"[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. Brandon theorized in a later conversation that the rush of adrenaline effectively enhanced the potency of his chemical agents to brainwash Olivia. At the hospital following the events on Bell's ark, Olivia learned that she was pregnant. Knowing that. Without Peter, Olivia was unable to cope with the death and betrayal of Scott. The alternate universe Fringe team of Olivia, Charlie, and Lincoln was introduced and it was majestic. For me, Lincoln and Olivia were Fringe 's OTP. Olivia and her younger sister, Rachel, were orphaned when Marilyn Dunham died of cancer in 1994. As part of a plan to defeat the now hostile observers, Olivia and the rest of the Fringe team purposefully trap themselves in amber. 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. She is trapped in the alternate universe by Walternate, Walter's alternative self, while Fauxlivia replaces her in the prime universe. Upon discovery, Dunham was to attempt the first test, and the first test only. ("Dream Logic"), When Thomas Jerome Newton, the reanimated leader of the shape-shifters forced Walter to tell him how he opened a door to the Alternate Universe, Olivia managed to stop his escape, but was forced to choose between seizing Newton and saving Walter, as he had given Walter a lethal dose of a neurotoxin that will kill him unless he gave Olivia the correct directions. Following a plot line in the second season, viewers are introduced to Olivia's doppelgnger from the parallel universe, which develops an alternate reality for each character. ("Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"). Consequently, "when Lincoln comes in, she's a little more open to him [than she was with Peter] and working with someone again."[24]. S3, Ep2. She was rushed to the hospital and declared brain dead. Olivia is a 29-year-old FBI Special Agent assigned to a multi-agency task force of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security called the Fringe Division,[1] after her partner and lover, John Scott, is exposed to a flesh-dissolving agent. The good news is, Anna's new and more animated Olivia isn't really a departure so much as it is a character who seems to have had a catharsis. Only upon finding evidence linking her current case (a virus that caused orifices to seal over) to Jones would she be able to speak with Jones. In the alternate timeline, however, Olivia also had a much closer relationship with Walter Bishop, and seemingly Astrid too. Olivia and Peter then attempted to reconcile and rekindle their relationship. Olivia gave him an address to a "safe house" in a suburban area, and, once there, thanks him and allows him to go. Immortality: Directed by Brad Anderson. Olivia managed to escape the facility using her talent for remembering numbers and knocking several government men down. 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. This fear, which stemmed from the abuse by her stepfather, discouraged Walter from continuing his experiments with her. Olivia discovers, rediscovers and eventually willingly manages her unique, Cortexiphan-induced, paranormal abilities for the benefit of global, and trans-universal good. In the second season finale, Olivia and Peter Bishop finally admit their feelings for each other and kiss. Anna TorvAda Breker (age 3)Karley Scott Collins (age 7) 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. 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 in the Peter-less universe was adopted as a child along with her sister by Nina Sharpe whom she considers a surrogate mother. 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. Her emotional reaction triggered her ability to see once again the "shimmer" around Peter that marked him as a native of the parallel universe. She had once shared a kiss with Lincoln Lee. Olivia gives the device to Nina at Massive Dynamic; with the intact device, they can use it to examine the device of the first shapeshifter that tried to kill Olivia. [21] Torv read for a few scenes over the Internet, and was told the following day that she had won the role, embarking for Toronto soon after to begin shooting. Olivia also had the ability to discern if an object originated in the alternate dimension due to a "glimmer" that only she could see. She's got a little firefighter, a little military in her. Meanwhile, the Fringe Division was falsely told that their Olivia had escaped. If the crack widened, Walter predicted they would see occurrences of the same singularities that have plagued the parallel universe, and suggested the use of the same amber-like compound they had previously recovered to limit the damage. When Walter proved to be knowledgeable about the subject, Dunham had him released from the institution and had his old lab reopened. Although initially finding their conversations useless, he cured Olivia's inability to walk without a cane. Olivia survives, with gaps in knowledge of the alternate universe's protocol. "[20] Not having seen Torv before,[21] they came across an audition tape of hers for another movie, and were "immediately intrigued". Olivia became a part of the trials in 1982. Walter and Peter are called in to investigate the case of a very dead thirty year old man, that appears to be in his nineties. What's interesting about this show is that in many ways, Olivia has the masculine role, and the two guys are the women. Meanwhile, she convincingly portrayed the trauma and confusion of her captured-then-returned Olivia, whose emotional (and complicated) reunion with Peter made an outlandish situation real and moving. Olivia began to remember the gruesome trials she experienced, including footage from one test where she exhibited pyrokinesis. ("6:02 AM EST"). "[27], The producers discussed cutting her hair, but ultimately decided on the auburn hair color to differentiate her. Sanford Harris, however, considered that doing so would be negotiating with a terrorist. [2] With help from Walter, Olivia finds a way to communicate with John within her own mind, eventually allowing the memories to fade completely. A reimagining of Olivia and Lincoln's first case, from Lincoln's POV. Olivia Dunham, 3 years old, at the beginning of the Cortexiphan Trials. 