In a new interview, Jasika Nicole goes into great depth about her characters’ feeling about their meeting in tonight’s episode of Fringe, ‘Making Angels’. She also looks ahead to the resolution of Peter’s timeline storyline, so beware of mild spoilers.

In the TV Guide interview, Jasika discusses the feelings of her characters meeting each other, and the complications of Altstrid having Asberger’s while Astrid does not:

I wonder if the alternate-Astrid assumed that the Astrid over here was “more normal,” you know, didn’t have Asperger’s the way that she does. Some part of me thinks that she probably assumed the other Astrid was different from her, but I don’t think that this Astrid had any idea that alternate-Astrid was as different from her as she is, so it’s really shocking for her to see her that way. They also have different relationships with the people in their lives, and that’s another reason that they end up being brought together.

She also teases the circumstances of their meeting:

The alternate-Astrid comes to this universe because something really traumatic had happened to her in her home universe, and she has no idea where to go from there. Interestingly enough, I think that alternate Astrid and Walter are also very similar because they’re really uninterested in what other people think about them. They’re super-focused people, they’re really smart, and they’re completely in their own world.

Finally, Jasika seems to make a huge reveal: that at this point in shooting, they’ve resolved the big mystery of Peter being stuck in the wrong timeline and trying to return to his own! She doesn’t give away any details, but her hints are very interesting:

We actually are in a point in our season right now that deals with this very specifically, and I think that the resolution is going to surprise a lot of the fans because it definitely surprised me. There is this kind of push and pull with the two time lines, with which one is better, which one has characters that the audience members relate to more. We ended up solving this problem in a really creative, interesting way, and I can’t wait to find out how everybody reacts to it. I don’t want to say that everything merges together, but there’s going to be a balance between the time lines that I think will probably be pretty satisfying for people.

What do you think this means? She said the problem was solved in a “creative” way and insinuates a level of a merge (or balance) – do you think the characters we’ve got right now will remember Peter, but otherwise stay as they are?