Jack and
Syd later track her secret coordinates to a location near the
San Andreas fault, where they find a severed hand bearing a
Rambaldi tattoo. Meanwhile, Lindsey has the FBI arrest Dixon
for impeding a federal investigation. Lindsey is suspicious
of Lauren's story but agrees to trade for Syd.
The group visits Brazzel's lab and find him and his assistant
Kaya to be extremely eccentric. He believes dreams contain
memories so, through a cocktail of dangerous drugs, he fools
the brain into entering a lucid dream state. Once in this state,
Syd must follow the thread of her last memory — and be
wary of new, traumatic memories.
Brazzel administers the drug and Syd enters the dream state.
It's a surreal mix of past and present. She remembers being
picked up by 3 hooded men after her fight with evil Francie.
They inject her with something. She regresses to childhood — she
cuts a birthday cake, which becomes a severed hand, and sees
the face of a strange man. Back to the hooded men; she follows
as they take her limp body to Room 47. Lauren guides her away,
saying "You know better," then tries to strangle
her with hanging plastic.
In the real world, Brazzel revives Syd as she goes into cardiac
arrest. When she awakes, she kisses Vaughn passionately, believing
herself still in a dream.
Syd says it was Lazarey's hand. Marshall's forensics prove the
hand was attached to a living man only 4 months ago. Jack says
the incriminating tape could have been a performance. Syd tells
Vaughn that Lauren strangled her, but Brezzel says it was probably
just a representational figure. Syd goes back under.
Sloane meets Lindsey, who says he'll make the trade but wants
Sydney assassinated in what appears to be a Covenant double-cross.
Lindsey tells Sloane, who's wary of entrapment, that he knows
what he's up to and gives Sloane an envelope containing some
sort of proof.
DNA from the Kremlin confirms the hand belonged to Lazarey, which
means Syd didn't kill him and Lindsey has nothing on her.
Syd is dreaming again. She's in a car, called a St. Aidan, with
Dixon. She takes the box that contained the severed hand and
walks into her apartment. Weiss and Marshall are there gambling.
She enters the hanging plastic. Lauren tells her to leave.
Syd chokes Lauren, who becomes a Sydney doppelganger. They
struggle, the double says to trust Lazerey. Sydney shoots and
kills the double and enters Room 47. "Oh my god," she
says.
