The poem recited by George Hodel at the beginning of the episode is the first stanza of "A Dream Within a Dream" by Edgar Allan Poe :
- Take this kiss upon the brow and in parting from you now thus much let me avow. You are not wrong, who deem that my days have been a dream. Yet if hope has flown away, in a night or in a day, in a vision or in none. Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.