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My name is Jane Vasco.
I could use
you on my team.
I work for a secret government
agency that hunts neuros.
People who can do dangerous
things with their minds.
On my first assignment
Something a little
weird happened,
okay, something
really weird.
Until i get some answers I'm getting on
with my life, doing my job.
Stocking up on aspirin,
because I have to tell ya,
pain's a ***!
hello?
Anybody in here?
oh, my god.
Hey, man,
you all right?
Presync : IceFre@k
some people say physical pain is easier
to deal with than emotional pain,
but then again,
they've never fallen 40 stories
and lived to tell about it.
Not to mention being shot,
stabbed, beaten and lasered.
What a fun time it's been since
i left the d.
e.
a.
And joined them up with
the neuro hunters.
Still i understand
what they mean,
for me physical pain is horrible
but at least it's temporary.
The other kind seems
to hang on forever.
If i had to chose one
over the other
it would probably
be the physical.
But then again ask me next
time i get hit by a truck.
Alright showtime!
This is a restaurant in
thermopolis, wyoming.
A patron named alan sloane
stacks up the furniture
then climbed out
through the skylight.
Margot branton's
place three weeks later.
By the way, when they
people were found,
they were lying on the floor,
shivering and catatonic.
James cho was working late
in his office this night.
That was two days ago.
Is he crying?
He looks freaked.
What's he hiding from?
No idea.
Security cameras don't
reveal any kind of threat.
He stacked everything up beneath
a window, just like the other two.
In mr.
Cho's case,
the window was too small.
He chokes himself
to death.
What about the others?
Have they received any
kind of treatment?
Sloane and branton are
still under going treatment.
Sloane attempted suicide
and it's questionable
whether either
will fully recover.
How do they explain
what happened?
They can't.
They barely
remember doing it.
Tox screens?
Clear.
And none of these
people had any history
of mental instability
before the event.
So whatta we have?
A neuro who gets their kicks
outta driving people crazy?
Any connection
between the victims?
None, that we can tell.
Different backgrounds, different
professions, complete strangers.
I'd like to know if there
have been any other cases.
Can you get me into?
Every medical database
in the civilized world?
Gimme a half hour.
Yeah.
Okay, 45 minutes.
It would be useful
if we could trace back
to the first victim,
patient zero.
The first victim would,
most likely,
be the closest
to the source.
Miss branton
Yes.
I'm sorry,
what were you asking?
If anything unusual
happened before your
Breakdown?
Unusual?
No.
I went grocery
shopping that morning.
I came home,
put things away.
Then i heard this sound
A deep noise,
thumping and creaking,
all around me.
And i was so afraid.
Of what?
I don't know.
I had to stay quiet.
What were you hiding from?
I can't rember.
I don't want to
Please try.
Out.
I just needed to get out.
Why?
Don't you think they've
asked me that a hundred times?
I don't know why.
I just knew if i couldn't
find a way out i would die.
You were in a restaurant
and the door
But i'm not in
a restaurant!!
Where were you?
Somewhere
Cold.
Small.
Closing in all around me.
Collapsing?
No
I don't know.
Okay, okay,
You said there was
a creaking sound.
Anything else?
Light.
Above me.
I had to get there,
but i couldn't reach.
There was something
in front of me.
Flowers.
Flowers.
Good
What else?
I don't
want to do this
Please.
Keep going.
What else?
There was a hat.
A hat, you saw a hat
while you were climbing?
Yellow
A rain hat.
So cold
Okay, okay
You're doing fine.
Something else,
brushing against me.
I turned to look
I turned and
Mr.
Sloane?
Mr.
Sloane,
are you okay?
Get that away from me!!!
Get it away!!!
It's okay.
It's okay, it's okay.
Oh, god.
He had a very strong
reaction to my gun.
Well, you're a women
carrying a piece.
Maybe he's not as crazy as
everyone makes him out to be.
Makes more sense than
being terrified of flowers.
Guns and flowers.
Maybe they're holding an
axle rose nightmare.
Whatever sloane was trying
to get away from
Whatever he was seeing
Clearly terrified him.
In a small,
enclosed space.
It's all so damn vague.
What about mass
hallucination?
It's not unheard of.
But doesn't that usually
occur among people
who are in the same place
at the same time?
No!!
No!!
No!!!
Grab her!!
No!!
Please, don't hurt mommy!
Help!!!
What?
I don't think our victims are suffering
from mass hallucination.
