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* TakenFromADream: Towards the end of the episode, Lyta finds herself getting pregnant in a dream... and when she finally awakens from the happy dream, she finds that the pregnancy has somehow carried over into the real world and she's now sporting a very noticeable baby bump.

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Morpheus and Lucienne, discussing the Rose and Jed Walker situation, are surprised to be interrupted by Rose herself, who wants to know what's going on. Despite Lucienne's misgivings, Morpheus explains to Rose her nature as a Vortex and explains that the same aspect of her power which allowed her to overhear their conversation and follow it into a part of the Dreaming that's closed to mortals will also allow her to find Jed's dream. Morpheus agrees to help her search through the Dreaming the following night, and tells her in the mean time to keep looking in the waking world.

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Morpheus and Lucienne, discussing the Rose and Jed Walker situation, are surprised to be interrupted by Rose herself, who wants to know what's going on. Despite Lucienne's misgivings, Morpheus explains to Rose her nature as a Vortex and explains that the same aspect of her power which allowed her to overhear their conversation and follow it into a part of the Dreaming that's closed to mortals will also allow her to find Jed's dream. Morpheus agrees to help her search through the Dreaming the following night, and tells her in the mean time meantime to keep looking in the waking world.



* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: As far as the Corinthian's designs on Jed are from being benevolent in any way, he is the one to whisk him away from his abusive caretakers Barnaby and Clarice -- while presumably killing and eating their eyes. He also kills social worker Miss Rubio in order to find them, after she repeatedly refused to tell Rose where Jed was or even permit the siblings to see each other.



* DramaticIrony: Hal flirts with the Corinthian, not realizing that he's a serial killing nightmare.

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* DramaticIrony: Hal flirts with the Corinthian, not realizing that he's a serial killing serial-killing nightmare.



** It seems like Jed manages to slip a note into the social worker's bag, but Corinthian turns up to murder her before she has a chance to look in her bag. A scene later it turns out Barnaby noticed and stole the note before she left.

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** It seems like Jed manages to slip a note into the social worker's bag, but Corinthian turns up to murder her before she has a chance to look in her bag. A scene later later, it turns out Barnaby noticed and stole the note before she left.



* KickTheSonOfABitch: As far as the Corinthian's designs on Jed are from being benevolent in any way, he is the one to whisk him away from his abusive caretakers Barnaby and Clarice -- while presumably killing and eating their eyes. Doubles as BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork. He also kills social worker Miss Rubio in order to find them, after she repeatedly refused to tell Rose where Jed was or even permit the siblings to see each other.



* MysticalPregnancy: After dreaming of having sex with her dead husband, Lyta dreams that she became pregnant, and due to the influence of Rose as the dream vortex, she wakes up to find herself multiple months pregnant in the waking world as well.

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* MysticalPregnancy: After dreaming of having sex with her dead husband, Lyta dreams that she became pregnant, and due to the influence of Rose as the dream vortex, she wakes up to find herself multiple several months pregnant in the waking world as well.



* PetTheDog: Double Subverted with Dream and Rose's dream walk. As promised, Morpheus guides Rose to control her dream vortex abilities so that she can find her brother's dream... before he takes Gault from it and rather callously bids Jed to wake up. However, Rose's reunion with her brother was just long enough for Jed to pass along the names she needed to find his fosters' home address.

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* PetTheDog: Double Subverted with Dream and Rose's dream walk. As promised, Morpheus guides Rose to control her dream vortex abilities so that she can find her brother's dream... before he takes Gault from it and rather callously bids Jed to wake up. However, Rose's reunion with her brother was just long enough for Jed to pass along the names she needed to find his fosters' foster parents' home address.



** In Zelda's dream she says that no one understands her except Chantal, and that together they are "secret brides to faceless slaves of the nameless night of the Castle of Dread Desire", a reference to Creator/NeilGaiman's short story "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" %%which he began writing before that issue of ''The Sandman'' comic, although it wasn't completed and published until after
* SwarmOfRats: Jed's superhero dreams starts going wrong when a huge number of rats bursts out of a sewer manhole and swarms over him, reflecting the fact that in the real world he's locked in a rat-infested cellar.

