'Fringe': Say whaa? Finale secrets shock and awe...

The things I'm hearing about the "Fringe" finale? I mean, what?!

I haven't yet seen it -- had a lot going on with "The Real Housewives" last night (yeah yeah, I'm ashamed of myself, blah blah blah) -- but my girl Marisa Roffman watched. Her reaction...

Is it September yet?

My head? Still spinning after tonight's "Fringe" season ender, "There's More Than One of Everything." We got answer upon answer, but -- like any show J.J. Abrams has a hand in -- with those answers came about a thousand new questions. Let's talk about the two biggest reveals:

1. Peter is dead.

Well, Joshua Jackson's Peter isn't dead, but Walter's son, Peter, did die in 1985. So who is the person we know as Peter today? It seems that a grief-stricken Walter, at some point before he was institutionalized, basically traveled through a sort of time-space continuum to an alternate reality, picked up the Peter that existed in that universe and brought him back to the world they're in now... the world we know.

I mean, when Walter told Peter that, years ago, "something was lost to [him], something precious" and that he thought that if he could cross over to other side, he might be able to retrieve what was taken, we immediately flashed back to the earlier scene with Walter at the cemetery. Sure enough, the last we saw of Walter this season was him placing the coin that his son had loved so much at Peter's grave..

Now, the big question going forward is, what exactly does this mean for Peter? Is there a Walter in the alternate universe who is wondering where his son is? Is this Peter going to have to be returned to that universe at some point? How exactly did Peter die? Could it have been a result of the testing done to him by Walter and William? And when will the Peter we now know find out the truth? What will it do to him and how will it affect his relationship with Walter?

2. William Bell is currently in a universe where 9/11 didn't happen.

We've known for a while that Leonard Nimoy was coming on to play William Bell and -- I'm not gonna lie -- I was a little disappointed that we only got like a minute with his character. But as soon as the camera zoomed out of Bell's office and showed that it was located in the World Trade Center, my disappointment vanished. Wow.

We know, thanks to that newspaper the camera flashed on, that Obama is still the President in Bell's universe -- though, in that world, Obama is moving into a new White House -- but that's about it.

And so, the other looming questions: What does this parallel universe mean for season two of "Fringe"? Will we be jumping back and forth between the two universes, sort of like "Lost" did this season? Was there some sort of parallel terrorist attack in which The White House was attacked instead of the WTC? Also, how long has William Bell been traveling between the two realities? Are there currently two Williams in that other universe? Is there a version of Walter there? Olivia? Is that dimension dealing with The Pattern as well?

I mean...

Let's talk about this.

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