Weiss stated that the machine was not meant to be a doomsday device and that the strange effects were a byproduct of the machine's "frustration" due to its believing that Peter was already inside the machine. [9] She regains part of those memories and learns more about the invasion between dimensions. With the help of Walter Bishop and Peter Bishop, she discovered that her dreams were actually caused by her connection to Nick Lane, with whom she had been partnered with during their experimentation in Jacksonville, Florida. 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 an adult, Olivia told Peter that she knew she wanted to be in law enforcement since the age of 9 ("The Ghost Network"). 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. [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 Dunham is being held in a secret facility located beneath the Statue of Liberty. Olivia met Lincoln Lee, who she had never previously met in this timeline when his partner was killed by a shapeshifter. "[19] She is a loner and dedicates almost all of her time to her work. But at the time, people were like, 'Wow, this girl really is not much,' which is so not true. Olivia and Peter fight the Observers and loyalists. ("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. 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 . "[27], The producers discussed cutting her hair, but ultimately decided on the auburn hair color to differentiate her. Olivia also had the ability to discern if an object originated in the alternate dimension due to a "glimmer" that only she could see. He then suddenly disappeared. 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 went to Dr. Frank, who was the. Following a visit with September, Peter learned that he was indeed home. During Olivia's final test in the tank, she was again able to cross over to the gift shop in the prime universe in New York, and saw the absence of New York's Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre. Yes, the Olivias seemed destined to carry a torch for Peter, even when Peter was blinked out of existence but Lincoln was there to help Olivia solve cases, deal with her losses, and just generally be the best partner he could possibly be. ("Ability") Olivia proved to be the most capable and strongest of all the test subject children. 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. 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. Walternate is having Fauxlivia 's memories implanted into Olivia so that he can use her ability to cross from one universe to another. In the season finale, she faced William Bell on an Alternate Universe. In the home, Olivia discovered her mother Marilyn, who, in the prime universe, had died when Olivia was a teenager. I will never get over the perfection of Lincoln and Olivia. Initially, Gabel was cast for just the finale, and did not hear about his character's return until the end of the following summer. [12] After returning to work, Olivia is dismayed to discover that Peter had become intimate with her doppelganger. She directed Henry to the address for Massive Dynamic, but found the facility does not exist in this universe. She excused herself and stepped outside for some fresh air, followed by Peter. 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. 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. With the Revolver"). After Walter searched through the SUV, he shut the door and Olivia suddenly ejected through the windshield. After the final reset, Olivia and Peter were happily sitting in the park watching Etta play. She struggles with trust issues and letting other people help her out. After Olivia's death, the Bishops and Ella Dunham were in mourning. Peter and Olivia met one another as children and confided in one another. Olivia became frightened when she believed she could not evacuate people from the buildings without causing mass panic. When Dunham returned to the hospital where Jones was being held, however, she found a gaping hole in the wall of his hospital room, with the message "You passed" scrawled on an adjacent wall. As the team began to pursue David Robert Jones and try to stop his plan, they learned that William Bell was the true mastermind. Olivia was 14 years old. Jupiter and Venus will share a rare 'cosmic kiss' tonight, as the two planets appear side by side in the night sky.. During the raid, Agent Kent was infected with the toxin, linking Jones to the case and therefore giving Dunham a right to talk to Jones. 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. 