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Talk	Ella	Theories


Profession:	Student	Portrayed by: Lily Pilblad
Also Known As:	Ella Jae (by Rachel)
Family:	Rachel - mother, Olivia - aunt, Greg - father (unseen)
Connections:	Mitchell Loeb, Brian Dempsey, Peter Bishop, Uncle Walter, Astrid Farnsworth
Seen In:	11 of 78 episodes

In Bound, she and Rachel arrive to spend time with Aunt Olivia at her Boston apartment.

Olivia and Ella enjoy a roller coaster ride

In The No-Brainer, she plays on a laptop computer while her mother Rachel is busy in the kitchen. She downloads a program that intends to liquify her brain, but is safe after Olivia and Peter race to the apartment and thwart the murder attempt. She enjoys the friendship that Peter offers her.

In The Transformation, she finds her way into Olivia's clothing and make-up for a game of 'dress-up'.

In Inner Child, she wakes Olivia, not Rachel, early in the morning for a warm cuddle and some pancakes. When Olivia returns to her apartment, after solving the case, Ella engages her in a game of Simon Says - and wins.

In Bad Dreams, she is concerned about her pending vaccination - where they put something dead in her blood. Later, after Olivia solves the case, Ella awakens and shares that what they put in her, is alive again. Olivia settles her down with the reassurance that it is just a bad dream.

In Midnight, she plays with a boy her age, Graham, as Rachel chats with the boys' parents about getting Ella in to the school Graham attends.

In August, Ella enjoys time alone with Olivia, who takes her to an amusement park for ride a roller coaster. December and The Observer watch the duo ride the coaster and December comments on how happy she is. He adds that "It is a shame things are about to get so hard for her". Who he is specifically referring to, Ella or Olivia, is not clear.

In Brown Betty, Ella goes with her aunt Olivia to the Harvard Lab, where Astrid and Walter babysit her. Walter tells her a fairy tale while he is high on his own concoction of drugs, which he titled "Brown Betty".

In Over There, Part 1, Olivia brings Ella a necklace that had belonged to Olivia's mother (Ella's grandmother). Ella then happily goes and tells her mother (Rachel) about the necklace.

In Amber 31422, Olivia calls Ella on her 7th birthday during the sensory-deprivation experiment she was undergoing, suggesting Ella was born in early Fall of 2003.

In The Day We Died, Ella Dunham

Emily Meade as Ella in The Day We Died
is promoted to Fringe Agent in the second week of May, 2026. Olivia is her boss and she tends to Walter much like Astrid did a decade and a half earlier. She has suffered great loss since her childhood and remembers little of the lab other than the cow with kind eyes. She accepts the flag for the family at Olivia's funeral. →

"Monsters aren't real, right?" - to Olivia (slightly concerned (Unleashed))
"They put something dead inside you. Dead! Into your blood. Gruesome!" - to Olivia (about vaccinations (Bad Dreams))
"Are you kidding? That's not a proper ending. Don't you know? All good stories start with 'once upon a time', and they end with 'happily ever after'. You don't know how to tell stories." - to Walter (setting him straight on the most basic paradigm in the universe (Brown Betty))

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How did Ella survive the predatory computer program in The No-Brainer?
Is December commenting about Ella (August) when he states -- "It is a shame things are about to get so hard for her"?
- If so, will Ella play a role in the "coming conflict"?
- If not, in what ways will things get hard for her?
- Were the two lurking Observers witnessing an important event in history associated with Ella?

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