- People who once had sleeping problems but were cured by having a biochip inserted in their brain suddenly start to die. Walter suspects the chips were accessed by someone who used mind control.
- The Fringe team travels cross-country to Seattle after learning of a mysterious incident involving a man who attacked his boss because he believed he was an evil ram-horned creature. As these puzzling occurrences continue, the team tirelessly explores strange and creepy links to dreams. In pursuit of additional information, Agent Broyles has a disconcerting meeting with enigmatic Massive Dynamic executive Nina Sharp that leads the investigation in an unthinkable direction.—Fox Publicity
- In an office, a man called Greg Leiter sees that his coworkers are demons and kills his chief with his briefcase. The Fringe Division goes to the hospital and Olivia and Peter interview Greg; out of the blue, he has an attack and dies with acute exhaustion and white hairs. While Dr. Bishop performs the autopsy of his body, Olivia and Peter visits Greg's wife and learns that he had sleep disorder but was under treatment. Meanwhile there is a similar incident and Dr. Bishop finds a chip connected to the thalamus in both corpses. The Fringe Division visits Dr. Nayak, who had implanted the chips, and suspects of his assistant Zach. But when Zach is found dead in his room and Dr. Nayak receives a note with an intimidation since he is collaborating with the FBI. But soon the Fringe Division believes that Dr. Nayak is addicted on the dreams of his patients.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Olivia (Anna Torv) visits Sam Weiss (Kevin Corrigan) to thank him for helping her get her memories back. He can tell she's mourning. He says she needs something to help her make sense of everything. He writes something down and tells her he hopes she doesn't have anything against the color red.
Seattle, Washington A man named Greg goes to work and is warned his boss Carl is mad at him. As he walks through the office, everyone looks like a monster to him. He greets his boss, who seems to him to have the head of a ram-like beast. Greg raises his briefcase and beats his boss senseless. His eyes twitch back and forth furiously in his head.
Olivia and the Bishops head to Seattle. Greg has been asleep for 16 hours, like he was drugged. The doctors just managed to wake him up. Walter (John Noble) looks over the sleeping man and opts to stay outside.
Greg doesn't understand what happened to him. He tells Olivia it was like the office was infiltrated by creatures and Carl was their leader. As he's talking he starts twitching furiously, then his hair turns white and he flatlines. He dies in front of them.
Walter and Peter (Joshua Jackson) perform an autopsy. Walter is even twitchier than usual. It looks like Greg died of acute exhaustion. Walter wants to go home. Seattle has a smell reminding him of the mental institution.
Peter gets an agent Kashner (Travis Schuldt) to escort Walter home.
Olivia asks for a business card from the medical examiner.
Olivia and Peter meet with Greg's wife. She says he'd been a little more tired than usual, but that was it. Peter sees books on sleep disorders and asks about them. Greg used to sleepwalk. But she says Greg was cured and hadn't had an episode in six months. They want the names of the doctors and his sleep journal.
Back at Harvard, Walter examines Greg's body with Astrid (Jasika Nicole). He finds nine surgical stitches on Greg's neck, which have no medical reason for being there.
Peter drops by Olivia's hotel room with Greg's sleep journal. He was getting eight to 10 hours of sleep a night, and was dreaming of demons.
Peter knows about nightmares, he says, he used to get them badly as a kid. He says Walter helped him get over it, by giving him a mantra ("Please don't dream tonight") to repeat before he went to sleep.
From the age of eight to 19, Peter doesn't remember a single dream.
They get paged to another incident. A woman was driving and on the phone with her husband when she told him she saw a monster. She's dead. Her hair is white.
Walter's FBI escort, Agent Kashner, assists as Walter picks through Greg's brains. He finds a computer chip embedded in his thalamus -- the part of the brain regulating sleep.
Walter calls Peter to relay the info. Peter checks the latest victim and finds the same surgical scar on her neck.
Massive Dynamic Nina (Blair Brown) examines the chip - a bio-chip - Broyles (Lance Reddick) brought her. They think it works a lot like a pacemaker, to stimulate the thalamus to a deep sleep state when necessary.
Olivia and Peter visit their Dr. Nayak (Ravi Kapoor), who recognizes both patients as part of his study. There are 82 patients with the chips.
The three visit Nayak's clinic, which they find trashed. The main computer server with the patient files is gone. They're backed up on a remote server. Nayak gives Olivia the password to access it.
Nayak's research assistant Zack comes by to see the damage. Nayak gets him compiling the patients' names.
He says the initial testing has been a success, curing sleepwalking, night terrors. He says it couldn't hurt the patients or cause them to hurt anyone, he doesn't understand what's happening. He's beside himself.
Olivia asks him for a card.
Peter explains the think from the thalamus to the motor cortext. It could be about mind control.
