1x17: Bad Dreams
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fringe_rewatchNiiiiiick.
Man, for a character who shows up in all of three(!) episodes, this guy has a huge impact on the mythology of the show. And on fanfic imagination.
(Less restrained exclamations to follow in comments.)
Writer: Akiva Goldsman
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Originally aired: April 21, 2009
Synopsis:
Olivia witnesses a suicide in New York while asleep and dreaming in Boston. When a second deadly vision happens, Broyles puts his trust in Olivia and deploys the team to investigate further. As details emerge, Olivia uncovers new information regarding the ZFT manuscript, the experimental drug Cortexiphan, and that the case may be tied to her own past.
Most Memorable Quote:
NICK LANE: Olive. You heard me. You heard me - you came. You were always the strong one. Whenever I got scared, you could make me feel better. Do you remember, Olive?
OLIVIA: I’m sorry, no, I don't.
NICK LANE: That’s okay. I think they meant for us to forget. I just couldn't. I did what they told us. I waited, Olive. The soldier to come is both natural and unnatural. I waited to be called up. You stay fit; stay focused, and stay ready. I wore the blacks and grays. I blended in. But the call never came. It never came. Then, that man with the glasses, he showed up at the hospital. He spoke all the old words. He said they're coming. He needed warriors. He said... "what was written will come to pass." He said he knew how to wake me up. I shouldn't have listened to him. Sometimes what we wake up, it can't be put back to sleep.
Links:
Episode transcript
Seriable rewatch
Polite Dissent, medical/science reviews.
Fanfiction:
I wasn't reading Fringe fic at the time, but judging by the dates on the Nick Lane tag on AO3, his appearance really did wake something up. For AU fic written on the heels of this episode, see:
Choke Chain series by Chichuri
Ways and Means series by Elfin
For more:
Nick Lane tag on AO3
Man, for a character who shows up in all of three(!) episodes, this guy has a huge impact on the mythology of the show. And on fanfic imagination.
(Less restrained exclamations to follow in comments.)
Writer: Akiva Goldsman
Director: Akiva Goldsman
Originally aired: April 21, 2009
Synopsis:
Olivia witnesses a suicide in New York while asleep and dreaming in Boston. When a second deadly vision happens, Broyles puts his trust in Olivia and deploys the team to investigate further. As details emerge, Olivia uncovers new information regarding the ZFT manuscript, the experimental drug Cortexiphan, and that the case may be tied to her own past.
Most Memorable Quote:
NICK LANE: Olive. You heard me. You heard me - you came. You were always the strong one. Whenever I got scared, you could make me feel better. Do you remember, Olive?
OLIVIA: I’m sorry, no, I don't.
NICK LANE: That’s okay. I think they meant for us to forget. I just couldn't. I did what they told us. I waited, Olive. The soldier to come is both natural and unnatural. I waited to be called up. You stay fit; stay focused, and stay ready. I wore the blacks and grays. I blended in. But the call never came. It never came. Then, that man with the glasses, he showed up at the hospital. He spoke all the old words. He said they're coming. He needed warriors. He said... "what was written will come to pass." He said he knew how to wake me up. I shouldn't have listened to him. Sometimes what we wake up, it can't be put back to sleep.
Links:
Episode transcript
Seriable rewatch
Polite Dissent, medical/science reviews.
Fanfiction:
I wasn't reading Fringe fic at the time, but judging by the dates on the Nick Lane tag on AO3, his appearance really did wake something up. For AU fic written on the heels of this episode, see:
Choke Chain series by Chichuri
Ways and Means series by Elfin
For more:
Nick Lane tag on AO3
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Date: 2014-06-06 12:44 am (UTC)I've gotten four people to watch Fringe by starting them on this episode. It's quintessential Fringe, and I will say it's my favorite S1 episode.
Nick Lane - what a goldmine for fanfic writers :) Well, not in my fic, but some of my favorite writers have done well by him. I never felt I understood him enough to write him.
This episode was mostly perfect. The scary parts were uber scary without being disgusting. The scenes between Peter and Olivia show their growing trust and hint at more, without hitting you over the head with it.
Broyles must have had a career filled with strangeness if he can accept this case and support Olivia.
The people just dropping what they doing and following Nick at the end reminded me of disciples dropping what they were doing and following Jesus in the Bible. Was Jesus a reverse empath? Is Nick a dark Messiah?
WALTER: Astral...
ASTRID: Astrid!
WALTER: ...projection. A spirit walk, as it were. No, no, no, you wouldn't have had sufficient corporeal form to interact with the young woman.
That joke never gets old. And Astrid had good rapport with Peter in this episode. They're lab buddies, having to deal with Walter all the time.
WALTER: It worked on perception. Carlos Castaneda, Aldus Huxley, Werner Heisenberg, all focused on one single elementary truth. Perception is the key to transformation.
PETER: Reality is both subjective and malleable. If you can dream a better world, you can make a better world.
WALTER: Or perhaps travel between them.
PETER: What did you just say?
MAJOR CLUE here. And a hint that Peter really does have questions about all the stuff he suppressed from his childhood.
*Quotes from Fringepedia, because I'm too lazy to transcribe them.
All in all, one of the best episodes of the series.