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Fringe

5-13
Recap

Way Down In The Wormhole

An Enemy of Liberty - Our heroes take out a slew of Loyalists and Observers in what is practically a clip show of grotesque deaths and kick off the plan to save the world.

01.18.2013
01.24.2013 A-

Daniel

5-12
Recap

Statue of Limitations

Liberty - Our heroes get set to save the world, but first someone’s got to pick up the kid. Cortexiphan, take me away!

01.18.2013
01.24.2013 B+

Daniel

5-11
Recap

About a Boy

The Boy Must Live - With September found, the plan is starting to fall into place. Wait, who's got Michael? I thought YOU had him!

01.11.2013
01.17.2013 B+

Daniel

5-10
Recap

I'll See You In Hell! (From Heaven)

XB- - If you're going to go out, go out big.

12.21.2012
12.26.2012 B+

Couch Baron

5-9
Recap

Losing It in the Sky with Diamonds

Black Blotter - Walter is afraid he's losing his battle against becoming the brilliant but hubristic man he once was, so he drops some acid. Meanwhile, Peter and Olivia go on the hunt for the mysterious Donald.

12.16.2012
12.19.2012 A-

Tippi Blevins

5-8
Recap

There's A Trick With A Knife I'm Learning To Do

The Humankind - Peter gets a lesson (in fisticuffs!) from Windmark on how the Observers can manipulate the future, but he’s not giving up on his plan for revenge -- at least not until Olivia reaches out in desperation to whatever’s left of his humanity.

12.07.2012
12.12.2012 B+

Daniel

5-7
Recap

Walter Lose Brain? Uh Oh!

Five-Twenty-Ten - Peter's starting to use his powers to strike back at the Observers, but it could cost him Olivia. And also his hair.

11.16.2012
11.23.2012 B+

Daniel

5-6
Recap

Paranoid Mandroid

Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There - The piece of Walter's plan-puzzle is stored in an ingenious "pocket universe" that is undetectable to Observers' instruments unless you count their eyes.

11.09.2012
11.15.2012 B

Daniel

5-5
Recap

Necks and Balances

An Origin Story - Peter, blinded with anger over Etta’s death makes a crucial mistake. Well, quite possibly two crucial mistakes.

11.03.2012
11.08.2012 A

Daniel

5-4
Recap

For Etta or For Worse

The Bullet That Saved The World - Hey, Broyles is back! And he’s with the Resistance. But there’s only so much screentime to go around, so… nice knowin’ ya, Etta.

10.26.2012
11.01.2012 A

Daniel

5-3
Recap

History Is Written By the Losers

The Recordist - The Fringers blow in to a refugee camp in search of some magic rocks and reward the treepeople’s co-operation and heroism by putting the loyalists on their tail and making a kid an orphan.

10.13.2012
10.18.2012 B

Daniel

5-2
Recap

Will You Still Need Me When I’m 64? (In Like Twenty Seconds)

In Absentia - The Fringe crew sneaks into Walter’s lab, hoping to find some other documentation of his Observer-destroying plan, and Olivia learns a little bit about how hard Etta can be.

10.05.2012
10.11.2012 B+

Daniel

5-1
Recap

The Sound of the Death of the Mind

Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11 - Etta manages to reunite Mom and Dad in the year 2036. Things look bleak, but Walter's got a plan -- oh, now his brain is fried. That's just great.

09.29.2012
10.04.2012 A-

Daniel

4-22
Recap

Love’s Got the World In Motion

Brave New World, Part 2 - Peter and Olivia go apartment hunting, but there’s this little matter of Walter killing Olivia to deny Bell his new world that they have to deal with first.

05.11.2012
05.17.2012 A-

Daniel

4-21
Recap

If You Try to Knock Me You’ll Get Mocked

Brave New World - David Robert Jones’ newest weapons: nanites and the sun. Your move, Fringe!

05.04.2012
05.10.2012 A-

Daniel

4-20
Recap

Someday She’ll Find It, The Rainbow Connection

Worlds Apart - Jones makes the earth move under our feet, so Fringe has to either stop him or shut down the bridge forever (or until Walter figures out through “science” how to reopen it).

