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Fringe Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2009 - 2010
Episode 1
A New Day in the Old Town
Thu, Sep 17, 200944 mins
Coming back from the alternate Universe is not a pleasant experience for Olivia, who ends up in the hospital. The FBI wish to close the Fringe Division but Broyles fights them. Peter and Walter are helped in their investigation into Olivia by a junior FBI agent. Olivia has trouble remembering the conversation she had with Belly in the alternate Universe. A shapeshifter takes the place of on of the major characters.
Episode 2
Night of Desirable Objects
Thu, Sep 24, 200944 mins
When seven people go missing in Lansdale, Pennsylvania, the Fringe Division heads to the place to investigate the case. Olivia is still recovering from the car crash, using a walking stick, and still has partial amnesia. Their investigation leads to Andre Hughes, a retired doctor who lost his wife and baby in childbirth, and they bring him to the FBI office to interrogate him. Meanwhile, the shapeshifter Charlie is tracking Olivia down following orders from someone from the parallel universe. The FBI decides to exhume the bodies of Hughes' wife and baby to determine whether or not he killed them, but the baby's corpse is missing. When they return to the FBI, they discover that Hughes committed suicide. What is the secret of Hughes' baby?
Episode 3
Fracture
Thu, Oct 1, 200944 mins
In Philadelphis, the Police Officer Daniel Gillespe receives a phone call and leaves his partner alone to pick up a briefcase in a Train Station. When he catches the object, his body hardens and blows up killing eleven people. Soon the Fringe Division investigates and discovers that it was not a terrorist attack with a bomb; instead it was Gillespe's body parts that killed the passengers. Dr. Bishop finds in the autopsy that something was injected in Officer Gillespe since there are needle marks in his toes. However the footage from the surveillance camera does not help since there is static blurring the image. Peter and Olivia head to Gillespe's house to interview his wife and Olivia accidentally finds a hidden compartment with the drugs used by Gillespe. Soon they discover that an AWOL colonel, Raymond Gordon, may be behind the explosion. Meanwhile Peter and his father seek out a new apartment to live and Olivia meets Sam Weiss to treat her physical and mental problems.
Episode 4
Momentum Deferred
Thu, Oct 8, 200944 mins
When the shipment of cryogenically frozen heads is stolen by a mysterious man, he shots the security guards and one of the guards helps him to kill the guards but is also killed by one of the guards. When Dr. Bishop analyses the corpse, he discovers that the body has blood and mercury; therefore the man is a shapeshifter and Walter concludes that the nurse killed at the hospital was human. The Fringe Division finds an intact device with the shapeshifter and Olivia gives it to Nina Sharp in order to help the Massive Dynamics to find the identity of the shapeshifter that tried to kill her. Meanwhile, Dr. Bishop recalls his former patient Rebecca Kibner (Theresa Russell) that was able to identify shapeshifters with the power developed by the drugs. He brings her to the laboratory to help the investigation. Out of the blue, Olivia faints and recalls her meeting with William Bell in the parallel universe and his warning about the great storm that was coming. She heads to the Massive Dynamics and schedules a meeting with Nina Sharp, but Charlie stops her telling that Nina Sharp is the shapeshifter. When Olivia meets Charlie, she tells the secret disclosed by Bell about the location of the device hidden in a frozen head. Will Olivia learn that Charlie is the chased shapeshifter before it is too late?
Episode 5
Dream Logic
Thu, Oct 15, 200942 mins
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.
Episode 6
Earthling
Thu, Nov 5, 200943 mins
When a shadow touches a man at home and he turns into dust, his wife panics and the Fringe Division is assigned to investigate. Philip Broyles recalls similar cases he was involved and obsessed a few years ago. Senator James Van Horn tries to persuade Broyles to stop the investigation and deliver the case to the CIA and Russian government but he does not accept. A patient is murdered in a hospital and while investigating the surveillance cameras, Olivia sees the shadow. Soon the Fringe Division finds the responsible for the death and what the shadow is. Will they succeed to stop the entity?
Episode 7
Of Human Action
Thu, Nov 12, 200944 mins
When the fourteen year-old boy Tyler Carson is kidnapped, the NYPD surround the car with the abductors; however they kill each other and the kidnappers drive away with Tyler. The Fringe Division is summoned to investigate the mysterious case and soon they learn that Tyler is the son of the engineer Dr. Carson, from the Massive Dynamic. Their further investigate shows that Tyler has mind control powers and the supposed abductors are two respectful car salesmen. When Tyler kidnaps Peter, Dr. Bishop tries to find a means to save his beloved son from the evil teenage boy.
