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Season 1


"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 1 -- FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham investigates a fatal international flight, recruiting Dr. Walter Bishop and his son to help.

Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot

Original Air Date—9 September 2008
When a commercial flight from Germany lands at Boston's Logan Airport without a single passenger or crew member on board alive, FBI agent Olivia Dunham is assigned to the investigative team. When her partner and lover John Scott suffers severe chemical burns, she seeks help from Dr. Walter Bishop a one-time university professor who experimented in the same field but has now been institutionalized for 17 years. To get his cooperation however, she has to get Bishop's son Peter's cooperation as well. The information they gather leads to Massive Dynamics a huge multinational founded by someone who once shared laboratory space with Dr. Bishop. Agent Dunham also learns that what happened may have been part of a much larger pattern of strange phenomena.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 2 -- The unlikely trio forms a partnership and investigates the link between a wildly accelerated pregnancy and an "old" newborn.
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Season 1, Episode 2: The Same Old Story

Original Air Date—16 September 2008
A woman gives birth to a baby which ages 80 years in just a few minutes and Olivia soon finds connection between the incident and a serial killer she had been chasing.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 3 -- After a horrific bus incident, Olivia, Peter and Bishop uncover a man who has visions of disturbances before they happen.
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Season 1, Episode 3: The Ghost Network

Original Air Date—23 September 2008
Following a strange apparent terrorist attack on a bus, Olivia, Peter and Walter find a man who foresees future disasters before they happen.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 4 -- After a deadly explosion in New York, our unlikely threesome investigate a strange cylinder found at the scene.
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Season 1, Episode 4: The Arrival

Original Air Date—30 September 2008
A strange cylinder which is somehow connected to Walter and a man known as "the Observer" appears from the ground at a construction site.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 5 -- When a man with the ability to harness electricity is discovered, dangerous and deadly occurrences follow.
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Season 1, Episode 5: Power Hungry

Original Air Date—14 October 2008
An elevator crashes, killing a number of people, leading Olivia and the Bishops to a man who appears to unknowingly be able to manipulate electricity.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 6 -- A woman with a rare disease inexplicably causes excruciating pain and subsequent death to those she encounters.
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Season 1, Episode 6: The Cure

Original Air Date—21 October 2008
A number of people in a diner die of radiation exposure and Olivia and the Bishops believe a woman who disappeared two weeks earlier was the source.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 7 -- A strange parasite attaches itself to the internal organs of a dying agent.
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Season 1, Episode 7: In Which We Meet Mr. Jones

Original Air Date—11 November 2008
An FBI agent experiencing huge pain is brought to a hospital where it is discovered that there is a strange parasite wrapped around his heart.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 8 -- When a music prodigy is kidnapped, it's discovered that a sequence of flashing lights appeared at the abduction.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Equation

Original Air Date—18 November 2008
A young musical genius is kidnapped and Walter recalls a patient at St Clair's who might have been kidnapped by the same people and forced to try and figure out the solution to an equation.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 9 -- While investigating a mystifying incident at Massive Dynamic, Olivia seeks to rid her consciousness of Agent Scott.
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Season 1, Episode 9: The Dreamscape

Original Air Date—25 November 2008
An employee of Massive Dynamics covered in mysterious cuts jumps out a window believing himself to be attacked by a swarm of butterflies. Meanwhile, Olivia becomes fed up with her visions of John Scott and decides to go back into the sensory deprivation tank to get rid of them.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 10 -- Walter realizes that high-tech thieves are after something of his.
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Season 1, Episode 10: Safe

Original Air Date—2 December 2008
After a series of mysterious bank robberies, a suspect is found embedded into a wall, causing Walter to realize that they have not only found a way to literally walk through walls, but are looking for something he's made in the past.

Season 1, Episode 11: Bound

Original Air Date—20 January 2009
Olivia has been abducted and Broyles hands over the investigation to Mitchell Loeb, one of the kidnappers.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 12 -- Olivia must save her niece Ella, when a computer program gives new meaning to the term "computer virus."

