There's More Than One of Everything



Season 1, Episode 20
Aired: May 12th, 2009
Written By: Akiva Goldsman, Bryan Burk, Jeff Pinkner, J. H. Wyman
Directed By: Brad Anderson

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There's More Than One of Everything

The Glyphs



This episode's glyphs spell: G-R-A-V-E

Walter visited the grave of his son Peter Bishop which said he died in 1985 despite being in the series as a healthy adult man this whole time.

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The Observer



The Observer escorts Walter Bishop to the beach house.

Observer

Timestamp: 12:59

Episode Clues



Previous Episode Clue

In one of Olivia's glimpses of the alternate universe in 'The Road Not Taken' a building has "HE IS HERE" graffitied on its side, referencing William Bell being in the alternate universe in 'There's More Than One of Everything'.

Previous episode clue

Timestamp: 18:31


Next Episode Clue

A pirate flag (skull and crossbones) appears on a TV monitor in 'There's More Than One of Everything', a reference to the Shapeshifter ability to remodel his skull and bones in 'A New Day in the Old Town'.

Next episode clue

Timestamp: 00:27

Items of Interest



  • Nina has kevlar parts in her ribcage.
  • Jones worked for William Bell 15 years ago.
  • Bell was a father figure to Jones.
  • All of the fringe-related incidents center around a few local soft spots, explaining why every event happened so closely together and so locally.
  • Bell theorized that with Cortexiphan children could magnify and intensify their natural abilities to see and travel into other worlds.
  • The oldest fringe events concentrate around Reiden Lake, where Walter crossed over.
  • Walter bought the beach house for its proximity to Reiden Lake.
  • Walter put Peter's coin on Peter's grave.
  • Peter's grave says he died when he was 7. (Image 1)
  • Newspapers in Bell's office say "Obamas Set to Move into New White House", "Former Pres. Kennedy to Address UN". (Image 2)
  • We finally meet Bell and the alternate universe.
Item of interest: Peter's gravestone
Image 1: Peter's gravestone
Timestamp: 41:18
Item of interest: Newspaper on Bell's desk
Image 2: Newspaper on Bell's desk
Timestamp: 44:52

JJ Abrams Easter Eggs



  • The elevator was between floors 15 and 16 when it transported Olivia to the top of one of the World Trade Center buildings in the Redverse. (Lost) (Image 1)
Item of interest: Elevator floors 15 and 16
Image 1: Elevator floors 15 and 16
Timestamp: 44:06

Fringe Division Case File




U.S. Department of Justice
Federal Bureau of Investigation
121 105th Street • Washington, DC 20735
Phone: (202) 555-2100 • Fax: (202) 555-2101
E-mail: washington.fbi@fbi.com

FRINGE DIVISION CASE FILE #120-51209


FRINGE EVENT: Alternate universe breach

CLASSIFIED CASE CONNECTION(S): David Robert Jones/ZFT/Pattern cases

AGENTS ASSIGNED: Dunham, Francis

SUPERVISING AGENT: Broyles

FILE ARCHIVED BY: Lynn Brown, Rob Harlow Jr.

WITNESSES/CONTACTS: Anonymous eyewitnesses in NYC and Providence

LOCATION: NYC; Providence, RI

VICTIM(S): John Doe (soccer player), John Doe (ZFT security), Nina Sharp


CASE REPORT SUMMARY:

David Robert Jones came out of hiding to shoot Nina Sharp at her residence. He stole the energy cell Dr. Bell had placed in her robotic arm—the component needed for Jones to cross to the alternate universe. Jones conducted two experiments looking for a "soft spot" to tear into the other universe. The first was in New York City with a tractor-trailer that crossed over from the other side. Agent Francis determined that the prints from the deceased driver were not on file, the truck wasn't registered in New York or anywhere else, and the VIN and serial part numbers didn't exist. The second occurred in Providence on a soccer field and claimed the life of an innocent player. Jones determined Reiden Lake, New York, was the best place to set up his teleporter but was confronted by agents, including Agent Dunham. Dr. Bishop and Peter Bishop arrived with a machine that turned off the teleporter. Interrupted half-way through crossing over, Jones's upper-left half of his torso, along with half of his skull, disintegrated. Agent Broyles was told to cease and desist the investigation into Dr. Bell.

The Redverse



  • The Obamas were to move into a new White House.
  • Former President Kennedy is alive.
  • Len Bias played for the Celtics and never overdosed.
Redverse: Headlines
Headlines
Timestamp: 44:52

Walter's Food



Walter remembered making pancakes in the shape of whales and propped up a letter with Necco wafers.
Connection: Necco wafers
Necco wafers
Timestamp: 40:06

Walter's Lab Notes



- Project 617 - Exploration 9 -

... all mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice...

