Season One

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Fringe is a science fiction television series co-created by J. J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. The series premiered in the United States on September 9, 2008, on the Fox network, as well in Canada on The 'A' Television Network System. A version of the show (edited for time) premiered on the Nine Network in Australia on September 17, 2008. It premiered in the United Kingdom on Sunday, October 5, 2008 on Sky1, in Sweden on Thursday, October 2 on Kanal 5 and on October 1 2008 on TV3 in Ireland.

Along with Joss Whedon's Dollhouse, Fringe is part of a new Fox initiative known as "Remote-Free TV". Episodes of Fringe will be longer than standard dramas on current network television. It will air with half the commercials and promo spots, adding about 6 minutes to the shows' run time.

The series deals with a research scientist named Walter Bishop (described as "Frankenstein mixed with Albert Einstein" and portrayed by John Noble), his son Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson), and an FBI agent, Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv) who brings them back together. The show is described as a cross between The X-Files, Altered States, The Twilight Zone and Dark Angel.

On October 1, 2008, Fringe received a full 22 episode season.

[edit] Season Summary

Fringe follows the exploits of Olivia Dunham, Walter Bishop, and his son Peter as they investigate aspects of (reanimation, teletransportation, etc). All over the world, a series of apparent experiments collectively referred to as "the Pattern" (e.g., a newborn baby who rapidly ages and dies within a few hours, a bus full of passengers trapped in a strange substance like mosquitoes in amber) are occurring for reasons unknown. Olivia, Peter, and Walter are in charge of investigating these strange events to determine their source. Connected to the Pattern is a company called Massive Dynamic, which is a leading global research company that holds the patents for a number of new and important technologies. Throughout the first half of the first season, Mitchell Loeb, a rogue FBI agent, orchestrates some of these events as part of a larger plan to break a man out of prison and kidnap Olivia.

[edit] Characters

Characters • Cast • Episodes

	Olivia Dunham FBI agent Olivia Dunham discovers a pattern in a series of strange events. Read more…		Walter Bishop Former chemist Walter Bishop conducted experiments on humans from his lab at Harvard University. Read more…
	Peter Bishop Peter Bishop holds the key to getting in touch with his estranged father. Read more…		Phillip Broyles Phillip Broyles is a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security who leads the team.Read more…
	Charlie Francis Charlie Francis is one of three FBI agents called in to investigate Flight 627. Read more…		Astrid Farnsworth Astrid Farnsworth is a Junior Agent with the FBI, and an assistant to Agent Olivia Dunham. Read more…
	Nina Sharp Nina Sharp is the executive director of Massive Dynamic, and is obviously related to The Pattern. Read more…		John Scott FBI agent John Scott owes his allegiance to an as yet unknown organization who may be responsible for The Pattern. Read more…

	Mitchell Loeb Mitchell Loeb is an double FBI agent who took Mr. Jones out of prison. Read more…		Mr. Jones David Robert Jones is a high-risk criminal with ties to ZFT and The Pattern. Read more…
	Sanford Harris Sanford Harris is a consultant for the Department of Homeland Security. Read more…		Rachel Dunham Rachel Dunham is Olivia's younger sister and the mother of Ella. Read more…
	The Observer The Observer is the mysterious figure who appears at sightings connected to The Pattern. Read more…		William Bell Dr. William Bell is the former lab partner of Walter Bishop and founder of Massive Dynamic. Read more…

[edit] Characters Appearances

[edit] Main Characters

• Anna Torv as Olivia Dunham (20/20 episodes)
• Joshua Jackson as Peter Bishop (20/20 episodes)
• John Noble as Walter Bishop (20/20 episodes)
• Lance Reddick as Phillip Broyles (20/20 episodes)
• Jasika Nicole as Astrid Farnsworth (20/20 episodes)
• Kirk Acevedo as Charlie Francis (20/20 episodes)
• Blair Brown as Nina Sharp (10/20 episodes)
• Mark Valley as John Scott (7/20 episodes)

