Unable to police a world in which science has advanced beyond our wildest dreams — and nightmares — FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham seeks help from brilliant but damaged scientist Dr. Walter Bishop and his estranged son with a dark past, Peter. Under the direction of Agent Phillip Broyles, they solve gruesome mysteries and prevent imminent attacks.
Cast
Anna Torv
Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson
Peter Bishop
Lance Reddick
Phillip Broyles
Blair Brown
Nina Sharp
Jasika Nicole
Astrid Farnsworth
John Noble
Walter Bishop
Michael Cerveris
The Observer / September
Leonard Nimoy
Dr. William Bell
Ryan McDonald
Alternate Brandon Fayette
Andrew Airlie
Dr. James Carson
Scott William Winters
Jake Selleg
Amy Carlson
Maureen Donovan
Cameron Monaghan
Tyler Carson
Kirk Acevedo
Alternate Charlie Francis
Sebastian Roché
Thomas Jerome Newton
Doron Bell
Officer Gibson
Annie Parisse
Teresa Rusk
Philip Winchester
Frank Stanton
Paul Rae
Donald Long
Adrian Holmes
Forensics Chief
Ari Graynor
Rachel
Christian Vincent
Surgeon
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
Junior FBI Agent Amy Jessup
Stefan Arngrim
Store Owner
JR Bourne
Agent Edwards
Demore Barnes
Agent Hubert
J.J. Makaro
Deputy Bill
Megan Charpentier
Little Girl
Ken Camroux-Taylor
Old Senator
Doug Chapman
Agent
Neil Schell
Second Senator
Philip Cabrita
Clerk
Peter Graham-Gaudreau
Seth Davies
Irene Karas
Officer Williams
Jacqueline Ann Steuart
Renee
Shawn Stewart
Truck Driver
John Tench
Hickey
Anna Van Hooft
Assistant
Jennifer Missoni
Christine Hollis
Michael Antonakos
Waiter
Richard Cohee
Pin Seller
Ali Liebert
Danielle
Norman Misura
Security Guard
Sunita Prasad
Waitress
Amos Stern
July
Mireille Urumuri
Receptionist
Ingrid Torrance
Elizabeth Jarvis
Marie Avgeropoulos
Waitress
Jackson Berlin
ND Agent
Zoltan Buday
Worker
Robert Gauvin
Uniform Cop
Richard Harmon
Teenager
Jennifer Kitchen
Female CSI
Tariq Leslie
Assistant M.E.
Andrew McIlroy
Professor Lime
C. Douglas Quan
M.E. Tech
Duncan M. Spencer
Sniper
Michael Vairo
Commuter
Peter Bryant
Ben McCalister
Katie Findlay
Jill Redmond
Fraser Aitcheson
Cop #1
Silver Kim
FBI Agent #3
Holland Miller
Featureless Figures
James Pizzinato
Dave
James Tsai
David Wu
Lily Pilblad
Ella
Seth Gabel
Alternate Lincoln Lee
Clark Middleton
Edward Markham
Chris Shields
ND Agent
Karen Holness
Diane Broyles
Eugene Lipinski
December
Alice Kremelberg
Lisa Donovan
Johanna Marlowe
Nurse Maxine
Jenni Blong
Dr. Carla Warren
Orla Brady
Alternate Elizabeth Bishop
Simone Kessell
Nurse
Tegan Moss
Rebecca
Charles Martin Smith
Sheriff Golightly
John Savage
Sam Weiss
Phillip Mitchell
Officer Daniel Gillespe
Patrick Sabongui
Ahmed
Stephen McHattie
Colonel Raymond Gordon
Kevin Corrigan
Sam Weiss
David Call
Nick Lane
Theresa Russell
Rebecca Kibner
Ravi Kapoor
Dr. Nayak
Travis Schuldt
Agent Kashner
Alex Zahara
Detective Green
Quinn Lord
Young Peter
Diane Kruger
Miranda Greene (uncredited)
Peter Weller
Alistair Peck
Laara Sadiq
Carol Bryce
Martha Plimpton
Sheriff Ann Mathis
Christine Chatelain
Krista Manning
Patrick Gilmore
Deputy Bill Ferguson
Peter Woodward
August
Tzi Ma
Ming Che
Colby Paul
Matt Jarvis
Jack Yang
Tao Chen
Jeff Perry
Joseph Slater
Roger Cross
Smith
Jeannetta Arnette
Dr. West
Laura Mennell
Rose Falls
