Fringe
Show summary: FBI agent Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop are faced with a rapidly spreading unexplained phenomenon of the threatening kind. In an attempt to stop the spread, they enlist the assistance of Bishop's estranged father, the institutionalized scientist Dr. Walter Bishop.
Dawson's Creek 's Joshua Jackson plays the role of Peter Bishop, a smart guy with many gambling debts. Anna Torv ( The Secret Life of Us ) plays Olivia Dunham, a young, tough FBI agent who has to confront an unexplained phenomenon. Also cast in the series are The Black Donnelly 's Kirk Acevedo and Boston Legal 's Mark Valley as FBI agents. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 's John Noble and The Wire 's Lance Reddick are also on the cast: Noble as Dr. Walter Bishop and Reddick as Phillip Broyles, a special agent for Homeland Security head of the Fringe division, that investigates terrorist and paranormal events. Alongside them are veteran actress Blair Brown and Take the Lead actress Jasika Nicole. Brown plays Nina Sharp, a veteran Chief Operating Officer of Massive Dynamic, a cutting-edge research company, while Nicole plays Astrid Farnsworth, a federal assistant.
This highly anticipated sci-fi drama was created by Transformers /Star Trek/ Mission: Impossible III 's J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Fringe's pilot was directed by Emmy Award-winning Alex Graves ( The West Wing ) and produced by Warner Bros. Television, Bad Robot Productions and Fringe Element Films.
Episodes
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Season 1 Episode 20
Someone close to Fringe Division is attacked, and bioterrorist David Robert Jones returns. Meanwhile, Walter disappears inexplicably. -
Season 1 Episode 19
Olivia has some bad dreams that end up coming true, and then begins seeing visions while awake that aren't really there. She uses these visions to help solve the case of a woman who spontaneously combusted. -
Season 1 Episode 18
Someone is killing people and draining their spinal cord fluid. Olivia, Peter, and Walter go to great lengths to stop the deaths, which are happening more and more frequently. -
Season 1 Episode 17
A suicide incident occurs at Grand Central Station, which Olivia dreams about. Meanwhile, shocking details emerge about the ZFT manuscript. -
Season 1 Episode 16
An animal-rights organization's rescue mission at a laboratory backfires when it releases a vicious beast, almost mythological in appearance with a lion's body and eagle's talons, and Charlie is in danger of being its la... -
Season 1 Episode 15
Olivia makes a bond with a mysterious child that was living alone underground. Meanwhile, a serial killer reemerges. -
Season 1 Episode 14
The German authorities interrogate Olivia in an attempt to locate Mr. Jones. Meanwhile, the team investigates a bizarre series of incidents where the victims' facial orifices close over, leaving them faceless corpses. -
Season 1 Episode 13
Olivia and Peter go undercover to investigate after the discovery of bizarre remains at a jumbo jet's crash site. -
Season 1 Episode 12
Olivia, Walter and Peter are brought in to try and stop a killer with the ability to liquefy the human brain. -
Season 1 Episode 11
The FBI and an increasingly desperate Peter search for the abducted Olivia... unaware that the man heading the investigation is the one responsible for her disappearance. -
Season 1 Episode 10
The team is called in to investigate a bank robbery when one of the thieves is found embedded in a solid wall. Walter believes they're after something of his, but things take a turn for the worse when the thieves ambush ... -
Season 1 Episode 9
A Massive Dynamic employee leaps to his death after hallucinating a butterfly attack. Agent Scott proves useful in investigating the case, but a frustrated Olivia wants to remove him from her consciousness once and for a... -
Season 1 Episode 8
Walter's former bunkmate at the mental institute is linked to the abduction of a young musical prodigy by a serial kidnapper. Peter is concerned when Walter insists on going back to the mental institute to solve the case... -
Season 1 Episode 7
A parasite mysteriously latches onto a dying FBI agent's internal organs. Agent Dunham rushes to Germany to meet a prisoner for information about the threat they face. -
Season 1 Episode 6
The team investigates a woman that re-appears after weeks of being missing, with a rare disease and she inexplicably causes pain and death to the people she meets. In the investigation dangerous level of radiation are de... -
Season 1 Episode 5
The team investigate the case of a man who can generate electrical phenomena... and is at the center of a series of strange deaths involving electronic devices. -
Season 1 Episode 4
The team investigates a strange cylinder, found in a deadly explosion at a construction site in New York City. The cylinder was in the middle of the explosion and was completely unharmed. Olivia uncovers a correlation be... -
Season 1 Episode 3
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 piano in the lab to help him pro... -
Season 1 Episode 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 fully developed - and also aged ei... -
Season 1 Episode 1
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 institutionalized. Olivia, Dr. Bi...

