The alternate universe Fringe team of Olivia, Charlie, and Lincoln was introduced and it was majestic. I'm not a big believer in destiny, but it's hard to ignore something when every universe makes it happen. As an adult, Olivia told Peter that she knew she wanted to be in law enforcement since the age of 9 ("The Ghost Network"). Peter was revealed by September to have been erased from existence. The domino effect that took place was that Nina Sharp was actually somewhat responsible for the death of Peter as a child, so she took sympathy for the abused Olivia, who was the star pupil at the Cortexiphan Trials when her mother died. Walter, with a window to the parallel universe, saw that the other Peter was alive and well, but discovered that September distracted Walter Bishop of the Alternate Universe finding the cure. Though the Fringe Division that developed in this universe had been able to use amber to contain these vortices, a group called the "End of Dayers", led by a man named Moreau attempted to breach the fabric of reality at soft spots and create more vortices. ("The No-Brainer") Dunham later went undercover with Peter Bishop to solve the case of a bioweapon that mutated its victims. At the Saturn Awards, Torv has been nominated each year for her performance during the first four seasons of the series, ultimately being awarded at the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 ceremonies, becoming the only actress to win four consecutive awards in that specific category for a television series. However, they are attacked by the image of her step-father and several military personnel. In the reset timeline for the series' fourth season, Torv explained that "The Olivia we meet and know has known about Fringe Division and had all this time to get used to it and work out that this is her life," rather than becoming familiar with it after the attack on John Scott. It is this quality which both impresses and irritates Broyles, as it makes her a good agent but also makes her prone to biting off more than she can chew when it comes to pursuing suspects. Olivia became frightened when she believed she could not evacuate people from the buildings without causing mass panic. Olivia and Peter then attempted to reconcile and rekindle their relationship. She remained in amber until 2036. In the alternate timeline, however, Olivia also had a much closer relationship with Walter Bishop, and seemingly Astrid too. In the Lab. Season 3. With our Olivia trapped in the Alternate Universe and the wrong Olivia being with Peter, Peter begins a relationship with Alternate Olivia. Without Walternate travelling over to meet Peter and bring him back with Newton's bridge, it appears Fauxlivia did this and took Olivia back as a captive. She aided in fulfilling Walter's Plan, although she did not know the specifics of it. In the episode, she was confronted by Sanford Harris again, telling her that her behavior is erratic and her job is compromised by her emotions. Olivia gave birth to Henrietta and lived happily as a family with Peter, although this did not last. Because of Olivia's childhood past, she had managed to make Christopher open up to her and thus making the Other Broyles (who knew Olivia was from the other side and not his own agent) have a second opinion on her. Her take on [Fauxlivia] added many new colors to the characters, including malice, humor and sensuality. He had decided to open up to her and shows her the five data discs from the shapeshifters he killed after the doomsday device weaponized him. [47] She received a nomination at the 2009 Teen Choice Awards for Breakout Star Female,[48] but lost to Demi Lovato. Olivia reunited with Peter at the hospital. "[44], Dunham was named one of TV's Smartest Detectives by AOL TV. [1] She was unable to finish him off, and so he recovered and disappeared, leaving her to blame herself for not exacting retribution against him, contributing to her determination to bring criminals to justice. Olivia meets her alternate universe mother. However, Olivia suddenly woke up, crying the Greekphrase Na einai kalytero anthropo apo ton patera tou. There was not one single universe in which Lincoln and Olivia were not part of each other's lives in some capacity. No matter how many versions of Lincoln and Olivia the show could conjure there were roughly four they always had each other's backs, and Lincoln Lee loved Olivia in every universe. The Fringe division later learned that their version of the machine was activated at 6:02 AM on its own, and Walter suspected the two machines were tied by quantum entanglement, with their version of the machine destroying their world to stabilize the parallel one. Olivia is captured by Walternate's forces, imprisoned in the government facility on Liberty Island and put through both physical and psychological treatments by Walternate to make her believe that she is really the Fauxlivia of the parallel universe. Torv knows how to convey authenticity, even in the midst of an outrageous scene. Meanwhile, Peter and Walter try to move on with their lives unknowingly alongside alternate Olivia. ("Ability"). Olivia recognized that her emotions were her strength in the fight against the Observers and was able to act as Peter's rock when he began to slip away from his humanity by putting the Observer tech in his own head. Dunham questions Steig's employer, Nina Sharp, who offers Dunham a job but no useful information other than the words "the Pattern," which Sharp enigmatically does not elaborate upon. They say love knows no boundaries, and on Fox's multi-universe-traversing Fringe (Fridays at 9/8c), it truly doesn't . [2] With help from Walter, Olivia finds a way to