Fringe

Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
4-11 Recap	Angel of the Mourning Making Angels - The Farnsworthbot pays a surprise visit to our universe, and is such great help on a case that Walter considers trading in our Astrid for the newer model, like you do with an iPhone.	2012.02.03 2012.02.09	B+	Daniel
4-10 Recap	Suture Up Your Future Forced Perspective - No double-universe team-up this week. Instead, Earth Prime Fringe investigate a girl who can predict people’s deaths, and she sketches a picture of this show at the end of Season 4.	2012.01.27 2012.02.02	B	Daniel
4-9 Recap	Science Fiction Double Feature Enemy of My Enemy - Both Fringe sides are begrudgingly learning to trust each other, and are teaming up to fight the nefarious David Robert Jones. Except for Col. Broyles, but no one knows he’s evil yet.	2012.01.20 2012.01.26	A-	Daniel
4-8 Recap	Mother and Child Reunion Back to Where You've Never Been - Peter goes off half-cocked to the other universe, hoping evil Walternate will help him get back home. Fortunately, evil Walternate turns out not to be evil. But Brandonate and Col. Broyles are!	2012.01.13 2012.01.19	B+	Daniel
4-7 Recap	I'm Looking Through You Wallflower - Poor Eugene just wants people to notice him. Murdering them and breaking into pretty women's apartments is one way to go...	2011.11.18 2011.11.28	B+	Daniel
4-6 Recap	She Just Wasn't Made for These Times And Those We've Left Behind - Their house was a very very very fine house, with a time chamber in the basement. Watch out for the time displacement!	2011.11.11 2011.11.17	A-	Daniel
4-5 Recap	The Shapeshifters of Things To Come Novation - Peter’s bummed out that nobody remembers him. Well, except for his dad, who rejects him. Also: shapeshifters that replicate on a molecular level. What an age we live in!	2011.11.04 2011.11.10	B+	Daniel
4-4 Recap	I Sting the Body Electric Subject 9 - Olivia reunites with an old Cortexiphan chum because she thinks his astral-projection powers may be responsibility for a cloud of electromagnetism that’s menacing her. You know, the usual.	2011.10.14 2011.10.19	B+	Daniel
4-3 Recap	Fungi Like The Wolf Alone in the World - Walter meets a kid who’s in danger of dying as the Fringe team battles a super-aggressive fungus. He wants to save the boy, but he is oh-fer-two on that score already.	2011.10.07 2011.10.12	B+	Daniel
4-2 Recap	Love is Stronger Than Death One Night in October - You’re talking to a killer whose every murder’s a real chiller. He gets his kicks below the hairline, sunshine.	2011.09.30 2011.10.05	A-	Daniel
4-1 Recap	I've Just Seen a Face Neither Here Nor There - They're not booing! They're saying "truuuuuuuce!"	2011.09.23 2011.09.29	A-	Daniel
3-22 Recap	I've Seen the Future, Brother. It is Murder The Day We Died - Peter gets a glimpse of the future, and the consequences of the doomsday machines being fired up (which include the death of his wife Olivia), and when he gets back he brings both sides together for a summit, at which time he winks right out of existence and memory.	2011.05.06 2011.05.12	A	Daniel
3-21 Recap	I Got a Machine and I Took Over the World in One Weekend The Last Sam Weiss - Peter's unconscious, the world's falling apart, and Olivia can fix it by using her mind powers, if she can remember how.	2011.04.30 2011.05.05	B	Daniel
3-20 Recap	Strike First! Strike Hard! No Mercy, Sir! 6:02 AM EST - Walternate launches a pre-emptive strike against Earth-1 by flipping on their Doomsday Machine, and the Fringe team over here scrambles to react. Peter winds up in some kind of coma, so that's something.	2011.04.22 2011.04.28	A-	Daniel
