Fringe Episode 2.05 Dream Logic Recap

Back to Fringe Episode 2.05 Dream Logic FRINGE, EPISODE 2.05 DREAM LOGIC RECAP ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 10.16.2009 In Boston, Olivia walks into the bowling alley and thanks Sam for helping her get her memory back. She returns a pair of bowling shoes to him because she figures she won’t need them anymore. Sam looks at her carefully, and then asks, "Who died? <pause> You and your partner Charlie were pretty close, huh?” Sam suggests Olivia needs help with everything she’s been going through…something to make sense of it all. “Like bowling?” Olivia jokes. Sam tells her that her life is something like a nightmare and he hopes she doesn’t have anything against the color red. He hands her a folded piece of paper which he’s written on. In Seattle, Greg Leiter exits an elevator and walks down the hallway of his office. As he looks around at his co-workers, instead of seeing their normal faces, he sees ghoulish, fanged faces on people as he walks by. He is clearly disturbed, also hearing distorted voices coming from these people. Greg walks into the conference room where his boss is waiting for him. However, instead of seeing his bosses face, he sees a horned head on the man. Now upset beyond belief at the beast in front of him, Greg takes his briefcase and slams the horned man’s head repeatedly. The boss is badly beaten to death – no horned head. Greg’s eyes are abnormally cloudy and moving rapidly from side to side. Walter is unpacking in his new home, during the Bishop’s movie-in. Strangely, we see that Walter is making his bed downstairs near the kitchen, instead of upstairs in the bedrooms. Peter finds this very quirky. Astrid knocks and enters the home, bringing Walter a housewarming present. He opens it, and finds Italian Ciabatta bread for “good luck.” Astrid also hands Peter a file about Greg Leiter, the man who killed his boss, doesn’t remember and does this really crazy thing with his eyes. Peter looks at Walter and tells him, “We’re going to Seattle.” In Seattle, Peter and Walter meet Olivia at Washington General Hospital. As Peter and Walter exit the cab, Olivia asks the cab driver for his business card. They are also with a Seattle FBI agent who tells them that Greg has been asleep for 16 hours. They look in the hospital room where he’s strapped down. Walter is clearly anxious and asks to wait outside the room. Olivia asks Greg what happened. He remembers driving to work, and then he only remembers that he was on the floor in his boss, Carl Landon’s office being held down. He tells them the office felt as if it was infiltrated with creatures and that his boss Carl was the leader, with horns -- like a demon. He continues to get visibly upset, and then starts to violently shake as if he’s having a seizure. His wife enters the room, calling his name over and over, clearly panicked by what she sees. Greg continues to shake violently, and as he does his hair turns completely white, and finally, he is dead. In a lab in the hospital, Walter is examining Greg. He says that the body should be cooler by now. Suddenly Walter worries that they left the oven on at home. The tox screen comes back and shows that the man died of acute exhaustion. Walter wants to bring the body back to his lab in Boston. He doesn’t like this city because it smells wet and reminds him of the mental institution. Peter agrees and says he’ll find somebody to take Walter home. Peter gets Walter on his way back to Boston, with another FBI agent as an escort. As they are preparing to leave with Greg’s body, Olivia collects a business card from the medical examiner. Peter warns the FBI agent not to give Walter any alcoholic drinks because he usually has psychotropic drugs in his system at all times. Olivia and Peter interview Greg’s wife in her home. His wife tells Olivia that Greg’s been tired and working a lot, but having no hallucinations or anything that she’s noticed. Peter is looking around the room and spots books on sleep disorders on shelves and asks her if Greg had sleeping issues. She said that he used to sleepwalk and that sometimes he‘d end up in the kitchen after he cooked a whole meal. She thought he was cured though, after he’d been seeing a specialist. Peter asks to see Greg’s sleep journal. Back at the Boston lab, it’s almost midnight and Walter and Astrid are examining Greg’s body. The FBI agent is arguing with the airline on the phone, trying to find lost luggage. On the back of Greg’s head, Walter finds an incision with nine stitches. Peter visits Olivia in her hotel room, with Greg’s sleep journal in hand. The journal shows that Greg had been getting 8-10 hours of sleep per night, and that he’d been dreaming about demons at least once a week. Peter tells Olivia that he used to get nightmares when he was a kid. He says that Walter taught him to condition himself and say a mantra in his head, “Please don’t dream tonight. Please don’t dream tonight.” The chanting made it so he didn’t remember his dreams, and Peter had no more nightmares. In fact, Peter can’t remember any of his dreams from the age 8 to 19. Olivia’s phone rings and she learns there’s been an accident. Peter and Olivia arrive at the scene of an auto accident. A woman is dead. A man at the scene says the woman was on the phone when she started screaming that she saw a monster. The dead woman has white hair. Back at the lab, Walter is examining Greg’s head and finds a microchip filament. He calls Peter and tells him that it was imbedded in his mid-brain, the thalamus, the part of the brain that regulates sleep. Peter examines the other woman’s body and finds an incision in the same place. At Massive Dynamic, Nina shows Broyles a biochip which has a wireless transmitter. It can connect the brain to a computer, monitoring sleep cycles, and stimulating the thalamus. They’ve been tracking a sleep researcher in Seattle, named Dr. Nayak. In Seattle, Olivia and Peter knock on Nayak’s door and learn that both victims are patients of his. Nayak, very concerned, tells them that there are 82 people who have the biochip in their brains as part of a big trial. Peter and Olivia are