EPISODE

5. Dream Logic

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.

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In Seattle a man attacks his boss believing he is a demon. Walter finds a computer chip attached to the thalamus, the part of the brain controlling dreams. Broyles and Sharp reveal new information leading to the sleep researcher who implanted the chips. Walter changes his theory; the dreams are being stolen from their hosts to cause a " high " in the researcher, who is receiving them, and who has two personalities. His doctor personality sets a trap so that Olivia and Peter will catch his alternate persona. Meanwhile, Olivia is grieving for Charlie, murdered by a shapeshifter in the previous episode, and Sam helps her work through it by reminding Olivia of her first meeting with Charlie.

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