JJ Abrams invades End Of Show’s ears with details of the next season of Fringe.

The first bit of essential information: Nimoy makes his “Fringe” debut in the season finale, where he’ll play one of the show’s most-buzzed-about characters William Bell. It’s the Sylar moment of the series. JJ told us the episode marks “the end of one chapter and the beginning of another”. Tonight’s season finale involves “all three character’s strengths… You’re going to get a little bit of Peter’s overall story, but it’s also a huge turning point for the other two as well.” Tonight’s stunning episode marks a turning point for Walter Bishop and Peter Bishop. JJ says there will be “issues between them and some setbacks that will make their dynamic a little more interesting and not so familiar and easygoing.”

Abrams says of Nimoys casting: “I called him and I just essentially started begging… [He] was open to the idea, but he wanted of course to see the show. I was thrilled when he called back and said he thought it was intriguing and interesting”.

Will Nimoy be back in the next season? Yes, End Of Show has learned he will be returning as William Bell for season two, which starts shooting soon in it’s new location: Vancouver.

Talking about one of the aspects he loves about the show, “the inherent humor and the insanity of it. But if the show has humor inside of it, then the show itself is embracing and sort of admitting to the, you know, preposterous nature of many of the episodes. I love preposterous stories.”

So, if you were wondering why JJ seems to be interested in strong female characters, the answer should come as no real surprise: “I would like to think that I’ve been luck enough to work on projects that have strong-willed characters who happen to be male or female, and in the case of characters like Kate or Sydney Bristow, and certainly Olivia Dunham, those are females that hopefully pop because they are interesting and strong-willed, but I could also point to certain male characters that have the same things. I guess the answer is that I don’t really try to write characters that are strong women, I just try to write, when I can, strong characters, and if they happen to be women, they happen to be women.”

He goes on to gush about his wife: “She is probably the strongest and best influence on me that I’ve ever had. And I would say that it’s no coincidence that it was after I met her that I wrote Felicity, mostly because she reminded me to write about stuff that I actually care about again. It had been a while. But her strength, and her amazing ability to not only immediately understand right and wrong, but she’s amazingly capable of articulating that position. And she’s very socially active and politically minded, and fights the good fight, and she’s someone who is definitely an inspiration, who happens to be a woman.”

So, how does JJ sum up the outlook to us? “Season 2 is getting to know the enemy, but season one is getting to know that there is an enemy, and getting to know each other.”