After a brief fight for her life, Olivia shot and killed the shapeshifter. As he discussed it with her, Olivia heard the sound of a bell. Marilyn Dunham later remarried in the mid-1980s. Olivia, after crossing over and getting out of Walter Bishop's tank in her universe, smiles at Astrid. [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. One later called her casting "the miracle of the whole thing". Olivia shot him after this but did not kill him. Walter's hypothesis proved to be correct and Olivia came back to life. Olivia wants to know how her colleague is dealing with life on the Fringe team, but he insists that he . ("Jacksonville"), Walter explained to Olivia the truth about the Peter from the prime universe dying as a child. This was the same test as the previous timeline with the lightbox but this time he wanted her to turn the lights on instead of off. Relations ("The Abducted"). Peter convinced her to open up about the abuse she had experienced. They proved to be a couple that could stand the test of time. 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. Olivia woke back up to the real world, free of William's mind. After the extraordinary turn of events that shockingly left an imprisoned Olivia "over there," she fights to find her way home. ("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. [45] She was listed in AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters.[46]. "[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. As Olivia and Fauxlivia are the same genetically, both of them are blonde as Olivia uses the alternate's dye to disguise herself. It was almost as if Olivia was his daughter and he wanted to take her heartbreak away. 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. They were married and have a daughter. And definitely had depth and a history behind her eyes. 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. When Alt!Olivia lost her Lincoln, the Lincoln from the prime universe chose to stay with her. 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 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. FBI Special Agent Walter continued to study the Central Park wormhole and discovered that it links to the past, approximately 250 million years ago. Walter implored Olivia to recall her childhood Cortexiphan-induced ability to see objects from the alternate universe, believing she would be able to foresee which building will be affected and warn everyone in time. Olivia and Peter cross over to the other universe. ("Marionette"), Olivia tried to be nonchalant about Peter Bishop and tried to come to terms with Fauxlivia taking her place and vice versa. Olivia in the Peter-less universe was adopted as a child along with her sister by Nina Sharpe whom she considers a surrogate mother. He survived the shooting and disappeared after his recovery. She has little family, as her mother died when she was in her early teenage years. Peter suddenly woke up from the machine in 2011. Olivia has been described as driven, stubborn, relentless at her job and unwilling to give up until she succeeds. Throughout the case, she faced an emotional breakdown over the incident and her identity crisis. 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. 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. She suspected that this capability was due to her Cortexiphan treatment when she was young. The loss and trauma she had experienced caused her to be much more anti-social and colder than in the original timeline. The couple that kicks butt together stays together. 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") She broke the cure Walter planned to use to cure Peter, so Walter had to return home with Peter of the Alternate Universe. Olivia noticed a similar glow emanating from the windows of apartment 6B in the Rosencrantz building, owned by the widow Mrs. Alice Merchant. However, she merely shot him in the knees, saving the people around Lane and incapacitating him. Although she did not see him after these events, he continued to send her a birthday card every year ("The Cure"). '"[33], The character and Torv's performance received overall generally positive reviews, although the response to Anna Torv's performance in the first season was mixed. "[19] She is a loner and dedicates almost all of her time to her work. Walter quietly asked Olivia not to tell Peter that he is from the other universe. 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. ("The Plateau"). After solving the case, Dunham received a letter that only said "thinking of you." Olivia and Scott investigate a storage facility. She convinced him to remove the tech and find another way. Olivia and Peter as children in the field of white tulips. Olivia was rescued from amber by the team and began to actively fight the Observers with the Resistance. This results in Olivia mistaking John Scott's memories for her own. [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. 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. Dunham and Scott would often rendezvous at a motel room for intimate time together. Without Peter, Olivia was unable to cope with the death and betrayal of Scott. 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. ("Ability") Olivia proved to be the most capable and strongest of all the test subject children. [16] Olivia and Peter are soon caught up in Walternate's scheme to destroy their world using the doomsday machine and Olivia tells Peter she loves him before he steps into the machine to stop it.[17]. She was told to grab random letters from the names, that once unscrambled read "you're gonna be fine". Upon collecting both the box and key, they opened it to find a parchment, revealing that Olivia herself was the crowbar. 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. ("6:02 AM EST"). 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. 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 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. Olivia participating willingly in Walternate's tests to cross over safely. Torv has received several awards for her portrayal of Olivia. Peter comforted her. 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. 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. Anna was just so professional, and so great. In the alternate timeline, however, Olivia also had a much closer relationship with Walter Bishop, and seemingly Astrid too. She smiled as Peter picked Etta up and played with her. While working for the FBI, Dunham became romantically involved with fellow agent and partner John Scott. 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