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. Wyman defended Torv's early Fringe work in a 2011 interview, explaining the character was designed to be "bland, because of her conditioning as a child and everything she's been through. Olivia's time in the alternate world was running out (as she instinctively knew that Walternate and Brandon Fayette had whatever they want from her) and she began to find ways to return to the other side with the help of Henry Arliss Higgins. As she was removed from the tank, she lied, telling Walternate the test did not work. ("Olivia") They went into foster care afterwards. William and Peter safely landed in Jacksonville, and Peter directed them to find the home among the military housing where Olivia stayed at as a child, marked by a red-painted door by her birth-father. After talking to Rachel about her sister, Peter visited Olivia, who was scheduled to be taken off life support the following morning. Walter, in a desperate plea, crossed over to save him, despite Nina's attempts to stop him. After Etta's death Olivia is mournful and grows apart from Peter, however after he tries to harness observer technology to avenge Etta's death Olivia talks him into abandoning his plan and the two becomes close again. [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. [41] Midway through the second season, Sarah Stegall from SFScope believed Torv "had the most progress and the most satisfying development" of all the main actors, stating she "is now carrying this role with grace and strength". Nina Sharp talked with Olivia, and recommended she see a friend, Sam Weiss "who helped put [her] back together" after she was diagnosed with cancer. Dunham and Scott would often rendezvous at a motel room for intimate time together. She was rushed to the hospital and declared brain dead. Olivia began to develop super-hearing as a result of crossing to the parallel universe, and heard someone else in a house when on a case despite the man insisting he was the only one there. While working on the case, Dunham began to suspect that Mitchell Loeb was involved, and immediately went to search his house, eventually getting into a standoff and killing Samantha Loeb. They proved to be a couple that could stand the test of time. However, Henry remained parked on a nearby street. Images: Warner Bros. Television; hellyeahfringe/Tumblr (11), The Real Reason Selena Gomez Hid Her Love Of Friends' For Years, Olivia Colman Is Creepy AF In The New Great Expectations Trailer, Austin Butler Reveals Whether He Will Appear In The 'Zoey 101' Sequel Movie, Paul Rudd Has This One Regret Over 'Friends Final Episode, Get Even More From Bustle Sign Up For The Newsletter. Olivia Dunham, shot and killed by Walternate out of revenge. Olivia and Scott investigate a storage facility. Actor Gender With Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown. Olivia Dunham is a fictional character and the main protagonist from the science fiction television series Fringe, which aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company in the United States from 2008 to 2013. In Jacksonville, she was part of a series of drug trials--previously thought to have been held only in Ohio--in which schoolchildren were used as test subjects. It was almost as if Olivia was his daughter and he wanted to take her heartbreak away. ("Bad Dreams"), Olivia later helped to solve the case of Valerie Boone, the wife of ZFT scientist Nicholas Boone who had been going on a killing spree as a result of her deliberate infection with an extremely acute brand of syphilis, which Olivia got later on. ("Os"). She remained in amber until 2036. 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. As a back-up plan, the two travelled to Walternate's long abandoned lab at Harvard to use the sensory deprivation tank. And sporting sensible pantsuits and just a hint of makeup, she makes Olivia a plausibly gorgeous pro, not a crime-busting tootsie. She broke the cure Walter planned to use to cure Peter, so Walter had to return home with Peter of the Alternate Universe. She'd like to go home and let someone else shoulder that burden of saving the world for a few minutes. She's got a little firefighter, a little military in her. 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.' ("Pilot"). However, another relationship deserved just as much attention, too and that would be the one between Lincoln and Olivia. Meanwhile the Fringe Division had recently opened a cold case about a serial kidnapper called Candyman, who kidnapped children who are then left drained of their youth and one of the victims are Colonel Phillip Broyles' son, Christopher Broyles. Together, the two reached the immersion tank that Olivia used earlier, but found it to be empty. Peter and Olivia were sent by Walter to observe the building as he monitored seismic equipment from the lab. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix. ("Concentrate and Ask Again"). With Olivia's death, Bell's plan came to a drastic halt. Olive and "Dr. Walter" at the daycare facility in Jacksonville, 1985. ("The Dreamscape"), While solving the case of a bank robber stuck in a wall, Dunham was kidnapped by Mitchell Loeb. That's an actual rule of romance. He was then placed into an indefinite coma by the FBI. When Peter resurfaces Olivia is surprised to see him but believes he comes from a parallel universe. He survived the shooting and disappeared after his recovery. Olivia rejoined Henry and then left him to swim the rest of the way in and make her way to the isolation tank. When Olivia regains part of her memories of her meeting with Bell, she is told that she is the only successful subject suitable to pass through dimensions without many known negative side-effects. Olivia suggested that it was time to go home and get Etta in a bath. She turned to face Peter, revealing herself to now be possessed by Bell. Etta was reunited