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Oct 31, 2022 Posted in Character of the Week > Fringe - 106 The Cure by Scully

David Esterbrook: 106 – “The Cure”

David Esterbrook

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David Esterbrook – played by Chris Eigeman

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David Esterbrook is the head of INtREPUS Inc.’s Pharmaceutical division.  He graduated from Yale with 3 degrees, including a PhD. in medicinal neurobiology.  His probable connections to prenatal gene therapy, human–animal hybridization studies, and viral warfare make him one evil dude.

status

Status: Alive and well.

Oct 30, 2022 Posted in Character Bios > Character of the Week > Fringe - 105 Power Hungry by Scully

Joseph Meeger: 105 – “Power Hungry”

Joseph Meeger

Joseph

Joseph Meeger – played by Ebon Moss-Bachrach

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This is a case of a not-so-regular-’Joe’. Josesph Meeger, like any other average citizen, is just trying to live his ‘Meeger‘ life and perhaps get the girl. But what’s not normal about this guy is…every time he gets upset, electronics go crazy and people die!

The

The only upside for this dude is being able to maim your over-bearing, annoying boss without having to do time in Leavenworth.

status

Status: Alive, but being held for testing

Oct 27, 2022 Posted in Character Bios > Character of the Week > Fringe - 104 The Arrival > The Observer by Scully

The Observer: 104 – “The Arrival”

Observer

The Observer

The Observer (September) – played by Michael Cerveris

Although

Although this episode is the first episode we actually meet The Observer face-to-face, it is not the first time he has made an appearance. If you watch carefully, you will see him lurking around in the background of all of the other episodes.

The

The question to whether he is an alien, a time traveler, an experiment gone wrong or an inter-dimentional traveler, is yet to be revealed. What we do know is that he has met Walter before, many years earlier, when he saved both Walter and Peter’s life. He eats spicy food, because his taste buds are weak and he is impervious to cold weather. He dresses meticulously and never smiles. He can read minds and communicate telepathically.  It’s possible that he doesn’t age or grow hair – and he has the funkiest pair of binoculars and gun that I’ve ever seen.  All in all, a very intriguing and mysterious guy.

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I look forward to seeing and learning more about this mysterious bald man.

Status

Status: Alive, god only knows where…or when!

Oct 26, 2022 Posted in Character Bios > Character of the Week > Fringe - 103 The Ghost Network by Scully

Roy McComb: 103 – “The Ghost Network”

Roy

Roy

Roy McComb – played by Zak Orth

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Yet another example of an experiment gone wrong, Roy believes that he is possessed by the devil, but in fact, he is receiving inter-cranial phone transmissions. That would drive any man insane!

Classic

Classic case of a good man tortured by scientists who believe their experiments are for the good of mankind…and maybe the military.

Status

Status: Alive and no longer believes Satan is talking to him.

Oct 25, 2022 Posted in Character Bios > Character of the Week > Fringe - 102 Same Old Story by Scully

Christopher Penrose: 102 – “Same Old Story”

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Christopher

Christopher Penrose – played by Derek Cecil

The

The result of a horrible rapid aging experiment gone wrong, Christopher is a classic monster-of-the-week. His creepy demeanor lets you know he is up to no good from the moment you meet him.

In

In the struggle for self-preservation, he has brutally murdered several people and removed their pituitary glands in order to keep himself from aging.

Status

Status: Died of old age in a matter of minutes.

Oct 24, 2022 Posted in Character Bios > Character of the Week > Fringe - 101 Pilot by Scully

The Steig Twins: 101 – “Pilot”

Dr. Richard Steig

Steig Twins

Morgan & Richard Steig – played by Jason Butler Harner

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The evil twin scenario. I suppose every show has to have an episode with…what the fringe…it’s just a twin!

Richard

Richard uses his brother Morgan as a lab rat, switching his epi-pen with a nasty synthetic compound. Morgan was fired from Massive Dynamic for stealing classified information. Dr. Richard Steig is the one responsible for the demise of John Scott.

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Status: Both twins are deceased.

Oct 24, 2022 Posted in Character Bios > Main Characters by Scully

Special Agent Olivia Dunham – played by Anna Trov

Agent Olivia Dunham

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Full Name: Olivia_________Dunham
Address: 1124 Strathmore Blvd, Brighton, MA 02135
Nickname: ‘Liv’
Date of Birth: 1978 or 1979
Place of Birth: Fayetteville, NC
Marital Status: Recently single
Drink of Choice: Johnnie Walker Black
FBI Office #: 2168 / 3233
Education: UNC Chapel Hill
B.S. in Psychology and Criminology

