The people they're talking to have the same nightmare, or at least parts of what appear to be the same nightmare. Mass hallucination is ruled out (good move).

Jane and Maureen walk in Greenmore as Dr. Lewis visits a few patients, including the butterfly-drawing Elyse Danzig, who looks like an even skinnier Ashley Judd. Theresa is a looker, with a mad killer foundation seeping through the surface.

"Got into medicine to try and cure people ... ah ... I've became a warden," Dr. Lewis says, hesitantly, as if he’s forgotten his line.

The two talk to him about nightmares and that a variety of different people are having them. He's skeptical, saying dreams are a combination of fact and fantasy and can rarely be taken literally. “A cigar is just a cigar in some cases,” Jane says, with a Freudian nod.

Jane wants to talk with Perkins and hospital staff approach him with Hannibal Lecter-like caution; all weapons removed, security on alert. Perkins has a long face, strong hands, and a robotic voice, Hal more than R2D2. And he's taller than Jane. She tries to get into his head and it's clear he enjoys causing people fear, but in this case he's a nightmare victim too, having three times stacked furniture to try and escape from something he can't remember.

She does a good job getting inside his head; too good as he breaks his restraints in a freakout. Though a few questions seem to calm him down, one more puts him over the edge and he starts hitting her with his arms, rather than closed fist.

Dr. Lewis is there to give her a calming brandy. She, of course, is fine, as Dr. Lewis remarks, perfectly healed from any bruising. "That brandy worked better than you thought” she says, sauntering out the door.

A nifty little exchange takes place later, that continues to hint that McBride and Vasco may become more than just colleagues. Though she doesn't look much different, McBride back at HQ says she "looks like crap." ... "I guess you're not asking me to the prom." ... "You're no good to me like this." ... "Well, how am I good to you?"

Voiceover Jane says she barely sleeps at all these days, a couple of hours a night max. She does sleep that night but wakes up with her own nightmare remaining on the shuttered, silver screen of her eyelids - a mom flashback, and water, and what looks like flotsam from a plane crash. The next morning, her furniture is stacked high against the walls.

Dr. Seth finds a narcotic in her bloodstream and Lewis' brandy is the only thing she's ingested out of the routine of "salad and wine." Lewis cops to it after they track him down, he says he "offloads” this nightmare to others, but never the complete nightmare because it would kill people. He says he discovered what he could do after he accidentally stumbled into Henry in the hall and felt a great relief as his pain ebbed away