind control that works via certain sounds. He has a device that blocks such mind control. Meanwhile, the kidnappers are demanding $ 2 million in unmarked bills, which amazes the FBI team. You decide to set a trap for them upon delivery. Setting this trap fails and Peter falls under Tyler's influence. Nina Sharp eventually confesses to Olivia that Dr. Carson worked on attempts to control machines through mind control. This does not rule out that his son was able to get one of the samples when he once took them home. It is now clear that Tyler's motive is to get revenge on his father, who lied to him about his mother's death. This is still alive, as he has since found out, and he now wants to visit her. On this visit, Olivia and Broyles are just able to prevent the death of Tyler's mother's new husband. Because they have since found out that Tyler's mind control is closely related to magnetism, they briefly manage to turn Tyler off. After he is passed out, they also manage to completely disable his ability. At the end of the episode, the audience, but not the FBI, learns that "Tyler" is apparently the fifth of several clones and that Nina Sharp was aware of the relevant experiments.

28 8th August August Nov 19, 2009 May 3, 2010 Dennis Smith JH Wyman & Jeff Pinkner
An observer kidnaps the student Christine Hollis in a public park and holds her in a motel room. The FBI team is astonished because the observers have never actively intervened in what is happening, but have always remained in their passive, observing role. They hope to find the reasons for his behavior in a notebook he left on the scene. However, this is written in foreign characters and must first be decoded. However, since this is not possible, they turn to “Massive Dynamic”, who also deal with the observers. There they find out that observers were always present at all historically important events in the past, as numerous photo documents show. It is believed that the watchers appear whenever such an incident is imminent.

At a meeting of several observers it becomes clear that Christine's kidnappers acted without general consent. By preventing her apparently planned death, he had created an irregularity that must now be remedied. Another observer is tasked with the murder of Christine. It turns out that Walter could very well decipher the observer's notebook: he sets off alone to a secret meeting with the observer. Walter is afraid that it will be a question of taking Peter away from him after all these years, but instead the kidnapper asks him for help: He wants to prevent Christine's murder. In fact, they do this by making Christine something special and cannot be erased from history. The observer fell in love with her and ultimately dies in her stead.

29 9 Snakeheads Snakehead Dec 3, 2009 May 10, 2010 Paul Holahan David Wilcox
An Asian man dies in an apartment in Chinatown when a worm-like creature grows out of his body. The FBI team is investigating a case where a ship carrying several Asians caught fire. Such creatures also grow from the corpses. Suddenly, a survivor is pulled out of the river, who is able to tell investigators that she was also on board the ship to find work in America, but was the only one not to have taken a capsule against seasickness. Olivia and her team suspect that the worm infection is related to this remedy. During the conversation it also becomes clear that there is a second ship en route to Boston, which also includes the survivors' husband and daughter. Meanwhile, the Chinatown apartment owner is storing eggs in chemical storage containers from the beginning of the episode.

A suspect related to the sunken ship is arrested. However, when Peter realizes that he is a member of an Asian gang, it becomes clear that they will not receive any information from him. Eventually, he committed suicide in front of the investigators. The Asian gang is known for drug trafficking, but not for dealing with people. However, Peter makes a connection: The excrement or other components of some living beings would also have hallucinogenic effects and could therefore be of interest to the drug environment. In fact, Walter is bitten by one of the living beings during his examination and describes this process as a pleasant experience. In retrospect, he found that the number of his white blood cells increased, which ensures an improved immune defense. Peter and Olivia contact a woman who recently paid a large sum to the Asian gang. Although she denies any connection, Peter notes an exaggerated obsession with order, which, according to Walter, is often associated with an illness. On another visit, it becomes clear that Elizabeth's son has a disease that causes his body to run out of white blood cells. He depends on the medicine of worm-like beings. Walter and Astrid are now too close to the Asian gang. Walter disappears and Astrid is dejected. It turns out that Walter simply wanted to do his own investigation and found out that the resident of the apartment in Chinatown is responsible for shipping the Asians, in whose bodies he lets the valuable creatures grow up. The passengers of the second ship can be rescued and those responsible can be found.

30th 10 The door Gray Matters Dec 10, 2009 May 17, 2010 Jeannot Szwarc Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz
In a hospital part of a man's brain is secretly removed when the surgeons suddenly have to flee, leaving the man with his open skull behind. The FBI team finds that the patient had suffered from schizophrenia for many years before the incident, which now appears to have completely disappeared. On the surveillance video, Olivia recognizes one of the operators: Thomas Jerome Newton. It is about the severed head that was stolen in the fourth episode ("Mass times Speed"). She was also warned about this man by William Bell.

Other cases have emerged in which patients suffering from a mental illness are suddenly cured. There are also other similarities: They were all sick for exactly the same time and all had the same doctor who had referred them to psychiatry: Dr. Paris. After surgical scars on the back of the head had also been found in the other patients, it is assumed that this doctor used their brains as a repository for other people's brain parts. However, this overworked their own brains so much that they developed a mental disorder. After removing the brain parts, they are now fine again. Walter also had contact with the doctor and it is found that several parts of his brain are apparently missing. Presumably there is information about access to the parallel universe. Walter is eventually kidnapped by Newton's men, who put his brain back together completely. However, his memory only comes back when they drive him to his old house. Peter and Olivia arrive too late on this connection: Newton's people now have the information they need to get to the other universe. However, Olivia can shoot his assistants at the last moment and catch him. However, he gives her a choice: he administered a deadly poison to Walter, whose antidote must be given to him in the correct order. However, he only reveals this to her if he can escape unmolested. Olivia decides to save Walter. At the end of the episode it turns out that Dr. Paris was actually about William Bell.

31 11 Obsessed Unearthed Jan. 11, 2010 Aug 2, 2010 Frederick EO Toye David H. Goodman & Andrew Kreisberg
A 17-year-old patient named Lisa is turned off the life support devices. However, the organs are to be removed from her corpse in order to donate them to those in need. During the operation, however, Lisa wakes up and says a sequence of numbers. As the FBI team found, this is a secret code from the US Navy for a nuclear submarine that it should never have known. He was only known to one officer who disappeared without a trace three days ago. Lisa herself, now fully conscious, claims not to know this officer named Andrew Rusk. However, she suddenly says Russian sentences that include the nickname of Rusk's wife and meets a vision of Rusk himself in the toilet. Eventually she witnessed his murder, which leads to his body being found.

It turns out that while Rusk was in the Navy, he had an accident in which he received an increased dose of ionizing radiation , which eventually made him ill. For some unknown reason, his illness and complete consciousness were passed on to Lisa. Using drugs, Walter tries to separate the two types of consciousness from each other, and he succeeds in bringing about a questioning with Rusk. Based on this, the team is able to find a suspect related to his murder: a contract killer whom Rusk's wife had hired because of his persistent brutality towards her. Rusk's consciousness has now completely taken over Lisa's actions and seeks revenge. Olivia and her team manage to save his wife and Lisa just in time.

32 12 Edina's hum Johari Window Jan. 14, 2010 Aug 9, 2010 Joe Chappelle Josh Singer
A police officer takes a child who was walking alone on the street in his car. Suddenly the boy's face is cruelly disfigured and the policeman decides to take him to the police station. A short time later, some men arrive at the station, their faces are also deformed, and shoot all the police officers present. When the FBI team realizes that the sightings of such disfigured people around the small town of Edina are by no means an isolated incident, they go there for further investigation. Olivia notices a hum that can be heard all over Edina and that the local sheriff is tracing back to a nearby military base. The humming sounds familiar to Walter.

During the investigation, Olivia, Walter and Peter are attacked by residents and barely survive. In the meantime, the team has received information that a military experiment called "Project Elephant" was once carried out in the small town. It was about a technique in which soldiers should be made invisible with the help of electromagnetic radiation. However, the project was terminated prematurely because of its side effects: the test subjects suffered from severe disfigurement as long as there was no electromagnetic pulse. So it turns out that Edina's residents are former test objects whose transformation could not be reversed. For this reason, Edina is under electromagnetic influence, which ensures that human perception is changed and the distortions are no longer visible in this way. Walter advocates leaving the situation in the small town unchanged and hiding it from the public so that the residents can continue to live peacefully.

