Peter Bishop
| Peter Bishop | |
|---|---|
| Fringe character | |
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| First appearance | "Pilot" (episode 1.01) |
| Last appearance | "An Enemy of Fate" (episode 5.13) |
| Portrayed by |
Joshua Jackson (Adult Peter) Quinn Lord (Young Peter) Chandler Canterbury (Young Peter) |
| Information | |
| Occupation | FBI/DHS consultant Member of the Fringe Division Science Team |
| Family |
Parallel universe: Walter Bishop (father) Elizabeth Bishop (mother) Prime universe: Walter Bishop (adoptive father) Elizabeth Bishop (adoptive mother; deceased) Robert Bishop (grandfather; deceased) |
| Spouse(s) |
Prime universe: Olivia Dunham |
| Significant other(s) |
Prime universe: Alternate Olivia Dunham (believing she is Prime Olivia; prime timeline) |
| Children |
Parallel universe: Henry Dunham (son with the alternate Olivia Dunham; prime timeline; ceased to exist) Prime universe: Henrietta Bishop (daughter with Olivia Dunham; alternate and final timeline) |
Peter Bishop is a fictional character of the Fox television series Fringe. He is portrayed by Joshua Jackson.
Peter Bishop was born in 1978, in the alternate universe, to parents Walter Bishop, also known as "Walternate", and his wife Elizabeth Bishop. In 1985, Peter acquired an extremely rare and savage genetic disease. His father, a brilliant scientist (in both universes), worked around-the-clock to save him.
Revealed in the episode "Peter", the Walter Bishop of the prime-universe watched his own son, the prime-universe version of Peter, die because of the same disease. He would frequently watch the other Peter living in the alternate universe via a "trans-dimensional window", which could allow someone to view the Other Side. Eventually, Walter formulated a compound and opened a doorway into the other universe, with the intentions of saving the other Peter from death. However, the vial containing the compound shattered on his way over to the Other Side, so he was forced to kidnap Peter, bring him over to the prime-universe, cure him, and then return him. But, after curing Peter on our side, he and his wife could not find themselves able to return him, so they raised him as their own.
Though at first resistant to this, Peter later grew up oblivious to Walter's deception, apparently forgetting it happened. He repeatedly told Olivia Dunham that he was never fond of his father, and even recalled times when Walter experimented on him. It is implied that Walter did this to see how Peter's body reacted to moving between universes. In 1991, Walter's lab assistant, Dr. Carla Warren, was killed in a fire in his lab, and Walter was locked away inside St. Claire's Mental Institution. Peter later admits to have never visited Walter, and continued to grow up despising his father. His hatred towards Walter grew to the point that Peter took books belonging to Robert Bishop, Walter's father, and sold them for money, an action that affected Walter greatly when he discovered this in 2009.
Even with his genius I.Q. level of 190, and fluency in English, Arabic, Persian, Latin, Greek, Cantonese, Russian, and Spanish, Peter became a college drop-out with gambling debts, a jack-of-all-trades, and a master con artist. He falsified a chemistry degree from MIT and managed to publish a few papers before his con was discovered. The only time he spoke to Walter during his initial 17-year stay inside St. Claire's was when Walter phoned to tell him that Elizabeth had died in a car crash, though Peter later discovered that she actually committed suicide because of the guilt she carried from keeping him in this universe ("The Man From The Other Side"). Additionally, Peter has trouble with the mafia because he owes an undisclosed amount of money to "Big Eddie", a crime lord who had been hunting him for some time.
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