("Fracture"). [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. As part of a plan to defeat the now hostile observers, Olivia and the rest of the Fringe team purposefully trap themselves in amber. "[27], The producers discussed cutting her hair, but ultimately decided on the auburn hair color to differentiate her. However, Olivia felt that she needed to return to her normal environment and dealt with a case that made her reflect on Peter's own actions with Fauxlivia. She was monitored by Dr. Anderson. Olivia met Lincoln Lee, who she had never previously met in this timeline when his partner was killed by a shapeshifter. After a brief fight for her life, Olivia shot and killed the shapeshifter. "Pilot" Dunham, emotionally shaken by the entire case, met with Walter and Peter soon afterwards who decided to stay and help with future cases. As Walter's deadline neared, he realized that Olivia was no longer frightened and thus she could not engage her abilities, which were triggered by fear. The character was created by series' co-creator J. J. Abrams, and is portrayed by actress Anna Torv. In the second season finale, Olivia and Peter Bishop finally admit their feelings for each other and kiss. At the Saturn Awards, Torv has been nominated each year for her performance during the first four seasons of the series, ultimately being awarded at the 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013 ceremonies, becoming the only actress to win four consecutive awards in that specific category for a television series. To prepare Olivia, they used the quantum entangled Selectric typewriter that the shapeshifters had used to contact the parallel universe. She ventured upstairs to investigate; after failing to find anything, she accidentally fired her weapon, narrowly missing Peter. 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. She has a strong sense of justice, which drives her to solve a case by any means necessary. ("Midnight"), While investigating the case of a spontaneous combustion, Olivia learned that she was capable of experiencing an extended deja vu, apparently, a glimpse of the Alternate Universe. "[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. Although she did not see him after these events, he continued to send her a birthday card every year ("The Cure"). 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. There, Max thanked Olivia personally and asked her about what the "FBI" was, as she had said it when she saved him. Olivia managed to escape the facility using her talent for remembering numbers and knocking several government men down. 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. Henry, after watching Charlie's car pull away, drove off on his own. Henry removed the tracker from his taxi, having become sympathetic towards Olivia. When Alt!Olivia was giving birth to her son with Peter, she trusted Lincoln to choose to save the baby if it came down to it. [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. 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 was at first reluctant to do the test, believing Jones to be performing a psychological trick on her. Olivia also acquired the ability to expertly remember sequences of numbers and to count cards. She revealed the news to Peter. Marilyn Dunham later remarried in the mid-1980s. 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. [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. One test was successful, as she temporarily found herself in a gift shop on Liberty Island in the prime universe. 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. Olivia Dunham - List of Appearances. As they travelled by zeppelin, William tried to encourage Walter that he no longer needs Bell's guidance. Olivia finds herself collaborating with enemy forces and also dealing with the threat of the enigmatic Observers. Olivia and Peter fight the Observers and loyalists. [12] After returning to work, Olivia is dismayed to discover that Peter had become intimate with her doppelganger. Olivia and Peter as children in the field of white tulips. Olivia forces Henry to take her to the Opera House. Walter and Peter helped revive Olivia who immediately demanded to see Nina. The 42-episode slow-burn romance comes to a head as Olivia delivers one of the most resonantly heartfelt lines of the series. 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. Olivia was able to stand up against her past fears and stop their advance. 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. With our Olivia trapped in the Alternate Universe and the wrong Olivia being with Peter, Peter begins a relationship with Alternate Olivia. Anna TorvAda Breker (age 3)Karley Scott Collins (age 7) 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. 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. After arriving home, Olivia was speaking with Etta while Peter went to get the mail. Fringe Episode 2.22 Scene - Peter and Olivia - The Kiss gillybabies 7.12K subscribers Subscribe 1.1K 341K views 12 years ago Olivia tells Peter why needs to come back with her she seals it. 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. [8] Having left her universe moving at a high speed, she returns at the same speed, crashing through the windshield of her now stationary car, leaving her in an almost fatal condition. "An Enemy of Fate" Olivia begins to realize how much Fauxlivia has consumed her life. After Olivia's death, the Bishops and Ella Dunham were in mourning. They are rescued by Etta in 2036. He also gave her an ambering device should she be compromised by the Observers. 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. So Anna had to listen to all these people saying 'She's really doing nothing,' when really it was our issue. Meanwhile, Olivia's sister Rachel Dunham and Rachel's daughter Ella Blake arrive to stay with Olivia. Olivia, seeing her mother and the memories of her mother, cried into her arms, as she was awash in Fauxlivia's memories. Meanwhile, the Fringe Division was falsely told that their Olivia had escaped. As the team began to collect pieces of the plan, Olivia bonded with her long lost daughter, only to have her taken away again by the insidious Captain Windmark, who shot her point blank. (Original TImeline)Alternate Timeline :Shot directly in the head by Walter Bishop to prevent a third universe; revived by Cortexiphan in 2012. Alice, who was childless, realized Peter and Olivia were telling the truth; the connection was broken and the effects on the building ebbed away. Torv has received several awards for her portrayal of Olivia. They also made her "a little bit more playful". Jones then instructed Dunham to find a box which contained ten games, which were designed for a "recruit" of the ZFT bible. She directed Henry to the address for Massive Dynamic, but found the facility does not exist in this universe. 