dream electric sheep dream electric sheep fourth episode season american science fiction drama television series fringe 47th episode overall half season alternated entire episodes parallel universe prime universe dream electric sheep took place prime universe involved including eventually captured attempts maintain cover minimize damage episode written served director hour aired october united_states estimated million viewers received positive reviews critics praised plot focus plot prime universe senator reviewing fringe division activities hospitalized following car accident hospital arrives shoots face escapes fringe team discover walter finds body alive degree second brain hopes use wife shannon try study posing prime universe olivia informs newton development newton contacts second ray infiltrate secured location body held remove data disc walter ultimately find ray regrets possibility having leave current identity police officer wife son peter discover acquired number records personnel fringe team likely information aid parallel universe noble secured facility able clear peter walter lab order allow ray access lab ray continues avoid shifting new body walter returns lab confirm theory interrupted ray ray successfully removes data device knocks walter flees newton ray requests able return family newton kills near home time fringe division identified ray address spotting newton engage car chase eventually damaging newton car recovers data disc newton hides taking newton custody later visits newton high security prison passes equivalent suicide causes self bleed mercury realizes peter suspicious actions sleeps draw away attention production episode written executive producer assistant csi crime scene investigation veteran served director fringe credit date interview entertainment_weekly executive producer explained role soldiers organic mechanical bleed mercury able shape human kill sent years ago able cross safely human act sleeper agents dream electric sheep featured second appearance guest actor senator appearance episode guest star played villain despite character death executive producer hinted later twitter post return fringe episodes fox released science lesson plan collaboration grade school children focusing science seen dream electric sheep intention having students learn memory ability store retain recall information experiences cultural references episode title dream electric sheep refers science fiction novel dream electric sheep later adapted film novel dealt means human exploring emotion long actually develop real feelings like episode pretended developed feelings victims families peter drinking bar science fiction movie invisible boy playing television background character robot visible episode walter makes requests order provide brain deceased senator van horn portrait president copy reception ratings dream electric sheep watched million viewers united_states share households share viewers aged reviewer commented low ratings point rated cable good numbers broadcast time shifted viewing increased episode ratings percent adults resulting rise reviews episode received positive reviews los_angeles_times thought episode continued series season hot streak wished promo senator fully buy peter relationship expected peter realize different loved focus episode graded explaining strong episode brings favorite fringe concepts crazy super powered mtv enjoyed plot wrote latest episode fringe marks fantastic installments row instantly establishing season having strongest opening act previous year science fiction series fringe drastically altering ingredient successful format true identity create wholly new amazing television pity gave episode entertainment_weekly ken_tucker enjoyed episode writing week fringe contained love great villain episode didn use shifted title joke dreams dreams hopes took variety forms open salon praised performance season thought thought provoking episode major implications peter olivia relationship moving forward called episode season despite approving plot acting writing uniformly obvious kind terrible head stupid moments count noted similarities film predicted relationship cause peter discover true identity
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