An unofficial companion to Fringe
Glyphs, easter eggs, buried clues, behind-the-scenes videos, thematic connections, and more, catalogued episode by episode with screenshots and timestamps.
Connection
The bus in "The Ghost Network" is ambered. Ambering later becomes a real safety tool used by the other side as seen in "Over There (Part 1)".
Item of interest
Madison Square Garden in the Redverse is quarantined in amber.
Hand glyph
The hand glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
The ship at the end of "Nothing as it Seems" shows creatures like the Porcupine Man from "The Transformation".
Item of interest
When Nina looks in Bell's storage room for his copy of the First People book the camera pans by a copy of 'Dr. Spock's Baby and Childcare'.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
Walter's car in "The Same Old Story" has a severed hand in a jar, and Peter jokes "Friend of yours?". Walter eventually cuts William Bell's hand out of amber in "Letters of Transit".
Item of interest
Donald helped Walter set up the pocket universe hiding spot.
Apple glyph
The apple glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
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.
Item of interest
Jones is working with Bell, who is alive.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen outside the entrance to the daycare center.
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
The episode ends with September going into December's apartment, apartment 513, the episode code of the next and final episode of the series.
Leaf glyph
The leaf glyph is on the electronic keypad at Massive Dynamic.
Connection
Nina said that Bell was a father figure to Jones in "There's More Than One of Everything". They finally worked together in "Brave New World (Part 1)".
Item of interest
The Fringe team is part of a full-fledged branch of the Department of Defense in the Redverse.
Butterfly glyph
Butterflies can be seen in Olivia's bedroom.
Connection
Senator Van Horn, who died in "Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?", was still alive in the altered timeline and talked to Broyles in "Brave New World (Part 2)".
Item of interest
The Redverse traded Alt Broyles for Fauxlivia by cutting off one of his legs to make their masses equal.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen in Walter's Monty Python trip.
Connection
Walter stole Bell's hand in "Letters of Transit" to gain access to Bell's personal storage unit in "Five-Twenty-Ten".
Item of interest
Donald entered the mine 5 weeks after the invasion and took some rocks. He was described as being in his late 30s, medium height, dark hair. Donald said he was waiting for "a colleague, a scientist from Boston, to meet him." Observers found him and took him away.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen near Lincoln in the rail yard.
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