walking with Nayak up to his office and as they arrive, they see that his office has been destroyed. The main computer that had all the patient files is gone, but they are backed up on a remote server. Nayak gives Olivia the password. Zach, his assistant walks in. Olivia asks Nayak if there is anybody he knows of who would want to sabotage him. He says there are probably a number of companies who might, because his chip solves all sorts of dream disorders. Olivia asks Nayak for a business card for her records. Peter is talking to Walter on the phone and asks if Walter can replicate mind control. Peter makes Walter promise he will not use students. Walter promises as he’s looking at the other FBI agent. Back at the hotel, Olivia is looking at a photo of herself and Charlie. Peter tells her the thing she killed wasn’t Charlie. She says she knows this, but she remembers Charlie helping her on one of her first sting operations and it’s difficult to deal with Charlie’s absence. She leaves to go to the clinic to help the nurse identify patients with the chip. The scenes begin to flip back and forth between a female cook working in a restaurant and somebody else in front of the sleep equipment in a lab. The file of the female cook is on the computer monitor. The woman in the restaurant starts to have head pain and begins to hallucinate body parts being cooked on the grill. The mysterious person in the lab is “increasing the dose.” The cook picks up a knife and walks toward the cook she thinks is grilling body parts. In the Boston lab, the FBI agent tells Walter that he’s leaving to go back to Seattle. Walter asks him to do him a favor and smell something he has in a beaker. He sniffs it and passes out. Back at the clinic, Nayak is removing the chips from patients. Olivia receives a phone call from Sam. He asks if she got the business cards. She says she got 8, from everyone she saw who was wearing red. He asks her to circle certain letters of each name and write them down on a piece of paper. Now he tells her to jumble it—find the phrase-- whatever it is, she needs to hear it. Sam tells her that she’ll figure it out. Her phone rings again and its Broyles. He tells her the patient files were wiped within the last 24 hours --whoever wiped the files must have had a password. Olivia confronts Dr. Nayak and he doesn’t believe that any of his employees would’ve done this. Olivia is at the restaurant where witnesses tell how the woman’s eyes went crazy before she attacked. Nayak said the woman suffered from night terrors and was just in his office last week. Nayak notes that Zach Miller his lab assistant skipped work today and hasn’t been answering his phone. Peter and Olivia knock on Zach’s house. There is no answer so they walk in. Dr. Nayak enters his sleep lab, but finds a note first, which says “stop talking to the feds or end up like Zach.” Inside the apartment, Olivia and Peter find Zach dead. Back at the lab, Walter is working on Agent Cashner. Astrid asks what’s wrong with the agent. Walter has attached a chip to a net which will send a signal to his brain. Walter puts a head apparatus on himself. Nothing happens at first, but then Walter starts to experience something. Nayak shows the note to Olivia, who tells him she’ll have it analyzed. She tells him about security detail that they will put on the doctor before they leave to find more patients. Nayak is alone in the office and calls somebody. He tells them “he told them, he showed them your damn note, so you might as well stop.” Walter tells Peter that the micro chips are accessing all the sensory info that passes through the thalamus while people sleep – they are stealing dreams. They are siphoned off before they reach the brain. The chips have the ability to turn on a dream state while the patient is awake, leading to an inability to distinguish between dream and reality. Walter thinks they are dealing with something like an addict, but even more so. Olivia and Peter return to the hotel. She tells of her step father who was an addict. The deeper the addiction, the more extreme the rift. She compares the note that Nayak got to a list she has on hand and finds a match in the writing. Nayak returns to his home. He plays his answering machine which replays that the message that he left from his office phone. He then goes into the basement and turns on a bunch of equipment. It’s the same equipment that was seen earlier during the female cook incident. He pulls up another person’s file and turns up the intensity. We see a picture of a pilot. This same pilot is getting ready to take off in a hydroplane. Nayak’s computer is “accessing biochip.” Nayak sits back in the chair, as the pilot’s face is onscreen. The pilot begins to twitch. The plane is taking off. Nayak is in a trance. The pilot turns to his copilot and sees a faceless person. He is alarmed and looks around. The copilot knows something is wrong. They are heading toward a cruise ship. Peter and Olivia walk up the steps of Nayak’s house. The pilot and co-pilot struggle. Peter and Olivia burst into the basement and find Nayak plugged into the machinery. Peter attempts to shut down the program but is unsuccessful. He tries to disable the server. The pilot hits the copilot. Olivia fires at the computer equipment and Nayak lurches. The pilot momentarily blacks out, but then comes to, just in time to avoid hitting the cruise ship. Peter and Olivia are walking out of Nayak’s house. Peter says all the dials were turned up to red. Peter believes that Nayak didn’t know what his darker side was up to. He theorizes that his addiction to dreams became his nightmare and maybe this was his only way he had of ending his nightmare. In Boston, Olivia brings flower to Charlie’s grave. She gets back into the car and looks at her notebook with the letters in it. She finally figures out the anagram. “You’re gonna be fine.” She tears up. A little boy is sleeping as his bedroom door opens. He opens his eyes and asks, “Dad, what’s wrong?” He’s suddenly nabbed. Startled, a grown Peter wakes up. Walter tells him he was talking in his sleep. He tells Walter about the dream, and tells him he doesn’t remember

