After the final reset, Olivia and Peter were happily sitting in the park watching Etta play. Without Peter, Olivia was unable to cope with the death and betrayal of Scott. She was rushed to the hospital and declared brain dead. Just the fact that he valued and cared about every Olivia he met, speaks volumes about their connection. The Cortexiphan Trials, run by Walter Bishop and William Bell, took place in a daycare centre in Jacksonville, Florida. Throughout the case, she faced an emotional breakdown over the incident and her identity crisis. Olivia and her niece, Ella Dunham, a rookie FBI agent. Peter realized that when Olivia is scared, she retreated to somewhere safe, and suggested they search her mind's version of Jacksonville, her childhood home. The prime Olivia ultimately found Peter again, but she didn't regret the time she spent with Lincoln. Walter was arrested and imprisoned for destroying the other universe. She broke the cure Walter planned to use to cure Peter, so Walter had to return home with Peter of the Alternate Universe. Olivia forces Henry to take her to the Opera House. With Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Lance Reddick, Blair Brown. ("The Dreamscape"), While solving the case of a bank robber stuck in a wall, Dunham was kidnapped by Mitchell Loeb. Olivia became a part of the trials in 1982. While working for the FBI, Dunham became romantically involved with fellow agent and partner John Scott. "[40] Executive producers Jeff Pinkner and J.H. Olivia temporarily crosses over and discovers the truth. The bridge between universes was still created, and she was forced to work with the woman whom she felt stole her life. 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. 2023 BDG Media, Inc. All rights reserved. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. S3, Ep1. But through the cortexiphan and the power of their love, she soon remembered her life with him. They were soon attacked by a man wearing an X-marked t-shirt, who teared open the side of the zeppelin; Walter was pulled out by the rush of air and falls to his deathwaking him back in the real world. It is possible that hypnosis sessions conducted by Walter had also diminished the children's memories of what was happening to them. ("Dream Logic"), When Thomas Jerome Newton, the reanimated leader of the shape-shifters forced Walter to tell him how he opened a door to the Alternate Universe, Olivia managed to stop his escape, but was forced to choose between seizing Newton and saving Walter, as he had given Walter a lethal dose of a neurotoxin that will kill him unless he gave Olivia the correct directions. Olivia begins to realize how much Fauxlivia has consumed her life. Female It is unknown what happened to Olivia's biological father, although he is likely dead. They were each other's person, and they were at their best when they were together. Olivia's memories of the trials eventually became repressed along with those of her childhood trauma and abuse. ("The Firefly") Olivia read Fauxlivia's observation notes and found that Fauxlivia did have real emotions towards Peter Bishop and identified to Astrid Farnsworth that Fauxlivia is the better version of her. The pale and scrawny boy did not speak to Olivia, but she began spending time with him, and a connection grew. With the Revolver"). 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. For me, Lincoln and Olivia were Fringe 's OTP. 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. As she was removed from the tank, she lied, telling Walternate the test did not work. ("The Same Old Story"), Dunham investigates The Observer. He found a purpose by her side and helped her process her loss. Excuse me, I need a second to swoon. With Massive Dynamic's resources, they were able to recreate the amber and a release system to encase the building, but hold it in reserve as a last resort only. Olivia willingly participated in Walternate's tests in a sensory-deprivation tank located on Liberty Island to stimulate her Cortexiphan abilities. As Fringe's dimension-hopping became more and more unintelligible, Lincoln and Olivia became a constant for the fans to hold onto. Dunham graduated from Northwestern University with a B.S. The Fringe division discovers an undamaged device they believe is used by the shapeshifters to take another's identity. ("The No-Brainer") Dunham later went undercover with Peter Bishop to solve the case of a bioweapon that mutated its victims. As Olivia recounted the name of another cryogenics facility from Bell's note, she received a text message from "Charlie" warning her that Nina is the shapeshifter. ("Ability"). She has a live-in boyfriend named Frank Stanton who works as a virologist who specialized in infectious disease for the CDC and both of them are engaged briefly until he breaks up with her. 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. 