33 13 The horror from below What lies below Jan. 21, 2010 16 Aug 2010 Deran Sarafian Jeff Vlaming
A deadly, contagious virus breaks out in an office building. During the investigation by the FBI team, the epidemic protection quarantine the building and everyone in it, including Peter and Olivia. During the search of the first body, Peter finds a car key that he can give to those waiting outside. In this way, the team finds a briefcase with an oil sample that is also contaminated. With the help of the virus found, Walter succeeds in developing a rapid test that can be used to detect the infection. Olivia is not infected and can leave the building, but Peter has to stay inside, he is already showing the first symptoms. Because of the high risk of spreading, the epidemic protection team decided to kill the more and more aggressive infected people, while Walter - on the grounds that he could not lose Peter again - continued to work on a solution. With a few obstacles, he eventually manages to find an antidote, and Olivia manages to administer it just in time.
34 14th Dr. Robert Bischoff The Bishop Revival Jan. 28, 2010 23 Aug 2010 Adam Davidson Glen Whitman & Robert Chiappetta
At a wedding several guests, including the groom, suffocate. The FBI team quickly finds out that they were all descendants of a Holocaust survivor who is also among the wedding party. It also becomes clear that the guests were killed by a poison that was released via a burning wedding candle. A short time later, several people with brown eyes die in a café. Apparently someone is testing whether you can target people to death based on a genetic match. Walter is familiar with this process and the poison used, and in fact it is the research results of his own father, Dr. Robert Bishop. Walter wants to go over these experiments again, but learns that Peter sold the recordings a few years ago when Walter was still in the mental institution. In their search for the books, Peter and Olivia come across the artist Eric Franco, who uses them for his works of art.

The team uses a DNA sample from a cup found in the café to track down an Alfred Hoffmann. In fact, he is the culprit and is about to use his poison at a conference for tolerance. The Fringe team discovered him just in time. However, Walter secretly brewed a poison for him, as a result of which Hoffmann dies, just as he killed his victims. Walter has to answer for his act before Broyles, but no further action is taken against him. At the end of the episode it is implied that Hoffmann and Walter's father might have worked together at some point.

35 15th Jacksonville Jacksonville Feb. 4, 2010 Aug 30, 2010 Charles Beeson Ashley Edward Miller & Zack Stentz
A strange earthquake shakes an office building in New York. A man wakes up under the rubble and suddenly has more than two arms and legs. During his interrogation, Walter finds out during the investigation that the building must have merged with its counterpart from the parallel universe - the man can remember the terrorist attacks of September 11th, but is convinced that the towers of the World Trade Center will not be attacked were. Based on his experience with both universes, which must always be in balance with one another, Walter suspects that a building will have to disappear from their world in the foreseeable future. The difficulty, however, lies in identifying this building. Walter tries to convince Olivia of her abilities: Due to the Cortexiphan experiments, she should actually be able to recognize the vibrations of the corresponding building in contrast to all others. With a renewed dose of Cortexiphane and the emotional state of fear, the team tries to reactivate Olivia's abilities. But only when she has already given up because she is no longer afraid of anything, and Peter is about to kiss her, does this trigger enough emotions to let her see the affected building. The hotel can be evacuated in good time. After Olivia regained her ability to see things from the other universe, she also realizes that Peter is not out of her world. Walter asks her not to tell him anything about it.
36 16 Peter Peter Apr 1, 2010 6 Sep 2010 David Straiton Plot: JH Wyman, Jeff Pinkner, Akiva Goldsman & Josh Singer
Acting: Jeff Pinker, JH Wyman & Josh Singer
This episode jumps back to 1985. Walter has just presented government officials with a kind of frame through which one can look into the parallel world. Meanwhile, the seriously ill Peter is at home with his mother. Because Walter already knows the existence of this other world, he also knows that other versions of the persons of this world exist there. Both Walters work feverishly on a cure for Peter's disease, but the local Walter fails and his son dies.

Because he is distracted by an observer, the other Walter does not realize either that he has long since found the cure, and Peter's time is running out. Since he has observed this through his frame, Walter, whose son has already died, decides to continue working on the cure in order to save the other Peter. This succeeds and he opens the door to the other world at Lake Reiden. Nina Sharp loses her arm while trying to keep him from his plans. Instead of just giving him the drug, Walter takes Peter with him into this world. They break into ice water and can be rescued by one of the observers just in time. In the laboratory, Walter gives Peter his medicine, whereupon Peter actually heals. Walter assures his laboratory assistant that he will bring Peter back. However, Walter's wife happens to come across the living version of her son, and Walter can no longer bring himself to take him away again. Walter tells this story to Olivia in the present.

37 17th The burden Olivia. In The Lab. With the revolver. Apr 8, 2010 13 Sep 2010 Brad Anderson Matthew Pitts
A corpse is discovered that appears to have had cancer only through touch. In the course of the investigation, it turns out that only those who were previously given cortexiphane can get the disease this way. However, since there is no list of the children treated, it is difficult to find further victims and the perpetrator. However, the FBI team comes across a James Heath who appears to have cancer. In fact, this is the culprit - but not out of bad faith, but because, like some people before, he was abused as a weapon.

Meanwhile, Olivia wrestles with the question of whether she should tell Peter the truth. By talking to Sam Weiss, however, she decides the opposite, she wants to protect him from harm. When she informs Walter of this, he is grateful to her, but has now decided to tell Peter the truth himself.

38 18th The white tulip White tulip Apr 15, 2010 Sep 20 2010 Thomas Yatsko JH Wyman & Jeff Vlaming
A man appears out of nowhere on a moving train. By the time he reaches the Boston train station, all other passengers in the car are dead and the power supply to all electronic devices is cut. A teenager finds the bodies and informs the police. The FBI team can identify the man with the help of the surveillance cameras: It is the former Professor Alistair Peck. Since the fatal car accident of his fiancée, he has been trying to put his theory about time travel into practice using a time warp. However, since this costs a lot of energy, it is withdrawn from the surrounding living beings and devices. Walter gets Peck to rethink his plans by telling him the story of himself and Peter and pointing out that a change in fate can have dire consequences. Nevertheless, Peck starts his journey into the past, gets into the car with his fiancée and dies with her.

Walter wrote Peter a letter with her story, but he cannot bring himself to hand it over to him. Peck still managed to send Walter a white tulip in an envelope from the past - for Walter a sign of forgiveness that he had hoped for in connection with Peter.

39 19th The man on the other side The Man from the Other Side Apr 22, 2010 27 Sep 2010 Jeffrey Hunt Josh Singer & Ethan Gross
Shapeshifters murder a couple and take on their looks. The bodies are found, and the FBI team quickly discovers that they were killed by shapeshifters. They also come across what turns out to be a shapeshifter embryo. During the night of the crime, several transmission errors were found in the television broadcast near the place where the body was found. A collaboration with Massive Dynamic shows that these are disturbing waves of the parallel universe. The next day it is said to come to the rare phenomenon that the waves from both universes are on the same frequency. It turns out that the shapeshifters are working with Newton, who apparently plans to link the two universes together. The FBI team can prevent this project just in time. However, Peter learns that he does not come from this universe and is disappointed and angry.
40 20th Brown Betty Brown Betty Apr 29, 2010 Oct 4, 2010 Since man Jeff Pinkner, JH Wyman & Akiva Goldsman
Peter disappeared after learning the truth about his origins. Since Olivia is looking for him, Walter has to take care of her niece Ella. He tells her a story in the style of old detective films from the 1930s and 1940s, with dance and singing interludes. The detective Olivia Dunham has to look for Peter Bishop, who stole a glass heart from the inventor Walter Bishop. When the story doesn't end well, Ella suggests an ending where everyone forgives each other.

When Walter returns home, he is watched by an observer who tells another concerned that Walter apparently forgot his warning.

41 21st Noyo County Northwest Passage May 6, 2010 Oct 11, 2010 Joe Chappelle Ashley Edward Miller, Zack Stentz, Nora Zuckerman & Lilla Zuckerman
In a diner, Peter meets a waitress who is kidnapped and murdered that same evening. When it is discovered that part of her brain has been stolen, as was the case with Walter, Peter interferes in the police investigation. He explains to the responsible officers that the murderer has the opportunity to gain memories. During the investigation, Peter receives calls over and over again with only a strange noise. Even when a police officer disappears, Peter hears this noise at the crime scene, follows him and meets Newton, who tries to stun him. When this fails, he and his helpers disappear. By searching for the area, Peter finally comes across the kidnapper, so that the policeman can be found and freed. When Peter returns to his hotel room, however, he has a visitor: Newton and a man who looks like Walter, but is called "Minister".
42 22nd The other side - part 1 Over There, Part 1 May 13, 2010 Oct 18, 2010 Akiva Goldsman JH Wyman, Jeff Pinkner & Akiva Goldsman
With the help of surveillance videos, Walter found out that Peter switched to the other world with “Walternativ”. He and Olivia suspect that Walternativ, the US Secretary of Defense in the other world, wants to use Peter as a weapon to destroy the two universes. Now Walter has remembered the observer's warning that Peter must not return under any circumstances. As a result, Walter and Olivia travel with a team of Cortexiphan children through a portal to the parallel world in order to find him again and to bring him back. During the transition, a member of the team dies and falls on the floor of the theater, where they land through their portal.

