She is trapped in the alternate universe by Walternate, Walter's alternative self, while Fauxlivia replaces her in the prime universe. Olivia met Lincoln Lee, who she had never previously met in this timeline when his partner was killed by a shapeshifter. [4] Walter has a video of Olivia as a child, ostensibly recorded during the drug trials, which shows her curled up in the corner of the room next to a badly charred bed with Walter saying: "It's all right, you didn't mean it. Weeks later, Olivia began to hallucinate with visions of Peter Bishop. 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. After using bluffing and blackmail, Dunham enlisted the younger Bishop's help, and together they went to see the elder Bishop in the institution. Casting director April Webster commented, "What we were looking for in Olivia was a woman who was believable as an FBI agent but yet had some vulnerability. Olivia and her younger sister, Rachel, were orphaned when Marilyn Dunham died of cancer in 1994. Many events still occurred, though, including her incarceration in the Alternate Universe and her impersonation by Fauxlivia. Before Brandon started the operation, Olivia received a visit from Colonel Broyles, who was still grateful to Olivia for helping his son. Yes, in the fourth season of Fringe, Peter and Olivia reunite. They say love knows no boundaries, and on Fox's multi-universe-traversing Fringe (Fridays at 9/8c), it truly doesn't . She is trained by Walter and William Bell as a guardian to protect the universe when a war between her universe and another, clash. ("The Zodiac Paradox"), Olivia Dunham was born on October 12, 1979, to Marilyn Dunham and an unnamed war veteran father. Olivia noticed a similar glow emanating from the windows of apartment 6B in the Rosencrantz building, owned by the widow Mrs. Alice Merchant. An abused Olive opens up to the wrong Walter. Female 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 and her niece, Ella Dunham, a rookie FBI agent. As in the original timeline, Olivia was instrumental in starting the Fringe Division and releasing Walter Bishop from St. Claire's to save her partner John Scott from biological attack. It is this quality which both impresses and irritates Broyles, as it makes her a good agent but also makes her prone to biting off more than she can chew when it comes to pursuing suspects. "[19] She is a loner and dedicates almost all of her time to her work. Jones then instructed Dunham to find a box which contained ten games, which were designed for a "recruit" of the ZFT bible. He is portrayed by actor Seth Gabel . This is early days Lincoln in all of his snarky glory. Torv has received several awards for her portrayal of Olivia. Olivia rejoined Henry and then left him to swim the rest of the way in and make her way to the isolation tank. Walter was holding a grudge against William Bell for using Olivia as a part of his scheme to collapse both worlds. He found a purpose by her side and helped her process her loss. As he discussed it with her, Olivia heard the sound of a bell. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. 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. 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. 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 and Peter got married. Olivia Dunham (Alternate Universe)/"Fauxlivia" Gender Peter comforted her. 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. As she was removed from the tank, she lied, telling Walternate the test did not work. She believes herself to be incapable of being vulnerable initially until she finds strength in it. 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. He then suddenly disappeared. By the time Charlie arrived, Olivia fully believed she was Fauxlivia, and after saying goodbye to her mother, returned willingly with Charlie to Fringe headquarters. "[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. The building, a hotel, is quickly identified from the list of candidates, and it is evacuated in time, moments before it is pulled into the parallel universe. 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.' Peter suddenly woke up from the machine in 2011. Episode Count ("Unleashed"), 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. It is possible that hypnosis sessions conducted by Walter had also diminished the children's memories of what was happening to them. She excused herself and stepped outside for some fresh air, followed by Peter. Peter and Olivia were able to track down Bell's ship, where they met up with Walter. After receiving a cryptic email, Dunham realized that she could communicate with Scott through his memories. Olivia welcomes her boyfriend Frank that has just returned from Texas and wants to . Olivia Dunham, shot and killed by Walternate out of revenge. They also made her "a little bit more playful". That's an actual rule of romance. Peter left her standing in the rain. Olivia. Roland explained that though she was alive, when he looked into her eyes, he realized she wasn't the same person and thus terminated the process. Olivia accompanied Broyles and his family to the same hospital that Max, one of the victims who was saved, was being treated. In the second season finale, Olivia and Peter Bishop finally admit their feelings for each other and kiss. As Olivia and Fauxlivia are the same genetically, both of them are blonde as Olivia uses the alternate's dye to disguise herself. Meanwhile, his Olivia, in the alternate universe, begins to see visions of Peter, who kisses her and tells her . Olivia and Peter then attempted to reconcile and rekindle their relationship. He explained, " in the dual role of Olivia/Fauxlivia, Torv absolutely came into her own this year. Rebecca Kibner, while under a heavy dose of mind-altering drugs, had witnessed events in the parallel universe including the presence of the shapeshifters. 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. 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. [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. Once Walter is able to accompany the child observer, Michael, to the future, he erases the time in which the observers are able to travel back and take over in 2015, and Olivia and Peter are once again in the park with Etta as a child. 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. She remained in amber until 2036. Sometime later, Walter also discontinued testing her emotions. Olivia reunited with Peter at the hospital. 