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Glyphs, easter eggs, buried clues, behind-the-scenes videos, thematic connections, and more, catalogued episode by episode with screenshots and timestamps.
Connection
Etta clutched her necklace, a bullet, when she saw Walter for the first time and when talking about her parents in "Letters of Transit". This is the bullet Walter shot at Olivia in "Brave New World (Part 2)".
Item of interest
Jones is working with Bell, who is alive.
Butterfly glyph
A butterfly can be seen on a lampshade near the front of Olivia's apartment.
Connection
The End-of-Dayers used light bombs called Electrilights in "The Day We Died". Loyalists threw a light bomb at Peter in the sewer tunnels in "The Bullet that Saved the World".
Item of interest
Peter's shared dream state with September looks like an observation deck.
Frog glyph
A frog can be seen in Walter's Monty Python trip.
Connection
Peter's map of Walter's crimes in "Brown Betty" resembles the map of Pattern cases in "There's More Than One of Everything".
Item of interest
William Bell left Massive Dynamic to Walter.
Butterfly glyph
A butterfly can be seen painted on the side of a white trash can.
Connection
The 'green-green-green-red' pattern from "The Equation" appeared on the Amber dispersal device when it was initially activated in "6B".
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
Olivia saw Brandon as a zombie in her mind in "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" because he wanted to cut out and study her brain in "Entrada".
Item of interest
Susan Pratt's wardrobe is full of dark colors like Olivia's and Nick Lane's.
Frog glyph
A frog can be seen outside the entrance to the daycare center.
Connection
William Bell left Nina a bell in his will in "The Box". Walter rang that bell in "Os" which initiated Bell's soul magnet experiment.
Item of interest
The episode opened in "Manhatan", seemingly a typo but actually signifying this was an alternate Manhattan.
Frog glyph
A frog can be seen on the dock when Walter is high.
Connection
In "The End of All Things" September said that he made a mistake when he distracted Walternate in his lab in "Peter" and saving Walter and Peter from the icy lake was an attempt to rectify that mistake.
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.
Hand glyph
The hand glyph can be seen on the piano stool in the Orpheum Theater in the Redverse.
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.
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 a door in the pocket universe.
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