Episode guide
Fringe: Season 1
20 episodes · premiered Sep 9, 2008
As the first season begins, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate a mysterious outbreak that nearly kills her partner. The only person with any answers is an institutionalized scientist, Dr. Walter Bishop who can only be released under the care of his estranged son. Together, the three discover that the answer to this mystery is only a small piece of a much larger, more shocking truth.
- Episode 1: Pilot Sep 9, 2008 · 1h 22m · TMDB 7.8 When all the passengers on a plane die, FBI agent Olivia Dunham investigates the events and her partner almost dies. A desperate Olivia looks for help from Dr. Walter Bishop who has been…
- Episode 2: The Same Old Story Sep 16, 2008 · 51m · TMDB 7.2 Olivia, along with Peter and Walter Bishop, investigates the strange death of a woman who had an even stranger child. The woman was pregnant for only hours, yet the baby she birthed was…
- Episode 3: The Ghost Network Sep 23, 2008 · 51m · TMDB 7.5 The team investigates a bus full of dead commuters that appear to be fossilized and uncover a man who has visions of pattern-related disturbances before they happen; Dr. Bishop requests a…
- Episode 4: The Arrival Sep 30, 2008 · 49m · TMDB 7.5 Broyles calls in the team to investigate a deadly explosion and its source: a strange cylinder unharmed despite the destruction. Olivia determines that the same cylinder, or a similar one…
- Episode 5: Power Hungry Oct 14, 2008 · 50m · TMDB 7.3 The team investigate the case of a man who can project electricity... and is at the center of a series of strange deaths involving electricity.
- Episode 6: The Cure Oct 21, 2008 · 50m · TMDB 7.5 The team investigates a woman that re-appears after weeks of being missing with a rare disease. She also inexplicably causes pain and death to the people she meets. During the…
- Episode 7: In Which We Meet Mr. Jones Nov 11, 2008 · 50m · TMDB 7.6 When a strange parasite attaches itself to the internal organs of a dying FBI agent, Olivia suspects a connection to the Pattern; Peter and Walter tap into a dead man's brain waves.
- Episode 8: The Equation Nov 18, 2008 · 49m · TMDB 7.5 Walter thinks the abduction of a young music prodigy is linked back to his old bunkmate at St. Claire's Hospital. When he kidnaps the child he sees a sequence of flashing lights. Olivia…
- Episode 9: The Dreamscape Nov 25, 2008 · 50m · TMDB 7.5 The team is called in to investigate why a man jumps out a window because he thinks he's being attacked by butterflies. Olivia gets some breaks in solving the case from her former partner…
- Episode 10: Safe Dec 2, 2008 · 50m · TMDB 8.1 The team is called in on a bank robbery similar to other robberies in the area but this particular bank has the thief embedded inside the steel wall of the bank. Somehow the thieves have…
- Episode 11: Bound Jan 20, 2009 · 50m · TMDB 8.1 Olivia's sister, Rachel, visits; Walter, Peter and Olivia try to solve the murder of an esteemed epidemiologist, which may be linked to Olivia's abduction.
- Episode 12: The No-Brainer Jan 27, 2009 · 50m · TMDB 7.1 Olivia, Walter and Peter are called in to investigate the death of a car salesman who was found in a pool of "goo," exactly like another man across the country. When Walter discovers that…
- Episode 13: The Transformation Feb 3, 2009 · 50m · TMDB 7.6 When the Fringe Division delves into another bizarre occurrence aboard an international jumbo jet, freakish remains are discovered at the crash site. Memories tip the team toward some…
- Episode 14: Ability Feb 10, 2009 · 50m · TMDB 8.3 German agents question Olivia about her "relationship" with David Robert Jones, an escaped prisoner questioned months earlier now living in the U.S. The Fringe Division investigates a…
- Episode 15: Inner Child Apr 7, 2009 · 50m · TMDB 8.0 Just seconds before a building is demolished, a mysterious mute child that has been living alone underground is discovered. When the FBI's Fringe Division investigates, the boy forms an…
- Episode 16: Unleashed Apr 14, 2009 · 50m · TMDB 7.4 As animal rights activists ransack a laboratory, they get more than they bargained for when one of the caged "animals" unleashes a ferocious appetite. Leaving grotesquely mutilated dead…
- Episode 17: Bad Dreams Apr 21, 2009 · 51m · TMDB 7.6 Olivia dreams about a suicide as the event really happens at Grand Central Station; shocking information about the Z.F.T. manuscript is revealed.
- Episode 18: Midnight Apr 28, 2009 · 50m · TMDB 7.6 The Fringe Division is on the case when severely mutilated bodies drained of spinal cord fluid begin to pile up. After their investigation leads them to a scientist with possible ties to…
- Episode 19: The Road Not Taken May 5, 2009 · 50m · TMDB 8.1 Olivia experiences "awake dreams," seeing elaborate visions of things not really there. While investigating a disturbing case of a woman who apparently spontaneously combusted, Olivia…
- Episode 20: There's More Than One of Everything May 12, 2009 · 47m · TMDB 8.5 Setting the stage for the dramatic and revealing first season finale are a sudden and unexpected attack on someone with close ties to Fringe Division, the return of bioterrorist David…