story focuses on a young female FBI agent Olivia Warren, ( Anna Torv play ) was ordered to join the code-named " Fringe ( edge) " secret departments, the mysterious and enigmatic scientist Dr. Walter Bishop ( John Noble, play ) cooperation in the investigation a series of supernatural phenomena can not explain with science . Intensified with these phenomena , they gradually discovered , some of the trouble may be caused by Walter Bishop 's Institute , and more trouble "Prometheus " and the secret of the top research institutions ... the truth little by little been lifted , the secret is deeper .