04.29.2012
05.03.2012 A

Daniel

4-19
Recap

Amber Alert

Letters of Transit - We take a trip to 2036, a time overrun with sex-crazed Observers who have enslaved humanity, but don’t really keep track of us too well.

04.20.2012
04.26.2012 B

Daniel

4-18
Recap

What’s The Frequency, Walter?

The Consultant - David Robert Jones ups the ante in his mysterious battle against the forces of Fringe and Col. Broyles turns out to not be pure evil.

04.13.2012
04.19.2012 A

Daniel

4-17
Recap

I Want You To Want Me

Everything In Its Right Place - Lincoln Lee, feeling unnecessary in his own universe, decides to mosey on over to Earth-2, where maybe people will appreciate him a little better and he’ll show everybody.

04.06.2012
04.12.2012 A-

Daniel

4-16
Recap

Animal Kingdom

Nothing As It Seems - Porcupine Man returns! Fringe works a case that they already did in a different timeline, and the shifting circumstances let it get recast as a David Robert Jones joint.

04.01.2012
04.05.2012 A-

Daniel

4-15
Recap

A Perfume of One's Own

A Short Story About Love - A brokenhearted (and broakenfaced) man wants to teach the world to love. He would have got away with it too, if it weren’t for those meddling Fringe agents!

03.25.2012
03.29.2012 A-

Daniel

4-14
Recap

Olivia Really Lights Up The Room

The End of All Things - Not only was Olivia abducted for nefarious purposes by David Robert Jones, but Peter breaks up with her!

02.24.2012
03.01.2012 B

Daniel

4-13
Recap

Bathroom Breakup

A Better Human Being - Olivia’s remembering Peter’s Olivia’s memories, and Peter figures it’s really HIS Olivia coming back to him, so they make out. Then she gets kidnapped. This is why Peter can’t have nice things!

02.17.2012
02.23.2012 B+

Daniel

4-12
Recap

Darkness in the Center of Town

Welcome to Westfield - Peter has helped Walter out of his shell so much that the old genius joins the team in the field and then gets trapped in a small town where the rhubarb pie comes with a homicidal maniac.

02.10.2012
02.17.2012 A

Daniel

4-11
Recap

Angel of the Mourning

Making Angels - The Farnsworthbot pays a surprise visit to our universe, and is such great help on a case that Walter considers trading in our Astrid for the newer model, like you do with an iPhone.

02.03.2012
02.09.2012 B+

Daniel

4-10
Recap

Suture Up Your Future

Forced Perspective - No double-universe team-up this week. Instead, Earth Prime Fringe investigate a girl who can predict people’s deaths, and she sketches a picture of this show at the end of Season 4.

01.27.2012
02.02.2012 B

Daniel

4-9
Recap

Science Fiction Double Feature

Enemy of My Enemy - Both Fringe sides are begrudgingly learning to trust each other, and are teaming up to fight the nefarious David Robert Jones. Except for Col. Broyles, but no one knows he’s evil yet.

01.20.2012
01.26.2012 A-

Daniel

4-8
Recap

Mother and Child Reunion

Back to Where You've Never Been - Peter goes off half-cocked to the other universe, hoping evil Walternate will help him get back home. Fortunately, evil Walternate turns out not to be evil. But Brandonate and Col. Broyles are!

01.13.2012
01.19.2012 B+

Daniel

4-7
Recap

I'm Looking Through You

Wallflower - Poor Eugene just wants people to notice him. Murdering them and breaking into pretty women's apartments is one way to go...

11.18.2011
11.28.2011 B+

Daniel

4-6
Recap

She Just Wasn't Made for These Times

And Those We've Left Behind - Their house was a very very very fine house, with a time chamber in the basement. Watch out for the time displacement!

11.11.2011
11.17.2011 A-

Daniel

4-5
Recap

The Shapeshifters of Things To Come

Novation - Peter’s bummed out that nobody remembers him. Well, except for his dad, who rejects him. Also: shapeshifters that replicate on a molecular level. What an age we live in!

11.04.2011
11.10.2011 B+

Daniel

4-4
Recap

I Sting the Body Electric

Subject 9 - Olivia reunites with an old Cortexiphan chum because she thinks his astral-projection powers may be responsibility for a cloud of electromagnetism that’s menacing her. You know, the usual.

