App for tushanshu

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Player Information:
Name: The Wonderful Wizard of Jen
Age: 24
Contact: Wuzzafuzzle on AIM
Game Cast: Iorveth (The Witcher), Roy Harper (DCnU)

Character Information:
Name: Captain Lincoln Tyrone Lee (Alt/Redverse)
Canon: Fringe (TV)
Canon Point: Season 4, mid episode 17 (Just before walking Canaan out of the warehouse)
Age: 30 is what we're going with, as that's about the age the actor was at the time the canon point was filmed.
Reference: Wikipedia & Fringepedia

THIS APP WILL HAVE SERIOUS SPOILERS FOR FRINGE THROUGH SEASON 4

Setting:

Fringe is confusing as fuck, let's just get that out of the way. I have seen the show and I still have issues keeping dimensions and timelines straight when talking about it with other fans, so I'll try to keep this as simple as I can.

For reference, this is a legend kind of thing:
Original Universe/OU = Blueverse << UNIVERSE LIKE OURS
Alternate Universe/AU = Redverse << PARALLEL UNIVERSE WHERE EVERYTHING SUCKS AND THERE ARE NO SHEEP
OUOlivia, OULincoln, OUWalter = Characters from Blueverse/OU
Altlivia, AltLincoln, Walternate = Characters from Redverse/AU

Let's start with the basic layout within the show as far as universes/timelines go. This is a good diagram to look at for the overall layout of the show, but I'm going to try to just focus mostly on the universes and timelines relevant to Lincoln to keep out things that don't matter to his character. He's never actually been over to the other side, so that'll only be the two split timelines for Redverse that aren't terribly different. So let's start out with the basics - the original universe that Fringe begins in which is OUR universe, everything that is the world we live in regularly, the only thing different really being that there is a secret division of the FBI that deals in Fringe events (supernatural seeming events that occur because of strange, outlying causes commonly researched in Fringe science (nothing actually supernatural about them)), which you wouldn't be aware of anyway even if it existed in our world. 'Fringe science' refers to things that are largely theory and largely regarded as impossible like teleportation, telepathy, multiple dimensions, telekinesis - all of these sort of phenomenon events that are more regarded as stories than concrete things. Fringe science studied these theories and makes them realities. Or, in the case of the show, sees them happening already and figures out HOW they did with science. So that's how the 'Fringe' part fits in. So back to the dimensions.

What is made apparent is that there is actually a neighboring parallel universe connected to ours much like our own with slight differences and that is where AltLincoln Lee exists - his life much the same as the OU (Blueverse, deemed that because Blueverse episodes are denoted by the opening credits being in blue tones) Lincoln Lee, only slightly altered, possessing a much different personality. For instance, within the Redverse (Alternate Universe), the Twin Towers never fell on September 11th, it was the Pentagon and the White House. However, when OUWalter Bishop breached the Alternate Universe to make a portal through to take AltPeter Bishop away and give him the cure that would save his life, he unknowing set in motion a devastating chain reaction that would cause the slow deterioration of the forces that keep the Alternate Universe's reality stable and protected. From then on (1985), Fringe events began popping up all over the Alternate Universe - tears in reality that could possibly expand far enough that they create vortexes, miniature black holes that will only expand and expand and eat up more of their world. Walternate (the name for the Alternate world Walter Bishop) became Secretary of Defense and developed a gaseous product called Amber that would be placed in risk areas for massive damage to their reality, emit a gas from them that quickly solidified, effectively freezing and capturing all things within it's range - the instability of the universe's barriers and all things and people within it indefinitely. It would stop the damage in the area from spreading, but at the cost of all life that was in the area at the moment. There are thousands frozen within Amber across the globe in the Redverse - the Alternate Universe.

