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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 had a horse-riding ribbon in Nina's old photograph in "Novation". Nina rode horses herself in "The Cure" so it stands to reason that Olivia would have done so as well in the timeline where she was raised by Nina.
S4E05 - Novation Timestamp: 34:33
Item of interest
Walter's pose as he listens to the Mozart Requiem is a reference to the iconic Maxell tape advertisement from the '80s.
Frog glyph
A frog can be seen in Walter's Monty Python trip.
Connection
Walter thought of Peter when he saw the image of a coffin in "Grey Matters" because his Peter died in "Peter".
S2E15 - Peter Timestamp: 28:43
Item of interest
Jones said there are 10 tests for Olivia in total. The first was a box of lights that Olivia had to turn off with her mind.
Butterfly glyph
A butterfly can be seen painted on the side of a white trash can.
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
Olivia struck James Heath with a candlestick in her dining room, making the title a complete red herring.
Leaf glyph
The leaf glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
Agent Jessup was relating season 1 Fringe cases to Bible verses in "A New Day in the Old Town". In "Nothing as it Seems", creatures can be seen on something resembling Noah's Ark.
S4E16 - Nothing As It Seems Timestamp: 41:55
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.
Flower glyph
The flower glyph can be seen on a door in the pocket universe.
Connection
The hallucinogenic drug from "The Dreamscape" was used as a weapon against the Observers in "An Enemy of Fate" to make them think they were being attacked by butterflies.
S5E13 - An Enemy of Fate Timestamp: 02:15
Item of interest
Olivia entered "Martin Luther King/Eldridge Cleaver Memorial Park" which has a plaque quoting them as saying "We have a dream" rather than "I".
Hand glyph
A hand can be seen outside the entrance to the daycare center.
Connection
Walter stole Bell's hand in "Letters of Transit" to gain access to Bell's personal storage unit in "Five-Twenty-Ten".
S5E07 - Five-Twenty-Ten Timestamp: 41:08
Item of interest
Susan Pratt's wardrobe is full of dark colors like Olivia's and Nick Lane's.
Leaf glyph
A leaf can be seen on the bio-scan monitor at the Liberty Island security checkpoint.
Connection
In "The Cure" David Esterbrook has an aleph pin on his jacket that can also be seen on the canoe from Olivia's dreamscape in "Pilot".
S1E06 - The Cure Timestamp: 51:20
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'.
Seahorse glyph
The seahorse glyph can be seen as Olivia and Shapeshifter Charlie fight in the alley.
Connection
The laser knives that the Observers nearly used to operate on Michael in "Liberty" were used by Mr. Gemini in "Brown Betty".
S5E12 - Liberty Timestamp: 20:52
Item of interest
The yellow dot in the final glyph of the episode is replaced by a yellow heart.
Butterfly glyph
Butterflies can be seen in Olivia's bedroom.
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