Otherwise since then I have kept reading news about it and when the parallel universe topic was first mentioned I couldn't help thinking about Sliders and even Saint Seiya.
But it's only until recently that I finally decided to give the show an other chance. My father is a shapeshifter. Despite its numerous qualities Fringe season 1 disappointed some of its viewers. From the episodic format to the questionable character development people had plenty of reasons to move on. Others kept watching and now that I have seen Olivia I sort of envy them. Indeed it seems a lot of twisted things happened and according to reviewers the show has kept getting better and better.
It's specially true for season 3 because its first episode was quite entertaining. Focusing on one character only was the right decision because it strengthened the story pace.
Considering I missed 16 episodes and the whole season 2 I have to admit that the recap was a little confusing. Alternate who what when where? Is Anna Torv related to Jeff Dunham? But even newcomers should quickly get their X marks. My mother is a stormtrooper. Anna Torv dual performance was strong and exciting.
Indeed now Olivia has an alternate double it seems both characters will have to deal with issues like personality disorder. The approach is refreshing compared to cloning for example, even if Invasion was great in my opinion. And the actress made the idea execution even more disturbing until the very end of the episode. From the different hair colors to the historical references there were also many elements to help us dissociate the real world from the parallel universe.
I also think that it's wise to only cover one side at a time. The story occurred in the other dimension and once you have taken the red pill I think it's hard to resist the blue one. Olivia discovers, rediscovers and eventually willingly manages her unique, Cortexiphan -induced, paranormal abilities for the benefit of global, and trans-universal good.
As a child, she suffered from abuse and was experimented on by Walter Bishop, although much of her memories of him were repressed.
She is trained by Walter and William Bell as a guardian to protect the universe when a war between her universe and another, clash. Olivia finds herself collaborating with enemy forces and also dealing with the threat of the enigmatic Observers. In , 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.
Olivia Dunham was born on October 12, , to Marilyn Dunham and an unnamed war veteran father. At three years old, Olivia lived in Jacksonville, Florida, because her father was stationed at the local military base. 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.
Olivia became a part of the trials in It is unknown what happened to Olivia's biological father, although he is likely dead. Marilyn Dunham later remarried in the mids. Olivia's new stepfather was abusive to her mother and also to her.
In , the trials were accelerated for six-year-old Olivia, known as Olive to her peers. 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.
However, Walter discovered that this ability was not easily controlled and, moreover, required intense emotional stimulation to activate. He began to test her emotions in various ways and discovered that fear was the key.
This fear, which stemmed from the abuse by her stepfather, discouraged Walter from continuing his experiments with her. Unbeknownst to Olivia, Walter had accelerated the trials because he hoped to find a way to bring the alternate universe, Peter Bishop, back home. Peter and Olivia met one another as children and confided in one another. Peter convinced her to open up about the abuse she had experienced. Olivia eventually sought help from Walter but discovered she was speaking to the Walter Bishop from the other universe after she had momentarily crossed over.
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 ". Later that day, her stepfather Randall hit her with a belt, resulting in busting her lip. Sometime later, Walter also discontinued testing her emotions. Olivia's memories of the trials eventually became repressed along with those of her childhood trauma and abuse.
It is possible that hypnosis sessions conducted by Walter had also diminished the children's memories of what was happening to them. When she was 9 , Olivia's stepfather beat her mother particularly harshly. Olivia shot him after this but did not kill him.
He survived the shooting and disappeared after his recovery. Although she did not see him after these events, he continued to send her a birthday card every year " The Cure ". 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 and her younger sister, Rachel, were orphaned when Marilyn Dunham died of cancer in Olivia was 14 years old.
Olivia also acquired the ability to expertly remember sequences of numbers and to count cards. Dunham graduated from Northwestern University with a B. Due to the fact that relationships between agents were not allowed, the affair was kept quiet, though Dunham hated the secrecy. Olivia and Scott investigate a storage facility. Dunham and Scott would often rendezvous at a motel room for intimate time together.
During one such time, their tryst was interrupted with a phone call instructing her to go to Logan International Airport to help manage the Flight incident. Upon her arrival, Charlie Francis , her close friend and fellow agent, debriefed Dunham. Phillip Broyles , the managing agent of the case, chose Francis and Scott to examine the plane, and eventually submitted to Dunham's requests and let her join the search team as well, despite his dislike of her.
Upon entering the plane, Dunham and her colleagues were shocked at the carnage inside the cabin, where every occupant's flesh had melted. Returning to the Federal Building in Boston, Dunham was assigned to investigate a lead at a storage facility along with Scott. The two split up to search the storage facility, and Scott found and pursued a man who was hiding in one of the containers.
The man then detonated a bomb within the containers. Dunham was clear of the blast, but Scott had been directly in the middle of the explosion and was put into a coma to slow skin degeneration similar to the degeneration seen on the passengers of Flight 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.
Bishop, incarcerated in a mental institution, was only allowed to be visited by immediate family members, however, so Dunham located Peter Bishop , Walter's son, whom she would use to visit Walter. After using bluffing and blackmail, Dunham enlisted the younger Bishop's help, and together they went to see the elder Bishop in the institution. When Walter proved to be knowledgeable about the subject, Dunham had him released from the institution and had his old lab reopened.
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 passenger Morgan Steig , a former Massive Dynamic employee. 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.
Dunham raids Steig's house, eventually capturing him with the help of Peter. Broyles reveals to Dunham what the pattern is, though she does not wish to participate in any similar investigations. Upon interrogating Steig, Dunham discovers that John Scott had been speaking to Steig before the incident, and had even been threatening him.
