Unknown to the prime universe, Walternate's experiment had not affected the stability of their world. He tells her to expect headaches as one consequence of crossing universes. ("The Day We Died"). After using bluffing and blackmail, Dunham enlisted the younger Bishop's help, and together they went to see the elder Bishop in the institution. 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. Last Appearance When Alt!Olivia lost her Lincoln, the Lincoln from the prime universe chose to stay with her. [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. Anna Torv has both been nominated and won a number of international awards. Dunham and Scott would often rendezvous at a motel room for intimate time together. Peter and Olivia were sent by Walter to observe the building as he monitored seismic equipment from the lab. 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 . They also made her "a little bit more playful". In the season finale, she faced William Bell on an Alternate Universe. After injecting herself with the same drugs Walternate had used on her, she entered the tank and soon found herself back in her own universe at the same gift shop. 23 Sep. 2010. 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. Broyles eased Olivia's concerns that she made an emotional choice by assuring her that her decision to save Walter was a logical one as Walter was highly valuable to the team. Though still cautious about moving forward, Olivia and Peter kissed and headed to the bedroom upstairs at the Bishops' home after she arrived for drinks. Appearances ("The Same Old Story"), Dunham investigates The Observer. Walter's hypothesis proved to be correct and Olivia came back to life. After looking at many auditions "well past the 12th hour"[19] for the role of Olivia Dunham, Australian actress Anna Torv was selected for the part. The bell caused Olivia to recall her conversation with Bell in the parallel universe. When Olivia finds and confides in Walter himself, he empathizes with her and threatens her stepfather Randall with a call to social services as well as the loss of financial support from the trial ("Subject 13"). She did it with excellence, and now she's really getting the chance to show people, 'Hey, I'm a really hard worker and a terrific actor.' 1. ("Pilot") Olivia is the series' protagonist, and was introduced as an FBI Special Agent, working for a multi-agency task force of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security called the Fringe Division, dealing with supernatural events that are linked to experimental occurrences. 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. She turned to face Peter, revealing herself to now be possessed by Bell. However, another relationship deserved just as much attention, too and that would be the one between Lincoln and Olivia. "[35] MSNBC was equally praiseworthy of Torv and her character, writing "Olivia is the soul of the show two-fisted and defiant, yet vulnerable. He called her the strongest of all the Cortexiphan children and she needed to be the guardian to protect the universe. Initially, Gabel was cast for just the finale, and did not hear about his character's return until the end of the following summer. Comparing Olivia to Fauxlivia, Torv felt that the two had many different characteristics. Shortly after the bridge was formed, Olivia and the other Olivia began to swap case files, both being extremely cold and suspicious of the other. She excused herself and stepped outside for some fresh air, followed by Peter. Rebecca Kibner, while under a heavy dose of mind-altering drugs, had witnessed events in the parallel universe including the presence of the shapeshifters. By the time Fringe arrived, Roland gave himself up willingly, and they found Amanda dead again. ("Reciprocity") Olivia questioned Peter Bishop since he had confused Olivia's coffee preferences with Fauxlivia's (with Olivia liking black coffee). [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. 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. ("The Arrival"), After solving cases involving a bus accident ("The Ghost Network") and a mysterious bald man ("The Arrival"), Olivia finally became somewhat used to her job and was on good terms with Phillip Broyles and the rest of her co-workers. Olivia was rescued from amber by the team and began to actively fight the Observers with the Resistance. As an adult, Olivia told Peter that she knew she wanted to be in law enforcement since the age of 9 ("The Ghost Network"). [9] She regains part of those memories and learns more about the invasion between dimensions. Harris, working with Internal Affairs, intended to get revenge on Dunham for her prosecution of him. "[19] She is a loner and dedicates almost all of her time to her work. ("The Zodiac Paradox"), Olivia Dunham was born on October 12, 1979, to Marilyn Dunham and an unnamed war veteran father. The two split up to search the storage facility, and Scott found and pursued a man who was hiding in one of the containers. Peter returns to Olivia, and tells her the Greek phrase means "be