A New Day in the Old Town Recap - Fringe

FRINGE, EPISODE 2.05
DREAM LOGIC RECAP
ORIGINAL AIRDATE: 10.16.2009

In Boston, Olivia walks into the bowling alley and thanks Sam for helping her get her memory back. She returns a pair of bowling shoes to him because she figures she won’t need them anymore. Sam looks at her carefully, and then asks, "Who died? <pause> You and your partner Charlie were pretty close, huh?” Sam suggests Olivia needs help with everything she’s been going through…something to make sense of it all. “Like bowling?” Olivia jokes. Sam tells her that her life is something like a nightmare and he hopes she doesn’t have anything against the color red. He hands her a folded piece of paper which he’s written on.

In Seattle, Greg Leiter exits an elevator and walks down the hallway of his office. As he looks around at his co-workers, instead of seeing their normal faces, he sees ghoulish, fanged faces on people as he walks by. He is clearly disturbed, also hearing distorted voices coming from these people. Greg walks into the conference room where his boss is waiting for him. However, instead of seeing his bosses face, he sees a horned head on the man. Now upset beyond belief at the beast in front of him, Greg takes his briefcase and slams the horned man’s head repeatedly. The boss is badly beaten to death – no horned head. Greg’s eyes are abnormally cloudy and moving rapidly from side to side.

Walter is unpacking in his new home, during the Bishop’s movie-in. Strangely, we see that Walter is making his bed downstairs near the kitchen, instead of upstairs in the bedrooms. Peter finds this very quirky. Astrid knocks and enters the home, bringing Walter a housewarming present. He opens it, and finds Italian Ciabatta bread for “good luck.” Astrid also hands Peter a file about Greg Leiter, the man who killed his boss, doesn’t remember and does this really crazy thing with his eyes. Peter looks at Walter and tells him, “We’re going to Seattle.”

In Seattle, Peter and Walter meet Olivia at Washington General Hospital. As Peter and Walter exit the cab, Olivia asks the cab driver for his business card. They are also with a Seattle FBI agent who tells them that Greg has been asleep for 16 hours. They look in the hospital room where he’s strapped down. Walter is clearly anxious and asks to wait outside the room.