Okay, I'm listening.
What if we have a neuro
that can pass on one nightmare
at will, to anyone they chose.
A neuro who can infect
others with his nightmares.
Nightmare.
In this case, the same
one over and over.
The question is why.
If we only had more
details of the dream.
We could piece the
facts together
Facts?
Recurring nightmares is often
associated with past experiences.
Especially
traumatic ones.
I know that for a "fact.
"
does the little lady
have bad dreams?
Tell me, sweetheart,
what's your nightmare?
I'm looking at it.
At least you're
dreaming about me.
Wait for it and Boom!!
Got it.
Patient zero.
First reported case
of this type.
Twenty-eight minutes
for the record.
Does that
include yesterday?
I just started today,
thanks for coming out.
Alright
This is the first case
i could find.
Went back ten years.
Nothing.
This went down one month before
alan sloane popped his cork.
Henry perkins.
I know that name.
It was all over the news
around ten years ago.
Man had an argument
with his family.
Settled it with
a butcher knife.
The kid who cut his parents' throats
while they slept, burned down the house,
went next door did the same
thing to the neighbors?
Exactly.
He's been at graymore
psychiatric ever since.
Was given cafeteria
privileges.
when he pulled the same stunt as
cho, sloane and branton.
Our three other victims.
If riley's right
If?
If perkins is patient zero that could
place him close to the source.
I know henry very well.
I've been in charge of his case since
he came to the institute.
He was an unhappy kid.
Unhappy?
He killed six people.
The best we've been able
to do is keep him stable.
Does "stable" include the
incident in the cafeteria
where he piled up
all the furniture
and tried to climb
to the top?
I hear he caused
almost a riot.
Henry's still reluctant
to discuss that.
Is there a way we could find out who
he had contact with henry that day?
Probably the same people
who see him every day.
the floor nurse, orderlies,
What about other
patients? Visitors?
Henry doesn't
have visitors.
Good one.
You've been practicing.
Good morning, elyse.
Hello.
How are you feeling?
Wonderful.
I sketched a butterfly
this morning.
He just sat there, like
he was posing for me.
Very nice.
Take it.
Thank you.
And how are you, teresa?
She hasn't said
a word today.
She won't
even look at me.
I got into medicine to try
and cure people.
I've become a warden.
But I'm sure you didn't come here
to hear a lecture
on the current state of
the medical profession.
Doctor, we've seen
other cases
Who experienced the same
nightmare as henry.
We're trying to piece together the facts
behind the nightmare.
Dreams are rarely factual.
But people do relive specific experiences
in their dreams.
Yes, but dreams are complex,
combinations
of fact and fantasy.
Very rarely literal.
So a cigar isn't
always a cigar.
These recurring images,
a yellow rain hat?
could mean many things.
Different to each person.
I'd like to find out
what it meant to henry.
I'd be glad to ask him
in our next session.
I was thinking more
of a face-to-face.
I'm afraid that
won't be possible.
Doctor, i'm afraid
that isn't your call.
We need to see him now.
Henry will remain in his
restraints at all times.
Don't approach him,
and don't get him
too agitated.
If you feel threatened
in any way,
there's a panic button
by the door.
I can have ten orderlies
to you in under a minute.
Send seven,
i'm here.
I need your weapon.
And anything else
potentially dangerous.
You gotta be prepared.
You are not
prepared for this.
What do you want?
To ask you
some questions.
Well, i'm kinda
busy right now.
I can come back later.
You another doctor?
No.
Writing a book about
psycho killers?
No.
Then it must be
my birthday,
and they finally got me
what i always wanted.
Hope you're into bondage.
Depends on the guy.
I hear you rearranged
the cafeteria while back.
So the doc tells me,
i don't remember.
You rember doing it
in your cell a week later?
No.
Then again in the exercise yard,
and again in your cell?
I said no.
You're a cop.
In a way.
How many people
have you shot?
Why?
Just trying to figure out
what we have in common.
I thought you
used a knife.
They get just as
dead, don't they?
Tell me about
the cafeteria.
You deaf?
I told you i don't
I don't believe you.
Why does a cop even care
about some lunatic
tossing around
a few chairs?
Because you're
not the only one.
What do you mean?
Tell me about
the cafeteria.
You tell me
what's going on.
What the hell's
happening to me?
You remember something, don't you ?
Sounds, feelings, hein
A deep creaking noise.
