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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
In "Olivia" they gave Olivia the same tattoo as Fauxlivia had in "Over There (Part 1)".
S3E01 - Olivia Timestamp: 41:31
Item of interest
Michael can show emotion as he cried when he saw Nina's dead body.
Leaf glyph
The leaf glyph is on the electronic keypad at Massive Dynamic.
Connection
James Heath met with Lloyd Becker, a fellow Cortexiphan subject, in "Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.". The name "Lloyd B." was on the height chart in "Jacksonville".
S2E16 - Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver. Timestamp: 20:01
Item of interest
The opening crawl is an homage to Blade Runner.
Flower glyph
The flower glyph can be seen on the wall in the diner where Olivia and Lincoln meet.
Connection
The laser knives that the Observers nearly used to operate on Michael in "Liberty" were used by Mr. Gemini in "Brown Betty".
S5E12 - Liberty Timestamp: 20:52
Item of interest
Observers send materials to themselves via shipping lanes from the future using metal cubes.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
The Fringe team used the skin-growth toxin from "Ability" as a weapon against the Observers and Loyalists in "The Bullet that Saved the World".
S5E04 - The Bullet that Saved the World Timestamp: 27:07
Item of interest
The license plate on Olivia's SUV reads 1R2D21, and the licence plate on Broyles's SUV reads 1C3PO1.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen hanging from the taxi when Walter listens to music.
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
Windmark visited his boss, The Commander, in 2609.
Butterfly glyph
Butterflies can be seen in Etta's apartment.
Connection
Olivia's pregnancy dream in "The Same Old Story" is in a waiting area with giant tulips. Young Olivia fled to a field with white tulips when she got scared in "Subject 13".
S3E15 - Subject 13 Timestamp: 33:00
Item of interest
Peter's shared dream state with September looks like an observation deck.
Leaf glyph
The leaf glyph is on the electronic keypad at Massive Dynamic.
Connection
The combination to Bell's safe in "Concentrate and Ask Again" was 0-5-2-0-1-0, the same combination used in "Five-Twenty-Ten".
S5E07 - Five-Twenty-Ten Timestamp: 01:51
Item of interest
All of the people in Olivia's mind wear blacks and greys because Cortexiphan subjects have a strong desire to blend in.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse pattern can be seen in the toxin's molecular structure.
Connection
Walter looked at Peter's coin in "Novation" from the night Peter died in "Peter".
S4E05 - Novation Timestamp: 19:14
Item of interest
Donald entered the mine 5 weeks after the invasion and took some rocks. He was described as being in his late 30s, medium height, dark hair. Donald said he was waiting for "a colleague, a scientist from Boston, to meet him." Observers found him and took him away.
Frog glyph
A frog can be seen in Walter's Monty Python trip.
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