Observer Files
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.
2.02 Night of Desirable Objects
The Observer stands in the cornfield as the team investigate more strange goings-on.
2.03 Fracture
A courier gives September a briefcase containing photos of Walter Bishop.
2.04 Momentum Deferred
An Observer watches as Olivia meets Shapeshifter Charlie outside Massive Dynamic. This is his third reported sighting at Massive Dynamic.
2.05 Dream Logic
Olivia fails to observer the Observer as he leaves Dr. Nayak’s sleep clinic.
2.06 Earthling
Broyles has no idea he’s being observed.
2.07 Of Human Action
The Observer watches as the cops wing their way to a hostage scene.
2.08 “August”
There’s more than one Observer in August.
2.09 Snakehead
The Observer takes a stroll through Chinatown.
2.10 Grey Matters
2.11 Johari Window
2.12 What Lies Below
2.13 The Bishop Revival
2.14 Jacksonville
2.15 “Peter”
2.16 Olivia. In The Lab. With The Revolver.
2.17 White Tulip
2.18 The Man From The Other Side
2.19 “Brown Betty”
2.20 “Northwest Passage”
2.21 “Over There – Part 1″
2.22 “Over There – Part 2″
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Updated with 2.08 Observer sighting.
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saw an observer in the new episode # 21 of last season that aired tonight when Olivia was talking with the religious mother after mass. he walked right behind Olivia.
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I saw the observer walk behind olivia while talking to the mother as well… in the latest episode aired last night..(the one dated back from season 1).
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U Saw me?
That’s Impossible!!
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:-0
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I have a CRAZY idea. September and the Inner Child are the same person.
Perhaps that’s why he’s so partial to the Fringies, why he seems more and more willing to share. Perhaps there’s some distant part of him that remembers the nice old man who did a little dance to calm him down, the cool guy who played with GI Joes, the nice lady who gave him M&Ms, the hip black lady that was constantly being knocked out.
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The old pictures of The Observer are not real. Must’ve been photoshoped or something. I googled the pictures; no bald guy!
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No duh. If they really did exist, then the world would be in commotion.
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I’d personally crap myself if Observers really did show up everywhere in history, and then I’d lock myself in a safe room and wait for the end…
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This is a great article! The only issue I take is with the arbitrary and subjective “Pattern-relation:” number. Can you tell us in this article how this number is calculated or on what it is based? It seems evident to me that the numbers were inaccurate and frequently too high particularly for about a half dozen of the episodes in season 1. The astounding thing about the observers in season 1, outside of episode 4, and the newsstand moment in 14 (I think) is that they typically aren’t watching pattern events unfold. Rather they are watching a particular group of individuals and observing their behaviors and actions and that group of individuals happens to frequently correlation or surround in a tertiary fashion the actual pattern events themselves. To me this is a critical distinction. The idea that the observers are somehow related to pattern events is misguided disinformation from within the realm of the show itself. That ideas is nearly as preposterous as the disinformation we get at the end of 2.08 from the military guy that forebodes something to the effect of “whatever they’re doing here, we’re gonna be ready for em when they invade and we’re gonna strike em where it hurts.” OH BROTHER! Rewatch the footage of each observer sighting. It is the rare exception and not the rule that the observers actually witness a pattern event itself. The more important questions raised by season 2 episode 8 are “Why have they chosen to observe the objects (frequently people) of their observation?” “This recurring theme of ‘disallowed intervention’ by both Walter’s observer (repeatedly I might add) and the girl’s observer in season 2 episode 8 – what does it portend?” “Why could Peter operate their weapons when no one else on this side of the multiverse except the observers themselves has?”
I advocate that until we have a rock solid correlation and a meaningful statistic or calculation about the strength of each correlation, that the pattern-relation number be dropped so it doesn’t mislead.
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Hi jkyarr,
Good question. The “Pattern-relation” indicator is based on relevance to the Pattern and/or the Observers overarching objective. I agree that it would be good to find a less subjective method, though I fear any method would require some subjectivity. We’re working on a more ‘scientific’ system though.
I would have to disagree that the Observers are not related to the Pattern. I think there’s enough evidence to suggest that the Observers are very much interested in the Pattern and the events/people surrounding it. The season 1 finale was perhaps one of the best examples of this. Although, granted, the writers could very well scrap their previous trajectory, considering the “Pattern” has been kept in the background for most of the second season.
Do you mean 2.03, when colonel Gordon offers his warning to Broyles? To be honest, I’m not so sure he is necessarily referring exclusively to the Observers. Sure, we see the cut scene with the courier bringing the suitcase to September, but I think it’s possible that Gordon was referring to the alternate reality (the shapeshifters and their masters) in general. That photo of Walter may even have been alter-Walter? I get the impression that the Observers are more like referees that the ‘opposition’.
That said, I could be wrong, and things may change as we find out more.
