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Amber Universe - The Altered Timeline

A set of characters whom appear in the slightly altered/rewritten timeline throughout Season 4. Only characters who are substantially different, or play different roles compared to their prime timeline selves will be listed here.

Lincoln Lee

Lincoln Lee

"Hey! Hey, you look a little freaked out. You wanna talk about it?"

Portrayed by Seth Gabel

First Appearance: Season 3, Episode 17: "Stowaway"

A minor character in the original timeline, where his first experience with Fringe division was solving the case and mystery behind Dana Gray's apparent immortality. Despite his inexperience with dealing with the strangeness that Fringe Division deals with daily, he quickly demonstrated himself as a brilliant investigator and ally, establishing a close friendship with Peter.

In the amber timeline, he joins Fringe Division after the death of his partner.

Tropes associated with Special Agent Lee:

  • The Ace
  • A Day in the Limelight: Season 4 episode "Everything in Its Right Place".
  • Awesomeness By Analysis
  • Badass: The season 4 premiere right off the bat sets him up as one: Do not fuck with Lincoln.
  • The Comically Serious: Has shades of it. It's really played for laughs directed at him however - going into Fringe division, he believes it's best with a fully opened mind, which includes accepting all the strangeness with as little personal bias as possible.

Lincoln: Agent Broyles, if you don't mind my asking, what exactly is our plan to kill Gus?
Broyles: (Beat)
Olivia: ...That's Walter's name for the organism.


Walter Bishop

Walter Bishop

"Tell Agent Broyles that science has no price tag!"

Portrayed by John Noble

First Appearance: Season 3, Episode 22: "The Day We Died"

The brilliant scientist who once worked with William Bell, Walter has spent 17 years maximum security mental institution but now he works with Fringe Division. The death of his son (and the subsequent death of alternate Peter) has been eating away at him for decades, and he has now become something of a paranoid trainwreck who refuses to leave the safety of his Harvard lab.

Tropes associated with Walter:

Walter: Look... there's my son and his girlfriend!

Walter: Resistance must take place at any opportunity. We are insurgents and this... is anti-matter. You do the math.

  • cue the entire Massive Dynamic building and the Observer and mooks inside disintegrating*


Walter Bishop (B)

Secretary Walter Bishop / "Walternate"

"Everything is not as it seems."

Portrayed by John Noble

First Appearance: Season 3, Episode 22: "The Day We Died"

The current Secretary of Defense, the alternate Walter Bishop is the direct head of Fringe Division. He has begrudgingly accepted cooperation between the two sides to fix the problems of their worlds, but he still seems to be keeping some secrets...

Tropes associated with Walternate:

"I must say, that was a brilliant performance. You almost looked genuinely surprised to see me, which we both know is not the case. "

  • Enemy Mine: He feels Peter is the only person he can trust because he is truly neutral, and as such, wants him to be the rope that binds the two universes against the new shapeshifters.
  • Manipulative Bastard
  • Properly Paranoid: He has a gut feeling somewhere that his men were slowly being replaced with human-based shapeshifters.


-SPOILER (male)-

David Robert Jones

"Take Me to Your Leader."

Portrayed by Jared Harris

First Appearance: Season 4, Episode 8: "Back To Where You've Never Been"

Biological terrorist extraordinaire. Not much is known about him, except that he is the one behind the human based shapeshifters, and that he is slowly replacing high-clearance individuals with his copies.

Tropes associated with Jones:


The Shapeshifter

The Shapeshifter / "Nadine Park"

"Finish what you started. I won't ask again."

Portrayed by Michelle Krusiec

First Appearance: Season 4, Episode 1: "Neither Here Nor There"

A key agent of the new human-based shapeshifter force. Their agenda is unknown.

Tropes associated with the Shapeshifter:


Philip Broyles (B)

Philip Broyles / "Dopple-Broyles"

"They're on their way to you now."

Portrayed by Lance Reddick

First Appearance: Season 4, Episode 8: "Back To Where You've Never Been"

The head of Fringe division on the alternate side. In exchange for curing his son, he acts as a mole for Jones.

Tropes associated with Broyles:


Brandon Fayette (B)

Brandon Fayette / "Evil Brandon"

"I shouldn't have to remind you that I am also a scientist."

Portrayed by Ryan McDonald

First Appearance: Season 4, Episode 8: "Back To Where You've Never Been"

The chief scientist of the Department of Defense. Or would be, if he wasn't replaced by a shapeshifter. Is rather quickly disposed of and dissected by Walternate.

Tropes associated with Brandon:


Nina Sharp

Nina Sharp

"Walter has said many things to me over the years, but "thank you" was never one of them."

Portrayed by Blair Brown

First Appearance: Season 4, Episode 1: "Neither Here Nor There"

The CEO of Massive Dynamic following William Bell's death. She is close to Olivia, and has raised the Dunham sisters since they were children, but has a stormy relationship with Walter. She's keeping quite a few secrets from Olivia...

Tropes associated with Nina:

  • Ambiguously Evil: She's not.
  • Army of Lawyers: Nina's response to being accused of dosing Olivia with cortexiphan. It made her look remarkably guilty.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Walter strongly believes her to be this.
    • "Meana" (alternate Nina) is definitely this trope.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: The platonic mother-daughter version with Olivia.
  • Jerkass Facade: Treats Etta like crap in their first scene despite the fact that Etta is all but her granddaughter. The moment they're on their own, she apologizes and points out that she can't hide her thoughts from the Observers like Etta can.
  • Manipulative Bitch: Seems to be a lot more shady than her original incarnation, even from the first season. Ultimately subverted.
  • Mysterious Past: Walter strongly blames her for the death of alternate Peter in attempting to stop him from crossing over.
  • Parental Substitute: Following the deaths of their parents, Nina raised both Olivia and Rachel herself.
  • Portal Cut: She lost her arm this way.
  • Red Herring: For a while, it was built up that she was working with Jones. Truth is, there were two Ninas the entire time.


- SPOILER (female)-

Nina Sharp / "Meana"

"She needs Peter Bishop. Apparently, she can't be activated unless he's present."

Portrayed by Blair Brown

First Appearance: Season 4, Episode 7: "Wallflower." Probably.

Nina Sharp from the alternate universe. For some reason, she has allied herself with David Robert Jones with the goal of activating Olivia's unique abilities, pretending to be the real Nina who was kidnapped by Jones. They succeeded, but at the cost of pretty much all of their men and one of their hideouts.

In the end however, she was betrayed by Canaan and arrested.

Tropes associated with Meana:


- EVEN BIGGER SPOILER (male) -

William Bell

"Don't confuse a winning move...with a winning game."

Portrayed by Leonard Nimoy

First Appearance: Season 4, Episode 19: "Letters of Transit

Walter's old partner. He was thought to have died seven years ago of Lymphoma (or rather, chose to die in a car crash instead), but is revealed to be very much alive, and in charge. David Robert Jones is revealed to be truly working for him in an effort to collapse the two universes to create a new one. ...Or so he thought. Knowing William, he has has something bigger in store. He also bears an interesting connection to The Man In The X T-Shirt...

Tropes associated with Bell:

"The art of chess…the art, is knowing when a piece is most valuable. And then, in that very moment being willing to sacrifice it. For in the vacuum created by the loss of what is most precious, opportunity abounds."

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