Next Episode Clues are hints to the content of the next episode. They are embedded in each episode of Fringe and function as a little easter egg to attentive fans.
Season 1[]
Picture | Episode | Description |
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Pilot | The pen and the rose pictured on the newspaper signify the perpetrator of the following episode's crimes, Claus Penrose. | |
The Same Old Story | The sticker on the street sign is Latin for "See Voices." This hints at Roy McComb's ability to hear voices in the following episode. | |
The Ghost Network | An icon of The Beacon can be seen on a sign in the train station. Also, Walter mentions that the victims on the bus are 'trapped, like flies in amber', possibly foreshadowing the Fringe team being frozen in amber. | |
The Arrival | A flyer similar to the one Joseph Meegar saw that encouraged him to "unlock his hidden potential" is seen posted on the telephone pole near the diner. | |
Power Hungry |
The INtREPUS coffee mug alludes to the criminal activities of the organization that would feature predominantly in the subsequent episode. | |
The Cure |
The thermometer used by Walter has the initials ZFT, which allude to David Robert Jones' terrorist organization. | |
In Which We Meet Mr. Jones |
"A Christmas Carol" alludes to the way Walter remembers the Green, Green, Green, Red lights that are part of the Fringe event of the next episode. | |
The Equation |
The butterfly on the trashcan hints at The Pattern event for the next episode: a man dying from what he believes are butterflies. | |
The Dreamscape |
As Olivia pursues a suspect, a van rushes by with this symbol on it. In the following episode, the criminals use a van with this very symbol on it. | |
Safe |
The poster for "The Colds" foreshadows that the Fringe event for the next episode involves super-sized cold cells. | |
Bound |
The book "What's That Noise?" parallels the pop-up that melts peoples' brains in the next episode. | |
The No-Brainer |
The lease for the car is $718.00. The flight that crashes in the next episode is Flight 718. | |
The Transformation |
The sign in the motel has the letters ZFT on it, foreshadowing the resurgence of ZFT in the show's plot. | |
Ability |
The air freshener above the newspaper stand is the same one that The Artist has in his car. It is also instrumental in catching him. | |
Inner Child |
The creature hints at the fact that the next episode deals with mutated animals/monsters. | |
Unleashed |
The keg is labelled "Red Balloon Lager." This foreshadows the red balloon found at the crime scene in the next episode. | |
Bad Dreams |
The Night Stalker energy drink advertised foreshadows how Valerie Boone stalks her prey in the night. | |
Midnight |
The ticker at the bottom of the screen informs viewers of a mysterious fire, hinting at the subject matter of the next episode: spontaneous combustion. | |
The Road Not Taken |
Graffiti in the Alternate Universe claims "HE IS HERE." This hints at the fact that William Bell is not in the Prime Universe, but in the Alternate Universe. | |
There's More Than One of Everything |
The skull and crossbones on the TV monitor in the FBI Building hints at the emergence of the shapeshifters in the next season. |
Season 2[]
Picture |
Episode |
Description |
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A New Day in the Old Town | From the accident scene, the fictional name on the signage in front of the building is GRUNO & DUNDER, a concise anagram for UNDERGROUND, foreshadowing the main theme of the plot in Night Of Desirable Objects. | |
Night of Desirable Objects | The two Canadian National locomotives each bear the logo "CN". This foreshadowed the goal of Project Tin Man in Fracture, which is to combat the effects of Cyanogen, a nerve gas with a chemical formula made up of two cyanide (CN) groups linked together (NC-CN), and alludes to the fact that the CN-related explosion occurred in a train station. | |
Fracture | As Diane Burgess exits her cab, the symbol drawn by William Bell for Olivia in Momentum Deferred is visible on a stone fence post. | |
Momentum Deferred | During the alley fight scene, the graffiti reads "to sleep perchance to dream." This foreshadowed the main theme in the plot of Dream Logic. | |
Dream Logic | The large W+ in the signage is shorthand for a fundamental particle in "subatomic particle" science - the Weak Force Boson. Weak boson, a theoretical product of weak interaction and positron emission, perfectly foreshadows the condition of the ill cosmonaut. | |
Earthling | On the nurse's computer screen at the beginning of the episode, there is a list of names containing "Carson". This is the name of Tyler Carson in Of Human Action. | |
Of Human Action | The simulated aircraft in 'Of Human Action' has markings on it that say "AUG B/12" and "RESCUE", foreshadowing August saving Christine Hollis from a plane crash in 'August'. | |
