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Season 2

Season 2

Fringe

2009
Episodes: 23

Overview

Unable to police a world in which science has advanced beyond our wildest dreams — and nightmares — FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham seeks help from brilliant but damaged scientist Dr. Walter Bishop and his estranged son with a dark past, Peter. Under the direction of Agent Phillip Broyles, they solve gruesome mysteries and prevent imminent attacks.

Episodes

A New Day in the Old Town

1. A New Day in the Old Town

September 17, 2009

8.0
44 min

An amnesiac Olivia makes her return from the parallel universe, while Walter, Pete, and Junior Agent Amy Jessup investigate the mysterious death of a man found with puncture holes in his palate. Meanwhile, Broyles defends the Fringe Division from a Senate subcommittee threatening to shut the organization down.

Guest Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Adrian Holmes, Ari Graynor

Night of Desirable Objects

2. Night of Desirable Objects

September 24, 2009

7.4
44 min

A highway construction worker is the seventh in a series of mysterious disappearances in Lansdale, PA. The team come to investigate and finds traces of a mysterious paralytic. Meanwhile, Walter tries to send frogs to an alternate reality and Olivia realizes her recent trip has altered her in ways she can barely understand.

Guest Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Stefan Arngrim

Fracture

3. Fracture

October 1, 2009

7.6
44 min

When an American officer who served in Iraq blows up in a Philadelphia train station, the Fringe Division investigates and determines that something turned the man into a living bomb. Peter and Olivia travel to Iraq to determine if Peter's contacts can shed some light on the situation.

Guest Stars: Michael Cerveris, Phillip Mitchell, Patrick Sabongui

Momentum Deferred

4. Momentum Deferred

October 8, 2009

8.3
44 min

Olivia begins to regain her memories of her encounter with William Bell. Meanwhile, the "First Wave" tries to collect the head of their leader, and the traitor makes his move.

Guest Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald

Dream Logic

5. Dream Logic

October 15, 2009

7.3
44 min

A man in Seattle goes berserk, attacking his boss and claiming his victim is a demon. After the killer dies of what appears to be exhaustion, the Fringe Division discover it's only the first in a series of killings where the persons initiating the attacks were in a dreaming state while awake

Guest Stars: Kevin Corrigan, Ravi Kapoor, Travis Schuldt

Earthling

6. Earthling

November 5, 2009

7.3
44 min

Human beings are reduced to ash statues and Broyles realizes that the same person responsible murdered five other persons four years ago... a case that he never solved.

Guest Stars: JR Bourne, Megan Charpentier, Chris Shields

Of Human Action

7. Of Human Action

November 12, 2009

7.6
44 min

Two men kidnap a teenage boy using mind control abilities. The boy's father works for Massive Dynamic but Nina insists that the company hasn't been developing mind control, and has no idea who the two kidnappers are. The truth or falsehood of her statements are soon confirmed when Peter encounters the person responsible for the boy's abduction.

Guest Stars: Andrew Airlie, Cameron Monaghan, Doron Bell

August

8. August

November 19, 2009

8.2
44 min

The Observer chooses to do something other than observe, abducting a college student. However, when the Fringe team investigates, they discover that there is more than one Observer.. in both time and space.

Guest Stars: Michael Cerveris, Ryan McDonald, Paul Rae

Snakehead

9. Snakehead

December 3, 2009

7.1
44 min

A Chinese Triad is using illegal aliens to breed parasitic worms that eventually kill their hosts. When a ship runs aground, Fringe Division learns of the operation and tries to locate a second ship before the passengers on it suffer a slow, agonizing death.

Guest Stars: Ingrid Torrance, Tzi Ma, Colby Paul

Grey Matters

10. Grey Matters

December 10, 2009

7.9
44 min

The First Wave breaks into a mental hospital and cures a long-term patient suffering from schizophrenia. When the Fringe team investigates, Olivia discovers that the group's leader has one of the heads stolen from cryogenic storage months earlier. Meanwhile, two other mental patients are cured of their schizophrenia and the team soon realize that something was taken from each patients' brain... and Walter holds the key to realizing what First Wave is after.

Guest Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Sebastian Roché, Jeff Perry

Unearthed

11. Unearthed

January 11, 2010

6.1
44 min

A teenage girl pronounced brain dead wakes up in the middle of the operation to remove her organs... speaking numbers in Russian. When the Navy confirms that the numbers are nuclear launch codes and a missing officer named Rusk knows them, the search is on for the missing man.