communicate with John within her own mind, eventually allowing the memories to fade completely. Olivia and her younger sister, Rachel, were orphaned when Marilyn Dunham died of cancer in 1994. Olivia ultimately decides not to tell Peter but Walter decides to do the opposite. She went to the bowling alley, managed by Sam Weiss where he told her she was one of the best people hes known, and hes sure shell do the right thing. She believes herself to be incapable of being vulnerable initially until she finds strength in it. She revealed the news to Peter. But at the time, people were like, 'Wow, this girl really is not much,' which is so not true. Also Known As Henry, after watching Charlie's car pull away, drove off on his own. After sharing their first kiss, Olivia and Peter are separated for 8 episodes. ("Concentrate and Ask Again"). He explained this to a heartbroken Olivia, who firmly believed that she was "his" Olivia. The pale and scrawny boy did not speak to Olivia, but she began spending time with him, and a connection grew. Returning to the Federal Building in Boston, Dunham was assigned to investigate a lead at a storage facility along with Scott. Sam Weiss ran up to her and demanded to be taken to the machine to stop what was already happening. They believe that Olivia is the alternate version - Charlie tells Lincoln that she has lost her mind. There's lots of little, subtle differences. It is revealed that the alternate Walter plans to use Olivia's Cortexiphan-derived abilities to find a way to safely cross universes, for which he needs her willing assistance. ("Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"). We're so thankful that people can start to see her for who she really is. Walter first put Olivia under heavy sedation, and she experienced meeting her younger, frightened self, but was still unable to trigger her ability. Peter and the Fringe team were able to track Olivia down and save her from Jones's clutches. ("Inner Child"), Soon afterward, Olivia helped to track down a mysterious beast after it attacked her friend Charlie Francis, finding it just in time to save Charlie from the monster's larvae which were growing inside him. Olivia later discovered that Peter had tried to touch the machine, but was sent flying by an electrical spark. [13], After Olivia tells Peter she no longer wants to be with him, even though that's not what her heart wants, she tries to remain distant and impassive. Upon reaching the bomb, however, Dunham discovered that disabling the bomb required the skill that she had previously imitated on the first test. Casting director April Webster commented, "What we were looking for in Olivia was a woman who was believable as an FBI agent but yet had some vulnerability. ("The Cure"), While investigating a parasite on the heart of fellow agent Mitchell Loeb, Dunham first met David Robert Jones, a prisoner in the German Wissenschaft Prison and a known bioterrorist. He is portrayed by actor Seth Gabel . After using bluffing and blackmail, Dunham enlisted the younger Bishop's help, and together they went to see the elder Bishop in the institution. [12] After returning to work, Olivia is dismayed to discover that Peter had become intimate with her doppelganger. Jones then instructed Dunham to find a box which contained ten games, which were designed for a "recruit" of the ZFT bible. At the hospital following the events on Bell's ark, Olivia learned that she was pregnant. In the season finale, she faced William Bell on an Alternate Universe. "[27] According to Torv, Fauxlivia holds herself differently and has "a different silhouette. While working on the case, Dunham recalled memories of her stepfather's abuse. Later, Peter visited Olivia to rekindle their relationship when he noticed a drawing of the same man in the X t-shirt he saw in her mind. ("Olivia"). Olivia later met Peter at his house prior to them going out on a date, but when she arrived, she saw the same shimmer on Peter. ("Safe") She played the oboe for six months. The two were able to finally begin (or rather continue) their relationship together. ("Pilot"), Their next case was that of Loraine Alcott, a woman who died after giving birth to a rapidly aging baby. Once Walter is able to accompany the child observer, Michael, to the future, he erases the time in which the observers are able to travel back and take over in 2015, and Olivia and Peter are once again in the park with Etta as a child. In the home, Olivia discovered her mother Marilyn, who, in the prime universe, had died when Olivia was a teenager. With their remaining guardian deceased, she and Rachel were supposed to be sent into foster care, but Nina Sharp used her influence to have them placed under her care. "[31] Goldsman remarked that Torv's depiction of Fauxlivia was actually much closer to the actress' real personality than her performance as Olivia. While some credit goes to the writing, it was Torv's shaded performance that sold Olivia's alternate-universe twin as an actual separate personnot just a cartoon villain version of the original, but a real person, a little more assertive and confident, and just a touch rapacious. Lincoln was always just a little bit calmer and less emotional than Olivia, and Olivia was always there to push Lincoln out of his comfort zone. ("Grey Matters"), Newton planned to pull a building from the prime universe to the parallel universe. He was then placed into an indefinite coma by the FBI. Olivia escapes to Walternate's lab in Harvard. ("Momentum Deferred") While in the trials, she was partnered up with Nick Lane. At first skeptical, Peter soon accepted her into his life. