I'm doing a Fringe rewatch. In the episode where Altliv crosses over to the prime universe how did she open the portal when she wasn't a Cortexiphan recipient? I thought Olivia was necessary to open the portal then Walter's device and William Bell's sacrifice would hold the door open? It seems like all that was needed was the device and Bell's sacrifice, because Altliv shouldn't be able to jump like Olivia since she wasn't dosed with Cortexiphan. What did I miss?
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Sorry if I'm late to the party, but I just thought I'd weigh in.
IMO, it's a side effect of their ability to move through time. They had several time based abilities: precognition, time travel, parallel timeline travel, and their ability to manipulate their personal time frame. What do I mean by that last one? They're essentially much weaker versions of a guy named Zoom in DC comics. He wore a similar costume as the Reverse Flash, but was a different person with different powers that resembled superspeed:
They've probably changed things now, but originally Hunter Zolomon gained the ability to control his own personal timeline. His place in time was detached from everyone else's. He sped up his timeline to move at superspeed or slowed down his own timeline to move slower. This made him faster than the Flash.
In Fringe they don't really go into detail how they catch bullets, but there are clues. In S4 E22 Brave New World: Part 2 where Olivia kills the woman that shot September the woman calls their ability to catch bullets "hyper-attenuated time."
JESSICA HOLT: (smug) "I hate kids. Now let's see how concerned you are about him." (fires pistol three times at The Observer. all three projectiles are easily caught, then discarded. to Olivia) "They can operate at hyper-attenuated time. To us, it almost looks like magic. It's not, though. It's just tech that essentially lets them move very, very fast." (unholsters new pistol and aims it) "Now this gun is an invention of Doctor Bell's. Shoots faster." (fires weapon and strikes The Observer, with the round passing through his palm and left shoulder. blood erupts from the injury)
In the 4th season episode 15 Walter discovers that something happened when September disappeared off the operating table where they were trying to save him. He uses a device that slows down events occurring on video until you can see events that occur so fast you supposedly can see individual particles of light. They witness September being kidnapped by Observers. They also witness September moving so fast the other Observers fail to notice him putting something in Peter's eye even as they're kidnapping September.
I submit he's not using actual speed to do this. He's messing with his personal timeline. He's like a master of Relativity and the opposite of the Twins in Einstein's Twin Paradox. Time in his own personal frame of reference is accelerated, while it marches at a different rate for everyone else's frame, who either doesn't have or is less adept at using this ability. To any outside observer in a slower reference frame, he would look as if he were moving rapidly, even though he's just moving at normal speed in his own reference frame. His reference frame is accelerated relative to all outside observers in slower frames.
(Edited by CyberianGinseng)