Get out!!
Dr.
Lewis!!!
You're all alone in
a cold dark space.
There's a light above you
and you have to get to it.
Henry?
Where are you?
He's coming.
Who is?
Who's coming?
I can't
I can't get out
Jane, get out of there.
Open the restraints!!!
I have to see what the
nightmare makes him do.
It's the only way.
Do it now!!!
Where are we, henry?
Have to get out
What do you see?
A light.
Up there.
I can't reach.
It's okay
Let me help you.
There's someone here.
Can you see who it is?
It's a a man.
Please, don't!
You're seeing things.
Flowers,
and a yellow rain hat.
Tell me about the man.
Can you see who it is?
What does he want?
No!! Can't breathe!!
Have to get out!!!
Open the damn door!!
No, no, no, no !
Do I need a prescriptionfor this ?
Just drink it,
it'll calm your nerves.
I did warn you.
Yes, you did.
Was it worth it?
I'm not sure.
He seemed to feel threatened
by someone's presence.
But he didn't say who.
No.
It means something.
Thank you, doctor.
You should have someone take a look at those
Oh yeah, but
The brandy works better
than you thought.
Given what we know,
the neuro had to get close to
Henry Perkins to "infect" him.
And we know where henry's
been for ten years.
That should narrow down
the list of suspects.
These are the staff members on
duty that day at the institute.
This is a list
of patients.
This is the visitor's log.
Anybody on those lists have
any connection to our other victims?
Of course not.
That would be too easy.
Then we yank dna
from all of 'em.
Over 200 people?
You know how long
that would take?
I'll help with the women.
We can rule out
the patients.
Most of the them are
restricted to the grounds.
They wouldn't have had
access to the other victims.
We should check
the staff duty logs.
See if anyone was
conveniently missing
on the days
the others were hit.
Visitors, too.
You gotta tell a fat
man to eat?
Riley,
go get a coffee.
Sure, boss.
Vasco
Uh?
You look like crap.
Guess you're not
asking me to the prom.
Go home get some sleep.
You're no good
to me like this.
How am i good to you?
Just go home and
get some sleep.
Alright.
Sleep, i rember that.
Something that used to happen somewhere
between lying down and getting up.
Now when it comes,
if it comes,
it's more like freddie's nightmare,
only without freddie.
It's just me and
my own special demons.
Mom?
I miss you.
Get back!
Please We don't
have anything valuable.
Shut up or i'll blow
your damn head off!!!!
No, don't!
Shut up or i'll blow
your damn head off!!
We tried to raise you
on your comm all morning.
Here, this'll warm
you up.
Thanks.
Damn neuro got in my head.
But unlike the others, you seem to
heal quite quickly.
How'd they get in?
Popped your front lock.
You need better security.
It just doesn't
make sense.
I'd heard someone
coming into my apartment.
Jane
What did you
have for dinner?
The usual.
Salad, some wine, why?
There's some slow-acting narcotic
in your blood stream.
No wonder you were acting
so strange last night.
What do you remember
about the nightmare?
Um
It started with my
mother, the funeral.
That damn rain hat
Absolute terror.
There was a guy,
just like henry perkins said.
Where was this?
I don't know.
But he had a gun.
I knew i had to hide
Water!
What about water?
Wherever i was It
was beginning to flood.
I had to hide but
then i had to get out.
There was a window
That's what everyone's
been experiencing.
They had to get to the window
because of the water.
They were drowning.
Would you stop!!!
Let me at least pretend
to take care of you.
Her heart's racing.
Sit down.
Probably not a coincidence
that the neuro chose
the lead agent on his trail
as his next victim.
Someone we interviewed.
Not likely one of it's victims.
The hospital staff.
Dr.
Lewis.
We need to do more
cross-checking.
Who was at graymore when
perkins had his breakdown
and who wasn't there when
the others were hit.
Have riley run
patient histories.
See who's suffering from
nightmares
involving drowning.
I'll do that.
But i want you to follow
doctor's orders.
I'm fine.
Doc
If she gives
you any trouble.
Shoot her.
I can't place one person in
the vicinity of all the victims.
We've got one nurse
who was out of town
when alan sloane
flipped out.
But she was on duty when
branton and cho lost it.
Looks like dr.
Lewis
travels a lot.
Including the day Perkins did his thing
in the cafeteria.
I'm telling you, nobody was in all
the right places
on the right days.
