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This article contains expanded descriptions of common venues utilized in the show.
Diners
A common backdrop has been prominent in the first season of story-telling... that place - the local neighborhood diner. With Dr. Bishop's affinity for old-fashioned home-cooking... the diners may prove to be one of the more entertaining mysteries in the saga.
- In The Road Not Taken, Olivia confronts Walter at a pastry shop. The men have just finished a late evening snack, and Olivia arrives while Peter is in the bathroom and Walter. She demands to know what Walter and William Bell did to her when she was a subject in the Cortexiphan trials.
- In The Dreamscape, Peter Bishop slipped away from the lab, and the investigation, to take care of some personal business. He kept a quiet rendezvous with Tess Amaral in her neighborhood diner. The two appeared to have significant romantic history between them, when they met. She pleaded with him to leave Boston, telling him that if she could find him – “they” could find him. Peter took her hand -- then noticed that her wrists were badly bruised. He suspected Michael, the man she was currently involved with, of the abuse.
- The Cure began with a pop when Emily Kramer found her way into "Holly's Diner" in Milford, MA. Injured and disoriented, she settled in for a bowl of soup. The manager, concerned for Kramer's well-being, summoned a friendly local cop to stop by and help. After a quick interview, for safety reasons, he decided to take Kramer into protective custody. She became angry, emotional and stressed - activating the chemical weapon within her. Immediately, everyone in the diner started to bleed from their eyes and ears, their blood boiling them to death. Kramer suffered worse than anyone - her head exploded - David Esterbrook's 'field trial' in the diner was successful.
- The Arrival started in Brooklyn, NY at a typical corner diner called "East River". The Observer made some bizarre food choices as he camped-out in a window waiting for The Beacon to unearth at the adjacent construction site. He was direct and unanimated while dealing with the wait staff, as he kept a detailed ledger of his observations. After inhaling his food, and paying his tab, he quickly vacated the diner when the subterranean torpedo arrived. Later in the episode, Dr. Bishop met with The Observer in a different diner, to discuss what had happened.
- In The Ghost Network, near Fenway Park in Boston, MA, the Bishops caught an early bite in a typical inner-city neighborhood diner. Peter questioned why his father had brought his own sweetener, then learned it was homemade psychotics - to adjust to life outside of the mental institution. Peter confronted a man from his past who had been following, and filming, him all day. Peter removed the memory chip from the camera and warned the man that if he tells anyone that he is back, he is going to come after him. Meanwhile, Dr. Bishop took an important cell call, decided on blueberry pancakes, then remembered - they are needed at the commuter bus crime scene.
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Warehouses
A common backdrop in the first season has been the abandoned, or under-utilized, Warehouse.
- In Ability, Jones Lawyer has maintained a warehouse in Allston using a slush fund and an assumed name. Utility services to the warehouse were re-established just a Jones went missing. Following his extraction from prison, Jones entered a decompression chamber at the warehouse for extended treatment. After the facility was abandoned by the criminals, a lone FBI found a deliberately planted $2 bill - that killed him.
- Meegar Escapes 105
- Loeb's Gang 110
- Desolate Warehouse 102
- Storage garages 101
Laboratories
A common backdrop in the first season has been the legal and illegal, make-shift, or high-tech Laboratory.
- Olivia's Escape 111
- Nina's Lab
- Esterbrook's Lab 106
- Penrose Lab 102
- In Pilot, Walter's Lab in the Kresge Building, on one of Harvard's many campuses, was resurrected from moth-balled status to a whisper of it's former glory. The lab has figured prominently in all of the first season of FRINGE. It is the one venue on the show that guarantees - questions will be answered... and answers will be questioned.
Hospitals
A common backdrop in the first season has been the Hospital where victims, and victimizers, typically wind-up from the bizarre science inflicted upon then.
- St. Vincent's 117
- St. Jude's Mental 117
- Boston Children's 115
- Boston General appears in Ability. The first random victim of Jones, a curbside news & magazine vendor is taken there when all of his orifices seal-up. When Jones himself becomes sicker, he is transported from Walter's Lab to the hospital. When Olivia arrives to question him further, she finds a tremendous hole in the wall where it appears Jones has escaped... several stories up. A note is scrawled on the wall saying "You Passed," referring to the test of ability he made her take.
- Washington VA 110
- Patel Health Care 106
- Wallace-Bromley 102
- St. Claire's 101 108
Travel
A common backdrop in the first season has been the Travel-related, venues and vehicles, associated with the crimes and criminals behind The Pattern.
- Grand Central Station 117
- In The Transformation, we see the demise of all VertusAir Flight 718 passengers as a single man aboard transforms, against his will, into a hideous beast that forces the aircraft to crash a few dozen miles north of New York City.
- Frankfurt IAP 107
- Commuter Bus 103
- Train Station 103
- Logan IAP 101
- Glatterflug Flight 101
Living Quarters
A common backdrop in the first season has been the hotels, motels and apartments of many of the primary characters.
- Olivia's Apartment. Throughout the middle of season one, the apartment has been a haven for sister Rachel and niece Ella. Ella and Olivia are wonderful friends, napping together, reading together. Rachel and Olivia are getting acclimated to one another as Rachel comes to terms with her failing marriage. Olivia is just letting Rachel in on her failed relationship with John Scott. Things haven't always been good at the apartment. Ella almost fell to the deadly computer program in The No-Brainer.
- Loeb's Residence 111
- Bishop's Hotel (x3?)
- Scarlett Red 102
- Chicago Hotel 113
- Iraqi Hotel 101
Education
A common backdrop in the first season has been the higher learning facilities - many of which are involved with advanced science.
- Harvard
- Boston College
Unusual
A frequent backdrop in the first season has been the unlikely, or out-of-place venue.
- "Sewer Lines" in Unleashed
- German Prison. Starting with In Which We Meet Mr. Jones and continuing through Safe and Ability. The maximum security Wissenschaft Prison, near Frankfurt in Germany, has been the center of much of the excitement of the first season. Scientist David Jones has been incarcerated there and meeting his lawyer. He is connected to ZFT, Mitchell Loeb, Pattern experimentation, compromising state secrets, etc.... The dramatic 'teleportation' escape was the focal event at the prison. Olivia's reconnecting with former romantic interest Lucas Vogel is another. Warden Johan Lennox actions and attitude bring him into the ring of suspicion as well.
- "Red Castle" Basement in The Equation
- "Frog" Basement