3-19 Recap	We Are All on Drugs Lysergic Acid Diethylamide - Fox looks at its most popular shows and turns the Fringe gang into cartoons in an attempt to boost ratings.	2011.04.15 2011.04.21	B+	Daniel
3-18 Recap	Here Comes My Baby Bloodline - Walternate sneakily kidnaps Fauxlivia and injects something into her belly to get the damn baby born already, in a plot that seems like it was concocted when the writers thought the series might have to wrap up at end of this season.	2011.03.25 2011.03.31	B+	Daniel
3-17 Recap	Why Would You Wanna Live in This World? Stowaway - We finally get to meet the Lincoln Lee of this universe: he's an FBI agent in the Hartford office, and he helps the Fringe team solve the case of a woman who can't die. He also might be developing a crush on Peter.	2011.03.18 2011.03.24	B	Daniel
3-18 Recap	The Wizard of Osmium Os - Walter needs Belly's help more than ever, especially when he figures out that his universe breach has finally started the laws of physics to go all wonky over on our side, as in the case of the scientist who turns wheelchair-bound people into balloon-men.	2011.03.11 2011.03.17	B+	Daniel
3-15 Recap	Let Me Stand Next to Your Fire Subject 13 - Spend some time in 1985, with Rubik's Cubes, Joust, the wildly diverging paths of Walter and Walternate, and witness the time Peter and Olivia met, which they have apparently repressed.	2011.02.25 2011.03.03	A-	Daniel
3-14 Recap	Amber Alert 6B - A soft spot emerges in Park Slope, and Olivia and Peter race to fix the problem before Walter and Reddick are forced to apply some amber to the situation.	2011.02.18 2011.02.22	A-	Couch Baron
3-13 Recap	Helter Skelter Immortality - We peek in on what's going on Over There and find out people are being parasitized by extinct "Skelter beetles." It's almost enough to make Fauxlivia throw up.	2011.02.11 2011.02.16	B	Tippi Blevins
3-12 Recap	If You Could Read My Mind, Love Concentrate and Ask Again - Some disgruntled ex-marines are getting revenge from a bioweapon that killed their unborn kids. Also, Olivia does some more sulking about Fauxlivia.	2011.02.04 2011.02.10	A-	Daniel
3-11 Recap	You'll Never Make a Monkey Out of Walter Reciprocity - Where have all the shapeshifters gone? Someone's killing them one by one. When will they ever learn? When will they ever learn?	2011.01.28 2011.02.03	A-	Daniel
3-10 Recap	I Miss You, Baby. Good Luck, Goodbye, Bobby Joyce The Firefly - Walter meets his musical idol, who he's never mentioned before, but that's OK, because he's played by -- I want to say living? -- legend Christopher Lloyd.	2011.01.23 2011.01.27	B+	Daniel
3-9 Recap	You Can't Call It Cheating, Because She Reminds Me of You Marionette - The Fringe gang chases down an obsessed man who doesn't want his muse's organs going in the wrong people. Olivia knows exactly what that feels like, after Peter tells her about his relationship with Fauxlivia.	2010.12.09 2010.12.16	B	Daniel
3-8 Recap	Half the Man He Used to Be Entrada - Olivia and Fauxlivia both want to go home. Olivia would just prefer to come home alive, with her brain still in her head.	2010.12.02 2010.12.08	A+	Daniel
3-7 Recap	Tanks for the Memories The Abducted - Olivia works a case that winds up revealing to Broyles that she knows where she's really from -- but it also makes him inclined to look the other way so she can escape.	2010.11.18 2010.11.24	A	Daniel
3-6 Recap	Astrid Needs a Latitude Adjustment 6955 kHz - A recording that's possibly millions of years old gives a bunch of amateur codebreakers amnesia and points the way to the missing pieces of the doomsday machine. Of course it does!	2010.11.11 2010.11.17	B	Daniel
