8.4/102,839 votes#1 - A New Day in the Old Town
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/2009
An amnesiac Olivia makes her return from the parallel universe, while Walter, Pete, and Junior Agent Amy Jessup investigate the mysterious death of a man found with puncture holes in his palate. Meanwhile, Broyles defends the Fringe Division from a Senate subcommittee threatening to shut the organization down.
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Writer: J.J. Abrams, Akiva Goldsman
7.6/102,417 votes#2 - Night of Desirable Objects
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/2009
A highway construction worker is the seventh in a series of mysterious disappearances in Lansdale, PA. The team come to investigate and finds traces of a mysterious paralytic. Meanwhile, Walter tries to send frogs to an alternate reality and Olivia realizes her recent trip has altered her in ways she can barely understand.
Director: Brad Anderson
Writer: Jeff Pinkner, J.H. Wyman
7.8/102,361 votes#3 - Fracture
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/2009
When an American officer who served in Iraq blows up in a Philadelphia train station, the Fringe Division investigates and determines that something turned the man into a living bomb. Peter and Olivia travel to Iraq to determine if Peter's contacts can shed some light on the situation.
Director: Bryan Spicer
Writer: David Wilcox
8.6/102,505 votes#4 - Momentum Deferred
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/2009
Olivia begins to regain her memories of her encounter with William Bell. Meanwhile, the "First Wave" tries to collect the head of their leader, and the traitor makes his move.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller
7.6/102,291 votes#5 - Dream Logic
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/2009
A man in Seattle goes berserk, attacking his boss and claiming his victim is a demon. After the killer dies of what appears to be exhaustion, the Fringe Division discover it's only the first in a series of killings where the persons initiating the attacks were in a dreaming state while awake
Director: Paul A. Edwards
Writer: Josh Singer
7.6/102,295 votes#6 - Earthling
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2009
Human beings are reduced to ash statues and Broyles realizes that the same person responsible murdered five other persons four years ago... a case that he never solved.
Director: Jon Cassar
Writer: J.H. Wyman, Jeff Vlaming
7.8/102,281 votes#7 - Of Human Action
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2009
Two men kidnap a teenage boy using mind control abilities. The boy's father works for Massive Dynamic but Nina insists that the company hasn't been developing mind control, and has no idea who the two kidnappers are. The truth or falsehood of her statements are soon confirmed when Peter encounters the person responsible for the boy's abduction.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Robert Chiappetta, Glen Whitman
8.7/102,670 votes#8 - August
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2009
The Observer chooses to do something other than observe, abducting a college student. However, when the Fringe team investigates, they discover that there is more than one Observer.. in both time and space.
Director: Dennis Smith
Writer: Jeff Pinkner, J.H. Wyman
7.7/102,248 votes#9 - Snakehead
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2009
A Chinese Triad is using illegal aliens to breed parasitic worms that eventually kill their hosts. When a ship runs aground, Fringe Division learns of the operation and tries to locate a second ship before the passengers on it suffer a slow, agonizing death.
Director: Paul Holahan
Writer: David Wilcox
8.7/102,445 votes#10 - Grey Matters
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/2009
The First Wave breaks into a mental hospital and cures a long-term patient suffering from schizophrenia. When the Fringe team investigates, Olivia discovers that the group's leader has one of the heads stolen from cryogenic storage months earlier. Meanwhile, two other mental patients are cured of their schizophrenia and the team soon realize that something was taken from each patients' brain... and Walter holds the key to realizing what First Wave is after.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Writer: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller
7.0/102,394 votes#11 - Unearthed
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/11/2010
A teenage girl pronounced brain dead wakes up in the middle of the operation to remove her organs... speaking numbers in Russian. When the Navy confirms that the numbers are nuclear launch codes and a missing officer named Rusk knows them, the search is on for the missing man.
Director: Fred Toye
Writer: David H. Goodman, Andrew Kreisberg
7.6/102,297 votes#12 - Johari Window
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/2010
A state trooper picks up a runaway boy, but when he undergoes a strange transformation, three murders result. The Fringe team is called in to investigate and discover that a small town harbors a horrible secret.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Josh Singer
8.1/102,335 votes#13 - What Lies Below
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 1/21/2010
A Dutch industrial consultant arrives for an appointment and dies in a painful explosion of blood. Olivia and Peter arrive on the scene first and discover that the blood contains a pathogen and everyone in the building may be contaminated. While Walter and Astrid work outside the quarantined building to create a cure, the virus develops unique characteristics that pose a danger to the entire world.