Michael O'Neill
Sheriff Velchik
Martin Cummins
Joe Falls
Liam James
Teddy Falls
Craig Robert Young
Alfred Hoffman
Nancy Linari
Eliza Staller
Sarah Edmondson
Pauline Hess
Jim True-Frost
Ted Pratchett
Nicholas W. von Zill
Vandenkemp
Luke Goss
Lloyd Parr
Jeremy Jones
Paramedic
Elizabeth Thai
ER Doctor
Trevor Carroll
Morgue Attendant
Allison Riley
Receptionist
Mike Mitchell
George
Matthew Robert Kelly
FBI in Parking Garage
Chad Cole
Raymond, Worker
Craig March
Co-Worker
Marsha Regis
Nurse
Charles Singh
Doctor
Chris Eastman
CSI Investigator
Navid Negahban
Dr. Malik Yusef
Claudette Mink
Captain Diane Burgess
Barclay Hope
Andrew Burgess
Lauren K. Robek
Susan Gillespe
Aaron Pearl
Agent Tevez
Keith Dallas
Slim Joe
Cam Cronin
Tech
Leanne Adachi
Medical Examiner
Dalila Bela
Jenny Burgess
Miles Meadows
Ponytail Man
Walcott E. Morgan
Transit Cop
Ian Rozylo
Nociforo
Christian Sloan
Courier
Aaron Craven
Kurt Larsen
James Michalopolous
Security Guard
Andy Nez
Truck Driver
Amitai Marmorstein
Store Clerk
Emy Aneke
Captain
Stephen Dimopoulos
Mr. Lamia
Lane Edwards
Lawyer
Kurt Evans
Co-Pilot
Steven Garr
Rob Rosiello
Nico Ghisi
Young Peter
Emily Holmes
Jill Leiter
Jovanna Huguet
Diana Lamia
Mia Ingimundson
Secretary
Jarrett Knowles
Zach Miller
Derek Morrison
Mover
Drew Nelson
Carl Langdon
Kevan Ohtsji
Medical Examiner
Jim Thorburn
Greg Leiter
Ravil Isyanov
Tomas
Gerard Plunkett
Senator James Van Horn
Blaine Anderson
CSI Officer
Jeanettea Antonio
Hospital Security
Charisse Baker
Girl's Mother
Michelle Harrison
Natalie Dancik
Linnea Johnson
Nurse
Linda Ko
Nurse Darla
D. Neil Mark
ND Agent
Matteo Mazziotti
Boy in Restaurant
Dean Mckenzie
Wife's Boyfriend
Angela Moore
Another Nurse
Yaroslav Poverlo
Alex Koslov
Veena Sood
HR Head
Joe Towne
Randy Dancik
Vincent Gale
Dobbins
Ryan Jefferson Booth
Officer Jenks
Sean Carey
Paramedic
Brett Chan
Dock Worker Yang
Simon Chin
Chinese Vendor
Melody B. Choi
Mei Lin's Daughter
Linda Feng
Chinese Woman
Diana Ha
Fae
Gordon Lai
Chinese Man
Susie Lee
Terrified Woman
Zen Lim
Pan Che
Fane Tse
Mei Lin's Husband
Rene Wang
Mei Lin
Raymond Yu
Second Chinese Man
Derek Anderson
Team Leader
Daniel Boileau
Thin Man
Lindsay Collins
Nurse
Vee Dubois
Nurse
Dee Jay Jackson
Security Guard
Ken Kramer
Mr. Rubel
Darryl Quon
Orderly
Donna Yamamoto
Deborah Crampton
Sean Dugan
Priest
Mark Dobies
Will Turlough
Tibor Feldman
Dr. Halperin
Deepti Gupta
Dr. Newell
Chazz Menendez
Andrew Rusk
Demetrius Cornell
EMT
Kwesi Ameyaw
Agent Frug
Jacob Blair
Trooper Jerry
David Orth
Trooper Pekarski
Geoff Pierson
Arnold McFadden
Conrad Coates
Vincent Ames
Natassia Malthe
Linda
David Richmond-Peck
CSI Detective Kassel
Jason Bax
CDC Suit
Brendan Beiser
Steve
Peter Grasso
Hazmat in Truck
Kristian Haas
Mike, Bike Courier
Denise Jones
Teacher
Megan Leitch
Elaine
Tracy McMahon
Female Uniform
Kennedy Montano
Small Child
Robert Parent
Police Officer
Craig Anderson
George
Lauren Bradley
Amanda
Diana Bang
Nora
Sam Bob
Homeless Man with Dog
Aaron Brooks
Josh Staller
Robin Douglas
Lynn Arrendt
Eve Harlow
Cashier
Magda Harout
Nana Staller
Dan Joffre
Detective Manning
Barbara Kottmeier
Shelley
Alberta Mayne
Young Mother
Alessandro Miro
Neal
Omari Newton
Security Guard
Sierra Pitkin
Jordan
Natalie von Rotsburg
Speaker
Ecstasia Sanders
Jenna
Leonard Tenisci
Harry Staller
