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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
Walter looked at Peter's coin in "Novation" from the night Peter died in "Peter".
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.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
The bus in "The Ghost Network" was ambered. Huge sections of cities were ambered in the Redverse in "Over There (Part 2)".
Item of interest
The episode opened in "Manhatan", seemingly a typo but actually signifying this was an alternate Manhattan.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen on Peter's luggage.
Connection
Walter gave the Child M&Ms in the pocket universe in "Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There" because he ate them with Olivia in "Inner Child".
Item of interest
William Bell's name is partially faded/scratched off of the door to the lab.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen outside the entrance to the daycare center.
Connection
Walternate has three solid-color panels on the wall of his office in "Bloodline": blue, red, and yellow. These symbolize the two universes (blue and red) and the rewritten timeline without Peter (yellow) starting from "Neither Here Nor There".
Item of interest
When Walter explains that his red/blue lensed glasses were created by his friend from Washington, Doctor Jacoby, he's referencing the television show 'Twin Peaks' which also had an eccentric man of science, Doctor Jacoby, who wore red/blue lensed glasses very similar to Walter's.
Butterfly glyph
A butterfly can be seen attacking Mark Young.
Connection
Cecil mentions the Observers using a light bomb in "Through the Looking Glass and what Walter Found There", which is what Loyalists threw at Peter in the sewer tunnels in "The Bullet that Saved the World".
Item of interest
Who did the Observer say was "still alive," Peter or Walter?
Butterfly glyph
A butterfly can be seen on a lampshade near the front of Olivia's apartment.
Connection
The intense amount of Cortexiphan coursing through Olivia in "Brave New World (Part 2)" was able to heal her mortal wound. This was foreshadowed in "Brown Betty" when Olivia was sliced by the same weapon that killed Rachel, yet instead of dying Olivia's skin started to heal itself.
Item of interest
Madison Square Garden in the Redverse is quarantined in amber.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen near Lincoln in the rail yard.
Connection
September loads his food with heat (pepper, jalapenos, hot sauce) in "The Arrival" because his emotions are dulled, as he explained in "The Boy Must Live".
Item of interest
The Redverse traded Alt Broyles for Fauxlivia by cutting off one of his legs to make their masses equal.
Hand glyph
The hand glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
The End Dock Stabilizer's lights in "An Origin Story" flashed the 'green-green-green-red' pattern from "The Equation" when Peter finished assembling it.
Item of interest
The yellow dot in the final glyph of the episode is replaced by a yellow heart.
Butterfly glyph
Butterflies can be seen on a box in September's apartment.
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