Discussion: Walter Bishop/ William Bell

"ever considered that if he can go back in time then wouldnt cloning himself be also pretty resonable guess with this fringe technology??"

"ever considered that if he can go back in time then wouldnt cloning himself be also pretty resonable guess with this fringe technology??"

"We [know] that Walter did NOT go back in time because he stated expressly that he completed the thinking behind the machine, completed the prototype, then Peter suddenly recovered and Walter did not use it. This provides yet further circumstantial evidence for the separate existence of William Bell, as follows... Bell knows that Walter is capable of great things, resolving all manner of problems, but lacks the specific focus on issues that Bell is interested in. Accordingly, in this line of reasoning, Bell infects Peter with a rare disease to give Walter focus, which leads to the teleportation/time travel device, a device Walter never uses, then hides from Bell for reasons not yet clear."

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If anyone is a "clone", Peter is - a clone of himself. We know that Walter can clone, we know that Walter can cause rapid aging. It is unclear whether Walter knows precisely how to stop rapid aging, but there is indirect and circumstantial evidence that he can. We know, for example that Peter "died" or was at least "extremely" damaged in the icy road car accident where The Observer pulled him out of the lake when Walter could not. We know that there are oddities about Peter's medical history that Walter was uncomfortable enough about that he tried to seek Olivia's silence about them until he discovered that Olivia knew nothing about them. One possibility is that Peter was the product of a genetic experiment that Walter raised as his own son, an experiment that NIna Sharp assisted in, thus explaining her presence during Peter's childhood. Another possibility is that Peter was an otherwise normal child who died in the car accident, and that Walter cloned him, accelerated his growth to equal the dead Peter, then transferred memories from dead Peter to live Peter clone, all with Nina Sharp's assistance. It is also possible that Nina Sharp is Peter's mother, at least in a lab experiment/supplier of genetic material fashion. We know that she has problems with technology - afraid of flying yet has a mechanical arm - that jives with Walter's reference to Peter's "mother" as constantly challenging the "extreme possibilities" of his fringe science experiments..."

"Its my personal belief that Walter is faking his "craziness". True geniuses are smart enough to look stupid. I think the mental institution was just a bigger lab for him. Coincidence that the only episode they go there was to speak with the man who gave them info on the mathematical version of the pattern? I think the "cells" are little autonomous projects that Walter set up and Massive Dynamic does all his leg work trying to gather all the pieces for him. William Bell is not some evil genius, hes just some business minded political type running the corporate side of Walters work. Hes like his #2. Oh, and Peter is obviously a test tube baby genetically engineered by Walter, or just a clone of Walter. "

"I think the memory problem is due to shared, isolation-tank memories, not cloning. Sort of like what Olivia is currently going through with the John Scott memory confusion.

I believe Peter is a clone of Walter's dead son, Peter, who actually died in the car accident in the freezing water when the Observer allegedly saved them. I think Walter left out some details when he told Peter the tale. Then, to help preserve some of bit of his dead son, Walter connected to the young childs mind and shared his memories. Of course, some of his memories would have crossed over too, hence the constant confusion. He would have also used the 6-hour window after death to initially give the clone baby dead Peter's memories immediately after the crash.

What do you think of that theory?"

"What type of bird flu did Walter say Peter had? It was rare and maybe can be traced to an documented outbreak timeline that says for sure Peter or Walter had it."

"Another possibility: Walter/William is a loose metaphor for Bill Gates (Student/Protege)/Paul Allen (Professor/Mentor), co-founders of Microsoft, another "sinister" multinational corporation out to control the world, that found its origins at Harvard where Gates and Allen met as student/professor... In this interpretation of Fringe, Bishop (Allen) is the true genius, developing all of the amazing, "impossible" things that we witness each week from his basement lab at Harvard, aided by Bell (Gates). Then, about 17 1/2 years ago, Bishop suddenly learns that Bell isn't just interested in the science but seeks to profit/do terrible things. Bishop begins to squirrel away his research, his notes and inventions, in old cars/garages (recall reference to more than one car), safe deposit boxes, etc., across the Northeast. In an attempt to enjoy maximum benefit without sharing, while avoiding ethical or other public scrutiny, Bell engineers (no pun intended) an incident that sees Bishop locked away, thereby freeing Bell to develop Massive Dynamics without rival or partner... As for Bishop's wife/Peter's mother, we already know it is "a long story for another day" (Peter's words to Olivia)... Look for her to appear in the company of Bell, as in Bell takes ideas, inventions, patents, and Bishop's wife, completing the coup that drives Bishop over the edge, rendering him incapable of defending himself, and taking from him any immediate reason "to go on.""