3-5 Recap	Twin-Twin Situation Amber 31422 - Amber alert! The alt-Fringe team discovers people trapped in amber can be revived! So that's what's going to happen, right? Oh, wait, they're covering it up.	2010.11.04 2010.11.10	B	Daniel
3-4 Recap	Robots Need Love Too. They Want to Be Loved by You. Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep? - Senator Van Horn turns out to have been a shapeshifter, which could expose Fauxlivia even quicker than the fact that she's constantly acting really strange.	2010.10.14 2010.10.20	A-	Daniel
3-3 Recap	Many a Hand Has Scaled the Grand Old Face of the Plateau The Plateau - Olivia's not faking. She really think she's Fauxlivia, and she's investigating bus accidents with some chaos that's been carefully orchestrated by a Flowers for Algernon-type guy	2010.10.07 2010.10.13	B+	Daniel
3-2 Recap	I Don't Hear the Train A-Comin' The Box - Fauxlivia's embedded with our universe's Fringe team, who's investigating a box that kills people ultrasonically. And Walter inherits Massive Dynamic from William Bell, as long as he agrees to spend one night in a haunted house.	2010.09.30 2010.10.06	A-	Daniel
3-1 Recap	Whatever People Say She Is, That's What She's Not Olivia - Olivia's stuck in the alternate universe while Walternate tries to replace her memories with Fauxlivia's. Everyone except Brandon and Broyles thinks she's Fauxlivia anyway.	2010.09.23 2010.09.29	B	Daniel
2-23 Recap	Knock Yourself Out Over There, Part 2 - Peter figures out that his real dad, Walternate, is deceiving him, for much more nefarious purposes than Walter ever did, and our plucky Fringe heroes battle their alternate-universe counterparts to get back home. Also, Olivia and Peter make out. Seems important enough to mention here.	2010.05.20 2010.05.26	A	Daniel
2-22 Recap	I've Seen Fire and I've Seen Pain Over There, Part 1 - Olivia and Walter head to the other universe with a kick-ass team of deadly Cortexiphan kids who have amazing powers that they… oh, wait. The Cortexiphan kids are all dead now. Great!	2010.05.13 2010.05.19	A-	Daniel
2-21 Recap	Washington Peter and the Kingdom of Krista's Skull Northwest Passage - Running from his father, Peter stumbles onto what he thinks is Newton performing some unrequested brain surgery, but it may be all in his mind. And then he sees his dad! His real dad: Walternate.	2010.05.06 2010.05.12	A	Daniel
2-20 Recap	Stop Dragging My Heart Around Brown Betty - What could have been a full-blown musical turned out to be far less of a catastro-Glee than it could have been, but the episode still really feels like a placeholder.	2010.04.29 2010.05.05	C+	Daniel
2-19 Recap	Bridge Over Troubled Father The Man From The Other Side - The Fringers work to prevent Newton from bringing something over from the other universe. They fail, plus Peter figures out Walter's secret. Not exactly a week to write home about.	2010.04.22 2010.04.28	A-	Daniel
2-18 Recap	The Times, They Are A-Changin' White Tulip - For twenty-three years, you have thought RoboCop could not be any cooler. And then he goes and figures out TIME TRAVEL.	2010.04.15 2010.04.21	B+	Daniel
2-17 Recap	Olivia. In The Lab. With the Revolver. Olivia. In The Lab. With the Revolver. - Someone is tracking down the Cortexiphan children and killing them. Worst class reunion ever.	2010.04.08 2010.04.14	B	Daniel
2-16 Recap	A Clone Again, Naturally Peter - Way, way back in the 1980s, secret science guys and ladies buried the Bishops' precious baby, so Walter stole a genetic copy.	2010.04.01 2010.04.07	A	Daniel
2-15 Recap	Jacksonville, How You Burn in My Soul Jacksonville - When a building from an alternate universe is yanked into this one, it means a building from over here is going over there, and Olivia needs to relive her terrifying childhood so she can find out which building's about to vanish.	2010.02.04 2010.02.10	A-	Daniel
