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"I do apologize for the intrusion, Doctor. Something came up."

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"It's time to come home, dear."

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"This has gone on long enough."

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"Now, now, Lindsay. Patience is a virtue with some of us."

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"I don't have to explain every decision that I make I make to everybody. See you later."

Synopsis

Episode #213: "Bad Dreams"
Case File #340-212
Written by Will Dixon
Directed by Stephen Williams

Carole Sanderson (Tonya Lee Williams), recovering in her hospital bed from routine knee surgery, suddenly cries out from a terrifying dream and bleeds spontaneously from deep wounds. The Office of Scientific and Investigative Research (OSIR) arrives to secure the building following the inexplicable occurrence. The team interviews Nurse Dan Pullman (Rothaford Gray) who witnessed the event, but he is adamant that no stranger was ever in the room. Certainly the patient in the other bed remained unharmed, even though she lay helpless in a coma.

After initial interviews with Senior Analyst Lindsay Donner (Nancy Anne Sakovich) and Case Manager Matt Praeger (Matt Frewer), Carole relates her dream to Chief Medical Officer Dr. Anton Hendricks (Colin Fox). She says that in her dream she was being held in an abandoned building, and was brutally attacked by a Masked Man wielding a knife. During the assault she saw a woman encircled by radiant light, but the woman was unable to help her. The next night, Lindsay dozes off while keeping watch at Carole's bedside, and, when the attacker returns in Carole's dreams, Donner also experiences her nightmare. The two women awaken, their fingers and nails shredded, as both had tried to escape from the dream and the terrifying Masked Man.

The team discovers that Carole was once a patient at the Seigel Sleep Clinic, so Donner goes undercover as a patient to find out if there's a connection. Under observation, Donner has a disturbing dream in which she remembers a tragedy from her past: a college friend was stabbed to death while waiting alone for Lindsay, who showed up late to meet her. Then the dream dissolves into another horrible attack by the Masked Man, and once more she wakes up with real injuries -- the same injuries that Carole has also sustained that same evening. But this time, Donner has found a break in the case, because she recognizes the mysterious woman from the dream as the comatose patient who shared Carole's room. She finds that Alice Ashley (Collette Micks) bears scars from the same knife wounds. It seems Donner and Carole are experiencing Alice's real life nightmare, when she was attacked and left for dead in a deserted warehouse. When she visits the real warehouse with Praeger, Donner is able to locate the knife the police never found, because she saw its location during her dream state.

Realizing she has the power to end Alice's and Carole's nightmare, Donner goes back into the netherworld for a final confrontation with the attacker. But time is running out, because Carole is also now comatose from more spontaneous injuries, consistent with being beaten with a pipe. In the dream Donner turns on the Masked Man, knocking the treacherous lead pipe from his hands, and pushing him down a flight of stairs. He lies motionless, then disappears. When she awakens, Donner finds that both Carole and Alice are out of danger, both women having miraculously come out of their comas. As the three women recuperate, further investigation reveals Alice was also once a patient at the Seigel Sleep Clinic -- could it be a refuge for the real Masked Man?