By the time we see the Alternate Universe, these incidents have already taken a massive toll - Ambered areas spread all over major cities, damage to the Earth's atmosphere itself so much that assisted oxygen is required in some areas, and rainbows can no longer be seen after rains due to the shifted conditions of the atmosphere. The Fringe Division, a sector within the Department of Defense, is created then to deal with these incidents and is a very public force, recognized and largely very appreciated by most of the population for keeping them safe from the degradation of the fabric of the universe. However, the people of the Redverse do not realize that there is another universe on the other side of those tears, only assuming they lead to nothing. Only Walternate and those of an appropriate clearance level do (which AltLincoln, Altlivia and AltCharlie are let in on when the Redverse comes into play in Season 3, seeing as OUOlivia and a team of other Cortexiphan trail people cross over to retrieve Peter). It's a darker kind of world, but it's also a more advanced world, either by means of necessity or simply changes in the timeline and choices that are made that allow for those advances, though they are less so advanced in some other fields than OU. Technology is the most obvious field that they've made more headway in, given that thin tablets are very common - even things like transparencies with touch screen style capabilities are given out as mission statements, and there are various and sundry kinds of handheld scanners to analyze a scene or run a person's face through the national database or scan an item and send it to the Colonel's desk (literally, there is a touch screen computer embedded in it). The Empire State Building is also used as a dock for zeppelins (the purpose it was originally designed for), which are prominently seen in the sky about NYC - a solid indicator that you have arrived in the Redverse.

But there are also things that aren't seen much anymore or have phased completely out, or are extinct/made very rare. For instance, ballpoint pens aren't utilized as much given technological advances, but coffee is something incredibly rare, and common sheep are completely extinct. The political climate is much the same - the structure in America being the same as far as a President and subsequent offices and branches below, and Obama is actually in office at the time the show takes place in. However, the Secretary of Defense is a vital roll given the need of Fringe Division and Walternate's inventions to fight the decline of their universe. Money is different: though the layout of the bills are the same, there are different faces on each - Instead of Jackson on a $20 bill, Martin Luther King, Jr. is, and Lincoln, Liv and Charlie didn't even recognize who Jackson was (or the name). Drivers Licenses aren't used - instead everyone possesses a 'Show Me' card for identification that is used for a great sundry of things from paying for a cab to getting access to a building. There are some buildings that exist in Redverse's NYC that don't in Blueverse's, for example, Massive Dynamic does not exist in Redverse because William Bell died in a car accident before he met Walternate in that universe.

The way Lincoln fits into this universe is that he's been within Fringe Division for a good number of years (been Olivia's partner for 6 years, but not stated how long they've been in Fringe Division) and has done well enough and had experience enough that he's risen to the position of Captain. When they're on a crime scene, Lincoln is the one that calls the shots and makes the plans and gives out orders. As OULincoln points out, his world wouldn't really run without him in it. He is a key operative in many of the national and global threats that are handled by Fringe Division.

Alright, so this is where the timelines get confusing - at the end of season 2, when Walternate has hold of The Machine and is attempting to destroy Blueverse with it for the damage they wrought on Redverse, believing them to be insidious people bent on destroy them, he starts The Machine and instigates the process of breaking apart the Blueverse. In order to stop this, Peter Bishop gets into the version of The Machine that's in Blueverse and activates it to destroy the Redverse instead. We experience an episode that skips up to the year 2036 to show how that choice had effected the remaining Blueverse afterwords - the result being that Blueverse is experiencing the same rapid decay that the Redverse had before, them not having realized at the time that neither universe could exist stably without the other, that they are inherently connected. To revert this, after a lot of horror, the OUWalter of 2036 builds The Machine and sends both The Machine and Peter back in time via a worm hole in Central Park. It sends him back to the moment he is in The Machine making the decision, and he instead chooses to create a bridge between the two universes (a room that exists in BOTH universes) so that the two universes together can work on healing both of their worlds. This creates a new timeline completely within the original Blue and Red verses - one in which Peter is completely erased from history, however this IS the world that existed before, only with Peter deleted from it - making it so that Peter had died when he was young in Reiden Lake, instead of being saved by September.