2-14 Recap	Am I Hot or Nazi? The Bishop Revival - Walter's father's old co-worker -- who happens to be a Nazi -- starts killing people in the continuing effort to wipe out everyone but the master race.	2010.01.28 2010.02.02	B+	Daniel
2-13 Recap	Maybe All I Need is a Shot in the Arm What Lies Below - A virus that nearly wiped out mankind 75,000 years ago makes a reappearance in a Boston office building. It's a good thing that truly terrible stuff is happening near Walter, who takes care of bidness, as usual.	2010.01.21 2010.01.26	B+	Daniel
2-12 Recap	A Face Only a Mother Could Love Johari Window - Walter gets his groove back helping the poor deformed folks in rural New York. Is Broyles cool? He's cool.	2010.01.14 2010.01.20	B-	Daniel
2-11 Recap	Dead Man Talking Unearthed - Fox dumps an unaired episode about a possessed teenager from Season 1 on the air with no explanation about why Charlie is suddenly still alive. Great way to build an audience!	2010.01.11 2010.01.19	C+	Daniel
2-10 Recap	Newton's Melon Grey Matters - The good news is that the Fringe team finally learns why Walter's not all there. The bad news is that he gets to be all there for just long enough to tell the bad guys how to open a door to the other world. And after that, he will never be all there again.	2009.12.10 2009.12.15	A	M. Giant
2-9 Recap	Parasite Eve Snakehead - A boatload of illegal Chinese immigrants infested with giant hookworms is about to come ashore. Does Lou Dobbs know about this?	2009.12.03 2009.12.08	B	M. Giant
2-8 Recap	August and Everyone After Him August - There really is more than one of everything -- including Observers.	2009.11.19 2009.11.24	A	M. Giant
2-7 Recap	Cats in the Pharmaceutically Altered Cradle Of Human Action - While looking into a mind control-related kidnapping, the team meets a teenager with even more serious daddy issues than Peter.	2009.11.12 2009.11.17	A	M. Giant
2-6 Recap	Dust to Dust Earthling - A comatose cosmonaut with a detached shadow is causing Bostonians to take a powder.	2009.11.05 2009.11.10	B	M. Giant
2-5 Recap	Nightmare on Pike Street (And Union Street, and Spring Street…) Dream Logic - When a wave of dream state-driven homicides strikes Seattle, the Fringe team wakes up and smells the coffee.	2009.10.15 2009.10.20	B	M. Giant
2-4 Recap	Sorry Charlie Momentum Deferred - Olivia's memory of her visit to the other side finally returns, but her timing is still for crap.	2009.10.08 2009.10.13	A-	M. Giant
2-3 Recap	What's the Frequency, Colonel? Fracture - Experimental drugs + the right radio frequency = an explosive combination. Also, a guy blows up.	2009.10.01 2009.10.05	B+	M. Giant
2-2 Recap	What Guy's Beneath Night of Desirable Objects - A subterranean mutant terrorizes rural Pennsylvania while Olivia continues to deal with the aftermath of her ordeal. Since her method of choice involves bowling, we think she's on the right track.	2009.09.24 2009.09.29	A-	M. Giant
2-1 Recap	Reality Bites A New Day In The Old Town - Olivia returns from the alternate reality with only the vaguest of memory of her trip there, but that doesn't mean a shape-shifting assassin isn't still trying to kill her.	2009.09.17 2009.09.23	B+	Daniel
1-20 Recap	The Physicist's Nightmare There's More Than One of Everything - OMG. LOL. WTF. It's all in there. As is Leonard Nimoy and a very surprising twist.	2009.05.12 2009.05.18	B	LuluBates
1-19 Recap	Every Day is a Winding Road Not Taken The Road Not Taken - The FBI goes after William Bell, while Olivia investigates a woman who blew herself up, discovering more former test subjects. Also, it looks like Walter and the Observer are going on a little road trip.	2009.05.05 2009.05.11	A-	Daniel