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. A photograph of Olivia as a teenager with Nina Sharp in the alternate timeline in Nina's office. Shortly after reuniting, the pair discover that their relationship in the other universe never existed and Olivia has a new lover, Lincoln Lee. Loeb was captured and interrogated by the FBI, and Dunham revealed that Samantha was dead, driving Loeb into a rage. Upon reaching the bomb, however, Dunham discovered that disabling the bomb required the skill that she had previously imitated on the first test. [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. Sam Weiss ran up to her and demanded to be taken to the machine to stop what was already happening. 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. He gave her adrenaline after she ahd been paralysed and shot Brandon. In episodes 4.19 Letters of Transit and 5.1 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11, their daughter finds them and reunites them. [7], Olivia is given permission by Nina Sharp to meet William Bell, who currently resides in another dimension, with his office in the World Trade Center's South Tower. Olivia cannot name the man, but nonchalantly referred to him as the person who is going to kill her. They proved to be a couple that could stand the test of time. After Olivia's death, the Bishops and Ella Dunham were in mourning. Forever, in a Day by Ldynwaitin reviews. They went to a bar while waiting, where Olivia tried to kiss Peter but became uncomfortable, knowing of the influence of Fauxlivia, on Peter. 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. 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. Olivia was 14 years old. '"[33], The character and Torv's performance received overall generally positive reviews, although the response to Anna Torv's performance in the first season was mixed. Peter tells Olivia the truth about his relationship with Fauxlivia. The man then detonated a bomb within the containers. [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. "Pilot" Agent Olivia Dunham is an FBI special agent and multiagency DHS liaison recruited by Philip Broyles to be part of a secret task force within the FBI known as Fringe Division. Olivia's hallucination of Peter pointed out to her that there was a way to tell if she was from the prime universe: by confirming her memories of her seven-year-old niece Ella, who did not survive birth in the parallel universe. Olivia discovered a building occupying a soft spot between the two universes. That's an actual rule of romance. 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. "[5] We later learn that Olivia started the fire with her mind. Anna Torv described them as "remarkably alike. It was almost as if Olivia was his daughter and he wanted to take her heartbreak away. [28] Torv wanted to make the new character "completely different", but she and Goldsman recognized that the two share some major similarities, as they both are in the same profession and are "fundamentally, genetically really the same person. After talking to Rachel about her sister, Peter visited Olivia, who was scheduled to be taken off life support the following morning. This division is where she spearheads various paranormal events related to The Pattern, alongside civil consultant Peter Bishop and his father, Dr. Walter Bishop. The Cortexiphan Trials, run by Walter Bishop and William Bell, took place in a daycare centre in Jacksonville, Florida. Broyles revealed there was a GPS tracker in him, but managed to buy Olivia enough time to successfully return to her universe with a dose of Cortexiphan. Olivia's perspectives and inner feelings seemed to make her life harder for her but very often serve as the focal points for episodes of the series that directly focus on her development as a human being and a member of the law enforcement community. Walter is initially unsuccessful at treating Scott, but after entering a water tank for a synaptic transfer with Scott, Dunham is able to identify the man who tried to kill Scott: Richard Steig, twin brother of Flight 627 passenger Morgan Steig, a former Massive Dynamic employee. Upon her arrival, Charlie Francis, her close friend and fellow agent, debriefed Dunham. ("Grey Matters"), Newton planned to pull a building from the prime universe to the parallel universe. 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. 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. 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. [15] Initially, Bell and Walter think Olivia will just be a host for Bell while they find a way to move his consciousness to another entity, but they find that Olivia is losing herself and her personality will soon be gone. 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. 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. Olivia was being periodically dosed with Cortexiphan by David Robert Jones, alive in the new timeline, and the Alternate Nina Sharp. As she was removed from the tank, she lied, telling Walternate the test did not work. While Dunham and Vogel kissed, nothing further developed between them, and Dunham returned to the United States after the information from Jones had been taken. 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. 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. After the final reset, Olivia and Peter were happily sitting in the park watching Etta play. Peter and Olivia were able to track down Bell's ship, where they met up with Walter. Olivia convinced him that her universe is not at war with theirs; the troubles started not from any hostile action, but only as an accidental side-effect of Walter Bishop's initial crossing to save Peter 25 years prior. While assisting Peter in crossing to the Other Side, Olivia was visited by a wounded September, who warned that, in all possible futures, no matter what he tried to do, she would die. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. in Psychology and Criminology, and served as a United States Marine Corps special investigator, prosecuting Sanford Harris, who was charged with sexually assaulting three Marine Corps Privates. The two split up to search the storage facility, and Scott found and pursued a man who was hiding in one of the containers. He provided her with an icon symbol and a hand-written name to remember. ("The Day We Died"). Nothing the Bishop men can't handle. 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. Alice's connection to the parallel universe Derek had caused the crack. 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