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. [49] Torv received three nominations at the Teen Choice Awards for Choice TV Actress: Fantasy/Sci-Fi in 2010, 2011, and 2012. He provided her with an icon symbol and a hand-written name to remember. After being visited by her partner, Charlie and given a gun, Olivia is unsuccessfully questioned by the shapeshifter, who has adopted the appearance of a female nurse. ("Reciprocity") Olivia questioned Peter Bishop since he had confused Olivia's coffee preferences with Fauxlivia's (with Olivia liking black coffee). Olivia's is close to her sister Rachel, and Rachel's daughter Ella. in Psychology and Criminology, and served as a United States Marine Corps special investigator, prosecuting Sanford Harris, who was charged with sexually assaulting three Marine Corps Privates. Upon discovery, Dunham was to attempt the first test, and the first test only. She suspected that this capability was due to her Cortexiphan treatment when she was young. [11] Olivia tries to escape her imprisonment and travel back to her own universe, but in doing so, she inadvertently goes to Fauxlivia's mother's house where she finally accepts the new memories as her own. Sam helped her work through it by giving her a "project" that required her to collect business cards from people wearing the color red. In the parallel universe, the Fringe Division investigates a case where a man was eaten from inside out by an extinct beetle. One test was successful, as she temporarily found herself in a gift shop on Liberty Island in the prime universe. In the Lab. Olivia and Peter cross over to the other universe. Olivia's crashed SUV was found. They are rescued by Etta in 2036. This results in Olivia mistaking John Scott's memories for her own. After injecting herself with the same drugs Walternate had used on her, she entered the tank and soon found herself back in her own universe at the same gift shop. 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 was able to retrieve the device but was forced to amber herself before returning to the Harvard Lab. She turned a lot of heads. In the world of Fringe, a lot of emphasis was placed on the relationship between the star-crossed lovers that were Peter and Olivia. At Fringe division, Charlie visits a scarred Lincoln. Olivia discovered a building occupying a soft spot between the two universes. However, Olivia suddenly woke up, crying the Greekphrase Na einai kalytero anthropo apo ton patera tou. "[20] Not having seen Torv before,[21] they came across an audition tape of hers for another movie, and were "immediately intrigued". [20] Executive producer Bryan Burk later said "there was just something really special about her and really smart". Shortly after reuniting, the pair discover that their relationship in the other universe never existed and Olivia has a new lover, Lincoln Lee. Olivia and Peter got married. Olivia also mentions that Fauxlivia "kidnapped" her. Olivia dealt with Roland, a man who became enamored with the deceased Amanda at depression counseling meetings and tried to revive her. This division is where she spearheads various paranormal events related to The Pattern, alongside civil consultant Peter Bishop and his father, Dr. Walter Bishop. Dunham was successful and Harris was jailed, though this case caused bad blood to form between FBI agent Phillip Broyles and Dunham. ("Novation") At some point, Olivia attended boarding school. Olivia wants to know how her colleague is dealing with life on the Fringe team, but he insists that he . At three years old, Olivia lived in Jacksonville, Florida, because her father was stationed at the local military base. [45] She was listed in AfterEllen.com's Top 50 Favorite Female TV Characters.[46]. 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. With this new information, he rushed to be with Olivia, who met him with a long embrace and romantic kiss. William explained that she would be able to return to possession of her body as Walter, in the real world, attempts to extract William's mind. Olivia Dunham (Alternate Universe)/"Fauxlivia" Age At FBI HQ, Olivia is drawing a man's face, but quickly hides the sketch when Lincoln arrives. Weiss stated that the machine was not meant to be a doomsday device and that the strange effects were a byproduct of the machine's "frustration" due to its believing that Peter was already inside the machine. Jupiter and Venus will share a rare 'cosmic kiss' tonight, as the two planets appear side by side in the night sky.. Dunham and Scott would often rendezvous at a motel room for intimate time together. Anna TorvAda Breker (age 3)Karley Scott Collins (age 7) Olivia, after crossing over and getting out of Walter Bishop's tank in her universe, smiles at Astrid. Alternate Version 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. [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]. As Peter gets the mail, he noticed a letter addressed to him from Walter. '"[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. 