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
But rather than take his word for it as they seem to have done with every other neuro, they double-check Dr. Lewis and, oops, Dr. Seth says it's the wrong guy. His blood isn't the same as other neuros.
Faced with the medical evidence. Dr. Lewis says he was trying to protect Elyse, who came to the hospital as a 9-year-old, having been found adrift off the coast of Maine. Elyse does not deliberately give other people the nightmares, it just happens.
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