Oh how I’ve missed you, alt-universe. Fringe returns to the Other Side in episode seventeen, Everything in its Right Place, with Anna Torv’s Fauxlivia toting a big gun as Seth Gabel’s Agent Lee faces off with Seth Gabel’s Captain Lee (Fringenuity‘s episode hash tag was a spot-on #FaceYourself).
So we had a double dose of Lincoln Lees but when Seth Gabel played both in Victory Square in downtown Vancouver on February 8th, I only managed to get decent shots of Fauxlivia, although I did see Captain Lee get shot (a spoiler I kept to myself because I couldn’t bear the thought of Fauxlivia losing her Lincoln Lee).
This episode opened in Walter’s lab with Gene the cow wearing an FBI “jacket” while grazing as Jasika Nicole’s Astrid complains to our Lincoln Lee about having to cross over to the other universe to help investigate a vigilante with a connection to the shapeshifters. Agent Lee offers to take her place on the bridge to the other side where he meets up with Fauxlivia and Captain Lee. Clearly Seth Gabel is as good as Anna Torv at playing dopplegangers: Captain Lee is so macho and Agent Lee is borderline dweeb.
From there we go to the top of a parkade at night where the vigilante shapeshifter is killing a criminal in the act. When Fauxlivia, Captain Lee and Agent Lee show up at the crime scene, filmed on February 13th, @MartiniHoudini had a window seat on the action on the Bentall Parkade and Seth Gabel as our Lincoln Lee, an alt-Lincoln Lee double and Anna Torv as Fauxlivia below.
Some of the funniest moments took place on this parkade like Fauxlivia weedling Agent Lee’s middle name out of him and then pranking Captain Lee with a “What’s up Tyrone?” Followed by a superhero debate: “What’s a Batman?” asks Fauxlivia, explaining their superhero is Mantis. “Seriously? Your superhero is an insect?” says our Lincoln Lee. “Because nothing says badass like a flying rat!” retorts Fauxlivia.
And then we’re at a Fringe Division Quarantine Zone at St. James’ Anglican Church in the Downtown Eastside, where Containment Unit workers are reopening an amber area. Fringe crew turned almost an entire block of Gore Avenue into this quarantine zone on February 9th with DO NOT ENTER signs posted on the entrance doors to the church and FRINGE SITE – DO NOT CROSS red tape stretched across the corner of Gore & East Cordova. The red tape also kept spectators off set — although it’s amazing how close half-a-dozen fans were allowed to stand to watch the steadi-cam crew filming Anna Torv and Seth Gabel. And hidden in among all this set decoration, fans spied a Fringe Division
Renewal poster, widely thought to be a subtle plea for a fifth season renewal. Well played Fringe. Well played. I photographed Seth Gabel and Anna Torv having fun in the rain ahead of filming a scene of them entering the church.
I didn’t catch Seth Gabel in character as Captain Lee at this set; only a Captain Lee photo double. But I saw quite a bit of Agent Lee looking dweeby.
A month later on March 15th, Fringe filmed a pickup scene on Gore Avenue recreating much of the Quarantine Zone and then moved to Oppenheimer Park to film the soccer scene with some Fringe fans from France and NYC prop cabs in the background.
Much of the action shifted to the Terminal City Ironworks complex in east Vancouver, which you should recognize from the season four premiere. The two Lincoln Lees get into it about how their paths diverged until Fauxlivia quips, “Get off the line Girls”. They do have a vigilante shapeshifter to chase down and then interrogate.
Meantime, shapeshifter Col. Broyles and evil Nina have tipped a sharpshooter on the location of our heroes. The sharpshooter climbs the circular iron staircase inside the Dominion Building to take a position on its roof, looking down on an alley on the west side of Victory Square where the Fringe Division van is parked. Colin Knowles took a great action shot on February 8th of Fauxlivia and Agent Lee in
“SPOILER: People shooting at things, coming soon on Fringe.” which you can see on his
Flickr page. They are shooting up at the sharpshooter on the Dominion Building roof. And this is the spot where Captain Lee is shot.
If he really is dead, then this is a big loss. As I tweeted last night, Alt-Lincoln Lee and Fauxlivia seemed meant to be since the birth of now non-existent Henry. Does Fringe needs a new timeline so that a couple who never were but are meant to be can happen? Agent Lee does return to the alt-universe to take Captain Lee’s place on the Fringe Division team and with Fauxlivia and maybe this is part of what the episode title — Everything in its Right Place — is about. We shall see.
Scenes from this episode were so much fun to photograph despite its bittersweet ending that I’ve uploaded a few more Fauxlivia shots:
Really nice summary of the episode 🙂
It was a great one, and performances of both actors, Seth Gabel & Anna Torv were amazing ! As you said, Seth Gabel is as good as Anna playing dopplegangers !
Nice pics too though 🙂
Thanks, and have a nice night !