Season 1, Episode 12: The No-Brainer

Original Air Date—27 January 2009
Two mens' brains are liquefied and their only apparent connection is that they both downloaded a huge file before dying.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 13 -- Peter is quick on his feet in an undercover stand-off.
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Season 1, Episode 13: The Transformation

Original Air Date—3 February 2009
A man undergoes a painful and ultimately fatal transformation aboard a plane. Meanwhile, Nina Sharp and Broyles reveal more information about John Scott to Olivia.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 14 -- Walter is fascinated by Mr. Jones, who has teleported through space.
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Season 1, Episode 14: Ability

Original Air Date—10 February 2009
The team investigates a number of people who died faceless after their orifices are sealed while German agents investigating David Robert Jones' escape question Olivia.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 1: Episode 15 -- Watch highlighted moments from Season One.
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Season 1, Episode 15: Inner Child

Original Air Date—7 April 2009
A mysterious child is recovered from a secret chamber that has been sealed for more than a half-century.

Season 1, Episode 16: Unleashed

Original Air Date—14 April 2009
A group of animal rights activists killed in action when trying to flee from a lab animal which doesn't exist in nature.

Season 1, Episode 17: Bad Dreams

Original Air Date—21 April 2009
FBI agent Dunham believes that she is killing random people in her dreams.

Season 1, Episode 18: Midnight

Original Air Date—28 April 2009
When a second victim is discovered with injuries to the back of the neck, Fringe division is called in to investigate. Walter does an autopsy and discovers that the injury was inflicted by a human bite; the wound is infected by a rare genetically modified syphilis virus and all the spinal fluid has been drained. Tracing users of the virus leads the team to a scientist with connections to ZDF. His story leads the team to find more victims and a desperate race against time to track down a killer with a dangerous addiction to human spinal fluid.

Season 1, Episode 19: The Road Not Taken

Original Air Date—5 May 2009
When a woman bursts into flames and explodes, Olivia and Peter start to look into it, and Olivia starts seeing things -- which Walter explains as possibly her seeing an alternate reality. The investigation leads back to the experiment Olivia was part of as a child, and points to a high member of the FBI as well as links to Massive Dynamics. Meanwhile Nina comes to Broyles with her concern that the watcher has been sighted again, and frequently.

Season 1, Episode 20: There's More Than One of Everything

Original Air Date—12 May 2009
David Robert Jones comes out of hiding following an attempt on Nina Sharp's life while Walter leaves accompanied by the mysterious Observer.

Season 2


"Fringe" (2008): Season 2: Episode 1 -- The second season uncovers new cases and endless possibilities.
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Season 2, Episode 1: A New Day in the Old Town

Original Air Date—17 September 2009
Olivia is in a car accident, an unusual person is looking for a member of the team, and Walter makes plans for celebrating Peter's birthday.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 2: Episode 2 -- The team examines a case of genetic mutation.
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Season 2, Episode 2: Night of Desirable Objects

Original Air Date—24 September 2009
A highway construction worker in rural Pennsylvania goes missing when he is mysteriously drawn into an underground tunnel filled with human remains. Meanwhile, back in the lab, Walter is attempting to simulate travel between realities on frogs. When it’s discovered that the disappearance in Pennsylvania is not an isolated incident, the Fringe team travels to the crime scene to dig up evidence.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 2: Episode 3 -- Movieplayer.it - Trailer (Flash)

Season 2, Episode 3: Fracture

Original Air Date—1 October 2009
Peter, Walter, Olivia and Broyles pursue a strange and deadly occurrence in Philadelphia where a bomb blew up inside a train station but left no trace of any explosive device. The perplexing and unexplained set of circumstances returns Walter to the lab to closely examine the human remains where he uncovers an unlikely energy source that triggered the explosion. With the explosive threat of more bombs and links to a classified military project, the intense investigation leads Olivia and Peter to Iraq.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 2: Episode 4 -- William Bell returns and Olivia’s murky past materializes.