a better person than your father," and was told to him every night by his mother. Walter sent her to Grand Central Station to retrieve a Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11. ("The No-Brainer") Dunham later went undercover with Peter Bishop to solve the case of a bioweapon that mutated its victims. Language: English Words: 5,653 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 3 Kudos: 2 Bookmarks: 2 . As the team began to pursue David Robert Jones and try to stop his plan, they learned that William Bell was the true mastermind. It was almost as if Olivia was his daughter and he wanted to take her heartbreak away. Returning to the Federal Building in Boston, Dunham was assigned to investigate a lead at a storage facility along with Scott. Lincoln & Alt!Olivia Were Best. Alice did not believe them until Derek started to refer to their children. Peter suddenly woke up from the machine in 2011. 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. Broyles, having listened to Olivia's conversation, knew in that moment that she had broken her conditioning, as the FBI had ceased to exist years earlier in the parallel universe. A crushed Olivia appealed to Nina Sharp for comfort following the break-up. There, Bell warned Olivia of a "great storm" that was coming, and that she must stop a man who is trying to open a gateway between the two universes. ("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. Alice previously told Olivia that Derek died recently from trying to replace a faulty fuse after they flipped a coin to decide who would replace it, and Walter surmises that the parallel universe Alice died in a similar fashion due to a different outcome of the coin flip. While prime Olivia was busy averting apocalypses and what have you with Peter, Alt!Olivia was building a stable, exciting, and rewarding life with Lincoln and their son. This drove Olivia and Peter apart, as Peter wanted to find his missing daughter and Olivia decided to bottle up her emotions and try to save the world. [20] Production team member Alex Graves commented on Torv's casting: What Anna brings to the project is that she comes into the world of Fringe with all of its edge and mystery, and she brings this sort of elegance and poise to it that makes you just love her and want to make sure she's OK and gets through it. This division is where she spearheads various paranormal events related to The Pattern, alongside civil consultant Peter Bishop and his father, Dr. Walter Bishop. Olivia also mentions that Fauxlivia "kidnapped" her. Harris instead instructed Dunham to raid a warehouse along with Charlie Francis and several others. Astrid tried to reassure her that Peter thought she was her. Relations 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. Just the fact that he valued and cared about every Olivia he met, speaks volumes about their connection. 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. Jupiter and Venus will share a rare 'cosmic kiss' tonight, as the two planets appear side by side in the night sky.. When she was 9, Olivia's stepfather beat her mother particularly harshly. Olivia was one of a group of preschool-age children who served as subjects of the experiment in her childhood home of Jacksonville, Florida. Olivia reunited with Peter at the hospital. [2] With help from Walter, Olivia finds a way to communicate with John within her own mind, eventually allowing the memories to fade completely. ("Safe") She played the oboe for six months. At three years old, Olivia lived in Jacksonville, Florida, because her father was stationed at the local military base. Fringe was unable to determine how the container works. In his review of the pilot episode for New York, John Leonarwas found Torv "wonderfully played" her character. When Dunham escaped and calls for backup, she was instead tasered and brought in for questioning by Sanford Harris, a man she had earlier prosecuted for sexual misconduct. As he discussed it with her, Olivia heard the sound of a bell. Olivia was kept in the dark about Colonel Broyles' death by Phillip Broyles, Peter Bishop and Walter Bishop. 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. They say love knows no boundaries, and on Fox's multi-universe-traversing Fringe (Fridays at 9/8c), it truly doesn't . 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. Olivia was 14 years old. Olivia welcomes her boyfriend Frank that has just returned from Texas and wants to . Olivia discovers, rediscovers and eventually willingly manages her unique, Cortexiphan-induced, paranormal abilities for the benefit of global, and trans-universal good. One later called her casting "the miracle of the whole thing". They were soon attacked by a man wearing an X-marked t-shirt, who teared open the side of the zeppelin; Walter was pulled out by the rush of air and falls to his deathwaking him back in the real world. Weiss suggested finding a proverbial "crowbar" that could be used to break the shield protecting the device to give Peter enough time to enter it. 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