THE OBSERVER FILES
Who are the Observers?
The Observers have been recorded at numerous events and locations throughout time and space. History is littered with their presence. Important moments observed: wars, presidential inaugurations, inter-reality invasions, Peter kidnappings. Perhaps even this very site at this very moment…
The Observers are here, and whether we like it or not, they are influencing our past, present and future.
Fringe Observer Sightings – Complete Episode & Season Listing
Use the following links to view Observer appearances by season or continue reading for to see all Observer sightings throughout the entire series of Fringe:
- Season 1 (this page)
- Season 2
- Season 3
- Season 4
- Misc & ‘Real World’ Sightings
Season 1
Fringe opening sequence: The very first Observer ‘sighting’, coupled with the infamous blue lights.
1.01 Pilot
The Observer was first spotted walking past Massive Dynamic headquarters, possibly tracking Olivia’s meeting with Nina Sharp.
1.02 The Same Old Story
The Observer was seen at the hospital where man-baby died. He watches our Fringe Team as they arrive at the scene.
1.03 The Ghost Network
The Observer is already on the train as Olivia breezes past him in pursuit of her target.
1.04 The Arrival
In his first centric episode, September has a bite to eat while waiting for the arrival of a mysterious cylinder that would recur throughout the series.
1.05 Power Hungry
The Observer leaves the elevator as Joseph Meegar enters and overrides the system, causing it to plummet
1.06 The Cure
The Observer walks right past our intrepid agent as she plays mind games with Intrepus boss, David Esterbrook.
1.07 In Which We Meet Mr. Jones
The Observer departs the scene as Olivia arrives in Germany.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Sonic The Hedgehog.
1.14 Ability
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 eyes the mini Observer (AKA The Child) as he is driven to his new guardian. They seem to communicated in ways we can only speculate.
1.16 Unleashed
The fedora-less Observer is caught on camera as he walks past the WNKW news crew.
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.
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.
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”.
1.21 Unearthed
