Observer Files

THE OBSERVER FILES

Who are the Observers?:

They have been recorded at numerous events and locations. Our history is littered with their presence. Important moments observed:  attacks, wars, massacres, presidential inaugorations, inter-reality invasions.. The Observers are here, and whether we like it or not, they have influenced our past, and will have a say in our future -- if indeed they haven’t already.

Observer Sightings (Complete Listing)

Season 1

Title sequence easteregg

Fringe opening sequence: The very first Observer ’sighting’, coupled with blue lights (another popular Fringe ‘easteregg’).

1.01 Pilot

The Observer was first spotted walking past the Massive Dynamic headquarters, possibly tracking Olivia’s meeting with Nina Sharp.

Pattern-relation: 5/10

1.02 The Same Old Story

At the hospital where the man-baby has died. Watching Broyles, Olivia, Walter and Peter as they arrive at the scene.

Pattern-relation: 4/10 (added 1 point due to the 2.07 tie-in).

1.03 The Ghost Network

The Observer is already on the train as Olivia breezes past him in pursuit of her target.

*Olivia seems to ’sense’ something odd as she passes the Observer.

Pattern-relation: 6/10

1.04 The Arrival

The Observer’s first centric episode. He’s all over this one as he takes a moment for some hot-sauce before greeting the mysterious cylinder upon it’s scheduled arrival. He manages to protect the cylinder from being stolen by calling on a favor from Walter, who hides it in the grave of one Robert Bishop. Peter, under immense interrogation from the Observeresque John Mosley (AKA Rogue) gives up the cylinder’s location, before Olivia shoots down Mosley. The cylinder disappears back in to the ground -- on schedule. The Observer watches from a distance and confirms its depature. He then gets jumped by Peter, the pair square off, Peter asks him questions, the Observer asks him more questions before Peter can even ask them. Then he zaps the boy wonder with his old-school yet laser-beaming gun.

Pattern-relation: 10/10

1.05 Power Hungry

He leaves the elevator as Joseph Meegar enters and overrides the system, causing it to plummet

Pattern-relation: 4/10

1.06 The Cure

The Observer walks right past our intrepid agent as she plays mind games with Intrepus boss, David Esterbrook.

Pattern-relation: 6/10

1.07 In Which We Meet Mr. Jones

The Observer departs the scene as Olivia arrives in Germany.

Pattern-relation: 8/10

1.08 The Equation

The Observer stands in close proximity to Olivia as she realises where the kidnapped boy is being held -- The Red Castle. (an important color in Olivia’s mythology).

Pattern-relation: 8/10

1.09 The Dreamscape

The Observer inside Massive Dynamic! He watches an MD employee as he rushes to his meeting. The employee is soon ‘attacked’ by imaginary butterflies, causing him to smash through a window and plummet to his death.

Pattern-relation: 7.5/10

1.10 Safe

The Observer is caught on CCTV footage during Mitchell’s Loeb’s wall-phasing raid on a bank. Loeb managed to get into Walter’s safe, stealing a piece of the teleportation device he hid many years ago.

Pattern-relation: 8/10

1.11 Bound

The team come within yards of the Observer as he walks past Harvard University. Olivia, Walter and Peter convene to understand the nature of ZFT’s ‘human cold’ virus that has just killed a professor.

Pattern-relation: 7/10

1.12 The No Brainer

Olivia rushes home to prevent a computer programme from melting Ella’s brain. The Observer watches from the street corner, looking somewhat ‘photoshoppy’.

Pattern-relation: 1/10

1.13 The Transformation

The Observer stands on the football field as as the plane overhead plummets to its doom. Many of the passengers were already dead by the time the plane crashed -- they were killed by a undercover government agent who had been dosed with a virus, transforming him into a rampaging beast.

Pattern-relation: 7/10

1.14 Ability

Pattern-relation: 8.5/10

The Observer looks bleak as a poor newsstand clerk begins to suffer the effects of David Jones’ orifice-sealing virus.

1.15 Inner Child

The Observer sees mini Observer (AKA The Child) as he is driven to his new guardian.They seem to communicate even though no words are uttered.