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DER….
The sentence should read “Rather they are watching a particular group of individuals and observing their behaviors and actions and that group of individuals happens to frequently correlate to (or, at least, surround in a tertiary fashion) the actual pattern events themselves.”
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This blog = win
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from episode Olivia in the lab. with the revolver
http://www.hulu.com/watch/139645/fringe-olivia-in-the-lab-with-the-revolver#s-p1-so-i0
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THE PHOTO A AND B OF THE WRITE FROM THE DIARY OF THE OBSERVER ARE DIFFERENT :O
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I believe the observer for 2.18 is standing in the bank line just before the shapeshifters are talking to one another around 22/23 minutes
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For 2.20: I thought the observer was around 6 minutes in the unfocused background, but I can’t match every detail in the background shots of the junkyard? I know the observer is not in the supermarket with Walter, but I have not looked at the last series of shots in the open at the end of the episode. However, I wonder if the observers are even in this episode given that at the end of 2.18, not even they, knew where Peter was, except that he had not returned to Walter.
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LOL, just did an anagram on ‘Observer’. Came out as ‘ever bros.’
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Observer can be spotted in the famous photograph of the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald after his arrest as a suspect in President Kennedy’s assassination on November 22, 1963. http://i38.tinypic.com/dlrmkk.jpg
Compare with original : http://tinyurl.com/26jlbkb
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Have anyone noticed that the scheme of lights/colours used by the rogue woman in episode 01.08 (“The equation”) to mesmerize people was already present in episode 01.04 (“The arrival”)? The hitman with the strange gun (so similar to the ones used by the Observers themselves, by the way…) wore a hat with four coloured dots on it: green – green – green – red… Maybe this detail was intended to suggest a kind of connection between the Observers and the people (whoever they are: shapeshifters, ZFT terrorists, the military…) who hired the rogue… In fact, the connection between the Observers and the people using this sequence of colours appears more clear in Season Two, as the same succession of green – green – green – red lights appears in episode 02.08 (“August”) on the device by which the Observers take contact with their hitman, in order to have the young girl “rectified”…
English is not my native language, so I apologize for any error.
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This is a great article! The only issue I take is with the arbitrary and subjective “Pattern-relation:” number. Can you tell us in this article how this number is calculated or on what it is based? It seems evident to me that the numbers were inaccurate and frequently too high particularly for about a half dozen of the episodes in season 1. The astounding thing about the observers in season 1, outside of episode 4, and the newsstand moment in 14 (I think) is that they typically aren’t watching pattern events unfold. Rather they are watching a particular group of individuals and observing their behaviors and actions and that group of individuals happens to frequently correlation or surround in a tertiary fashion the actual pattern events themselves. To me this is a critical distinction. The idea that the observers are somehow related to pattern events is misguided disinformation from within the realm of the show itself. That ideas is nearly as preposterous as the disinformation we get at the end of 2.08 from the military guy that forebodes something to the effect of “whatever they’re doing here, we’re gonna be ready for em when they invade and we’re gonna strike em where it hurts.” OH BROTHER! Rewatch the footage of each observer sighting. It is the rare exception and not the rule that the observers actually witness a pattern event itself. The more important questions raised by season 2 episode 8 are “Why have they chosen to observe the objects (frequently people) of their observation?” “This recurring theme of ‘disallowed intervention’ by both Walter’s observer (repeatedly I might add) and the girl’s observer in season 2 episode 8 – what does it portend?” “Why could Peter operate their weapons when no one else on this side of the multiverse except the observers themselves has?”
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Roco, you have to update this topic with an image for S3 Ep.1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GKeLcc1XQs
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3.03: The bridge scene with Milo jumping off. The Watcher is on the left in two seperate shots.
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around 18 minutes into episode 04 os season 4 ” Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep? ” when olivia peter and broyles meet walter in the basement of massive dynamics… he can be seen in 2 scenes walking past them .
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I’m just trying to think like a a screenwriter – don’t know if it’s been speculated elsewhere – but are the Observers perhaps the First People? Did their device (the device that Peter is toying with) split the Universe in two, creating the alternate reality? Could the device ‘reunite’ the two universes, ‘overwriting’ one with the other, effectively ‘deleting’ the other Universe in the process?
Or worse, the device would bring back the reality the First People inadvertently destroyed by creating the device – with the Observers being the last remnant of a self-annihilated super-civilization bent on destroying both worlds to reclaim their own reality? A terrible world with no Torv?
If I was writing the script I’d look at having season 3 end with both worlds realising their conflict has been somehow engineered by the Observers, and season 4 would be about the 2 realities teaming up to fight them. Because two Olivias = maximum Torvage = heaven.
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Nope,
the observers and the first people are separate entities.