with Peter, Walter, and Astrid, who had been encased in amber. [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. [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. Agent Lincoln Lee, still needing hyperbaric treatment to regrow his skin after being burned, and Agent Charlie Francis, followed a tracking device on Henry's taxi. However, Walternate arranged for Olivia's brain to be removed for further study on how to travel through universes safely. [3], Olivia is revealed to be linked to the drug Cortexiphan, a chemical developed by William Bell, which supposedly allows children injected with it to retain higher brain functions which would normally deteriorate with age. Upon reaching the bomb, however, Dunham discovered that disabling the bomb required the skill that she had previously imitated on the first test. Unknown to the prime universe, Walternate's experiment had not affected the stability of their world. 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 was able to retrieve the device but was forced to amber herself before returning to the Harvard Lab. Peter recalled the memories from the future and used the machine to merge the machine rooms from both universes into one thus creating a bridge, While Olivia and Walter and their doppelgangers stared each other down, Peter convinced the two sides to work together to try to repair the damage to save both universes, then suddenly disappeared. ("Momentum Deferred"), Olivia mourned Charlie. Olivia. 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. "[36] Conversely, SFScope columnist Sarah Stegall believed Torv's early performance to be "downright wooden",[37] while others criticized the actress and character for being "cold and distant. Olivia and her niece, Ella Dunham, a rookie FBI agent. [21] Webster called a friend in Australia, and were able to arrange an audition with Torv, who was camping in the Outback at the time she received the call from her agent. Peter was revealed by September to have been erased from existence. Inside Olivia's mind, Walter and Peter found they stood out as invaders, and the people that populate her mind, including a vision of her step-father, seek to stop them. Dunham subsequently found and killed the Artist, and also placed the boy into custody of a loving family. One test was successful, as she temporarily found herself in a gift shop on Liberty Island in the prime universe. All known timelines: Peter, husbandWalternate, father-in-lawWalter, adoptive father-in-lawMarilyn, mother Unnamed father Unnamed uncleRachel, sisterGreg, brother-in-lawElla, nieceRandall, stepfather (deceased in rewritten timelines)Eddie, grandfather Missy, auntAgent Scott, former lover Lucas - ex-boyfriendRewritten timelines only: Eddie, nephewEtta, daughterNina, guardian Although she did not see him after these events, he continued to send her a birthday card every year ("The Cure"). Forever, in a Day by Ldynwaitin reviews. Just the fact that he valued and cared about every Olivia he met, speaks volumes about their connection. Once the Observers invaded in 2015, Henrietta went missing (one way or another, Fauxlivia was aware of it, as mentionned in Liiberty at 26:07, suggesting that communication between universes continued after the deactivation of the bridge in Worlds Apart). 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. As a result, Olivia is capable of unspecified psychic abilities, as demonstrated when she shuts off a series of lights wired into a bomb as a kill switch simply by thinking it. She soon recognized she was frightened again, and raced to a rooftop, seeing a building "shimmer" in the distance. The nurse attempted to kill Olivia, but fled after being shot by Agent Jessop. Fringe Episode 2.15 Scene - Peter and Olivia The Nearly Kiss 41,375 views Feb 5, 2010 168 Dislike Share gillybabies 6.73K subscribers We all knew it was bound to happen, but what is she. [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. As Olivia travelled with Weiss to collect a box and the key containing this crowbar, Weiss explained that he descended from a long unbroken line of men named Sam Weiss whose forebear found the incomplete collection of information on the First People and the device, and have sought to try to find the rest. 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 trust these two shared was unwavering, and it spilled over into the prime versions of the characters as well. 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. Walter told Olivia that his crossing was what caused the crack between the two universes, including the Pattern on their side, and leading to the oncoming "storm" that William warned Olivia about. ("6955 kHz"). ("The Plateau"). At the hospital following the events on Bell's ark, Olivia learned that she was pregnant. She was monitored by Dr. Anderson. This division is where she spearheads various paranormal events related to The Pattern, alongside civil consultant Peter Bishop and his father, Dr. Walter Bishop. However, Sam had disappeared and could not be found. Torv knows how to convey authenticity, even in the midst of an outrageous scene. Peter, Walter and Bell use LSD to go into Olivia's mind to locate and save her, but Bell is lost forever when he helps Olivia come to grips with her hidden fears and she regains consciousness. Olivia began to remember the gruesome trials she experienced, including footage from one test where she exhibited pyrokinesis. 