Director: Deran Sarafian
Writer: Jeff Vlaming
8.1/102,317 votes#14 - The Bishop Revival
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/28/2010
When all of the groom's relatives asphyxiate at a wedding, the Fringe division investigates and quickly ascertain that a human agency is responsible. Walter realizes that the formula for the toxin was based on research conducted by his father, Robert Bischoff, and that the killer isn't stopping with a single test of his lethal concoction.
Director: Adam Davidson
Writer: Robert Chiappetta, Glen Whitman
8.9/102,754 votes#15 - Jacksonville
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/4/2010
The arrival of a building from the alternate Earth causes massive death and destruction to those occupying the site at its arrival. Walter soon realizes that to equalize the balance between universes, another building will have to disappear... along with everyone inside it. The team's only chance is for Walter to activate Olivia's long-buried ability to distinguish objects from the other universe.
Director: Charles Beeson
Writer: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller
9.4/104,072 votes#16 - Peter
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 4/1/2010
Walter explains to Olivia how Peter came from the alternate universe, and how he was willing to risk everything to save his son.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Jeff Pinkner, Akiva Goldsman, J.H. Wyman, Josh Singer
7.9/102,273 votes#17 - Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 4/8/2010
A healthy woman dies of rapid-onset cancer in a matter of minutes, and the Fringe team is called in to investigate. The killer has connections to Jacksonville... and Olivia is a potential victim. Meanwhile, Olivia tries to come to terms with her knowledge of Peter's origins.
Director: Brad Anderson
Writer: Matt Pitts
9.2/103,787 votes#18 - White Tulip
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 4/15/2010
When the passengers on a commuter train all die instantly of massive power loss, the team realizes that a time traveler is responsible... and that it may be impossible to apprehend him. Meanwhile, Walter writes a letter to Peter explaining his origins.
Director: Thomas Yatsko
Writer: J.H. Wyman, Jeff Vlaming
8.6/102,362 votes#19 - The Man From The Other Side
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 4/22/2010
Two teenagers turn up dead and evidence indicates that shapeshifters have borrowed their forms for some special mission. While the Fringe team tries to track them down, Peter grows increasingly suspicious of Walter's secretive behavior.
Director: Jeffrey G. Hunt
Writer: Josh Singer, Ethan Gross
6.8/103,171 votes#20 - Brown Betty
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 4/29/2010
When Peter disappears, Walter seeks solace in marijuana. In that state of mind, he and Astrid babysit Olivia's niece Ella, and Walter tells her a fairy tale of a gentle inventor, a stolen glass heart, a detective looking for true love, and a mysterious group of bald men known as the Watchers.
Director: Seith Mann
Writer: Jeff Pinkner, Akiva Goldsman, J.H. Wyman
8.3/102,408 votes#21 - Northwest Passage
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 5/6/2010
In Noyo County, Washington, Peter stumbles across a grisly murder with ties to Newton and First Wave. He is forced to team up with a suspicious sheriff to get to the heart of the case. Meanwhile, Walter has trouble functioning without Peter, and worries he will be sent back to the mental institute.
Director: Joe Chappelle
Writer: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller, Lilla Zuckerman, Nora Zuckerman
8.9/102,618 votes#22 - Over There (1)
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 5/13/2010
When Walter discovers that Peter has traveled to the alternate universe, he and Olivia gather three cortexiphan children with the ability to transition safely between the two Earths.
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Writer: Jeff Pinkner, Akiva Goldsman, J.H. Wyman
9.2/102,925 votes#23 - Over There (2)
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 5/20/2010
Walternate asks Peter to help complete the device, while the fugitives Walter and Olivia are reunited with William Bell. Meanwhile, the alternate world's Fringe Division closes in on the invaders, and Peter must make a life-shattering decision.
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Writer: Jeff Pinkner, Akiva Goldsman, J.H. Wyman
The Best Episodes of Fringe Season 2
Every episode of Fringe Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Fringe Season 2!
FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham, brilliant but formerly institutionalized scientist Walter Bishop and his scheming, reluctant son Peter uncover a deadly mystery involving a series...
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Network:FOX
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"A New Day in the Old Town" is the best rated episode of "Fringe" season 2. It scored 8.4/10 based on 2839 votes. Directed by Akiva Goldsman and written by J.J. Abrams, Akiva Goldsman, it aired on 9/17/2009. This episode is rated 0.8 points higher than the second-best, "Night of Desirable Objects".