Over There (Part 2)
Season 2, Episode 22

Over There (Part 2)

SYNOPSIS

In this episode, Walter and Olivia continue their quest to retrieve Peter while Bell intercedes and helps them with their mission. In an action-packed climax, Olivia is kidnapped and Fauxlivia takes her place for the return trip home, leaving Olivia stranded in the alternate universe.

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THE GLYPHS

This episode's glyphs spell:

W-E-I-S-S

A chalkboard in Walternate's old Harvard lab in the Redverse said "A demon's twist rusts", which is an anagram for "Don't trust Sam Weiss", hinting at Sam Weiss's significance to the unfolding plot.

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THE OBSERVER

The Observer can be seen walking behind Olivia, Walter, and William Bell as they're eating fast food.

Observer Timestamp: 11:56

EPISODE CLUES

Previous Episode Clue

Fauxlivia is positioned in front of a solid blue painting in 'Over There (Part 1)' foreshadowing her switch with Olivia, her Blueverse doppelganger, in 'Over There (Part 2)'.

Previous episode clue Timestamp: 27:14

Next Episode Clue

Unknown

Next episode clue Timestamp: Unknown

ITEMS OF INTEREST

  • Item of interest: Madison Square Garden quarantined Timestamp: 01:33
    Madison Square Garden in the Redverse is quarantined in amber.
  • Item of interest: Part of Harvard quarantined Timestamp: 16:52
    Part of Harvard University in the Redverse is quarantined in amber.
  • Item of interest: 'A Demon's Twist Rusts' Timestamp: 17:03
    "A Demon's Twist Rusts", written on the chalkboard in the Harvard lab in the Redverse, is an anagram for "Don't Trust Sam Weiss".
  • William Bell in the Redverse was killed in a car accident as a young man. He never worked with Walternate.
  • Fauxlivia's mother is alive but her sister died in childbirth. Olivia's sister is alive but their mother is dead.
  • Item of interest: Peter with part of The Machine Timestamp: 29:45
    Peter can interface with the power source for the Machine.
  • Bell created the Shapeshifters.

VIDEOS

Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
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GLYPH SIGHTINGS

  • The hand glyph can be seen on the piano stool in the Orpheum Theater in the Redverse.
Glyph Sighting: Hand glyph Timestamp: 34:33 Hand glyph

THE REDVERSE

  • Redverse: Antoni Gaudi's cancelled 1908 New York hotel project Hotel Attraction has been built in New York City and is called The Grand Hotel. Timestamp: 01:14
    Antoni Gaudi's cancelled 1908 New York hotel project Hotel Attraction has been built in New York City and is called The Grand Hotel.
  • Redverse: Madison Square Garden was quarantined in 1999. Timestamp: 01:33
    Madison Square Garden was quarantined in 1999.
  • Redverse: Liberty Island, location of the Department of Defense, was appropriated by the revised Eminent Domain provision of the Earth Protection Act in 1989. Timestamp: 01:53
    Liberty Island, location of the Department of Defense, was appropriated by the revised Eminent Domain provision of the Earth Protection Act in 1989.
  • Redverse: John F. Kennedy wasn't assassinated. Timestamp: 02:09
    John F. Kennedy wasn't assassinated.
  • Redverse: Almost all of Boston has been quarantined. Timestamp: 07:56
    Almost all of Boston has been quarantined.
  • Redverse: They have Kentucky Grilled Chicken. Timestamp: 12:00
    They have Kentucky Grilled Chicken.
  • William Bell did not open Massive Dynamic in the Redverse.
  • Redverse: They have a "Red Lantern/Red Arrow" comic series (instead of "Green Lantern/Green Arrow"), "Superman: The Man of Steel Returns" (instead of "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"), "Crisis on Infinite Earths" with Superman and Supergirl swapped, "Justice League Vol 1 1" with Jonah Hex (instead of Guy Gardner), and "The Death of Batman" poly bag (instead of The Death of Superman). Timestamp: 14:39
    They have a "Red Lantern/Red Arrow" comic series (instead of "Green Lantern/Green Arrow"), "Superman: The Man of Steel Returns" (instead of "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns"), "Crisis on Infinite Earths" with Superman and Supergirl swapped, "Justice League Vol 1 1" with Jonah Hex (instead of Guy Gardner), and "The Death of Batman" poly bag (instead of The Death of Superman).
  • Peter's kidnapping was a famous story in the Redverse, and they did not have the Lindbergh kidnapping.
  • Redverse: The Transamerica Pyramid is in the New York City skyline instead of in San Francisco. Timestamp: 15:58
    The Transamerica Pyramid is in the New York City skyline instead of in San Francisco.
  • William Bell in the Redverse was killed in a car accident as a young man. He never worked with Walternate.
  • Redverse: A movie theater shows 'Superman Vs. Batman' and 'Indiana Jones & The Hex of the Hydra'. Timestamp: 36:19
    A movie theater shows 'Superman Vs. Batman' and 'Indiana Jones & The Hex of the Hydra'.
  • Redverse: A movie theater shows 'Star Wars - Legion of the Droids'. Timestamp: 34:23
    A movie theater shows 'Star Wars - Legion of the Droids'.
  • Redverse: Harvard University has a campus in Medford, MA. Timestamp: 16:55
    Harvard University has a campus in Medford, MA.
  • Redverse: A movie theater shows 'Smokey & the Bandit: The Final Lap' and 'Mask vs. Joker'. Timestamp: 34:49
    A movie theater shows 'Smokey & the Bandit: The Final Lap' and 'Mask vs. Joker'.
  • They have huge bees (a nurse asked a patient "How big were the bees? This big? Bigger than a grapefruit?").

