An Observer makes contact with the Fringe Team to help rectify a mistake. Meanwhile, Walter befriends Roscoe Joyce, keyboardist for Walter's favorite 1970s band, “Violet Sedan Chair.” Walter will learn the real reason the band broke up, and realize that the lives of these two men, who have never met before, overlap in strange and unexpected ways.
FBI agents Olivia Dunham and Peter Bishop are faced with a rapidly spreading unexplained phenomenon of the threatening kind. In an attempt to stop the spread, they enlist the assistance of Bishop's estranged father, the institutionalized scientist Dr. Walter Bishop
Fox’s “Fringe” returns to the air January 21st, with the first of six new episodes in a brand-new Friday 9 p.m. timeslot. Starring Anna Torv and Joshua Jackson, the J.J. Abrams series follows the work of a fictional FBI “Fringe Division,” which explores unusual crimes (many of which originate from a parallel universe) using Fringe science and convoluted code-breaking methodologies.