In the "Fringe Division" on the other side, there is a discussion about whether this theater, in which a hole has been made, should be quarantined. So the transition of the FBI team was noticed on this page. Astrid's calculations, who is something of a statistics expert in this world, can prevent a large number of deaths. The Fringe team finds the corpse from the other world and with it a banknote that they recognize as foreign. In a conversation with the concerned defense minister, he explained to her that he was the author of the ZFT book, but that the content was a lie and that the cracks in her world were not, as claimed, attacks from outside, but connections within another universe. Meanwhile, Peter gets to know his mother, who is still living in this universe, who lets him in on Walternativ's weapons plans. He analyzes the blueprints of the weapon whose energy source he is supposed to be. The FBI team tries to meet with William Bell to get him a message from Nina Sharp, but is caught by the Other World's Fringe team. Two other members of the FBI team die and Walter is seriously injured. Olivia watches the life of her alternate version and meets William Bell, who warns her that Walter is in great danger.

43 23 The other side - part 2 Over There, Part 2 May 20, 2010 Oct 25, 2010 Akiva Goldsman Jeff Pinkner, JH Wyman & Akiva Goldsman
Olivia and William Bell look for Walter in hospitals. You actually find what you are looking for and can kidnap Walter, who is almost completely healed due to the advanced medical technology, just in time before the Fringe team comes across him. Thanks to the surveillance cameras, the alternative Olivia now also knows that her other self is in her world. The defense minister explains the situation to her and her team and warns them about the supposedly evil intruders.

Olivia ambushes her alternate version to find Peter, and learns that her mother is still alive in this parallel universe, but not her sister and niece. However, the two Olivias do not trust each other and eventually get into a fight in which the alternate Olivia can be overpowered. With the help of Parallel Charlie, Olivia finally manages to find Peter and convince him that Walternativ has commissioned him to help build a weapon against the original universe instead of, as he claims, to save both worlds. By sacrificing William Bell, Walter, Peter and Olivia make the transition to their world after they were almost stopped by the Fringe team. At the end of the episode, however, it turns out that it was not Olivia who came back, but her alternative, who is supposed to infiltrate the FBI team on behalf of Walternativ. The real Olivia is in a parallel world prison.

season 3

The first broadcast of the third season was from September 23, 2010 to May 6, 2011 on the US broadcaster Fox . The German-language premiere broadcast of the German Free TV transmitter ProSieben from January 10 to 26 September 2011, with the fourth episode free TV channels for the first time by the Swiss SRF two was erstausgestrahlt on 2 February 2011th

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44 1 Olivia Olivia 23 Sep 2010 Jan. 10, 2011 Joe Chappelle JH Wyman & Jeff Pinkner
The Olivia the parallel universe (from Season 3 Episode 11 Folivia - f alsche Olivia - called) infiltrated successfully the FBI team, no one gets suspicious, and Peter and Folivia even start a relationship with each other. Meanwhile, experiments are being carried out on the “real” Olivia on the other side. It turns out that her DNA is being injected by Folivia for her to accept their thoughts and memories. During one of the injections she escapes and convinces the taxi driver Henry to help her. She wants to go to “Massive Dynamic” to talk to Nina Sharp, but realizes that this company never existed in the universe in which she is located. She then visits the house of her mother, who is still living here, whose address she only knows thanks to the DNA that has been administered to her. Little by little, the injections work better and better, so that Olivia doubts who she really is and finally believes her mother. Walternativ's experiment seems to have been a success.
45 2 The box The Box Sep 30 2010 Jan. 17, 2011 Jeffrey Hunt Josh Singer & Graham Roland
Two men dig up a mysterious box, for the delivery of which they are supposed to be paid a lot of money by their client. However, only under the premise that the box should never be opened. Curiosity wins, they open the box and fall into a trance with nosebleeds. Meanwhile, the Folivia meets with Newton, who is supposed to help her understand this universe better so that she does not attract attention. In addition, the two work together on an assignment: to find the mysterious box.

When the FBI team reported the people around the box, who had since died, the box disappeared. A man named Blake took it and locked it again. But now he doesn't know what to do with it either and finally goes to Folivia in her apartment to hand it over to her. Meanwhile, Walter finds out that people died with the help of certain haunted sounds that the box produces. Because Blake is deaf, she cannot harm him. Folivia eventually kills Blake in her apartment, but has to hide it from Peter, who visits his new partner. The FBI team is still looking for the box that Folivia has meanwhile given to Newton, who she uses to kill more people. They find her just in time in a train station tunnel where Folivia saves Peter's life. Peter can identify the box as part of Walternativ's weapon. On the other hand, Folivia uses a typewriter to inform its client that everything is going according to plan. She should now take care of Walter, is her next assignment. Walter inherits the company "Massive Dynamic" from the late William Bell.

46 3 Milo The plateau Oct 7, 2010 Jan. 24, 2011 Brad Anderson Alison Schapker & Monica Owusu-Breen
The “right” Olivia is now convinced that she only imagined the parallel universe and is now in the right world. She starts working for the Fringe Division again. Your first case consists of a traffic accident in which it is not initially clear why the special unit is called. The reason is that there have been a noticeable number of accidents recently, which at first glance look like a chain of unfortunate circumstances. At the scene of the crime, Olivia's colleague Lincoln Lee notices a blue ballpoint pen, which he can identify as the cause of the coincidence. Olivia keeps having visions of Peter and Walter, and although she doesn't tell anyone on her team, they notice that she somehow behaves differently than they are used to. It becomes clear that neither the alternate Charlie nor Lincoln have been notified that Olivia has been replaced.

At the next crime scene, the team finds the nearest blue ballpoint pen, and Olivia pursues a suspect who escapes. When examining similarities between the victims, it turns out that they were all involved in a hospital. When questioning the chief doctor there, he can identify the perpetrator using a surveillance video: It is Milo, who had a below-average IQ up to a clinical study, which could be increased with the help of this. However, as it kept rising, the doctors wanted to reverse this, whereupon he fled and now kills everyone who was involved in the study. He kills his victims with the help of a theory that says that future events can largely be predicted precisely based on probabilities. When they track down Milo, he has already calculated that he has to identify himself to Olivia so that she is killed due to the circumstances. However, since Olivia ignores signs of the parallel world, according to which she would have to put on an oxygen mask, but which are unknown to her, she breaks his probability calculation and can pose him. However, Milos IQ has risen so high that he can no longer perceive the world around him.

47 4th Do shapeshifters dream of electric sheep? Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep? Oct 14, 2010 Feb. 2, 2011 Know Fink David Wilcox & Matthew Pitts
In the “real” world, Senator James Van Horn is involved in an accident. His doctors are confused because he is alive but his heart is not beating. As a friend of Van Horn, Broyles drives to the clinic, where Newton also appears and shoots the senator. When mercury emerges from the wound, Broyles realizes that this is not his friend, but a shapeshifter. Newton tells Folivia that he had to kill the shapeshifter because he knew about her true identity. He now doubts outside of the feasibility of her plan to integrate her completely into this world. After the conversation, Newton tends to a gunshot wound that Broyles inflicted on him and which also emits mercury.

Walter succeeds in reactivating the shapeshifter. When he finally speaks, however, he only reveals the hotel name and number combinations, but not Olivia's exchange. Before the team can get any more data, Newton manages to steal the shapeshifter's processor. He dies on the run from Folivia and Peter, but can still give her this secretly.

48 5 Amber 31422 Amber 31422 Nov 4, 2010 Feb 21, 2011 David Straiton Josh Singer & Ethan Gross
Parallel universe: A man named Matthew Rose and an accomplice free Matthew's twin brother Joshua from the amber that is used to seal the cracks to the other universe in this world. The accomplice touches the material and is then trapped. When Olivia, who, despite persistent Walter and Peter visions, continues to believe that she is in the right universe, and Lincoln Lee arrive at the point, they quickly discover that someone has been freed from the amber. As the developer of the resinous substance, the defense minister alias Walternativ is involved in the investigation. He is not particularly happy about his invention, which has already cost many people their lives. Broyles, however, believes that her world would no longer exist if the cracks could not be closed with the help of this material.

