Walter's Lab Notes

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Walter's Lab Notes are semi-canon trivia put out by the tv network for each episode of the first season. The Lab Notes contain photos and commentary from Walter, pertinent to each episode's experiment. They also reveal personal perspective on his life, work and odd particulars. Notes have not been published since Season 1.

Gallery Of Lab Notes

Pilot Project 269, Exploration 17	The Same Old Story Project 397, Exploration 23	The Ghost Network Project 773, Exploration 13	The Arrival Project 643, Exploration 3
Power Hungry Project 491, Exploration 7	The Cure Project 1050, Exploration 1	In Which We Meet Mr. Jones Project 269, Exploration 18	The Equation Project 577, Exploration 5
The Dreamscape Project 269, Exploration 19	Safe Project 1069, Exploration 1	Bound Project 1087, Exploration 1	The No-Brainer Project 1091, Exploration 1
The Transformation Project 269, Exploration 20	Ability Project 1097, Exploration 1	Inner Child Project 773, Exploration 14	Unleashed Project 709, Exploration 16 Radical Transgenics
Bad Dreams Project ???, Exploration ??	Midnight Project 1109, Exploration 1	The Road Not Taken Project 449, Exploration 5 Plus two unnumbered	There's More Than One Of Everything Project 617, Exploration 9

Recurring Themes

• The notes from Pilot, In Which We Meet Mr. Jones, The Dreamscape and The Transformation had the same project number (269) and sequential exploration numbers (17, 18, 19 and 20), all deal with transferring memories from one person to another.
• The notes from The Ghost Network and Inner Child had the same project number (773) and sequential exploration numbers (13 and 14). Both deal with using the neuro-stimulator to convert thoughts into words.
• The River Lethe, in Greek mythology, is the river of forgetfulness. The river is referenced in the notes for Power Hungry and Inner Child.
• The typed message (A New Day In The Old Town) appears to have been similarly created (alt-universe counterpart) as Walter's dialogued notes (The Equation).

Floor Plan

• The
  
  notes from Ability through The Road Not Taken contained approximately square images with grayish backgrounds and red curves which appear to have been torn from a blueprint. Placed together and properly sized, these images show a Fibonacci spiral. If Fibonacci values (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13) are assigned to the blocks, they appeared in the order 1, 1, 2, 5, 13, 3, 8 (The 3 and the 8 are arguable because they both appeared in The Road Not Taken).
• In his notes for There's More Than One Of Everything, Walter comments that he "had finally put the pieces together, but the answer should have been obvious all along." He continues, "S. S. Kresge would have understood." Walter attributes the precise dimensions of his laboratory to Kresge, who had founded a chain of dime stores that later became Kmart stores. Kresge was a philanthropist who, among other things, is the namesake of the factual building at Harvard University in whose basement Walter's fictional laboratory is placed.
• Midnight skipped the #8 block in the sequence. Close examination reveals what looks like city blocks from an aerial view.
• The Road Not Taken notes contained the last two blueprint segments completing the floorplan to Walter's Lab.

Fibonacci-Oriented Floor Plan

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