What really happened in Walter Bishop's Lab in Fringe?
Can anyone tell what really happened in Walter Bishop's lab in Fringe that lead to the hospitalization of Walter in a mental institution?
Note: I have watched whole series.
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I believe we never found out much more than that there was a freak fire in his lab that killed a lab assistant (Carla Warren). Walter was initially arrested and charged with manslaughter, but was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial, so he was institutionalized at St. Claire's Hospital in 1991.
However, in the fifth season episode "Black Blotter" (in the new timeline), when Walter takes a dose of LSD to try and remember details about their plan, he hallucinates Carla Warren and this vision of Carla claims that she died in a lab fire in trying to destroy his notebook containing many of his ideas, including the original design for the device to cross between universes.
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What happens to Walter Bishop in Fringe?
Walter was erased from the timeline in 2015. His very existence would be considered a paradox, as two versions of himself would be existing at once- one in the present day and the other, a version that had experienced 2036 and taken Michael to 2167.Does Walter get his brain back Fringe?
The Fringe team of Olivia (Anna Torv), Peter (Joshua Jackson), and Walter (John Noble) arrive at the institution and learn that Slater's paranoid schizophrenia was apparently cured by the operation, and that his brain is still structurally intact.Why did Bell remove Walters?
William Bell altered Walter's brain to remove knowledge of how he'd created the dimensional bridge, resulting in Walter's mental illness.Walter Bishop 1985 U S Army Research Headquarters speech
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