Astrid Farnsworth

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Astrid Farnsworth

Astrid Farnsworth
Profession	Junior Agent, FBI	Portrayed by: Jasika Nicole
Also Known As	see Trivia below
Family	Mother (unseen)
Seen In	All episodes (except Peter and Over There, Part 1)
Status	Under-utilized
Remarks	Linguistic, Encryption, Research and Lab Support Expertise
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Astrid Farnsworth is a Junior Agent with the FBI, and an assistant to Agent Dunham.

About

In Pilot, she seems to have few responsibilities except being someone to whom Walter explains things.

In The Same Old Story, she contributes to the investigation by recognizing the Sargent Bridge that was the last thing one of Christopher Penrose's victims saw before she died.

In The Ghost Network, she translates the Latin that the adversaries are using to communicate with each other into English for the rest of the Science Team. At the end of the episode, she seems to slip back into a semi-clerical role as she takes Roy McComb away to have him sign some release forms.

In The Arrival, she was sedated against her will by Dr. Bishop so that he could abscond with the Beacon and protect it from being stolen.

In Power Hungry, she helped reprogram homing pigeons with Dr. Bishop, and fit them with GPS receivers, so the science team could locate Joseph Meegar.

In The Cure, she helped identify the unique aroma (Methyleugenol, or Hyacinth) associated with the weaponization of Bellini's patients.

In In Which We Meet Mr. Jones, she conceived that the secret encryption embedded in the DNA of the advanced parasite was a simple "Caesar Shift" coding - one that is easily deciphered.

In The Equation, teases Peter after he cut off his sleeves.

In The Dreamscape, she retrieved a Bible for Olivia's return visit to the sensory deprivation tank and a new Synaptic Transfer experiment.

In Safe, she was relegated to watching after Walter (and Gene).

In Bound, she asks the Bishops if they have seen Olivia, then announces that Olivia has gone missing.

In The No-Brainer, she tends to investigative chores in the lab, shares that she has been computer savvy from a young age, and keeps an eye on Peter as his past associates try to climb back into his life.

In The Transformation, she helped manage Daniel Hicks affliction in the lab and get his insider info to the sting in Chicago.

In Ability, she tends to David Jones in Walter's lab as Olivia attempts to pass the ability test.

In Inner Child, she looks after the children in the lab - Walter and the child.

In Unleashed, she looks after the injured Charlie Francis and later reveals the genetic composition of the Beast.

In Bad Dreams, she researchs and relays an important passage from the ZFT manifesto, as it applies to Nick Lane.

In Midnight, she identified a door access stamp as The Cavern, leading to the club where Valerie Boone was stalking her victims.

In The Road Not Taken, she identified the dental records from the Susan Pratt autopsy and helped Peter Bishop in the sonic signature experiment in Nancy Lewis's apartment.

In There's More Than One of Everything, she lost track of Walter when he wandered off with the Observer. Met Nina Sharp after Nina's release from the hospital.

In A New Day In The Old Town, she initiates a search for victims with prong marks in there mouth, and helps Walter deliver a birthday celebration for Peter.

In Night Of Desirable Objects, she supports Walter in his experiment with frogs and travel between universes.

In Fracture, she finds the bombing suspicious and gets the team involved with the case, reveals she has an apartment in Sommerville, helps Walter reconstruct the victim and determine the frequency used to detonate him.

In Momentum Deferred, she chops and blends a worm concoction for Olivia, links to Massivie Dynamic to monitor conversion device data, unwittingly reveals Olivia's location to the Shape Changer, thinking he was Charlie.

In Dream Logic, joins the Bishops at their new home, delivering the Seattle casework to Peter. Assists Walter dissect the Leiter corpse and locate the brain micro-chip implant.

In Earthling, tracks and triangulates Vasiliev's position at the motel.

In Of Human Action, hacks Tyler's computer and discovers the teen is looking for his mother. Drives Walter during his effort to rescue Peter.