August | At the motel where he is protecting Christine Hollis, August retrieves a meal with a 'snakehead' emblem on the paper bag. | |
Snakehead | From the busy streets, large signage (far right) declares "Ginseng Improves Memory". This foreshadowed the main plot in Grey Matters, recovering (improving) the memories of Walter Bishop - in order to extract the technology to travel between universes, and to initiate the coming war. | |
Grey Matters | The colorful butterflies foreshadow Walter's off-chance discovery of the town's permutation secret via the damaged moth at the Edina city limit in Johari Window. | |
Unearthed | A pirate flag (skull and crossbones) appears on a TV monitor. This is a clue to the Shape Changer ability to remodel his skull and bones in A New Day in the Old Town, which was filmed directly after this episode (this episode was the last episode filmed in season 1 despite airing in season 2) | |
Johari Window | The storage box marked Magellan Files near his library hiding place foretells Walter's recollection of the explorer's travel and the potential for decimation/extinction exploration can bring in What Lies Below. | |
What Lies Below | The courier carries a backpack that bears the logo of the "World Tolerance Initiative", foreshadowing Hoffman's planned attack against their 2010 Boston conference in The Bishop Revival. | |
The Bishop Revival | Signage in the alley (far right) where toxin dispersal is being tested highlights The "Glimmer" Brothers. That foreshadows the unique ability of Olivia in Jacksonville to recognize objects and beings from the alternate universe by the glimmer that encircles them. | |
Jacksonville | The police barricade warns about Crossing The Line, an echo of the 1985 warning by Carla Warren to Walter in Peter, that travelling to the parallel universe will Cross The Line of ethical science by rupturing the fundamental constants of nature. | |
Peter | From the 1985 alternate universe, two Observers exit a theater displaying a movie poster for "Clue", foreshadowing the Suspect-Location-Weapon methodology & title of the next episode Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver. | |
Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver. | Olivia's sleepless night ends at 5:18. May 18th (5:18) is the destination date of Alistair Peck to intercept and save his fiancée in White Tulip. | |
White Tulip | The motto of the transit system foreshadows the nearly instantaneous transfer between universes by Secretary Bishop and his shapeshifters in The Man from the Other Side. | |
The Man from the Other Side | "For your healthy heart" - written on the egg carton foreshadows Walter's tale of "broken and mended hearts" in Brown Betty. | |
Brown Betty | Walter's game of Operation with Ella foreshadowed the makeshift medical procedures in Northwest Passage. | |
Northwest Passage | "You can't get there from here" - a bubble gum wrapper found on the bridge by Peter foreshadows his visit to the parallel universe in Over There. |
Season 3[]
Picture | Episode | Description |
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Olivia | ||
The Box | Graffiti on a door in 'The Box' reads "The Pen is Mightier", foreshadowing Milo Stanfield using pens to initiate chain reactions in 'The Plateau.' | |
The Plateau | A sign for "Van Horn's Tavern" in 'The Plateau' foreshadows Senator Van Horn's secret and involvement in 'Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?'. | |
Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep? | Astrid brings Walter a magazine in 'Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?' with the word "TWINS" on the cover, foreshadowing the plot twist in 'Amber 31422'. | |
Amber 31422 | The Franklin St. Station subway sign in 'Amber 31422' shows the numbers 6-9-5-5, foreshadowing the radio station frequency investigated in '6955 kHz'. | |
6955 kHz | ||
The Abducted | A sign outside of Astoria Holy Witness Church in 'The Abducted' says "He That Enters Here Shall Be SAVED!". The bond formed between Olivia and Alt Broyles while working this case is ultimately what saves Olivia from death and allows her to return to her universe in 'Entrada'. | |
Entrada | The electronic billboard outside Springsteen Station in 'Entrada' displays advertising for "Mercy Ballet", foreshadowing the victim of 'Marionette' being strung up like a puppet and made to dance like a ballerina. | |
Marionette | The name of the rail system in 'Marionette' is "Firefly Railway", foreshadowing the title and theme of 'The Firefly'. | |
The Firefly | The album cover artwork from The Police's 1981 album Ghost in the Machine can be seen painted on a wall in 'The Firefly'. This foreshadows 'Reciprocity' where The Machine seemingly turns on for no reason. | |
Reciprocity | ||
Concentrate and Ask Again | ||
Immortality | ||
6B | ||
Subject 13 | ||
Os | ||
Stowaway | ||
Bloodline | ||
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide | ||
6:02 AM EST | ||
The Last Sam Weiss |