Peter and Olivia were the new Mulder and Scully, with will-they-won't-they tension running throughout several seasons. But while the older series was wholly focused on that one relationship, Fringe added in the small wrinkle of a third party: mad scientist Walter Bishop, played so memorably by John Noble.
Of course, adding a third character into the mix doesn't just double the number of core relationships; it triples them, turning a straight line into a triangle. One side of that triangle was the slow-budding love between the determined FBI agent and the sarcastic younger Bishop. Another was the relationship between Olivia and Walter, which grew increasingly fraught as she uncovered more of the truth about the experiments the scientist had conducted on her in her youth.
But the third — and ultimately the most important — side of the triangle was the bond between Walter and Peter. Of course, you could argue that there was a fourth relationship at play, which was the one shared by all three of the leads simultaneously, creating a lovably mismatched makeshift family. It's no coincidence that UC-Berkeley scientists determined conclusively that the "saddest movie scene ever" was the end of 's The Champ , where young Ricky Schroder weeps over his father's lifeless body.
And considering that many of those films moved us to tears in short minutes, imagine what someone could do with episodes stretched across five seasons. When we first met Walter and Peter in the pilot, they hadn't spoken to each other in years.
Papa Bishop had spent the past 17 years locked away in a mental institution, following the death of his lab assistant. Throughout that same time, his son Peter lived a nomadic existence, dropping out of high school, briefly teaching college chemistry with a falsified degree from MIT, and generally hating his strange, distant father. When Olivia needed a family member to check Walter out of the institution, the estranged pair were finally forced to face each other again. So what happened to Olivia?
How did she die? It could have something to do with the spent bullet casing that Henrietta wears around her neck, which she instinctively touches when she first sees Walter in amber. Also, I'm guessing that whatever William Bell did to Olivia that made Walter so mad, it's somehow connected to his mind-possessing "soul magnets" — especially since I highly doubt they'll coax Leonard Nimoy to return to the show in any active capacity.
So a Bell-possessed Olivia is the only way we'll probably see Bell again. There's a lot to love about this episode, including some high-quality future dystopia. Full of fog and weird-colored lighting, plus curfews and checkpoints.
And also full of the Keystone Kops-level efficiency that pretty much every future dystopia has to exhibit, for the good guys to stand a chance. But really, the main thing to love about this episode is John Noble getting to go all out as a subversive element in a world that's determined to crush him.
Between last week's episode and this week's, it feels like Noble is making up for almost a whole season of Walter being cooped up in the lab. There are almost too many great Walter moments to count in this episode. But they include: The brain-addled Walter repeating the word "liquorice" over and over. Walter reminiscing about monkey feces, brain-eating and LSD. A totally demented Walter casually fixing Nina's arm.
It's a dystopia, after all. The way Walter starts chewing out his rescuers for tripping the alarms, once his brain is back together. The secret exit, because "Belly and I never left ourselves only one way out of a room.
And then there's the way he gets William Bell to give him a hand with his problems. Walter basically gets his Patrick Troughton on — the funny little man who runs rings around everybody else. Except I can't quite picture the Second Doctor blowing up a building full of thugs and slicing his former best friend's hand off. That's cold. All in all, the timeline in "Letters of Transit" does for Fringe precisely what "a timeline where Peter died as a child" failed to do. Profession … brilliant ex con-man.
Interests … freedom, gambling, traveling, and evading the law he has been arrested seven times. With a genius level IQ, Peter always had a knack for counting cards — a skill he used to win significant sums of money through gambling. Relationship Status … single. He also has a strained relationship with his father. When Olivia first reaches out for his help accessing Walter at St. That is how much I want to see my father. Walternate shoots Olivia in the head, killing her instantly. Devastated by his wife's death, Peter can no longer function.
He is consoled by Walter, though, who has a solution. He would create The Machine and send it back in time through a wormhole. He would equip the machine with a fail-safe that would allow Peter's consciousness to travel forward in time, see the damage destroying the other universe would cause, which would, in turn, cause Peter to make a different decision.
These events were all witnessed by Peter in the year as a result of the plan Walter had just developed. At this moment, Peter's consciousness returned to his rightful time and any further events are unknown. Because Peter made a different choice, this specific iteration of the future will not occur. Peter was very sick as a child. His Prime Universe counterpart died. That boy's father, Walter Bishop was able to find a cure, yet not in time to save his son's life.
Instead, Walter crossed over to the Other Side to attempt to save Peter. Walter took Peter back to the Prime Universe. Immediately after crossing over on Reiden Lake, the two fell through the ice. Walter escaped but Peter drowned. In , after The Bridge was formed, the Observers realize that Peter is still somehow bleeding through so December tasks September with erasing him completely. For an unknown reason, September does not erase him and both Walter and Olivia have visions of him even though they had never seen him before.
Eventually, Peter shows up in Reiden Lake, but no one even he knows how he got there. He is set on returning to his timeline and to his Olivia, but Walter doesn't trust him so he won't help him work on the machine which Peter thinks is the key to getting him home.
He crosses over to the other universe to ask Walternate for his help, and he agrees. Suddenly, Olivia begins to have the memories of Olivia from the original timeline and her and Peter become romantically involved for a very short amount of time. Olivia is kidnapped by Jones, and the Observer comes to talk to Peter while he is dying. Peter goes inside his mind and then finds out that the Observers are humans from one possible future that use their technology to travel outside of time.
He also finds out about his son, who ceased to exist when the new timeline. Peter goes to rescue Olivia, but after that, he realizes that she is not really his Olivia, and he decides he has to go home.
Peter goes to the address which is presumed to be the home of September, while he is there he finds a briefcase that contains the contents of September's belongings. This then leads Peter to find a Beacon of some kind that he takes home to analyze. While back at his home, the beacon seems to activate and turn on, unaware to Peter that he is doing it, the Observer appears to Peter upstairs, here it is revealed that Peter has been home all along and that this Olivia is, in fact, his original Olivia that Peter has longed to get back to.
September explains this to Peter and says there is no scientific explanation and that ultimately it is down to a human emotion known as Love and that those who loved Peter did not want to lose him and vice versa. Peter then goes to meet Olivia and they embrace and share a kiss. Peter and Olivia had a daughter named Henrietta in However, Etta was lost when the Observers invaded in Peter was determined to look for her, but Olivia dealt with her grief by trying to save the world from the Observers.
These core differences drove a wedge between the two of them and damaged their relationship. Walter began to develop a plan to defeat the Observers but was forced to amber himself, Astrid, Peter, and William Bell when Bell turned the team over to the Observers.
Olivia, who had been sent on a mission to retrieve a key component of Walter's plan, was in New York City. She too had a run-in with Observers and ambered herself.
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