Olivia asks Greg what happened. He remembers driving to work, and then he only remembers that he was on the floor in his boss, Carl Landon’s office being held down. He tells them the office felt as if it was infiltrated with creatures and that his boss Carl was the leader, with horns -- like a demon. He continues to get visibly upset, and then starts to violently shake as if he’s having a seizure. His wife enters the room, calling his name over and over, clearly panicked by what she sees. Greg continues to shake violently, and as he does his hair turns completely white, and finally, he is dead.

In a lab in the hospital, Walter is examining Greg. He says that the body should be cooler by now. Suddenly Walter worries that they left the oven on at home. The tox screen comes back and shows that the man died of acute exhaustion. Walter wants to bring the body back to his lab in Boston. He doesn’t like this city because it smells wet and reminds him of the mental institution. Peter agrees and says he’ll find somebody to take Walter home.
Peter gets Walter on his way back to Boston, with another FBI agent as an escort. As they are preparing to leave with Greg’s body, Olivia collects a business card from the medical examiner. Peter warns the FBI agent not to give Walter any alcoholic drinks because he usually has psychotropic drugs in his system at all times.

Olivia and Peter interview Greg’s wife in her home. His wife tells Olivia that Greg’s been tired and working a lot, but having no hallucinations or anything that she’s noticed. Peter is looking around the room and spots books on sleep disorders on shelves and asks her if Greg had sleeping issues. She said that he used to sleepwalk and that sometimes he‘d end up in the kitchen after he cooked a whole meal. She thought he was cured though, after he’d been seeing a specialist. Peter asks to see Greg’s sleep journal.

Back at the Boston lab, it’s almost midnight and Walter and Astrid are examining Greg’s body. The FBI agent is arguing with the airline on the phone, trying to find lost luggage. On the back of Greg’s head, Walter finds an incision with nine stitches.

Peter visits Olivia in her hotel room, with Greg’s sleep journal in hand. The journal shows that Greg had been getting 8-10 hours of sleep per night, and that he’d been dreaming about demons at least once a week. Peter tells Olivia that he used to get nightmares when he was a kid. He says that Walter taught him to condition himself and say a mantra in his head, “Please don’t dream tonight. Please don’t dream tonight.” The chanting made it so he didn’t remember his dreams, and Peter had no more nightmares. In fact, Peter can’t remember any of his dreams from the age 8 to 19. Olivia’s phone rings and she learns there’s been an accident.

Peter and Olivia arrive at the scene of an auto accident. A woman is dead. A man at the scene says the woman was on the phone when she started screaming that she saw a monster. The dead woman has white hair.
Back at the lab, Walter is examining Greg’s head and finds a microchip filament. He calls Peter and tells him that it was imbedded in his mid-brain, the thalamus, the part of the brain that regulates sleep.

Peter examines the other woman’s body and finds an incision in the same place.

At Massive Dynamic, Nina shows Broyles a biochip which has a wireless transmitter. It can connect the brain to a computer, monitoring sleep cycles, and stimulating the thalamus. They’ve been tracking a sleep researcher in Seattle, named Dr. Nayak.

In Seattle, Olivia and Peter knock on Nayak’s door and learn that both victims are patients of his. Nayak, very concerned, tells them that there are 82 people who have the biochip in their brains as part of a big trial.
Peter and Olivia are walking with Nayak up to his office and as they arrive, they see that his office has been destroyed. The main computer that had all the patient files is gone, but they are backed up on a remote server. Nayak gives Olivia the password. Zach, his assistant walks in. Olivia asks Nayak if there is anybody he knows of who would want to sabotage him. He says there are probably a number of companies who might, because his chip solves all sorts of dream disorders. Olivia asks Nayak for a business card for her records.

Peter is talking to Walter on the phone and asks if Walter can replicate mind control. Peter makes Walter promise he will not use students. Walter promises as he’s looking at the other FBI agent.

Back at the hotel, Olivia is looking at a photo of herself and Charlie. Peter tells her the thing she killed wasn’t Charlie. She says she knows this, but she remembers Charlie helping her on one of her first sting operations and it’s difficult to deal with Charlie’s absence. She leaves to go to the clinic to help the nurse identify patients with the chip.
The scenes begin to flip back and forth between a female cook working in a restaurant and somebody else in front of the sleep equipment in a lab. The file of the female cook is on the computer monitor.