Thus, the Olivia there has no memory of Peter, nor does the rest of the Blueverse Fringe team, and Peter never crossed into the Redverse and met with the other Fringe Division and Walternate (who also believes him to have died in Reiden Lake). This honestly has little to do with Lincoln and doesn't really alter the relationship between he and his team members. However, the actor who played Charlie doesn't seem to have been signed on to play in Season 4 in which this timeline exists, but I don't think he would have been deleted from the team, being as Peter not being around would have very little effect on that and that was literally the only thing changed - Peter being gone. So I like to think he was just on vacation or something for the few episodes Redverse was visited in :T. (JUST KIDDING. I was actually just rewatching an episode in s4 and there is ONE LINE about Charlie not being there and it's "Charlie's sipping mai tais on a beach with Bug Lady. I'm sorry, Mrs. Bug Lady." SO APPRANTELY HE WAS ON HIS HONEYMOON. L-LOL. )Also, due to the bridge's existence that Peter made before he was erased, the Redverse has started to heal and mend itself. They've been able to reopen some quarantined Ambered areas and everything seems very hopeful there.

BUT YEAH. SO I THINK THAT'S IT? IDK ITS CONFUSING.

Personality:

While there are some to many similarities between a lot of the OU and AU versions of characters within Fringe, and many of the differences are due to having gone through differing circumstances and situations in their lives, the two Lincolns are the exception to that. Their histories were fairly directly parallel up to college (the difference after being that OULincoln went into the FBI and AltLincoln headed towards Fringe (though still FBI)), but their personalities are starkly different. The way AltLincoln theorizes on it is that it was due to ‘free will’. He just made different choices. “Maybe I just made a choice to become the man I wanted to be.” So it’s an interesting kind of thing in the way personalities develop in people even with identical conditions - we are not just products of our environment. So on that note, let’s go into AltLincoln.

Something immediately noticeable and often commented on is that Lincoln has an easy kind of confidence and self-assuredness about him. He’s able to be comfortable with what he is, where he is, and the choices that led him there - not overly anxious or awkward. Cocky is something he does when joking, which is what leads BlueLincoln to call it ‘self-aggrandizing narcissism’, but while OULincoln is afraid that he isn’t needed or fitting in, that is what AltLincoln has just decided to be assured of. Which is the major difference between them. Not that confidence is something you can just DECIDE to have, but throughout Lincoln’s life it seems he must have just, at a point, decided that he wouldn’t spend time worrying over it. Connection, being needed and being loved are still things that are vital for AltLincoln to have and feel, like it is with OULincoln, but AltLincoln, if he thinks he has a shortage on one, will actually go forward and attach himself to someone or something and acquire that for himself. He pursues it aggressively - going out and being friendly with people, jumping into conversations and situations and just taking control of them. Like he says about Fringe Division, the place wouldn’t run without him and that is something he absolutely loves. And it’s also something that he’s ensured by attaching himself to the people there and by making himself a vital organ of the operation by diving into his work and getting himself immersed in it.

Socialization is a thing that comes easily to Lincoln, a thing that he enjoys and delves in naturally, and actually tends to ramble a little with friends - generally a kind of happy and grinning and most definitely joking, if not giving a friendly kind of shittalking banter that’s the constant between Liv, Charlie and Lincoln in Redverse. He’s often cheeky, maybe a good deal more often than he should be, like talking about getting back to the hyperbaric chamber later than the strict timeline he has knowing that it would mean a severe regression of full body burns that could kill him. He’ll also often claim to be perfect and much cooler than he obviously is - not something he actually believes, but just his favorite thing to claim, basically. It isn’t a genuine kind of arrogance, just an ‘lol Lincoln, w/e u say bro’ kind of arrogance.

