Fringe Lincoln-Heavy Episode & David Jones Shapeshifters Spoilers

Jasika Nicole offers more insight into tonight’s Astrid-centric episode of Fringe and dishes the upcoming Lincoln Lee-focused installment that digs into the overarching David Robert Jones threat and human shapeshifter mythology. She also teases the resolution to Peter’s twin timeline dilemma.

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Speaking to TV Guide, Nicole dishes the overarching David Robert Jones storyline that is still very much in-play, and how the two Lincolns will have a bearing on the exploration of the shapeshifter mythology:

He is still a part of what’s going on, and as soon as we think that we’ve got his number, and that we know how to move on from that, something else ends up happening that kind of takes us two steps back. So it becomes really integral to both of the Fringe teams to be able to work closely together and not let ego stuff get in the way, and this ends up becoming really significant between the two Lincolns (Seth Gabel). We’re starting an episode that’s filmed heavily with the two Lincolns and their relationship with each other, and trying to pinpoint how different the humanoid shapeshifters are: Why they’re different in both worlds and how we can get a handle on all of them, so that we can stop all the death and devastation that’s happening.

On the resolution of the two timeline situation:

We actually are in a point in our season right now that deals with this very specifically, and I think that the resolution is going to surprise a lot of the fans because it definitely surprised me. There is this kind of push and pull with the two time lines, with which one is better, which one has characters that the audience members relate to more. We ended up solving this problem in a really creative, interesting way, and I can’t wait to find out how everybody reacts to it. I don’t want to say that everything merges together, but there’s going to be a balance between the time lines that I think will probably be pretty satisfying for people.

Speaking to FOX ALL Access, Nicole expands on the “selfish reasons,” hinted at earlier, that cause the two Astrids to meet in tonight’s “Making Angels”:

“There is a traumatic personal event that happens with Alternate Astrid, and so she just [decides] to get up and leave from her universe. She does’t ask permission, she shows up in this universe and basically tells this Astrid that she had no other place to go, that she’s alone right now due to this tragic event that’s happened to her, and [that] she just decided to come here and see Astrid for herself. Throughout the episode you get to understand more about why [she's there], but it’s kinda like this big question mark at first.
This Astrid is on her way out of the door to do other stuff, so she doesn’t event get to hang out with her, she’s just shocked by this vision of doppelganger that’s standing in front of her, and then she says ‘you have to go hang out with Walter while I go do [other stuff]‘. Then you get to see our Walter with Alternate Astrid, which I think is just the coolest meeting ever because [they are] so very similar to each other. Neither one is really interested in what other people think about them, they’re incredibly brilliant, do not pay attention to social cues at all — they’re different versions of the same person, I think.
So this episode was very cool, you get to see the Astrids on so many different levels with each other and the Fringe team.”

Source: TV Guide | FOX ALL ACCESS

On the timeline front, I guess we’ll be keeping both timelines in some form or other. Perhaps the way it happens or the ramifications will be more surprising.

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