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** In Zelda's dream she says that no one understands her except Chantal, and that together they are "secret brides to faceless slaves of the nameless night of the Castle of Dread Desire", a reference to Creator/NeilGaiman's short story "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" Desire". %%which he began writing before that issue of ''The Sandman'' comic, although it wasn't completed and published until after
* SwarmOfRats: Jed's superhero dreams dream starts going wrong when a huge number of rats bursts out of a sewer manhole and swarms over him, reflecting the fact that in the real world he's locked in a rat-infested cellar.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Stoic as Dream is, he cracks a grin when he sees the 12-year-old Jed's dream of being a campy superhero version of the Sandman. He [[AdaptationalNiceGuy does have the decency not to break into hysterical laughter the way his comics counterpart did]], probably because Jed is a kid who's very obviously being completely earnest. It probably also helps that he's less overtly ridiculous than Hector Hall was in the comics.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Stoic as Dream is, he cracks a grin when he sees the 12-year-old Jed's dream of being a campy superhero version of the Sandman. He [[AdaptationalNiceGuy does have the decency not to break into hysterical laughter the way his comics counterpart did]], probably because Jed is a kid who's very obviously being completely earnest. It probably also helps that he's less overtly ridiculous than Hector Hall was in the comics.


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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Morpheus, on being confronted with a mortal claiming to be the Sandman, has the decency not to break into hysterical laughter the way his comics counterpart did, probably because Jed is a kid who's very obviously being completely earnest. It probably also helps that he's less overtly ridiculous than Hector Hall was in the comics.
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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Jed's dreamscape is an idyllic suburb where he gets to be a powerful superhero protecting kids,mwith his mother as MissionControl... but it takes almost nothing to twist it into a nightmare, like Jed going to confront a rat-themed villain ending up with him being helplessly swarmed by rats. It's hinted that it's Gault's nature causing this; she genuinely wants to help Jed and turn his dreams into a positive and empowering experience, but since she is a nightmare she can only create a hollow and ultimately meaningless power fantasy that's little more than a facade for darker and scarier things.

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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Jed's dreamscape is an idyllic suburb where he gets to be a powerful superhero protecting kids,mwith kids, with his mother as MissionControl... but it takes almost nothing to twist it into a nightmare, like Jed going to confront a rat-themed villain ending up with him being helplessly swarmed by rats. It's hinted that it's Gault's nature causing this; she genuinely wants to help Jed and turn his dreams into a positive and empowering experience, but since she is a nightmare she can only create a hollow and ultimately meaningless power fantasy that's little more than a facade for darker and scarier things.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Stoic as Dream is, he cracks a grin when he sees the 12-year-old Jed's dream of being a campy superhero version of the Sandman.

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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Stoic as Dream is, he cracks a grin when he sees the 12-year-old Jed's dream of being a campy superhero version of the Sandman. He [[AdaptationalNiceGuy does have the decency not to break into hysterical laughter the way his comics counterpart did]], probably because Jed is a kid who's very obviously being completely earnest. It probably also helps that he's less overtly ridiculous than Hector Hall was in the comics.


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* CrapsaccharineWorld: Jed's dreamscape is an idyllic suburb where he gets to be a powerful superhero protecting kids,mwith his mother as MissionControl... but it takes almost nothing to twist it into a nightmare, like Jed going to confront a rat-themed villain ending up with him being helplessly swarmed by rats. It's hinted that it's Gault's nature causing this; she genuinely wants to help Jed and turn his dreams into a positive and empowering experience, but since she is a nightmare she can only create a hollow and ultimately meaningless power fantasy that's little more than a facade for darker and scarier things.