There’s a certain kind of bravado around Lincoln that that put-on narcissism lends to that the actor, Seth Gabel, recognizes in interviews as well. It’s sort of a running theme with the trio of Liv, Charlie and Lincoln anyway: this kind of bravery and self-assuredness that they carry into missions, joking on the radios with each other or making small talk while standing over a canister 40 seconds from filling the room with Amber and freezing them in it indefinitely. They are, of course, very healthily afraid of these things, but it’s almost like a group coping mechanism to act nonchalant about it together. Also, it makes them feel more like badasses, probably. Which they are pretty good at already, jussayin. Lincoln does the typical kind of Cop Talk fairly often when on the job - at the scene or in the office - being direct and short, but an edge of mild sarcasm, wryness or even nonchalance and underwhelmedness slips in regardless. He'll tend to save being giddy and silly until he's just chatting with Liv and Charlie, or not in the middle of going through a crime scene.

The three of them act as absolute support of each other and in dealing with what’s going on around them and involving them, which is what makes it so intensely tragic when Lincoln dies within the show - because a pillar of foundational support that AltOlivia stands on is ripped out from under her. They are family - that is without question. There are often ‘Sorry Mother’ and 'Yes Mom' comments shot at each other, and running inside jokes like the jabs about Charlies ‘bugs’, Lincoln’s middle name, and the not very often commented on crush Lincoln has on Liv (but brought up by Charlie probably more often than Lincoln would like him to). Shittalking is like their favorite bonding activity, so much to a point where it makes other people nervous around them because wow you just called a recovering burn victim ugly, and you’re making fun of the arachnids that will eat their way out of that man if they get too big, that’s super not okay. They’ll also gloat when one of them is right or beats the other at something. That kind of friendship.

There is a lot of passion apparent within Lincoln and it’s often you’ll see him switch from cheeky and laughing at one instant to straight faced and intensely serious the next. He cares immensely about his job, about the lives he’s protecting and the importance of the work he’s doing to the point of going far beyond what is self-preservation to insure that the case is solved or the victims are saved. He doesn’t like being unproductive and he doesn’t like it when his work isn’t done. He’s been shown to get so caught up in wanting to solve a case that he has to be bodily put into the hyperbaric chamber that will stop him from being completely covered in burns and probably dead. As the actor has said about the character, it’s not anything about seeking glory or moving up the ladder in promotions - it’s about wanting to get out there and do his job and do it the best that he can, save the most people that he can. Maybe there’s something in there about him feeling like he’s important to the world that he’s in and the people that he’s around that ties back into that need both Lincolns feel, but it is something that is vital about AltLincoln - needing to do the most good that he can for the most people. It’s a life mission. He’d feel incomplete without it. He also has a deep care for his friends and loved ones that is painfully apparent - something he doesn’t bother to hide at all like OULincoln would.

Even with the machismo that the three of them put on so much, Lincoln is fairly emotional, compared, and fairly comfortable with expressing those emotions, at least around his friends. It’s clear to anyone when he’s struggling with something, or when he has a tinge of sadness over Liv or when Broyles is missing, or when he remembers that the desk he’s sitting at belonged to a dear friend of his. It’s apparent when he worries that he isn’t doing Broyles proud in the position he left, and he openly expresses that worry to Charlie and Olivia. And also openly accepts their reassurances. He will also tell other people that he doesn’t handle the job - the things they see and deal with - as well as Liv does. “She’s the tough one. All our years working together, I’ve never once seen her barf or shed a tear.” Implying he has. He’s also very obviously jealous at times and obviously nervous at times, he’s not very good at hiding it. Legitimately BAD AT HIDING THINGS. It is canon that he is TERRIBLE at keeping secrets. He’s too excitable for it and he can hold out for like two sentences into small talk before he just HAS TO BLURT IT OUT. He’s not like Blue in that he doesn’t talk about his feels much - If there’s something wrong with Red, most of the time, he will Talk About It, or if he’s feeling for someone and has some advice or comfort of squishy things to say, he’ll go ahead and say it. Some things, however, are a little too personal. Like feels for Liv. Mainly because those are things that would make his friendship with one of the most important people to him complicated and he would be terrified of putting anything in between them. And he also knows that that will not be a thing. Not with Frank, and Liv is happy with Frank, and Lincoln is just happy when she is happy. He doesn’t want to upset that.