Episode 8
August
Thu, Nov 19, 200943 mins
When the art student Christine Hollis is abducted by an Observer who is shot but not wounded, Olivia and Peter are assigned to investigate the weird case. Soon they find that there is another Observer (called August), and not the one they know that saved Peter and Dr. Bishop from a car accident. They interview Christine's roommate who explains that Christine was to have taken a flight to Rome. Peter sees a picture of Christine and her parents, who died in the San Francisco earthquake, and he finds the Observer in the background. When the plane to Rome crashes, the Fringe Division concludes that August has saved Christine's life. Meanwhile the other Observers hire a hit man to fix August's mistake. What would be the reason for August's action?
Episode 9
Snakehead
Thu, Dec 3, 200942 mins
When a group of Chinese clandestine is found dead at the seacoast, the fringe division is summoned to investigate. They find a huge worm and one a Chinese woman alive that explains that the group received pills for seasickness, but she had not swallowed hers. Dr. Bishop investigates the worm and concludes it has medicinal purpose. Therefore, the Triad gang is using the illegal immigrants to breed the parasitic worms and produce a drug for treatment of millionaires.
Episode 10
Grey Matters
Thu, Dec 10, 200943 mins
When a patient of a mental institution is submitted to an intriguing brain surgery and is left behind with his brain exposed, he surprisingly regains sanity. The Fringe Division is assigned to investigate the case and while Olivia and Peter check the surveillance footage, Olivia recognizes one of the men. She check the FBI file and finds his name as Thomas Jerome Newton, the leader of the shapeshifters that have stolen the frozen heads. They discover that the patient's doctor is Dr. Paris and there are two other patients sent to other mental institutions by the physician fourteen years ago. Soon they learn that the two patients have mysteriously recovered and the Fringe Division discovers they have been also submitted to brain surgeries. When Walter is submitted to a CT-scan, they find that three pieces of his brain were removed and implanted in the three patients. What is the intention of Thomas?
Episode 11
Unearthed
Mon, Jan 11, 201043 mins
After a teenage girl is pronounced brain dead, her mother takes her off life support, but when doctors operate quickly to remove her organs, the deceased girl shockingly awakens screaming an alphanumeric code. Equally as perplexing as her resurrection is that she is now somehow able to speak Russian and possesses classified information only a high-ranking soldier would know. While the girl's mind-bending condition intensifies, Walter dusts off some old lab videos and hypothesizes the unthinkable, sending Olivia and Peter to investigate the bewildering case.
Episode 12
Johari Window
Thu, Jan 14, 201042 mins
When the sheriff of a small town nearby Edina City gives a ride to a boy that is fleeing home, he finds at the police station that the boy has changed to a deformed child. Out of the blue, a group of deformed man slaughter the sheriff and two marshals and bring the boy with them. The Fringe Division is assigned to investigate the case and they head to Edina, here they are received by the local sheriff. They overhear a humming and the sheriff explains that it comes from a military base. Soon Olivia and Peter are attacked by a local in a truck but Peter succeeds to kill him. They bring the corpse to Dr. Bishop that catches a rare butterfly to Astrid that collects the insect. But when he deliver the pot with the butterfly to her, she has turned into a moth. Astrid and Dr. Bishop drive to Edina City and when the moth becomes a butterfly again, Dr. Bishop discovers the secret of Alina City.
Episode 13
What Lies Below
Thu, Jan 21, 201044 mins
When a man enters an office in Boston for a meeting, he becomes disoriented and collapses, only to have his veins erupt and spray blood everywhere. Shortly after Olivia and Peter arrive at the scene to investigate the bizarre case, it's discovered that a lethal virus - with deep ties to something very valuable - is spreading, so the CDC moves in to quarantine the building and eradicate the pathogens. Isolated inside with the rest of the exposed office employees, Peter and Olivia face life-threatening circumstances, sending Walter, Broyles and Astrid on a frantic search for a solution to save them.
Episode 14
The Bishop Revival
Thu, Jan 28, 201044 mins
The Fringe team are puzzled when a specific group of guests are targeted at a wedding.As the investigation goes the team is at a loss as to how the toxin was delivered and targeted.As they gather evidence and taken back to the lab, it's discovered that the wedding ceremony was a testing ground for a weaponed science experiment. Adding to the intense lab investigation, Walter uncovers an alarming formula that reveals a link to a branch on the Bishop family tree. With the escalating threat of more deadly attacks and unexpected familial ties to the case, the Fringe team stops at nothing to prevent further catastrophic events.
Episode 15
Jacksonville
Thu, Feb 4, 201044 mins
After a violent tremor shakes a Manhattan office building to its core, it leaves only one survivor who leads the Fringe Team to believe he is not from this reality. Walter surmises that what shook the building was not geologic, but rather something discovered by him and William Bell many years ago. With another catastrophe imminent, the team races to Jacksonville, the site of Walter and William's experiments, forcing Olivia to face her mysterious past in an effort to save hundreds of people from certain death.
