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Christopher Penrose is the main antagonist of "The Same Old Story", the second episode of Fringe.
He is portrayed by Derek Cecil.
History[]
Christopher Penrose had been a clone created by Dr. Claus Penrose, who had considered Christopher to be his son. Christopher had suffered from rapid aging syndrome, which had led him to become a serial murderer, using his victims' deaths to make himself young again. He had operated in New Jersey and New York, where he would take women to motels, paralyze them, and then use surgical tools to go through their nasal cavities and remove their pituitary glands. This had been a project that the U.S. Army had once assigned to Claus and Walter Bishop in an attempt to cultivate soldiers who could mature to prime fighting age. Claus had been helping him with this.
Christopher was first been seen in Room 112 at the Scarlet Red Motel in a Boston suburb. He had been having a one-night stand with a stripper named Loraine Alcott. After she had gotten pregnant by him, he had transferred his disease onto the baby, causing it to age into a ninety-year-old man. Before Christopher could extract her pituitary gland, Loraine had already been in a lot of pain, so he had taken her into his car and driven her to Wallace Bromley Medical Center, where he had just left her. Loraine had died on the operating table, and the doctors had been utterly horrified when they discovered the old baby after performing a caesarian section.
As the Fringe team had investigated what had happened, Olivia had remembered Penrose from an unsolved previous case. Meanwhile, Penrose had taken an attractive young woman named Stacy to a warehouse loft, where he had jabbed a syringe into her neck. Once Stacy had been dealt with, Christopher had gone to another bar, Henry's, where he had found Amy, his next victim. He had brought her back to the loft, but Olivia's team had managed to find an image of the place from Stacy's optic nerve. The FBI had converged on the building, and Peter Bishop had managed to save Amy and shoot at Claus, though Claus had escaped and disappeared. Olivia had chased after Christopher, who had eventually succumbed to his rapid aging and had died.
Trivia[]
- In the show’s pilot episode, the episode before the one he appears in, there is a pen and a rose pictured on a newspaper stand outside of Massive Dynamic. This foreshadows Christopher Penrose, his "father" and both their roles in the next episode.
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