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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
Michael played the music box from "The Boy Must Live" for September after September got shot in "An Enemy of Fate".
S5E13 - An Enemy of Fate Timestamp: 16:21
Item of interest
Jones is working with Bell, who is alive.
Flower glyph
The flower glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
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
One of the envelopes Peter sorted through said "Thank you for your support!", a direct message from the creators of Fringe to all the fans.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen near Lincoln in the rail yard.
Connection
The universe window from "Peter" was seen in Walter's storage vault in "The Bullet that Saved the World".
S5E04 - The Bullet that Saved the World Timestamp: 14:44
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.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen on the wall in the diner where Olivia and Lincoln meet.
Connection
Olivia's therapist in "Nothing as it Seems" is the same one she had when she was trapped on the other side in "Olivia".
S4E16 - Nothing As It Seems Timestamp: 03:53
Item of interest
The Fringe team is the First People. Walter sent the parts of the machine back through time via the wormhole in Central Park. That's why the First People had such a knowledge of Peter and Olivia.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse pattern can be seen in the toxin's molecular structure.
Connection
In "And Those We've Left Behind" Peter picked up the same toy plane (perhaps not literally the same) that he played with in "Subject 13".
S4E06 - And Those We've Left Behind Timestamp: 13:33
Item of interest
It is true that the Empire State Building's spire really was initially designed for airship docking as it was in the Redverse.
Flower glyph
The flower glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
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
Olivia struck James Heath with a candlestick in her dining room, making the title a complete red herring.
Frog glyph
A frog can be seen outside the entrance to the daycare center.
Connection
Olivia's pregnancy dream in "The Same Old Story" is in a waiting area with giant tulips.
S2E17 - White Tulip Timestamp: 33:04
Item of interest
The episode opened in "Manhatan", seemingly a typo but actually signifying this was an alternate Manhattan.
Apple glyph
The apple glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
Peter needed a Faraday cage to safely enter the time bubble in "And Those We've Left Behind" like Alistair Peck built into his own body in order to time travel safely in "White Tulip".
S4E06 - And Those We've Left Behind Timestamp: 22:40
Item of interest
William Bell left Massive Dynamic to Walter.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
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