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Glyphs, easter eggs, buried clues, behind-the-scenes videos, thematic connections, and more, catalogued episode by episode with screenshots and timestamps.
Connection
Walter hid the beacon at the tombstone of his father, Robert Bishop, in "The Arrival". Robert Bishop's work and history is central to the plot of "The Bishop Revival".
Item of interest
Who did the Observer say was "still alive," Peter or Walter?
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen hanging from the taxi when Walter listens to music.
Connection
When Peter drove up to the lake house in "There's More Than One of Everything" the camera focused on his car through a red panel of stained glass, foreshadowing that Peter was taken from the Redverse in "Peter".
Item of interest
The briefcase contained photos of Walter.
Apple glyph
The apple glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
The Porcupine Man from "Nothing as it Seems" was seen in Walter's storage vault in "The Bullet that Saved the World".
Item of interest
The cuneiform on the boat door says "bí".
Butterfly glyph
Butterflies can be seen on a box in September's apartment.
Connection
The tombstone in Olivia's dream state in "Pilot" says "He's Not Dead", possibly referring to John Scott, assumed dead, who appears at the end of "The Arrival".
Item of interest
The crane that crashed during the intro has a Massive Dynamic logo on it.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen in Walter's Monty Python trip.
Connection
The child needed an air degradation unit in "Through the Looking Glass and What Walter Found There" because he needed a less oxygen-rich environment like where he was found underground in "Inner Child".
Item of interest
Peter's grave says he died when he was 7.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
A bus at the second crime scene in "The Plateau" has an ad on the side that says "Ambered", a reference to the ambered bus in "The Ghost Network".
Item of interest
The Redverse traded Alt Broyles for Fauxlivia by cutting off one of his legs to make their masses equal.
Butterfly glyph
Butterflies can be seen in Olivia's bedroom.
Connection
Olivia shot her captors in "The Human Kind" with the bullet she took from Etta in "The Bullet that Saved the World".
Item of interest
Madison Square Garden in the Redverse is quarantined in amber.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
In "6:02 AM EST" Walternate trapped Fauxlivia in the same cell as Olivia was kept in in "Over There (Part 2)".
Frog glyph
The frog glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
When Peter left the hospital in "The Last Sam Weiss" he wrote "I am going home" on an envelope, the same phrase he wrote for Elizabeth in "Subject 13" when he tried to return to his home world.
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