Etta Bishop

Henrietta Bishop, better known simply as Etta, is a character in the FOX TV show, Fringe. She was the martyred figurehead of the resistance movement against the Observers in the 2036 future of the Alternate Timeline. Her partner in the Resistance was Simon Foster, born in 1997. 
After the Observers colonized Earth in 2015, humans were purged and the remainder became Loyalist slaves. Etta became separated from her parents at 3 years old. She became a secret agent in the Resistance in 2031. However, she was murdered 5 years later by Captain Windmark while trying to retrieve parts of her grandfather, Walter's Plan. 
Her death was avenged by her mother, Olivia Dunham. Later, she was revived by her grandfather through a grandfather paradox that erased the Observers from existence except the original twelve. 
===Abilities===
Etta possessed the unique ability to block the Observers' telepathic mind-reading. This gave her an advantage in her rebellion. Etta's mother was apart of a highly experimental, unethical drug trial as a child and dosed with Cortexiphan, a powerful drug that works on emotion.("Subject 13") This presumably gave her a latent advantage that the Observers were unaware of. 
===Weaknesses===
Olivia expressed concern Etta was hardened by the Observer takeover, including to the Loyalists who betrayed their own. This ultimately cost her life. She was also somewhat impulsive like her father. 
==Biography==
=== Original timeline ===
Etta's fate was foreshadowed when Walter told his future daughter-in-law, Etta's mother Olivia that she cannot imagine the pain of losing a child, as a reason for not telling Peter, Etta's father, about him being from a parallel universe. ("Peter")Her genetic older brother from a parallel universe, Henry Dunham, was born on Valentine's Day 2011, 1 year and 5 months before her birth. ("Bloodline") However, Henry was subsequently erased from existence. ("The End of All Things") 
Amanda, a child unique to Peter's timeline born in Peter's 2016, imagined the Bishops (Peter and Olivia) having a young, blonde daughter. 47-year-old Peter observed a drawing she made after his wife, Olivia Dunham was murdered by his birth father, Walternate. Amanda was correct, as that timeline (where Peter grew up) was erased by the Observer named September. ("The Day We Died") 
===Background Information ===
After Peter returned to the Peterless Timeline in 2011, Olivia regained the memories of her previous life in the prior time loop. She became pregnant with his child in 2012, and this time, in this universe, she was having a daughter. ("Brave New World: Part 2") 
Peter and Olivia named their daughter Henrietta, after Henry the taxi driver, and Peter's great-uncle, Heinrich Bischoff, the brother of Robert Bischoff, Walter's father. Etta was born September 15, 2012. When she was 3 years, 1 month and 5 days old, she was at a picnic with her parents. The Observers began their invasion at this moment. 
At age 13, she found the “bullet that saved the world“, the bullet that her adoptive grandfather Walter Bishop used to shoot her mother in order to foil William Bell's plan to destroy both universes. She kept it as a necklace, unaware of its meaning, but knowing it meant something important.
In 2031, at age 19, she met Phillip Broyles at a crime scene after she began working as a rookie agent. He recognized Olivia in her and had her transferred to his section. Etta recruited him into the Resistance and taught him how to block his thoughts from the Observers. ("The Bullet That Saved the World")
Etta began searching for her family, who she believed to be alive. Many thought she was crazy for entertaining the possibility.  She was aware that they had discovered a way to defeat the Observers, so she began to work with a man named Rick, a pimp at a club in Boston, who tracked down the Fringe team and removed a block of amber containing her grandfather, Walter. ("Letters of Transit")
===Season 4===
Etta is contacted by Rick after he discovers the Fringe team. She meets with him at the Epicenter Club and able to prevent her mind from being read by Windmark. After their encounter, Etta and Rick go into the alley, where he opens up a truck and shows her the amber containing Walter. Rick explains to Etta that there were more people. Before he can disclose the location, Rick is shot by an unknown assailant. 
Etta and Simon Foster team up to get Walter out of the amber. When Walter was removed from the amber, they learned that his brain had been damaged. Etta and Simon took Walter to Nina Sharp to see if she could help them. She suggests that they go to the old Massive Dynamic to get a piece of Walter's brain.
Etta believes injecting the healthy part of Walter's brain into his damaged part, his brain will repair itself. Her suggestion works, and he returns to lucidity. Walter takes them to the others. Simon helps recover the team but must sacrifice himself to get Peter free before the Observers capture them. Etta reluctantly ambers him.
In the subway, Etta reunites with her father Peter, who initially fails to recognize her, until he does and they hug. She also meets Astrid. ("Letters of Transit")
===Season 5===
Etta and the Fringe Team go in search for her mother, Olivia. They discover that she has been taken by "amber gypsies", people who cut and sell humans on the black market, so they go to a black market to retrieve her. They track Olivia's piece of amber they find to Edward Markham. He has kept her in amber, in love with her since they met. They retrieve Olivia, but the Observers arrive on time to capture Walter.
Etta takes the rest of the team to a hidden facility where human resistance members can analyze the device that Olivia had retrieved just before she was ambered, the Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11. With the help of two resistance members, Etta and the team rescue Walter using one of their devices to fake his death. ("Transilience Thought Unifier Model-11")
Etta's torture of Manfretti, a Loyalist they find after sneaking into the Harvard lab through steam tunnels, frightens Olivia. Etta ties him in a chair and uses Observer tech to severely age him in seconds. Etta says he doesn't deserve sympathy, stating the Observers have brought war -- and they're losing. Manfretti tells Etta that the science building contains the main power grid and the Observers use it to experiment on everything. He gives them his access code and Walter fashions a substitute for Manfretti's eye from a preserved pig's eyeball, so Peter and Etta can fool the biometric scanner.
