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Fringe: Season 1

20 episodes Premiered Sep 9, 2008 Updated Jul 18, 2026

As the first season begins, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate a mysterious outbreak that nearly kills her partner. The only person with any answers is an institutionalized scientist, Dr. Walter Bishop who can only be released under the care of his estranged son. Together, the three discover that the answer to this mystery is only a small piece of a much larger, more shocking truth.

Season overview

As the first season begins, FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham is called in to investigate a mysterious outbreak that nearly kills her partner. The only person with any answers is an institutionalized scientist, Dr. Walter Bishop who can only be released under the care of his estranged son. Together, the three discover that the answer to this mystery is only a small piece of a much larger, more shocking truth.

Episodes

S1·E1

Pilot

Sep 9, 2008 · 82 min

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 ha

S1·E2

The Same Old Story

Sep 16, 2008 · 51 min

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 birthe

S1·E3

The Ghost Network

Sep 23, 2008 · 51 min

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 req

S1·E4

The Arrival

Sep 30, 2008 · 49 min

Broyles calls in the team to investigate a deadly explosion and its source: a strange cylinder unharmed despite the destruction. Olivia determines that the same cylinder, or a simi

S1·E5

Power Hungry

Oct 14, 2008 · 50 min

The team investigate the case of a man who can project electricity... and is at the center of a series of strange deaths involving electricity.

S1·E6

The Cure

Oct 21, 2008 · 50 min

The team investigates a woman that re-appears after weeks of being missing with a rare disease. She also inexplicably causes pain and death to the people she meets. During the inve

S1·E7

In Which We Meet Mr. Jones

Nov 11, 2008 · 50 min

When a strange parasite attaches itself to the internal organs of a dying FBI agent, Olivia suspects a connection to the Pattern; Peter and Walter tap into a dead man's brain waves

S1·E8

The Equation

Nov 18, 2008 · 49 min

Walter thinks the abduction of a young music prodigy is linked back to his old bunkmate at St. Claire's Hospital. When he kidnaps the child he sees a sequence of flashing lights. O

S1·E9

The Dreamscape

Nov 25, 2008 · 50 min

The team is called in to investigate why a man jumps out a window because he thinks he's being attacked by butterflies. Olivia gets some breaks in solving the case from her former

S1·E10

Safe

Dec 2, 2008 · 50 min

The team is called in on a bank robbery similar to other robberies in the area but this particular bank has the thief embedded inside the steel wall of the bank. Somehow the thieve

S1·E11

Bound

Jan 20, 2009 · 50 min

Olivia's sister, Rachel, visits; Walter, Peter and Olivia try to solve the murder of an esteemed epidemiologist, which may be linked to Olivia's abduction.

S1·E12

The No-Brainer

Jan 27, 2009 · 50 min

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. When Walter discove

S1·E13

The Transformation

Feb 3, 2009 · 50 min

When the Fringe Division delves into another bizarre occurrence aboard an international jumbo jet, freakish remains are discovered at the crash site. Memories tip the team toward s

S1·E14

Ability

Feb 10, 2009 · 50 min

German agents question Olivia about her "relationship" with David Robert Jones, an escaped prisoner questioned months earlier now living in the U.S. The Fringe Division investigate

S1·E15

Inner Child

Apr 7, 2009 · 50 min

Just seconds before a building is demolished, a mysterious mute child that has been living alone underground is discovered. When the FBI's Fringe Division investigates, the boy for

S1·E16

Unleashed

Apr 14, 2009 · 50 min

As animal rights activists ransack a laboratory, they get more than they bargained for when one of the caged "animals" unleashes a ferocious appetite. Leaving grotesquely mutilated

S1·E17

Bad Dreams

Apr 21, 2009 · 51 min

Olivia dreams about a suicide as the event really happens at Grand Central Station; shocking information about the Z.F.T. manuscript is revealed.

S1·E18

Midnight

Apr 28, 2009 · 50 min

The Fringe Division is on the case when severely mutilated bodies drained of spinal cord fluid begin to pile up. After their investigation leads them to a scientist with possible t

S1·E19

The Road Not Taken

May 5, 2009 · 50 min

Olivia experiences "awake dreams," seeing elaborate visions of things not really there. While investigating a disturbing case of a woman who apparently spontaneously combusted, Oli

S1·E20

There's More Than One of Everything

May 12, 2009 · 47 min

Setting the stage for the dramatic and revealing first season finale are a sudden and unexpected attack on someone with close ties to Fringe Division, the return of bioterrorist Da