The Typewriter Message

[Erixxxon]

Whatever her orders are, it must be something big considering Walternate was willing to let both Walter and Peter go free for the sake of Alt-Olivias mission.

[Mr Smith]

I wanted to see if I could find a clue or something with the keystrokes on the typewriter... but all it said was this...

ORDERS ARE...

I guess we'll have to wait until September to find out what orders Alt-Olivia was given.

Excellent catch - I assume you watched the keystrokes in the background and in the mirror!!

I managed almost the same thing, but I could only get the keys approximately, and had to resort to looking for likely words in the possible keystroke sequences. But I ended up with the same result.

After that, though ... no video! So, I pulled the audio clip into an editor and looked over it. Everything after this is analysis and supposition - I don't know any of this for sure!

The typeball generates a strong audio spike when it hits the paper, while the space bar does not, confirmed by the matching letters while we can see the paper. However, as the typewriter was out of view and the scene was ending, background music was rising and obscuring the typewriter noise. Ah-ha! Since it IS noise, I hard-filtered the clip to between 13 kHz and 15 kHz, guessing that I would get just the typewriter noise spikes. It helped a lot. I was able to estimate how many characters there were in the "orders", and where the spaces appeared.

I ended up with ORDERS_ARE_??_????_?????_???_??????_??????

The best I could get to fill that was...

ORDERS ARE TO KILL PETER AND WALTER BISHOP

Any other ideas for possible orders with similar word counts and word lengths?

[Rekka]

Excellent catch - I assume you watched the keystrokes in the background and in the mirror!!

I managed almost the same thing, but I could only get the keys approximately, and had to resort to looking for likely words in the possible keystroke sequences. But I ended up with the same result.

After that, though ... no video! So, I pulled the audio clip into an editor and looked over it. Everything after this is analysis and supposition - I don't know any of this for sure!

The typeball generates a strong audio spike when it hits the paper, while the space bar does not, confirmed by the matching letters while we can see the paper. However, as the typewriter was out of view and the scene was ending, background music was rising and obscuring the typewriter noise. Ah-ha! Since it IS noise, I hard-filtered the clip to between 13 kHz and 15 kHz, guessing that I would get just the typewriter noise spikes. It helped a lot. I was able to estimate how many characters there were in the "orders", and where the spaces appeared.

I ended up with ORDERS_ARE_??_????_?????_???_??????_??????

The best I could get to fill that was...

ORDERS ARE TO KILL PETER AND WALTER BISHOP

Any other ideas for possible orders with similar word counts and word lengths?

Now that is an interesting theory. I never thought that you might be able to tell what keystrokes are pressed by the sound it makes. Very interesting. And fits with some of our speculation that she might be sent undercover to kill somebody. In this scenario, it seems that Walternate might be giving up destroying Our Universe and simply do away with the culprits... but why kill Peter, too? Because he defected to Our Universe again, and there for is a threat to their side?? Interesting speculations!

[kal00]

I don't think walternate wants to kill Peter.... after all he needs him to "save" his universe, although they didn't explain what the hell was that machine. Bad move from the writers. Let's hope in the new season they'll go into that.

[The_war_is_already_on]

Wow, that is good work there. You got the characters, and the sentence matches up perfectly, and is the most obvious fit...

This may be the obscure season three easter egg in the s2 finale that the writers talked about. Well done!

Its very similar in many ways to the "Peter" morse code easter egg, and the pilot reverse speech phone calls, as well as Walters voice mail, or whatever its called. Similar indeed, too similar to be dismissed.

Totally plausible too, plot wise.

I think its more obscure by far than the anagram..

Is this the _true_ s3 hint?

You should put this in the fringe wiki, as a theory.

[kal00]

Its very similar in many ways to the "Peter" morse code easter egg, and the pilot reverse speech phone calls, as well as Walters voice mail, or whatever its called. Similar indeed, too similar to be dismissed.

OMG where can I find all that? I'm new to this community. Those things seem really interesting.

[The_war_is_already_on]

Um, its usually one individual that first solves these things. Some times you have to search it, for their page. Sometimes its on the fringe wikipedia page. Its always mentioned here too, with a bunch of even more obscure links and easter eggs, just search it, or browse the episodes for easter eggs and such

For peters phone call, just search - fringe peter phone call morse code - its also under the peter episode here.

The speech in the john scott phone calls I think is in the wiki. Thats a slow and reverse speech deal. Its probably in the early s1 episodes here too.

Walters phone messages, or whatever its called, im not so sure. I think It might be like the morse code just on the discoverers website, or post. So use search, but I cant remember what they are called exactly. I dont think these are from episodes.

Again, all very similar to this well spotted possible easter egg. This one however, could be a very frank plot clue for s3, if its true, which is rarer. But would they put in two frank plot clues, this and weiss?

They must be playing to us mega mystery geeks if thats true

I mean, this is obscure, its harder than morse or reverse speech. The person that came up with had to think about the key sounds, lol

Also, for more easter eggs, search the comics (only semi-canon, so dont fixate on it), walters notes (cannon from s1, very fun for puzzle solvers mythlogy intense!), and look at the theories and clues on the forum (blue flashes, GGGR, RBY, mirrors etc)....

And then after youve done all that, you can watch all the episodes from season 1-end of 2, a couple more times

And, hey - Welcome to the forums!

Okay, sorry, im using that for my signature, lol!!!!!

"ORDERS ARE TO KILL PETER AND WALTER BISHOP". Yeah.

[jade86]

Why to kill Peter if Walternate needs him to activate the machine? It doesn't make sense. O.o

[The_war_is_already_on]

Peter has decided against it. If the machine requires consent, he may have changed his strategy.....(and I think walternate has ears everywhere he can)...and one must consider he may be equally a weapon for our side, as even walter could be...

[jade86]

Walternate has spent his life to build that giant machine. I don't think now he will leave it in the dust XD