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.
Dunham, emotionally shaken by the entire case, met with Walter and Peter soon afterwards who decided to stay and help with future cases. Their next case was that of Loraine Alcott , a woman who died after giving birth to a rapidly aging baby. During the case, Dunham discovered that her affair with Scott was not as secret as she had once thought, and she begins to question her entire relationship with Scott.
The case is solved and finished with the death of killer Christopher Penrose and the arrest of his father Claus Penrose. Dunham investigates The Observer. 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. While solving the case of Joseph Meegar , a man who can control electricity, Olivia began to see visions of Scott, which eventually led her to one of Scott's hideouts, where she found several useful items, along with an engagement ring intended for her.
Walter attributed this to a piece of Scott's consciousness being transferred over to Dunham's mind. On her birthday, Dunham investigated a case concerning a virus that caused people to explode.
While working on the case, Dunham recalled memories of her stepfather's abuse. After solving the case, Dunham received a letter that only said "thinking of you. 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.
Jones was intrigued by Dunham. Also while in Germany, Dunham was reunited with Lucas Vogel , an old flame. 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. Jones ". Olivia's memory of John " The Dreamscape ". After solving the case of a kidnapped boy " The Equation " , Dunham was forced to go back into the tank to search the memories that had entered her head with Scott's consciousness, which she used to solve the case of a Massive Dynamic employee.
After receiving a cryptic email, Dunham realized that she could communicate with Scott through his memories. While solving the case of a bank robber stuck in a wall, Dunham was kidnapped by Mitchell Loeb.
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. Harris, working with Internal Affairs, intended to get revenge on Dunham for her prosecution of him. 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.
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. Sanford Harris , however, considered that doing so would be negotiating with a terrorist. Harris instead instructed Dunham to raid a warehouse along with Charlie Francis and several others. 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.
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. Jones then instructed Dunham to find a box which contained ten games, which were designed for a "recruit" of the ZFT bible.
Upon discovery, Dunham was to attempt the first test, and the first test only. Dunham was at first reluctant to do the test, believing Jones to be performing a psychological trick on her.
He revealed that she had been injected with a drug called Cortexiphan that was created by Massive Dynamic , however, that would give her the ability to complete the test, which involved telekinetically extinguishing a board of electric lights. Dunham, still skeptical of whether the drug existed, confronted Nina Sharp about the drug, who told her that William Bell had only tested it in Ohio to unsuccessful results in the early 's, during which Dunham was a three-year-old living at a military base in Jacksonville, Florida with her father.
Returning to the lab, Dunham faked passing the test in order to gain the location of a bomb from Jones. Upon reaching the bomb, however, Dunham discovered that disabling the bomb required the skill that she had previously imitated on the first test.
However, through concentration, Dunham appeared to extinguish the lights and disable the bomb, though she attributed it to a simple timer that caused the lights to cut off, and not to any personal ability, though Peter disagreed with her.
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. Later that night, Dunham received a call from Sharp, who told her that testing had also occurred at a military base in Jacksonville, Florida, leaving Dunham to believe that she had been a test subject for the drug herself.
Dunham returned to work soon afterward, and was called in to a case where a small boy had been found in a sealed underground tunnel. The pale and scrawny boy did not speak to Olivia, but she began spending time with him, and a connection grew. The boy, who was extremely sensitive to human emotion, helped Dunham solve the case of The Artist , a serial killer whom Dunham had previously chased. Dunham subsequently found and killed the Artist, and also placed the boy into custody of a loving family.
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 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.
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. Lane, she discovered, was a reverse emotional empath--every emotion he felt was spread to those around him, causing the suicides of many due to his dark mood.
When she was finally able to locate Lane, however, he threatened to commit suicide by jumping off a building with the many people who had followed him unless she shot him dead. However, she merely shot him in the knees, saving the people around Lane and incapacitating him. He was then placed into an indefinite coma by the FBI. A totally demented Walter casually fixing Nina's arm.
It's a dystopia, after all. The way Walter starts chewing out his rescuers for tripping the alarms, once his brain is back together. The secret exit, because "Belly and I never left ourselves only one way out of a room. And then there's the way he gets William Bell to give him a hand with his problems.
Walter basically gets his Patrick Troughton on — the funny little man who runs rings around everybody else. Except I can't quite picture the Second Doctor blowing up a building full of thugs and slicing his former best friend's hand off. That's cold. All in all, the timeline in "Letters of Transit" does for Fringe precisely what "a timeline where Peter died as a child" failed to do.
It recharges the show with a new level of possibility. It provides a new antagonist, one who's got more long-term potential than David Robert Jones, who's already died once.
The show has a real mission statement again, and this new storyline turns the show's mythos on its side without contradicting anything we've previously learned. And it takes all of the sometimes kind of annoying hints that Peter and Olivia's romance was something the fate of worlds depended on, and gives us a concrete reason, in the form of the mentally gifted Henrietta.
All in all, a fifth season of Fringe suddenly feels like a much more intriguing prospect. As Hail Mary passes go, this one seems to have landed nicely. It was an awesome episode. What people seem to be forgetting is that the writers alway do something special and out of the narritive for episode It's a Fringe tradition since season 2 "Brown Betty".
Remember the animated LSD episode last year? So next episode we are going back to the team fighting DRJ. But I do hope that if there is a season 5, that we go back to the future and continue this story. Thank god there are shows like Fringe on television. What Olivia says is "We did something like this before". I guess because the lights were off she figured they were doing it the other way around. Why are there no female Observers? Are they all hermaphrodites? Maybe they reproduce by cloning or some other asexual process?
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