SO. ON THE SUBJECT OF LIV. He loves her. That is a... grossly obvious thing. But more than just wanting to be with her, she is his best friend. Charlie mentions that he has a Vulcan Mind Meld with Liv and they’re very regularly in sync and on the same page, finishing sentences and all that business. Even if he had no romantic feelings for her at all, they’ve been partners for six years and shared a lot of life around each other. Though, the romantic feelings are there and it’s canon that he tried to kiss her once before he knew she had a boyfriend, and when she returns pregnant from the other side, it’s pretty obvious that he’s butthurt that she cheated on Frank with someone that wasn’t him. Despite how much he’s like YOU KNOW THIS ISN’T MY BUSINESS AND I’M NOT GOING TO COMMENT, FUCK YOU CHARLIE. Again. Lincoln sucks at hiding things. It’s completely possible that Lincoln might have told Olivia about Frank asking her to marry him because of jealousy and being freaked out that she’ll be forever off limits and he’ll never have a chance with her. So he needed to tell her so he could figure out how it would go down. And at the warehouse after the question is popped Lincoln makes a point to make sure to ask if she’s happy with saying yes. Then settles for just knowing she’s happy. He will forever want to be there for her and take care of her and be whatever support she needs without complaint or trying to shove himself in, because he loves her, and her being happy is much more important to him than whatever jealousy he might have. He knows that.

Lincoln is very decisive in things - in opinions and actions. While OULincoln is trying so hard to logic out what made the two of them so different, AltLincoln seemed really only mildly concerned with it before giving a very simple answer: "Maybe it’s just free will. I don't buy that we're all just defined by our circumstances. Maybe I just made a choice to become the man I wanted to be." Choices being very definitive seem like they’re a big deal to him. He doesn't really waver much. Once he gets a strong enough feeling about something, he's certain of it - like trusting that Olivia is HIS Olivia when Charlie is thinking about her possibly being the one from the other side, like doing what's right and straying from given orders from a higher officer to do something that he feels Is Right instead. Not to say he's completely set in his ways, after all, he's a detective - his theories on a situation have to always be changing - but as for how he relates to people and how he guides his life - once he settles on what he feels about something, he's confident in feeling that and he follows through with whatever action that comes with that stance without indecision.

On the subject of AltLincoln and OULincoln’s relating to each other. At first Lincoln regarded his other self with serious suspicion and was generally very critical, looked down on him, snarked at him a lot, acted much more aloof than he usually does. But after the period spent working with him and seeing that OULincoln is pretty damn intelligent and a really clever agent, he's garnered more respect for him. It's still weeeird (and he's standoffish for a while until they have the comparing lives conversation) when OULincoln shows back up in their universe later, but after some conversations, noting that OULincoln is having issues with how he handles himself, how he feels about himself, with his life in general, he becomes much more sort of... almost big brotherly. He talks with him about it, encourages him, compliments him, tells him that he's done well. And he’s generally more open with him and seems sort of concerned. I think this kind of attitude will continue in Tu Shanshu because there’s a lot they haven’t really discussed and he knows that his other self - OU - is in a strange place at that period. After all, he easily recognized that OULincoln doesn’t want to go home. At some point in his life earlier, AltLincoln must have been at that point emotionally, and he’s likely sympathizing.

IN TUSHANSHU, he will first think this is some ridiculous stunt, and as he gets that it’s for real, while Lincoln’s well aware of alternate universes and all that business, he’s only ever known the ONE that exists on the other side of their universe, connected, so the thought of some other one? Not to mention, a realm between life and death? It won’t be something he believes much. He’ll regard it as a different universe but not as some mystical purgatory. That’s too fantasy sounding to him. The aliens (and that’s what he’ll call them) will also be a new and weird thing for him and he’ll probably be a good bit wary of them. But overall, Lincoln is a Fringe detective and figuring out this weird crap is his job, and he is massively serious about his job, so he’ll be getting straight into that - digging around for answers and seeking out questioning people and probably being kind of aggressive in doing that. He doesn’t like having loose ends and not knowing what’s going on or what’s going to happen.