The identity of the liberated can be determined from a facial imprint left in the amber. Joshua Rose is a criminal who used biomolecular technology to rob banks by entering the vault through walls. The energy required for this, however, caused cracks in the universe that had to be sealed with amber. In the course of the investigation, however, it turns out that it was not Joshua who was trapped in the resinous substance, but his brother Matthew, who had tried to prevent him from his criminal activities. Eventually Joshua sacrifices himself for Matthew and allows himself to be locked in Amber instead of him. Walternativ and a lab technician are still trying to discover the secret, thanks to which Olivia can change worlds so easily without her material becoming unstable. To do this, they are now carrying out experiments with her and she actually manages to make a short transfer to a New York souvenir shop in the other world. After another vision from Peter, Olivia's doubts about the correctness of Walternativ's story grow. When she arrives at the souvenir shop again, she automatically dials the number of her sister, who has been dead in the parallel world for years. When her niece takes off, who also only exists in the local world, Olivia decides to withhold her findings from Walternativ.

49 6th 6955 kHz 6955 kHz Nov 11, 2010 Feb 28, 2011 Joe Chappelle Robert Chiappetta & Glen Whitman
"Previous" world: A number of people hear a secret message made up of sequences of numbers and noises over a radio frequency that was previously communicated to them via chat, whereupon those affected immediately suffer a complete loss of memory. When questioned by the FBI team, the husband of one of the victims informs them that his wife has regularly heard such series of numbers on the radio and has dealt with deciphering them. Broyles and Nina Sharp also know about it, and "Massive Dynamic" even has an assignment from the Department of Defense to find out their secret. When one of the booksellers involved is questioned, he gives them a book that explains the origin of the sequence of numbers, which supposedly goes back to the earliest people.

Broyles and Folivia manage to find the source of the last sequence of numbers: An old factory in Massachusetts with a strange device. On this, the team determines the fingerprints of a Joseph Feller, who is currently connecting the next device to a radio station. People even die when the new sequence of numbers is transmitted. When the FBI team tries to catch him, Feller is shot dead by Folivia, with whom he was secretly working. It becomes clear that he was also a shapeshifter. Meanwhile, Astrid comes up with the solution of the numerical codes: It is about location information in degrees of longitude and latitude. The FBI team headed to such a place and ended up digging up a very large piece of equipment. It becomes clear that the coordinates include the locations of Walter's weapon. Peter has been working for a long time to find out what exactly it is, but Walter tries again and again to stop him - he's scared for his son. Folivia reports the progress of their mission to the other side and asks that the next phase be initiated.

50 7th Kidnapped The abducted Nov 18, 2010 7th Mar 2011 Chuck Russell David Wilcox & Graham Roland
In the parallel universe, a serial child kidnapper - Candyman - struck again and kidnapped little Max. Broyles' son is also among the victims: since his abduction, he has been suffering from an unknown disease, the symptoms of which are similar to the physical condition of older people. Fewer victims, including Broyles' son, reported dealing with two men: an old and a young. When Olivia asks him again about his kidnapper, he remembers a prayer line that he heard over and over during this time. This is how the Fringe Division can identify a parish. In fact, the Candyman is among the parishioners. Olivia finds Max, but has to shoot the kidnapper. It also turns out that the real Candyman is the pastor and has helped his parishioners in the deeds. In revenge, he wants to kill Broyles' family, but Olivia tracks him down and notifies Broyles, who shoots the pastor in time.

Olivia has now realized that she doesn't belong in this universe and persuades the taxi driver Henry to help her escape. Broyles finds out, but because he's grateful to her for setting up the Candyman and saving his family, he doesn't report it to anyone. She actually manages the transition, but she is not fast enough and is caught by Walternativ. However, she manages to leave a message for Peter in the right universe. He receives this when he is spending time with the Folivia. However, she does not notice that he now knows the whereabouts of the real Olivia.

51 8th Entrada Entrada Dec 2, 2010 14 Mar 2011 Brad Anderson Jeff Pinkner & JH Wyman
Folivia's cover is finally exposed and she plans to return to the parallel universe. Meanwhile, the real Olivia is held captive by Walternativ. He has already been informed about the upcoming return and is now planning to swap the two Olivias against each other so that the two universes remain in balance. The real Olivia should be killed beforehand so that her brain can be subjected to further examinations and experiments. However, Broyles rescues her and helps her escape from Liberty Island. He drives her to Boston so she can travel back to her real universe through one of Walternativ's water tanks.

Meanwhile, the FBI finds out what the mission of the fake Olivia was: to bring one of the gun parts into her universe that Walternativ apparently couldn't find. The team also manages to find the back room with the typewriter on which Folivia communicated with her universe. This finally leads you to Folivia's current whereabouts. Although she can be arrested in time, she also succeeds in crossing over into her universe. In return, the other side sends the killed alternative Broyles, without whom the real Olivia would not have been able to flee.

52 9 Puppet Puppet Dec 9, 2010 21 Mar 2011 Joe Chappelle Monica Owusu-Breen & Alison Schapker
The heart was removed from a living man, but when paramedics find him, he lives on for a short time. Walter quickly finds the reason for this: he was injected with a serum before his operation to keep him alive. Maybe he could have been saved had he been found earlier. When more people turn up with organs removed, the parallel is clear: They all received the appropriate organ transplants from a deceased girl named Amanda Walsh. While checking Amanda's contacts, they come across a young man who was apparently in love with Amanda. He steals the girl's organs in order to bring her back to life after her suicide. The FBI team recruits him, and his plan fails.

Meanwhile, Olivia is struggling with an identity crisis: She no longer feels comfortable in her apartment, has to wash all her clothes and tries to accept the thought of Peter's relationship with the alternative version of which he has now informed her.

53 10 The firefly The Firefly Jan. 21, 2011 28 Mar 2011 Charles Beeson JH Wyman & Jeff Pinkner
In an old people's home, a man receives a visit from his long-dead son. The son then reports to an observer that he delivered the information, whereupon the observer promises to bring him back. When questioned by the FBI, however, the father cannot remember the conversation. Because Walter suspects that he may have received important information from the observer, they try hypnosis. It turns out that the observer asks him for help as soon as he meets Walter. The help consists in the old man's memory of his son, which Walter is supposed to once again explain the fate of the worlds.

Meanwhile, the observer overwhelms the three perpetrators during a robbery and saves the life of an employee by handing her her asthma spray in good time. It becomes clear that the observer is trying to change the course of the world and to rectify an imbalance that has once arisen. However, Walter suspects that as a result of this change he will lose Peter, who should actually not be in this world either. In fact, it should save Walter if he shows that he would be ready to let his son go to save the worlds.

54 11 Interplay Reciprocity Jan. 28, 2011 Apr 4, 2011 Jeannot Szwarc Josh Singer
Massive Dynamic has now succeeded in assembling Walter's weapon from the individual parts it found, but nobody knows how to start it. When the FBI team tries to investigate the weapon, electromagnetic voltage is generated and Peter's nose is bleeding. Massive Dynamic then runs tests on it to determine how it is related to the machine.

The body of a shapeshifter is found in a pond. Broyles also suspects a spy at the FBI or Massive Dynamic who may be passing data on to Walternativ. When the FBI team believes they know a lab worker is the spy, he is found killed and identified as another shapeshifter. In addition, other shapeshifters are killed. Walter finds out that Peter is the one killing the shapeshifters. He's unusually brutal, which leads Walter to assume that contact with the machine has changed him.

55 12 The mind reader Concentrate and Ask Again Feb 4, 2011 Aug 15, 2011 Dennis Smith Graham Roland & Matthew Pitts
At an in-house birthday party, the head of Intrepus receives a present: a doll that suddenly sprays blue powder on his face, causing his bones to dissolve and he dies. Via the video surveillance of the sending post office, the FBI team comes across its first suspect: the former naval officer Aaron Downey. On the run from the FBI, however, he sustains serious injuries and falls into a coma. When questioning his ex-wife, it turns out that Downey took part in biochemical experiments. When his wife became pregnant, the child died in the womb from failure to develop a skeleton. Downey blames the experimenter Warren Blake for the same fate as other test subjects.