But I resisted the translation. There was one chapter I simply could not let go.

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. ... I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.

The patch worked. But if the walls continue to crumble, anomalies will occur with increasing frequency, the ripples spreading ever wider. Is there any chance we can heal the breach in time?

Keeping time, time, time
As he knells, knells, knells
In a happy Runic rhyme,
To the rolling of the bells -
Of the bells, bells, bells -

It was Belly all along. He always knew how to prod the deepest thoughts from my brane. I remember that lunatic perched a bucket of icy water over the lab door, so I'd douse myself upon returning from the coffee shop. I didn't mind the water so much as the knot in my head from the pain crashing down. But the clashing rhythms of shivering body and throbbing head (13 shivers to every 8 throbs, 21 to every 13) focused my attention on out-of-phase frequencies. Kenneth, what is the frequency? Simply the limit of an infinite sequence.

I finally put the pieces together, but the answer should have been obvious all along. S. S. Kresge would have understood. After all, it was he who specified the precise dimensions of the laboratory. All I had to do was follow the golden spiral to its center, and there it was -- buried, right where the tank used to be.

A hole in the fabric of the universe, and another in my heart. Now I must return to it. No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve: ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man.

Walter's Lab Notes

Notable Quotes



NINA SHARP: "William Bell is not in this world."

NINA: "Dr. Bell once posited that our world has soft spots, places where the fundamental constants of nature - the speed of light, gravity, the mass of a proton, for example - have begun to decay. As a result, in these particular areas the membrane between the realities is thinner, almost porous."

Connection Chart


A visualization of all the ways this episode connects to other episodes. Scroll down to see the actual connections.

Episode Connections



S1E01 - Pilot

  • OLIVIA about Jones in 'There's More Than One of Everything': "What can he do with it?"
    NINA: "Unfortunately, the question is 'what can't he do?'."

      This mirrors Massive Dynamic's slogan revealed in 'Pilot': "What do we do? What don't we do."
  • "He's Not Dead" on the tombstone in Olivia's dreamscape in 'Pilot' actually refers to Peter, not John Scott. Walter visited the grave of Peter Bishop in 'There's More Than One of Everything', yet Peter is alive and well.
  • Walter checked Peter's eyes for signs of degradation in 'Pilot'. Jones's eyes showed signs of changing in 'There's More Than One of Everything' after he was teleported out of prison.
  • Olivia asked Charlie to set up a meeting with William Bell in 'Pilot' that finally happens in 'There's More Than One of Everything'.
Connection: Tombstone
Tombstone
S1E01 - Pilot
Timestamp: 51:27
Connection: Jones' eyes
Jones' eyes
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 38:19
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S1E14 - Ability

  • OLIVIA about Jones in 'Ability': "The man was clever enough to Star-Trek-himself out of a maximum security German prison."
      Jones' goal in 'There's More Than One of Everything' is to visit and impress William Bell in the Redverse (Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock in Star Trek).
  • DAVID ROBERT JONES in 'Ability': "All the [medical] assistance in this world could not cure me Ms. Dunham."
      Getting shot had virtually no effect on him in 'There's More Than One of Everything' because of how his teleportation changed his body. This could also imply that Jones needed to go to a different world to get the kind of medical assistance he required.
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S1E19 - The Road Not Taken

  • Nina said Bell is traveling in 'The Road Not Taken'. It's revealed in 'There's More Than One of Everything' that he's in the other universe.
  • Olivia's glimpse into the other side in 'The Road Not Taken' showed a building with "He is here" on the wall, foreshadowing Bell being in the other universe in 'There's More Than One of Everything'.
  • Emmanuel Grayson said he's Spock in 'The Road Not Taken', a hint to Leonard Nimoy's upcoming appearance in 'There's More Than One of Everything'.


Spoilers for future episodes below!




