("Olivia. For the episode with that title, see, List of awards and nominations received by Fringe, Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Lead Actress in a Drama Series, "Anna Torv as Special Agent Olivia Dunham: Character Bio", "Anna Torv excited to play 'Fringe' double as Fox show edges into 3rd season, gains new perspective", "Anna Torv: Making 'Fringe' a mainstream hit", "Fringe 1.07 - In Which We Meet Mr. Jones - Reviewed", "Fringe producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. We're so thankful that people can start to see her for who she really is. Brandon theorized in a later conversation that the rush of adrenaline effectively enhanced the potency of his chemical agents to brainwash Olivia. 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. After talking to Rachel about her sister, Peter visited Olivia, who was scheduled to be taken off life support the following morning. As soon as he did this, Jones abducted Olivia. Olivia apparently loses her memories of her meeting with Bell and whatever information he may have told her. Critically acclaimed for an evolving storyline, Olivia has highlighted determination and focus as her main traits, according to Abrams. 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 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. She revealed the news to Peter. ("Marionette"), Olivia tried to be nonchalant about Peter Bishop and tried to come to terms with Fauxlivia taking her place and vice versa. He is portrayed by actor Seth Gabel . [12] After returning to work, Olivia is dismayed to discover that Peter had become intimate with her doppelganger. "[27] According to Torv, Fauxlivia holds herself differently and has "a different silhouette. 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. 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). A younger Olivia revealed herself as Olivia's true ego; assured of Peter's identity, she willingly went with him and Bell. Torv has received several awards for her portrayal of Olivia. However, Olivia begins to regain her past memories after she has hallucinations of Peter Bishop, who comes to her in a vision and tells her that she doesn't belong there before kissing her. 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. One test was successful, as she temporarily found herself in a gift shop on Liberty Island in the prime universe. 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 decided to come back to work sooner, despite Broyles wanting her to stay off, considering the trauma she dealt with. 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. Peter tells Olivia the truth about his relationship with Fauxlivia. They had the same tattoo with one on her nape and another on his back. Olivia also acquired the ability to expertly remember sequences of numbers and to count cards. She broke the cure Walter planned to use to cure Peter, so Walter had to return home with Peter of the Alternate Universe. "[5] We later learn that Olivia started the fire with her mind. 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. Peter sacrificed himself to protect her, waking back up in the real world. Throughout the case, she faced an emotional breakdown over the incident and her identity crisis. [42] TV Guide called it one of the best performances of the year, explaining "Switching Olivia with her alternate-universe self jump-started the show's interpersonal dynamics and changed the way we look at Torv. She is comfortable in her skin now, and the stillness is pulled back in favor of more humanity. 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. Upon collecting both the box and key, they opened it to find a parchment, revealing that Olivia herself was the crowbar. A tentative romance appeared to spark between Olivia and Lincoln, yet this was disrupted by Peter's return to the timeline. [23] She was nine years old when she shot her stepfather, and she states in an earlier episode that she knew what she wanted to do for a career "pretty much since [she] was nine", indicating a direct link between the childhood abuse and her job. As part of a plan to defeat the now hostile observers, Olivia and the rest of the Fringe team purposefully trap themselves in amber. An abused Olive opens up to the wrong Walter. "[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. 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. They teased each other, they laughed at each other's corny jokes, and they knew each other on a level no one else could and it was mesmerizing. He was a valuable part of her life, just as much as she was an essential part of his. As they travelled by zeppelin, William tried to encourage Walter that he no longer needs Bell's guidance. Sometime later, Walter also discontinued testing her emotions. She has been called the guardian of the gateway by Bell, who will prevent the invasion by the alternate dimension. Peter convinced her to open up about the abuse she had experienced. Both Peters being severely ill, but their Peter dying. ("There's More Than One of Everything"). After she did so, Peter took a moment to recall the events of his life, including his experiences with Olivia, and then stepped into the machine. Excuse me, I need a second to swoon. The nurse attempted to kill Olivia, but fled after being shot by Agent Jessop. Olivia was able to stand up against her past fears and stop their advance. ("Momentum Deferred") While in the trials, she was partnered up with Nick Lane. 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. The Olivias and Walters cautiously agreed that they needed to put aside their differences to save both worlds, completely unaware of Peter's disappearance. Olivia, seeing her mother and the memories of her mother, cried into her arms, as she was awash in Fauxlivia's memories. He was then placed into an indefinite coma by the FBI. Olivia accompanied Broyles and his family to the same hospital that Max, one of the victims who was saved, was being treated. Walter first put Olivia under heavy sedation, and she experienced meeting her younger, frightened self, but was still unable to trigger her ability. Olivia was the power source for Bell's plans, Walter took drastic measures to shut it down: shooting Olivia in the head. She went to the bowling alley, managed by Sam Weiss where he told her she was one of the best people hes known, and hes sure shell do the right thing. 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. Peter was unable to answer her, and a distressed Olivia left on her own, deciding not to be with him. [2] With help from Walter, Olivia finds a way to communicate with John within her own mind, eventually allowing the memories to fade completely. Olivia welcomes her boyfriend Frank that has just returned from Texas and wants to . 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. Consequently, "when Lincoln comes in, she's a little more open to him [than she was with Peter] and working with someone again."[24]. ("Momentum Deferred"), Olivia mourned Charlie. ("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. 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. Anna TorvAda Breker (age 3)Karley Scott Collins (age 7) While working on the case, Dunham recalled memories of her stepfather's abuse. ("Concentrate and Ask Again"). 