With the help of a former Cortexiphan test participant who developed the ability to read minds in the course of these experiments, the FBI team succeeds in 'questioning' the comatose Downey. In doing so, they come across the jellyfish project, which apparently developed the blue powder that has already cost several people their lives. Downey and an accomplice apparently want revenge and poison a large number of people with the help of this powder at a fundraising event. Olivia and her team can prevent this act in time by shooting the two men. The mind reader could identify her in the crowd. He hands Olivia a letter in which he wrote down Peter's feelings for her. He leaves it up to her whether she opens it or not. She opens it and reads: "He still has feelings for her." This refers to the other Olivia, with whom Peter had a relationship. Meanwhile, Nina Sharp discovers from the bowling alley owner Sam Weiss that the machine can destroy one of the two worlds. Since she is mainly tuned to Peter's emotions, choosing one or the other Olivia will also seal the fate of both worlds.

56 13 Immortal Immortality Feb 11, 2011 22 Aug 2011 Brad Anderson David Wilcox & Ethan Gross
In the parallel universe: Olivia picks up her boyfriend from the airport, whom she has not seen in a few months. He notices that she is different, but she blames the stress at work and he initially accepts this explanation. He tells one of Olivia's co-workers that he plans to ask for her hand over the weekend. Olivia finds out about this and has enough time to think about the proposal. When the time comes, she answers his question in the affirmative.

Defense Minister Walternativ was informed that the weapon could soon be completed. In addition, the experiments are running with the cortexiphan found by the correct Olivia. However, the agent works better and not fatally as quickly, the younger the test subjects are. Walternativ prohibits experiments on children that his laboratory manager deems to be useful, however. Meanwhile, a man kills his neighbor with the help of a drink. Beetles crawl from the neighbour's body after drinking, which the man collects in order to extract an enzyme from them. When an insect specialist was questioned, the Fringe Division found out that it was a specific species of beetle that actually only occurs with sheep as host animals. In this world, however, sheep are extinct, which is why the specialist seems irritated. The team eventually comes across a researcher named Armand Silva, who once tried to cure bird flu with the help of this species of beetle. However, this failed. The Fringe team now suspects that he modified the beetle species in such a way that it can survive with humans as hosts. When looking for Silva, the team is ambushed and Olivia has to have a drink with beetle eggs in it. Silva eventually dies of his own bugs and Olivia is taken to the hospital. During the ultrasound looking for bugs in her, it turns out that she is pregnant. When her boyfriend asks her if she loves the other man (he cannot be the father because of his absence), she cannot answer him and he leaves her. Walternativ, on the other hand, assures you - in the knowledge that it is his grandchild - all the necessary support that she needs.

57 14th 6B 6B Feb. 18, 2011 29 Aug 2011 Thomas Yatsko Glen Whitman & Robert Chiappetta
In the original universe: party guests fall from a balcony that appears completely stable. The FBI team also notes that it looks like people fell through the massive balcony floor. In a neighboring apartment, the ghost of the husband of a widowed old lady appears, with whom she is happily chatting. She tells the team that this has been going on for some time and that she is enjoying the moments very much. The team finally realizes that it is not a ghost, but her husband from the other side, who lost his wife there and now visits the local one again and again. The more often the two see each other, however, the more unstable their environment becomes. You have to convince the old lady to let go of what they eventually manage to do. A crack, as is common in the other universe, can be prevented accordingly.

For the first time, Peter and Olivia openly talk about themselves and their feelings: Olivia is afraid of what could be because she does not know whether she is able to have such a close relationship with someone. Plus, she's jealous of the wrong Olivia and doesn't know how to deal with this situation. Peter is willing to give her time, and at the end of the episode they both go to Peter's apartment together.

58 15th Subject 13 Subject 13 Feb 25, 2011 5th Sep 2011 Frederick EO Toye Jeff Pinkner JH Wyman & Akiva Goldsman
The episode takes place in 1986 and shows the months after Peter's kidnapping. Walter experiments with Olivia and other children in a day care center he founded in Jacksonville. His goal is for one of the children to develop the ability to travel between the two universes and bring back the kidnapped Peter - Peter has long since realized that Walter and Elizabeth are not his real parents and that he is in another world. The family situation is correspondingly difficult, so that Walter actually wants to implement his plan to bring him back. Peter and Olivia happened to get to know each other when they were children. It turns out that Olivia is apparently being beaten by her stepfather. In combination with the Cortexiphane experiments and the fear of him, she actually develops the ability to change worlds, but is not yet able to use it in a targeted manner. Accidentally, she tells Walternativ, whose relationship begins to break after the kidnapping of Peter, about the other world. With this information he can figure out where his son is.
59 16 Os Os 11th Mar 2011 5th Sep 2011 Brad Anderson Josh Singer & Graham Roland
A burglar in a metal warehouse is shot dead by a security guard. The dead burglar is floating. Walter finds out that the man has a lot of osmium (chemical symbol: Os ) in his blood. He later discovers a second metal in the intruder's blood: lutetium . Peter and Olivia find several bodies and wheelchairs in a warehouse. The man behind discovered a combination of osmium and lutetium that is lighter than air and makes people float; he wants to cure his son, who is suffering from muscle wasting and is therefore in a wheelchair. He is arrested during another break-in to get the rare metals. At the end of the episode, Walter brings to life the soul of William Bell, whose spirit manifests in Olivia.
60 17th Go hitchhiking Stowaway 18 Mar 2011 Sep 12 2011 Charles Beeson Synopsis: JH Wyman, Jeff Pinkner, Akiva Goldsman
Acting: Daniele Dispaltro
Walter and William Bell, whose spirit has manifested in Olivia, look for a suitable body for William. A suicide brings FBI agent Lincoln Lee into play. He and Olivia find a trail to a woman who cannot die even though she tries again and again. In Williams's view, it does not seem to be a coincidence that his appearance and the subsequent death of this woman coincide.
61 18th Bloodline Bloodline 25th Mar 2011 Sep 12 2011 Dennis Smith Alison Schapker & Monica Owusu-Breen
Folivia is told that it carries a virus. There is a very high probability that she will die in childbirth, like her sister and child before. Folivia is kidnapped. The Fringe investigators meet the taxi driver Henry, who helped Olivia escape. Walternativ has to reveal to the Fringe investigators that a parallel world and a second Olivia exist. Folivia's pregnancy is accelerated by masked doctors, but she escapes and finds herself in Chinatown. Lincoln and the taxi driver Henry help Folivia give birth. Walternativ is very satisfied and thanks Lincoln. In the end, it turns out that under his order, his scientists saved the baby and Folivia. The observers also note this step over time.
62 19th LSD Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Apr 15, 2011 19 Sep 2011 Joe Chappelle Synopsis: Jeff Pinkner, JH Wyman & Akiva Goldsman
Acting: JH Wyman & Jeff Pinker
Bell can no longer control his stay in Olivia because her own consciousness has sunk too deep. The attempt to transfer his consciousness to a brain-dead person fails. Bell has the idea to load his consciousness into a computer, but Walter and Peter must first penetrate into the consciousness of Olivia in order to bring her back again. There you meet Bell, who is hiding because the consciousness fights everything foreign. The three of them set out to find Olivia. On the way to her, Peter makes the acquaintance of a man in Olivia's mind, whom she ultimately identifies as the man who will eventually kill her. Bell tells Olivia that he has to disappear so she can move on. The transfer to a computer does not work and Bell was just a white lie to get Walter to call Olivia back.
63 20th 6:02 a.m. 6:02 AM EST Apr 22, 2011 19 Sep 2011 Jeannot Szwarc David Wilcox, Josh Singer & Graham Roland
At 6:02 in the morning, East American time, clear "soft spots" appear on this side of the universe for the first time. Walter realizes that something has to be done, otherwise this universe - just like the other - would end.
64 21st The last Sam Weiss The Last Sam Weiss Apr 29, 2011 26 Sep 2011 Thomas Yatsko Monica Owusu-Breen & Alison Schapker
It turns out that Olivia has the power to influence the machine so that Peter can enter it. At the end of the episode, Peter can get into the machine with Olivia's help. He suddenly wakes up in New York. It looks like it's going to war; On a blackboard you can read the year 2021, and you can also see the One World Trade Center .
65 22nd The day we died The Day We Died May 6, 2011 26 Sep 2011 Joe Chappelle Synopsis: Akiva Goldsman, JH Wyman & Jeff Pinkner
Acting: Jeff Pinker & JH Wyman
In 2026, the universe will slowly begin to break apart. Walter is able to convince Peter that he can change his decision when entering the machine in 2011. Back in 2011, Peter connects both universes and brings both rooms of the machine into one, where he convinces both Fringe teams that they must work together to save both universes. When they agree to work together, Peter disappears, and the outside observers note that his friends have already forgotten him because he has done his job.