My guess is that Sam Weiss is one of the first people
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Hi Buvas, how do you know for sure the observers and the first people are separate entities? Did I miss something in one of the episodes that confirms this?
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the producers said in an interview that “the observers and the first people are not the same”.. the interview had something to do with sam weiss so if ur searching it i’d add his name in
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The Observer That Dies In August’ mabe the Little Boy in ‘Inner Child’ is his replacemnt?!?!?!?!?
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I agree, I never thought they were. i do wonder if however the guy from the bowling alie is a remnant of the first people.
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Can anyone please tell me where The Observer is in 3.05 “Amber 31422″?
even with the screenshot I still can’t find him…
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Out-dated: Fringe 307 The Abducted. The Observer a bit better spotted.
A (open): http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae1/indigo-pics/Fringe/Fringe307Oa.jpg
B (located): http://i952.photobucket.com/albums/ae1/indigo-pics/Fringe/Fringe307Ob.jpg
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Did anyone notice that the first Observer in 318 (Bloodline), the one who watches Altlivia’s house, looks like the late lamented August?
??????
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I thought so too!
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ITS LIKE WHERES WALLY!!!
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I’m gonna go as an observer for halloween, and just sort-of stand at the end of the street with the little binoculars and notebook! I’m gonna shave my head and maybe even my eyebrows! It’ll be great.
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I guess there are 12 observers, they seem to be named after months of the year. I counted the observers in the final scene of season 3′s finale and there were 12. So any guesses on what’s up with that? They have an affinity for the real MIB (men in black) mythology.
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Marty you obviously counted rong, as there were 10 observers at the final seen of season 3, 1 died in the past season and there is a missing one…soo there is a missing observer for some uknown reason.
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The Observers are time keepers and watchers….
They watch through out history by making sure there is no ripples in time…
They also make sure there is no mistakes in time,keeping things in order.
Although being around and exposed human emotions for a long period of time.
The Observers have been watching both universes or worlds. For “Centuries”
Watching our progress maybe its starting to effect some of them in some chronological way.
They are starting to feel something or have a conscience or soul,if that’s what you wish to call it.
Something that is not known to them.
Like love or remorse these are very strong emotion to the body.
There bodies could be adapting to Earth and Humanity.
Or we “Humans” are there experimental research in both universes or worlds…..
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Is it just me, or does the very idea of The Observers remind you of The Watchers from The Silver Surfer? A similar notion…The Watchers were one of the oldest species in the universe, and took on the job of compiling information and knowledge on anything and everything, and compiling it in The Universal Library. They also had a rule of non interference. They were technologically advanced.
IF Fringe stole this idea, then they’ve certainly done so with creativity and style!
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http://imageshack.us/f/99/observer312.jpg/
Season 4, Episode 12. Observer Observing the plane crash because of the magnetic field appearing.
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I’m pretty sure I saw the observer on the airplane crash episode and I also saw him once a long time ago when Peter was still on “His timeline.”
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*Spoiler…. Sorry*
I love how the observers have all these rules, “Don’t change things, etc. etc. etc.” But then September ruins everything.
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Hi,
I have a copy of the Fringe pilot that has a different intro that does not have the Observer (Easter egg) message and the first Observer sighting has been cut out!!! The Massive Dynamics building is different, more abstract and angular and Olivia’s taxi arrives from the other direction. I had to watch my Blu-ray copy to see these missing scenes. Were these missing from the pilot when it was initially aired on TV and then added later for the DVD/Blu-ray release???
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I’ve got the observer sighting to end all observer sightings…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTPFFgOyEKc&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Go to 2:03…
Now here’s the kicker, that’s from Doctor Who, and it was taped in 1979!
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Just a coincidence?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJ0TP4nTaE
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Hey, guys, did anyone spot an Observer in 4.19?
I couldn’t lol.
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okay, let’s get the observers, or watchers straight. The machine was placed by walter. The first people used it and wiped themselves out. Special features of season three revealthat the apple glyph has two embryos in it, they represent the two worlds. the two worlds started out as one and like twins, split apart into two universes or worlds. My guess is that has to do with the machine. The observers are not the first people, neither are the shapshifters, or Sam weiss’ ancestors. Sam weiss’ ancestors protected the truth of the first people. Although, there is no proof against the weiss’ being human shapeshifter hybrids?? The observers’ purpose is to make sure that the spiral walter started a long time ago by bringing back peter is corrected. Also, they watch important events in human history and record their surrondings. And they can’t taste.
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Great post, i hope Semptember is alive and i want to see him again maybe in the other timeline…
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http://hot.net.hr/planet-x/bliski-susreti/video-ljudi-u-crnom-dosli-po-glavnog-nlo-istrazitelja
check this out. from Croatian newspapers, the headline means “Men in black came for UFO investigator”.
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Lol ! The Observers are everywhere.
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I Think I saw several observers during some episodes of the fifth season…
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