Ronald Patrick Thompson
Officer
Francisco Trujillo Avalos-Davidson
Agent Doble
Brendon Zub
David Staller
Ellen Ewusie
Paramedic
Veronika Hadravá
Tech
Garnet Harding
Paramedic
Christopher Logan
Hotel Manager
Casey Manderson
Tech
Serge Houde
General Hayes
Julian Christopher
General Tonks
Catherine Barroll
Mrs. Lane
Curtis Caravaggio
Ken Messing
Lossen Chambers
Cashier
Peter Ciuffa
Driver
Michael Scholar Jr.
Waiter
John Shaw
Medical Examiner
Jamie Switch
Lloyd Becker
Duncan Spencer
Agent Harrison
Morris Chapdelaine
Delbrook / Shapeshifter Embryo
Shawn Macdonald
Daniel Verona
Alison Raine
Passerby
Candus Churchill
Dead Singer / Corpse
Sarah Hayward
Nurse
Tom Pickett
Dead Singer / Corpse
John Prowse
Dead Singer / Corpse
Erica Van Briel
Assistant
Isaiah Adam
Deputy
Paul Herbert
Tom
Darren Moore
Gun Store Owner
Scott Patey
Stock Boy
Juan Riedinger
Craig Shoen
Christian Tessier
Shapeshifter
Marie West
Heather
Pascale Hutton
Sally Clark
Omar Metwally
James Heath
Colin Banner
Bus Driver
Michael Denis
Witness / Jogger
Heather Doerksen
Major Warner
Erin Lacourciere
Dying Woman
Mig Macario
Tech Tucker
Diana Pavlovská
Nurse
Pablo Silveira
Pedestrian
Kaaren de Zilva
Attendant
BJ Harrison
Nurse
Marilyn Norry
Nurse
Teach Grant
Trooper Bobby
Chris Casillan
Science Center Worker
Alan Wong
Karl
John Russell
Young Usher
Max Train
Eric Franko
Ada Breker
Young Olivia
Kristen Ross
Arlette Turling
Viviana Cruise
Bank Teller
Frank Anello
FBI Agent (uncredited)
Danny Doherty
Boston Fireman (uncredited)
Steve Antonucci
Test Subject (uncredited)
Kate Gorney
Nurse (uncredited)
Alice Niedermair
Nurse (uncredited)
Episodes
A New Day in the Old Town
An amnesiac Olivia makes her return from the parallel universe, while Walter, Pete, and Junior Agent Amy Jessup investigate the mysterious death of a man found with puncture holes in his palate. Meanwhile, Broyles defends the Fringe Division from a Senate subcommittee threatening to shut the organization down.
Night of Desirable Objects
A highway construction worker is the seventh in a series of mysterious disappearances in Lansdale, PA. The team come to investigate and finds traces of a mysterious paralytic. Meanwhile, Walter tries to send frogs to an alternate reality and Olivia realizes her recent trip has altered her in ways she can barely understand.
Fracture
When an American officer who served in Iraq blows up in a Philadelphia train station, the Fringe Division investigates and determines that something turned the man into a living bomb. Peter and Olivia travel to Iraq to determine if Peter's contacts can shed some light on the situation.
Momentum Deferred
Olivia begins to regain her memories of her encounter with William Bell. Meanwhile, the "First Wave" tries to collect the head of their leader, and the traitor makes his move.
Dream Logic
A man in Seattle goes berserk, attacking his boss and claiming his victim is a demon. After the killer dies of what appears to be exhaustion, the Fringe Division discover it's only the first in a series of killings where the persons initiating the attacks were in a dreaming state while awake
Earthling
Human beings are reduced to ash statues and Broyles realizes that the same person responsible murdered five other persons four years ago... a case that he never solved.