28 ("Pilot" to "Power Hungry")29 ("The Cure")30 (Season 2)31 ("Lysergic Acid Diethylamide")46 ("The Day We Died")32 (Season 4)57; physically 36 (Season 5)36 ("An Enemy of Fate") I'm not a big believer in destiny, but it's hard to ignore something when every universe makes it happen. The couple that kicks butt together stays together. 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 . Walter and William believe that they have less than a day before Olivia's mind will be lost. 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. Walter and Peter helped revive Olivia who immediately demanded to see Nina. [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. 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. It is possible that hypnosis sessions conducted by Walter had also diminished the children's memories of what was happening to them. 1. Using Alternate Nina as bait, Jones administered the Evaluation System test to 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. Peter comforted her. [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. 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. He provided her with an icon symbol and a hand-written name to remember. Alice, who was childless, realized Peter and Olivia were telling the truth; the connection was broken and the effects on the building ebbed away. Anna Torv described them as "remarkably alike. She then coerced a taxi driver named Henry Arliss Higgins to drive her to the Opera House where she believed she can return home, by threatening to harm his family, but by the time she arrived, an "Amber protocol" had been issued, sealing the building in "amber", a substance that the Other Side Fringe Division deploys to envelop time fractures. "[44], Dunham was named one of TV's Smartest Detectives by AOL TV. Profession They will come within about half a degree of each other - roughly one full . 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. Upon her arrival, Charlie Francis, her close friend and fellow agent, debriefed Dunham. By the time Fringe arrived, Roland gave himself up willingly, and they found Amanda dead again. 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. Charley Gallay/Getty Images for Netflix. Because of her efforts to save Christopher, he let her go. In episodes 4.19 Letters of Transit and 5.1 Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11, their daughter finds them and reunites them. With our Olivia trapped in the Alternate Universe and the wrong Olivia being with Peter, Peter begins a relationship with Alternate Olivia. She smiled as Peter picked Etta up and played with her. 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. Olivia in the Peter-less universe was adopted as a child along with her sister by Nina Sharpe whom she considers a surrogate mother. ("Os"). This fear, which stemmed from the abuse by her stepfather, discouraged Walter from continuing his experiments with her. As they spend more time together Olivia begins to remember her time with Peter and gradually comes to realize that she is "his" Olivia while her memories from the readjusted timeline begin to slip. Olivia learns that while Etta poses as an enforcer for the observers she is actually resistant to their telepathy and is a key figure in the human resistance movement against them. Using a makeshift set of ropes and pulleys, Roland engaged Amanda's body in a marionette act to make her perform like a ballerina, promising her he will bring her back to life. 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. Olivia became a part of the trials in 1982. Olivia reunited with Peter at the hospital. "[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. [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. 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. Her emotional reaction triggered her ability to see once again the "shimmer" around Peter that marked him as a native of the parallel universe. ("Power Hungry"), On her birthday, Dunham investigated a case concerning a virus that caused people to explode. The alternate universe Fringe team of Olivia, Charlie, and Lincoln was introduced and it was majestic. When he opens the letter, he pulls out the drawing of the white tulip as referenced from Season 2. Wyman", "Vacation Robo-Post: Great Performances of 2010", "AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters", "Teen Choice Awards: Complete list of winners", "Nominations for the 37th Annual Saturn Awards". Olivia participating willingly in Walternate's tests to cross over safely. ("Jacksonville"), Walter explained to Olivia the truth about the Peter from the prime universe dying as a child. Olivia. For me, Lincoln and Olivia were Fringe 's OTP. Returning to the lab, Dunham faked passing the test in order to gain the location of a bomb from Jones. On a Fringe case, mathematician savant Milo Stanfield led Olivia on a chase through a construction area including a marked zone where the air is too thin, expecting to crush her under a load of cement bricks. When Alt!Olivia lost her Lincoln, the Lincoln from the prime universe chose to stay with her. It is clarified that September simply decided not to save the drowning Peter as he crossed over, so much of the circumstances of Olivia's life have changed without Peter's involvement in them, and in some cases, a domino effect has taken place. Olivia, after crossing over and getting out of Walter Bishop's tank in her universe, smiles at Astrid. I loved Lincoln Lee on the other side, but this Lincoln has become integral to the team. It is confirmed by Broyles that Olivia's captivity in the alternate universe took place over a period of two months. 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 . [20] Executive producer Bryan Burk later said "there was just something really special about her and really smart". Olivia struggled unsuccessfully with trying to activate the typewriter, even with Walter's support. Olivia and Peter as children in the field of white tulips. This is the episode to go to if. 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. After the final reset, Olivia and Peter were happily sitting in the park watching Etta play. She was told to grab random letters from the names, that once unscrambled read "you're gonna be fine". To prepare Olivia, they used the quantum entangled Selectric typewriter that the shapeshifters had used to contact the parallel universe. Olivia has been described as driven, stubborn, relentless at her job and unwilling to give up until she succeeds. She was rushed to the hospital and declared brain dead. A heartbroken Peter Bishop, her husband in 2026, gave the eulogy at her funeral and her body was burnt at sea. 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. Together, the two reached the immersion tank that Olivia used earlier, but found it to be empty. At FBI HQ, Olivia is drawing a man's face, but quickly hides the sketch when Lincoln arrives. Olive and "Dr. Walter" at the daycare facility in Jacksonville, 1985. One later called her casting "the miracle of the whole thing". 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