Peter Bishop
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| Peter Bishop | ||
| Profession | DHS Civilian Consultant, Jack Of All Trades | Portrayed by:  Joshua Jackson | |
| Family | Dr. Walter Bishop, father - - - Robert Bishop, grandfather | ||
| Connections | Tess Amaral, Edward Markam, Akim, Mako, Michael Kelly, Gregory Worth, Slim Joe, Ahmed | ||
| Seen In | All episodes | ||
| Status | Recovering From Hookworm Torture (Tasting) | ||
| Remarks | Worried For Walter After Nerotoxin Poisoning | ||
| Images of Peter | |||
Peter Bishop is the son of Dr. Walter Bishop. Peter has a recorded IQ of 190.
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About
Peter is a high school dropout, misfit, and nomad, who hasn't kept a job longer than two months. He's been a wild land fireman, a floor sweeper at a meat packing plant in Tennessee, a cargo pilot, and briefly a college chemistry professor -- a position he gained by falsifying a degree from MIT. Despite this, he managed to have papers published before he was exposed as a fraud. He was setting-up a business deal in Baghdad, Iraq when he was recruited by Olivia Dunham to gain access to his father. He has been arrested seven times.
Childhood
When Peter was a child, he was travelling with his father, Walter, to a family Thanksgiving dinner. Their car slipped off the road onto a frozen lake. The ice broke and the car began to sink. With their fate apparently certain, Walter and Peter were saved by the Observer. As a result, Walter owed a debt to the Observer; there is no suggestion that Peter has a debt of any kind.
In Safe, Walter tells Peter that when he was a little boy he contracted a very rare disease similar to Hepia, a form of bird flu. Trying to find a cure, Walter discovered a Swiss physician named Dr. Alfred Gross, the only man to ever successfully cure a case of Hepia. Unfortunately, Dr. Gross had died in 1936 so Walter designed a device to reach back in time and bring Dr. Gross back. But the device was apparently not used as Walter said Peter got better on his own.
In There's More Than One of Everything, Walter mentioned that "back then" (mid-1980's), when he and Bell took LSD, Walter lost something very precious and wanted to travel to the alternate reality they were envisioning, to get it back. This hints at the possibility that Peter died as a child and that Walter coveted the Peter from that other reality. During his childhood maladies, Peter collected coins as a distraction.
In Dream Logic, Peter dreams of his childhood. He is asleep in bed and is rousted by what appears to be Walter. He disappears from the bed. Peter claims have to not had dreams during his teenage years.
After Walter was institutionalized in the early 1990's, Peter moved to Allston with his mother because she could not afford the mortgage of their house in Cambridge.
In Grey Matters, Walter is asked to associate words with images he is shown. Three images elicit the response "Peter" - a bowl of custard, a boy playing on a beach, and a child-sized coffin. This, along with the appearance of his gravestone in There's More Than One of Everything appears to confirm that the "Peter" in this world died at the age of seven.
Relationships
In The Cure, Nina Sharp told Peter that she knew him when he was a small boy, that she and his father, Walter, were once quite close and that she and Peter spent time together at the equestrian center where Peter had gone to find her. In Bound, his friend Kyle – a genius who used to work at a phone company – was able to tap into Mitchell Loebs' home phone number.
Trivia
- Spoke Farsi in Pilot, German in Ability, Arabic in Fracture, and Cantonese in Snakehead
- Owes money to a guy named Big Eddie
- Introduced as Olivia's brother "Rick" to a bartender in Safe
- Is friends with the owner of the biggest chop shop in Boston
- Peter Bishop appeared in all 35 episodes.
Quotes
- "This falls in the category of be careful what you wish for, Sweetheart." - (to Olivia in Pilot)
- "When I was nine years old, I think I wanted to be a brontosaurus." - (to Olivia in The Ghost Network)
- "You may think you know what he's capable of, but you have no idea what I'm capable of." - (to Doctor Bruce Sumner in The Equation)
- "I am the guy to break the law for you." - (to Agent Charlie Francis in Bound)
- "The facilities? You're in the sewer, Walter. You're knee-deep in the facilities" - (smartly to his father in Unleashed when Walter shares his toilet need during the hunt for the beast)
- "It's a hand-held thermal imaging radiometer. It tells me if you're hot.... so you're definitely hot. I'm looking for someone with syphilis." - (taking the wind out of the sails of an eager young barfly in Midnight)
- "Walter says this tech isn't from here. And that it's broken. But it is proof, and if they can fix it, they can have an army who can look like anyone they want them to. You tell them you can get this tech, and they can have it, but they are not shutting us down. From now on, we're calling the shots. We're done reacting. We're not gonna be too late anymore. After all, somebody's got to save their asses, right?" - (handing the shape changing device over to Broyles so he can return to the Oversight Committee with proof, and a reason for continued funding for Fringe Division)
Unanswered Questions
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- Why is he hiding his whereabouts from the criminal element in Boston?
- Why was the photographer secretly following Peter?
- Was Reiden Lake the icy lake he and Walter were rescued from?
- What is his childhood connection to Nina?
- Was he born in the alternate universe that William Bell is in?
- If so, does he have any unique abilities?