WALTER'S FOOD

Walter had Kentucky Grilled Chicken.
Walter's Food: Kentucky Grilled Chicken Timestamp: 11:58 Kentucky Grilled Chicken

NOTABLE QUOTES

William Bell:
"Creating Massive Dynamic was not my idea, Walter. We both talked about borrowing this world's technologies to help our own."
William Bell (on creating the Shapeshifters):
"I had little choice. If I wanted to keep tabs on Walternate, I had to remain valuable to him."

EPISODE CONNECTIONS

Callbacks (7 earlier episodes)
  • Alt Charlie (to Fauxlivia in "Over There (Part 2)"):
    "I gotta tell you, Livvy, this job isn't what it was ten years ago. You've got alternate universes, I mean, it just... just wasn't part of my training, you know? I mean, how are we supposed to fight these people? Truth is, Livvy, this makes me feel obsolete, you know?"

    This mirrors what Charlie said to Olivia earlier.

    Charlie (in "Pilot"):
    "Job isn't what it was ten years ago. We're supposed to protect the world, where one breath of the wrong air can incinerate you from the inside out. I mean, how do we protect people, when corporations have higher security clearances than we do? When we're not fully briefed on half the things that we're investigating. You know, when the truth, the truth is... we're obsolete."
  • Connection: Amber in Boston S2E22 Timestamp: 16:29
    The bus in "The Ghost Network" was ambered. Huge sections of cities were ambered in the Redverse in "Over There (Part 2)".
  • Connection: Bell's energy S2E22 Timestamp: 38:03
    Walter (in "The Road Not Taken"):
    "Matter is just energy waiting to happen. The average adult at rest contains enough potential energy to explode with the force of five very large hydrogen bombs."

    William Bell provided all of the energy in his body to fuel a universe hop for Walter, Peter, and Fauxlivia in "Over There (Part 2)".

  • Walter (in "Night of Desirable Objects"):
    "Traveling to an alternate reality has its consequences."

    He suffered some of those consequences in "Over There (Part 2)".

  • Connection: Bell taking oxygen S2E04 Timestamp: 26:06
    William Bell (in "Over There (Part 2)"):
    "I've travelled between universes so many times, my atoms are ready to split apart with the slightest provocation."

    William Bell was unwell and needed oxygen in Olivia's memories in "Momentum Deferred" which could be because of how many times he crossed over.

  • Connection: Bell as Dr. Paris S2E10 Timestamp: 42:35
    A flashback at the end of "Grey Matters" revealed that it was William Bell who removed the pieces of Walter's brain. In "Over There (Part 2)" Bell said he removed the pieces at Walter's own request due to fears about the man he was becoming.
  • The dying shapeshifter in "The Man from the Other Side" apologized to Walter for failing because it thought he was Walternate, the man who ordered the mission in "Over There (Part 2)".
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