Season 2, Episode 4: Momentum Deferred

Original Air Date—8 October 2009
Recuperating from the traumatic and alarming meeting with Massive Dynamic founder William Bell, Agent Dunham consumes a powerful “fringe” concoction that Dr. Bishop prescribes to stimulate her memory. Meanwhile, the Fringe Division investigates a series of robbery cases that are tied to shape-shifting. As clues are tracked and memories are jogged, another woman experimented on by Dr. Bishop is introduced and a flashback reveals more about Olivia’s visit to the alternate reality.

Season 2, Episode 5: Dream Logic

Original Air Date—15 October 2009
The Fringe team travels cross-country to Seattle after learning of a mysterious incident involving a man who attacked his boss because he believed he was an evil ram-horned creature. As these puzzling occurrences continue, the team tirelessly explores strange and creepy links to dreams. In pursuit of additional information, Agent Broyles has a disconcerting meeting with enigmatic Massive Dynamic executive Nina Sharp that leads the investigation in an unthinkable direction.

Season 2, Episode 6: Earthling

Original Air Date—5 November 2009

"Fringe" (2008): Season 2: Episode 7 -- Everywhere...
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Season 2, Episode 7: Of Human Action

Original Air Date—12 November 2009
When a kidnapping rapidly escalates into a hostage situation in New York, local authorities close in on the suspects only to discover a mysterious force with mind-blowing consequences. As the investigation intensifies, the mystery and threat deepen to unimaginable proportions when the Fringe Division connects a link between the kidnapping and Massive Dynamic.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 2: Episode 8 -- When a peculiar abduction occurs in Boston, the Fringe team uncovers details of the mysterious man known as The Observer.

Season 2, Episode 8: August

Original Air Date—19 November 2009
When a peculiar abduction occurs in Boston, the Fringe team uncovers details of the mysterious man known as The Observer. While the bizarre case takes center stage, Walter, Peter and Astrid hit the lab to analyze unusual evidence and deal with Walter’s insatiable appetite for a milkshake.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 2: Episode 9 -- A mysterious piece of fringe science washes ashore.
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Season 2, Episode 9: Snakehead

Original Air Date—3 December 2009
After a cargo ship runs aground, the shoreline becomes littered with bodies hosting a giant squid-like creature. The Fringe team descends upon the scene to examine the bodies and discovers that the mysterious organisms are actually giant parasites. As the investigation unfolds, Walter heads back to the lab while Olivia, Peter and Broyles race against time when they realize the case has ties to a threatening organization.

"Fringe" (2008): Season 2: Episode 10 -- The team investigates bizarre brain business.
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Season 2, Episode 10: Grey Matters

Original Air Date—10 December 2009
A Fringe investigation is triggered when a patient at a mental institution undergoes an impromptu brain surgery that unexpectedly leaves his brain exposed. Despite the unthinkable circumstances, the patient’s condition and sanity miraculously improves before the Fringe team arrives. While Agent Dunham and Peter scan surveillance tapes (and Walter enjoys his pudding), Olivia recognizes a familiar face as Thomas Jerome Newton, the leader of the “shape-shifters.” As similar cases stack up, the Fringe team heads back to the lab to determine exactly how patients are being cured. Walter’s brains are put to the test and William Bell resurfaces.
Next US airings:
Thur. Jan. 79:00 PMFox

Season 2, Episode 11: Unearthed

Original Air Date—11 January 2010

Next US airings:
Mon. Jan. 119:00 PMFox

Season 2, Episode 12: Edina City Limits

Original Air Date—14 January 2010

Season 2, Episode 13: Jacksonville

Original Air Date—21 January 2010

Season 2, Episode 14: Episode #2.14

Original Air Date—28 January 2010

Season 2, Episode 15: Episode #2.15

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Season 2, Episode 16: Episode #2.16

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Season 2, Episode 17: Episode #2.17

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Season 2, Episode 18: Episode #2.18

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