Languages: English, German
Employment:
US Marine Special Investigator
FBI – Inter-agency Liaison
Homeland Security
Background: When she was three years old, Olivia was living in Jacksonville, Florida because her father was stationed at the local military base. She was part of a experiment on children, of a drug called Cortexiphan, previously thought to have been tried only in Ohio.  As a result of these experiments, Olivia seems to have some special powers now.  Although, the extent of her powers has not been revealed yet.
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As a child, Olivia suffered because her stepfather. When he was drunk he would accuse her mother of seeing other men and beat her. Olivia’s mother never reported the assaults to the police. When Olivia was nine, her stepfather broke her mother’s nose and left the house, driving away. Olivia heard her stepfather’s car returning; she picked up his handgun and shot him twice when he entered the house. She regrets not having killed him. He recovered from his wounds and one day, without warning, departed for an unknown destination. Every year she receives a hand-delivered card on her birthday from him.  Olivia told Peter that she first knew what she wanted to do in life since she was nine. Prosecuted Broyles’ best friend, who had a few drinks and assaulted three marine privates.
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While serving as a US Marine Corps special investigator, Olivia helped prosecute the best friend (Sanford Harris) of her current supervisor, Phillip Broyles. Charges involved the assault of three Marine Corps privates.
Oct 24, 2022 Posted in Character Bios > Main Characters by Scully

Peter Bishop – played by Joshua Jackson

Peter Bishop

Peter Bishop
Full Name: Peter_________Bishop
Date of Birth: 1978
Place of Birth: Cambridge, MA
Marital Status: Eligible bachelor
IQ: 190
Education: MIT drop-out
Employment:
Wild land fireman
Cargo pilot
Floor Sweeper at a meatpacking plant
Bouncer
Biochemical Engineer
Chemistry Professor
FBI Consultant
Background: Criminal activities, including, falsifying an MIT degree to become a College Chemistry Professor and publish some papers. He is also bi-lingual (speaks Farsi). He owes money to a guy named Big Eddy.  There are people watching him and people trying to find him…who, we don’t know.

When Peter was a child, he was traveling with his father, Walter, to a family Thanksgiving dinner. Their car slipped off the road onto a frozen lake. The ice broke and the car began to sink. With their fate apparently certain, Walter and Peter were saved by the Observer. As a result, Walter owed a debt to the Observer;, which he repays in The Arrival, by hiding the beacon from John Mosely.

When he was a little boy he contracted a very rare disease similar to Hepia, a form of bird flu. Trying to find a cure, Walter discovered a Swiss physician named Dr. Alfred Gross, the only man to ever successfully cure a case of Hepia. Unfortunately, Dr. Gross had died in 1936 so Walter designed a device to reach back in time and bring Dr. Gross back. But the device was apparently not used as Walter said Peter got better on his own.  This, of course, is probably not true.  We see Walter standing over the grave of Peter, who apparently died at a young age.  Walter mentioned that “back then” when he and Bell took LSD, Walter lost something very precious to him and went to an alternate reality to get it back. The Peter we know, may not be Walter’s son.

After Walter was institutionalized, Peter moved to Allston with his mother because she could not afford the mortgage of their house in Cambridge.

Nina Sharp told Peter that she knew him when he was a small boy, that she and his father, Walter, were once quite close and that she and Peter spent time together at the equestrian center where they are now sitting.

Peter seems to have many connections: Kyle, some sort of genius who worked for a phone company- tapped into Mitchell Loebs’ home phone.  The man at the bookstore, who found them the ZFT manuscript.  Mako, the owner of the biggest chop shop in Boston.

Oct 24, 2022 Posted in Character Bios > Main Characters by Scully

Dr. Walter Bishop – played by John Noble

Dr. Walter Bishop

Dr. Walter Bishop

Full Name: Walter_________Bishop
Date of Birth: 1946
Place of Birth: London, England
Marital Status: Unknown
Driver ID: 01237474
IQ: 196
Education:
Harvard
Post Grad – Oxford & MIT
Employment:
Scientific Researcher from Cambridge working out of Harvard on a classified US Army experimental program called ‘Calvin Genetics’ primarily focused on ‘fringe’ science.

Background: Dr. Bishop worked out of a laboratory in the basement of the Kresge Building at Harvard University. His cover story was that he did research for a toothpaste company. In reality, he worked as part of a classified U.S. Army experimental program called Kelvin Genetics, run under the supervision of DARPA. The agency gave him the resources to do whatever work he wanted, primarily in an area called Fringe Science; the subjects of which include (but are not limited to) mind control, teleportation, invisibility, astral projection (aka “out of body” experiences), genetic mutation and reanimation.
In 1991, Dr. Bishop was institutionalized at St. Claire’s Hospital after an assistant was killed in his laboratory. He was charged with manslaughter, but was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial. He was still there seventeen years later, when he was released to the custody of his son, Peter, following the mysterious deaths on Glatterflug Flight 627.
Walter apparently knew Nina when they were younger.  He is left-handed and loves Ginger Ale, Root Beer Floats, Drugs, Blue Cotton Candy, any many other foods.
Oct 24, 2022 Posted in Character Bios > Main Characters by Scully

Special Agent Phillip Broyles – played by Lance Reddick

Special Agent Phillip Broyles

Phillip Broyles
Full Name: Phillip_________Broyles
Date of Birth: 1963
Place of Birth: Cockeysville, MD
Marital Status: Unknown
Homeland Security office #: 4290
Education:
University of Maryland – B.A. in Theology
Columbia – J.D. (law degree)
Employment:
Homeland Security
Background: Best friend put away for sexually assulting three marine privates.