Season 6 Episode 04: "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues"

Original Airdate: October 18, 2009

Katherine's mental breakdown occurs when she must cater a wedding with Bree. Gabrielle questions John's intentions with Ana after she claims that they love each other. Lynette is desperate to hide her pregnancy, and when her breasts become noticeable, she lies about having a breast job. Susan finds out from Andrew that Julie dropped out of medical school.

Season 6 Episode 03: "Never Judge a Lady By Her Lover"

Original Airdate: October 11, 2009

An old flame returns, haunting Gabrielle, as she is aware of what Ana will do now that she knows the truth. Bree's upset when Karl is on a date with a woman because Bree rejected his offer on going to Vegas with him. Lynette's pregnancy is unraveled to her family, and their reactions are not what she had expected. Susan and Angie immediately clash, and Susan goes far beyond to discover the truth.

Season 6 Episode 02: "Being Alive"

Original Airdate: October 04, 2009

Season 6 Episode 01: "Nice is Different Than Good"

Original Airdate: September 27, 2009

Susan is having second thoughts about going through with marrying Mike due to Katherine's displeasure. Bree and Karl's relationship heats up, but Bree is hesitant to go up the steps of having sex with him. Gabrielle is not enjoying the idea of raising a teenager; especially a troubled one, at that. Lynette doesn't love her soon-to-be children, and is afraid of having them.

Season 3 Episode 05: "The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary"

Original Airdate: October 19, 2009

Sheldon enters a trading-card competition when he hears Wil Wheaton, for whom he harbors resentment, is also participating. Meanwhile, Wolowitz asks Penny to set him up with one of her friends.

Season 3 Episode 06: "Enough About Eve"

Original Airdate: October 19, 2009

Vanessa, hoping to finally win her mother Gabriela’s (guest star Gina Torres) approval, desperately vies with Blair for the honor of delivering the freshman toast at NYU, but at what price? Dan invites Olivia to meet Rufus and Lily, which leads to all sorts of problems for the new couple. Serena and Nate team up to help Carter Baizen.

Season 2 Episode 05: "Dream Logic"

Original Airdate: October 15, 2009

The Fringe division investigates the case of a man who attacked his boss in Seattle, believing he was a strange horned creature. While investigating the body, Walter finds a computer chip attached to the thalamus, the part of the brain that controls dreams. This part of the brain is also attached the the motor cortex, leading Walter to believe the chips are being used as mind control. Broyles and Nina Sharp reveal new information which leads to the sleep researcher who implanted the chips. Walter changes his theory; the dreams are being stolen from their hosts to cause a "high" in the person receiving them. The sleep researcher is in fact a dream addict with two personalities. His doctor personality sets a trap so that Olivia and Peter will catch his alternate persona. At the end of the episode, Peter has a nightmare that he can't remember. The nightmare shows a poster of Space Shuttle Challenger in a mission that never occurred in our reality, suggesting the nightmare is memory from an alternate reality. Guest starring Travis Schuldt 

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Season 2 Episode 04: "Momentum Deferred"

Original Airdate: October 08, 2009

Fringe division investigates a series of robberies of human heads that are linked to shapeshifters. Olivia is given a memory-jogging concoction by Walter made of flatworms. Walter finds that the shapeshifters are made of mercury and that the shapeshifter they thought was dead is still alive. Walter and Peter visit the woman that Walter experimented on with LSD to see what she might still remember about the shapeshifters from her visions. She immediately remembers Walter and volunteers to help. Back in the lab, they give her a dose of LSD and she sees the shapeshifters again. Olivia has a sudden rush of memories regarding her meeting with William Bell. He draws a symbol and says that the shapeshifters are looking for someone with that symbol on his head. He also tells Olivia that she is the only person strong enough to be the gatekeeper between the dimensions, because "The Storm" is coming. After Olivia wakes from her memories, she visits Nina Sharp, who explains that "The Storm" is William Bell's theory that when the two dimensions collide, only one will remain in existence. The shapeshifters are trying to cause this. As the woman that Walter experimented on says good-bye to Peter, she pauses momentarily, implying that she realizes Peter is from the other dimension. Elsewhere, Olivia discovers that Charlie is the missing shapeshifter and kills him. At the end, the shapeshifters find the head they were looking for and attach it to its body.

Season 2 Episode 03: "Fracture"

Original Airdate: October 01, 2009

There is an explosion in a train station that leaves no trace of any explosive device. Walter finds the remains of a human body who was not identified as one of the deceased. He heads back to the lab to examine the remains. He discovers that this person was actually the bomb. He had been injected with a mysterious compound regularly for a few years as part of a secret military experiment. Olivia and Peter head to Iraq, where Peter has connections with someone who may have been involved in the government project. They learn the names of everyone involved in the experiment, one of whom is the wife of the man who exploded. They return to America, where she has been tricked into being the next bomb. Olivia and Peter prevent the explosion and take the man responsible into custody. He suggests that the bombs were intended to eliminate agents operating for 'The Observer.' Nina Sharp's contact cures Olivia of her inability to walk.