10.14.2011
10.19.2011 B+

Daniel

4-3
Recap

Fungi Like The Wolf

Alone in the World - Walter meets a kid who’s in danger of dying as the Fringe team battles a super-aggressive fungus. He wants to save the boy, but he is oh-fer-two on that score already.

10.07.2011
10.12.2011 B+

Daniel

4-2
Recap

Love is Stronger Than Death

One Night in October - You’re talking to a killer whose every murder’s a real chiller. He gets his kicks below the hairline, sunshine.

09.30.2011
10.05.2011 A-

Daniel

4-1
Recap

I've Just Seen a Face

Neither Here Nor There - They're not booing! They're saying "truuuuuuuce!"

09.23.2011
09.29.2011 A-

Daniel

3-22
Recap

I've Seen the Future, Brother. It is Murder

The Day We Died - Peter gets a glimpse of the future, and the consequences of the doomsday machines being fired up (which include the death of his wife Olivia), and when he gets back he brings both sides together for a summit, at which time he winks right out of existence and memory.

05.06.2011
05.12.2011 A

Daniel

3-21
Recap

I Got a Machine and I Took Over the World in One Weekend

The Last Sam Weiss - Peter's unconscious, the world's falling apart, and Olivia can fix it by using her mind powers, if she can remember how.

04.30.2011
05.05.2011 B

Daniel

3-20
Recap

Strike First! Strike Hard! No Mercy, Sir!

6:02 AM EST - Walternate launches a pre-emptive strike against Earth-1 by flipping on their Doomsday Machine, and the Fringe team over here scrambles to react. Peter winds up in some kind of coma, so that's something.

04.22.2011
04.28.2011 A-

Daniel

3-19
Recap

We Are All on Drugs

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide - Fox looks at its most popular shows and turns the Fringe gang into cartoons in an attempt to boost ratings.

04.15.2011
04.21.2011 B+

Daniel

3-18
Recap

Here Comes My Baby

Bloodline - Walternate sneakily kidnaps Fauxlivia and injects something into her belly to get the damn baby born already, in a plot that seems like it was concocted when the writers thought the series might have to wrap up at end of this season.

03.25.2011
03.31.2011 B+

Daniel

3-17
Recap

Why Would You Wanna Live in This World?

Stowaway - We finally get to meet the Lincoln Lee of this universe: he's an FBI agent in the Hartford office, and he helps the Fringe team solve the case of a woman who can't die. He also might be developing a crush on Peter.

03.18.2011
03.22.2011 B

Daniel

3-16
Recap

The Wizard of Osmium

Os - Walter needs Belly's help more than ever, especially when he figures out that his universe breach has finally started the laws of physics to go all wonky over on our side, as in the case of the scientist who turns wheelchair-bound people into balloon-men.

03.11.2011
03.17.2011 B+

Daniel

3-15
Recap

Let Me Stand to Your Fire

Subject 13 - Spend some time in 1985, with Rubik's Cubes, Joust, the wildly diverging paths of Walter and Walternate, and witness the time Peter and Olivia met, which they have apparently repressed.

02.25.2011
03.03.2011 A-

Daniel

3-14
Recap

Amber Alert

6B - A soft spot emerges in Park Slope, and Olivia and Peter race to fix the problem before Walter and Reddick are forced to apply some amber to the situation.

02.18.2011
02.22.2011 A-

Couch Baron

3-13
Recap

Helter Skelter

Immortality - We peek in on what's going on Over There and find out people are being parasitized by extinct "Skelter beetles." It's almost enough to make Fauxlivia throw up.

02.11.2011
02.16.2011 B

Tippi Blevins

3-12
Recap

If You Could Read My Mind, Love

Concentrate and Ask Again - Some disgruntled ex-marines are getting revenge from a bioweapon that killed their unborn kids. Also, Olivia does some more sulking about Fauxlivia.

02.04.2011
02.10.2011 A-

Daniel

3-11
Recap

You'll Never Make a Monkey Out of Walter

Reciprocity - Where have all the shapeshifters gone? Someone's killing them one by one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?