Appearance: Bam.

Abilities:

ރ Captain Lee :: In the original timeline, Lincoln is actually promoted to Colonel after Redverse's Colonel Broyles dies, which is the only time Lincoln seems to be really nervous about his command, but otherwise, he's a pretty natural leader and will general step easily into control of whatever Fringe situation he enters into. Within the new timeline, Lincoln is once again Captain and still high ranked within Fringe Divison and as stated in episode 17 in season 4, the place wouldn't run without him there. An ironic thing considering what occurs at the end of the episode. Spoilers, he dies. It's super fucking sad and I hate it.

ރ Six Year Vet :: He's had a lot of experience in fringe events and combat situations, as well as detective work, given that that has been his job for the past 6 years alongside Olivia.

ރ Degree in Sciencey Shit :: It's stated that he has a degree and implied that it's in a field of science considering he knows a lot about chemicals and physics and sciencey shit in general, also usually the one to go through the science and risk reports at a scene, and brings the field kit.

ރ Cargo Gun :: He's a trained marksmen and handles his gun pretty well. He's not as amazing a shot as Altlivia is, but he's pretty decent. He carries his gun on a thigh holster on his cargo pants :| Because he's a sexy lady cop.

ރ Token Tech Guy :: It's assumed that Lincoln has some level of technological knowledge, given that he's the one always shown hacking things and dealing with the computers and whatnot.

Inventory:

▻ Uniform in Appearance picture
▻ Pistol, I have no idea what kind it is and its probably not anything recognizable from OU, considering how far advanced Redverse is
▻ A couple extra magazines for said pistol
▻ Thigh holster
▻ Earcuff cellphone thing (I'm pretty sure this can also work as a radio between a team of agents, given that Lincoln's team usually talks on a private channel while out on missions, and I have no idea how it chargers, it is a tiny little thing)
▻ Wallet with Show Me card, Fringe Division badge, some credit cards, about $57 in cash, a few discount cards, and a few wallet pictures of him and Liv and Charlie (The military picture at least, and probably one of the whole team together)
▻ Some kind of decently sized pocket knife
▻ A couple Fringe Division business cards (to hand out to witnesses if they come up with more information, etc)
▻ Access card to get into secure areas in HQ building
▻ Scanner pad thing to read all the science levels and things in an area
▻ Oxygen inhaler thing
▻ LED flashlight

Suite: Something in the Metal Sector (preferably next door to OULincoln) would be awesome, with two stories so one level can be office stuff and possibly armory if he can get his hands on more weapons, and also to make a wall map of all Tu Vishan info etc detective. Metal Sector because he comes from not only a modern kind of time but one with technology advanced in several fields from the world we know - thus he'll even be a little disappointed in what's available.

In-Character Samples:
Third Person:

Lincoln’s hand is still held up to the side, where it had been on Canaan’s shoulder blade guiding him out the back of the warehouse before the door opened and he had to squint against the bright light outdoors, in contrast to the dimness that had been in to hold building. But what he’s met with when his eyes reopen is nothing like the Brooklyn he was in just a fraction of a second ago. That’s grass beneath his feet, some bonsai looking tree to his left and the architecture he can see beyond the odd courtyard he’s in is Oriental.

“What the hell...” Glancing back to his hand still hanging in the air, he squints at his empty palm, as if not believe Canaan had simply vanished. The impulse to grind his teeth together, jaw tightening, doesn’t go restrained, and a second later, that hand is snapping to the pistol at his side, bringing it up and at the ready. Something is wrong - and considering they were dealing with some rejected project from Jones? That should be a surprise. Pull it together, Lee. Fingers lift to touch the comm unit on his ear like a cuff, trying to pick up the channel he had just been on before showing up here - the chatter dying out.

