The two Canadian National locomotives in 'Night Of Desirable Objects' each bear the logo "CN". This foreshadowed the goal of "Project Tin Man" in 'Fracture', to combat the effects of Cyanogen, a nerve gas with a chemical formula of (CN)2, and alludes to the fact that the Cyanogen-related explosion occurred in a train station.
FRINGE DIVISION CASE FILE #203-10109
FRINGE EVENT: Human bombs via injected serum
CLASSIFIED CASE CONNECTION(S): Experimental military project—Project Tin Man
AGENTS ASSIGNED: Dunham, Francis
SUPERVISING AGENT: Broyles
FILE ARCHIVED BY: Jay Gettmann
WITNESSES/CONTACTS: Agent Tevez, Susan Gillespie (spouse), Colonel Raymond Gordon (suspect), Dr. Malik Yusef
LOCATION: Suburban Station, PA; Gillespie residence; Baghdad, Iraq; Federal Center Station, DC
VICTIM(S): Officer Daniel Gillespie (Philadelphia PD), Captain Diane Burgess
CASE REPORT SUMMARY:
A single explosive device was detonated at Suburban Station in Philadelphia. Eleven dead, twenty-eight wounded, but no signs of explosive residue at the scene or any forensic markers. Magnetic static wiped all images. A diamond-hard crystal found at the site led to the revelation that the bomb was Officer Daniel Gillespie.
RAYMOND GORDON: "...Meanwhile, we go through our lives unaware. The enemy is among us and nobody's doing anything about it. We don't have any idea the end is coming. So we had to take matters into our own hands. We had to send them a message."
BROYLES: "What was in the briefcase?"
GORDON: "They told you I was crazy, didn't they? The Pentagon. They said I'd had a psychiatric break. I told them what I'm telling you. That they are here. Collecting data. Making observations. That's what's in the briefcase. They've been planning for war. And they've been passing the information via courier right under our noses."
BROYLES: "Who are 'they'?"
GORDON: "We don't know who they are. But I can tell you what they want. They want to exterminate us. So they're studying us - our culture, our technology, our science - and they plan to use it against us. One way or another. We'll find out who they are. But by then, I suppose it won't really matter. Because whatever is in those cases is going to destroy us all."