01.28.2011
02.03.2011 A-

Daniel

3-10
Recap

I Miss You, Baby. Good Luck, Goodbye, Bobby Joyce

The Firefly - Walter meets his musical idol, who he's never mentioned before, but that's OK, because he's played by -- I want to say living? -- legend Christopher Lloyd.

01.23.2011
01.27.2011 B+

Daniel

3-9
Recap

You Can't Call It Cheating, Because She Reminds Me of You

Marionette - The Fringe gang chases down an obsessed man who doesn't want his muse's organs going in the wrong people. Olivia knows exactly what that feels like, after Peter tells her about his relationship with Fauxlivia.

12.09.2010
12.16.2010 B

Daniel

3-8
Recap

Half the Man He Used to Be

Entrada - Olivia and Fauxlivia both want to go home. Olivia would just prefer to come home alive, with her brain still in her head.

12.02.2010
12.08.2010 A+

Daniel

3-7
Recap

Tanks for the Memories

The Abducted - Olivia works a case that winds up revealing to Broyles that she knows where she's really from -- but it also makes him inclined to look the other way so she can escape.

11.18.2010
11.24.2010 A

Daniel

3-6
Recap

Astrid Needs a Latitude Adjustment

6955 kHz - A recording that's possibly millions of years old gives a bunch of amateur codebreakers amnesia and points the way to the missing pieces of the doomsday machine. Of course it does!

11.11.2010
11.17.2010 B

Daniel

3-5
Recap

Twin-Twin Situation

Amber - Amber alert! The alt-Fringe team discovers people trapped in amber can be revived! So that's what's going to happen, right? Oh, wait, they're covering it up.

11.04.2010
11.10.2010 B

Daniel

3-4
Recap

Robots Need Love Too. They Want to Be Loved by You.

Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep? - Senator Van Horn turns out to have been a shapeshifter, which could expose Fauxlivia even quicker than the fact that she's constantly acting really strange.

10.14.2010
10.20.2010 A-

Daniel

3-3
Recap

Many a Hand Has Scaled the Grand Old Face of the Plateau

The Plateau - Olivia's not faking. She really think she's Fauxlivia, and she's investigating bus accidents with some chaos that's been carefully orchestrated by a Flowers for Algernon-type guy

10.07.2010
10.13.2010 B+

Daniel

3-2
Recap

I Don't Hear the Train A-Comin'

The Box - Fauxlivia's embedded with our universe's Fringe team, who's investigating a box that kills people ultrasonically. And Walter inherits Massive Dynamic from William Bell, as long as he agrees to spend one night in a haunted house.

09.30.2010
10.06.2010 A-

Daniel

3-1
Recap

Whatever People Say She Is, That's What She's Not

Olivia - Olivia's stuck in the alternate universe while Walternate tries to replace her memories with Fauxlivia's. Everyone except Brandon and Broyles thinks she's Fauxlivia anyway.

09.23.2010
09.29.2010 B

Daniel

2-23
Recap

Knock Yourself Out

Over There, Part 2 - Peter figures out that his real dad, Walternate, is deceiving him, for much more nefarious purposes than Walter ever did, and our plucky Fringe heroes battle their alternate-universe counterparts to get back home. Also, Olivia and Peter make out. Seems important enough to mention here.

05.20.2010
05.26.2010 A

Daniel

2-22
Recap

I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Pain

Over There, Part 1 - Olivia and Walter head to the other universe with a kick-ass team of deadly Cortexiphan kids who have amazing powers that they… oh, wait. The Cortexiphan kids are all dead now. Great!

05.13.2010
05.19.2010 A-

Daniel

2-21
Recap

Washington Peter and the Kingdom of Krista's Skull

Northwest Passage - Running from his father, Peter stumbles onto what he thinks is Newton performing some unrequested brain surgery, but it may be all in his mind. And then he sees his dad! His real dad: Walternate.

05.06.2010
05.12.2010 A

Daniel

2-20
Recap

Stop Dragging My Heart Around

Brown Betty - What could have been a full-blown musical turned out to be far less of a catastro-Glee than it could have been, but the episode still really feels like a placeholder.