Season 2 Episode 02: "Night of Desirable Objects"

Original Airdate: September 24, 2009

A highway construction worker is pulled into an underground tunnel filled with human remains, and the Fringe division is called in to investigate. Meanwhile, Walter attempts to recreate Olivia's cross-dimensional travel using frogs. The investigation into the missing worker reveals that the town was linked to other recent disappearances. While investigating the events, Olivia begins to experience super-hearing as a side effect from traveling to the alternate universe. They discover that all disappearances occurred near the house of a local resident and former doctor who lost his wife and baby in childbirth. The team digs up the caskets of the wife and son, but the baby's casket is empty. Walter discovers that the boy's father genetically altered him while in the womb to survive his wife's Lupus, and he is still alive and feeding on people. Olivia and Peter are attacked by the baby underneath the house but a tunnel collapse crushes the "superbaby." Nina Sharp contacts Olivia and gives her the name of a man who can help with the effects of her trip to the alternate universe. The shape-shifter disguised as Charlie receives orders to figure out a way to force Olivia to remember the details of her trip.

Season 2 Episode 01: "A New Day in the Old Town"

Original Airdate: September 17, 2009

Olivia's SUV is discovered to have caused a car accident in downtown Manhattan. After the crash, the other car driver involved runs away and kills a civilian, then takes his form, revealing him to be an extra-universal shapeshifter. FBI agents, led by Agent Amy Jessup, arrive at the crash site, only to find Olivia's car empty. Walter, after tampering with the car's equipment, realizes that Olivia is coming back to "our world," however she is severely injured and brain-dead as a result of being ejected through the windshield. Amy Jessup, new to the world of Fringe Division, is stunned by seeing this and searches for more information on what they do. Meanwhile, Philip Broyles travels to Washington, D.C., in order to present the US Senate with reasons not to shut down his FBI division. However, he is informed that Fringe Division will be officially terminated. Outside the US Senate building, Nina Sharp states that Fringe division must continue, but Massive Dynamic can't help. Then they share a kiss. The doctors are about to pull the plug on Olivia when Peter whispers to her and she wakes up, uttering the Greek sentence "na einai kalytero(s) anthropo(s) apo ton patera toy" (To be a better man than his father). The shapeshifter receives orders from another dimension to question Olivia and then kill her. He questions Olivia in the form of her nurse. When Olivia tells him that she can't remember anything, the Shapeshifter begins to choke her, only to be stopped by the sudden arrival of Amy Jessup and the FBI, forcing him to flee to the hospital's basement. The Shapeshifter is then found and supposedly killed by Charlie Francis. Peter gives the transformation device to Broyles, in order to show it to the Senate and convince them that Fringe Division must remain operational. Later, while Walter, Astrid and the others are celebrating Peter's birthday, we discover that the real Charlie Francis is dead and the shapeshifter is now disguised as Charlie.

Season 3 Episode 04: "The Pirate Solution"

Original Airdate: October 12, 2009

Raj must find a new job or be sent back to India. Sheldon has a solution, which is to allow Raj to work "for" him, rather than work "with" him. Raj reluctantly accepts the offer. With Raj working for Sheldon, it makes Howard lonely, so he tries to stay with Leonard and Penny (even making them breakfast) but they would rather be alone. Sheldon and Raj soon disagree on how to solve a work-related problem and Raj walks out. Sheldon actually apologizes at the end of the episode and he accepts that Raj was right but doesn't concede to him being wrong. The title refers to Sheldon's comment about Raj either immigrating to another country, returning to India, or "wandering the high seas as a stateless pirate." 

Season 3 Episode 03: "The Jiminy Conjecture"

Original Airdate: October 05, 2009

After a sexual encounter that results in Penny's bed breaking, Penny and Leonard end up sleeping in Leonard's room, much to Sheldon's dismay. Penny then makes French Toast for breakfast, which does not meet Sheldon's weekly schedule (it's oatmeal day). During the episode, Sheldon tries to improve Penny using chocolate, rewarding her for what he considers to be correct behavior, as in operant conditioning with lab rats, despite Leonard's opposition. Howard and Raj go out to a goth club and meet two girls. After they say they would prefer to go "somewhere else and have some fun" the four end up in a tattoo shop, which makes Raj and Howard reveal their true selves and admit to not being goths, missing their opportunity with the girls rather than having tattoos. Leonard, Sheldon, and Penny are watching the anime Oshikuru: Demon Samurai, which is a reference to a 2004 episode of Two and a Half Men ("The Salmon Under My Sweater") in which Charlie and Jake collaborate on the theme song to the same show. Both series are created by Chuck Lorre.