In August, locates the hot chile buyers in the area and determines that the handwritten language of the Observers have over 1200 symbols, none the same.

In Snakehead, helps to dissect the hookworms, is ditched by Walter during is his investigation, then knocked unconscious by robbers in the lab.

In Grey Matters, determines there is no Dr. Simon Paris recognized by the A.M.A. and loses Walter when Thomas Newton comes to abduct him.

In Unearthed, tends to Lisa and Maureen Donovan in the lab.

In Johari Window, is lied to by Walter and takes him into the town they were told to stay out of.

In What Lies Below, escorts Walter to the Children's Science Center and to Vitas Petrol. Full support in bio-hazard suit.

In The Bishop Revival, helped in the lab with fingerprints and the address of the murderer.

In Jacksonville, she refused to perform an autopsy on Ted Pratchet, and Walter instead had her go through a box of evidence, some of which had come from The Other Side.

Not seen in Peter, making it the first episode without her since the series began.

In Olivia. In The Lab. With The Revolver., she helps Walter with the autopsy of Miranda Greene. She then later assists Walter in making taffy in the lab.

In White Tulip, she discovers the cellphone of Arlette is still active. She tracks it down to Albany Street.

In The Man From The Other Side, she helps dissect the embryonic shifter and track victims in the area. She aides Walter at home while Peter is in the hospital.

In Brown Betty, she watches after Ella in the lab as Olivia leaves on investigative work. She is also described in Walter's fable as a Olivia's sidekick at her detective agency.

In Northwest Passage, she helps Walter build a device that would detect the energy signature to find Peter.

Not seen in Over There, Part 1, but her counterpart in the parallel universe made the first appearance.

In Over There, Part 2, she was worried about Peter and when he came back, she fed him with pies.

Background

She speaks five languages.
She studied cryptology before joining the F.B.I. - was obsessed as a kid. (In Which We Meet Mr. Jones)
She claims degrees as a Linguistics major & Computer Science minor. Has been taking computers apart since the age of six. (The No-Brainer)
She loves butterflies and hates moths. (Johari Window)

Quotes

"I am not brushing a cow's teeth Walter, you know I have real work to do... right?" - to Walter (putting her demanding colleague in his place)
"My mother always says I stick my nose in places it does not belong. I know we haven't known each other that long. But you are one of the best judges of character I've ever met." - to Olivia (as Olivia reflects on her lost relationship with John Scott)
"Should have gone with 'great taste - less filling'" - to Walter (sardonically about his open question on mankind's oldest dream)

Trivia

Walter Bishop finds (or pretends to find) it nearly impossible to remember Farnsworth's first name. Some of his failures are:

Asterisk (The Cure, in conversation)

Astro (In Which We Meet Mr. Jones, in conversation) (Inner Child, during an urgent request)

Asteroid (In Which We Meet Mr. Jones, in conversation)

Astringent (The Dreamscape, in his Lab Notes)

Astral (Bad Dreams, in conversation as the first part of 'astral...projection') Walter appeared to be baiting Astrid, suggesting that he knows about his failures or that they are intentional.

Aspirin (Midnight, in conversation)

Asterix (A New Day In The Old Town, in conversation and quickly corrected) (Johari Window, during congratulations). Knowingly, or not, the legendary Asterix is a diminutive, fearless, cunning warrior, always eager for new adventures... not unlike Agent Farnsworth

Astricks (Dream Logic, during lab busy work).

Ostrich (The Bishop Revival, being summoned to come see something)

Astro (White Tulip, during lab work. seems to have gone unnoticed, or ignored)

Esther Ficklesworth {Brown Betty, as part of the elaborate fable Walter imagines while entertaining Ella)

The name Astrid is of Old Norse origin, and its meaning is "fair, beautiful goddess". Currently, it is a very popular name in Scandinavian countries for newborne girls. It is also somewhat popular in Canada.