It is clarified that September simply decided not to save the drowning Peter as he crossed over, so much of the circumstances of Olivia's life have changed without Peter's involvement in them, and in some cases, a domino effect has taken place. In the first alternate universe introduced on the show, Lincoln and Olivia were best friends. In the season finale, she faced William Bell on an Alternate Universe. 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. Bryce Dallas Howard's husband Seth Gabel played Fringe agent Lincoln Lee (and Peter's love rival for Olivia) from season two, and went on to play Cotton Mather in all three season of WGN America's . Olivia was one of a group of preschool-age children who served as subjects of the experiment in her childhood home of Jacksonville, Florida. Dunham was at first reluctant to do the test, believing Jones to be performing a psychological trick on her. As the Fringe division sets out to Roland's home, Roland injected Amanda's body with more of the serum, and she was brought back to life. She was rushed to the hospital and declared brain dead. (Original TImeline)Alternate Timeline :Shot directly in the head by Walter Bishop to prevent a third universe; revived by Cortexiphan in 2012. She then coerced a taxi driver named Henry Arliss Higgins to drive her to the Opera House where she believed she can return home, by threatening to harm his family, but by the time she arrived, an "Amber protocol" had been issued, sealing the building in "amber", a substance that the Other Side Fringe Division deploys to envelop time fractures. They may not have been Fringe's primary love story, but in my universe their love was the star of the show. AliveDeceased (in the original timeline) With Massive Dynamic's resources, they were able to recreate the amber and a release system to encase the building, but hold it in reserve as a last resort only. With the Revolver"). When they arrived at the station, Olivia ordered Henry to drive away, and managed to fire at a small valve on a gas tank, allowing the explosion to cover their trail. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. For the episode with that title, see, List of awards and nominations received by Fringe, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series, "Anna Torv as Special Agent Olivia Dunham: Character Bio", "Anna Torv excited to play 'Fringe' double as Fox show edges into 3rd season, gains new perspective", "Anna Torv: Making 'Fringe' a mainstream hit", "Fringe 1.07 - In Which We Meet Mr. Jones - Reviewed", "Fringe producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Dunham graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. Olivia took Sam Weiss to the machine. Later, her hallucination of Peter Bishop was trying to convince her that she does not belong to the world by giving her the facts that only the real Olivia would know. By the 4th season of the show Peter is erased from both universes. That's an actual rule of romance. As he discussed it with her, Olivia heard the sound of a bell. ("Power Hungry"), On her birthday, Dunham investigated a case concerning a virus that caused people to explode. One test was successful, as she temporarily found herself in a gift shop on Liberty Island in the prime universe. She has a live-in boyfriend named Frank Stanton who works as a virologist who specialized in infectious disease for the CDC and both of them are engaged briefly until he breaks up with her. The character of Olivia has been described as "an incredibly driven, incredibly brilliant agent with her own complicated past that will be peel[ed] back over time. 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. Harris primary reason for driving Olivia out of the case was due to his involvement in the ZFT. Peter convinced her to open up about the abuse she had experienced. Having grown up with an abusive stepfather, Olivia struggles with the unexpected changes in her life, following her encounter with mentally unstable scientist Walter Bishop, and his son and an eventual love interest for her, Peter Bishop. Olivia dealt with Roland, a man who became enamored with the deceased Amanda at depression counseling meetings and tried to revive her. Gender However, they continue to work together and her time with Peter reminds her why she fell in love with him, and she tells him she wants to see him happy with her. Anna was just so professional, and so great. A younger Olivia revealed herself as Olivia's true ego; assured of Peter's identity, she willingly went with him and Bell. Due to the fact that relationships between agents were not allowed, the affair was kept quiet, though Dunham hated the secrecy. As revenge, Walternate promised Peter will face the same pain he suffered "but not all at once". 28 ("Pilot" to "Power Hungry")29 ("The Cure")30 (Season 2)31 ("Lysergic Acid Diethylamide")46 ("The Day We Died")32 (Season 4)57; physically 36 (Season 5)36 ("An Enemy of Fate") 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. To prepare Olivia, they used the quantum entangled Selectric typewriter that the shapeshifters had used to contact the parallel universe. [45] She was listed in AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters.[46]. Despite his ability to predict every outcome, he didn't consider the possibility that she was from another universe, which saved her life, as she was unaware of amber protocol, with compromised air quality. Astrid called Olivia, Peter and Walter from the lab, revealing that the typewriter was typing out "Be a better man than your father", a phrase that Olivia and Peter have talked about before, thus giving them hope that Olivia would be able to disengage the parallel universe's device. After finding out that Peter Bishop had an intimate relationship with Fauxlivia, she tried to be ignorant about it. They were married and have a daughter. Nina advised Olivia to find Sam Weiss, a man that William Bell had trusted and instructed Nina to also listen to. And definitely had depth and a history behind her eyes. [1] Olivia was involved in a serious relationship with fellow FBI agent John Scott,[1] and his supposed betrayal and death was something she dealt with for much of the first season. She was monitored by Dr. Anderson. 