Episode 16
Peter
Thu, Apr 1, 201044 mins
Walter visits Olivia. Having a cup of tea together, Walter starts explaining to her how Peter is not really from our world. In the '80s Walter, who was a different man back then, built a device through which he could see the other Universe so, practically, a window to the other Universe. After Peter's death he wanted to do more than just observe; he felt it was his job as a father to do so. Because of September, Walternate couldn't figure out the right compound for the cure to save Peter's life so Walter decided to cross the worlds in order to save the other Peter. This, however, created a wormwhole into the alternate Universe that has had devastating consequences.
Episode 17
Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver
Thu, Apr 8, 201044 mins
A healthy thirty year-old lawyer has a meeting with a man that claims that he is ill and after he touches her hand, she has cancerous blisters in her body and dies. The Fringe Division is assigned to investigate the mysterious case. Meanwhile Olivia meets Walter and tells that she will disclose the truth to Peter. When there is another similar case, they track the victims and soon Olivia realizes that the victims have been submitted to the Coretexiphan experiment. Who might be the killer?
Episode 18
White Tulip
Thu, Apr 15, 201044 mins
When passengers aboard a commuter train appear to have died a still death, it seems that a switch was flipped because all cell phones, mp3 players, laptops, batteries and bodies have been drained of power. As the Fringe team assembles at the bizarre crime scene, Peter remains suspicious that something is amiss with Walter, who is struggling to keep the unimaginable a secret. When the investigation leads them to Alistair Peck, a very powerful man who has tremendous energy with severe consequences, an ironic set of circumstances surface
Episode 19
The Man from the Other Side
Thu, Apr 22, 201044 mins
Two teenager are smoking grass in a car parked at an abandoned area. Out of the blue, they hear a noise in a warehouse and the youngster Dave decides to snoop around. A shape-shifter catches him and assumes his form while another one catches his girlfriend Jill to use her body. When the teenagers are found dead with three marks on the palate, the Fringe Division investigates the case and soon they find a shape-shifter embryo at the warehouse. After a visit to the Massive Dynamic, they conclude that Thomas Jerome Newton is the responsible for the transference. Further, he is trying to bring something big from the parallel universe that will be synchronized with our universe. Now they have to find where the transfer will happen.
Episode 20
Brown Betty
Thu, Apr 29, 201044 mins
Walter tells Ella and Astrid a story. It's a detective story in which Olivia, who's a detective, is hired to investigate the disappearance of Peter Bishop. Helped by Astrid aka Esther, Olivia fights both Nina Sharp and September aka Gemini to get to the truth. Olivia teams up with Peter to reach a happy ending.
Episode 21
Northwest Passage
Thu, May 6, 201044 mins
Peter stops in a diner and befriends the waitress Krista Manning that promises to record a CD special for him. Peter waits for her in the lobby but Krista does not appear. On the next morning, while driving aimless, Peter sees a crowd, the police and a corpse. He stops his car, contacts Sheriff Ann Mathis and Deputy Bill Ferguson and learns that the victim is Krista. Further, he glances at Newton in the crowd and teams up with Mathis and Ferguson to help in the autopsy. He finds that part of the brain has been removed from Krista. Soon there are other victims with part of the brain removed and he concludes that the shapeshifter are chasing him. When Ferguson disappears, Peter helps Mathis to search for her partner. Meanwhile Dr. Bishop misses his son Peter.
Episode 22
Over There: Part 1
Thu, May 13, 201044 mins
Olivia and William Bell rescue Walter from the hospital. Then Olivia meets her double, who is a dangerous woman, trying to find Peter; however they fight but Olivia subdues her. Olivia poses as her double to lure Charlie and convinces Peter to return. Meanwhile Walter and William bring a piece of equipment from Walter's laboratory in Harvard to the theater to let them return to their universe. However, the FBI and the Fringe Division also arrive and there is a shootout. Will Olivia, Walter, Peter and William Bell return to their universe?
Episode 23
Over There: Part 2
Thu, May 20, 201043 mins
Olivia and William Bell rescue Walter from the hospital. Then Olivia meets her double, who is a dangerous woman, trying to find Peter; however they fight but Olivia subdues her. Olivia poses of her double to lure Charlie and convinces Peter to return. Meanwhile Walter and William bring a piece of equipment from Walter's laboratory in Harvard to the theater to let them return to their universe. However, the FBI and the Fringe Division also arrive and there is a shootout. Will Olivia, Walter, Peter and William Bell return to their universe?