I thought i told you
to get some r and r.
Hard to r or r
when someone's gotten
inside your head.
Where are we on the
graymore psych staff?
Nowhere.
Our neuro must have tampered with
the records to cover his own tracks.
Anyway to "untamper" them?
Sorry i asked.
Did you give him
the lead about the water?
About the drowning
nightmare?
Yeah.
I'm working on it.
You know how many case histories
they've got at graymore?
I found this one guy who kept on
dreaming that he was
one of those, what he called,
those prima ballerina.
- But his tutu kept on coming up
- Riley
I thought it was
interesting.
Yeah, i know.
Riley, get back to work.
Alright, it looks like it's time for spent
on an another visit to "laughing academy.
"
Hey what's going on?
Minor security issue.
How minor?
Some of the door locks in
a wing malfunctioned
and the patients got
out of their rooms.
We're taking care of it.
We need to talk
to dr.
Lewis.
You and everyone else.
No one's seen him
since this morning.
I have to go.
That's convenient.
A security malfunction
that keeps everyone busy
while dr.
Lewis
goes awol?
The brandy!
It's a little early
for that, jane.
Dr.
Lewis gave me
that brandy
before i went
home last night.
Seth said someone slipped
me a slow-acting narcotic.
If lewis was here
this morning,
he couldn't have
gotten that far.
What's up?
I need a two hour
radius from graymore.
Assume by car.
Accounting for average
road speeds, traffic density,
homeland security
checkpoints
There's your search area.
Checkpoints
It would take forever to go through
their logs for the past hour.
Lewis is a doctor.
He'd have an
emergency pass.
And he'd use it to blow
through the checkpoints.
Riley
Flagging it in the logs.
Three emergency passes have
been used in the past hour.
This one's a block
away from the airport.
Alright,I gotta roll
Check to see
if he booked any flight.
Thank you.
I have looks and brains.
All i wanted was relief from a nightmare
that never seems to end.
By "offloading" it
to innocent people.
But just enough to
give me some peace.
When i discovered
that i could do that,
i never gave the entire
nightmare to anyone.
Including you.
So you're a good guy.
If you knew what i
was going through
Henry perkins was
your first victim?
Yes.
You weren't away
at a medical conference?
I had been.
When you asked to see
the institute records,
i altered them to show that
i was still absent
at the time
of henry's breakdown.
Why henry?
It wasn't intentional.
He was being transferred
to the cafeteria,
and he stumbled
in the hall.
I reached out
to steady him.
It was a moment
of contact
But i suddenly felt
lighter somehow,
as if a weight
had been lifted.
I can't explain it.
It took me a few days to
realize what happened to henry.
That brief contact had passed part of
my nightmare to him.
So why stop with one.
Relief from chronic suffering
can quickly become addictive.
It was cowardly, it was
cruel and selfish.
I can't deny that.
I need to talk to you.
In a moment, seth.
Now.
We've got
the wrong guy.
Seth,the guy just confessed.
And i've just been over his
genetic profile three times.
That man
is not a neuro.
Are you absolutely sure?
There's no margin for error
Sir, there's always
a margin for error.
But, in this case,
i am sure.
Dr.
Lewis
isn't a neuro.
Riley!
Yo!
New deal.
So lewis, he's either being
controlled by a neuro
or he's protecting the neuro.
What was the destination
on that airline ticket?
Richmond, virginia.
Plane would've
landed two hours ago.
Let's assume he's
protecting someone,
he's gone a long
way to do it.
Must be important to him.
Lewis' personal
life is a blank.
No family, no relatives.
Ever get anywhere with
that drowning reference?
Yeah,
one of the patients.
Been there since
she was a kid.
Seems her nightmares are
based on something
that actually happened
to her and her family.
Right,okay.
Can you get me a name?
Yeah, one sec.
Elyse danson.
She's missing from
the hospital.
He was telling the truth.
Everything he told us about offloading
that nightmare, is the truth,
only it wasn't his,
it was elyse's.
You're in love with elyse.
I sketched a butterfly
this morning.
Very nice.
Take it.
Thank you.
And after years of
trying to help her,
you stumbled across
something that did.
You think this crap is
going to get us anywhere?
Give her a chance.
When she made brief contact
with henry that day
And then i saw henry
reliving elyse's nightmare
I didn't understand it
But i know what i saw.
You can't imagine
what it was like.
To see some relief
in her eyes.
A brief smile.