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. She has little family, as her mother died when she was in her early teenage years. At three years old, Olivia lived in Jacksonville, Florida, because her father was stationed at the local military base. 23 Sep. 2010. ("Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"). When Walter proved to be knowledgeable about the subject, Dunham had him released from the institution and had his old lab reopened. "[31] Goldsman remarked that Torv's depiction of Fauxlivia was actually much closer to the actress' real personality than her performance as Olivia. This is early days Lincoln in all of his snarky glory. Olivia, unaware of the warning signs for the zone, instead raced through it instead of stopping to put on a respirator, nearly asphyxiating herself, and dodged the bricks in time to capture Milo. Peter suddenly woke up from the machine in 2011. [50][51][52] In 2011, for her work in the third season, Torv was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series at the 1st Critics' Choice Television Awards. [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. 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. ("Unleashed"), Olivia soon began having trouble sleeping, eventually beginning to believe that she was killing people in her dreams after seeing people from her dreams cross over into her real life. She swam across the ocean and make it to "Manhatan" (in the Other Side parallel universe, the island is spelled with only one "T"). ("6:02 AM EST"). Olivia Dunham Sanford Harris, however, considered that doing so would be negotiating with a terrorist. They will come within about half a degree of each other - roughly one full . In Central Park, where Moreau has set off another breach to expose an existing wormhole, Olivia was helping to cordon off the breach when Walternate approached and shot her directly in the forehead. While working on the case, Dunham recalled memories of her stepfather's abuse. Before Brandon started the operation, Olivia received a visit from Colonel Broyles, who was still grateful to Olivia for helping his son. Knowing that. Meanwhile Broyles is considered missing and Lincoln is the head of the division. An experiment by Dr. Bishop to link her to the dying John Scott's mind in order to learn what he knew about his condition results in Olivia gaining part of his consciousness, causing her mind to begin integrating and purging the foreign consciousness. 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. ("Momentum Deferred"), Olivia mourned Charlie. "[27] According to Torv, Fauxlivia holds herself differently and has "a different silhouette. Olivia and Weiss brought the parchment to Walter, who recognized that Olivia's telekinetic powers must be used to turn off the machine in the parallel universe. [10] Fauxlivia was involved in a serious relationship with Frank Stanton and eventually became engaged, but the two broke up when he discovered she was pregnant by Peter. She is comfortable in her skin now, and the stillness is pulled back in favor of more humanity. Olivia shot him after this but did not kill him. Walter and William believe that they have less than a day before Olivia's mind will be lost. Olivia begins to realize how much Fauxlivia has consumed her life. Olivia discovers, rediscovers and eventually willingly manages her unique, Cortexiphan-induced, paranormal abilities for the benefit of global, and trans-universal good. 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. Olivia Dunham, 3 years old, at the beginning of the Cortexiphan Trials. She was told to grab random letters from the names, that once unscrambled read "you're gonna be fine". At Nina's recommendation, Olivia meets with Sam Weiss, who works at a bowling alley. That moment between Walter and Olivia was a sign of how close they have become. Female ("The Firefly") Olivia read Fauxlivia's observation notes and found that Fauxlivia did have real emotions towards Peter Bishop and identified to Astrid Farnsworth that Fauxlivia is the better version of her. 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. [42] TV Guide called it one of the best performances of the year, explaining "Switching Olivia with her alternate-universe self jump-started the show's interpersonal dynamics and changed the way we look at Torv. After solving the case, Dunham received a letter that only said "thinking of you." [37], Torv's double duty as Olivia and Fauxlivia late in the second season and throughout the third and fourth seasons received almost universal critical acclaim. In the world of Fringe, a lot of emphasis was placed on the relationship between the star-crossed lovers that were Peter and Olivia. With our Olivia trapped in the Alternate Universe and the wrong Olivia being with Peter, Peter begins a relationship with Alternate Olivia. After one such incident at a theater, Olivia, along with with Astrid and Ella, now a rookie Fringe agent, found an unactivated container that they believe the End of Dayers used to trigger the breach. "[28] Torv further explained, "Olivia wants to be the best, but [Fauxlivia] just wants to win;"[29] "There's just a front-footedness I think to [her], simply because she just doesn't carry the weight of the world on her shoulders like Olivia does. 