Fringe Season 2 Episode Guide
Season 2 has 23 episodes, from September 17, 2009 to May 20, 2010. Descriptions stay brief and spoiler-light.
Episode 1: A New Day in the Old Town
Airdate: September 17, 2009
Description: After her trip to an intriguing Alternate Universe to meet Massive Dynamic founder, William Bell, Olivia's shocking return to this reality pits the team unknowingly in a race against time with an ominous adversary.
Episode 2: Night of Desirable Objects
Airdate: September 24, 2009
Description: A highway construction worker in rural Pennsylvania goes missing when he is mysteriously drawn into an underground tunnel filled with human remains.
Episode 3: Fracture
Airdate: October 1, 2009
Description: Peter, Walter, Olivia, and Broyles pursue a strange and deadly occurrence in Philadelphia where a bomb blew up inside a train station but left no trace of any explosive device.
Episode 4: Momentum Deferred
Airdate: October 8, 2009
Description: Recuperating from the traumatic and alarming meeting with Massive Dynamic founder William Bell, Agent Dunham consumes a powerful fringe concoction that Dr.
Episode 5: Dream Logic
Airdate: October 15, 2009
Description: The Fringe team travels cross-country to Seattle after learning of a mysterious incident involving a man who attacked his boss because he believed he was an evil ram-horned creature.
Episode 6: Earthling
Airdate: November 5, 2009
Description: The Fringe Division is flummoxed by a case where victims are inexplicably disintegrated into ash.
Episode 7: Of Human Action
Airdate: November 12, 2009
Description: When a kidnapping rapidly escalates into a hostage situation in New York, local authorities close in on the suspects only to discover a mysterious force with mind-blowing consequences.
Episode 8: August
Airdate: November 19, 2009
Description: When a peculiar abduction occurs in Boston, the Fringe team uncovers details of the mysterious man known as The Observer.
Episode 9: Snakehead
Airdate: December 3, 2009
Description: After a cargo ship runs aground, the shoreline becomes littered with bodies hosting a giant squid-like creature.
Episode 10: Grey Matters
Airdate: December 10, 2009
Description: A Fringe investigation is triggered when a patient at a mental institution undergoes an impromptu brain surgery that unexpectedly leaves his brain exposed.
Episode 11: Unearthed
Airdate: January 11, 2010
Description: After a teenage girl is pronounced brain dead, her mother takes her off life support, but when doctors operate quickly to remove her organs, the deceased girl shockingly awakens screaming an alphanumeric code.
Episode 12: Johari Window
Airdate: January 14, 2010
Description: Following an unexplained attack involving disfigured humans, the Fringe team visits Edina City, a small town in upstate New York to uncover leads surrounding the bizarre case.
Episode 13: What Lies Below
Airdate: January 21, 2010
Description: Investigating a lethal virus, Peter & Olivia become isolated inside a quarantined building and face life-threatening circumstances – while the rest of the team tries to save them.
Episode 14: The Bishop Revival
Airdate: January 28, 2010
Description: Investigating a lethal toxin that was unleashed on a wedding ceremony as a weaponized experiment, Walter uncovers an alarming formula that reveals a link to the Bishop family tree.
Episode 15: Jacksonville
Airdate: February 4, 2010
Description: A Manhattan office building is rattled to its core, leaving only one survivor, and the Fringe Team examines his otherworldly origins.
Episode 16: Peter
Airdate: April 1, 2010
Description: Walter flashes back to 1985 while explaining Peter's otherworldly origins to Olivia.
Episode 17: Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.
Airdate: April 8, 2010
Description: When a perfectly healthy woman is found dead from a disease she never had, the Fringe team investigates the origin of this inexplicably fatal condition before it claims more innocent victims.
Episode 18: White Tulip
Airdate: April 15, 2010
Description: When passengers aboard a commuter train appear to have died a still death, it seems that a switch was flipped because all cell phones, mp3 players, laptops, batteries and bodies have been drained of power.
Episode 19: The Man from the Other Side
Airdate: April 22, 2010
Description: When two teenagers on a date turn up "dead" at an abandoned warehouse with the three puncture wounds to the soft palate – a trademark of the shape-shifters – the Fringe team investigates the evidence as well as the motives of mastermind…
Episode 20: Brown Betty
Airdate: April 29, 2010
Description: While Walter deals with some very upsetting news, he tells Olivia's niece, Ella, a fairy tale that includes musical performances by Olivia and Agent Broyles.
Episode 21: Northwest Passage
Airdate: May 6, 2010
Description: Peter teams up with a local law enforcement official, Sheriff Mathis, on a serial murder investigation with ties to Newton.
Episode 22: Over There: Part 1
Airdate: May 13, 2010
Description: Walter and Olivia travel to the Alternate Universe, and the anticipated face-off between Walter Bishop and William Bell occurs.
Episode 23: Over There: Part 2
Airdate: May 20, 2010
Description: Sacrifices will be made and both universes may never be the same again after Walter and Olivia visit the "other side".