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Olivia chose to save Walter's life, and Newton replied "Now I know how weak you are". Olivia and her niece, Ella Dunham, a rookie FBI agent. Giving orders in Central Park, moments before her death. [37] Stegall partly attributed the growth of the actor and character to her recovery early in the second season, the introduction of a sister and niece, the removal of John Scott from her storyline, and the "delicate, reserved flirtation" with Peter. Olivia rushed to Peter's house and told him that she remembered everything. He comes to realize a temporal paradox (a Bootstrap paradox): he will have sent the doomsday device piece by piece into the past, effectively becoming the "First People" mythos, and convinced Peter that they can influence Peter in the past by having him experience the end of days himself and make a different decision when he enters the machine, thus preventing Olivia's death and the grim future to come. Olivia was one of a group of preschool-age children who served as subjects of the experiment in her childhood home of Jacksonville, Florida. William explained that she would be able to return to possession of her body as Walter, in the real world, attempts to extract William's mind. Many events still occurred, though, including her incarceration in the Alternate Universe and her impersonation by Fauxlivia. Rebecca Kibner, while under a heavy dose of mind-altering drugs, had witnessed events in the parallel universe including the presence of the shapeshifters. Bell was using the Cortexiphan children to try and collapse both universes to create his own universe where he could play God. ("Novation") At some point, Olivia attended boarding school. As she was removed from the tank, she lied, telling Walternate the test did not work. Gender [25] Olivia was in a relationship with Peter after they mended things in episode 6B, but shortly after that Peter built a bridge wiping himself from existence, causing Olivia to forget who he was. Walter quietly asked Olivia not to tell Peter that he is from the other universe. As Roland and Amanda's body were taken away, Olivia broke down in front of Peter; she questioned that if Roland could tell that Amanda wasn't the same person by looking at her eyes, why could Peter not do the same with Fauxlivia. [6] When trying to reawaken this ability in her as an adult, Dr. Bishop hypothesized that this ability was partially derived from Olivia's fear about seeing into the alternate dimension. Olivia, seeing her mother and the memories of her mother, cried into her arms, as she was awash in Fauxlivia's memories. [30] Pinkner describes shooting the Fauxlivia scenes in the DVD audio commentary: "When [Torv] first showed up on set in this different guise, she had really embodied this other character in a very playful and sexy way. Together, the two reached the immersion tank that Olivia used earlier, but found it to be empty. In 1974, Walter Bishop had a brief glimpse of an adult Olivia Dunham during his initial experimentations with a special acid concoction that would later be labelled as Cortexiphan. She began losing her memories of the Alternate Timeline, which were being replaced by the Original Timeline memories. Olivia has few close relationships. Peter sacrificed himself to protect her, waking back up in the real world. She convinced him to remove the tech and find another way. "[38] The New York Observer found her to be the one weak link of the main cast, criticizing Torv for her accent and for showing "less emotion than a piece of plywood. Olivia's memories of the trials eventually became repressed along with those of her childhood trauma and abuse. At FBI HQ, Olivia is drawing a man's face, but quickly hides the sketch when Lincoln arrives. The building, a hotel, is quickly identified from the list of candidates, and it is evacuated in time, moments before it is pulled into the parallel universe. She had once shared a kiss with Lincoln Lee. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. He found a purpose by her side and helped her process her loss. Season Three. (Unbeknownst to Olivia, Walter had accelerated the trials because he hoped to find a way to bring the alternate universe, Peter Bishop, back home.). Dunham raids Steig's house, eventually capturing him with the help of Peter. ("Safe") Loeb took her back to a laboratory, injecting her with a mysterious substance. Dunham returned to the hospital soon after Scott killed Steig, and engaged in a high-speed car chase that ended with Scott's death, though with his dying breaths, Scott told her to question why she was sent to the storage facility. As they travelled by zeppelin, William tried to encourage Walter that he no longer needs Bell's guidance. Dunham was successful and Harris was jailed, though this case caused bad blood to form between FBI agent Phillip Broyles and Dunham. The quarantine is estimated to have taken place roughly twenty years prior. I think that's pretty cool. ("The Road Not Taken"), Olivia was curious about the whereabouts of William Bell and had been wanting to question him of his involvement with the ZFT. Every version of Lincoln and Olivia could have had it all (and at least one of them did), and here are 11 reasons why they were Fringe 's best couple. With the help of the alternate universe's Agent Broyles, she is able to escape from custody and make it to alternate Walter's Harvard lab, where she uses the tank to return to her own universe. Olivia and Peter fight the Observers and loyalists. When Olivia and Peter entered the apartment, Olivia (but not Peter) could see a shimmering figure that Alice claimed was the ghost of her late husband Derek. 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