The woman in the restaurant starts to have head pain and begins to hallucinate body parts being cooked on the grill. The mysterious person in the lab is “increasing the dose.” The cook picks up a knife and walks toward the cook she thinks is grilling body parts.

In the Boston lab, the FBI agent tells Walter that he’s leaving to go back to Seattle. Walter asks him to do him a favor and smell something he has in a beaker. He sniffs it and passes out.

Back at the clinic, Nayak is removing the chips from patients. Olivia receives a phone call from Sam. He asks if she got the business cards. She says she got 8, from everyone she saw who was wearing red. He asks her to circle certain letters of each name and write them down on a piece of paper. Now he tells her to jumble it—find the phrase-- whatever it is, she needs to hear it. Sam tells her that she’ll figure it out. Her phone rings again and its Broyles. He tells her the patient files were wiped within the last 24 hours --whoever wiped the files must have had a password.
Olivia confronts Dr. Nayak and he doesn’t believe that any of his employees would’ve done this.

Olivia is at the restaurant where witnesses tell how the woman’s eyes went crazy before she attacked. Nayak said the woman suffered from night terrors and was just in his office last week. Nayak notes that Zach Miller his lab assistant skipped work today and hasn’t been answering his phone.

Peter and Olivia knock on Zach’s house. There is no answer so they walk in.

Dr. Nayak enters his sleep lab, but finds a note first, which says “stop talking to the feds or end up like Zach.”
Inside the apartment, Olivia and Peter find Zach dead.

Back at the lab, Walter is working on Agent Cashner. Astrid asks what’s wrong with the agent. Walter has attached a chip to a net which will send a signal to his brain. Walter puts a head apparatus on himself. Nothing happens at first, but then Walter starts to experience something.

Nayak shows the note to Olivia, who tells him she’ll have it analyzed. She tells him about security detail that they will put on the doctor before they leave to find more patients.

Nayak is alone in the office and calls somebody. He tells them “he told them, he showed them your damn note, so you might as well stop.”

Walter tells Peter that the micro chips are accessing all the sensory info that passes through the thalamus while people sleep – they are stealing dreams. They are siphoned off before they reach the brain. The chips have the ability to turn on a dream state while the patient is awake, leading to an inability to distinguish between dream and reality. Walter thinks they are dealing with something like an addict, but even more so.

Olivia and Peter return to the hotel. She tells of her step father who was an addict. The deeper the addiction, the more extreme the rift. She compares the note that Nayak got to a list she has on hand and finds a match in the writing.
Nayak returns to his home. He plays his answering machine which replays that the message that he left from his office phone. He then goes into the basement and turns on a bunch of equipment. It’s the same equipment that was seen earlier during the female cook incident. He pulls up another person’s file and turns up the intensity. We see a picture of a pilot.

This same pilot is getting ready to take off in a hydroplane. Nayak’s computer is “accessing biochip.” Nayak sits back in the chair, as the pilot’s face is onscreen. The pilot begins to twitch. The plane is taking off. Nayak is in a trance. The pilot turns to his copilot and sees a faceless person. He is alarmed and looks around. The copilot knows something is wrong. They are heading toward a cruise ship.

Peter and Olivia walk up the steps of Nayak’s house.

The pilot and co-pilot struggle.

Peter and Olivia burst into the basement and find Nayak plugged into the machinery. Peter attempts to shut down the program but is unsuccessful. He tries to disable the server.

The pilot hits the copilot.

Olivia fires at the computer equipment and Nayak lurches.

The pilot momentarily blacks out, but then comes to, just in time to avoid hitting the cruise ship.
Peter and Olivia are walking out of Nayak’s house. Peter says all the dials were turned up to red. Peter believes that Nayak didn’t know what his darker side was up to. He theorizes that his addiction to dreams became his nightmare and maybe this was his only way he had of ending his nightmare.

In Boston, Olivia brings flower to Charlie’s grave. She gets back into the car and looks at her notebook with the letters in it. She finally figures out the anagram. “You’re gonna be fine.” She tears up.

A little boy is sleeping as his bedroom door opens. He opens his eyes and asks, “Dad, what’s wrong?” He’s suddenly nabbed. Startled, a grown Peter wakes up. Walter tells him he was talking in his sleep. He tells Walter about the dream, and tells him he doesn’t remember

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