FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
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FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series of unbelievable events and realize they may be a part of a larger, more disturbing pattern that blurs the line between science fiction and technology.
Season 2 episodes
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An amnesiac Olivia makes her return from the parallel universe, while Walter, Pete, and Junior Agent Amy Jessup investigate the mysterious death of a man found with puncture holes in his palate. Meanwhile, Broyles defends the Fringe Division from a Senate subcommittee threatening to shut the organization down.
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Directed by Akiva GoldsmanWritten by Akiva Goldsman, J.J. AbramsGuest stars Kirk Acevedo, Adrian Holmes, Ari Graynor, Christian Vincent, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Stefan Arngrim, Ken Camroux-Taylor, Doug Chapman
A highway construction worker is the seventh in a series of mysterious disappearances in Lansdale, PA. The team come to investigate and finds traces of a mysterious paralytic. Meanwhile, Walter tries to send frogs to an alternate reality and Olivia realizes her recent trip has altered her in ways she can barely understand.
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Directed by Brad AndersonWritten by Jeff Pinkner, J. H. WymanGuest stars Kirk Acevedo, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Stefan Arngrim, Charles Martin Smith, John Savage, Kevin Corrigan, Matthew Robert Kelly, Chad Cole
When an American officer who served in Iraq blows up in a Philadelphia train station, the Fringe Division investigates and determines that something turned the man into a living bomb. Peter and Olivia travel to Iraq to determine if Peter's contacts can shed some light on the situation.
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Directed by Bryan SpicerWritten by David WilcoxGuest stars Michael Cerveris, Phillip Mitchell, Patrick Sabongui, Stephen McHattie, Kevin Corrigan, Navid Negahban, Claudette Mink, Barclay Hope
Olivia begins to regain her memories of her encounter with William Bell. Meanwhile, the "First Wave" tries to collect the head of their leader, and the traitor makes his move.
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Directed by Joe ChappelleWritten by Zack Stentz, Ashley MillerGuest stars Kirk Acevedo, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald, Sebastian Roché, Anna Van Hooft, Roger Cross, Theresa Russell, Aaron Craven
A man in Seattle goes berserk, attacking his boss and claiming his victim is a demon. After the killer dies of what appears to be exhaustion, the Fringe Division discover it's only the first in a series of killings where the persons initiating the attacks were in a dreaming state while awake
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Directed by Paul A. EdwardsWritten by Josh SingerGuest stars Kevin Corrigan, Ravi Kapoor, Travis Schuldt, Alex Zahara, Emy Aneke, Stephen Dimopoulos, Lane Edwards, Kurt Evans
Human beings are reduced to ash statues and Broyles realizes that the same person responsible murdered five other persons four years ago... a case that he never solved.
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Directed by Jon CassarWritten by J. H. Wyman, Jeff VlamingGuest stars JR Bourne, Megan Charpentier, Chris Shields, Karen Holness, Johanna Marlowe, Chris Eastman, Ravil Isyanov, Gerard Plunkett
Two men kidnap a teenage boy using mind control abilities. The boy's father works for Massive Dynamic but Nina insists that the company hasn't been developing mind control, and has no idea who the two kidnappers are. The truth or falsehood of her statements are soon confirmed when Peter encounters the person responsible for the boy's abduction.
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Directed by Joe ChappelleWritten by Glen Whitman, Robert ChiappettaGuest stars Andrew Airlie, Cameron Monaghan, Doron Bell, Philip Cabrita, Peter Graham-Gaudreau, Irene Karas, Jacqueline Ann Steuart, Shawn Stewart
The Observer chooses to do something other than observe, abducting a college student. However, when the Fringe team investigates, they discover that there is more than one Observer.. in both time and space.
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Directed by Dennis SmithWritten by Jeff Pinkner, J. H. WymanGuest stars Michael Cerveris, Ryan McDonald, Paul Rae, Jennifer Missoni, Michael Antonakos, Richard Cohee, Ali Liebert, Norman Misura
A Chinese Triad is using illegal aliens to breed parasitic worms that eventually kill their hosts. When a ship runs aground, Fringe Division learns of the operation and tries to locate a second ship before the passengers on it suffer a slow, agonizing death.
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Directed by Paul HolahanWritten by David WilcoxGuest stars Ingrid Torrance, Tzi Ma, Colby Paul, Jack Yang, Sean Carey, Brett Chan, Simon Chin, Melody B. Choi
The First Wave breaks into a mental hospital and cures a long-term patient suffering from schizophrenia. When the Fringe team investigates, Olivia discovers that the group's leader has one of the heads stolen from cryogenic storage months earlier. Meanwhile, two other mental patients are cured of their schizophrenia and the team soon realize that something was taken from each patients' brain... and Walter holds the key to realizing what First Wave is after.
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Directed by Jeannot SzwarcWritten by Zack Stentz, Ashley MillerGuest stars Leonard Nimoy, Sebastian Roché, Jeff Perry, Roger Cross, Jeannetta Arnette, Derek Anderson, Daniel Boileau, Lindsay Collins
A teenage girl pronounced brain dead wakes up in the middle of the operation to remove her organs... speaking numbers in Russian. When the Navy confirms that the numbers are nuclear launch codes and a missing officer named Rusk knows them, the search is on for the missing man.
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Directed by Frederick E. O. ToyeWritten by Andrew Kreisberg, David H. GoodmanGuest stars Kirk Acevedo, Scott William Winters, Amy Carlson, Annie Parisse, Alice Kremelberg, Sean Dugan, Mark Dobies, Tibor Feldman
A state trooper picks up a runaway boy, but when he undergoes a strange transformation, three murders result. The Fringe team is called in to investigate and discover that a small town harbors a horrible secret.
