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Season 2

Ep	Image	Title	Air Date	Synopsis
201		A New Day In The Old Town	9/17/2009	Olivia violently returns from her visit with Bell. Peter, Amy and Charlie race to locate a hostile force bent on eliminating one of the science team. Walter and Astrid return to the lab to isolate a bit of fringe science, and prepare for Peter’s birthday. Broyles finds his way to Washington D.C. to face congressional scrutiny and defend the Fringe Division. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
202		Night Of Desirable Objects	9/24/2009	A highway construction worker in rural Pennsylvania goes missing when he is mysteriously drawn into an underground tunnel. In his lab, Walter attempts to simulate travel between alternate universes using frogs. The science team believes that the disappearance in Pennsylvania may not be an isolated incident. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
203		Fracture	10/01/2009	The team investigates a deadly occurrence where a recent bomb blast has left no discernable trace of the explosive device. The perplexing circumstances return Walter to the lab to examine human remains in search of the source of the explosion. With the threat of more bombs and the hint of classified projects, Olivia and Peter return to where they first met. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
204		Momentum Deferred	10/08/2009	Recuperating from her return, after meeting William Bell, Olivia consumes a powerful concoction prescribed by Walter, to stimulate her memory. The team investigates a series of robbery cases that are tied to the shape changing visitor. As memories start to return, one of Walter's previous human experiments returns to the lab. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
205		Dream Logic	10/15/2009	The team travels to Seattle when workplace violence is brought on by alleged demonic visions. Similar puzzling murders continue after they begin investigating and clues lead back to a group of patients treated at a local sleep clinic. The Bishops find an acceptable place to live, while Olivia finds peace of mind following the loss of Charlie. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
206		Earthling	11/05/2009	The Fringe Division takes on a puzzling investigation of victims who inexplicably disintegrate into ash. The shadowy case casts a light on Phillip Broyles’ past and entice the team with the possibilities of foreign fringe science. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
207		Of Human Action	11/12/2009	A kidnapping escalates into a hostage situation and authorities close-in on the suspects, only to discover that the victim has unique abilities developed through fringe science research. The investigation intensifies when a team member goes missing and is forced to commit horrific acts. Another layer is peeled-off of the Massive Dynamic facade. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
208		August	11/19/2009	A public abduction in Boston sends the team chasing after one of the mysterious Observers. One observer has violated an important rule-of-engagement by saving someone he has cared for over the past two decades. As more observers gather to rein-in one of their own, they also have time to make a few observations about a team member. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
209		Snakehead	12/03/2009	A freighter wrecks near Boston, and the shore is littered with bodies hosting parasites. The team examines the corpses and discovers that the organisms have remarkable medicinal qualities. As the investigation unfolds, Walter recaptures some of his personal style and begins to find his way again in the world, only to place Astrid in peril. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
210		Grey Matters	12/10/2009	Patients at mental hospitals undergo impromptu surgeries that remove part of their brain. The leader of the hybrid army searches for what he needs in our universe and confronts Olivia with his mission. Peter faces a difficult situation that may cost Walter his life. William Bell resurfaces and raises questions about his ultimate objectives. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
211		Unearthed	1/11/2010	A teenage girl is brain dead and removed from life support so donor organs can be harvested. Doctors operate quickly, but the girl revives and recites a classified alpha-numeric code from a nuclear submarine. As odd as her resurrection is, and that she is speaking Russian, her condition is not what it seems - as she begins to satisfy her own agenda. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
212		Johari Window	1/14/2010	An unexplained attack by disfigured humans leads the team to a small town in upstate New York to follow leads surrounding the bizarre case. Certain that these disfigured people have managed to hide themselves for a while, and that they will do just about anything to keep it that way, the investigation turns to Walter's past. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
213		What Lies Below	1/21/2010	A man enters a Boston business, collapses and erupts blood. The team arrives and discovers an exotic virus is spreading. The CDC quarantines the building to eradicate the pathogen, trapping Peter and Olivia with the exposed office employees. Walter, Broyles and Astrid frantically search for a solution to the life-threatening circumstances.GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
214		The Bishop Revival	1/28/2010	Guests at a wedding suffocate and the team investigates how the toxin was delivered and targeted. The wedding ceremony may be another testing ground for weaponized fringe science. Walter believes the formula links to a branch in the Bishop family tree. The threat of more deadly attacks and family ties to the case mobilizes the entire Division. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
215		Jacksonville	2/4/2010	A violent tremor shakes an office building leaving only one survivor. Walter surmises that what shook the building was not geologic. With another catastrophe imminent, the team searches for an answer in Jacksonville in an effort to save hundreds of people from certain death.GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
216		Peter	4/1/2010	Walter flashes back to 1985 while explaining Peter’s otherworldly origins to Olivia. Peter’s mother is introduced and details of the neighboring world reaffirm that there is more than one of everything