Guest Stars: Kirk Acevedo, Scott William Winters, Amy Carlson

Johari Window

12. Johari Window

January 14, 2010

7.2
44 min

A state trooper picks up a runaway boy, but when he undergoes a strange transformation, three murders result. The Fringe team is called in to investigate and discover that a small town harbors a horrible secret.

Guest Stars: J.J. Makaro, Laura Mennell, Michael O'Neill

What Lies Below

13. What Lies Below

January 21, 2010

7.4
44 min

A Dutch industrial consultant arrives for an appointment and dies in a painful explosion of blood. Olivia and Peter arrive on the scene first and discover that the blood contains a pathogen and everyone in the building may be contaminated. While Walter and Astrid work outside the quarantined building to create a cure, the virus develops unique characteristics that pose a danger to the entire world.

Guest Stars: Demore Barnes, Nicholas W. von Zill, Geoff Pierson

The Bishop Revival

14. The Bishop Revival

January 28, 2010

7.5
44 min

When all of the groom's relatives asphyxiate at a wedding, the Fringe division investigates and quickly ascertain that a human agency is responsible. Walter realizes that the formula for the toxin was based on research conducted by his father, Robert Bischoff, and that the killer isn't stopping with a single test of his lethal concoction.

Guest Stars: Clark Middleton, Craig Robert Young, Nancy Linari

Jacksonville

15. Jacksonville

February 4, 2010

8.2
44 min

The arrival of a building from the alternate Earth causes massive death and destruction to those occupying the site at its arrival. Walter soon realizes that to equalize the balance between universes, another building will have to disappear... along with everyone inside it. The team's only chance is for Walter to activate Olivia's long-buried ability to distinguish objects from the other universe.

Guest Stars: Ryan McDonald, Sarah Edmondson, Jim True-Frost

Peter

16. Peter

April 1, 2010

8.8
44 min

Walter explains to Olivia how Peter came from the alternate universe, and how he was willing to risk everything to save his son.

Guest Stars: Michael Cerveris, Eugene Lipinski, Jenni Blong

Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.

17. Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.

April 8, 2010

7.5
44 min

A healthy woman dies of rapid-onset cancer in a matter of minutes, and the Fringe team is called in to investigate. The killer has connections to Jacksonville... and Olivia is a potential victim. Meanwhile, Olivia tries to come to terms with her knowledge of Peter's origins.

Guest Stars: Kevin Corrigan, Diane Kruger, Omar Metwally

White Tulip

18. White Tulip

April 15, 2010

8.7
44 min

When the passengers on a commuter train all die instantly of massive power loss, the team realizes that a time traveler is responsible... and that it may be impossible to apprehend him. Meanwhile, Walter writes a letter to Peter explaining his origins.

Guest Stars: Marie Avgeropoulos, Jackson Berlin, Zoltan Buday

The Man From The Other Side

19. The Man From The Other Side

April 22, 2010

8.2
44 min

Two teenagers turn up dead and evidence indicates that shapeshifters have borrowed their forms for some special mission. While the Fringe team tries to track them down, Peter grows increasingly suspicious of Walter's secretive behavior.

Guest Stars: Ryan McDonald, Sebastian Roché, Peter Bryant

Brown Betty

20. Brown Betty

April 29, 2010

6.6
44 min

When Peter disappears, Walter seeks solace in marijuana. In that state of mind, he and Astrid babysit Olivia's niece Ella, and Walter tells her a fairy tale of a gentle inventor, a stolen glass heart, a detective looking for true love, and a mysterious group of bald men known as the Watchers.

Guest Stars: Michael Cerveris, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald

Northwest Passage

21. Northwest Passage

May 6, 2010

7.7
44 min

In Noyo County, Washington, Peter stumbles across a grisly murder with ties to Newton and First Wave. He is forced to team up with a suspicious sheriff to get to the heart of the case. Meanwhile, Walter has trouble functioning without Peter, and worries he will be sent back to the mental institute.

Guest Stars: Sebastian Roché, Martha Plimpton, Christine Chatelain

Over There (1)

22. Over There (1)

May 13, 2010

8.2
43 min

When Walter discovers that Peter has traveled to the alternate universe, he and Olivia gather three cortexiphan children with the ability to transition safely between the two Earths.

Guest Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald, Kirk Acevedo

Over There (2)

23. Over There (2)

May 20, 2010

8.5
44 min

Walternate asks Peter to help complete the device, while the fugitives Walter and Olivia are reunited with William Bell. Meanwhile, the alternate world's Fringe Division closes in on the invaders, and Peter must make a life-shattering decision.

Guest Stars: Leonard Nimoy, Kirk Acevedo, Stefan Arngrim

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