Fauxlivia is still on and in Peter's mind, whatever he may say to Olivia to the contrary. We see this early on in the story, when Peter brings Olivia a coffee with milk - she likes her coffee black, with sugar, and the realization that Fauxlivia liked her coffee with milk certainly is not sweet to Olivia. The telepath - someone whom Walter kicked out of the experimental children's group (of which Olivia was a part) because he didn't want anyone to read his mind and know he had kidnapped Peter - reads Peter's mind, writes down what he finds, and gives the paper to Olivia. She reads that Peter still has feelings for her alternate self.
This a tough situation for Olivia, to say the least. She feels she has been damaged by the experimentation done upon her as a child. She has trouble expressing her feelings, and is more withdrawn than Fauxlivia, who smiles and acts more easily. So who will Peter choose? Good, slightly damaged Olivia, or bad, totally together and more vibrant Fauxlivia? And will it help Olivia's cause if she confronts Peter about his mind-read feelings?
But Fringe raises the ante another notch, with the revelation - from the guy in the bowling alley to Nina - that Peter's choice of Olivia vs. Fauxlivia will do much more than determine Olivia's happiness. It will determine which of the two universes will survive.
A nice profound development, in an episode which did have at least one cool touch and one hilarious bit of secret history. The cool touch with was the book on the shelf by Dr. Spock, as Nina looked at pictures of her and William Bell. And the secret history? Walter says that Pat Nixon came on to him. Can't get much better in cracked secret history than that.
See also Fringe 3.1: The Other Olivia ... Fringe 3.2: Bad Olivia and Peter ... Fringe 3.3: Our/Their Olivia on the Other Side ... Fringe 3.5: Back from Hiatus, Back from the Amber ... Fringe 3.7: Two Universes Still Nearing Collision ... Fringe 3.8: Long Voyages Home ... Fringe 3.10: The Return of the Eternal Bald Observers ... Flowers for Fringenon in Fringe 3.11
See also reviews of Season 2: Top Notch Return of Fringe Second Season ... Fringe 2.2 and The Mole People ... Fringe 2.3 and the Human Body as Bomb ... Fringe 2.4 Unfolds and Takes Wing ... Fringe 2.5: Peter in Alternate Reality and Wi-Fi for the Mind ... A Different Stripe of Fringe in 2.6 ... The Kid Who Changed Minds in Fringe 2.7 ... Fringe 2.8: The Eternal Bald Observers ... Fringe 2.9: Walter's Journey ... Fringe 2.10: Walter's Brain, Harry Potter, and Flowers for Algernon ... New Fringe on Monday Night: In Alternate Universe? ... Fringe 2.12: Classic Science Fiction Chiante ... Fringe 2.13: "I Can't Let Peter Die Again" ... Fringe 2.14: Walter's Health, Books, and Father ... Fringe 2.15: I'll Take 'Manhatan' ... Fringe 2.16: Peter's Story ... Fringe 2.17: Will Olivia Tell Peter? ... Fringe 2.18: Strangeness on a Train ... Fringe 2.19: Two Plus Infinity ... Fringe the Noir Musical ... Fringe 2.21: Bring on the Alternates ... Fringe 2.22: Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming ... Fringe Season 2 Finale: The Switch
See also reviews of Season One Fringe Begins ... Fringe 2 and 3: The Anthology Tightrope ... 4: The Eternal Bald Observer ... 7: A Bullet Can Scramble a Dead Brain's Transmission ... 8. Heroic Walter and Apple Through Steel ... 9. Razor-Tipped Butterflies of the Mind ... 10. Shattered Pieces Come Together Through Space and Times ... 11. A Traitor, a Crimimal, and a Lunatic ... 12, 13, 14: Fringe and Teleportation ... 15: Fringe is Back with Feral Child, Pheromones, and Bald Men ... 17. Fringe in New York, with Oliva as Her Suspect ... 18. Heroes and Villains across Fringe ... Stephen King, Arthur C. Clarke, and Star Trek in Penultimate Fringe ... Fringe Alternate Reality Finale: Science Fiction At Its Best
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