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. He explained this to a heartbroken Olivia, who firmly believed that she was "his" Olivia. In 1974, 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. Walter sent her to Grand Central Station to retrieve a Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11. Olivia was imprisoned in the government facility on Liberty Island and put through both physical and psychological treatments by Walternate to make her believe that she is really the Fauxlivia of the parallel universe. They believe that Olivia is the alternate version - Charlie tells Lincoln that she has lost her mind. She convinced him to remove the tech and find another way. Olivia's crashed SUV was found. It was almost as if Olivia was his daughter and he wanted to take her heartbreak away. Olivia ultimately decides not to tell Peter but Walter decides to do the opposite. Olivia has been described as driven, stubborn, relentless at her job and unwilling to give up until she succeeds. However, Sam had disappeared and could not be found. ("Safe") She played the oboe for six months. Her take on [Fauxlivia] added many new colors to the characters, including malice, humor and sensuality. Using Alternate Nina as bait, Jones administered the Evaluation System test to Olivia. [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. Olivia Dunham is being held in a secret facility located beneath the Statue of Liberty. With the help of the alternate universe's Agent Broyles, she is able to escape from custody and make it to alternate Walter's Harvard lab, where she uses the tank to return to her own universe. This fear, which stemmed from the abuse by her stepfather, discouraged Walter from continuing his experiments with her. Olivia in the Peter-less universe was adopted as a child along with her sister by Nina Sharpe whom she considers a surrogate mother. Torv knows how to convey authenticity, even in the midst of an outrageous scene. While working for the FBI, Dunham became romantically involved with fellow agent and partner John Scott. Olivia had no recollection of. As a child, she suffered from abuse and was experimented on by Walter Bishop, although much of her memories of him were repressed. She may not have fallen as hard for Lincoln as he did for her, but she valued his friendship and his willingness to tell what she needed to hear rather than what she wanted to hear. I'm sorry, but I am only human and that is beautiful. ("Olivia. "[40] Executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Olivia was 14 years old. Olivia suggested the possibility that the effect is due to quantum entanglement between Alice in the prime universe and Derek in the parallel one. 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. 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". [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. She broke the cure Walter planned to use to cure Peter, so Walter had to return home with Peter of the Alternate Universe. The couple that kicks butt together stays together. Broyles reveals to Dunham what the pattern is, though she does not wish to participate in any similar investigations. After talking to Rachel about her sister, Peter visited Olivia, who was scheduled to be taken off life support the following morning. We didn't write anything for her because well, now you know why. The case is solved and finished with the death of killer Christopher Penrose and the arrest of his father Claus Penrose. 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. One of the best additions to this universe has been Lincoln. 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. After looking at many auditions "well past the 12th hour"[19] for the role of Olivia Dunham, Australian actress Anna Torv was selected for the part. Cause of death After spending much of season three apart, the pair are reunited when Walter discovers a way to open a bridge between two universes. Lincoln & Alt!Olivia Were Best. 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. She wears her hair auburn with a fringe that is easily recognizable. Alt-Broyles arrives and tells them that . Walter attributed this to a piece of Scott's consciousness being transferred over to Dunham's mind. Walternate is having Fauxlivia 's memories implanted into Olivia so that he can use her ability to cross from one universe to another. ("The Last Sam Weiss"). Olivia rushed to Peter's house and told him that she remembered everything. She tells them that Sean is the result of in vitro fertilization, so his biological father could have other children. ("Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"). 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". Olivia, unaware of the warning signs for the zone, instead raced through it instead of stopping to put on a respirator, nearly asphyxiating herself, and dodged the bricks in time to capture Milo. 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 . With our Olivia trapped in the Alternate Universe and the wrong Olivia being with Peter, Peter begins a relationship with Alternate Olivia. Actor 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. Olivia was one of a group of preschool-age children who served as subjects of the experiment in her childhood home of Jacksonville, Florida. 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 asked him to be the one to tell her mother if she didn't make it through the delivery. 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. Olivia's new stepfather was abusive to her mother and also to her. The bell caused Olivia to recall her conversation with Bell in the parallel universe. He called her the strongest of all the Cortexiphan children and she needed to be the guardian to protect the universe. Anna TorvAda Breker (age 3)Karley Scott Collins (age 7) Olivia participating willingly in Walternate's tests to cross over safely. Olivia also had the ability to discern if an object originated in the alternate dimension due to a "glimmer" that only she could see. At first skeptical, Peter soon accepted her into his life. Lincoln Lee is a fictional character on the Fox television series Fringe (2008-2013). ("Momentum Deferred"), Olivia mourned Charlie. Shortly after reuniting, the pair discover that their relationship in the other universe never existed and Olivia has a new lover, Lincoln Lee. Meanwhile, Peter realizes that he is with alternate Olivia, causing her to flee and return to her own universe as well. 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. Walter first put Olivia under heavy sedation, and she experienced meeting her younger, frightened self, but was still unable to trigger her ability. ("Concentrate and Ask Again"). 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. 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. 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. Now, one can argue that maybe that wasn't the best way for us to introduce the main character, but there was a purpose. The trust these two shared was unwavering, and it spilled over into the prime versions of the characters as well. [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. To prepare Olivia, they used the quantum entangled Selectric typewriter that the shapeshifters had used to contact the parallel universe. In 1985, the trials were accelerated for six-year-old Olivia, known as Olive to her peers. The bridge between universes was still created, and she was forced to work with the woman whom she felt stole her life. 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. ("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. This was when Peter came to the realization that he couldn't begin a relationship with the "wrong" Olivia again, like he had done with the Alternate Olivia. The tech and find another way hospital that Max, one of a.. 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