History Heartwarming / Fringe

* Olivia's genuine connection with the boy in "Inner Child."

** That scene between Walter and Peter at the end of "Grey Matters." (S02 E10)
** Peter calling Walter "Dad." Made extremely poignant by the following episodes.
** When Peter sang Row Your Boat to Walter at the end of "The Same Old story" especially since he had been short and dismissive of him for the last two episodes. D'aaaaw!

* The ending. Walter gives up the chance of seeing his family ever again so that Etta would live and that the world would be safe. The series finishes with Peter picking up Etta at the park, taking her home for a bath and then getting a white tulip in the mail from Walter.
* Olivia and her friendship with the Inner Child is heartwarming and cute.
* Olivia and Peter's friendship in the first series.

* Fauxlivia and Lincoln are happily married. And they managed to have a son despite Fauxlivia's VPE.

* Walter [[spoiler: threatening Olivia's abusive douche of a stepfather.]] Considering he spent the better half of the episode performing questionable (read: [[WhatTheHellHero illegal and somewhat cruel]]) experiments on her, it was nice to see that he cared. It was also nice to see the dick in question looking [[KickTheSonOfABitch terrified.]]
* The end of 6B.
--->Peter: [[ItMakesSenseInContext Am I glowing?]]
--->Olivia: [[WhenSheSmiles No.]]

** Lincoln's [[spoiler: "I love you," the look of devastation when he thinks Fauxlivia is gone and the ManlyTears he sheds when she wakes up.]]

** The look of pure adoration on Fauxlivia's face [[spoiler: when she holds her baby.]] [[DieForOurShip You may hate her]] (in fact, I still don't like her) but I'll be damned if that woman didn't drag herself out of the very depths of [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap scrappy heap]] after [[spoiler: making Lincoln promise to save baby Bishop even if it meant her own life.]]

** And in ''The End Of All Things'' he does it again [[spoiler: to save amber!Olivia. Only this time, he enters the mind of a dying September.]]

---> '''Broyles''': At the risking of sounding sentimental, I've always thought that there were people who leave an indelible mark on your soul. An imprint that can never be erased.

-->'''Astrid''': Walter will figure something out. We're going to be fine.

* Peter finding out in "Back to Where You've Never Been" that [[spoiler:this timeline's Walternate is not who he knows from his own timeline, and is doing just as much to try to stop what's happening as "our" Walter.]]
** And at the end of the next episode, after our Walter comes to Peter to say he'll help Peter cross back over to his original timeline, Peter says: [[spoiler: "I just spent the last several days with the other Walter, and I was very surprised to learn that he is not the man that I thought he was. But I am not at all surprised to learn that you ''are''."]]

--> '''Alt-Astrid:''' [[NotSoStoic I never thought that I was going to taste this again! :D]]

--> '' (adds her own ending to Walter's [[TearJerker heartbreaking story]]) "...and Peter looked inside Walter's eyes and realized there was still goodness inside him. So Peter took his special heart, and with all his might, he split it in two. And the heart was so magical that it still worked. And together, they made goodness, and lived happily ever after. The End." ''

--> [[spoiler: '''[[ShipperOnDeck September:]]''' She is your Olivia.]]
** The reason Peter's [[spoiler: {{Retgone}}]] didn't take.
-->[[spoiler: '''September:''' You have been home all along.]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Peter:''' *[[{{Beat}} beat]]* I don't understand. I was ''erased.'']]
-->[[spoiler: '''September:''' There is no scientific explanation. But... I have a theory. Based on an uniquely human principle. I believe you could not be fully erased because the people who care about you would not let you go. And you... would not let them go. [[ThePowerOfLove I believe you call it love.]]]]

-->'''Etta''': Do you... know me?
-->'''Peter''': Well, I don't know how I could. I've been [[spoiler:stuck in that amber for over twenty years.]] You barely look old enough-
-->*{{Beat}}*
-->'''Peter''':''[[spoiler: Henrietta?]]''
-->'''Etta''': [[spoiler: Hi Dad.]]
-->*cue hug*

** [[spoiler: Lincoln is in love with Fauxlivia. How much in love? He crossed into her universe. Which isn't even healing any more. Permanently.]]
-->'''Lincoln:''' [[CallBack I thought you could use a little help.]]

-->'''Lincoln:''' *to Peter* You remember how you said... "home is where the heart is"? This might be crazy but...
-->*[[spoiler: Lincoln looks at Fauxlivia]]*
-->'''Lincoln:''' I think I've found mine.
** [[spoiler: Walter and Walternate bond over Peter, comfort each other and make their peace.]]
-->'''Walternate:''' He's really quite a remarkable boy, Peter. A man actually.
-->'''Walter:''' Yes he is.
-->'''Walternate:''' He's smart. Noble. Kind. All the things I would have wished for him.
** [[spoiler: Fauxlivia telling Olivia how much she admires her and Olivia telling her to keep looking up.]]

** [[spoiler: The news that Henrietta is on her way.]] Peter and Olivia embrace while [[ShipperOnDeck Astrid and Walter look on approvingly.]]

** The [[HeadbuttOfLove Headbutt Of Fatherly Love]] Walter and Peter give each other [[spoiler: when it turns out that Olivia is alright.]]