A respite from the pain.
You've known elyse since
she was a little girl.
She came to the institute
when she was Eight?
Nine years old.
What happened?
I still don't
know all of it.
The coast guard found her drifting off the
coast of maine, in a life raft
she was curled up in the
bottom, shivering and alone.
She doesn't remember
anything before that.
But she dreams about
it, doesn't she?
Horrible dreams that
plague her every night
and haunt her when
she's awake.
But the remarkable thing is how hard
she tries to look past her own pain,
to sympathize with
the other patients,
to make them smile even while
she's holding back tears.
She can still see beauty through
her own darkness.
Her gentleness has helped
patients in ways
all our medications, research and
science can't even begin to reach.
If anyone in this world
deserves a moment's peace
Dr.
Lewis, if you feel as
strongly as you say you do,
the best thing you
can do for elyse
is to allow us
to bring her here.
Why, so you can put one of those things
in her head like you did to me?
The chip would only
makes a way that she couldn't pass
her nightmare
to anybody else.
And she'd continue
to suffer.
We can eliminate that, too.
Is that possible?
No.
Maybe you should
let her know that.
She already does.
There is no cure for
elyse's condition.
I've tried everything.
Everything you know.
But you see,
we have abilities here that are
beyond your wildest imagination.
I know what you're
trying to do,
but i won't turn
elyse over to you.
No, i don't think you know
what i'm trying to do,
i know what
they can do here.
I've seen them cure
people like elyse.
I know what they've
done for me.
You?
How do you think i recovered
from the nightmare so quickly?
She only made brief
contact with you
No, no, no, it wasn't
that and you know it.
You'd have me permanently
eliminated and I know you tried.
It's me,
and it's what the people
here did to me.
Oh, god!
Oh, god!!
I need some help in here!
How?
You tell me.
Are you willing to take
a chance on a miracle?
Or are you going to keep elyse
on the run for the rest of her life.
Let us help her.
Damn if she
can't tell a lie.
Two ways to get out,
one front, one back.
If you go charging in,
you'll only scare her.
She won't run if
she sees i'm alone.
Please.
Elyse has been through
so much already.
Let me make this
easy for her.
Cover the back.
Alright, you can
go alone.
Thank you.
We don't have too
much time, elyse.
I thought you said we had
all the time in the world.
Give me your pain,
all of it for good.
What's wrong?
This isn't right.
It's taking too long.
I watched you
convince that man.
He believed
everything you said.
You sold him
on the "miracle cure.
"
i'm beginning to wonder if
i'm not the one who got sold.
What is that?
Stay quiet.
Give it back!!
Please
We don't have
anything valuable.
Shut up or i'll blow
your damn head off!!!
Mommy, mommy!!
Daddy!!!!
This isn't right,
let's go in now!
Pain is pain,
what i saw when i went
through that door,
was as raw as anything
i had ever seen before.
And never wanted
to see again.
We have to be quiet.
There's nothing
valuable in here
There's nothing
valuable here!!!!
There's nothing
valuable here
Do you have any idea what
that man just did for you?
That's dr.
Lewis,
right?
The nice man
from the hospital.
So what is so important.
I've been looking deeper
into jane's dna
if we compare these two
samples, here and here.
You see the similarity.
If you say so.
It's by no means
an exact match
but the trace
markers are evident.
And the point is?
The sample on the right was
taken from Ruben Hennesey,
the telekinetic neuro you
apprehended last week.
This one is from jane.
It took me a while because i was looking
at the wrong cell quadrant.
Even then, it's
not an exact match.
What's your
conclusion, doctor?
There's no missing
the fact that jane's dna
contains very similar
indicator points
to those
we find in neuros.
Does she know?
I haven't told her.
Don't.
It's tough when
someone you love hurts,
you hear them say, if i could take on
your pain, I would.
Well, i bet if half of them knew
what it felt like, they wouldn't.
Dr.
Lewis had the opportunity to do just that,
and he took it.
Maybe the ultimate
expression of love,
even if it left him
mentally destroyed,
i don't know if
i could do that.
Then again, before i was pushed
out that window,
i don't know
if i could take on
my boyfriend's
in-grown toenail.
You okay?
I'm better.
You look better.
Some things never change.
That boyfriend's long gone.
Maureen's still here and i
still don't open up to anyone.
Which means, what
it always meant,
i'm going to continue
suffering internal pain
before the truck runs me over.