[edit] Recurring Characters

• Ari Graynor as Rachel Dunham (6/20 episodes)
• Chance Kelly as Mitchell Loeb (5/20 episodes)
• Jared Harris as Mr. Jones (5/20 episodes)
• Michael Gaston as Sanford Harris (4/20 episodes)
• Leonard Nimoy as William Bell (1/20 episodes)
• Michael Cerveris as The Observer (20/20 episodes, 3 episodes credited)

[edit] Episode List

1.- Pilot (September 9, 2008) An international flight lands in Boston's Logan Airport, its crew and passengers dead from a mysterious flesh-dissolving toxin. When Special Agent Olivia Dunham's partner, John Scott, is infected by the same toxin, she recruits Dr. Walter Bishop, a mentally unstable researcher in fringe science, and his estranged son, Peter, to help her to save John's life. Read more…

2.- The Same Old Story (September 16, 2008) Olivia, along with Peter and Walter Bishop, reopens a cold case involving a serial killer who extracted the pituitary glands from his victims after investigating the strange death of a woman who had an even stranger child. The woman was pregnant for only hours, yet the baby she birthed was fully developed - then aged eighty years in the span of a few minutes. Read more…

3.- The Ghost Network (September 23, 2008) A man seems to be having visions of Pattern-related terror attacks before they occur. The team, led by Dr. Bishop, discovers that he is receiving signals from the Ghost Network, an otherwise undetectable frequency range on which the masterminds are communicating. With his help, they are able to intercept a strange crystalline disk, which is given to Nina Sharp for analysis. Read more…

4.- The Arrival (September 30, 2008) A mysterious cylinder emerges from beneath the Earth in New York City, so Broyles enlists the trio of Olivia, Dr. Bishop and Peter to investigate the significance of the object. However, others also seek it, including a bald man known as the Observer who only watches events as they unfold and another willing to kill to retrieve the cylinder. Read more…

5.- Power Hungry (October 14, 2008) The team discovers a man with the uncontrolled ability to affect electrical energy, made the way he is by a scientist performing illegal experiments on humans. With the help of carrier pigeons modified to track the man's electromagnetic signature, the team manages to track him down and arrest the scientist. Read more…

6.- The Cure (October 21, 2008) A woman with a rare disease, is kidnapped and given a drug that makes her brain emit a microwave burst, killing her and the patrons of a diner she stumbles into. When the team investigates, they find that another woman with the same rare disease has been kidnapped. Read more…

7.- In Which We Meet Mr. Jones (November 11, 2008) Agent Mitchell Loeb, a friend of Broyles' collapses on assignment, his heart being constricted by an engineered parasite which is slowly working its roots into his circulatory system. To find a cure, Olivia must talk to David Robert Jones, a biochemist held incommunicado in Frankfurt, Germany. Problems arise when David demands to speak to a colleague of his in exchange, who is unfortunately killed in a raid set up by Broyles. Read more…

8.- The Equation (November 18, 2008) The abduction of a young musician is highlighted by a sequence of flashing lights which causes the boy's father to be hypnotized into a suggestive state and upon 'waking up' does not have any memory of what happened while hypnotized. Similar cases have ended with the victim being returned, but left insane from the trauma of the incident. As they investigate, they discover that each case dealt with a genius of some sort working on an unfinished equation.Read more…

9.- The Dreamscape (November 25, 2008) A Massive Dynamic employee jumps out of a window when he believes he is being attacked by butterflies. Olivia's connection with John Scott leads her to breaks in the case, but she becomes fed up with his manifestations and decides to return to the sensory deprivation tank to rid herself of them. Meanwhile, Peter's past catches up with him when his enemies find out he's back in Boston. Read more…

10.- Safe (December 2, 2008) Agent Dunham investigates a body trapped inside a wall in a bank. He turns out to be a member of Mitchell Loeb's team, who uses the technology he obtained in "The Equation" to engineer a string of bank robberies, targeting safe deposit boxes Walter used to hide a teleportation device. He succeeds in recovering the device and uses it to teleport David Robert Jones right out of a prison in Germany.Read more…