Of Human Action
Two men kidnap a teenage boy using mind control abilities. The boy's father works for Massive Dynamic but Nina insists that the company hasn't been developing mind control, and has no idea who the two kidnappers are. The truth or falsehood of her statements are soon confirmed when Peter encounters the person responsible for the boy's abduction.
August
The Observer chooses to do something other than observe, abducting a college student. However, when the Fringe team investigates, they discover that there is more than one Observer.. in both time and space.
Snakehead
A Chinese Triad is using illegal aliens to breed parasitic worms that eventually kill their hosts. When a ship runs aground, Fringe Division learns of the operation and tries to locate a second ship before the passengers on it suffer a slow, agonizing death.
Grey Matters
The First Wave breaks into a mental hospital and cures a long-term patient suffering from schizophrenia. When the Fringe team investigates, Olivia discovers that the group's leader has one of the heads stolen from cryogenic storage months earlier. Meanwhile, two other mental patients are cured of their schizophrenia and the team soon realize that something was taken from each patients' brain... and Walter holds the key to realizing what First Wave is after.
Unearthed
A teenage girl pronounced brain dead wakes up in the middle of the operation to remove her organs... speaking numbers in Russian. When the Navy confirms that the numbers are nuclear launch codes and a missing officer named Rusk knows them, the search is on for the missing man.
Johari Window
A state trooper picks up a runaway boy, but when he undergoes a strange transformation, three murders result. The Fringe team is called in to investigate and discover that a small town harbors a horrible secret.
What Lies Below
A Dutch industrial consultant arrives for an appointment and dies in a painful explosion of blood. Olivia and Peter arrive on the scene first and discover that the blood contains a pathogen and everyone in the building may be contaminated. While Walter and Astrid work outside the quarantined building to create a cure, the virus develops unique characteristics that pose a danger to the entire world.
The Bishop Revival
When all of the groom's relatives asphyxiate at a wedding, the Fringe division investigates and quickly ascertain that a human agency is responsible. Walter realizes that the formula for the toxin was based on research conducted by his father, Robert Bischoff, and that the killer isn't stopping with a single test of his lethal concoction.
Jacksonville
The arrival of a building from the alternate Earth causes massive death and destruction to those occupying the site at its arrival. Walter soon realizes that to equalize the balance between universes, another building will have to disappear... along with everyone inside it. The team's only chance is for Walter to activate Olivia's long-buried ability to distinguish objects from the other universe.
Peter
Walter explains to Olivia how Peter came from the alternate universe, and how he was willing to risk everything to save his son.
Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.
A healthy woman dies of rapid-onset cancer in a matter of minutes, and the Fringe team is called in to investigate. The killer has connections to Jacksonville... and Olivia is a potential victim. Meanwhile, Olivia tries to come to terms with her knowledge of Peter's origins.
White Tulip
When the passengers on a commuter train all die instantly of massive power loss, the team realizes that a time traveler is responsible... and that it may be impossible to apprehend him. Meanwhile, Walter writes a letter to Peter explaining his origins.
The Man From The Other Side
Two teenagers turn up dead and evidence indicates that shapeshifters have borrowed their forms for some special mission. While the Fringe team tries to track them down, Peter grows increasingly suspicious of Walter's secretive behavior.
Brown Betty
When Peter disappears, Walter seeks solace in marijuana. In that state of mind, he and Astrid babysit Olivia's niece Ella, and Walter tells her a fairy tale of a gentle inventor, a stolen glass heart, a detective looking for true love, and a mysterious group of bald men known as the Watchers.
Northwest Passage
In Noyo County, Washington, Peter stumbles across a grisly murder with ties to Newton and First Wave. He is forced to team up with a suspicious sheriff to get to the heart of the case. Meanwhile, Walter has trouble functioning without Peter, and worries he will be sent back to the mental institute.
Over There (1)
When Walter discovers that Peter has traveled to the alternate universe, he and Olivia gather three cortexiphan children with the ability to transition safely between the two Earths.
Over There (2)
Walternate asks Peter to help complete the device, while the fugitives Walter and Olivia are reunited with William Bell. Meanwhile, the alternate world's Fringe Division closes in on the invaders, and Peter must make a life-shattering decision.
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