"Fringe" Bad Dreams (2009)

Director:

Akiva Goldsman

Writers:

J.J. Abrams (creator) &
Alex Kurtzman (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Fringe" (2008)

Original Air Date:

21 April 2009 (Season 1, Episode 17)

Genre:

Drama | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

FBI agent Dunham believes that she is killing random people in her dreams.

Plot Keywords:

Dream | Subway | Nightmare | Death By Falling | Red Balloon

Cast

Anna Torv	...	Agent Olivia Dunham
Joshua Jackson	...	Peter Bishop
Lance Reddick	...	Agent Phillip Broyles
Kirk Acevedo	...	Agent Charlie Francis
Blair Brown	...	Nina Sharp (credit only)
Jasika Nicole	...	Astrid Farnsworth
John Noble	...	Dr. Walter Bishop
Ari Graynor	...	Rachel
David Call	...	Nick Lane
April Grace	...	Police Detective
Johanna Day	...	Mouse Willis
Victor Verhaeghe	...	Billy Willis
Kelly Briter	...	Ginger
Rebecca Naomi Jones	...	Risa Pears
Ed Vassallo	...	Manager

Runtime:

Ireland:58 min (including commercials) | UK:60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Trivia:

In Nick Lane's flat there is a wall filled with clippings. In the midst of this mass of clippings is a sheet of paper on which the number 47 is written. The number 47, besides being a prime number, has been attributed as being a random number which occurs with unusual frequency and so has a certain mystique. There is a perhaps humorous mathematical proof of this by Pomona College's math professor Donald Bentley. Regardless of this purported mystique, the number has been used in "Alias" (2001), another J.J. Abrams project, as a central plot device for the series.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: About halfway through the episode, Olivia and her team enter the home of the suspected serial killer. When she examines a wall covered with photos and articles, she focuses on an article titles "Genetically Modified Children, The Future of the Super Human Race". If you pause the video and read the text of the article, you'll find that it is actually about risks associated with people tracing others cell phone numbers. Either this is meant to be a mistake in the printing of the newspaper, or more likely, the prop department pasted the headline on some arbitrarily-chosen newspaper clipping, assuming that no one would read the text of the article.

Quotes:

Agent Olivia Dunham: [Olivia is feeling what Nick Lane is feeling] Oh...
Astrid Farnsworth: What's happening? Is he hurting her?
Agent Olivia Dunham: [moaning softly] Oh.
Astrid Farnsworth: Oh...
Dr. Walter Bishop: What?
Agent Olivia Dunham: [continues moaning] Oh.
Peter Bishop: Oh...
Peter Bishop: What?
Agent Olivia Dunham: [moaning with pleasure] Oh!
Dr. Walter Bishop: Oh! I see.

Movie Connections:

References 17 Again (2009)

Soundtrack:

Starstruck