11.- Bound (January 20, 2009) Following FBI Agent Mitchell Loeb's successful plan to break David Robert Jones out of prison and kidnap Olivia, indications of a larger threat begin to emerge. One of Olivia’s former adversaries conducts a formal review of the Fringe Division, just as Olivia's sister, Rachel Dunham , pays a visit. Meanwhile, Olivia, Walter and Peter investigate the murder of an epidemiologist, which may be linked to Olivia's abduction. Read more…

12.- The No-Brainer (January 27, 2009) Olivia, Walter and Peter are called in to investigate the death of a car salesman who was found in a pool of "goo," exactly like another man across the country. When Walter discovers that the "goo" is brain matter, the trio tries to figure out how the killer can liquefy human brains. As the deaths pile up, the investigation reveals a common thread linking the victims together in an unthinkable manner. Meanwhile, Olivia is horrified when the case places a loved one in harm's way. Read more…

13.- The Transformation (February 3, 2009) When the Fringe Division delves into another bizarre occurrence aboard an international jumbo jet, freakish remains are discovered at the crash site. Memories tip the team toward some promising leads, but the bigger picture and mysterious threat eludes them. With limited options and insufficient intelligence, Olivia and Peter go undercover. Read more…

14.- Ability (February 10, 2009) German agents question Olivia about her "relationship" with David Robert Jones, an escaped prisoner questioned months earlier now living in the U.S. Meanwhile, the Fringe Division investigates a threatening case where victims die faceless from their orifices suddenly sealing. With few leads and many questions, German authorities turn to Olivia, Peter and Walter to help makes sense of the return of Mr. Jones and the foreboding mysterious occurrences. Read more…

15.- Inner Child (February 17, 2009) Just seconds before a building is demolished, a mysterious mute child that has been living alone underground is discovered. Meanwhile, an especially gruesome serial killer resurfaces and showcases his "artistry" by displaying his work publicly. As the boy gradually assimilates into a new environment, Olivia and the team must race against the clock to prevent the mad man from further macabre. Read more…

16.- Unleashed (April 14, 2009) As animal rights activists ransack a laboratory, they get more than they bargained for when one of the caged "animals" unleashes a ferocious appetite. Leaving grotesquely mutilated dead bodies in its wake, the scientific engineered beast with the body of a lion, claws of an eagle, fangs of a viper, skin of a rhinoceros and tail of a serpent attacks Charlie. With Charlie's life on the line, Walter must come face-to-face with both his past and the beast. Read more…

17.- Bad Dreams (April 21, 2009) As a suicide incident occurs at New York's iconic Grand Central station, Agent Dunham simultaneously witnesses the event while asleep and dreaming in Boston. As these violent occurrences continue and worsen, Olivia is sent into an unthinkable direction and shocking details emerge about the ZFT manuscript, the highly experimental drug Cortexiphan and Olivia's childhood. Read more…

18.- Midnight (April 28, 2009) The Fringe Division is on the case when severely mutilated bodies drained of spinal cord fluid begin to pile up. After their investigation leads them to a scientist (guest star Jefferson Mays) with possible ties to the Z.F.T. bioterrorist cell, they are shocked to discover the identity and motive of the killer. When the kills occur with increasing frequency, Olivia, Peter and Walter go to desperate lengths to stop them. Read more…

19.- The Road Not Taken (May 5, 2009) Olivia experiences "awake dreams," seeing elaborate visions of things not really there. While investigating a disturbing case of a woman who apparently spontaneously combusted, Olivia throws caution to the wind and explores her unexplained visions further. Meanwhile, Walter discusses key information about the Z.F.T. manifesto, and Peter reveals a secret that yields unexpected results in the case. Read more…

20.- There's More Than One Of Everything (May 12, 2009) Setting the stage for the dramatic and revealing first season finale are a sudden and unexpected attack on someone with close ties to Fringe Division, the return of bioterrorist David Robert Jones and the inexplicable disappearance of Walter. Find out more about the mysterious events surrounding our trio when questions are answered, observations made, loyalties are tested and the elusive William Bell is finally introduced. Read more…