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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Rose finally discovers where Jed is - only to arrive to find Jed's foster parents dead and Jed missing again.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Attempted by Lucienne who tries to gently argue with Morpheus when he banishes Gault, pointing out that she changed from her original function. This backfires badly and gets her demoted back to being a librarian.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Rose finally discovers where Jed is - only to arrive to find Jed's his foster parents dead and Jed missing again.
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* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Rose finally discovers where Jed is - only to arrive to find Jed's foster parents dead and Jed missing again.

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* FairytaleMotifs: In the original comic, Gilbert told Rose the story of 'Red Riding Hood', which is an allegory for her relationship with Unity, and the Corinthian was compared to the Big Bad Wolf. While the storytelling scene is cut from the show, the Corinthian plays the rock song 'The Big Bad Wolf' by The Heavy after 'rescuing' Jed, continuing the comparisons between the two villains.

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* FairytaleMotifs: In the original comic, Gilbert told Rose the story of 'Red Riding Hood', which is an allegory for her relationship with Unity, and the Corinthian was compared to the Big Bad Wolf. While the storytelling scene is cut from the show, the The Corinthian plays the rock song 'The Big Bad Wolf' by The Heavy Music/TheHeavy after 'rescuing' Jed, continuing the comparisons suggesting a comparison between the two villains.Corinthian and TheBigBadWolf.
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* FairytaleMotifs: In the original comic, Gilbert told Rose the story of 'Red Riding Hood', which is an allegory for her relationship with Unity, and the Corinthian was compared to the Big Bad Wolf. While the storytelling scene is cut from the show, the Corinthian plays the rock song 'The Big Bad Wolf' by The Heavy after 'rescuing' Jed, continuing the comparisons between the two villains.
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** In Zelda's dream she says that no one understands her except Chantal, and that together they are "secret brides to faceless slaves of the nameless night of the Castle of Dread Desire", a reference to Creator/NeilGaiman's short story "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" (although she used the same line in the comics which predate the short story so Gaiman may have been shouting out the line with the title).

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** In Zelda's dream she says that no one understands her except Chantal, and that together they are "secret brides to faceless slaves of the nameless night of the Castle of Dread Desire", a reference to Creator/NeilGaiman's short story "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire" (although she used the same line in the comics which predate the short story so Gaiman may have been shouting out the line with the title).%%which he began writing before that issue of ''The Sandman'' comic, although it wasn't completed and published until after
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** In Zelda's dream she says that no one understands her except Chantal, and that together they are "secret brides to faceless slaves of the nameless night of the Castle of Dread Desire", a reference to Creator/NeilGaiman's short story "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire"

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** In Zelda's dream she says that no one understands her except Chantal, and that together they are "secret brides to faceless slaves of the nameless night of the Castle of Dread Desire", a reference to Creator/NeilGaiman's short story "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire"Desire" (although she used the same line in the comics which predate the short story so Gaiman may have been shouting out the line with the title).
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* FosteringForProfit: Barnaby's only interest in Jed is the money he's being paid to look after him.
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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Although Ms. Rubio is at least actively trying to check on Jed this episode, she, for some reason, never tries to speak to ''him'' in private, only Barnaby and Clarice. It apparently doesn't occur to her that Jed might be too scared to tell the truth in front of them, or that the two might straight-up lie to her.

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* DepartmentOfChildDisservices: Although Ms. Rubio is at least actively trying to check on Jed this episode, she, she had to be guilted into it by Lyta and, for some reason, she never tries to speak to ''him'' in private, only Barnaby and Clarice. It apparently doesn't occur to her that Jed might be too scared to tell the truth in front of them, or that the two might straight-up lie to her.
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* {{Dreamville}}: Jed's dream world is an idyllic suburban neighborhood; specifically, as Rose recognizes, it's a replica of the neighborhood where they were children together before their family split up.
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* ThemeNaming: Ken and Barbie, whom we met in the last episode are all too aware that their names make everyone think of [[Franchise/{{Barbie}} the dolls]]. In this episode they mention planning to meet a friend called Sindy, who also shares her name with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindy a doll]].
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** In Zelda's dream she says that no one understands her except Chantal, and that together they are "secret brides to faceless slaves of the nameless night of the Castle of Dread Desire", a reference to Creator/NeilGaiman's short story "Forbidden Brides of the Faceless Slaves in the Secret House of the Night of Dread Desire"
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* Adaptational Attractiveness: The comic's Uncle Barnaby was a slovenly FatBastard and Aunt Clarice was a shriveled old crone with a twisted scowl. The show has them much more fit and attractive.