Season 3 Episode 02: "The Jiminy Conjecture"

Original Airdate: September 28, 2009

Leonard and Penny struggle to recover from an awkward first hookup and try to figure how to overcome their current problem. A romantic evening between the pair soon turns to a night filled with drunken sickness. The next day Penny talks to Sheldon regarding her current problem with Leonard and Sheldon points out that if things don't work out, they can always return back to being friends. After Sheldon tells Leonard that he spoke to Penny about their problems, Leonard goes to Penny's apartment, there Penny tells Leonard that being friends was much simpler and that it will take the pressure off, something that Leonard agrees to. They decide to go back to being friends, however it's clear that neither wants that and soon give in to their attraction. Meanwhile, Sheldon and Howard stake their most valuable comic books (Sheldon's Flash against Howard's Fantastic Four) on a bet to determine the species of a cricket. Sheldon hears the chirps and says it is a snowy tree cricket and Howard insists it is a common field cricket. Along with Raj, the three spend a while locating the cricket. They settle the bet by taking "Toby" to Caltech's depressed entomologist, played by Lewis Black. Howard is correct that it is a common field cricket, so Sheldon has to give up his copy of The Flash. The title refers to the fact that Sheldon believed the name Jiminy (referencing Jiminy Cricket) to be a far more suitable name for a cricket than "Toby".

Season 3 Episode 01: "The Electric Can Opener Fluctuation"

Original Airdate: September 21, 2009

After their return home from their three-month expedition in the North Pole, Sheldon finds out from Howard and Raj that the guys had tampered with his experiment because Sheldon was absolutely unbearable when he wasn't getting the results he wanted (plans to kill him were even brought up and discussed). They tell him about their use of an electric can opener to give Sheldon positive results, thereby causing Sheldon to believe he has made a Nobel Prize-winning discovery. Unfortunately, Sheldon had immediately emailed everyone at Caltech about his discovery before Howard and Raj could tell him what had happened. Sheldon is so disgraced that he resigns and moves back in with his mother (played by Laurie Metcalf), who lives in east Texas. Mrs. Cooper calls Leonard and tells them that they should come talk to Sheldon. Upon the guys' arrival, Sheldon is intent on staying in Texas. However, he shortly has a disagreement with his mother about creationism versus evolution and decides to return home.

Meanwhile, Penny has been harboring feelings for Leonard, which are released almost as soon as he comes home. Leonard's "moments" with her are constantly interrupted, and he "cannot catch a break." They finally sleep together at the end of the episode (Leonard finally "catches his break") and Leonard asks why it's always weird after friends sleep together and why they have to label it as such - "it just is what it is." Penny interrupts him saying "it's weird" and he replies "Totally."

Season 9 Episode 04: "Echo"

Original Airdate: October 16, 2009

Jor-El gives Clark the ability to hear others' thoughts in an effort to teach Clark to hone his Kryptonian intuition, and learn to not allow humanistic assumptions inhibit his destiny. While using this new ability to determine who blew up a Queen Industries textile factory, Clark also learns more about Lois's feelings for him and asks her out on a date. Clark has to stand Lois up when he learns that the Toyman has returned to get revenge on Oliver. Jor-El takes back the new ability, forcing Clark to use the instincts he has gained. At a company gala, Toyman informs Oliver that there is a bomb directly under the podium, and that he will kill everyone if Oliver does not confess to killing Lex. Clark locates the real bomb before Oliver can take his own life with it to pay for the sins he feels he committed. Toyman is caught, and Tess gives him John Corben's krpytonite-powered heart so he can tell her how it works.

Season 9 Episode 03: "Rabid"

Original Airdate: October 09, 2009

After Tess is admitted to the hospital showing zombie-like symptoms, Clark has Dr. Hamilton investigate the cause with a Disease Control specialist. Clark overhears that Tess was at the Daily Planet when she began to show symptoms, so he speeds to the Planet to rescue Lois. In a battle with multiple zombie attackers, Lois is bitten. Clark then volunteers his blood to Dr. Hamilton, who discovers that the virus was created from Kryptonian enzymes, so the doctor can create a cure. With Chloe's help, Dr. Hamilton manufactures a rainstorm and seeds the clouds with the cure to create maximum coverage. It is revealed that the virus was used as a ploy to draw out the Blur, as one of Zod's men realizes that he was also Kryptonian. Based on the House of El symbol the Blur brands around town, Zod believes that Jor-El is on Earth, and has harnessed the power from the yellow Sun for himself. Oliver decides to burn his Green Arrow outfit, and give up trying to be a superhero.

Season 9 Episode 02: "Metallo"

Original Airdate: October 02, 2009

Original Airdate: September 25, 2009

Lois returns from the future with no memory of the three weeks she is missing. Meanwhile, Clark has been training with Jor-El, while also branding his family crest around Metropolis after saving someone. After saving Lois, Clark's feelings for her cause a disruption in his training and he realizes that the only way to finish is if he tells Lois goodbye. Dr. Emil Hamilton and Chloe begin working together in the Watchtower. Released from the black orb, Major Zod's soldiers initially turn on him when he fails to provide answers as to why none of them have the true powers of a Kryptonian like they should. Eventually, Zod regains their trust. A Kryptonian woman from the future returns with Lois in the hope of finding Clark and killing him. When the two meet, the assassin accidentally kills herself, but not before revealing that Clark will cause the destruction of Earth. Just as she is falling asleep, Lois has sporadic visions of future events.