Fringe (season 3)
Episodes

Fringe (season 3)

Section Title: Episodes
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No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)

44	1	"Olivia"	Joe Chappelle	J. H. Wyman & Jeff Pinkner	September 23, 2010	3X6101	5.83

In the parallel universe, Olivia manages to escape "Walternate"'s clutches and takes taxi driver Henry (Andre Royo) hostage to get around New York.

45	2	"The Box"	Jeffrey Hunt	Josh Singer & Graham Roland	September 30, 2010	3X6102	5.24

In the prime universe, Thomas Jerome Newton sends men to recover a box buried in the basement of a residence, which is part of Walternate's doomsday device.

46	3	"The Plateau"	Brad Anderson	Alison Schapker & Monica Owusu-Breen	October 7, 2010	3X6103	5.19

Back in the parallel universe, Olivia, Charlie, and Lincoln find after multiple accidents that the cause is Milo Stanfield (Michael Eklund), a man who suffered from low-functioning autism, but since underwent treatment with nootropic drugs, developing an incredible ability to calculate cause and effect to set off chain reactions that he uses to precipitate statistically impossible deaths.

47	4	"Do Shapeshifters Dream of Electric Sheep?"	Ken Fink	David Wilcox & Matthew Pitts	October 14, 2010	3X6104	5.22

In the prime universe, U.S. senator James Van Horn (Gerard Plunkett) is hospitalised following a car accident.

48	5	"Amber 31422"	David Straiton	Josh Singer & Ethan Gross	November 4, 2010	3X6105	4.80

In the parallel universe, a twin frees his brother from amber. Walternate reveals that those who are trapped in amber aren't dead, but in suspended animation and those who are released will compromise its structural integrity.

49	6	"6955 kHz"	Joe Chappelle	Robert Chiappetta & Glen Whitman	November 11, 2010	3X6106	4.82

In the prime universe, Walter is dismayed to learn that Peter is continuing to study the blueprints from the doomsday device.

50	7	"The Abducted"	Chuck Russell	David Wilcox & Graham Roland	November 18, 2010	3X6107	4.85

In the parallel universe, Olivia has to deal with a serial kidnapper known as the "Candyman", who kidnaps children then releases them a few days later, but released with severe health problems after draining the hormones from their pituitary glands, which the Candyman uses to maintain his youth.

51	8	"Entrada"	Brad Anderson	Jeff Pinkner & J. H. Wyman	December 2, 2010	3X6108	5.13

Realising she has been exposed, Fauxlivia drugs Peter and escapes. The next morning, the team find the typewriter (a "quantum entanglement" device) used to contact the parallel universe in a typewriter store.

52	9	"Marionette"	Joe Chappelle	Monica Owusu-Breen & Alison Schapker	December 9, 2010	3X6109	4.74

The Fringe team tracks down cases of people having had donated organs removed. They come to learn the organs all belong to the same person, Amanda, a young ballerina that committed suicide.

53	10	"The Firefly"	Charles Beeson	J. H. Wyman & Jeff Pinkner	January 21, 2011	3X6110	4.87

A series of events leads Walter to befriending musical icon Roscoe Joyce (Christopher Lloyd), keyboardist of Walter's favorite band, Violet Sedan Chair.

54	11	"Reciprocity"	Jeannot Szwarc	Josh Singer	January 28, 2011	3X6111	4.53

The Fringe team and Massive Dynamic have assembled the buried components of the doomsday device, speculated to be an artifact of the "First People", a lost civilization that supposedly existed until the "mother of all mass extinctions".

55	12	"Concentrate and Ask Again"	Dennis Smith	Graham Roland & Matthew Pitts	February 4, 2011	3X6112	4.26

A biological attack leaves a man dead, with no bones in his body. Fearing the start of a larger incident, the Fringe team track one culprit but he is hit by a car and falls into a coma.

56	13	"Immortality"	Brad Anderson	David Wilcox & Ethan Gross	February 11, 2011	3X6113	3.74

In the parallel universe, the Fringe team investigates the deaths of two people, killed by the apparently extinct "skelter beetle". With Fauxlivia's boyfriend Frank's help, they track the cases to Dr.

57	14	"6B"	Thomas Yatsko	Glen Whitman & Robert Chiappetta	February 18, 2011	3X6114	4.02

Strange physical behavior, including the deaths of six partygoers, in an apartment building leads Walter to believe that the same damage to the fabric of space-time occurring in the parallel universe is occurring in the prime one, and with Massive Dynamic's help, prepare a means to encase the building and surrounding area in the amber-like substance they had previously encountered.

58	15	"Subject 13"	Frederick E. O. Toye	Jeff Pinkner & J. H. Wyman & Akiva Goldsman	February 25, 2011	3X6115	4.02

Following from the second-season episode "Peter", this episode returns to 1985 to recount events after Peter's abduction. Elizabeth, worried that Peter will kill himself trying to return to what he believes is his home, takes him to Jacksonville, where Walter is conducting Cortexiphan trials on children.

59	16	"Os"	Brad Anderson	Josh Singer & Graham Roland	March 11, 2011	3X6116	3.64

The Fringe team investigates a case of thieves stealing rare metals that appear to float from the ground. Walter identifies traces of the elements osmium and lutetium in their blood, the alloy inexplicably creating a material lighter than air.

60	17	"Stowaway"	Charles Beeson	Story by: J. H. Wyman & Jeff Pinkner & Akiva Goldsman Teleplay by: Danielle Dispaltro	March 18, 2011	3X6117	3.80

Bell, in possession of Olivia's body, promises that no harm will come to her and he will leave it after finding a suitable host.

61	18	"Bloodline"	Dennis Smith	Alison Schapker & Monica Owusu-Breen	March 25, 2011	3X6118	3.84

In the parallel universe, Fauxlivia is kidnapped and given a procedure to accelerate the birth of her child. As the Fringe division searches for her captors, Lincoln and Charlie learn that Fauxlivia and Olivia of the prime universe had recently temporarily swapped places, and become distrustful of Walternate.

62	19	"Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"	Joe Chappelle	Story by: Jeff Pinkner & J. H. Wyman & Akiva Goldsman Teleplay by: J. H. Wyman & Jeff Pinkner	April 15, 2011	3X6119	3.65

Realizing that Olivia's soul is in danger of being lost due to her possession by William Bell, the team battles frantically to extract Bell's consciousness from Olivia's body.

63	20	"6:02 AM EST"	Jeannot Szwarc	David Wilcox & Josh Singer & Graham Roland	April 22, 2011	3X6120	3.33

In the parallel universe, Walternate activates his doomsday machine, triggering devastation in the prime universe. Peter realizes he has no choice but to enter the machine and try and break the circuit.

64	21	"The Last Sam Weiss"	Thomas Yatsko	Monica Owusu-Breen & Alison Schapker	April 29, 2011	3X6121	3.52

Following the continuing disintegration of the prime universe, the Fringe team races to prevent the destruction of their world. FBI agent Olivia Dunham recruits Sam Weiss for help while Peter recovers from touching the doomsday machine in the previous episode.

65	22	"The Day We Died"	Joe Chappelle	Story by: Akiva Goldsman & J. H. Wyman & Jeff Pinkner Teleplay by: Jeff Pinkner & J. H. Wyman	May 6, 2011	3X6122	3.29

Peter, who has entered the prime version of the machine with Olivia's help, experiences a vision of the future where the parallel universe has been destroyed and the same threatens the prime one.

Sentence(s)

Fringe ended its third season with 5.83 million viewers.

final_sentence: Fringe ended its third season with 5.83 million viewers.