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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
Fauxlivia studied old Fringe cases for intel in "The Box", including Olivia's taped testimony from "Dream Logic".
S3E02 - The Box Timestamp: 23:03
Item of interest
Nick Lane's wardrobe is all dark colors like Olivia's.
Butterfly glyph
A butterfly can be seen painted on the side of a white trash can.
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
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
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)".
S4E22 - Brave New World (Part 2) Timestamp: 04:47
Item of interest
Olivia entered "Martin Luther King/Eldridge Cleaver Memorial Park" which has a plaque quoting them as saying "We have a dream" rather than "I".
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen hanging from the taxi when Walter listens to music.
Connection
Agent Jessup was relating season 1 Fringe cases to Bible verses in "A New Day in the Old Town". In "Nothing as it Seems", creatures can be seen on something resembling Noah's Ark.
S4E16 - Nothing As It Seems Timestamp: 41:55
Item of interest
Michael can show emotion as he cried when he saw Nina's dead body.
Butterfly glyph
Butterflies can be seen on a box in September's apartment.
Connection
Nick Lane is being kept in a coma indefinitely at the end of "Bad Dreams". In "Over There (Part 1)" Olivia learned that he and other found Cortexiphan subjects have been training to keep their abilities under control.
S2E21 - Over There (Part 1) Timestamp: 14:10
Item of interest
The briefcase contained photos of Walter.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen in Walter's Monty Python trip.
Connection
Jones presented Olivia with the light box test in "The End of All Things" just as he did in "Ability".
S4E14 - The End of All Things Timestamp: 12:11
Item of interest
Walter's pose as he listens to the Mozart Requiem is a reference to the iconic Maxell tape advertisement from the '80s.
Flower glyph
The flower glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
The boy in "Alone in the World" played with the same action figure Peter showed to the Child in "Inner Child".
S4E03 - Alone in the World Timestamp: 33:23
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.
Leaf glyph
The leaf glyph is on the electronic keypad at Massive Dynamic.
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.
S4E14 - The End of All Things Timestamp: 28:23
Item of interest
When Nina looks in Bell's storage room for his copy of the First People book the camera pans by a copy of 'Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare'.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
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