Season 3, Episode 8:
Entrada
Olivia was able to cross over back to her universe long enough to warn Peter she is trapped in the alternate universe. After receiving the message, Peter tests the Fauxlivia, by telling her the Greek phrase Na einai kalytero anthropo apo ton patera tou (roughly, "be a better man than your father"), which Olivia told Peter in the "A New Day in the Old Town." When Fauxlivia fails to recognize the phrase, Peter's suspicions are confirmed. Realizing she has been exposed, Fauxlivia forces Peter to inject himself with a paralyzing agent. She then goes to a typewriter store in the Bronx to request an extraction.
After Peter recovers, the Fringe team starts a search for Fauxlivia. Walter is distressed that he has no idea how to find Fauxlivia and no idea how to bring Olivia back. However, Astrid discovers Fauxlivia brought Walter malasadas from a bakery in the Bronx. Peter, Walter, Astrid and Broyles search the nearby area, Peter finds the typewriter store and the team finds the typewriter used to contact the other universe (a "quantum entanglement" device). There, the team realizes that Fauxlivia is going to a train station in Newark for a 4:00 PM pick-up.
Meanwhile, Walternate" plans to use Olivia's body to bring her alternate self home, as it would require a person of Olivia's mass to complete the transfer. However, Walternate arranges for Olivia's brain to be removed for further study on how to traverse universes safely. Before the operation is to begin, Olivia receives a visit from Colonel Broyles, who is still grateful to Olivia for helping his son. Olivia convinces him that her universe is not at war with theirs; the troubles started not from any hostile action, but only as an accidental side-effect of Walter's initial crossing to save Peter. Broyles later talks with his wife and then returns to Liberty Island to save Olivia. Together, the two reach the immersion tank that Olivia used earlier, but find it empty. As a back-up plan, the two travel to Walternate's long abandoned lab at Harvard to use the sensory deprivation tank. Broyles reveals there is a GPS tracker in him, but manages to buy Olivia enough time to successfully return to her universe.
As this transpires, Fauxlivia meets with a shapeshifter at the station to inject her with resonating rods. By that time, Broyles and Peter arrive at the station. To ensure her escape, Fauxlivia holds a hostage. However, Peter realizes the hostage is the shapeshifter when the hostage is unable to state the name of "her" nearby daughter. Peter shoots the shapeshifter in the head, killing it, and Fauxlivia is arrested. Later, the team learns that their own Olivia has returned. However, Fauxlivia still manages to escape back to her universe, leaving behind the mutilated body of the Colonel Broyles to make up for her mass. While Peter and Olivia reunite at a hospital, the typewriter store owner trades a piece of the doomsday device in exchange for the restoration of his paralyzed legs.
Tropes
- Alternate History:
- Waterloo Bridge is coming down, or so it says on the sign behind Colonel Broyles in the Bar.
- There has been a vortex in the East River for 20 years.
- Springsteen station in Newark, NJ.
- Artistic License – Geology: The vortex in the East River, unless there's another vortex working as an exit all the water on the planet should have gone through the vortex by now.
- Bed Trick: Fauxlivia and Peter.
- Bluff the Impostor: Peter confirms that Fauxlivia isn't his Olivia by mentioning the Greek phrase under Trust Password and that it's something an old friend told him. When she doesn't recognise it (or that it was his late mother who first said it) he knows for sure that she's a fraud. Unfortunately Fauxlivia recognizes that she had lost the Trust Password and gets the drop on Peter anyway.
- Continuity Nod: The Trust Password Peter uses to trick Fauxlivia is the phrase Olivia said upon waking from her coma in 'A New Day In The Old Town'
- Dies Wide Open:
- Played straight with Agent Broyles closing the eyes of Colonel Broyles.
- Subbverted with Olivia.
- Dramatic Shattering: Astrid dropping the beaker when Olivia returns.
- Equivalent Exchange: In order to get Fauxlivia back, the alternate universe needed to swap an equal mass. Since Prime Olivia was no longer available, Colonel Broyles was used instead. Unfortunately, since Broyles was larger than Olivia, something had to give…
- Foreign Language Title: Entrada is Spanish for entrance.
- Honey Trap: Fauxlivia seducing Peter.
- Hospitality for Heroes:Bartender: Oh, no, no, no. Your money's no good here, sir. Times are tough. It's nice to know we have heroes.
- Joisey:Coffee Vendor: Here you go. Best coffee West of the Passaic.
- Meaningful Echo: of what Colonel Broyles said about Fauxlivia in "Olivia".Broyles: If there were anyone I would bet on to survive over there, It would be her.
- Portmanteau: vagina + agenda = vagenda
- Shot to the Heart: We previously saw this in "Momentum Deferred".
- Shout-Out:
- Casablanca is playing on the television in the opening scene.
- Roy Orbison's "You Got it" is playing in the bar.
- Special Edition Title: The opening title alternates between prime-blue and alterna-red.
- Strapped to an Operating Table: Olivia when she's about to be lobotomized is strapped into an operating table that flips around so the surgeon and reach her brain.
- There Can Be Only One:Secretary Bishop: Only one world can survive. And finally we have made strides so that it can be ours.
- They Would Cut You Up:Brandon Fayette: Alive or dead? How do you want to send back their Olivia? Alive or dead? Because I feel there are very valuable parts for study and I would just have to replace her mass.
- Throwing Off the Disability: The antique store owner.
- Trust Password: Einai kalytero anthropo apo ton patera toy. A bit of Gratuitous Greek.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: The way Fauxlivia responds to Luke the Shape Shifter's dreams about returning to their world, and then how he is shot.
