Joshua Jackson piled on the layers with his extra long scarf and sweater in snowy Toronto Monday for an appearance on late night talk show The Hour. As a Vancouver native, Josh is no stranger to the freezing temperatures up north, but it’s got to be a big change from sunny LA.
Joshua Jackson in Toronto
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Joshua Jackson
On Tuesday, Fox’s executives deemed Fringe to be “a keeper” at the TCA press tour. A bit later, Joshua Jackson stopped by Fox’s all-star party to chat about your favorite sci fi show’s return after American Idol on Jan. 20. He didn’t spill too many secrets, but he did hint at what’s coming up in the second half of the season. Here are highlights:
the highlights
On coming back for a new batch of episodes: “The idea around our set is that round two for us is really kind of like season two. The end of the 10th episode is really kind of a big cliffhanger: Olivia is left in jeopardy. So we come back just like you would at the beginning of season two, you resolve the cliffhanger, and all of the untied lines from those 10 episodes are tied up pretty quickly in the first few episodes back. And then we use that to launch us into the second set of stories. Also, we’re coming on after American Idol, which is a much larger audience, so it gives us an opportunity to kind of reintroduce the characters. Once the John Scott character is out of Olivia’s head, it opens her up to a wide variety of possibilities cause she’s literally been carrying this man with her since the beginning of the show.”
Peter Bishop
When Peter was a child, he was traveling with his father, Walter, to a family Thanksgiving dinner. Their car slipped off the road onto a frozen lake. The ice broke and the car began to sink. With their fate apparently certain, Walter and Peter were saved by the Observer. As a result, Walter owed a debt to the Observer;, which he repays in The Arrival, by hiding the beacon from John Mosely.
When he was a little boy he contracted a very rare disease similar to Hepia, a form of bird flu. Trying to find a cure, Walter discovered a Swiss physician named Dr. Alfred Gross, the only man to ever successfully cure a case of Hepia. Unfortunately, Dr. Gross had died in 1936 so Walter designed a device to reach back in time and bring Dr. Gross back. But the device was apparently not used as Walter said Peter got better on his own. This, of course, is probably not true. We see Walter standing over the grave of Peter, who apparently died at a young age. Walter mentioned that “back then” when he and Bell took LSD, Walter lost something very precious to him and went to an alternate reality to get it back. The Peter we know, may not be Walter’s son.
After Walter was institutionalized, Peter moved to Allston with his mother because she could not afford the mortgage of their house in Cambridge.
Nina Sharp told Peter that she knew him when he was a small boy, that she and his father, Walter, were once quite close and that she and Peter spent time together at the equestrian center where they are now sitting.
Peter seems to have many connections: Kyle, some sort of genius who worked for a phone company- tapped into Mitchell Loebs’ home phone. The man at the bookstore, who found them the ZFT manuscript. Mako, the owner of the biggest chop shop in Boston.