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The Worst Episodes of Fringe

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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  1. Background image for Brown Betty
    6.8/10(3.2k votes)

    #1 - Brown Betty

    S2:E20

    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.

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  2. Background image for Unearthed
    7.0/10(2.4k votes)

    #2 - Unearthed

    S2:E11

    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.

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  3. Background image for Power Hungry
    7.4/10(3.0k votes)

    #3 - Power Hungry

    S1:E5

    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.

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  4. Background image for The No-Brainer
    7.5/10(2.7k votes)

    #4 - The No-Brainer

    S1:E12

    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 discovers that the "goo" is brain matter, the trio tries to figure out how the killer can liquefy human brains. As the deaths pile up, the investigation reveals a common thread linking the victims together in an unthinkable manner. Meanwhile, Olivia is horrified when the case places a loved one in harm's way

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  5. Background image for The Same Old Story
    7.6/10(3.7k votes)

    #5 - The Same Old Story

    S1:E2

    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 eighty years in the span of a few minutes. Olivia asks Nina Sharp of Massive Dynamic for help.

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  6. Background image for The Cure
    7.6/10(2.9k votes)

    #6 - The Cure

    S1:E6

    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 investigation, dangerous level of radiation are detected. Walter obsesses about cotton candy; Peter strikes a deal with Nina Sharp; and a truth about Olivia is discovered.

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  8. Background image for Unleashed
    7.6/10(2.7k votes)

    #7 - Unleashed

    S1:E16

    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 dead bodies in its wake, the scientifically engineered beast with the body of a lion, claws of an eagle, fangs of a viper, skin of a rhinoceros and tail of a serpent attacks Charlie. With Charlie’s life on the line, Walter must come face-to-face with both his past and the beast.

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  9. Background image for Night of Desirable Objects
    7.6/10(2.5k votes)

    #8 - Night of Desirable Objects

    S2:E2

    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.

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  10. Background image for Dream Logic
    7.6/10(2.3k votes)

    #9 - Dream Logic

    S2:E5

    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

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  11. Background image for Earthling
    7.6/10(2.3k votes)

    #10 - Earthling

    S2:E6

    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.

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    7.6/10(2.4k votes)

    #11 - Johari Window

    S2:E12

    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.

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    Director:Joe Chappelle
  13. Background image for Wallflower
    7.6/10(1.9k votes)

    #12 - Wallflower

    S4:E7

    When a man mysteriously dies by an invisible force, his body rapidly begins turning ghostly white. The Fringe team learns that this is not an isolated incident, and there’s evidence that links the predator to someone who passed away with an unknown genetic disorder. Meanwhile, Olivia suffers from migraines.

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  14. Background image for The Ghost Network
    7.7/10(3.4k votes)

    #13 - The Ghost Network

    S1:E3

    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 process data.

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  15. Background image for Snakehead
    7.7/10(2.3k votes)

    #14 - Snakehead

    S2:E9

    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.

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    Director:Paul Holahan
  16. Background image for Alone in the World
    7.7/10(2.0k votes)

    #15 - Alone in the World

    S4:E3

    Two young bullies are found dead and in just a few hours they rot to an advanced state of decomposition. The Fringe team investigates and uncovers an amorphous figure claiming more victims. Walter becomes increasingly distracted with his mental state.

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  17. Background image for The Recordist
    7.7/10(1.9k votes)

    #16 - The Recordist

    S5:E3

    As the rogue Fringe team continues to fight off the oppressive Observers’ invasion, unforeseen events lead them into a forest where they encounter a strange subculture of people devoted to recording human history.

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  18. Background image for The Equation
    7.8/10(2.8k votes)

    #17 - The Equation

    S1:E8

    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. Olivia wants Walter to return to the mental institution much to Peter's outcry, but Walter's determination to help ends up having chilling ramifications.

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  19. Background image for The Dreamscape
    7.8/10(2.7k votes)

    #18 - The Dreamscape

    S1:E9

    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 partner and that she is so desperate to rid herself of him that she demands to go back into the tank. Meanwhile, some former friends and current foes of Peter find out that he's back in Boston.

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  20. Background image for Midnight
    7.8/10(2.6k votes)

    #19 - Midnight

    S1:E18

    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 ties to the Z.F.T. bioterrorist cell, they are shocked to discover the identity and motive of the killer. When the kills occur with increasing frequency, Olivia, Peter and Walter go to desperate lengths to stop them.

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  21. Background image for Fracture
    7.8/10(2.4k votes)

    #20 - Fracture

    S2:E3

    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.

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    Director:Bryan Spicer
  22. Background image for Of Human Action
    7.8/10(2.3k votes)

    #21 - Of Human Action

    S2:E7

    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.

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  23. Background image for Immortality
    7.8/10(2.1k votes)

    #22 - Immortality

    S3:E13

    As the story shifts back to life “over there,” the absence of Colonel Broyles changes the dynamic of the Fringe Team as they investigate a bioterrorist armed with an insect that has a taste for human flesh. Meanwhile, alternate Olivia is reunited with her beau, and Walternate remains determined to save his world but discovers there are certain lines he will not cross.

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  24. Background image for Nothing As It Seems
    7.8/10(2.0k votes)

    #23 - Nothing As It Seems

    S4:E16

    The Fringe team faces a case that appears familiar to Peter. Strangely, it takes place in this timeline.

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  25. Background image for In Which We Meet Mr. Jones
    7.9/10(2.9k votes)

    #24 - In Which We Meet Mr. Jones

    S1:E7

    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.

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  26. Background image for Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.
    7.9/10(2.3k votes)

    #25 - Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.

    S2:E17

    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.

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    Director:Brad Anderson
    Writer:Matt Pitts

Worst Episodes Summary

"Brown Betty" is the worst rated episode of "Fringe". It scored 6.8/10 based on 3242 votes. Directed by Seith Mann and written by Akiva Goldsman, Jeff Pinkner, J. H. Wyman, it aired on 4/29/2010. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Unearthed".