Falling Water season 2, episode 5 preview: Promotion

Falling Water delves into the origins of the elusive Shadowman on tonight’s episode, “Promotion,” as the rabbit hole sees no daylight.

Last episode, Falling Water’s Taka finally convinced his partner Alex that it’s possible to infiltrate someone else’s dreams, that he wasn’t experiencing madness. His method? Taka literally went into Alex’s dream and they shared a game of baseball in the park, he then recited her dream quote word for word. It appears Alex has now embraced the idea as they work together to locate an opal of evidence to prove the whole concept ‘by the book’.

Meanwhile, there’s something Bill Boerg is hiding in regards to his former patient Lainie Whicker. Boerg told Tess while she was not as powerful of a dreamer as her, she was the closest he’d seen. Tess and Burton agreed to temporarily utilize Bill Boerg’s sleeping pods, which are capable of tapping into dreams from distant lands, to locate Whicker for prospective information. Her disappearance seemed suspicious to say the least, especially the revealing confidential video in which she told Boerg she was finished with the program.

Last episode, we saw Lainie Whicker was being held captive somewhere against her will in her dreams. Is this the work of a yet to be revealed faction among the wild west of dream capitalism? Or simply the work of Bill Boerg, perhaps using Lainie and the Shadowman’s mystery as bait for Tess and eventually James?

The Attractive Appeal of Falling Water’s Sleeping Pods

The brightly lit sleeping pods have a certain allure of the future, the kind of mystique you’d see in a classic Sci-Fi film. They hold your attention in a way on-screen as the imagination runs wild about the infinite possibilities of the device. The pods are reminiscent aesthetically of Sci-Fi films like the Alien franchise, Life and, Passengers. In this case, the twist is their ability to travel to dreams instead of hibernation

The Long-Term Side Effects of Using Sleeping Pods

We saw nose bleeds as a side effect for both Tess and Burton upon arriving back from their dream state in Boerg’s sleeping pods. Though Boerg was adamant that’s just a minor side effect still being worked out, is it the only one? Are there long-term side effects resulting from continued use? Perhaps, what led to Lainie Whicker’s current predicament? She did ask Tess if she was real when she encountered her in the dream.

Falling Water: “Promotion” Sneak Peak

Is Lainie Whicker the sister of Bill Boerg? Or even Tess? Though vague in the Falling Water sneak peak for tonight’s episode, the dialogue appears to indicate so. Tess asks Boerg why he didn’t file a missing person’s report on Lainie to which Boerg responds, “When it comes conversation, your sister is off limits.” At first sound of that, it sounds like Lainie is Tess’ sister but then Tess responds, “But yours isn’t.” A game changer, Lainie Whicker could indeed be Bill Boerg’s sister.

We’ll find out tonight if Boerg’s reference to a sister was just a turn of phrase regarding ‘sisters in dreaming’ or biologically a sister.

Catch up on Falling Water

Missed an episode? No problem! Catch up on Falling Water’s season 2 premiere “Shadowman“,“Watchers”, “Safehouse”, and “Dröm” on USA Network.com.

If you’re an Amazon Prime member, the entire first season of Falling Water is currently available for Prime members at the time of this article’s publishing.