04.29.2010
05.05.2010 C+

Daniel

2-19
Recap

Bridge Over Troubled Father

The Man From The Other Side - The Fringers work to prevent Newton from bringing something over from the other universe. They fail, plus Peter figures out Walter's secret. Not exactly a week to write home about.

04.22.2010
04.28.2010 A-

Daniel

2-18
Recap

The Times, They Are A-Changin'

White Tulip - For twenty-three years, you have thought RoboCop could not be any cooler. And then he goes and figures out TIME TRAVEL.

04.15.2010
04.21.2010 B+

Daniel

2-17
Recap

Olivia. In The Lab. With the Revolver.

Olivia. In The Lab. With the Revolver. - Someone is tracking down the Cortexiphan children and killing them. Worst class reunion ever.

04.08.2010
04.14.2010 B

Daniel

2-16
Recap

A Clone Again, Naturally

Peter - Way, way back in the 1980s, secret science guys and ladies buried the Bishops' precious baby, so Walter stole a genetic copy.

04.01.2010
04.07.2010 A

Daniel

2-15
Recap

Jacksonville, How You Burn in My Soul

Jacksonville - When a building from an alternate universe is yanked into this one, it means a building from over here is going over there, and Olivia needs to relive her terrifying childhood so she can find out which building's about to vanish.

02.04.2010
02.10.2010 A-

Daniel

2-14
Recap

Am I Hot or Nazi?

The Bishop Revival - Walter's father's old co-worker -- who happens to be a Nazi -- starts killing people in the continuing effort to wipe out everyone but the master race.

01.28.2010
02.02.2010 B+

Daniel

2-13
Recap

Maybe All I Need is a Shot in the Arm

What Lies Below - A virus that nearly wiped out mankind 75,000 years ago makes a reappearance in a Boston office building. It's a good thing that truly terrible stuff is happening near Walter, who takes care of bidness, as usual.

01.21.2010
01.26.2010 B+

Daniel

2-12
Recap

A Face Only a Mother Could Love

Johari Window - Walter gets his groove back helping the poor deformed folks in rural New York. Is Broyles cool? He's cool.

01.14.2010
01.20.2010 B-

Daniel

2-11
Recap

Dead Man Talking

Unearthed - Fox dumps an unaired episode about a possessed teenager from Season 1 on the air with no explanation about why Charlie is suddenly still alive. Great way to build an audience!

01.11.2010
01.19.2010 C+

Daniel

2-10
Recap

Newton's Melon

Grey Matters - The good news is that the Fringe team finally learns why Walter's not all there. The bad news is that he gets to be all there for just long enough to tell the bad guys how to open a door to the other world. And after that, he will never be all there again.

12.10.2009
12.15.2009 A

M. Giant

2-9
Recap

Parasite Eve

Snakehead - A boatload of illegal Chinese immigrants infested with giant hookworms is about to come ashore. Does Lou Dobbs know about this?

12.03.2009
12.08.2009 B

M. Giant

2-8
Recap

August and Everyone After Him

August - There really is more than one of everything -- including Observers.

11.19.2009
11.24.2009 A

M. Giant

2-7
Recap

Cats in the Pharmaceutically Altered Cradle

Of Human Action - While looking into a mind control-related kidnapping, the team meets a teenager with even more serious daddy issues than Peter.

11.12.2009
11.17.2009 A

M. Giant

2-6
Recap

Dust to Dust

Earthling - A comatose cosmonaut with a detached shadow is causing Bostonians to take a powder.

11.05.2009
11.10.2009 B

M. Giant

2-5
Recap

Nightmare on Pike Street (And Union Street, and Spring Street…)

Dream Logic - When a wave of dream state-driven homicides strikes Seattle, the Fringe team wakes up and smells the coffee.

10.15.2009
10.20.2009 B

M. Giant

2-4
Recap

Sorry Charlie

Momentum Deferred - Olivia's memory of her visit to the other side finally returns, but her timing is still for crap.

10.08.2009
10.13.2009 A-

M. Giant

2-3
Recap

What's the Frequency, Colonel?

Fracture - Experimental drugs + the right radio frequency = an explosive combination. Also, a guy blows up.

