Olivia Dunham quotes from Fringe

Olivia

[to her sister] Now this is just one of those things that you're gonna look back on and you're gonna say 'I beat that too.'

Olivia

[to Sam Weiss] Cut the Yoda crap and tell me what's happening to me.

Olivia

[to Peter] You had no choice. The first time I killed someone, the guy was a trained killer. If I hadn't pulled the trigger, I would be dead. I still didn't sleep that night, or the next. I'm just saying the first time is rough.

Olivia

But it's hard to forget, isn't it? You know, I can imagine what it must have been like for you... how scared you must have been, how much you-- you would have wanted to get back to your family and to your friends.

Olivia

Do you really think this is the end of the world as we know it?

Olivia

Peter, I love you.

Olivia

Simone, you have a gift. You can see things that other people can't. I don't doubt that. But wherever you think this gift came from, or whoever you think bestowed it upon you, it's simply an anomaly. I know that because I'm an anomaly. I have moved things with my mind. I've lit things on fire. I've caught bullets midair. I've seen things that people only dream about. I've seen... the seams between universes ripped apart. Things that humans shouldn't see. People make up explanations, assign meanings to things without knowing, because it's reassuring, comforting. But I can't do that. Because I know too much. It's all just numbers. And the invaders, as you call them—— they're just better at math than we are.

Peter

Let me ask you something. My father... not my favorite. He is without a doubt the most self-absorbed, twisted, abusive, brilliant, myopic son of a bitch on the planet... So he was a chemist. That much I already know. He worked out of a basement lab in Harvard doing research for a toothpaste company. I also know that there was an accident at the lab one night and my father was arrested, beginning the first truly peaceful period in our home. But here's the thing, Olivia. My gut tells me that your friend's life... the one hanging in the balance... not gonna be saved by a tube of toothpaste.

Olivia

[Pause] He worked out of Harvard, but not on toothpaste. He was part of a classified U.S. Army experimental program called Kelvin Genetics. They gave him their resources to do whatever work he wanted, which was primarily in an area called Fringe Science.

Peter

When you say 'Fringe Science', you mean pseudo science?

Olivia

I suppose. Things like mind-control, teleportation, astral projection, invisibility, genetic mutation, re-animation--

Peter

Whoa, excuse me for a sec, re-animation? Really? So you're telling me... what? My father was Dr. Frankenstein?

Olivia

[about John Scott] What's happening to him? Can it be reversed?

Olivia

What is it?

Walter

They... They have this horrible pudding here. Butterscotch pudding on Mondays. It's dreadful.

Olivia

It's Thursday.

Walter

Oh! Oh, that's fantastic news!

Olivia

Dr. Bishop, I was curious. Did anyone else ever have access to your work?

Walter

Well, the assistants had bits and pieces. God, I suppose. I suppose the only one that really knew what I was doing was Belly.

Olivia

Who?

Walter

Belly. William Bell. He and I shared the lab.

Olivia

William Bell?

Peter

You shared your lab with the founder of Massive Dynamic?

Walter

I'm sorry, I don't know what that is. Massive Dynamic...

Peter

Ah, nothing really, just a tiny little company. That's perfect. One guy becomes one of the wealthiest men on the planet. The other guy becomes an institutionalized psychopath.

Walter

Oh!

Olivia

What? What happened?

Walter

Oh, I just pissed myself.

Peter

[smiles] Excellent.

Walter

Just a squirt.

Olivia

[about dream state] Have you done this before?

Walter

I have used this technique to extricate information from a corpse once. You can do that if they haven't been dead longer than six hours.

Peter

[sarcastically] Right, cause after six hours, that's when they're really dead.

Olivia

I got here as fast as I could.

[looks at watch, sarcastic] 27 minutes. Nicely done.

Olivia

Charlie, it's me.

Charlie Francis

Dunham, what's up?

Olivia

I need a cross check on recent unsolved homicides. See if any bodies have turned up with a missing pituitary gland.

Charlie

Oh, you say the sweetest things.

Olivia

Only to you, Charlie.

Charlie

I'll get somebody on it.

Olivia

Did you see John's mother? She wouldn't stop looking at me.

Charlie

His mother?

Olivia

Yeah, like she was blaming me for what happened to him, like it was my fault he was dead.

Charlie

As far as John's mother knows, her son died a hero serving his country.

Olivia

A hero? He used me, Charlie. And he told me he loved me.

Charlie

I wasn't going to tell you this... but he said he loved me too.

Forgive me, Dr. Bishop. I like to think I have an open mind. but I have a hard time accepting that that man is hearing another person's thoughts.

Walter

Oh yes, so do I. Which is why I would like to prove it.

Peter

And how would you do that?

Walter

Am I required to keep him alive?

Olivia

That would probably be best.