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Season 1, Episode 1: PilotOriginal Air Date—9 September 2008When 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. |
Season 1, Episode 2: The Same Old StoryOriginal Air Date—16 September 2008A 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. |
Season 1, Episode 3: The Ghost NetworkOriginal Air Date—23 September 2008Following a strange apparent terrorist attack on a bus, Olivia, Peter and Walter find a man who foresees future disasters before they happen. |
Season 1, Episode 4: The ArrivalOriginal Air Date—30 September 2008A strange cylinder which is somehow connected to Walter and a man known as "the Observer" appears from the ground at a construction site. |
Season 1, Episode 5: Power HungryOriginal Air Date—14 October 2008An elevator crashes, killing a number of people, leading Olivia and the Bishops to a man who appears to unknowingly be able to manipulate electricity. |
Season 1, Episode 6: The CureOriginal Air Date—21 October 2008A 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. |
Season 1, Episode 7: In Which We Meet Mr. JonesOriginal Air Date—11 November 2008An FBI agent experiencing huge pain is brought to a hospital where it is discovered that there is a strange parasite wrapped around his heart. |
Season 1, Episode 8: The EquationOriginal Air Date—18 November 2008A 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. |
Season 1, Episode 9: The DreamscapeOriginal Air Date—25 November 2008An 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. |
Season 1, Episode 10: SafeOriginal Air Date—2 December 2008After 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: BoundOriginal Air Date—20 January 2009Olivia has been abducted and Broyles hands over the investigation to Mitchell Loeb, one of the kidnappers. |
Season 1, Episode 12: The No-BrainerOriginal Air Date—27 January 2009Two mens' brains are liquefied and their only apparent connection is that they both downloaded a huge file before dying. |
Season 1, Episode 13: The TransformationOriginal Air Date—3 February 2009A man undergoes a painful and ultimately fatal transformation aboard a plane. Meanwhile, Nina Sharp and Broyles reveal more information about John Scott to Olivia. |
Season 1, Episode 14: AbilityOriginal Air Date—10 February 2009The team investigates a number of people who died faceless after their orifices are sealed while German agents investigating David Robert Jones' escape question Olivia. |
Season 1, Episode 15: Inner ChildOriginal Air Date—7 April 2009A mysterious child is recovered from a secret chamber that has been sealed for more than a half-century. |
Season 1, Episode 16: UnleashedOriginal Air Date—14 April 2009A 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 DreamsOriginal Air Date—21 April 2009FBI agent Dunham believes that she is killing random people in her dreams. |
Season 1, Episode 18: MidnightOriginal Air Date—28 April 2009When 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 TakenOriginal Air Date—5 May 2009When 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 EverythingOriginal Air Date—12 May 2009 |
Season 2, Episode 1: A New Day in the Old TownOriginal Air Date—17 September 2009 |
Season 2, Episode 2: Night of Desirable ObjectsOriginal Air Date—24 September 2009 |
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