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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
Olivia shot her captors in "The Human Kind" with the bullet she took from Etta in "The Bullet that Saved the World".
S5E08 - The Human Kind Timestamp: 41:07
Item of interest
This episode reveals that there is more than one Observer. The intro sequence since the pilot episode has had a single frame that says "OBSERVERS ARE HERE".
Butterfly glyph
Butterflies can be seen on a box in September's apartment.
Connection
Ten Observers are present on Liberty island in "The Day We Died" from an assumed total of 12. One of the missing two Observers might be John Mosley, a potential former Observer, who was killed in "The Arrival". See the FAQs for more information (note: FAQs contain spoilers through season 5).
S3E22 - The Day We Died Timestamp: 43:12
Item of interest
Olivia struck James Heath with a candlestick in her dining room, making the title a complete red herring.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen in Walter's Monty Python trip.
Connection
Walter used the same neural halo in "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" as he used on the Child in "Inner Child".
S3E19 - Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Timestamp: 30:33
Item of interest
The green and yellow posters in the diner represent how this new timeline with the yellow/amber title sequence is starting to merge with the original timeline with the blue title sequence now that Peter has returned (blue + yellow = green).
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen on the Bishops' refrigerator.
Connection
The hallucinogenic drug from "The Dreamscape" was used as a weapon against the Observers in "An Enemy of Fate" to make them think they were being attacked by butterflies.
S5E13 - An Enemy of Fate Timestamp: 02:15
Item of interest
Peter's shared dream state with September looks like an observation deck.
Hand glyph
The hand glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
In "The Cure" David Esterbrook has an aleph pin on his jacket that can also be seen on the canoe from Olivia's dreamscape in "Pilot".
S1E06 - The Cure Timestamp: 51:20
Item of interest
Mark Young's colleague is wearing a butterfly pin, possibly prompting the subject of his hallucination.
Butterfly glyph
A butterfly can be seen painted on the side of a white trash can.
Connection
Olivia has excellent aim in "Bound"; she killed Loeb's wife with a single shot to the head. It's stated in "Olivia" that Fauxlivia won an Olympic gold medal for marksmanship.
S3E01 - Olivia Timestamp: 41:23
Item of interest
Jones said there are 10 tests for Olivia in total. The first was a box of lights that Olivia had to turn off with her mind.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen on Peter's luggage.
Connection
Markham took a liking to Olivia when they met for the first time in "Ability". Decades later in "Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11" he buys her when she's stuck in amber.
S5E01 - Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11 Timestamp: 12:34
Item of interest
Michael can show emotion as he cried when he saw Nina's dead body.
Frog glyph
A frog can be seen in Walter's Monty Python trip.
Connection
The merged wall paintings from "Jacksonville" were seen in Walter's storage vault in "The Bullet that Saved the World".
S5E04 - The Bullet that Saved the World Timestamp: 06:58
Item of interest
William Bell's name is partially faded/scratched off of the door to the lab.
Flower glyph
The flower glyph can be seen on the wall in Karen Truss's house.
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