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. Olivia Dunham - List of Appearances. They defied the odds, and crossed over to other universes just so at least one version of them could grow old together. Sanford Harris, however, considered that doing so would be negotiating with a terrorist. Season Three. him, but hesitantly began working with and trusting him. FBI Special Agent At the 2009 Australians in Film Awards, Torv won the Breakthrough Award. [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. (Original TImeline)Alternate Timeline :Shot directly in the head by Walter Bishop to prevent a third universe; revived by Cortexiphan in 2012. ("Peter"), Olivia had a sleepless night over the discovery. 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 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. Astrid tried to reassure her that Peter thought she was her. There was no version of Olivia Dunham that Lincoln Lee did not think was a brilliant, amazing woman. Actor Unable to stop it and her love for Peter, Olivia begged Nina to hold on to their relationship, no matter what were to happen to her memories. I think Olivia would like to not feel everything is her responsibility. Olivia passed out when Walter clanged a bell to begin the process of Rebecca telling them more about this. Broyles later talked with his wife, Diane and then returned to Liberty Island to save Olivia. If the crack widened, Walter predicted they would see occurrences of the same singularities that have plagued the parallel universe, and suggested the use of the same amber-like compound they had previously recovered to limit the damage. Relations Olive and "Dr. Walter" at the daycare facility in Jacksonville, 1985. [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. Olivia rushed to Peter's house and told him that she remembered everything. Later that day, her stepfather Randall hit her with a belt, resulting in busting her lip. Upon collecting both the box and key, they opened it to find a parchment, revealing that Olivia herself was the crowbar. The nurse attempted to kill Olivia, but fled after being shot by Agent Jessop. 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. They went to a bar while waiting, where Olivia tried to kiss Peter but became uncomfortable, knowing of the influence of Fauxlivia, on Peter. 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. Peter recalled the memories from the future and used the machine to merge the machine rooms from both universes into one thus creating a bridge, While Olivia and Walter and their doppelgangers stared each other down, Peter convinced the two sides to work together to try to repair the damage to save both universes, then suddenly disappeared. Olivia began to remember the gruesome trials she experienced, including footage from one test where she exhibited pyrokinesis. In the first alternate universe introduced on the show, Lincoln and Olivia were best friends. ("6B"), Sometime later, Peter and Olivia's relationship began to improve. Olivia adopted Ella, presumably after her parents' deaths. Walternate planned on using Olivia's body in order for her alternate self to return home, as it would require a person of Olivia's mass to complete the transfer. "[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. The reasoning is simple: Their partnership transcended time and space, and was both beautiful and heartbreaking. Upon interrogating Steig, Dunham discovers that John Scott had been speaking to Steig before the 627 incident, and had even been threatening him. 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. Forever, in a Day by Ldynwaitin reviews. Torv knows how to convey authenticity, even in the midst of an outrageous scene. Olivia demonstrated that she learned how to control her Cortexiphan abilities. However, because of this betrayal, Colonel Broyles was killed to replace the mass for Fauxlivia to crossover. Dunham subsequently found and killed the Artist, and also placed the boy into custody of a loving family. Nina Sharp helped to set up Massive Dynamic's resources to track these occurrences, preparing to deploy limited supplies of the amber substance to contain them if needed. Olivia cannot name the man, but nonchalantly referred to him as the person who is going to kill her. "[44], Dunham was named one of TV's Smartest Detectives by AOL TV. 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. 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. When she was 9, Olivia's stepfather beat her mother particularly harshly. After arriving home, Olivia was speaking with Etta while Peter went to get the mail. 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 Transformation"), When David Robert Jones appeared at the Federal Building in surrender, he demanded to speak to Dunham only. 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. 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. Peter was revealed by September to have been erased from existence. [7] Following the transition to an alternate reality, Olivia meets her doppelganger "Fauxlivia", and ultimately shares a kiss with Peter Bishop. Olivia and her younger sister, Rachel, were orphaned when Marilyn Dunham died of cancer in 1994. 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