Season 1

U.S. Ratings

Ep	Image	Title	Air Date	Synopsis
101		Pilot	9/9/2008	When Glatterflug Flight 627 lands on auto-pilot at Logan International with dead passengers and crew, a multi-agency government task force descends on the scene to search for the answers. With the help of a newly-assembled science team, the task force cuts to the heart of the mystery, only to raise more questions about a disturbing Pattern of events around the globe. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
102		The Same Old Story	9/16/2008	A woman conceives, carries to full-term, and births a baby in the span of minutes, dying in the process; the baby dies after aging 80 years in three hours. This leads the investigators on a search involving "cultivated soldiers", exposing the illegal manipulation of human genetics by unscrupulous scientists. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
103		The Ghost Network	9/23/2008	Dead bodies of bus commuters are frozen inside like insects in amber. Investigation leads to a man who thinks he is being spoken to by the devil, but who is actually sensing transmissions in his head because of his participation in an experiment conducted years earlier by Walter Bishop. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
104		The Arrival	9/30/2008	Appearance of mysterious cylinder triggers odd behavior and surprising revelations. A bald, eyebrowless man who has been seen in previous episodes speaks for the first time. Walter tells Peter the truth about a near-fatal experience from Peter's childhood. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
105		Power Hungry	10/14/2008	When a rather simple man has the ability to harness electricity, dangerous and deadly occurrences follow. The Science Team tracks the man through his personal electro-magnetic signature. Dunham sees John Scott on three occasions; on the last he leads her to a repository of Pattern files. Dr. Bishop reveals that he knows that Dunham has seen Scott. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
106		The Cure	10/21/2008	When a young woman's head explodes at a diner, along with the death's of everybody present, the Science Team works to determine the cause. They learn of a second woman who has been turned into a human weapon by an unscrupulous drug company executive and save her before she can be shipped to "the client." Dunham discloses critical information about her childhood to Peter Bishop. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
107		In Which We Meet Mr. Jones	11/11/2008	The Science Team tackles a case involving a strange, almost-otherworldly parasite that has attached itself to the internal organs of a dying FBI agent. Racing against time, Agent Dunham flies to Germany to meet with an imprisoned man who reveals disconcerting details of a much larger threat. Meanwhile, Peter and Walter attempt to help Olivia by tapping into a dead man's brainwaves. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
108		The Equation	11/18/2008	After a young music prodigy is taken by a serial kidnapper, it's discovered that a sequence of flashing lights appeared at the abduction, which Walter links back to his bunkmate at St. Claire's Hospital. Much to Peter's dismay, Olivia encourages Walter to return to the mental institution, and Walter's determination to help ends up having chilling ramifications. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
109		The Dreamscape	11/25/2008	A Massive Dynamic employee is convinced he is being attacked by butterflies and jumps out of a skyscraper window to escape them. Although Olivia's unexplained interaction with Agent Scott leads to breaks in the case, she is so desperate to rid her consciousness of him that she demands to go back in the tank. Meanwhile, the jig is up for Peter when a former friend and some current foes find out he's back in Boston. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
110		Safe	12/2/2008	A team of robbers steals the contents of selected safety deposit boxes by using technology to literally walk through the walls of bank vaults. The thefts give them access to pieces of a device described by Walter as a time machine. Although Walter never tested the machine, the leader of the robbers uses it to teleport a criminal from a German prison to a deserted airstrips in Massachusetts. Olivia is kidnapped. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
111		Bound	1/20/2009	The FBI and an increasingly desperate Peter search for the abducted Olivia - unaware that the man heading the investigation is the one responsible for her disappearance. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
112		The No-Brainer	1/27/2009	The science team is called in to investigate the death of a car salesman found in a pool of dissolved body tissue - exactly like another man across the country. While Doctor Bishop tries to determine the cause, deaths pile up, until a common thread linking the victims together is discerned. Dunham gets involved when the case places a loved one in harm's way. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
113		The Transformation	2/3/2009	The science team delves into a bizarre case when the freakish corpses of passengers are discovered at the crash site of yet another international aviation disaster. Memories tip the team toward some promising leads, but the bigger picture and mysterious threat eludes them. With limited options and insufficient intelligence, Olivia and Peter go undercover. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
114		Ability	2/10/2009	Olivia's connection to escaped prisoner David Robert Jones becomes evident when he surrenders to officials and tempts her into a controversial test - of will and ability. The Federal Task Force investigates related cases where faceless victims have died from their orifices suddenly sealing shut.GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
115		Inner Child	4/7/2009	Just before a building is demolished, a mysterious child that has been living alone underground is discovered. When the science team investigates, the boy forms an unspoken connection with Olivia. Meanwhile, an especially gruesome serial killer resurfaces and showcases his 'artistry' by displaying his work publicly. As the boy gradually assimilates into a new environment, the team races against the clock to prevent further macabre acts. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
116		Unleashed	4/14/2009	Animal rights anarchists ransack a laboratory and get more than they bargained for after they unleash a ferocious hybrid creature. Walter's early work in 'Radical Transgenics' resurfaces after decades, and nearly costs a team member their life. Doctor Bishop's internal torment bubbles dangerously close to the boiling point as he starts to struggle with his sanity again. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
117		Bad Dreams	4/21/2009	A death occurs far away and Olivia witnesses the event, while dreaming at home. When a deadly vision happens again, Broyles deploys the team to investigate further. As details emerge, Olivia discovers a childhood counterpart who has not forgotten the testing they were subjected to. Walter is too familiar with what happened... by his hand and by Doctor Bell's? GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
118		Midnight	4/28/2009	Severely mutilated bodies drained of spinal cord fluid begin to pile up on the Boston 'after-hours' scene. The investigation leads to a scientist with reluctant ties to the ZFT bio-terror group. Olivia has her hands full as her sister wades into messy divorce proceedings. Walter finds comfort in his scientific collaboration to develop a cure - but is disheartened when more of his legacy is revealed. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
119		The Road Not Taken	5/5/2009	Reality is challenged as Olivia has vivid visions while at work. During the investigation of a disturbing spontaneous combustion incident, it becomes apparent that individuals have been experimented on as children, and are now reaching their potential as weapons, in adulthood. Sanford Harris, Nina Sharp and The Observer all reveal a new layer to their involvement. GALLERY – SCREENCAPS
120		There's More Than One of Everything	5/12/2009	Events move quickly when David Robert Jones reveals his primary objective. Walter has gone missing, only to come through with the key piece of equipment at the last minute. The history of young Peter changes all that we suspected about the Bishops. Olivia experiences a unique change of venue - in her search for the illusive William Bell GALLERY – SCREENCAPS