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* Adaptational Attractiveness: AdaptationalAttractiveness: The comic's Uncle Barnaby was a slovenly FatBastard and Aunt Clarice was a shriveled old crone with a twisted scowl. The show has them much more fit and attractive.
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* Adaptational Attractiveness: The comic's Uncle Barnaby was a slovenly FatBastard and Aunt Clarice was a shriveled old crone with a twisted scowl. The show has them much more fit and attractive.
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* NotWearingPantsDream: Ken dreams of Barbie locking him outside naked while she sits there in the car watching impassively. This mundane dream serves as a contrast to those of his wife, who dreams of being the heroine of a heroic fantasy world.

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* NotWearingPantsDream: Ken dreams of Barbie locking him outside naked while she sits there in the car watching impassively. impassively, which is implied to be a result of a misdemeanour on his part. This mundane dream serves as a contrast to those of his wife, who dreams of being the heroine of a heroic epic fantasy world.
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* NotWearingPantsDream: Ken dreams of Barbie locking him outside naked while she sits there in the car watching impassively.

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* NotWearingPantsDream: Ken dreams of Barbie locking him outside naked while she sits there in the car watching impassively. This mundane dream serves as a contrast to those of his wife, who dreams of being the heroine of a heroic fantasy world.
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* AnimalEyeSpy: Morpheus dispatches Matthew, a talking dream raven, to travel with Rose Walker in the waking world as his eyes and ears. It's not specified whether he can do the same with other dream entities, or if it's a special [[{{Familiar}} Dream's Raven]] thing.
-->'''Matthew:''' I can feel him in the back of my head... it's the weirdest feeling.


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* MissionControl: In Jed's superhero dream, his mother (actually Gault playing the role) has a station in his headquarters with many computer screens and controls, and advises him over an earpiece.


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* SwarmOfRats: Jed's superhero dreams starts going wrong when a huge number of rats bursts out of a sewer manhole and swarms over him, reflecting the fact that in the real world he's locked in a rat-infested cellar.

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* CompositeCharacter: In the comic, there were two rogue nightmares, Brute and Glob, hiding in Jed's superhero dream. In the series, their role is taken by a single rogue nightmare, Gault.



* DramaticIrony: Hal flirts with the Corinthian, not realizing that he's a serial killing nightmare.



* GirlsStareAtSceneryBoysStareAtGirls: Inverted when Hector and Lyta have moved into their dream house. Hector stands and admires the landscape, while Lyta looks at him.



* MythologyGag: Jed's dream of being a superhero is a nod to the comic being part of the DC Universe.

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* MythologyGag: Jed's dream of being a superhero is a nod to the comic being part of the DC Universe. All the supervillains whose names are mentioned or whose faces are shown in Jed's personal dream world are actual DC universe characters, as is the superhero named Sandman, whose costume Jed adopts.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The circumstances of Lyta's dream-husband and pregnancy are very different in the comic, and are tied into the nightmare-and-Jed dreamscape rather than being a consequence of her connection to Rose. (In the comic, she doesn't even meet Rose until after Jed's rescue.)

