Astrid Farnsworth
Portrayed by Jasika Nicole
Name	Astrid Farnsworth
Status	Alive
Profession	FBI Agent
Relations	Stephen Farnsworth, father
Appearances	Astrid Farnsworth - List of Appearances

Astrid Farnsworth is a Junior Agent with the FBI, and an assistant to Agent Olivia Dunham.

Contents 1 Original Timeline 1.1 Background information 1.2 Season 1 1.3 Season 2 1.4 Season 3 2 Alternate Timeline 2.1 Season 4 3 Alternate 4 Trivia 4.1 Walter's Names 5 Quotes 6 External links

Original Timeline Edit

Background informationEdit

She graduated from Haverford College with a B.A. in Music and Linguistics and a minor in Computer Science, having taken computers apart since six years old.

Season 1Edit

In Pilot, she is first introduced as Olivia's assistant whom she brings in to help work with Walter in the lab, although she seems to have few responsibilities except being someone to whom Walter explains things.

In The Same Old Story, Astrid 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, Astrid translates the Latin that the adversaries are using to communicate with each other into English for the rest of the investigative 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. He later attempted to sincerlely apologize to her for his actions, although it took some time for her to forgive him.

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 parasites was a simple ‘Caesar Shift’ coding - one that is easily deciphered.

In The Dreamscape, she retrieved a Bible for Olivia's return visit to the sensory deprivation tank and a new Synaptic Transfer experiment. She was also referenced by a man in John Scott's memories, when he said "... if we get into another Astrid situation, we're screwed."

Season 2Edit

Season 3Edit

Alternate TimelineEdit

Season 4Edit

Astrid's character remains basically the same in the Alternate Timeline created by Peter's death as a child. Her main difference is that she acts now as a field agent for Walter, wearing a special camera and microphone on her ear. This

allows her to examine the scene of Fringe events for Walter while he remains in his Harvard laboratory, as he has become agorophobic, afraid to leave the lab.

In Wallflower, she is questioned by Olivia as to how she can cope psychologically with the horrible things she sees in her time with Fringe Division. Astrid reveals that she is currently in psychotherapy to deal with the stress of her job, as she doesn't believe she could cope with the stress without someone to talk to. She is therefore shocked when she learns that Olivia has no one to talk to about what she sees on the job.

In Making Angels she is visited by her counterpart, and screams when seeing her, as she had never met her. Her counterpart speaks in a stilted and nearly hysterical manner, which makes it difficult for Astrid to understand her. Eventually however she realizes that her alternate's father had recently passed away, and her alternate's autism prevented her from properly expressing her grief to anyone but herself, so she crossed over to speak with Astrid. Astrid attempts to counsel her double and befriends her while they work on a case. Her alternate eventually questions her about the relationship she shares with her own father, revealing the alternate's father-daughter relationship was strained because she wasn't "normal". Astrid attempts to ease her grief by telling her that her own father is distant and also has a hard time expressing her feelings, but that she knows he loves her in his own way. Her counterpart leaves seemingly reassured, and Astrid returns home to a loving and doting father, revealing that she lied to her double to make her feel better.

Alternate Edit

Astrid Farnsworth (Alternate Universe) is an autistic computer and statistics specialist within the Fringe division.

Trivia Edit

• She speaks five languages.
• She studied cryptology before joining the FBI - was obsessed as a kid. (In Which We Meet Mr. Jones)
• She has an infatuation with butterflies. (Johari Window)
• She was in Quantico.
• Despite being a secondary character for over three years, her background is the least explored of all characters title characters.
• She is the only member of Fringe Division other than Broyles who actually likes her alternate universe counterpart.

Walter's Names Edit

• Walter Bishop finds it impossible to remember Astrid's name. Some of his failures are:
  • "Astral"-Astrid gives look-"Projection"
  • Asgard (Liberty, in conversation)
  • Asterisk (The Cure, in conversation)
  • Astro (In Which We Meet Mr. Jones, in conversation)
  • Asteroid (In Which We Meet Mr. Jones, in conversation)
  • Astringent (The Dreamscape, in his Lab Notes)
  • Asprin (Midnight, in conversation)
  • Astricks (Dream Logic, in conversation)
  • Ashram (The Firefly , in conversation)
  • Ostrich (The Last Sam Weiss, in conversation)
  • Claire (Subject 9, in conversation)
  • Athos (Brave New World: Part 1, in conversation)
  • Alex (Brave New World: Part 1, in conversation)
  • Afro (Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11, in conversation)
  • Agnes (Five-Twenty-Ten , in conversation)
  • Aphid (Nothing_As_It_Seems , in conversation)
  • Abna (An Origin Story, in conversation)
• However, Walter has no trouble getting the Alternate Universe Astrid's name correct.
• Walter states in An Enemy of Fate, that it is a beautiful name to which he ment Astrid.

Quotes Edit

"I speak five languages, but I don't speak Walter. "

- Astrid

"I am not brushing a cow's teeth Walter, you know I have real work to do... right? "

- Astrid

"No more fruit. Walter."

- Astrid

External links Edit

• Official character bio at FOX.com/Fringe

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