TROPES
- Intoxication Ensues: Broyles accidentally touches Walter's LSD when he tries helping clean the lab, leaving him in a drugged state for the rest of the episode.
- Journey to the Center of the Mind: Walter and Peter join William Bell in Olivia's mindscape.
- Riddle for the Ages: Just who was that guy in the "X" T-shirt? (See Wild Mass Guessing.)
- Shout-Out: To Inception and comic books.
- Your Mind Makes It Real: Thankfully averted. Both Walter and Peter fall victim to gruesome deaths in the dream, but they wake up in the lab with no harm done.