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Season 3, Episode 8
Air date December 2, 2010
Written by Jeff Pinkner
J.H. Wyman
Directed by Brad Anderson
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"Entrada" is the eighth episode of the third season of Fringe.




Peter searches

Peter searches Olivia's laptop

Peter phone call

Peter receives the phone call.

At the end of the previous episode, "The Abducted", Olivia Dunham was able to cross over back to her universe long enough to warn Peter Bishop she is trapped in the parallel universe. After receiving the message Peter tests Fauxlivia by telling her the Greek phrase:"Να είναι καλύτερος άνθρωπος από τον πατέρα του/Na einai kalytero anthropo apo ton patera toy (roughly, "May he be a better person than his father"), which Dunham told Peter after her car crash. ("A New Day In The Old Town") When Fauxlivia fails to recognize the phrase, Peter confirms his suspicions. Realizing she has been exposed, Fauxlivia forces Peter to
Oliva and peter

Fauxlivia holding Peter at gunpoint.

inject himself with a paralyzing agent. She then goes to a typewriter store in the Bronx to contact the parallel universe to request an extraction. After Peter recovers, the Fringe team start a search for Fauxlivia. However, Walter Bishop is distressed on not knowing how to find Fauxlivia, nor finding a

Peter finds the typewriter

way to bring their Dunham back. However, Astrid Farnsworth discovers Fauxlivia brought Walter Malasadas from a bakery in the Bronx. Peter, Walter, Farnsworth and Phillip Broyles search the nearby area, Peter finds the typewriter store and the team finds the typewriter used to contact the other universe (a "quantum entanglement" device). There, the team realize Fauxlivia is to go to a train station for a 4 pm pick up.
Olivia tests

Olivia being tested on

Meanwhile, in the parallel universe, Walternate plans on using Dunham's body in order for her alternate self to return home, as it would require a person of Dunham's mass to complete the transfer, however Walternate arranges for Dunham's brain to be removed for testing on how to traverse universes safely. Before she is to start the operation, Phillip Broyles (Alternate Universe) visits
Olivia begs

Olivia convinces Broyles.

her, where Dunham convinces him her universe is not at war with theirs; it all started when Walter from her universe crossed over to save Peter. Broyles later talks with his wife, Diane Broyles (Alternate Universe), before returning to save Dunham. Together, the two find the water tank Dunham used earlier, but find it empty. As a back-up plan, the two go to Walternate's lab in Harvard, which
Broyles mutilated body

Mutilated body of Broyles.

was long abandoned, to use the sensory deprivation tank. However, Broyles reveals there is a GPS tracker in him, but buys Dunham enough time to successfully return back to her universe.
Peter closes in

Fringe team closes in on Fauxlivia.

As this transpires, Fauxlivia meets with Luke, a Shape-shifter, at the station to inject her with resonating rods. By that time, Broyles and Peter arrive at the station. To ensure her escape, Fauxlivia holds a hostage. However, Peter realizes the hostage is the shapeshifter, after the hostage fails to recognize the name of "her" daughter, also present in the station; Peter shoots the shape-shifter in the head, killing it, and Fauxlivia is arrested. Later, the team learn
Olivia arrested

Fauxlivia is arrested.

that their Olivia has returned. However, Fauxlivia still manages to escape back to her universe, leaving behind the mutilated body of the alternate counterpart of Broyles to make up for her mass. While Peter and Olivia reunite at a hospital, the typewriter Store Owner trades an unknown man a piece of the doomsday device in exchange for the restoration of his paralyzed legs.

Notable QuotesEdit

Colonel Broyles: I have a decision to make.
Diane Broyles: Okay.
Colonel Broyles: Remember when I joined Fringe Division?
Diane Broyles: Mm-hmm.



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Astrid: "Vagenda"?


  • The Observer is seen standing outside of Springsteen station right after it switches from their universe to ours.
  • For the first time, the opening blends together elements from both universes' openings, alternating between the red-toned shots from odd numbered alternate universe episodes and blue-toned shots from episodes concentrating on the universe prime.
  • Although credited, Blair Brown (Nina Sharp) does not appear in this episode.
  • The episode title "Entrada" is Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Galician and means entry or entrance in each of the languages.




  • You Got It by Rooney



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