S2E01 - A New Day in the Old Town

  • Olivia got pulled to the other side in 'There's More Than One of Everything' just before getting into a car accident. That's why she was returned to the car, with the momentum of the impact, in 'A New Day in the Old Town.' The elevator transported her between buildings once she was already in the Redverse.
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S2E04 - Momentum Deferred

  • 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.
Connection: Bell on William Bell's desk
Bell on William Bell's desk
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 45:37
Connection: Bell in the lab
Bell in the lab
S2E04 - Momentum Deferred
Timestamp: 24:05
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S2E15 - Peter

  • SEPTEMBER in 'There's More Than One of Everything': "This coin looks similar to the one you're thinking of but it is from another place. There is more than one of everything."
      Both Peters have their own coin in 'Peter'.
  • Walter looked upset when he foumd Peter's coin in the lake house in 'There's More Than One of Everything' because Peter was holding it as he died in 'Peter'.
  • WALTER in 'There's More Than One of Everything': "Around this time something was lost to me, Peter. Something precious. I became convinced that if only I could cross over myself then I could take from there what I had lost here."
      Walter kidnapped another Peter in 'Peter'.
  • WALTER in 'There's More Than One of Everything': "To calm yourself, to forget what you were going through you took to collecting coins. This one was your favorite."
      Both Peters in 'Peter' had the same favorite coin.
  • Walter visited Peter's grave in 'There's More Than One of Everything' from when Peter died in 'Peter'
  • 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'.
Connection: Walter found Peter's coin
Walter found Peter's coin
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 27:50
Connection: Walter at Peter's grave
Walter at Peter's grave
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 41:10
Connection: Peter's car through red glass
Peter's car through red glass
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 18:12
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S2E19 - Brown Betty

  • Peter's map of Walter's crimes in 'Brown Betty' resembles the map of Pattern cases in 'There's More Than One of Everything'.
Connection: Map of Pattern cases
Map of Pattern cases
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 33:04
Connection: Map of Walter's crimes
Map of Walter's crimes
S2E19 - Brown Betty
Timestamp: 31:41
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S3E02 - The Box

  • William Bell had a bell on his desk in 'There's More Than One of Everything' and rang it after he introduced himself to Olivia. He left a similar bell to Nina in his will in 'The Box'.
Connection: Bell on William Bell's desk
Bell on William Bell's desk
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 45:37
Connection: Nina's bell
Nina's bell
S3E02 - The Box
Timestamp: 15:36
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S3E16 - Os

  • The only reason the combination of two heavy elements made a new molecule that was lighter than air in 'Os' was because the fundamental properties of physics were starting to break down like Nina said they would in 'There's More Than One of Everything'.
  • William Bell had a bell on his desk in 'There's More Than One of Everything'. He rang it after he introduced himself. He did that to prime Olivia to receive his soul should he die in the future. Walter rang that bell in 'Os' and Olivia became inhabited by William Bell.
Connection: Bell on William Bell's desk
Bell on William Bell's desk
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 45:37
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S3E21 - The Last Sam Weiss

  • WALTER in 'There's More Than One of Everything': "To calm yourself, to forget what you were going through you took to collecting coins. This one was your favorite."
      When Peter was confused after getting zapped by The Machine in 'The Last Sam Weiss' he went to a pawn shop and bought that same coin from a pawn shop.
Connection: Peter in the pawn shop
Peter in the pawn shop
S3E21 - The Last Sam Weiss
Timestamp: 30:22
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S4E08 - Back to Where You've Never Been

  • LINCOLN in 'Back to Where You've Never Been': "Just out of curiosity, if this thing closes while I'm still crossing through what happens?"
    PETER: "It'll cut you in half. I killed a guy like that once. Don't worry, he was a bad guy."

      This is how Peter killed David Robert Jones in 'There's More Than One of Everything'.
Connection: Jones cut in half
Jones cut in half
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 38:53
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S4E09 - Enemy of My Enemy

  • Jones stole a very powerful energy cell from Nina's arm in 'There's More Than One of Everything.' In 'Enemy of My Enemy' Jones was trying to locate and steal a similarly powerful energy source, amphilicite.
Connection: Power cell stolen from Nina's arm
Power cell stolen from Nina's arm
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 05:59
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S4E14 - The End of All Things

  • Jones getting shot had no effect on him in both 'There's More Than One of Everything' and 'The End of All Things' due to the effects of his teleportation out of prison.
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S4E21 - Brave New World (Part 1)

  • 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)'.
  • Jones got 'electrocuted in half' after fighting Peter in 'Brave New World (Part 1)' similar to how he got sliced in half in 'There's More Than One of Everything'.
Connection: Jones working with Bell
Jones working with Bell
S4E21 - Brave New World (Part 1)
Timestamp: 20:17
Connection: Jones sliced in half
Jones sliced in half
S1E20 - There's More Than One of Everything
Timestamp: 38:53
Connection: Jones electrocuted in half
Jones electrocuted in half
S4E21 - Brave New World (Part 1)
Timestamp: 38:26