FRINGE S01E17 Bad Dreams
Olivia Dunham (Anna Torv)
Grand Central Station – Nighttime
(Risa Pears, pushes her 18-month old daughter, Lucy, home from the circus late in the evening in a stroller, through a fairly empty Grand Central Station. Three floating circus balloons — red, yellow and blue — are attached to the stroller. She is approached by an ill-kempt man.)
MAN: Evening, little lady.
(Risa ignores the man and continues to the platform.)
RISA: Baby, we’re gonna run.
(she just misses train number seven.)
RISA: Damn it! Mommy didn’t say that.
(sooner than expected, another train approaches as Lucy plays with the attached balloons.)
RISA: It’s our lucky day, Baby. Here it comes.
(Lucy unties the red balloon and it floats upward. Risa reaches for the balloon, and as she does so, the front of the train pulls even with her. Immediately, someone with long blond hair and a dark coat rushes from behind her and pushes her in front of the train.)
RISA (gasps): Oh โ
(from another viewpoint, the murderer is Olivia Dunham.)
Olivia’s Home – Awakening
(at that moment, Olivia jolts awake in her bed from the nightmare vision she had. Disturbed, she gets up. Several hours later, she is sitting in the kitchen working a crossword puzzle with the television news on in the background.)
WEATHER REPORTER: We have a low-pressure center here, backed up with a cold front coming across the east. And then, here in the west, we’ve got a high-pressure ridge coming in with a warm front that’s descending across the western part of the country…
(Rachel enters the kitchen.)
RACHEL: I always hated you could do that.
OLIVIA: I always hated that you could date two guys at the same time.
RACHEL: (looking at nearly empty coffee pot): Really, Liv? What time did you wake up? Are you okay?
(Ella arrives unnoticed.)
ELLA: Aunt Liv, I’m getting vascinations.
RACHEL: Vaccinations! Come on, baby, go get dressed.
ELLA: They put something dead inside you. Dead! Into your blood. Gruesome.
RACHEL: Ella Jae, please go get dressed.
ELLA: Yes. (leaves room.)
OLIVIA: Gruesome.
RACHEL: Gruesome? That’s a good word.
OLIVIA: (reading a crossword clue): “Ten Across. A Jabberwock’s…”
TELEVISION REPORTER: …and in other news, a suicide on the new york subway system last night got rush hour off to a slow start this morning. Risa Pears, a New York City school teacher and mother of an 18-month-old daughter flung herself in front of an oncoming train last night while returning home from the circus. Subway service between…
(Olivia stares at screen and recognizes the face of the woman she dreamed of murdering last night.)
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