

When they exhume their bodies, they find the baby's casket is empty. Agent Amy Jessup ( Meghan Markle) and she believes Hughes may have killed his wife and son. Nina Sharp ( Blair Brown) talks with Olivia, and recommends she see a friend, Sam Weiss ( Kevin Corrigan) "who helped put back together" after she was diagnosed with cancer. They bring Hughes in for questioning, and he refuses to give them a blood sample for their investigation. She ventures upstairs to investigate after failing to find anything, she accidentally fires her weapon, narrowly missing Peter. Olivia begins to develop super-hearing as a result of crossing to the parallel universe, and hears someone else in Hughes' house despite his saying he's the only one there. The investigation leads to a local resident, Andre Hughes ( John Savage), who tells them he lost his wife and baby in childbirth. Walter finds a blue, paralytic substance at the scene, which he suspects is from mutated DNA. Peter ( Joshua Jackson) learns of mysterious disappearances taking place in Lansdale, and the Fringe team arrives to investigate. Having recovered enough from the events of the previous episode, Olivia is released from the hospital, and is watched by the shapeshifter who has killed Charlie Francis ( Kirk Acevedo) and adopted his appearance. He believes she traveled to a parallel universe that is similar to theirs, but she still cannot remember with whom she met with, or why. Meanwhile, Walter ( John Noble) investigates Olivia's ( Anna Torv) car crash from the previous episode. Using a lighter for sight, he sees the remains of other creatures, and is then eaten by the creature off screen. In Lansdale, Pennsylvania, a highway construction worker hears an odd noise in a cornfield, and is pulled down into a tunnel by a mysterious, unidentified creature. It received generally positive reviews, as multiple critics praised the storyline while at the same time acknowledging it did little to advance the show's mythology. "Night of Desirable Objects" premiered on Septemto an estimated 7.73 million viewers in the United States. It was the last episode to feature guest actress Meghan Markle as Agent Amy Jessup, but was the first with recurring guest actor Kevin Corrigan.

The episode was written by executive producers/showrunners Jeff Pinkner and J. The episode followed Olivia and Peter's investigation into mysterious disappearances taking place in a small Pennsylvania town. " Night of Desirable Objects" is the second episode of the second season of the American science fiction drama television series Fringe.

Charles Martin Smith as Sheriff Golightly.Peter and Olivia exhume the coffins of Andre Hughes' wife and son