“Dunham, Lincoln - what’s your 20?” Tone all business and no nonsense. As much as he’ll poke fun on the job at another time, shittalk or joke around with Liv and Charlie and even the Lincoln from the Other Side in the past few hours, he’s Captain Lee for a reason. And completing the mission, solving the case, is the most important thing to him. But he’s not getting any feedback on the channel and something like icy fingers dragging up his spine sets him on edge. That isn’t right. What if he’d been shoved into somewhere completely different? On the other side of the world? What if it’s not even his world. It’s not a thought he wants to entertain, and frankly, it scares him - to be stuck in some other universe with no idea how to make his way out, back to the life he knows and the people he cares so deeply for. But it’s possible, that Jones had just kicked him straight out of the plane. After all, Fringe Division wouldn’t know what to do with themselves if he weren’t there to direct them. He can only hope that he wasn’t the only one given the boot. He’ll try again.

“Liv?” It’s a little more edgy. “Come in.”

A moment and Lincoln is rigidly still, doubt sinking in. He might be here completely alone, completely out of his element. Locked away forever. He might never see her again. That thought sends something spiking adrenaline in him. He calls out, turning around to search the area for her, for any other building she might be in, voice loud enough he could be heard a long while off.

“Liv!” The edge has intensified and it seems like his voice is bordering on panic. “Olivia!”

What if she’s gone? What if he sent her somewhere else, alone? Lost and scared? Not that Olivia is ever really scared. Like he’d told the other Lincoln - she’s the strongest of all of them. And he’ll need to keep his shit together if he wants to get back to her, wherever she is.

Network:

[ At first, there's just a hand waving side to side in front of the camera, the face that shows as it passes focused on the screen of the console below, like watching that the feed is running. For the moment, he's talking aloud to an assumed someone else in the room while he types at the console, eyes something critical and curious on the screen. ] Since when did the Chinese Culture Fest get such good funding? And move into Brooklyn...

This console is like the tech level my grandma used. [ He glances to the side, calling out to someone off-screen. ] Is this seriously what you guys work with on the other side, Lincoln? Really not getting how you all got one up on us.

[ Okay, clearing his throat and looking back, because he needs to do his job now, and he holds up a badge that looks like a weird version of an FBI badge to the camera. ] This is Captain Lincoln Lee of Fringe Division. [ So it may totally seem like he was just talking to himself a second ago when he asked ‘Lincoln’ a question. Spoilers: it’s actually kind of true :| ]

I got the new universe spiel already, and while I have enough experience with that to handle it, you cannot pay me enough to buy into this being some mystical plane between life and death. [ This is Lincoln's ‘turtle pls’ face. ] Not that I’m saying I’m outside of believing in Something Greater, but that's pushing it.

So's the giant turtle thing.

[ Anyway, back to business. ]

Not sure how much this world is acquainted with breaching alternate universes, but if this universe has a Fringe Division, I need to speak with your Colonel ASAP. If not that, your Department of Defense. [ here’s hoping they’ve got Broyles here and not some other douchebag to get acquainted with. Not that Broyles is terrible easy to deal with, but at least it’d be more of a comfort. Lincoln pulls up what looks like a super-future iPad and begins looking over it - the screen not visible from the console’s camera angle, and his voice is distracted. ] I don’t know how we got crossed over but I do not have the time to be out of my world right now.

Also, I’m looking for another agent - Olivia Dunham. Caucasian, 5’8”, long red-brown hair with bangs. Weirdly magnetic smartass with a bad habit of doing exactly what you tell her not to. [ The last bit a little fondly, and which hurts a little more than he wants to let on. He hasn’t seen her and she hasn’t checked in and that is extremely out of the norm and he is not the least bit comfortable with it. ]

I’d appreciate a call if she turns up anywhere. [ Short sigh, and a wry tone ] Tell her her parents are waiting to collect her at the front desk.