Fringe: Season 2
2009 · 23 episodes · ★ 7.8
What Season 2 of Fringe
Season 2 kicks off with Olivia Dunham's return from an alternate reality, a journey that has left her disoriented. Peter tries to find out what happened during that visit, while the Fringe Division, overseen by Phillip Broyles, keeps receiving impossible cases: bombs with no trace of explosives, shapeshifters and creatures that grow inside human bodies. Walter Bishop, surrounded by strange devices in his lab, and Astrid Farnsworth help solve them. The threads point to a parallel reality that threatens to destroy ours and to the ZFT, the network of rogue scientists.
Season 2 Episodes
2x01 A New Day in the Old Town
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.
Directing: Akiva Goldsman · Writing: J.J. Abrams, Akiva Goldsman · Starring: Kirk Acevedo, Adrian Holmes, Ari Graynor, Christian Vincent
2x02 Night of Desirable Objects
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.
Directed by: Brad Anderson · Written by: Jeff Pinkner, J. H. Wyman · Starring: Kirk Acevedo, Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Stefan Arngrim, Charles Martin Smith
2x03 Fracture
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.
Directing: Bryan Spicer · Writing: David Wilcox · Starring: Michael Cerveris, Phillip Mitchell, Patrick Sabongui, Stephen McHattie
2x04 Momentum Deferred
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.
Directing: Joe Chappelle · Writing: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller · Starring: Kirk Acevedo, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald, Sebastian Roché
2x05 Dream Logic
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
Directing: Paul A. Edwards · Writing: Josh Singer · Starring: Kevin Corrigan, Ravi Kapoor, Travis Schuldt, Alex Zahara
2x06 Earthling
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.
Directing: Jon Cassar · Writing: J. H. Wyman, Jeff Vlaming · Starring: JR Bourne, Megan Charpentier, Chris Shields, Karen Holness
2x07 Of Human Action
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.
Directing: Joe Chappelle · Writing: Glen Whitman, Robert Chiappetta · Starring: Andrew Airlie, Cameron Monaghan, Doron Bell, Philip Cabrita
2x08 August
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.
Directing: Dennis Smith · Writing: Jeff Pinkner, J. H. Wyman · Starring: Michael Cerveris, Ryan McDonald, Paul Rae, Jennifer Missoni
2x09 Snakehead
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.
Directing: Paul Holahan · Writing: David Wilcox · Starring: Ingrid Torrance, Tzi Ma, Colby Paul, Jack Yang
2x10 Grey Matters
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.
Directing: Jeannot Szwarc · Writing: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller · Starring: Leonard Nimoy, Sebastian Roché, Jeff Perry, Roger Cross
2x11 Unearthed
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.
Directing: Frederick E. O. Toye · Writing: David H. Goodman, Andrew Kreisberg · Starring: Kirk Acevedo, Scott William Winters, Amy Carlson, Annie Parisse
2x12 Johari Window
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.
Directing: Joe Chappelle · Writing: Josh Singer · Starring: J.J. Makaro, Laura Mennell, Michael O'Neill, Martin Cummins
2x13 What Lies Below
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.
Directing: Deran Sarafian · Writing: Jeff Vlaming · Starring: Geoff Pierson, Demore Barnes, Nicholas W. von Zill, Conrad Coates
2x14 The Bishop Revival
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.
Directing: Adam Davidson · Writing: Glen Whitman, Robert Chiappetta · Starring: Clark Middleton, Craig Robert Young, Nancy Linari, Craig Anderson
2x15 Jacksonville
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.
Directing: Charles Beeson · Writing: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller · Starring: Ryan McDonald, Sarah Edmondson, Jim True-Frost, Ellen Ewusie
2x16 Peter
Walter explains to Olivia how Peter came from the alternate universe, and how he was willing to risk everything to save his son.
Directing: David Straiton · Writing: Jeff Pinkner, J. H. Wyman, Josh Singer · Starring: Michael Cerveris, Eugene Lipinski, Jenni Blong, Orla Brady
2x17 Olivia. In the Lab. With the Revolver.
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.
Directing: Brad Anderson · Writing: Matt Pitts · Starring: Kevin Corrigan, Diane Kruger, Omar Metwally, Catherine Barroll
2x18 White Tulip
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.
Directing: Thomas Yatsko · Writing: J. H. Wyman, Jeff Vlaming · Starring: Marie Avgeropoulos, Jackson Berlin, Zoltan Buday, Robert Gauvin
2x19 The Man From The Other Side
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.
Directing: Jeffrey G. Hunt · Writing: Josh Singer, Ethan Gross · Starring: Ryan McDonald, Sebastian Roché, Peter Bryant, Katie Findlay
2x20 Brown Betty
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.
Directing: Seith Mann · Writing: Jeff Pinkner, J. H. Wyman, Akiva Goldsman · Starring: Michael Cerveris, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald, Ari Graynor
2x21 Northwest Passage
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.
Directing: Joe Chappelle · Writing: Zack Stentz, Ashley Miller, Lilla Zuckerman · Starring: Sebastian Roché, Martha Plimpton, Christine Chatelain, Patrick Gilmore
2x22 Over There (1)
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.
Directing: Akiva Goldsman · Writing: Jeff Pinkner, J. H. Wyman, Akiva Goldsman · Starring: Kirk Acevedo, Seth Gabel, Leonard Nimoy, Ryan McDonald
2x23 Over There (2) Season Finale
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.
Directing: Akiva Goldsman · Writing: Jeff Pinkner, J. H. Wyman, Akiva Goldsman · Starring: Kirk Acevedo, Leonard Nimoy, Stefan Arngrim, Heather Doerksen
Season 2 Cast
Ryan McDonaldBrandon Fayette6 episodes
Sebastian RochéThomas Jerome Newton4 episodes
Michael CerverisThe Observer (uncredited)4 episodes
Ari GraynorRachel3 episodes
Stefan ArngrimStore Owner3 episodes
Lily PilbladElla3 episodes
Anna Van HooftAssistant2 episodes
Chris ShieldsSpecial Agent Fisher2 episodes
Eugene LipinskiDecember2 episodes
Orla BradyElizabeth Bishop2 episodes
Peter WoodwardAugust2 episodes
Omar MetwallyNeil2 episodes
Chris EastmanCSI Investigator2 episodesAll Seasons
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Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes are in Fringe season 2?
Season 2 of Fringe has 23 episodes.
When did Fringe season 2 premiere?
Premiered on September 17, 2009.
Where to watch Fringe season 2?
Available by subscription on Amazon Prime Video, Movistar Plus+ Ficción Total, HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and HBO Max Amazon Channel (availability may vary by country).
What is the best episode of Season 2?
According to the TMDB audience rating, episode 2x16, "Peter," with a 8.8.