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. ("Pilot"), Their next case was that of Loraine Alcott, a woman who died after giving birth to a rapidly aging baby. [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. After the extraordinary turn of events that shockingly left an imprisoned Olivia "over there," she fights to find her way home. Peter and Olivia were able to track down Bell's ship, where they met up with Walter. When he opens the letter, he pulls out the drawing of the white tulip as referenced from Season 2. But at the time, people were like, 'Wow, this girl really is not much,' which is so not true. 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. Dunham was successful and Harris was jailed, though this case caused bad blood to form between FBI agent Phillip Broyles and Dunham. It was almost as if Olivia was his daughter and he wanted to take her heartbreak away. 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. "[39], In a response to some early negative reactions to the actress' performance, Jon Lachonis noted in a review of the first season's seventh episode that "Anna Torv, whose chill portrayal of FBI agent and Pattern investigator Olivia Dunham has come under fire for being too wooden, seems to have reinvented her character to answer the critics. That moment between Walter and Olivia was a sign of how close they have become. Olivia and her niece, Ella Dunham, a rookie FBI agent. ("A New Day In The Old Town"), Having recovered enough from the events of the previous episode, Olivia was released from the hospital, and was watched by the shapeshifter who had killed Charlie Francis and adopted his appearance. Walter found that his effort to store William's mind has failed, and took time to consider William's last message he gave to Olivia: "I knew the dog wouldn't hunt". One later called her casting "the miracle of the whole thing". Sam Weiss ran up to her and demanded to be taken to the machine to stop what was already happening. 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 with the Alternate Charlie and Lincoln Lee. Olivia waited by his side. She believes herself to be incapable of being vulnerable initially until she finds strength in it. 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. Walter attributed this to a piece of Scott's consciousness being transferred over to Dunham's mind. Walter and William believe that they have less than a day before Olivia's mind will be lost. [20] Executive producer Bryan Burk later said "there was just something really special about her and really smart". him, but hesitantly began working with and trusting him. Excuse me, I need a second to swoon. 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. Too late, Olivia realized she had told "Charlie" the location of the cryogenics facility, and he relayed this to another agent. [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. The Cortexiphan Trials, run by Walter Bishop and William Bell, took place in a daycare centre in Jacksonville, Florida. Olivia survives, with gaps in knowledge of the alternate universe's protocol. Lincoln & Alt!Olivia Were Best. 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. As for Olivia, there is no denying her life was always better with a version of Lincoln in it. At the hospital following the events on Bell's ark, Olivia learned that she was pregnant. Language: English Words: 5,653 Chapters: 1/1 Comments: 3 Kudos: 2 Bookmarks: 2 . Upon her arrival, Charlie Francis, her close friend and fellow agent, debriefed Dunham. 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 watches Peter merge the two universes. 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. When she was 9, Olivia's stepfather beat her mother particularly harshly. 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. Anna Torv has both been nominated and won a number of international awards. Married to Peter, she was left to deal with crises of the fractured prime universe, which was suffering from the same singularities that had already destroyed the parallel universe, as a result of the two universes being inextricably linked together. ("The Day We Died"). Meanwhile Broyles is considered missing and Lincoln is the head of the division. And sporting sensible pantsuits and just a hint of makeup, she makes Olivia a plausibly gorgeous pro, not a crime-busting tootsie. 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. The reasoning is simple: Their partnership transcended time and space, and was both beautiful and heartbreaking. The couple that kicks butt together stays together. As the building started to exhibit the initial signs of a singularity and Broyles prepared to release the amber, Olivia and Peter attempted to persuade Alice that the man she was seeing was not really her husband. 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. 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. He began to test her emotions in various ways and discovered that fear was the key. "[27] According to Torv, Fauxlivia holds herself differently and has "a different silhouette. Giving orders in Central Park, moments before her death. As revenge, Walternate promised Peter will face the same pain he suffered "but not all at once". Harris primary reason for driving Olivia out of the case was due to his involvement in the ZFT. 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. ("The Cure"), 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. 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. She works with Etta until Etta is murdered. 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. ("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. Peter and Olivia met one another as children and confided in one another. 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. Olivia was one of a group of preschool-age children who served as subjects of the experiment in her childhood home of Jacksonville, Florida. Returning to the Federal Building in Boston, Dunham was assigned to investigate a lead at a storage facility along with Scott. 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.' ("Grey Matters"), Newton planned to pull a building from the prime universe to the parallel universe. Sanford Harris, however, considered that doing so would be negotiating with a terrorist. There was no version of Olivia Dunham that Lincoln Lee did not think was a brilliant, amazing woman. However, Sam had disappeared and could not be found. This results in Olivia mistaking John Scott's memories for her own. ("Olivia") They went into foster care afterwards. Due to the fact that relationships between agents were not allowed, the affair was kept quiet, though Dunham hated the secrecy. Her emotional reaction triggered her ability to see once again the "shimmer" around Peter that marked him as a native of the parallel universe. [49] Torv received three nominations at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Peter was unable to answer her, and a distressed Olivia left on her own, deciding not to be with him. 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