-->'''Olivia:''' Nothing's changed. I'm still that little girl and [[spoiler: William Bell]] is still doing experiments on me. I'm still being used.
-->'''Peter:''' No. Something has changed. This time [[YouAreNotAlone you're not alone.]]
* A bit of a heartwarming in hindsight moment, but most of Nina's scenes with Olivia in Season 4 were tainted by everyone thinking she [[spoiler: fostered a teenage girl for the sole purpose of drugging her against her will and was working with David Robert Jones to kill billions of people. She wasn't.]] Upon rewatching, they're some of the most touching scenes in the series.
-->'''Olivia:''' [[spoiler: I thought I was going to die today. And one of the things that I kept thinking was that you... you wouldn't know how I felt. You're the closest thing I have to a mother and I love you.]]

--> '''August''': She crossed my mind... Somehow. She never left it. [[WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove I think... it's what they call... feelings]]. I think... I love her. Will she be safe now?
* [[spoiler: Olivia catching sight of Etta over Peter's shoulder and the scene that follows, and Etta kissing Walter on the cheek.]] The family is back together.
* [[spoiler: Walter seeing Olivia for the first time in over 20 years. He's just so DARNED happy to see her]]
* How Walter lets us know he's (relatively) alright after his MindRape at the hands [[spoiler:Windmark]].
-->'''Walter:''' *touches her hair* Afro, do you have any music?
* Etta [[spoiler: letting Gale go and Gale promising to join the resistance.]] [[HopeBringer Because of Olivia.]]

--> *hug*
** The fact that after [[spoiler:21 years]], [[NotSoStoic Broyles]] keeps a photograph of [[ShipperOnDeck Peter and Olivia.]]
** Broyles' story about seeing Etta and recognizing her immediately. He recruited her into Fringe with [[PapaWolf a mind to protect her]] but instead [[spoiler: she recruited him into the resistance.]]

* Nina and Olivia meeting again in "Five Twenty Ten". Despite the fact that [[spoiler:Olivia no longer remembers their life together]] they still seem close. [[ParentalSubstitute Olivia even kisses her on the cheek.]]

* Olivia manages to [[spoiler: convince Peter to give up his Observer abilities, and so Peter cuts off his implant. [[ThePowerOfLove His love for his daughter outweights his wish to kill Windmark]].]].
** Olivia [[spoiler:taking the tech from Peter's bloody hand and replacing it with "the bullet that saved the world."]]
* In ''Black Blotter'', when the heavily tripping Walter manages to remember the secret password ([[spoiler:"Black Umbrella"]]), the green fairy hallucination appears briefly and applauds. Walter bashfully smiles to her.
* September [[spoiler:AKA Donald ''smiling''.]] [[WhenHeSmiles It's the most adorable thing ever.]]
* Nina Sharp's undying loyalty to Olivia in 5x10. There is no doubt that she loves her [[spoiler:daughter and that Olivia, despite forgetting her childhood, loves her too.]]
* Peter comforting a distraught Walter and Olivia after [[spoiler:Nina's death.]]

* Whatever visions Michael showed Nina isn't revealed, but whatever it was, [[HopeBringer it worked.]] While she was fully prepared to [[spoiler:give up her life to save the team, she was terrified until that moment.]]
* Michael [[spoiler:gives Walter his memories from the original timeline.]]
-->'''Walter:''' [[spoiler:I remember when you came to me in St. Clair's. My first words... "I thought you'd be fatter". I remember the night I was up late making a peanut butter sandwich and you slipped and called me Dad. The feeling of joy that gave me. And the terror... before you stepped in the machine. I told you that I had never been good at letting you go and you said-]]
-->'''Peter:''' [[spoiler:This time you're gonna have to. What is this boy? How can he do this for you? Enable you to see a life you didn't live?]]

-->'''Peter:''' But that doesn't make any sense! [[spoiler: Why would he give you back all those memories and not give you back the plan?]]
-->'''Walter:''' I don't know. [[spoiler:Peter... before I met him, I didn't think it was possible to love you more. But now... knowing what we've been through... and everything we've had... I do.]]

** Donald's speech to Walter in the finale [[spoiler:about how he came to love his son.]]
* The entirety of [[spoiler:Donald's]] friendship with Walter. They watch ''musicals'' together.
** The moment when [[spoiler: Donald finds out that Walter, Peter and Olivia are alive.]] He looks so ''happy''.

** Lincoln [[spoiler:feeling guilty about leaving his universe and Olivia reassuring him.]]
-->'''Olivia:''' You deserve all the happiness that you got.
* Walter and Astrid's final scene with Gene the cow, [[spoiler:and Walter ''finally'' getting Astrid's name right]]. Also a MASSIVE tearjerker.

-->'''Walter:''' [[spoiler:''Astrid''.]]

* “You are my favorite thing, Peter. My very favorite thing.”
* The ending. [[spoiler:Walter gives up the chance of seeing his family ever again so that Etta would live and that the world would be safe. The series finishes with Peter picking up Etta at the park, taking her home for a bath and then getting a white tulip in the mail from Walter.]]

* In 1x19, when Peter reveals he was building Walter a machine to digitize his warped vinyl records, and Walter’s very touched expression.

** Here complete faith and conviction in Walter here is enough to make you want to conduct a parade in her honour, but her sensitivity and gentleness dealing with Walter as he is trying to hide his panic over Peter's condition makes you want to give her a sainthood.