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Fringe Connections
Glyphs, easter eggs, buried clues, behind-the-scenes videos, thematic connections, and more, catalogued episode by episode with screenshots and timestamps.
- 100 episodes
- 375 connections
- 356 items of interest
- 42 glyph sightings
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Connection
September's device in "A Short Story About Love" led Peter to the beacon from "The Arrival".
S4E15 - A Short Story About Love Timestamp: 28:09
Item of interest
Windmark said "Nothing grows from scorched earth" to Walter and then later Walter saw a dandelion growing from rubble outside. He has hope.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen on the wall in the diner where Olivia and Lincoln meet.
Connection
The opening scenes of "Letters of Transit" reference Casablanca (a man named Rick owning an upscale nightclub). Peter and Fauxlivia watched Casablanca together in "The Abducted".
S4E19 - Letters of Transit Timestamp: 41:08
Item of interest
The opening crawl is an homage to Blade Runner.
Flower glyph
The flower glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
In "Os" Peter revealed to Olivia that he was working on the Shapeshifter devices that he collected in "Reciprocity" by killing Shapeshifters.
S3E16 - Os Timestamp: 41:47
Item of interest
In his dream at the end, young Peter is in bed wearing a jersey with the number 96 on it. The number 96 is the same jersey number that Joshua Jackson wore as Charlie Conway in the Mighty Ducks trilogy.
Frog glyph
The frog glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
Senator Van Horn, who died in "Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?", was still alive in the altered timeline and talked to Broyles in "Brave New World (Part 2)".
S4E22 - Brave New World (Part 2) Timestamp: 37:18
Item of interest
Madison Square Garden in the Redverse is quarantined in amber.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
A bus at the second crime scene in "The Plateau" has an ad on the side that says "Ambered", a reference to the ambered bus in "The Ghost Network".
S3E03 - The Plateau Timestamp: 16:56
Item of interest
Mark Young's colleague is wearing a butterfly pin, possibly prompting the subject of his hallucination.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen outside the entrance to the daycare center.
Connection
The posters from Peter's Redverse bedroom in "Subject 13" were hung on the wall when Walternate took him back in "Over There (Part 2)" in order to bring a sense of comfort and familiarity to Peter.
S3E15 - Subject 13 Timestamp: 14:34
Item of interest
Olivia pulled up a list of the frozen heads found in S02E04 'Momentum Deferred' and they were all marked with "2E204", a reference to the episode in which they were stolen.
Seahorse glyph
The seahorse glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
Walter shot Olivia in the head in "Brave new World (Part 2)" like Walternate did in the possible future in "The Day We Died".
S4E22 - Brave New World (Part 2) Timestamp: 29:38
Item of interest
The cuneiform on the boat door says "bí".
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen on Peter's luggage.
Connection
The password to retrieve Michael in "Black Blotter", "Black Umbrella", came from the poster for Singin' in the Rain, from which September chose his new name (Donald O'Connor) in "The Boy Must Live".
S5E11 - The Boy Must Live Timestamp: 15:14
Item of interest
Donald helped Walter set up the pocket universe hiding spot.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen on the Bishops' refrigerator.
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