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-{{Infobox Television episode
-| Title = Pilot
-| Series = Fringe
-| Image =[[Image:Fringe intertitle.png|250px]]‎
-| Caption = Fringe intertitle
-| Season = 1
-| Episode = 1
-| Airdate = [[September 9]] [[2008]]
-| Writer = [[J.J. Abrams]]<br>[[Alex Kurtzman]]<br>[[Roberto Orci]]<br>[[Jeff Pinkner]]<br>[[Bryan Burk]]
-| Director = [[Alex Graves]]
-| Guests = see below
-| Episode list = <!--[[Fringe (season 1)]]<br />[[List of Fringe episodes]]-->
-| Next = The Same Old Story
-}}
-'''Pilot''' is the first episode of the television series '''''[[Fringe (TV series)|Fringe]]''''', premiering on the [[Fox Broadcasting Company|FOX]] network on [[September 9]], [[2008]].<ref name="tvg">{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/detail/tv-show.aspx?tvobjectid=293813&more=ucepisodelist|title=''Fringe on Fox'' <nowiki>|</nowiki> TVGuide.com|publisher=[[TV Guide]]|accessdate=}}</ref> It was co-created by series creator [[J.J. Abrams]], [[Alex Kurtzman]], [[Roberto Orci]], [[Jeff Pinkner]] and [[Bryan Burk]] and directed by [[Alex Graves]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/fringe/cast/293813 |title=Fringe:Cast & Details |accessdate=2008-09-15 |work= |publisher= |date= }}</ref>
-The [[television pilot|pilot]] introduces the character Olivia Dunham (portrayed by [[Anna Torv]]), an FBI Special Agent drawn into largely secret world of applied [[fringe science]]. [[John Noble]] portrays Dr. Walter Bishop, a brilliant yet troubled scientist formerly incarcerated in a mental institution for over seventeen years. Joshua Jackson is cast as his antisocial, wise-cracking son, Peter. The episode introduces several themes that are designed to run the course of the series, such as the discovery of "the pattern", and the growing obsolescence and inability of government to restrict or control scientific advancement and experimentation. It also touches on the use of the whole world as a laboratory for these experiments, and the inherent danger to mankind this represents.
-While the pilot episode was set in and around Boston, aside from some exterior shots, production was largely set in [[Toronto]], [[Ontario]], [[Canada]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2008/07/tca-foxs-fringe.html|title=TCA: Fox's 'Fringe' won't be impenetrable, Abrams promises|publisher=[[LA Times]]|accessdate=}}</ref> though successive episodes will be filmed in [[New York]]. The series' premiere has been generally well received by critics.
-==Synopsis==
-The episode starts with a nervous man on an international flight, injecting himself with an insulin pen, but is instead a seemingly biological agent that quickly kills everyone aboard. The airplane's autopilot system lands the plane at [[Boston]]'s [[Logan Airport]], where various federal agencies create a task force to investigate what occurred during the flight.
-FBI Special Agent Olivia Dunham (Torv) is added to the resulting interagency task force headed by Phillip Broyles (Reddick), representing [[Department of Homeland Security|DHS]], and who's son she convicted (as a former military JAG officer). Following a tip, Agent Dunham and her partner, Agent Scott are sent to a storage facility, where they uncover an extensive biochemical laboratory, which explodes when detonated by a suspect they are chasing. Agent Scott (also her lover) is affected by the chemicals released in the explosion and his skin becomes transparent. He is put into an artificial coma to slow his symptoms and eventual death.
-While investigating a pissible cure to Scott's condition, Dunham recruits Peter Bishop (Jackson) to gain access to his father, Walter Bishop (Noble), whose top-secret work at Harvard in 1970's "fringe science" resulted in him being sent to a mental institution in lieu of being convicted of manslaughter. The elder Bishop's former lab partner William Bell has gone on to run what is now a multi-billion dollar company, Massive Dynamics.
-Agent Dunham, Peter and Walter Bishop use some of Bishop's "fringe science" to synchronize Dunham's brainwaves with her the comatose Scott's so she can read his mind and see the face of the man from the storage facility. Dr. Bishop claims that syncing brainwaves can be accomplished up to six hours after death.
-[[Image:Fringe leaf.jpg|thumb|right|promotional poster featuring a leaf containing an equilateral triange within it, on eof the many elements within the series and the only one to be used in the pilot episode.]]
-The discovery that the person who infected the airplane is the twin brother of the man from the storage unit explosion leads to his arrest. He initially refuses to provide a list of the ingredients in the toxin, but Peter threatens him with exposure him with exposure to the chemical, The brother provides the info, allowing for a cure to to be created for Scott's deteriorating condition, also revealing that he didn't sell his chemicals - he was forced into what he did by someone from her office. He leads her to a buried tape recording of his phone conversations about the chemicals and the attack. After listening to it, Dunham realizes it is the same conversation Scott was having upon arriving at the airplane at the beginning of the episode, recognizing the phrase "we'll treat you like family too."
