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** Walter says the [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy cowardly lion]] has a point, and Peter tells him there are no [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys flying monkeys]], referencing ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.

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** Walter says the [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy cowardly lion]] has a point, and Peter tells him there are no [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys flying monkeys]], monkeys, referencing ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.
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* FatalFamilyPhoto: Trooper Pekarski has a picture of his wife and child in his car when he picks up Teddy. He doesn't make it past the teaser.
* GlamourFailure: Any residents who leave or are taken outside of the city limits appear in their true form. There's a reason nobody ever moves away from Edina.



** Project Elephant may be a reference to ''Film/TheElephantMan''.

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** Project Elephant may be a reference to ''Film/TheElephantMan''.''Film/TheElephantMan''.
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The Fringe team comes on the scene to investigate and find the boy's photograph, along with recorded sightings of deformed people going back 30 years. They arrive in Edina, the city near where these sightings occurred, and Olivia hears a buzz called the "Edina hum". The sheriff explains it is coming from a nearby military base and offers to show them case files of past sightings. While driving, the SUV containing Olivia, Peter (Joshua Jackson), and Walter (John Noble) is run off the road by another vehicle, whose driver starts shooting at them before being shot by Peter and leaving. The FBI find the abandoned vehicle and follow a blood trail to the dead shooter. Peter is visibly disturbed after killing his first person, and Olivia tries to comfort him.

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The Fringe team comes on the scene to investigate and find the boy's photograph, along with recorded sightings of deformed people going back 30 years. They arrive in Edina, the city near where these sightings occurred, and Olivia hears a buzz called the "Edina hum". The sheriff explains it is coming from a nearby military base and offers to show them case files of past sightings. While driving, the SUV containing Olivia, Peter (Joshua Jackson), and Walter (John Noble) Walter is run off the road by another vehicle, whose driver starts shooting at them before being shot by Peter and leaving. The FBI find the abandoned vehicle and follow a blood trail to the dead shooter. Peter is visibly disturbed after killing his first person, and Olivia tries to comfort him.



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* ButterflyOfTransformationButterflyOfTransformation: Walter catches a butterfly in Edina and brings it back to the lab for Astrid. Away from the city it turns into a ragged moth which freaks Astrid out.



* ScreamingWoman: Astrid
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** Project Elephant may be a reference to TheElephantMan.

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** Project Elephant may be a reference to TheElephantMan.''Film/TheElephantMan''.
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** Walter also references the dueling banjos scene in {{Deliverance}}.
** Walter hums the Prelude to {{Carmen}} with made up lyrics.

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** Walter also references the dueling banjos scene in {{Deliverance}}.
''Film/{{Deliverance}}''.
** Walter hums the Prelude to {{Carmen}} ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' with made up lyrics.
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* ClarkesThirdLaw: Walter implies he was a friend of ArthurCClarke who famously said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

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* ClarkesThirdLaw: Walter implies he was a friend of ArthurCClarke Creator/ArthurCClarke who famously said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

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When horribly-deformed people start showing up in the small town of Edina, NY, the Fringe team goes there to investigate. They work out that the people in the town have been affected by a military experiment conducted there decades ago, and that a machine in the village is altering everyone's perceptions so that the people look normal. In the end, the Fringe team decides to keep the town's secret and leave them in peace, knowing that they will be in danger from both the government and the outside public generally if their deformities are revealed.

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When horribly-deformed In upstate New York, a child is picked up on the road by a state trooper. While en route, the child suddenly morphs into a deformed creature. At the station, the troopers try to decide what to do with him, and one takes his picture. Two other deformed people start showing up in enter the small town of Edina, NY, station, kill the troopers and take the boy.

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Fringe team goes there comes on the scene to investigate. investigate and find the boy's photograph, along with recorded sightings of deformed people going back 30 years. They work out arrive in Edina, the city near where these sightings occurred, and Olivia hears a buzz called the "Edina hum". The sheriff explains it is coming from a nearby military base and offers to show them case files of past sightings. While driving, the SUV containing Olivia, Peter (Joshua Jackson), and Walter (John Noble) is run off the road by another vehicle, whose driver starts shooting at them before being shot by Peter and leaving. The FBI find the abandoned vehicle and follow a blood trail to the dead shooter. Peter is visibly disturbed after killing his first person, and Olivia tries to comfort him.

Agent Broyles discovers
that the people army did classified experiments in Edina called "Project Elephant", but most of the records are gone. The team brings the body, along with a butterfly Walter found in the town and thought Astrid would like, back to the lab in Boston, where they both transform into deformed versions of themselves. Peter and Olivia go back to Edina to talk with the sheriff and try to locate the owner of the truck. Meanwhile, back in the lab, Walter tries to remember why the case feels so familiar. Throughout the episode Walter had been humming some strange melody, and he and Astrid realize he might previously have been affected by worked on the project with the army. The melody was a military memory trick Walter used to remind himself where he stored the experiment files so many years ago. The experiment was done by the army in the late 1970s to test how electromagnetic pulses can camouflage soldiers and was conducted there decades ago, on the townspeople; the army was unaware of the long-term effects of the study until it was too late, and that a machine in the village is altering everyone's perceptions so that the people look normal. In were stuck in a deformed state. The "hum" hides their deformities from the end, human eye through a massive electromagnetic pulse that runs through the town, and once they leave and are out of the pulse's reach, their true deformities show.

Walter and Astrid find the source of the electromagnetic pulse, and begin investigating the house the pulse was built on. At the same time, Peter and Olivia go to a rural meeting place where the sheriff said they would find the truck's owner, only to be shot at by the sheriff and his deputy, who are intent on keeping the town's secret. Walter manages to turn off the pulse, and all of the townsfolk revert to their deformed appearance. The daughter of one of the army scientists saves Olivia and Peter from getting shot, and explains that her father stayed in Edina to perfect the pulse. After Walter pleads to Broyles to let the townspeople keep their secret,
the Fringe team decides to keep not report the town's secret and leave them in peace, knowing case so that they will be in danger from both the government and the outside public generally if their deformities are revealed.
remaining residents can live a normal life.
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** Project Elephant may be a reference to TheElephantMan.
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** Walter says the [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy cowardly lion]] has a point, and Peter tells him there are no [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys flying monkeys]], referencing TheWonderfulWizardOfOz.

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** Walter says the [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy cowardly lion]] has a point, and Peter tells him there are no [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys flying monkeys]], referencing TheWonderfulWizardOfOz.''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''.





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'''Season 2, Episode 12''':
!Johari Window

When horribly-deformed people start showing up in the small town of Edina, NY, the Fringe team goes there to investigate. They work out that the people in the town have been affected by a military experiment conducted there decades ago, and that a machine in the village is altering everyone's perceptions so that the people look normal. In the end, the Fringe team decides to keep the town's secret and leave them in peace, knowing that they will be in danger from both the government and the outside public generally if their deformities are revealed.

!!Tropes in this episodes include:
* ButterflyOfTransformation
* ClarkesThirdLaw: Walter implies he was a friend of ArthurCClarke who famously said "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
* TheKetchupTest
* ScreamingWoman: Astrid
* ShapeShifting
* ShoutOut:
** Walter says the [[LionsAndTigersAndHumansOhMy cowardly lion]] has a point, and Peter tells him there are no [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys flying monkeys]], referencing TheWonderfulWizardOfOz.
** Walter also references the dueling banjos scene in {{Deliverance}}.
** Walter hums the Prelude to {{Carmen}} with made up lyrics.
** Project Elephant may be a reference to TheElephantMan.


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