In the science building, Etta sees a lab where Simon Foster's apparently still functioning head is attached to a machine. She pulls her gun but Peter stops her. He promises that one day the Observers will pay for what they've done but not now. They reroute power to Walter's lab and return.
After Etta returns, she informs Olivia that she will turn Manfretti into the resistance, Olivia worries that the man will die so she tells Etta that the reason he is a Loyalist is that he has a son who he wants to protect from the Observers. Etta doesn't believe the story, telling Olivia that it's a lie, and leaves. At an unknown location, Etta is about to kill the Loyalist, who confesses that he doesn't have a son, that Etta was right, and that he is a coward. Etta lets him go and he vows to her that he will join the resistance because Olivia made him feel for the first time that they could win. Etta calls Olivia using her comm device and shows Olivia Manfretti walking away. ("In Absentia")
The team next venture to Pennsylvania to retrieve a piece of Walter's Plan. Throughout their journeys together, Olivia, Peter, and Henrietta bond and begin to reconstruct the relationship that they lost almost 20 years ago. One such instance involved Etta showing Olivia the bullet she wore on her necklace for many years. Olivia explained that Peter had called it the Bullet That Saved the World. Olivia allows Etta to hold onto it.
After recovering a piece of the plan, Etta calls upon Phillip Broyles. The team is ambushed by Observers and Broyles flees, protecting the plan with him. Meanwhile, the Bishops are run into an abandoned warehouse. Henrietta is corned by Captain Windmark. In what was barely a fight, the much quicker and stronger Windmark pins Etta against the wall and begins to try to read her mind. Etta, who was trained to prevent such an act, allows Windmark to gain access to the memory of her visit to the park on that day in 2015 when the Observers invaded. Windmark finally understands the concept of love that has been driving the family to defeat the Observers. Windmark scoffs at the thought of the Resistance never knowing when to give up and shoots her.
Etta slumps the ground and begins to bleed out as he leaves. The other Bishops hear the gunshot and are able to track Etta down. Knowing she is dying, Etta makes one final sacrifice and sets an anti-matter bomb. Before her mother could leave, however, Etta returns the Bullet That Saved the World. When the Observers return to the warehouse, it detonates, although Captain Windmark escapes. ("The Bullet That Saved the World")
===Legacy===
Etta's death gave Peter, Olivia, and Walter even more incentive to defeat the Observers. Walter and Olivia began working out the next steps of the plan. Walter explained to Olivia that Etta's death, and the pain it brought, were proof that she was here. It was her legacy to Peter and Olivia. Peter, on the other hand, went rogue. His grief drove him to implant the Observer technology into his own head. He began running plans to avenge Etta's death and murder Captain Windmark. Olivia began to bear enormous grief and lost faith. It wasn't until she met Simone that her faith was restored. It was here that she understood that Etta's spirit was still left behind and lived on within Peter and Olivia.
Resistance began mass-producing posters with Etta's face on it. When Olivia found out about Peter becoming an Observer, she was able to convince him to remove the technology, explaining that there were better ways to defeat the Observers. She wanted him to let Etta and their love for her give them strength because it was the only thing the Observers did not have. When Peter removed the tech, he handed it to Olivia, who took it from his hand and instead replaced it with Etta's necklace that contained the Bullet That Saved the World. Meanwhile, the Resistance began mass-producing posters with Etta's face on it with bright red lettering spelling out "Resist." Etta became the face of the Resistance and the motivation behind defeating the Observers for the remaining Bishops.
==Final Timeline==
After the final reset, Etta is alive. It returns to October 19, 2015, at the moment of the picnic where the Invasion occurs, that never happens. Olivia says that it is time to go home and take a bath, which is not an easy task. Peter calls Etta to come home and she runs into his arms. ("An Enemy of Fate")
==Appearances==
Etta Bishop appears in 9 out of the 100 episodes released of Fringe. Her first official appearance is the one episode to feature no Olivia at all: Season 4's "Letters of Transit". It was a backdoor pilot for the shortened-length fifth season. 
As the older version of the character, Georgina Haig makes 6 appearances, while the remaining 3 are possessed by Abagayle Hardwick. 
==Redverse Counterpart==
Etta's Redverse counterpart is her genetic older brother, Henry Dunham. Though Henry was born to Olivia Dunham from the Redverse. September considered his existence a mistake. 
Etta was given the feminine form of his name. He was born on Valentine's Day 2011 but was erased in May 2011. His lifespan before the timeline was rewritten was roughly 3 months. 
==Trivia==
*Etta is the first known child to be born from parents of two separate universes though she was raised in the Blueverse.
*Ethnically, Etta is 1/16th German and one quarter Irish paternally. Her great-grandfather was German and her grandmother is Irish. 
*Despite not have been treated with Cortexiphan and not having mental abilities like her mother, Etta found a way to block her thoughts from the Observers' telepathic powers. It is implied Broyles trained her to do this.
*While never officially stated in the series, she is named after Henry Arliss Higgins, a taxi driver who helped Olivia escape in the Alternate Universe in Peter's timeline. 
**Her name may also be inspired by Peter's great-uncle, Heinrich Bischoff, mentioned by Walter the episode before Olivia announces her pregnancy. ("Brave New World: Part 1") 
*Etta herself acts as the bullet that saved the world, much like the bullet she carries. She is shot and killed, and her death gives the others more drive to erase the 2036 Observer future.
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