-While she races back to the hospital, Scott awakens and suffocates kills the twin brother, also in the same hospital before attempting to escape He is chased by Dunham and eventually crashes, overturning his vehicle. Mortally wounded, his last words to her were to ask herself why Broyles sent her to investigate the storage units.
-Agent Dunham convinces the Bishops to stay and help her with her new work which Broylesdescribed as a task force to investigate events related to "the pattern".
-Elsewhere, Scott's dead body is wheeled by an orderly into a high-tech lab. A woman, identified earlier as a Massive Dynamics executive asks the orderly how long Scott had been dead. When he responds "five hours", she orders him to be questioned. The orderly accesses a hand-scanning panel, which accesses a lab containing an upgraded tank. The episode fades to black on the scan panel image: a slowly rotating [[Fibonacci]] leaf.
-==Cast==
-*'''[[Anna Torv]]''' as '''Olivia Dunham'''
-*'''[[Joshua Jackson]]''' as '''Peter Bishop'''
-*'''[[John Noble]]''' as '''Dr. Walter Bishop'''
-*'''[[Lance Reddick]]''' as '''Phillip Broyles'''
-*'''[[Kirk Acevedo]]''' as '''Charlie Francis'''
-*'''[[Mark Valley]]''' as '''John Scott'''
-*'''[[Blair Brown]]''' as '''Nina Sharp'''
-*'''[[Jasika Nicole]]''' as '''Astrid Farnsworth'''
-*'''[[Jason Butler Harner]]''' as '''Dr. Steig'''
-*'''[[Peter Outerbridge]]''' as '''Dr. Reyes'''
-==Production==
-===Ratings===
-The episode was seen by 9.13 million viewers and garnered 3.2/9 [[Nielsen Ratings]] among adults 18-49, with ratings improving over the course of the episode.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991982.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1&query=tv+ratings|title= 'Fringe' underwhelms but wins night|author= Rick Kissell|publisher= ''Variety''|date= 2008-09-10
-|accessdate= 2008-09-12}}</ref>
-==Reception==
-The episode received mostly positive reviews. Barry Garron at ''[[Hollywood Reporter]]'' found it promising because "it is reminiscent of better-of-the-sexes charm" <ref>{{cite web
-|url= http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/television/reviews/article_display.jsp?JSESSIONID=kCgnLG5b2Z3Hvp2J2pP6yt6Yw6pB1Nd2RMCtWnRt1NTLNsbyTn3z!2135715977&&rid=11637|title= TV Review: Fringe|author= Barry Garron|publisher= ''Hollywood Reporter''|date= 2008-09-08|accessdate= 2008-09-12}}</ref> ''[[USA Today]]'' 's Robert Bianco said, "What Abrams brings to Fringe is a director's eye for plot and pace, a fan's love of sci-fi excitement, and a story-teller's gift for investing absurd events with real emotions and relatable characters."<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/reviews/2008-09-08-fringe_N.htm?csp=34
-|title= Something great is out there: Fox's 'Fringe'|author= Robert Bianco|publisher= ''USA Today''|date= 2008-09-09|accessdate= 2008-09-12}}</ref> Travis Fickett of ''[[IGN]]'' gave it 7.6 out of 10, calling it "a lackluster pilot that promises to be a pretty good series."<ref>{{cite web
-|url= http://tv.ign.com/articles/908/908619p1.html|title= Fringe: "Pilot" Review|author= Travis Fickett|publisher= ''IGN''|date= 2008-09-08|accessdate= 2008-09-12}}</ref> While Tim Goodman of ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' remarked the it to be "boundlessly ambitious",<ref>{{cite web
-|url= http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/09/08/DDKI12POV4.DTL
-|title= Geek squad likely to stick with 'Fringe'|author= Tim Goodman|publisher= ''San Francisco Chronicle''|date= 2008-09-08|accessdate= 2008-09-12}}</ref> ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]''' Misha Davenport called it an " update of [[The X-Files]] with the addition of terrorism and the office of Homeland Security.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/television/1152182,CST-FTR-fringe09.article|title= 'Fringe' blinds viewers with science|author= Misha Davenport|publisher= ''Chicago Sun-Times''|date= 2008-09-08|accessdate= 2008-09-12}}</ref>
-==Release and reception==
-Prior to the release of ''Fringe'', a significant [[viral marketing]] [[campaign]] ensued<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fringetelevision.com/2008/05/future-fox-has-fringe-stuff.html?widgetType=BlogArchive&widgetId=BlogArchive1&action=toggle&dir=close&toggle=YEARLY-1199174400000&toggleopen=MONTHLY-1214895600000 |title=Future Fox Has Fringe Stuff |accessdate=2008-09-15 |author=Edward |date= |work= |publisher=}}</ref>
-==References==
-{{reflist}}
-==External Links==
-*[http://www.fox.com/fringe/info/ Official website]
-*[http://www.myspace.com/fringeonfox the program's MySpace page]
-*[http://fox.com/fringe/_media/recaps/Walter%20Lab%20Notes/walter_101.jpg Walter's lab notes]
-*[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1248537/ the episiode's Imdb page]
-*[http://www.fringetelevision.com/ Fringetelevision, a ''Fringe'' fan site]