Peter calls his dad to see if he can test the chip. Naturally, Walter wants a live subject. Peter makes him promise he won't use a student. Poor Agent Kashner walks in.
Peter tells Olivia that Walter thinks someone is trying to perfect mind control one patient at a time.
Nayak's staff was only able to remember the names of 26 patients. They're calling them in and removing the chips now.
Olivia sees a picture of her with Charlie (Kirk Acevedo). Peter reminds her that thing she killed wasn't Charlie. She tells Peter about her first week on the job, in a situation way over her head when Charlie reassured her before he even knew her. She says she has to face him being gone. Upset, she decides to go to Nayak's clinic to see if the nurse can come up with more patients.
In a dark room, an unseen figure accesses a woman's chip.
Cut to that woman, prepping food.
The young man operating the woman's chip -- Zack the assistant -- checks with someone we can't see to see if he really wants to increase the dose. They do. They're wearing a device on their head hooked to electrodes.
The woman looks around her kitchen and sees body parts on the grill. The chef hands her a flambeed severed hand. She picks up a knife and goes after him.
Agent Kashner comes to say goodbye to Walter before he heads back to Seattle. Walter asks him innocently to smell something first. He takes a whiff. And down goes Kashner.
At the clinic, Nayak removes each patient's chip.
Sam calls Olivia. He asks her if she got the business cards. She has eight. He checks that she asked everyone she saw wearing red. He tells her to circle a letter in each name first and last then write each letter down. Then, solve the jumble. He tells her she's looking for whatever she needs to hear. She'll figure it out.
Broyles calls to report Nayak's patient files are gone from the data storage company. They think whoever wiped the files had a password. There's no evidence of a hack.
Nayak doesn't believe it and can't think of any of his people who'd do that.
Olivia and Peter go to the site of the third freakout. It's just like the others. Nayak goes with them and is disturbed by the fallout. Olivia goes to put an announcement in the local news. Nayak remembers his assistant Zack skipped work today and hasn't been answering his phone.
Peter and Olivia go to his house.
Back at the clinic, Nayak finds a note saying "Stop talking to the feds or wind up like Zack."
In his apartment, they find Zack dead.
In the lab, Astrid wants to know why Agent Kashner is out cold with an EEG net on his head. Walter explains he realized he didn't have to implant the chip for it to work. He'll be using a neural stimulator and a lot of complicated technology to try to control his mind.
Walter puts sensors on his own head and tries to control Kashner. But he describes seeing a green unicorn running across the lab. At first he thinks it's some LSD he accidentally took. It feels wonderful. But then he figures it out.
Nayak brings Olivia the threatening note he got. They're assigning him a protective detail. As soon as Peter and Olivia leave Nayak picks up his phone and leaves a message: "I told them, I showed them your damn note. So you might as well stop."
Walter calls Peter to tell him it's not mind control. The chips are transmitting massive amounts of data. They're accessing all the sensory information passing through the thalamus. The chips are stealing dreams.
And if people never dreamed, it'd lead to exhaustion. And if the chips could turn on a dreaming state while the patients are awake, it could cause hallucinations. Walter says the drug effect would be a huge rush, most likely operated by an addict.
Olivia takes Peter back to the hotel, talking about her drunk stepfather and his Jekyll and Hyde personality. She compares the handwritten patient list with the threatening note left for Nayak. The threat is an extreme version of the other. They're written by the same person.
A Detective Green (Alex Zahara) escorts Nayak home. On his answering machine Nayak finds a message: the one he just left. Nayak boots up the machine we saw operating earlier and straps on a brain sensor. He amps up a patients' chip and relaxes to feel the rush.
The patient is a pilot, preparing to take off in a seaplane.
Nayak boosts the pilots' chip and he starts to hallucinate that his copilot doesn't have a face. They're speeding up to take off when the pilot starts aiming for a nearby bridge.
Peter and Olivia enter Nayak's apartment. They see he's plugged in. Peter tries to disable the server as the pilot's plane races toward the bridge.
The pilot takes out his copilot with a fire extinguisher. Olivia tries shooting the server instead.
Nayak twitches furiously and dies, brain overloaded. The pilot comes to just in time, disaster averted.
Peter says all the dials were cranked up to their max. He thinks Nayak didn't know what he was doing until tonight and he was trying to end things.
Detective Green tells Olivia the pilot was able to avert disaster.
Boston Olivia visits Charlie's grave.
Back in her car, she picks up a pad with the business card letters on it. She stares at it for a while. Then she spells out: "You're gonna bneefi..." Then: "You're gonna be fine."
A little boy wakes up in the night and asks his dad what's wrong. He screams. Peter wakes up. Walter's sitting over him, looking terribly disturbed.
Peter tells his dad about his dream. Walter looks wracked with something we assume is guilt. Peter doesn't remember the rest.
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