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Directed by Joe ChappelleWritten by Josh SingerGuest stars J.J. Makaro, Laura Mennell, Michael O'Neill, Martin Cummins, Liam James, Kwesi Ameyaw, Jacob Blair, David Orth
A Dutch industrial consultant arrives for an appointment and dies in a painful explosion of blood. Olivia and Peter arrive on the scene first and discover that the blood contains a pathogen and everyone in the building may be contaminated. While Walter and Astrid work outside the quarantined building to create a cure, the virus develops unique characteristics that pose a danger to the entire world.
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Directed by Deran SarafianWritten by Jeff VlamingGuest stars Geoff Pierson, Demore Barnes, Nicholas W. von Zill, Conrad Coates, Natassia Malthe, David Richmond-Peck, Jason Bax, Brendan Beiser
When all of the groom's relatives asphyxiate at a wedding, the Fringe division investigates and quickly ascertain that a human agency is responsible. Walter realizes that the formula for the toxin was based on research conducted by his father, Robert Bischoff, and that the killer isn't stopping with a single test of his lethal concoction.
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Directed by Adam DavidsonWritten by Glen Whitman, Robert ChiappettaGuest stars Clark Middleton, Craig Robert Young, Nancy Linari, Craig Anderson, Lauren Bradley, Diana Bang, Sam Bob, Aaron Brooks
The arrival of a building from the alternate Earth causes massive death and destruction to those occupying the site at its arrival. Walter soon realizes that to equalize the balance between universes, another building will have to disappear... along with everyone inside it. The team's only chance is for Walter to activate Olivia's long-buried ability to distinguish objects from the other universe.
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Directed by Charles BeesonWritten by Zack Stentz, Ashley MillerGuest stars Ryan McDonald, Sarah Edmondson, Jim True-Frost, Ellen Ewusie, Veronika Hadravá, Garnet Harding, Christopher Logan, Casey Manderson
Walter explains to Olivia how Peter came from the alternate universe, and how he was willing to risk everything to save his son.
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Directed by David StraitonWritten by Jeff Pinkner, Akiva Goldsman, J. H. Wyman, Jeff Pinkner, J. H. Wyman, Josh Singer, Josh SingerGuest stars Michael Cerveris, Eugene Lipinski, Jenni Blong, Orla Brady, Quinn Lord, Peter Woodward, Serge Houde, Julian Christopher
A healthy woman dies of rapid-onset cancer in a matter of minutes, and the Fringe team is called in to investigate. The killer has connections to Jacksonville... and Olivia is a potential victim. Meanwhile, Olivia tries to come to terms with her knowledge of Peter's origins.
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Directed by Brad AndersonWritten by Matt PittsGuest stars Kevin Corrigan, Diane Kruger, Omar Metwally, Catherine Barroll, Curtis Caravaggio, Lossen Chambers, Peter Ciuffa, Michael Scholar Jr.
When the passengers on a commuter train all die instantly of massive power loss, the team realizes that a time traveler is responsible... and that it may be impossible to apprehend him. Meanwhile, Walter writes a letter to Peter explaining his origins.
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Directed by Thomas YatskoWritten by J. H. Wyman, Jeff VlamingGuest stars Marie Avgeropoulos, Jackson Berlin, Zoltan Buday, Robert Gauvin, Richard Harmon, Jennifer Kitchen, Tariq Leslie, Andrew McIlroy
Two teenagers turn up dead and evidence indicates that shapeshifters have borrowed their forms for some special mission. While the Fringe team tries to track them down, Peter grows increasingly suspicious of Walter's secretive behavior.
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Directed by Jeffrey G. HuntWritten by Josh Singer, Ethan GrossGuest stars Ryan McDonald, Sebastian Roché, Peter Bryant, Katie Findlay, Fraser Aitcheson, Silver Kim, Holland Miller, James Pizzinato
When Peter disappears, Walter seeks solace in marijuana. In that state of mind, he and Astrid babysit Olivia's niece Ella, and Walter tells her a fairy tale of a gentle inventor, a stolen glass heart, a detective looking for true love, and a mysterious group of bald men known as the Watchers.
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Directed by Seith MannWritten by Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, J. H. WymanGuest stars Michael Cerveris, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald, Ari Graynor, Lily Pilblad, Candus Churchill, Sarah Hayward, Tom Pickett
In Noyo County, Washington, Peter stumbles across a grisly murder with ties to Newton and First Wave. He is forced to team up with a suspicious sheriff to get to the heart of the case. Meanwhile, Walter has trouble functioning without Peter, and worries he will be sent back to the mental institute.
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Directed by Joe ChappelleWritten by Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller, Lilla Zuckerman, Nora ZuckermanGuest stars Sebastian Roché, Martha Plimpton, Christine Chatelain, Patrick Gilmore, Isaiah Adam, Paul Herbert, Darren Moore, Scott Patey
When Walter discovers that Peter has traveled to the alternate universe, he and Olivia gather three cortexiphan children with the ability to transition safely between the two Earths.
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Directed by Akiva GoldsmanWritten by Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, J. H. WymanGuest stars Kirk Acevedo, Seth Gabel, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald, Philip Winchester, Ari Graynor, Lily Pilblad, Orla Brady
Walternate asks Peter to help complete the device, while the fugitives Walter and Olivia are reunited with William Bell. Meanwhile, the alternate world's Fringe Division closes in on the invaders, and Peter must make a life-shattering decision.
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Directed by Akiva GoldsmanWritten by Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, J. H. WymanGuest stars Kirk Acevedo, Leonard Nimoy, Stefan Arngrim, Heather Doerksen, Diana Pavlovská, Kaaren de Zilva, BJ Harrison, Marilyn Norry