Pattern-relation: 8.5/10

1.16 Unleashed

The fedora-less Observer is caught on camera as he walks past the WNKW news crew.

Pattern-relation: 6.5/10

1.17 Bad Dreams

As the team rush to Nick Lane’s rooftop congregation, the Observer has already seen what he needs to see and strolls away purposefully.

Pattern-relation: 9.10

1.18 Midnight

The prophetic Observer circles Valerie Boone’s target.

1.19 The Road Not Taken

The Observer visits Walter in his Lab and tells him that he must come with him. Walter grabs his coat and follows the Observer.

Pattern-relation: 9.5/10

1.20 There’s More Than One of Everything

The Observer leads Walter to his old beach house so that he can find the plug to prevent David Jones from crossing over to the parallel reality. The Observer helps to jog Walt’s memory by giving him a coin resembling the one his original son used to collect -- “there’s more than one of everything”, he says, before remembering that he shouldn’t “get involved”.

Pattern-relation: 10/10

1.21 Unearthed

Season 2

2.01 A New Day In The Old Town

A man matching the description of the Observer was seen in the vicinity of Olivia’s near-miss car crash with a shapeshifting soldier from another universe.

Pattern-relation: 9/10

2.02 Night of Desirable Objects

The Observer stands in the cornfield as the team investigate more strange goings-on.

Pattern-relation: 2/10

2.03 Fracture

A courier drops off a case full of Walter photos. It has been speculated that some of the photos are of Alter-Walter.

Pattern-relation: 9/10

2.04 Momentum Deferred

We’d notice that neck anywhere. This photo was taken as Olivia met a shapeshifter, posing as Charlie Francis, outside of the Massive Dynamic offices. This is his third reported sighting at Massive Dynamic.

Pattern-relation: 9/10

2.05 Dream Logic

Olivia doesn’t see the Observer as he leaves Dr. Nayak’s sleep clinic via the stairs.

Pattern Relation: 2/10

2.06 Earthling

The Obsever at the airport, walking through gate 43, observing Broyles.

Pattern-relation: 3/10

2.07 Of Human Action

The Observer watches as the cops wing their way to a hostage scene.

Pattern Relation: 7/10

2.08 “August”

There’s more than one Observer in August.

Pattern-relation: 9.5/10

2.09 Snakehead

The Observer on a stroll through China Town.

Pattern-relation: 2/10

2.10 Grey Matters

2.11 Johari Window

Following The Observer (video)

THE OBSERVERS -- HISTORICAL SIGHTINGS

The Observers have been spotted throughout time, observing important events in our history.

Archives offer evidence that the Observers were around during the Boston Massacre in 1770.

Observers was also depicted during the time of Marie Antionnette.

..and in 1914 -- seen here moments before Franz Ferdinand and his wife Countess Sophie, were shot dead -- an important event which sparked Word War I.

Out of Show Observer Sightings (+ Viral)

The Observer at an NFL game.

Rare footage of the Observer at a Nascar race back in April 09′.

Video footage of the Observer at American Idol.

This photo was taken at the Yankeesv Indians Baseball game in April 2009.

Some candid shots of the Observer -- taken by his courier.

Video and photo evidence from the Observer appearance the the 2009 Television Critics Association party.

Observer appearance at MLB All-Star game on 7/14.

Multiple Observer sightings in November 2009 (tracker).

Culture/Technology/lifestyle

The Observers technology is low-tech in appearance but extremely futuristic in effect.

The Observers cannot taste much, hence September’s penchant for jalapenos and hot sauce.

Their writing is seemingly not of this world -- or perhaps it is very ancient, or very futuristic. Maybe it’s code, thus preventing others from infiltrating their communications?

Links/references:

• http://fringebloggers.com
• http://fringe-forum.com
• http://www.facebook.com/theobserver
• http://www.youtube.com/user/iFMagazine
• http://www.youtube.com/user/gtrsmith87
• http://www.youtube.com/user/jlrnk51
• http://www.youtube.com/user/heavyraines17
• http://www.youtube.com/user/FringeRus