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. "You belong with me," she tells Peter, standing against the backdrop. As part of a plan to defeat the now hostile observers, Olivia and the rest of the Fringe team purposefully trap themselves in amber. He was a valuable part of her life, just as much as she was an essential part of his. Sanford Harris, however, considered that doing so would be negotiating with a terrorist. [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. At first skeptical, Peter soon accepted her into his life. 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. After being visited by her partner, Charlie and given a gun, Olivia is unsuccessfully questioned by the shapeshifter, who has adopted the appearance of a female nurse. Olivia's crashed SUV was found. They realized that Olivia is unaware that she has been possessed by William's mind, and instead had likely locked her ego away, making it difficult to contact her by normal means. At the 2009 Australians in Film Awards, Torv won the Breakthrough Award. Olivia welcomes her boyfriend Frank that has just returned from Texas and wants to . As a result, Olivia killed her abusive stepfather. There was no version of Olivia Dunham that Lincoln Lee did not think was a brilliant, amazing woman. Olivia shot him after this but did not kill him. ("Safe"). 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. Olivia meets her alternate universe mother. 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. 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 . He also gave her an ambering device should she be compromised by the Observers. 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. In 2015 when Olivia is at a park with Etta and Peter they are caught up in a global attack by observers and she and Peter are separated from their daughter. Fringe Division took the case and allowed Lincoln into the fold. 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. After finding out that Peter Bishop had an intimate relationship with Fauxlivia, she tried to be ignorant about it. 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. ("Bound"), A case concerning a Brain-melting computer virus became personal when Ella Blake almost fell victim to the virus, though Ella was saved by Dunham. After the extraordinary turn of events that shockingly left an imprisoned Olivia "over there," she fights to find her way home. ("The No-Brainer") Dunham later went undercover with Peter Bishop to solve the case of a bioweapon that mutated its victims. Walter and Peter helped revive Olivia who immediately demanded to see Nina. Jones then instructed Dunham to find a box which contained ten games, which were designed for a "recruit" of the ZFT bible. Also while in Germany, Dunham was reunited with Lucas Vogel, an old flame. The man then detonated a bomb within the containers. 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. They were each other's person, and they were at their best when they were together. Walternate revealed to be responsible for the End of Dayers group as revenge for Peter activating the doomsday device and destroying his universe. 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. Her take on [Fauxlivia] added many new colors to the characters, including malice, humor and sensuality. 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. However, Olivia suddenly woke up, crying the Greekphrase Na einai kalytero anthropo apo ton patera tou. As he discussed it with her, Olivia heard the sound of a bell. ("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. The turning point came when Olivia and Peter went searching for Dr. Frank's old files at a storage facility - shades of the Fringe pilot, when OT Olivia's partner/lover/fianc John Scott . Olivia later discovered that Peter had tried to touch the machine, but was sent flying by an electrical spark. The loss and trauma she had experienced caused her to be much more anti-social and colder than in the original timeline. Now, one can argue that maybe that wasn't the best way for us to introduce the main character, but there was a purpose. There was not one single universe in which Lincoln and Olivia were not part of each other's lives in some capacity. 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. ("6:02 AM EST"). We didn't write anything for her because well, now you know why. 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. As Olivia and Fauxlivia are the same genetically, both of them are blonde as Olivia uses the alternate's dye to disguise herself. [10] She is captured and drugged, brainwashed into believing that she is the alternate Olivia, complete with traits such as superb marksmanship skills which prime-universe Olivia did not possess. 8.6 (2,224) Rate. The 42-episode slow-burn romance comes to a head as Olivia delivers one of the most resonantly heartfelt lines of the series. Nothing the Bishop men can't handle. 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. Anna was just so professional, and so great.