Areal shot of a suburban neighborhood. Night. Slow zoom onto a single house in the neighborhood, then a second-story in that house. A woman, ANN, is sleeping heavily in the room. As the camera zooms onto Ann, she awakes with a start. Next scene, in a typical psychiatrist’s office; pale yellow walls, dark mahogany furniture, bookshelves, certificates on the wall, somewhere either a fountain is running or a noise machine is creating white noise. It’s mid-afternoon and sunlight is streaming through a partially closed window. Ann and DR. JON HWARTZ are in the middle of a session. Ann is lying on a couch and Dr. Hwartz is sitting in a big armchair set slightly back from the couch with a notepad and pen on his lap. During the session, Ann mentions that she’s had a recurring dream. In it is this mysterious man. Having an artistic background she opts to draw the man instead of try to portray him. As she draws she is focused, intense. This man seems to be important to her and she obviously wants to get the details right. Ann hands the sketch of the man in her dreams. He has a plane face, not handsome in any traditional sense. Some might describe it as creepy, actually. His face is round in shape; his eyes are a little too close together, his ears slightly lower than normal; his lips, drawn in a perpetual smirk, are thin, the top one almost nonexistent; he has bushy eyebrows and is balding. What really stands out about him, though, is the look in his eyes. He stares back from the page with intensity, the kind of intensity that is either caring and empathetic or criminal and insane. After studying the face, Dr. Hwartz thanks Ann and they exchange formalities as she leaves the office. The doctor glances at his watch and realizes he needs to leave for his next appointment. He glances again at the sketch and for some reason places it in his briefcase before heading out the door. The next scene is in a correctional facility. The room is bare except for a table with two chairs. The one window has bars on it. One wall has a mirror that is obviously a two-way mirror with possibly a guard on the other side. DARREN, a rather large, muscular, bald, black man sits across the table from Dr. Hwartz. Darren is getting counseling from Dr. Hwartz, although it’s not apparent what exactly he’s

being counseled for. Anger management or substance abuse maybe? At any rate, their session is over and Dr. Hwartz is putting his notes away as Darren glances at his briefcase and sees Ann’s sketch. A mixture of surprise, terror, and rage sweep across his face as he realizes he’s seen this man before. Like Ann, he’s only seen him in a recurring dream. He is reluctant to tell the doctor the details of the dram, but with some encouragement, he finally does. Darren’s dream is very different from Ann’s. His is of meeting the man in a bar then hooking up with him in the bathroom. This distresses Darren because he is heterosexual and more than a bit homophobic. After the startling realization that two of his patients who are completely different and seem to have nothing in common dream of the same man, Dr. Hwartz decides to call a colleague, DR. JUNE HARPER, a fellow psychiatrist who specializes in dreams. Dr. Harper confirms Dr. Hwartz’s suspicions that it’s highly unlikely, even impossible, that two completely different people would dream of the same man. She agrees to show the picture to some of her patients on the off chance that they have dreamt of him as well. After a few days, Dr. Harper calls back Dr. Hwartz with the surprising news that many of her patients had indeed dreamt of the man in the sketch. She is baffled as to how this is possible, though, and asks if she can forward the sketch onto some colleagues, to which Dr. Hwartz agrees. After many more calls come in saying that hundreds of people have dreamt of this man, Dr. Hwartz resolves to get to the bottom of this. Either some man is being seen by hundreds of people and leaving such an impression that their subconscious thinks of him at night, or someone is somehow taking over people’s dreams. Whatever the case, Dr. Hwartz swears to find out whom, or what, these people are really dreaming about.