Season 4

The first broadcast of the fourth season was from September 23, 2011 to May 11, 2012 on the US broadcaster Fox . The German free TV station ProSieben broadcast the German - language first broadcast from June 25 to August 20, 2012.

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German title Original title First broadcast in the USA German language first broadcast (D) Director script
66 1 The man in the mirror Neither Here Nor There 23 Sep 2011 June 25, 2012 Joe Chappelle Synopsis: Jeff Pinkner, JH Wyman & Akiva Goldsman
Acting: JH Wyman & Jeff Pinker
A week after Peter Bishop disappears, the truce between the two worlds remains intact and both sides are forced to work together. Agent Lee helps investigate a "shapeshifter" case that is very personal to him. The watchers realize that their plan for correcting the timeline is not perfect.
67 2 One night in October One night in October Sep 30 2011 June 25, 2012 Brad Anderson Alison Schapker & Monica Owusu-Breen
A serial killer from the parallel universe strikes. He administers a blue substance to his victims while they sit in a chair and think about happy moments. Walter hears a strange voice in his bed and sees Peter's face on reflective surfaces. Then he turns the music system on, but the voice does not disappear from his head.
68 3 Alone in the world Alone in the World Oct 7, 2011 June 25, 2012 Miguel Sapochnik David Fury
The bodies of two children appear in a remote tunnel. They are almost completely decomposed. It turns out that the children have only been dead a few hours. The Fringe team discovers that a fungus has infected the boys' bodies and has paralyzed the bodies. At the last moment, Olivia is able to stop Walter from doing a lobotomy on himself. Walter confesses to Olivia that he is afraid of having to go back to St. Claires and tells her about the unknown man who tries to contact him. Olivia then refutes Walter's doubts and shows him a drawing that shows Peter. She says that she's seen him in her dreams for the past few weeks. Walter and Olivia are convinced that the stranger must exist.
69 4th Subject 9 Subject 9 Oct 14, 2011 2nd July 2012 Joe Chappelle Jeff Pinkner, JH Wyman & Akiva Goldsman
Olivia wakes up early in the morning and sees a blue cloud that attracts everything metallic that gets in her way. Walter is convinced that this incident has something to do with his cortexiphane experiments carried out 25 years ago. It turns out that Cameron James can be linked to the incidents. Walter and Olivia make their way to New York to track down James, who, however, denies having anything to do with the events. Walter finds out that James is able to build up an electromagnetic field and stop the phenomenon. At a power plant, James begins to create a field and suddenly the cloud moves towards Olivia. She recognizes the man from her dreams in the cloud. After Olivia fires a shot to keep Cameron from destroying the cloud, she floats to Reiden Lake, dives into the water and suddenly Peter Bishop appears. He claims he knows everyone on the Fringe team. But they think he's crazy.
70 5 renovation Novation Nov 4, 2011 2nd July 2012 Paul Holahan JR Orci & Graham Roland
Walter does not want to accept that Peter is his son, or at least that of the minister, although 99.7% of the DNA sample speaks for it. Meanwhile, Lincoln and Olivia are working on a case where a former Massiv Dynamic employee was kidnapped by a shapeshifter. Not knowing what his kidnapper is, he willingly helps her to fix a defect in the shapeshifter. Peter offers to help, as he is able to decipher another shapeshifter's memory. When the kidnapped person notices how the shapeshifter transforms into his wife for a short time, he tries to outsmart her, which he does not succeed. During the access, the now healed shapeshifter manages to escape by taking the form of an agent. In the end Walter recognizes traces of his son in Peter, but is afraid to help him because he thinks he doesn't deserve to see Peter again. Now he compares Peter with the Peter he wanted to save back then, the one from the other side and claims that he cannot help him now either.
71 6th That we left behind And Those We Left Behind Nov 11, 2011 2nd July 2012 Brad Anderson Robert Chiappetta & Glen Whitman
Dangerous déjà vus are causing a new fringe case: for a short time, the environment and people are in a state in which they were four years ago. It is believed that it is up to Peter, who is not aware of any guilt. When the team investigates, they come across a house that is in a time bubble. When an agent breaks through this, he dissolves. The resident of the house used his wife's research to briefly jump into the past, because his wife has Alzheimer's disease. But with every leap in time he urges his wife to finish her research, things get worse for the outside world. Peter tries to get into the time bubble with one of Walter's devices and tries to get the residents to deactivate the time bubble.
72 7th Wallflower Wallflower Nov 18, 2011 July 9, 2012 Anthony Hemingway Matt Pitts & Justin Doble
A man is killed by an invisible enemy and is then pale white. It turns out that the "invisible" is an old experiment by Massive Dynamic and he kills people to make himself visible as he loves a woman. By making it visible, his body is so weakened that he ultimately dies after he has finally spoken to the woman. Olivia always suffers from migraines. In the end, Olivia passes out in her apartment and two helpers from Nina's parallel universe inject her cortexiphan into the neck.
73 8th Return to the unknown Back to Where You've Never Been Jan. 13, 2012 July 9, 2012 Jeannot Szwarc David Fury & Graham Roland
After Walter refuses to help Peter build the device with which he would like to return to "his" time, Peter goes to the other side to ask his father for help there. The government on the other side has now been infiltrated by shape-shifters and the alternative Walter asks Peter for help. Olivia is visited by an observer who tells her that she must die in every possible future.
74 9 The enemy of my enemy Enemy of My Enemy Jan. 20, 2012 July 16, 2012 Joe Chappelle Monica Owusu-Breen & Alison Schapker
The Parallel Universe Fringe Team faces David Robert Jones. He monitors shape shifters and lets one of them die in front of Folivia and Lincon. After Jones is brought to Fringe headquarters, Peter Bishop interrogates him. Peter tells him that he split him in half while he was trying to get into the parallel universe. Jones replies to Peter that he is still in one piece and that he has never seen it in his life. Jones plans to return to his universe. The team suspects him to be in an old mineral mine. However, Peter quickly finds out that they are in the wrong universe. Meanwhile, Jones helpers prepare everything for the bridge between the universes. David Robert Jones steps through. Meanwhile, the Elizabeth on the other side visits Walter and tells him that she forgave him for taking Peter away. In the evening Walter comes to Peter and tells him that he would do anything to help him get home.
75 10 prophecy Forced Perspective Jan. 27, 2012 July 16, 2012 David Solomon Ethan Gross
Olivia is trying to cope with the September warning. Meanwhile, the Fringe team is busy with a girl who can foresee other people's deaths.
76 11 The Redeemer Making Angels Feb 3, 2012 July 23, 2012 Charles Beeson Akiva Goldsman, JH Wyman & Jeff Pinkner
Astrid receives an unexpected visit from Astrid on the other side. This is noticeable and Folivia has the order to bring Astrid back. The Fringe team tries to catch a murderer who kills his victims with a poison that has not yet been invented on their side. Astrid and "Estragon", as Walter calls his Astrid, work together to catch the murderer. The work of Astrid and Folivia has a great influence on Walter.
77 12 Welcome to Westfield Welcome to Westfield Feb 10, 2012 July 23, 2012 David Straiton JR Orci & Graham Roland
Olivia, Peter and Walter, who now dares to leave the laboratory, are trapped in a small town on a country road that merges with its counterpart in the parallel universe. Olivia gets more and more memories from the old timeline. Ultimately, she thinks she's with Peter.
78 13 The swarm A Better Human Being Feb 17, 2012 July 30, 2012 Joe Chappelle
Synopsis : Glen Whitman, Robert Chiappetta Acting: Alison Schapker & Monica Owusu-Breen
A boy in a mental illness clinic has mental contact with his half-siblings, who are all from the same sperm donor. In doing so, he overhears the murders of innocent people carried out by three of his brothers. The Fringe team tries to catch the killers. At the end of the episode, after Peter confesses to her, Olivia is kidnapped and wakes up with Nina in a dark room.
79 14th The end of all things The End of All Things Feb 24, 2012 July 30, 2012 Jeff Hunt David Fury
Nina and Olivia are still trapped in a dark room. Suddenly David Robert Jones enters the room and makes it clear to Olivia that she was previously treated with Cortexiphane and is therefore able to use skills that are evoked by a strong emotion. Jones performs the same lamp experiment on Olivia that he did on her in the regular universe before the timeline change. However, she fails to get the lights to shine. Later, Nina and Olivia talk about their very first meeting. Nina Jones then explains that Olivia needs Peter to perform the experiment. Meanwhile, the observer September, who was previously shot, suddenly appears in Walter's laboratory. Walter and Peter decide that Peter will penetrate September's memory to find out where Olivia is. September reveals to Peter that he is a scientist; a development possibility according to 'the human being'. September feels responsible for what has happened so far, but above all for the war between the two universes. Now Peter also learns that he has a son with Olivia of the other universe. But September has to confess to him that Henry no longer exists either. Because after Peter got on the machine, he deleted this timeline. September makes it clear to Peter that he has to go home to find out where Olivia is. After Peter wakes up, September has disappeared.

