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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
The ship at the end of "Brave New World (Part 2)" showed the creatures from "Snakehead".
Item of interest
Observers send materials to themselves via shipping lanes from the future using metal cubes.
Frog glyph
A frog can be seen in Walter's Monty Python trip.
Connection
Cecil mentions the Observers using a light bomb in "Through the Looking Glass and what Walter Found There", which is what Loyalists threw at Peter in the sewer tunnels in "The Bullet that Saved the World".
Item of interest
The episode opened in "Manhatan", seemingly a typo but actually signifying this was an alternate Manhattan.
Flower glyph
The flower 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".
Item of interest
Nick Lane's wardrobe is all dark colors like Olivia's.
Seahorse glyph
A seahorse pattern can be seen in the toxin's molecular structure.
Connection
John Mosley's beanie in "The Arrival" has the 'green-green-green-red pattern' from "The Equation".
Item of interest
The cuneiform on the boat door says "bí".
Butterfly glyph
A butterfly can be seen on a lampshade near the front of Olivia's apartment.
Connection
In "The Ghost Network" Roy had visions of the crash of Flight 627 from "Pilot", suggesting that that incident is part of a larger pattern of incidents and not a one-off event.
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.
Hand glyph
The hand glyph can be seen on the piano stool in the Orpheum Theater in the Redverse.
Connection
William Bell had a bell on his desk in "There's More Than One of Everything". He rang it after he introduced himself. A ringing bell in "Momentum Deferred" is the catalyst for Olivia remembering the events of her meeting with Bell.
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'.
Hand glyph
The hand glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
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
There are 'Wanted' billboards for the Fringe team.
Flower glyph
A flower can be seen outside the entrance to the daycare center.
Connection
James Heath met with Lloyd Becker, a fellow Cortexiphan subject, in "Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.". The name "Lloyd B." was on the height chart in "Jacksonville".
Item of interest
All of the people in Olivia's mind wear blacks and greys because Cortexiphan subjects have a strong desire to blend in.
Seahorse glyph
The seahorse glyph can be seen on the back of one of Markham's books.
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