1-18 Recap	She's Only Fatal When She's Dancing Midnight - The Fringe team finds a scientist who tried to break away from ZFT, so they infected his wife and made her an animalistic killer. The team helps him save her, and he spills the beans on the money behind the organization.	2009.04.28 2009.05.04	B	Daniel
1-17 Recap	Sweet Dreams Bad Dreams - Olivia is killing people left and right. Or, at least, the Olivia living in a parallel universe to an infectiously psychotic guy is. Luckily, Walter knows a thing or two about this.	2009.04.27	B	LuluBates
1-16 Recap	Monsters, Inc. Unleashed - Remember those flip books you had when you were a kid, where you could mix and match animals, so you'd have the head of an elephant, the body of an eagle, the legs of a giraffe? This is like that, but for real.	2009.04.14 2009.04.21	B+	Daniel
1-15 Recap	What Child is This Inner Child - Construction workers find a feral seventy-year-old boy sealed up underground, just in time to help Olivia catch a killer. How else is she going solve any cases?	2009.04.07 2009.04.13	B+	Daniel
1-14 Recap	Keeping Up With the Jones Ability - Jones shows up at the federal building with some instructions for Olivia: he needs her to awaken her latent mind powers to save hundreds from a gruesome death.	2009.02.10 2009.02.17	A-	Daniel
1-13 Recap	Can't Con an Honest John The Transformation - Olivia's in the tank for John Scott, who turns out to have been working for truth and justice all along.	2009.02.03 2009.02.09	A	Daniel
1-12 Recap	Mind Over Splatter The No-Brainer - Olivia and the Fringe team dig into a case involving people whose brains have turned to mush, and not from watching The Bachelor.	2009.01.27 2009.02.02	A-	Daniel
1-11 Recap	All Signs Point to Loeb Bound - Olivia escapes from her captors and then figures out Mitchell Loeb was the ringleader. Then she kills Samantha. The inter-office Christmas party is going to be kinda awkward this year.	2009.01.20 2009.01.26	B	Daniel
1-10 Recap	Overdrawn at the Memory Bank Safe - Loeb's already using the walk-through-walls technology to rob banks, stealing items that are even more scientifically preposterous.	2008.12.02 2008.12.08	A	Daniel
1-9 Recap	Mind Over Splatter The Dreamscape - Olivia’s in the tank for John Scott.	2008.11.25 2008.12.01	A-	Daniel
1-8 Recap	It Takes an Equation of Millions to Hold Us Back The Equation - To help find a kidnapped boy, Walter heads back to his old stomping grounds.	2008.11.18 2008.11.24	B+	Daniel
1-7 Recap	Mr. Jones Wishes He Was Someone Just a Little More Funky In Which We Meet Mr. Jones - Olivia jets off to Germany to question a suspect who might know something about a gross parasite wrapped around a colleague’s heart.	2008.11.11 2008.11.17	B-	Daniel
1-6 Recap	There Ain’t No Cure for Love -- or Bellini’s Lymphocemia The Cure - Happy birthday, Olivia. Hope you don’t get radiation poisoning	2008.10.21 2008.10.27	B+	Daniel
1-5 Recap	He’s Electric Power Hungry - The Fringe team rocks down to Electric Avenue.	2008.10.14 2008.10.20	A-	Daniel
1-4 Recap	No, YOU pick it up The Arrival - Seriously, prop department. A little less vibrator-y, next time?	2008.09.30 2008.10.06	B+	Daniel
1-3 Recap	Ghost Network Busters! The Ghost Network - Human walkie-talkies? Who ya gonna call?	2008.09.23 2008.09.29	B	Daniel
1-2 Recap	A Day In The Life The Same Old Story - Olivia hunts a serial killer that just don’t wanna grow up.	2008.09.16 2008.09.22	B	Daniel
1-1 Recap	Boyfriend In A Coma, Oh No Pilot - You think Jack Bauer gets a lot accomplished in twenty-four hours? Meet Olivia Dunham.	2008.09.09 2008.09.15	B	Daniel

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