Fringe Season 1 Episode Guide
Season 1 has 20 episodes, from September 9, 2008 to May 12, 2009. Descriptions stay brief and spoiler-light.
Episode 1: Pilot
Airdate: September 9, 2008
Description: When an international flight lands at Boston's Logan Airport with no signs of life, an unlikely trio – FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham; brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop; and his scheming, reluctant son…
Episode 2: The Same Old Story
Airdate: September 16, 2008
Description: Our unlikely trio's strange partnership begins as they investigate the mysterious death of a woman who conceives, carries to full-term, and births a baby in the span of hours, and her baby who ages 80 years in a matter of minutes.
Episode 3: The Ghost Network
Airdate: September 23, 2008
Description: Our trio investigates a horrific bus incident in which the dead bodies of commuters are frozen inside a bus like insects in amber.
Episode 4: The Arrival
Airdate: September 30, 2008
Description: After a deadly explosion rocks a construction site in New York City, Broyles solicits the aid of our trio to investigate a strange cylinder mysteriously found at the scene completely unharmed by the surrounding devastation.
Episode 5: Power Hungry
Airdate: October 14, 2008
Description: When it's discovered that a rather simple man has the ability to harness electricity, dangerous and deadly occurrences follow, and our unlikely trio investigates this super-charged oddity.
Episode 6: The Cure
Airdate: October 21, 2008
Description: Weeks after being reported missing, a woman with a rare disease resurfaces in suburban Massachusetts and inexplicably causes excruciating pain and subsequent death to those she encounters.
Episode 7: In Which We Meet Mr. Jones
Airdate: November 11, 2008
Description: Every second counts when a strange, almost-otherworldly parasite mysteriously attaches itself to the internal organs of a dying FBI agent.
Episode 8: The Equation
Airdate: November 18, 2008
Description: When a child music prodigy is abducted 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.
Episode 9: The Dreamscape
Airdate: November 25, 2008
Description: A Massive Dynamic employee is so convinced he is being attacked by butterflies that he jumps out of a window to escape them, and the team is called in to investigate.
Episode 10: Safe
Airdate: December 2, 2008
Description: While investigating a series of bank robberies, Olivia, Walter, and Peter are shocked to find one of the suspects inexplicably trapped inside a vault wall as if it solidified around him.
Episode 11: Bound
Airdate: January 20, 2009
Description: After shifty FBI Agent Mitchell Loeb orchestrated David Robert Jones' otherworldly escape from a German prison and Olivia's alarming abduction, indications of a larger threat begin to emerge.
Episode 12: The No-Brainer
Airdate: January 27, 2009
Description: 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.
Episode 13: The Transformation
Airdate: February 3, 2009
Description: When the Fringe Division delves into another bizarre occurrence aboard an international jumbo jet, freakish remains are discovered at the crash site.
Episode 14: Ability
Airdate: February 10, 2009
Description: German agents question Olivia about her "relationship" with David Robert Jones, an escaped prisoner questioned months earlier now on the run in the USA.
Episode 15: Inner Child
Airdate: April 7, 2009
Description: Just seconds before a building is demolished, a mysterious mute child that has been living alone underground is discovered.
Episode 16: Unleashed
Airdate: April 14, 2009
Description: When animal rights activists ransack a laboratory, they get more than they bargained for when one of the caged "animals" unleashes a ferocious appetite.
Episode 17: Bad Dreams
Airdate: April 21, 2009
Description: As a suicide incident occurs at New York's iconic Grand Central station, Agent Dunham simultaneously witnesses the event while asleep and dreaming in Boston.
Episode 18: Midnight
Airdate: April 28, 2009
Description: The Fringe Division is on the case when severely mutilated bodies drained of spinal cord fluid begin to pile up.
Episode 19: The Road Not Taken
Airdate: May 5, 2009
Description: Olivia experiences "awake dreams," seeing elaborate visions of things not really there.
Episode 20: There's More than One of Everything
Airdate: May 12, 2009
Description: With everyone still recovering from the unexpected attack on Nina Sharp, and the return of bio-terrorist David Robert Jones, Fringe Division puts all their efforts into locating William Bell for questioning, whom they believe to be…