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Fringe Connections
Glyphs, easter eggs, buried clues, behind-the-scenes videos, thematic connections, and more, catalogued episode by episode with screenshots and timestamps.
- 100 episodes
- 375 connections
- 356 items of interest
- 42 glyph sightings
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Connection
Olivia's pregnancy dream in "The Same Old Story" is in a waiting area with giant tulips. Young Olivia fled to a field with white tulips when she got scared in "Subject 13".
S3E15 - Subject 13 Timestamp: 33:00
Item of interest
Peter's shared dream state with September looks like an observation deck.
Hand glyph
A hand can be seen outside the entrance to the daycare center.
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".
S3E03 - The Plateau Timestamp: 16:56
Item of interest
The Child's happy expression drops when he sees the Observer.
Flower glyph
The flower glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
The boy in "Alone in the World" played with the same action figure Peter showed to the Child in "Inner Child".
S4E03 - Alone in the World Timestamp: 33:23
Item of interest
The green and yellow posters in the diner represent how this new timeline with the yellow/amber title sequence is starting to merge with the original timeline with the blue title sequence now that Peter has returned (blue + yellow = green).
Seahorse glyph
The seahorse glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
In "Black Blotter" Walter had a vision of his scuffle with Nina at Reiden Lake from "Peter" and later recalled other memories from that day.
S5E09 - Black Blotter Timestamp: 11:23
Item of interest
William Bell left Massive Dynamic to Walter.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse can be seen in Walter's Monty Python trip.
Connection
The rollercoaster seen from atop the World Trade Center in Olivia's mind in "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" is a reference to the one she rode with Ella in "August".
S3E19 - Lysergic Acid Diethylamide Timestamp: 22:57
Item of interest
The episode opened in "Manhatan", seemingly a typo but actually signifying this was an alternate Manhattan.
Hand glyph
The hand glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
The password to retrieve Michael in "Black Blotter", "Black Umbrella", came from the poster for Singin' in the Rain, from which September chose his new name (Donald O'Connor) in "The Boy Must Live".
S5E11 - The Boy Must Live Timestamp: 15:14
Item of interest
Nick Lane's wardrobe is all dark colors like Olivia's.
Flower glyph
The flower glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
The End-of-Dayers targeted the Orpheum Theater in "The Day We Died", a soft spot from when Olivia and the other Cortexiphan subjects crossed over to get Peter in "Over There (Part 1)".
S3E22 - The Day We Died Timestamp: 04:49
Item of interest
It is true that the Empire State Building's spire really was initially designed for airship docking as it was in the Redverse.
Butterfly glyph
The butterfly glyph can be seen near Lincoln in the rail yard.
Connection
A butterfly shadow box like those seen in "The Dreamscape" was seen in Walter's storage vault in "The Bullet that Saved the World".
S5E04 - The Bullet that Saved the World Timestamp: 09:00
Item of interest
William Bell's name is partially faded/scratched off of the door to the lab.
Butterfly glyph
A butterfly can be seen painted on the side of a white trash can.
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