Posted on 10/21/2010 9:35:29 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
Set in Boston, the FBI's Fringe Division was introduced when Special Agent OLIVIA DUNHAM (Anna Torv) enlisted institutionalized "fringe" scientist WALTER BISHOP (John Noble) and his globe-trotting, jack-of-all-trades son, PETER (Joshua Jackson), to help in the investigation of an airline disaster that defied human logic. After the defining case was solved and revealed to be one of a series of unusual incidents linked together, the unlikely trio supervised by Special Agent PHILLIP BROYLES (Lance Reddick) and assisted by Junior Agent ASTRID FARNSWORTH (Jasika Nicole) was formed. As unimaginable events continued to unfold over the first two seasons, the Fringe Division's investigations often led them to the multifaceted biomedical science, energy and technology corporation Massive Dynamic and its enigmatic chief executive NINA SHARP (Blair Brown). When Olivia discovered that she was a test subject as a child of Walter Bishop and Massive Dynamic's elusive founder and chairman WILLIAM BELL (guest star Leonard Nimoy), it triggered a search for details about her forgotten and perplexing past. Her findings uncovered the existence of a parallel universe and she recovered her childhood ability to detect objects from this parallel universe, which shockingly led her to learn that Peter is from the "other side." As a result, Walter revealed that he kidnapped Peter as a child from the parallel universe 25 years ago.
At the conclusion of last season, a distraught Peter returned to his otherworldly origins to reconnect with his roots and his birth mother (guest star Orla Brady). When the Fringe Team mobilized to retrieve Peter, it was seen as an atta
ck on the alternate universe and led to an intense situation with Walter and Olivia pitted against their doppelgangers in a race against time. William Bell made the ultimate sacrifice that paved the way for Peter to return "over here" with Walter and a disguised alternate Olivia at his side. This extraordinary turn of events shockingly left an imprisoned Olivia "over there." The quest to retrieve Peter from the parallel universe will raise questions about identity and choices this season. In the Season Three premiere, a disoriented Olivia fights to find her way home with the help of a taxi driver (guest star Andre Royo), and we are introduced to her mother (guest star Amy Madigan). Meanwhile, Peter and Walter try to move on with their lives unknowingly alongside alternate Olivia.
Created by J.J. Abrams & Alex Kurtzman & Roberto Orci, FRINGE is produced by Bad Robot Productions in association with Warner Bros. Television. Abrams, Bryan Burk, J.H. Wyman, Jeff Pinkner and Joe Chappelle serve as executive producers, while Kurtzman, Orci and Akiva Goldsman are consulting producers. Additionally, Pinkner and Wyman serve as the series' showrunners.
| AIRED | SEASON / EPISODE | EPISODE TITLE | INFO | EXPIRES |
| 10/14/10 | 3/04 | Do Shapesifters Dream of Electric Sheep |  Newton calls on a sleeping shapeshifter. |
12/9/10 |
| 10/7/10 | 3/03 | The Plateau |  The Fringe division works against the clock. |
12/2/10 |
| 9/30/10 | 3/02 | The Box |  The team studies a mysterious and deadly box. |
11/18/10 |
| 9/25/10 | 3/01 | Olivia |  Olivia fights to get home. |
11/11/10 |
Where have we seen this before? :)
We’ve been fans of this show, but the new season has us questioning whether we’ll keep watching it. It is breaking a cardinal rule for a drama: at each step a successful drama has to provide the audience with something they want to see, like the good guys winning once and a while. But this season is so fragmented, fever-dreamish, and bleak, that it’s not only hard to keep up with what’s happening, it’s also hard to find anything to cheer about. On its current story arc it will founder this season.
The needs of the advertisers to bring back Leonard Nimoy for ratings outweigh the needs of the one.
It will be interesting to see if ‘Bolivia’ (’Bad Olivia’) has a crisis of conscious or crisis of faith as she interacts with Walter and Peter.
I disagree. I love the arc it’s taking, combining the alternate world with the odd investigations the fringe team gets....makes ya wonder how long the alternate Olivia can keep up her guise and get away with infiltrating the good side...and as well, how long before the real Olivia comes back to her side and exposes Walternate.
I love this show and this season seems to be keeping viewers on it’s toes. Granted there is a lot of jumping around, and to some that may be too much to take in, but I find it quiet intriguing.
I'm not sure which-is-which anymore.
As long as evil-parallel-universe Olivia keeps banging Peter, he will continue to overlook the obvious differences between the two.
I’m with you.
I watched #1, have the others DVRed but am not sure I’ll watch them. Way too confusing.
Come on man. This is salt in the wound. I look forward to this show and now I have to wait till next month. You just reminded me of my pain.
I love the dueling story lines. I am convinced that the alternate world is a Fascist one created if the Nazis won WWII. It is fully state controlled and they use dirigibles.
Wouldn’t that be zeppelins?
Reality check. Anyone who has been confronted by a twin pulling a switcharoo when, ah, being intimate, would laugh out loud at this one. Twins are simply not that alike.
Maybe somebody can fill me in, but where’s the “other” Peter? Should be two of him, correct?
Thank you.
I loved the episode with the guy who could figure out accident timelines before they happened in order to commit murder.
Good catch. Plus Clint Howard, who played Balock in the original Trek.
Peter IS “the other Peter”. This universe’s Peter died as a child and Walter kidnapped the “other” one.
Actually, "our" Peter died as a child. Walter crossed to the alternate universe and kidnapped the alternate Peter and raised him over here.
So the Peter we see actually belongs in the other universe.
The other Peter, in the alternate world, died when he was a boy. The Peter on the show is from the alternate world and is not the original Walters real son. He crossed over a long time ago, to the alternate world and took the other Peter because he was sick and he knew he could help save him, and then ended up not being able to give him back/return him to his world and kept him as his own, since his Peter had died.
Peter just found out at the end of last season, that he isn’t from this world, and the whole truth behind Walter taking him. He went back to his world (when Olivia and Walter went) and realized his real father is a bad man and wanted him for a weapon to destroy the other world.
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