Toads

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Toads and/or frogs.

The Dreamscape:

1. Agent Olivia Dunham received a late night e-mail from John Scott revealing an address, 1312 Labrador Lane. Olivia found her way to a storage area in the basement on Labrador Lane and discovered a box full of toads.
2. Dunham had the toads sent to Doctor Walter Bishop's Lab along with a terrarium and ten pounds of live insect larvae. The toads, Bufo Alvarius, secrete a psychoactive compound, a very powerful hallucinogen that directly affects the Amygdala - the fear center of the brain. They also produce psycho-physiologic effects, otherwise known as psychosomatics. The ability of the mind to cause actual physical changes in the body.
3. Mark Young and George Morales suffered, and died, from those effects, when their bodies manifested physical changes imagined in the brain. In Young's case, the potency in his blood was at least 30 times that any sane person would ingest, suggesting someone gave him the drugs.

Night Of Desirable Objects:

1. Walter utilizes one of the creatures in a simple lab demonstration, attempting to duplicate the conditions of Olivia's travel between parallel universes.