Pilot

• There is a Massive Dynamic logo on Flight 627's engine. (Image 1)
• Charlie said "Logan is one of the first airports with the PEARL autopilot system." This system was designed by Massive Dynamic. (Image 2)
• There is a Massive Dynamic logo ('MD') on the car found in the storage unit. (Image 3)
• Information about Peter: he's a high school dropout who worked many jobs including being a fireman, cargo pilot, and college chemistry professor. He falsified his degree from MIT, and he speaks Farsi.
• William Bell, the head of Massive Dynamic, shared a lab with Walter long ago.
• The Massive Dynamic billboard says 'MANDALA', possibly a purposely misspelled reference to the Mandela Effect, a phenomenon of false memories often shared by many people. A well-known example of a widespread false memory is many people thinking the Berenstain Bears books from their childhoods were actually spelled Berenstein Bears. The notion of personal and widespread false memories becomes a big theme in Fringe.
• The Kresge building mentioned in this episode is a real building at the Harvard School of Public Health.
• The text on Broyles' whiteboard is from a real Homeland Security document.
• The canoe in Olivia's dreamscape says "Zeno", a possible reference to Zeno's Paradoxes. "Whereas the first two paradoxes divide space, this paradox starts by dividing time." Or it could be a reference to the Massive Dynamic website which says "What's next? Travel time follows a power law, decreasing by a given factor year by year. MD's Zeno-Transit Initiative aims to take that process to the limit, making near-instantaneous travel a reality in your lifetime." (Image 4)
• The canoe has an aleph on it (Phoenician alphabet).
• The tombstone in Olivia's dreamscape says "He's Not Dead." (Image 5)
• The pole outside Massive Dynamic has an ad for glowingmonkeys.com, which has the tagline "I know they're watching, from the dark...".
• The idea for Massive Dynamic was likely inspired by real companies such as Boston Dynamics and/or General Dynamics.

• The pilot episode opens with a plane incident, and Morgan Steig is passenger number 108, both references to Lost.
• The theme song (in this episode only) has a flip-board-like sound in the background (similar to the countdown timer sound in the hatch in Lost).
• Walter worked for a classified U.S. Army experimental program called Kelvin Genetics (J.J.).
• The Massive Dynamic billboard seen here references "Credit Dauphine", a fake financial organization seen in Alias.

• The leaf glyph is on the electronic keypad at Massive Dynamic.

- Project 269 - Exploration 17 -

For seventeen years my circadian rhythms have been manipulated by the dread nurses of St. Claire's. What they hoped to accomplish with their pre-dawn intrusions, I can only guess! It gives me such joy to turn the lights on and off at my own whim -- and to resume the explorations I began so long ago, in this very laboratory. The ratio of floor dimensions is the key. How can I be expected to make true progress without understanding the proportions of my space?

That the blonde-haired woman has consented to participate -- despite my direst warnings, which I am nearly certain I provided, despite the interruptions from my progeny -- is most gratifying. The experiment promises to strengthen my still inadequate grasp of the fundamental principles of human consciousness. All this despite my concern about the perils of mental transference and theta-wave commingling that affected the rodentia in 1970.

The quantities in the infusion must be absolutely precise to the nanoliter to assure full integration -- particularly with regard to the 1.618 : 1 ratio of serotonin to lysergic acid diethylamide, which must be preserved at all costs, and which exactly duplicates the 1.618 : 1 ratio of musa acuminata to sucrose in my favorite recipe for banana bread. The incorrect ratio will result in surplus or insufficient moisture, ruining the texture. The precise ingredients for the recipe are as follows:

250 g bleached triticum aestivum
207 g sucrose (white)
115 g bovine dairy lipids
5 g sodium bicarbonate
2 g sodium chloride
2 gallus domesticus eggs -- remove albumen until volume is 92 mL
335 g musa acuminata, peeled and mashed

Inclusion of nuts is not recommended. Mix all dry ingredients, combine moist ingredients separately into a single emulsion, then merge and place in metal container with semi-solid lipid coat. Place entire mixture in a baking chamber at a temperature of 177 degrees Centigrade. Approximate wait time may range from 60 to 66 minutes -- which, coincidentally, is the same expected waiting time for the merging of consciousnesses after establishment of a neural connection. Theta waves should be coordinated at 5-6 Hz. Severing of the neural link after this point may result in disorientation, hallucination, convulsions, shock, and sometimes death, but these must all be regarded as normal.