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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The circumstances of Lyta's dream-husband and pregnancy are very different in the comic, and are tied into the nightmare-and-Jed dreamscape rather than being a consequence of her connection to Rose. (In the comic, she doesn't even meet Rose until several years after Jed's rescue.)
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* CruelToBeKind: Morpheus says that this is why there are nightmares; by forcing dreamers to face their fears, they're ultimately helping the dreamers develop. Gault says that it's still cruel and she doesn't want to do it any more.
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Morpheus and Lucienne, discussing the Rose and Jed Walker situation, are surprised to be interrupted by Rose herself, who wants to know what's going on. Despite Lucienne's misgivings, Morpheus explains to Rose her nature as a Vortex and explains that the same aspect of her power which allowed her to overhear their conversation and follow it into a part of the Dreaming that's closed to mortals will also allow her to find Jed's dream. Morpheus agrees to help her search through the Dreaming the following night, and tells her in the mean time to keep looking in the waking world.

Having failed to get any information out of Miss Rubio, Jed's caseworker, Rose decides to distribute flyers with a photograph of Jed. Hal, the owner of the B&B, and most of the other occupants volunteer to help hand them out. While Rose and Hal are passing out flyers on the beachfront, the Corinthian takes a flyer from Hal but decides against approaching Rose when he realizes that she's being watched by Morpheus through Matthew.

Lyta goes to visit Miss Rubio again, and fails to get any information out of her but does persuade her to visit Jed's foster home to confirm that he's being treated well. His abusive foster father, after concluding that denying a visit would be too suspicious, pulls him out of the rat-infested basement where he's been locked up since his last escape attempt and threatens him to make him behave for Miss Rubio's visit. Jed still tries to slip Miss Rubio a note asking for help, which gets him locked in the cellar again.

Rose goes to sleep and finds herself wandering through the dreams of the B&B's other occupants before Morpheus arrives and guides her to find Jed's dream: a recreation of their childhood home where he is a brightly-colored superhero called The Sandman with the help of Gault. Jed tries to protect his friend, but Gault surrenders to make sure Jed doesn't get hurt. Morpheus summarily ends the dream, but not before Rose has talked to Jed and got enough information about his foster parents to find their address after she wakes up. When she reaches their house, however, his foster parents are dead and Jed is gone -- the Corinthian found him first.

Meanwhile, Lyta has been having a recurring serial dream of being reunited with her late husband Hector, in the house they always dreamed of building. Dream-Hector tries to persuade her to stay in the dream where they can be together and start the family they always wanted. Lyta wakes from a dream of being pregnant with their first child to find that, due to the growing effect of the Vortex, she is now pregnant in real life as well.
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* AdaptationalBackstoryChange: The circumstances of Lyta's dream-husband and pregnancy are very different in the comic, and are tied into the nightmare-and-Jed dreamscape rather than being a consequence of her connection to Rose. (In the comic, she doesn't even meet Rose until after Jed's rescue.)


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* AlienSky: The sky in Barbie's heroic-fantasy dream has two moons.


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* RevealShot: When Rose is on the phone to Unity, updating her on the progress of her search, Unity mentions that she's being visited by a journalist who wants to know about her experiences. The camera then pans around to show that it's the Corinthian, who's come to find out from her where Rose is now.
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* ThatWasNotADream: PlayedForLaughs the day after Rose meets Morpheus and the [[TalkingAnimal talking raven]] Matthew in [[DreamLand the Dreaming]]. She sees a similar-looking bird, tries to talk to it, and has just enough time to feel foolish before the real Matthew pipes up from nearby.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny: Stoic as Dream is, he cracks a grin when he sees the 12-year-old Jed's dream of being a campy superhero version of the Sandman.



* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Gault's existential dilemma, in essence, is this. Despite being a nightmare, she has grown tired of sticking to that role, and would rather help to inspire/enable someone (especially Jed, who uses his dream role of being "The Sandman" to escape his abuse).

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* WhatMeasureIsAMook: Gault's existential dilemma, in essence, is this. Despite being a nightmare, she has grown tired of sticking to that role, and would rather help to inspire/enable someone (especially Jed, who uses his dream role of being "The Sandman" to escape his abuse).abuse).
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* BadSamaritan: Corinthian is easily able to persuade Jed to leave with him, by posing as someone his sister sent.

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* BadSamaritan: Corinthian is easily able to persuade Jed to leave with him, by posing as someone his sister sent.sent to rescue him.

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