Fringe Season 1 Episode 17: Bad Dreams

As last night’s episode of Fringe opens, we see a woman pushing her young daughter in a stroller through the subway station. The woman is waiting on a subway platform when Olivia pushes her in front of the train. Olivia wakes up and realizes it was a bad dream but then hears on the news the same woman killed herself in a subway station during the night. She asks permission to go to NYC and investigate. Of course, Peter goes with her to check it out.

They speak to the police in New York, who tell them the woman’s name was Risa. They watch the surveillance tape and talk to Risa’s husband who says she had no reason to commit suicide.

Once they return to Boston, we see Olivia in a nice restaurant, a couple at the table next to her is bickering. The wife stands up, holding a knife, Olivia gets up from the table takes the woman’s arm and stabs the man in the stomach. She wakes up, realizing what has happened and calls Charlie to report a murder.

Olivia and Peter go to the hospital, they speak to the wife from the restaurant who says she has no idea what happened, she tells them she felt like he was going to leave her and the anger took over. Then, the pair go to the restaurant, to question the owner. Olivia sees a broken coffee cup, just like one she saw in her dream and asks who was sitting at the table. He tells her it was a man with blond hair and a scar on his face. Olivia realizes she knows who the man is.

Back at the lab, they re-watch the surveillance tapes from the subway suicide and see the same man just before the woman jumps off the platform. Walter thinks Olivia is seeing what this man sees in her dreams.