TV Guide Magazine heighten the intrigue over the casting of a prominent new character. Whilst Anna Torv reveals that the stuff might be about the hit the Cortexi-phan in an upcoming Olivia storyline. Hit the jump to spoilerfy your eyes:
Fringe is casting a sixtysomething actor in the role of William Bell, a former lab partner of Walter Bishop (John Noble). Exec producer Jeff Pinkner describes the Bill Gates–meets–Dick Cheney character, who’ll debut in the season finale, as “one of the richest men behind the largest, most powerful, most secretive corporation with defense department and international ties.” The groundwork for Bell’s arrival is laid in the April 21 episode, which finds Olivia (Anna Torv) learning more about the role Bishop played in Bell’s experimentation on her with the drug Cortexiphan when she was a girl.
“What she finds out about some of the frightening things Walter did does not sit very well with her,” Anna says about the episode, written and directed by Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (“A Beautiful Mind” and “The Da Vinci Code”). “Olivia starts having these horrific dreams of people dying and when she wakes up, she realizes it’s been happening for real.” The climactic scene finds hordes of people on a Manhattan rooftop about to plunge to their deaths.
Anna says her real life is much more peaceful: She and her new husband (and former Fringe love interest), Mark Valley, are sound sleepers who dream only “lovely” dreams. But her kid brother Dylan did some sleepwalking when he stayed with the couple in New York recently. Anna says, “He walked into the cupboard and sat down in a box and started bopping up and down like he was riding in a cab.” Dylan—lay off the Cortexiphan!!
Source: TV Guide Mag
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“The climactic scene finds hordes of people on a Manhattan rooftop about to plunge to their deaths.” – reminds me of the movie, “The Happening”.
“Fringe is casting a sixtysomething actor in the role of William Bell” – Victor Garber just turned 60….oh darn, he’s tied up with that sing song show, “Glee”. I guess the real question now is will William Bell be an Active and a glitchy one at that?
Hee! Well Glee does go on a 3 month hiatus after it’s Pilot episode, maybe he could squeeze in a Fringe episode or two.
Maybe Belly is Alpha! With everyone looking for Lost/Fringe cross-overs, perhaps the real connections are with DH.
Actually, I could see an Active-style ‘freak of the week’ story-line in Fringe.