When Peter enters the house, he is overpowered by Jones' men and ultimately dragged off to Olivia. Now Olivia sees the half-unconscious Peter and seems to be very happy. Jones orders Olivia to light the lights. She succeeds after a short time, but suddenly the ceiling lamps start to flicker. Olivia now directs all the energy to the room. Nina asks what she's doing there. But Olivia has long since realized that she is not the real Nina. Jones and Nina escape from the room while Peter frees Olivia. You can catch Nina and Jones in time when they open a portal to the other universe. After Nina goes through, Jones waves to Olivia and Peter. But Olivia shoots him in the neck. Jones replied silently that he was already immune to such shots. Finally he steps through the portal and closes it again. After Peter and Olivia leave the house, Peter makes it clear to Olivia that he is looking for his Olivia and that he will return home to his timeline.

80 15th The perfume A Short Story About Love 23 Mar 2012 Aug 6, 2012 JH Wyman JH Wyman & Graham Roland
A man kills other men and tries to use their pheromones to make their wives compliant. His drive is the search for a balance of substances that leads to the smell of love and love. However, this has not yet succeeded, so that he also had to kill the wives. Before he can kill his next victim, Olivia arrests him.

On a surveillance video, Walter discovers that an observer has put a contact lens on Peter with an address on it. Peter starts looking for it and finds a device with which he can bring the observer back from his exile. The other observers had hidden and excluded him from the universe.

81 16 Nothing is what it seems Nothing As It Seems 30th Mar 2012 Aug 6, 2012 Frederick EO Toye Jeff Pinkner & Akiva Goldsman
The former Fringefall "Conrad" (from season 1 episode 13) appears in this timeline, but it runs in a different direction - not the one that both Peter and Olivia remember. The management of the Fringe department notices Olivia's behavior and changes in her memory. She is on leave, but continues to work. A group of people tries to create "the children of the new world" through DNA experiments. The Fringe team notes that David Robert Jones originally worked on this project at Massive Dynamic. Olivia forgets more and more of her "new" past, which she unconsciously hurts Lincoln. The episode ends with the 'new people' leaving or - as Walter thinks - a further development stage.
82 17th Everything in the right place Everything In Its Right Place Apr 6, 2012 Aug 13, 2012 David Moxness Synopsis: JR Orci & Matt Pitts
Acting: David Fury & JR Orci
Lincoln travels to the Alternate Universe to help Folivia and the Alternate Universe Lincoln find a law enforcement officer with a surprising connection to shapeshifters. During the arrest, the alternative Lincoln is shot. Folivia later receives the harrowing news that her partner did not survive.
83 18th The consultant The Consultant Apr 13, 2012 Aug 13, 2012 Jeannot Szwarc Christine Lavaf
Walter travels to the alternate universe to help with a case. Meanwhile, the murdered Alt-Lincoln is buried. Folivia still can't get over the death of her partner and is desperately looking for her colleague's killer. It turns out that the alternate universe Broyles is working with David Robert Jones as he is being blackmailed by him. In return, Broyles receives a life-saving drug that keeps his sick son alive. Finally, Alt.-Broyles faces his doppelganger at the bridge machine. Alt.-Broyles goes to the prison where Alt.-Nina is also housed. After Walter returns to his universe, Lincoln decides to stay in the parallel universe to find the killer of his doppelganger.
84 19th 2036 Letters of Transit Apr 20, 2012 Aug 13, 2012 Joe Chappelle Akiva Goldsman, JH Wyman & Jeff Pinkner
In the year 2036, the Observer gained control of the world. In 2016, Walter and the Fringe team locked themselves in Bernstein and the remainder of the Fringe division, led by Broyles, was given the task of monitoring the survivors by the observers. Two separatists within the Fringe Division find Walter, who is trapped in Bernstein, and want to use his help to find and free the other members of the former division in order to put an end to the observer's rule.
85 20th Separate worlds Worlds Apart Apr 27, 2012 Aug 20, 2012 Charles Beeson Synopsis: Graham Roland
Actors: Matt Pitts & Nicole Phillips
Jones wants to connect the two universes to create a new big bang and create his own universe. This would destroy the other two universes. With the help of the Cortexiphan children, Jones is initiating synchronized earthquakes around the world to carry out this process. The fringe teams of both worlds decide to close the bridge, separating the universes forever. After turning off the machine, Lincoln stays in the parallel universe at his own request.
86 21st Brave New World (1) Brave New World (1) May 4, 2012 Aug 20, 2012 Joe Chappelle JH Wyman, Jeff Pinkner & Akiva Goldsman
Jones kills people in a mall using nanites. This will make the Fringe Division aware of him. Olivia uses her cortexophane skills to turn off the nanites in a young woman (Jessica). Through these deactivated nanites, Walter got the idea that William Bell is still alive and is behind this whole thing, i.e. working with Jones, which nobody believes, but is revealed to the viewer through a conversation between Jones and Bell.

Jones later tries to destroy Boston using bundled sun rays. Olivia and Peter prevent this by deactivating two antennas on separate, adjacent buildings. Jones surprises Peter and beats him up, just as Bell told him to. Olivia uses her newfound Cortexiphan skills to control Peter and kill Jones with it, because otherwise she cannot help Peter. Walter and Astrid drive to a warehouse because Walter is still looking for Bell. There they find the species newly bred by Jones and are discovered by the guards stationed there. Astrid is shot while trying to escape and Bell shows himself to Walter.

87 22nd Brave New World (2) Brave New World (2) May 11, 2012 Aug 20, 2012 Joe Chappelle Jeff Pinkner, JH Wyman & Akiva Goldsman
Olivia and Peter notice that Astrid and Walter are not in the lab as usual after they come back from their assignment. Meanwhile, Jessica calls Olivia and tells her that someone is following her. Olivia and Peter immediately make their way to Jessica. Jessica's pursuer is September. Since Jessica is a follower of William Bell, she is expecting September, catches him and then takes him to the warehouse where Walter was kidnapped by Bell.

Astrid, on the other hand, was taken to another location after being shot, from which an ambulance was called. At the hospital, she tells Olivia, Peter, and Broyles about the warehouse. Olivia and Peter make their way to where Jessica is already waiting for them. Jessica shoots September, Olivia uses her Cortexiphan skills to kill Jessica, and Peter frees September. This disappears after Olivia tells him about their conversation and the dead Jessica is brought to Walter's laboratory, where she finds out Bell's whereabouts with the help of Nina and an invention by Massive Dynamic. Bell meanwhile begins to annihilate both universes in order to be God in his own. When Peter and Olivia arrive on the ship on which there are only Bell, Walter and Bell's creatures, Walter shoots Olivia because she is the almighty and only source of energy for the destruction of both universes. Before Walter can kill Bell too, Bell disappears into the parallel universe. Olivia is saved by Walter by pulling the bullet out of her skull and the cortexophane massively accelerates wound regeneration. At the hospital, Olivia tells Peter that she is pregnant. Broyles is promoted to general, the Fringe Division is expanded, and he indirectly offers Nina his old job. The last scene shows Walter and September in Walter's laboratory. September tells Walter that they have to warn the others. When Walter's question "Why?" He only replies "You are coming."

Season 5

The first broadcast of the fifth season was from September 28, 2012 to January 18, 2013 on the US broadcaster Fox . The German free TV station ProSieben broadcast the German - language first broadcast from February 1 to March 16, 2013.

