Fringe gives us the most important love triangle in two universes

outer boundary does n’t do anything normally , so it makes sense that television set ’s good lusus naturae show would do beloved triangle in a skewed , horrifying fashion . Last nighttime , we learned a great deal more about the show ’s central romanticist dilemma … and it all spelled more grief for Olivia Dunham .

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While “ our ” Olivia was being held captive and temporarily brainwashed in the other universe , her counterpart from that universe impersonated her , and seduce Peter Bishop . And ever since Olivia got back to “ our ” cosmos , she ’s feel overjealous that the other Olivia got to see the blossoming of romance with Peter — and he , in turn , has kept insisting that he only like Fauxlivia because he opine she was the “ tangible ” Olivia . But Olivia ’s either been sensing that Peter ’s not telling the whole Sojourner Truth , or she ’s just been eat up by paranoid jealousy .

So last Nox , we lastly stimulate to the crux of on the dot why Peter might choose Fauxlivia to Olivia . As Olivia puts it in the most unrelenting scene ever , Fauxlivia is just like Olivia … only better . Fauxlivia is more fun to be around — because she was n’t experimented on and fundamentally tortured by Walter Bishop and William Bell as a child . The fact that Olivia has nobody to confide these fears in besides Nina Sharp is sort of a sorry affirmation in itself .

No doubt there ’s a whole Cosmo article devoted to this topic : Many bozo ’ turnoffs let in dealing with the upshot of your childhood abuse at the hands of their dads .

Seldom has Fringe gotten so peeled and have a go at it up in deal with Olivia ’s psychic trauma at the hands of Walter Bishop — and certainly , we have n’t cut into into this topic in quite some time . One of the show ’s M.O.s is to leave a peculiarly seditious subject out of the way for a few calendar month , only to bring it back in the most knife - wrench elbow room potential .

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As with some other recent Fringe episode , “ Concentrate and need Again ” has an “ A ” plot , but the real narration of the episode is all dealing with Olivia ’s fearfulness that she ’s just not as loveable as the other Olivia — and the reason for this is n’t anything she ’s done , but what was done to her . She ca n’t shed her scar tissue paper and become as carefree as the other Olivia , any more than she can learn how to fly .

So the main patch of the episode is mostly just an apology to confront Olivia with a foil , in time - honored tv set fashion — someone whose presence elucidate the material she ’s going through . Basically , there are three ex - soldier who took part in essay an experimental weapon that leaves people without bones . And as a result , all three men found that when their wives became pregnant , the babies turned likewise boneless . So they assay retaliation against the men who did this to them , using that same weapon . But the mastermind of the system gets hit by a car and is stuck in a coma — exit Walter Bishop to retrieve an unlawful way to call into question the comatose man .

The horror constituent of the bone - melting arm , turn in via talking doll which certainly cede the creep factor ( as Peter helpfully notes ) is moderately great .

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But it ’s a bit of a contrived set - up to make a need for a telepathic interrogator . All of a sudden , the entire FBI is a minute useless at investigating stuff , even basic things like figuring out who the other two adult male were . And Walter suddenly does n’t have any other shining idea about tracking the bioweapon or reading the comatose guy ’s brainwaves . Come to think of it , did n’t Nina have a manner to question a drained guy rope back in season one ? You ’d think questioning a comatose man would be easy than question a dead man . But this is all nitpicking , really . It ’s all just an exculpation to introduce a young part , Simon .

Simon was a Cortexiphan patient , just like Olivia — but he developed a different power , telepathy . For the past 20 old age , he ’s lived out in the midsection of nowhere , becuase it hurts him too much to be scupper to the barrage of other people ’s thoughts all the time . He provide a handy foil for Olivia , because they were both severely damage by their experiences — the dispute is , she ’s high - go and reasonably adept at dole out with people , while he ’s a crash . And in a sense , Olivia is the opposite of Simon — she ’s closed off from people , and ca n’t tell what ’s going on with them even when she ’s standing decent next to them .

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But really , Simon ’s principal social function is to serve as a hydrofoil for Olivia — and like all transparency , he teaches her a valuable lesson . Or rather , she teach a valuable lesson while trying to teach it to him — she observe telling him that he has to live his life , and that he should go and talk to the woman that he ’s been pining for from afar . But in the end , the lesson she learns from all this is that she should open up to Peter . And she does make an effort , at one point , but he just reiterate the same parentage he used before — that he feels manipulated and betrayed .

Peter ’s distinctly not tell the whole truth . But just to clench it , Simon partake something with Olivia that ’s go to make it harder for Olivia to trust him and open up to him . Because Simon ’s read Peter ’s mind , and it deform out that yes , Peter does still have feel for the other Olivia .

Meanwhile , Nina Sharp is investigating the mystery of the volume about the First People , which has been on a dull boil for a while . She find one more of these Quran in a safe inside William Bell ’s hidden internal sanctum . ( And nice in - prank , having a ledger by Dr. Spock next to William Bell ’s diploma . ) The combination of the safe is 052010 # — what happened in May 2010 ? I guess that ’s when William Bell died , but is there some other signification to that date ? Besides the book of account , the depicted object of the safe let in a red plaything car , a sketch of the Massive active logotype , a flick of young William and young Walter , and another picture of young William with young Nina — render she really was close to his heart .

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Each of the Word of God is monovular except for the name of the author — and Nina finally draws the obvious conclusion , that the unlike names comprise a code . This leads her to Skeevy Bowling Alley Guy , who we have n’t seen since he help Olivia get over her universe - retardation . Turns out S - BAG was the author of those book , which makes him a lot erstwhile than he appears . He distinguish us something we already know — the mysterious ancient superweapon can be used for creation or destruction — but then follow it up with a new piece of information : how the weapon is used calculate on Peter ’s land of mind when he activates it . And which macrocosm subsist will depend on which Olivia Peter is in love with — so it ’s more important than anyone realized that he choose “ our ” Olivia .

On the face of it , this is kind of a lunatic Georgia home boy - opera house bend , even by Fringe standards . But on the plus side , it does spread out up some pretty entrancing account possibilities . Will Nina secernate either Olivia or Peter what she ’s learned ? How can she diddle matchmaker and get those two softheaded kids to mould it out ? Was Fauxlivia ’s mission merely to convert the Bishops to work out on building the superweapon — or was she actually assigned to score Peter ? Does Walternate know his boy ’s love life is literally universe - shattering ?

Most of all , though , it put incalculable total of pressure on Olivia to be the someone that Peter wants her to be . He maintain showing that he ’s willing to judge again with her , but she ’s the one who ’s hold up back and pushing him aside because she does n’t want to be compared with the other , more fun version of herself . Can Olivia get over her wounded pride — and get past the lingering injury from her puerility ? After watching this episode , it seems more unfair than ever even to ask .

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