Fringe

Fringe (2008)

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Bound - S1-E11

Visible crew/equipment: When Oliva punches Mitchell Loeb and he collapses against the car, you can briefly see the reflection of some crew members, one wearing a yellow jacket. (00:44:00)

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Bound - S1-E11

Visible crew/equipment: During one of the shots when they corner Mitchell Loeb at the phone booth, you can briefly see a reflection of the entire crew on one of the cars.

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The No-Brainer - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: Near the end of the episode, when Brian Dempsey is threatening to kill himself, the gun he is pointing at Olivia switches hands. He is holding the revolver under his chin with his right hand in closeups, but in shots of Olivia, he is pointing her gun at her with his left hand.

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The Transformation - S1-E13

Factual error: When Walter removes the glass disk from Bowman's hand, he asks for a forcep, but is given a hemostat, which he uses to pull out the disk. My mother is a doctor, and when she saw this scene, she burst out laughing.

Brad

Ability - S1-E14

Visible crew/equipment: After Olivia shuts down the bomb, Peter asks, "How did you do that?" and in the wide shot showing Olivia saying, "I don't know," a light from outside the building brightens the room, and you can briefly see the reflection of a crewmember in the glass window. (00:44:15)

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Inner Child - S1-E15

Continuity mistake: Olivia, Broyles, Peter and Walter are visiting the boy for the first time at the hospital. A small bit of Olivia's hair is in front of her left shoulder. Cut to the immediate next shot from the patient's room and all of her hair is behind of shoulder. (00:07:05)

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Inner Child - S1-E15

Continuity mistake: This is when Olivia goes to visit the boy at the hospital the second time. She and the guy from Department of Social Services go outside to talk. One of the shots is flipped. Note Olivia's notepad and the heart monitor by his bed. (00:19:40)

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Inner Child - S1-E15

Continuity mistake: When Olivia calls Broyles to ask him to move the child, the shot of Broyles answering the phone is a recycled shot from the episode "Safe". In addition, the shot is flipped, as can be seen by the fact that Broyles' watch is on his right wrist rather than his left.

Brad

Unleashed - S1-E16

Audio problem: When Olivia calls Astrid to tell her it wasn't Walter's research, we cut to Astrid who says, "Good news", but her lips do not move. (00:33:57)

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Midnight - S1-E18

Plot hole: When interrogating Boone, Olivia shows him a photo of a body with the spine torn out in the woods. This body hasn't been found yet, as a later scene has Olivia and Peter go to the same location and find the body. You can tell it's the same body because the shirt is the same in both the picture and the crime scene.

Brad

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Midnight - S1-E18

Continuity mistake: At the club, when Peter and Olivia are looking for Valeria, Peter is wearing an ear piece in his left ear. When he talks to the woman, the piece is missing.

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A New Day in the Old Town - S2-E1

Other mistake: The killer from another dimension shape shifts into the appearance of the victim, leaving the victim's body. But it transforms into Charlie's appearance and leaves behind its former female nurse shape, hiding Charlie's body to dispose of later. It would have needed to transform from the nurse shape, not out of nothing. The original nurse's body was not at that location.

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Suggested correction: The shapeshifter transformed into Charlie using his dead body which it then disposes of at the end of the episode.

But when the shapeshifter transforms into Charlie, he shouldn't be leaving the body of the nurse behind since he had killed the nurse before entering the hospital and transformed there into her. The only dead body in that last scene should be Charlie's.

Olivia Dunham: I just want to go back to before.
Phillip Broyles: Dunham, I don't think you can.

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Trivia: Oceanic Airlines occasionally features in Fringe - the same airline that carried the key characters in Lost, another JJ Abrams show.

Jeff Walker

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The No-Brainer - S1-E12

Question: Why would Luke Dempsey be arrested along with his father? He had no idea what his father was doing, never aided him in any way and only found out the truth after catching him in the act.

Answer: He helped his father evade capture, impeding the investigation.

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