Olivia Dunham quotes from Fringe

Olivia

Astrid, can you check his hard drive? I had it transferred with some of his other effects.

Astrid

I've got it right here, I'm on it.

Walter

Be sure to check his floppy disks as well.

Peter

Ah, floppy disks are a little outdated. Why don't you focus on what you do best. All yours -- [hands Walter a beaker full of goo] -- liquid brains.

Walter

Fantastic! I'll get the bone saw.

Walter

All we know is that his brain matter has been completely liquefied. How? My first thought is an extremely virulent form of syphilis.

Olivia

You're saying that his brain could have been cooked by an STD?

Walter

Safe sex is important. You do always have your sexual partners wear a condom, I hope?

Peter

Walter...

Peter

I don't underestimate my father, by the way. I understand him. Sometimes more than I want to. Look, if I let him talk to that woman, she's just going to accuse him of killing her daughter, which is something he didn't do.

Olivia

Then why not just let them meet?

Peter

Whose side are you on anyway?

Olivia

I know what it's like to live with something unresolved. That's all.

Peter

Congratulations. You just described the entire planet.

Olivia

Cut open his hand.

Peter

What?

Olivia

I want to see if there's a disc in it, like Bowman's.

Walter

[springing up out of his chair] I like cutting!

Olivia

(looking up at Peter as she breathes normally) Hi, Peter.

Peter

(holding her close) You're okay. You're gonna be fine.

Olivia

You didn't have to come with me, you know.

Peter

Shady deals with shady guys in shady hotels is my M.O. And typically, if someone is going to kill you, it's a good idea to have an ally in the room.

Olivia

I'm not scared.

Peter

Being fearless doesn't mean you're being safe.

Olivia

Is your father about?

Peter

Right here. Why don't you ask him what he's doing.

Olivia

I'd rather not. Listen, do you remember that prisoner Jones I went to see in...

Peter

...in Germany, right?

Olivia

He escaped.

Peter

Good for him. How?

Olivia

Nobody knows. It makes no sense. The German authorities came to see me last night.

Peter

How come when nobody knows and it doesn't make sense, they come to us?

Walter

Two thoughts come to mind. The first, that this affliction might have been caused by a mutation, changing these lipids to seal any and all orifices. Did they check his anus and penis?

Peter

You think we could get the answer to that question without me in the room?

Olivia

What was the other thought?

Walter

Sorry?

Olivia

You said two thoughts came to mind.

Walter

Ah yes. The other was... coffee cake. Tiny pebbles of cinnamon sugar.

Peter

Once again... my father.

Olivia

I was hoping you might have one of your... weird connections...

Peter

Weird connections?

Olivia

They're always a little weird.

Peter

Well, you're always a little weird.

Who's this friend?

Olivia

Olivia Dunham.

Five dollars I could name at least one item on your nightstand, Olivia Dunham. Don't tell me. You're gonna like this, I'm never wrong. It's a gift. Okay. Toni Morrison novel, something by Obama and/or the current issue of Bon Appetit.

Olivia

I'm reading Advanced Forensic Science by Anaman. I keep it next to my gun.

I like this one.

Nina Sharp

Cortexiphan: It was part of a clinical trial. A drug that Dr. Bell created in '81.

Olivia

What is it, if you don't mind?

Nina

Dr. Bell theorized that the human mind at birth is infinitely capable, and that every force it encounters, social, physical, intellectual, is the beginning of a process he refers to as "limitation." A diminishing of that potential.

Olivia

And Cortexiphan?

Nina

It was meant to limit that limitation. To prevent the natural shrinking of that brainpower.

Olivia

Walter, the last time you used that thing, you drilled it into the guy's head.

Walter

If you think he'll find it disagreeable, I suppose it could be modified.

Peter

Really? You didn't think to mention that to the last guy?

Astrid

So this thing has the claws of a lion and the fangs of a snake?

Walter

It reminds me of a woman I once knew in Cleveland.

Peter

Walter, these punctures are over four inches apart. And that would make this snake eight-feet long.

Walter

Her name was Harriet something.

Olivia

How is everything?

Peter

Well, apparently you're looking for a lion-snake named Harriet.

Olivia

Walter, have you got any idea what kind of animal would be in a lab that could do this?

Walter

Well, judging by the wounds, I'd say two or three different ones, actually.

Peter

Right, a motley crew of lab animals got together and decided to exact their revenge on mankind.

Olivia

Is that....

Peter

Yeah, a Geiger Counter.

Walter

Not a rad -- I thought you might have teleported to New York in your sleep and killed her. Wouldn't that have been wondrous? But even the most controlled matter to energy transmutation leaves behind some background radiation. Ergo, you were not actually there!

Peter

Great, well I'm glad we got that cleared up...