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. The Olivias and Walters cautiously agreed that they needed to put aside their differences to save both worlds, completely unaware of Peter's disappearance. 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. 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. Comparing Olivia to Fauxlivia, Torv felt that the two had many different characteristics. ("Ability"). [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. This is confirmed when Simon Phillips, a mindreader, leaves Olivia with a message that Peter still has feelings for Fauxlivia. Henry, after watching Charlie's car pull away, drove off on his own. Anna TorvAda Breker (age 3)Karley Scott Collins (age 7) Olivia gave him an address to a "safe house" in a suburban area, and, once there, thanks him and allows him to go. She went to Dr. Frank, who was the. It is unknown what happened to Olivia's biological father, although he is likely dead. Walter attributed this to a piece of Scott's consciousness being transferred over to Dunham's mind. Walter was holding a grudge against William Bell for using Olivia as a part of his scheme to collapse both worlds. Olivia waited by his side. Once there, Peter found the adult Olivia waiting for him, but realized by her eyes that this was not her. In 1985, the trials were accelerated for six-year-old Olivia, known as Olive to her peers. 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. She turned to face Peter, revealing herself to now be possessed by Bell. Stars of Netflix's Sex/Life Adam Demos and Sarah Shahi share a loving gaze at a special screening of their show's season 2 on Feb. 23 . This other Olivia seems to have different behavior, lifestyle and relationships from Olivia. Olivia survives, with gaps in knowledge of the alternate universe's protocol. The trust these two shared was unwavering, and it spilled over into the prime versions of the characters as well. Fringe (TV) Relationships: Alternate Olivia Dunham/Lincoln Lee; Alternate Olivia Dunham/Alternate Lincoln Lee; kendra lane/lincoln lee; Alternate Charlie Francis & Lincoln Lee; lincoln lee & robert danzig; the observers - Relationship; Olivia Dunham/Lincoln Lee; lincoln lee/original female character; Alternate Mona Foster/Alternate Charlie Francis She's got a little firefighter, a little military in her. Olivia after coming out of synaptic transfer ("Pilot"), Desperate to solve the case and save her lover, Dunham searched the FBI database for anything that could help cure Scott's ailment, eventually discovering a Dr. Walter Bishop, a scientist who conducted research on a similar matter. A heartbroken Peter Bishop, her husband in 2026, gave the eulogy at her funeral and her body was burnt at sea. Back in the isolation tank, Walternate had Olivia extracted from the tank and directed his agents to lock her up and sedate her. Olivia Dunham - List of Appearances. This results in Olivia mistaking John Scott's memories for her own. Although she did not see him after these events, he continued to send her a birthday card every year ("The Cure"). Olivia later discovered that Peter had tried to touch the machine, but was sent flying by an electrical spark. ("The Plateau"). ("Peter"), Olivia had a sleepless night over the discovery. At the hospital following the events on Bell's ark, Olivia learned that she was pregnant. This is the episode to go to if. The Alternate Fringe Team She had a live-in boyfriend who is a virologist for the CDC named Frank Stanton with whom she had met during a cholera outbreak in Hoboken. "[26], Torv and Akiva Goldsman discussed various ways to differentiate the two depictions of Olivia;[27] ultimately two different physical demeanors were created. The loss and trauma she had experienced caused her to be much more anti-social and colder than in the original timeline. She proved to be the greatest success and demonstrated a number of abilities after receiving the drug, including telekinesis, pyrokinesis, and the ability to cross safely between universes momentarily. Olivia met Lincoln Lee, who she had never previously met in this timeline when his partner was killed by a shapeshifter. William Bell worked on a Fringe case. Walternate is having Fauxlivia 's memories implanted into Olivia so that he can use her ability to cross from one universe to another. Throughout the case, she faced an emotional breakdown over the incident and her identity crisis. Upon interrogating Steig, Dunham discovers that John Scott had been speaking to Steig before the 627 incident, and had even been threatening him. Upon collecting both the box and key, they opened it to find a parchment, revealing that Olivia herself was the crowbar. Henry removed the tracker from his taxi, having become sympathetic towards Olivia. Olivia rushed to Peter's house and told him that she remembered everything. He is portrayed by actor Seth Gabel . Fringe Division took the case and allowed Lincoln into the fold. I loved Lincoln Lee on the other side, but this Lincoln has become integral to the team. Olivia suggested that it was time to go home and get Etta in a bath. But through the cortexiphan and the power of their love, she soon remembered her life with him. It is confirmed by Broyles that Olivia's captivity in the alternate universe took place over a period of two months. She convinced him to remove the tech and find another way. Nina became a mother-figure and developed a deep bond with Olivia. "[44], Dunham was named one of TV's Smartest Detectives by AOL TV. At first skeptical, Peter soon accepted her into his life. Olivia finds herself collaborating with enemy forces and also dealing with the threat of the enigmatic Observers. "You belong with me," she tells Peter, standing against the backdrop. 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