“Dream Logic” is episode five of season two of Fringe.
Olivia turns up at Sam Weiss’s bowling alley; she’s returning the bowling shoes now he helped her. Sam asks her who died; she explains the death of Not Charlie in the previous episode, “Momentum Deferred”. Olivia says she has other problems of course, but can handle them. Sam has another project for her. Like the bowling, she’ll think he’s full of it. Whether Olivia admits it or not, her life is something of a nightmare. Sam hopes she doesn’t have anything against the colour red.
In Seattle, a man enters the offices of his company. He’s seeing everyone there as monsters. The man, Greg, is told that his boss is really annoyed. Greg heads to see his boss, who to him looks like a horned demon, and attacks him with his, metal, briefcase, before he’s pulled off. Greg’s eyes are moving rapidly, as if he’s in REM sleep with his eyes open.
Peter and Walter are moving into their new house; Walter has set his bed up downstairs. Astrid arrives, with bread for Walter and a message from Olivia for Peter. A man killed his boss and doesn’t remember, and something crazy happened with his eyes, that was caught on camera.
At the hospital in Seattle, they are greeted by a local detective. They’ve only just been able to wake Greg Leiter up; he slept for 16 hours. Greg is strapped to a bed; Walter wants to remain outside. Greg tells Peter and Olivia what he saw; it was as if he was dreaming. Then he starts spasming. Peter calls for Walter as Greg’s wife comes in and Greg’s hair goes pure white as he dies.
The ME tells Walter and Peter they are still waiting for the tox screen. Walter says it looks like Greg died of extreme exhaustion; it’s been documented in rats. He wants the body taking to his lab. Peter says they can get anything he needs, but Walter doesn’t like Seattle and wants to go home; it reminds him too much of St Claire’s.
Peter gets an agent, Kashner, to escort Walter home. Kashner thinks he’s seen everything already. Until Peter explains how to deal with Walter. Olivia is talking to the ME and asks for his business card. Her reason seems thought up on the spot and she’d earlier asked for the taxi driver’s. Perhaps this is what Sam wanted her to do.
Olivia and Peter speak to Greg’s wife at their house. Peter asks if he had sleep issues, having looked at some books. Yes; he used to sleepwalk. He’d wake up in the kitchen having cooked a whole meal. But he’d been cured; no episode in the last six months. Peter asks if Greg kept a sleep journal. He did.
Walter is back at the lab; Kashner is on the phone. It sounds like there’s a problem with their luggage. He assures the person on the other end that Walter wouldn’t have packed raw milk. Then hears the cow. Walter has found stitches on the back of Greg’s neck. He asks Kashner to help them remove Greg’s scalp.
Peter has been reading Greg’s dream journal. He used to have nightmares. About demons. A couple of months ago they stopped. Olivia gets a message; there’s been another. A dead woman, now white-haired, crashed into a biker. She was on the phone with her husband and he said she claimed to see a monster. Walter is working on Greg and has found a computer chip in his brain. He gets Astrid to call Peter and asks him to check the body. The woman has an incision in the same place as Greg.
Broyles heads to see Nina Sharp. She says the chips are biochips, transmitters. They think they work a lot like a pacemaker, monitoring sleep cycles and promoting deeper sleep. There’s a researcher in Seattle, Dr Nayak, whose been working on prototypes.
Olivia and Peter arrive on Nayak’s doorstep. He confirms that both people were part of his study. It’s large scale, and 82 people have chips. They need the names. All three head to Nayak’s lab, but it’s been broken into and the files are gone.
There are 80 more people, whose names they don’t know, who could also start seeing things, potentially killing others before dying themselves. And Olivia is trying to deal with killing someone she knows wasn’t Charlie but looked like him.