After having to wait several episodes for Peter (Joshua Jackson) to return to Fringe, the baseball gods decided the World Series needed more games and Fringe was in its path. As a result, tonight’s new episode of Fringe titled ‘Novation’ is airing a full three weeks since the last episode, ‘Subject 9,’ did on October 14.
In the closing moments of Subject 9, Peter escaped his limbo imprisonment to return to the new timeline he helped create at the conclusion of Season 3. He has no idea there’s a new timeline, and likewise. everyone around him has no idea who he is since technically he never existed as an adult.
In the new timeline, Peter died in the lake as a child when Walter tried to snatch him from the alt-verse. Yet here is this guy showing up, claiming to be Peter, and knowing far more about the Fringe division and everyone involved with it than he should. The table, as they say, is now set.
Fox has been releasing several neat Fringe ‘Novation’ teasers over the past few weeks while the show was in a baseball induced hiatus. I’ve collected all I could find below in anticipation of the show’s, and Peter’s, return tonight.