10.01.2009
10.05.2009 B+

M. Giant

2-2
Recap

What Guy's Beneath

Night of Desirable Objects - A subterranean mutant terrorizes rural Pennsylvania while Olivia continues to deal with the aftermath of her ordeal. Since her method of choice involves bowling, we think she's on the right track.

09.24.2009
09.29.2009 A-

M. Giant

2-1
Recap

Reality Bites

A New Day In The Old Town - Olivia returns from the alternate reality with only the vaguest of memory of her trip there, but that doesn't mean a shape-shifting assassin isn't still trying to kill her.

09.17.2009
09.23.2009 B+

Daniel

1-20
Recap

The Physicist's Nightmare

There's More Than One of Everything - OMG. LOL. WTF. It's all in there. As is Leonard Nimoy and a very surprising twist.

05.12.2009
05.18.2009 B

LuluBates

1-19
Recap

Every Day is a Winding Road Not Taken

The Road Not Taken - The FBI goes after William Bell, while Olivia investigates a woman who blew herself up, discovering more former test subjects. Also, it looks like Walter and the Observer are going on a little road trip.

05.05.2009
05.11.2009 A-

Daniel

1-18
Recap

She's Only Fatal When She's Dancing

Midnight - The Fringe team finds a scientist who tried to break away from ZFT, so they infected his wife and made her an animalistic killer. The team helps him save her, and he spills the beans on the money behind the organization.

04.28.2009
05.04.2009 B

Daniel

1-17
Recap

Sweet Dreams

Bad Dreams - Olivia is killing people left and right. Or, at least, the Olivia living in a parallel universe to an infectiously psychotic guy is. Luckily, Walter knows a thing or two about this.

03.31.2014
04.27.2009 B

LuluBates

1-16
Recap

Monsters, Inc.

Unleashed - Remember those flip books you had when you were a kid, where you could mix and match animals, so you'd have the head of an elephant, the body of an eagle, the legs of a giraffe? This is like that, but for real.

04.14.2009
04.21.2009 B+

Daniel

1-15
Recap

What Child is This

Inner Child - Construction workers find a feral seventy-year-old boy sealed up underground, just in time to help Olivia catch a killer. How else is she going solve any cases?

04.07.2009
04.13.2009 B+

Daniel

1-14
Recap

Keeping Up With the Jones

Ability - Jones shows up at the federal building with some instructions for Olivia: he needs her to awaken her latent mind powers to save hundreds from a gruesome death.

02.10.2009
02.17.2009 A-

Daniel

1-13
Recap

Can't Con an Honest John

The Transformation - Olivia's in the tank for John Scott, who turns out to have been working for truth and justice all along.

02.03.2009
02.09.2009 A

Daniel

1-12
Recap

Mind Over Splatter

The No-Brainer - Olivia and the Fringe team dig into a case involving people whose brains have turned to mush, and not from watching The Bachelor.

01.27.2009
02.02.2009 A-

Daniel

1-11
Recap

All Signs Point to Loeb

Bound - Olivia escapes from her captors and then figures out Mitchell Loeb was the ringleader. Then she kills Samantha. The inter-office Christmas party is going to be kinda awkward this year.

01.20.2009
01.26.2009 B

Daniel

1-10
Recap

Overdrawn at the Memory Bank

Safe - Loeb's already using the walk-through-walls technology to rob banks, stealing items that are even more scientifically preposterous.

12.02.2008
12.08.2008 A

Daniel

1-9
Recap

Mind Over Splatter

The Dreamscape - Olivia’s in the tank for John Scott.

11.25.2008
12.01.2008 A-

Daniel

1-8
Recap

It Takes an Equation of Millions to Hold Us Back

The Equation - To help find a kidnapped boy, Walter heads back to his old stomping grounds.

11.18.2008
11.24.2008 B+

Daniel

1-7
Recap

Mr. Jones Wishes He Was Someone Just a Little More Funky

In Which We Meet Mr. Jones - Olivia jets off to Germany to question a suspect who might know something about a gross parasite wrapped around a colleague’s heart.

11.11.2008
11.17.2008 B-

Daniel

1-6
Recap