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German title Original title First broadcast in the USA German language first broadcast (D) Director script
88 1 Associative Thought Integrator, Model-11 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11 28 Sep 2012 Feb. 1, 2013 Miguel Sapochnik JH Wyman
The episode follows on from episode "2036" (from season 4 episode 19). There Peter, Astrid, Walter and Etta free Olivia from the amber. You will find the incomplete plans of a weapon designed to destroy the watchers. Walter, who designed it together with September, is captured and interrogated by the observers.
89 2 In Absentia In Absentia Oct 5, 2012 Feb. 2, 2013 Jeannot Szwarc JH Wyman & David Fury
After Walter's brain is damaged during the interrogation by Captain Windmark, the team makes their way through an underground tunnel system to Walter's former laboratory at Harvard. There they look for details of the plans for the weapon against the observers.
90 3 The archivist The recordist Oct 12, 2012 Feb 8, 2013 Jeff T. Thomas Graham Roland
The team gets the first video cassettes out of the amber. They drive to Pennsylvania and meet collectors who, isolated from the rest of the world, collect information, including about a man named Donald who was waiting for Walter there at the mine. Olivia, Peter and Walter collect rocks there that, although they don't know why, will be important.
91 4th The bullet that saved the world The Bullet That Saved the World Oct 26, 2012 Feb 9, 2013 David Straiton Alison Schapker
The team uses old fringe cases to look for the individual pieces of the puzzle for the plan. During the hunt for the plot, Agent Broyles reveals himself to be a mole. Etta is shot a little later by Captain Windmark.
92 5 To the origin An Origin Story Nov 2, 2012 Feb 15, 2013 PJ Pesce JH Wyman
Olivia, Walter and Peter are in the process of coming to terms with Etta's death. Meanwhile, the observers bring three mysterious cubes to New York via a wormhole. Astrid translates the log of an observer captured by the Resistance while Peter examines the device that opened the wormhole. Walter and he want to use it as a weapon against the observers. With the help of the captured observer, they understand the apparatus and put it back together. Olivia and Peter try to prevent a delivery to the watchers from getting through the wormhole by turning it into a black hole. But an observer gets in their way. Although they overwhelm him, the black hole has no effect and deliveries continue. In the end, Peter implants a small device that he removed from the neck of an observer. From this episode onwards, Etta is repeatedly shown on posters as the face of resistance.
93 6th Through the mirror and what Walter found there Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There Nov 9, 2012 Feb 16, 2013 Jon Cassar David Fury
In Bernstein Volume 7, Walter finds information that shows him access to a small pocket universe with important content. Once there, he meets the petty criminal Cecil, who was transported into the intermediate universe in the attack on the building more than 20 years ago; only five days have passed for Cecil. Meanwhile, Olivia, Peter and Astrid follow Walter to his whereabouts with the help of the video tape. There they explain to him that there was more on the tape than he saw, but that this was only visible within the pocket universe. On the tape you can see an observer boy who has appeared in the regular universe in the past (season 1, episode 15). You follow the material on the tape but do not meet the boy as expected. However, the team found a radio tuned to a certain frequency without receiving a signal. Donald appears repeatedly in the video , who helped Walter with his plan. The observers discovered Walter on his journey to the building and follow him into the intermediate universe, where they shoot Cecil. On the run, Peter develops observer skills. However, he hides it from the others.
94 7th Bell's legacy Five-twenty-ten Nov 16, 2012 Feb 22, 2013 Eagle Egilsson Graham Roland
Through the implanted device of the observer, Peter gains more and more of their abilities and characteristics. This enables him to precisely foresee all the observer's courses of action. He goes hunting and kills three of them. When Olivia finds out, she questions his decision to have the device implanted. Peter replies that he just wants to avenge Etta and that his next target is Captain Windmark.

With the help of Nina Sharp, the team arrives at an underground safe owned by William Bell, which they can open with Bell's cut hand. Inside is a photo of Nina and one of the remote controls from September. Through this you can retrieve two earth capsules ( probes ) and take them with you; the capsules also seem important to the plan to defeat the watchers. Nina and Walter talk about the fear that he could become the man who Bell became if he continued to pursue this plan and could lose himself. However, Walter believes that love for Peter can help him. Bell only went megalomaniac because he had nothing that tied him to this world. However, Walter apparently changes his mind when he finds the photo of Nina in the safe. At the end of the episode, Walter looks at all the things found so far for the plan in a closet in his laboratory. Peter's hair is falling out, showing the next step in his metamorphosis into an observer.

95 8th The humanity The Human Kind Dec 7, 2012 Feb 22, 2013 Dennis Smith Alison Schapker
Walter tries to understand a brain implant captured by the resistance from the invaders. As a further component of the plan against the observer, the team needs a magnet. Meanwhile, Peter tries to outsmart Captain Windmark and kill him. Windmark gets ahead of him and almost kills Peter; Peter escapes and kills Windmark's right hand in the process. After getting the magnet from a woman, Olivia is ambushed by two people who she want to hand over to the invaders for a high reward. Olivia can free herself, but has to kill both kidnappers. In the end, Peter waits for Windmark to cross a certain flight of stairs to find out if Windmark is back in its original timeline. Olivia is able to convince Peter to remove the implant he put in his brain.
96 9 Hofmann Black Blotter Dec 14, 2012 23 Feb 2013 Tommy Gormley Kristin Cantrell
The radio receives a signal that the team traces back to the observer child named Michael. Meanwhile, Walter has an LSD trip ("Hofmann", in the English original "Black Blotter"), through which he is confronted with himself and his past. He tries to cope with his fears.
97 10 Anomaly XB-6783746 Anomaly XB-6783746 Dec 21, 2012 March 8 2013 Jeff Hunt David Fury
Peter, Walter and Olivia try to get in touch with Michael with Nina Sharp's help, as he does not seem to understand them and cannot verbally communicate with them. Meanwhile, Nina is exposed and convicted by Captain Windmark. In order not to reveal her thoughts, Nina kills herself with a head shot. Michael reveals to Walter that Donald is the September observer.
98 11 The boy has to live The Boy Must Live Jan. 11, 2013 March 8 2013 Paul Holahan Graham Roland
Walter got memories of the old timeline through the visions Michael gave him. With the help of the tank, he finds out where Donald / September is. He explains the plan to defeat the observers to the Fringe team and reveals that Michael is his son and can feel emotions despite his status as an observer. It was also he who sent Walter the white tulip (S02 E18) to give him new hope. On the way out of a trap by Captain Windmark, Michael falls into the hands of the watchers. For a short time, the world can also be seen under the watchers in 2609.
99 12 freedom Liberty Jan. 18, 2013 15th Mar 2013 PJ Pesce Alison Schapker
The observers have found out what Michael is capable of. You want to study it now on Liberty Island. With the help of the rest of Walter's Cortexiphan, Olivia saves the boy from the clutches of the observer by making several jumps between the universes. Here she meets her alternative self and the Lincoln Lee who stayed there. During the rescue operation, Donald / September assembles the time machine, but it does not work properly.
100 13 An enemy of fate To Enemy of Fate Jan. 18, 2013 16. Mar. 2013 JH Wyman JH Wyman
Donald / September asks December, one of the original 12 observers, to replace the defective part of the time machine. The team and the resistance are working feverishly to implement the plan. They discover that December was murdered by the other observers and that Captain Windmark has discovered them. He has the exposed Broyles arrested. During the interrogation, Windmark tells Broyles that he too developed a feeling - hate. Due to the missing part of the time machine, the plan now has to be modified. The team plans to use one of the observer wormholes to travel back in time. For this purpose Olivia and Peter steal a cube of the observers with the help of some earlier Fringe cases and by chance find Broyles, whom they free.

Walter says goodbye to Peter and explains his plan to go through the wormhole with the boy. However, Donald / September says to Walter that he is protecting his son Michael and that he must therefore go through this portal. During the implementation of the plan, Windmark shows up. Olivia stops him with the help of the rest of the cortexiphan in her body. Donald / September is killed in a fight by a loyalist and Walter goes through the portal with the boy. At the end you see Peter, Olivia and young Etta driving to their home. In her house, Peter finds an envelope from Walter in the post office that contains the white tulip that Donald sent to Walter.

Remarks

  1. a b This episode was produced together with the first season, but due to the unforeseen shortening of the same to 20 episodes, it was not broadcast until the second season. It is also not on the DVD of the first, but on the second season and is listed here as an exhumed episode in the bonus material. A clear indication of the lack of chronology is the appearance of Charlie Francis, who has already passed away.
  2. Much of this episode is done in cartoon form to emphasize the confusion in Olivia's brain. That's because William Bell's actor - Leonard Nimoy - didn't want to appear in front of the camera himself, but had to be shown in the episode.

Web links

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