What was the Dreaming Death?
This storyline was about a disease discovered in a Central American country that caused hallucinations (dreaming) and death. I think that Spaulding was hoping to make a killing on a cure if it could be discovered at Cedars hospital (funded by the Spaulding Foundation). The researcher was Dr. Jim Reardon (Bea’s son, Nola’s & Maureen’s brother. Jim was involved with Nurse Hillary Bauer (Ed’s & Mike’s half sister). Warren Andrews was the sleazy hospital administrator at the time and he was in cahoots with Alan Spaulding — they had Dr. Jim Reardon holed up in some back room at the hospital at the time. In fact, he went by an alias at the time, but I cannot remember what it was. Everyone was very curious about him and hardly anyone saw him.. Sure enough, though, one by one different people saw him. I believe he and Hillary met because her curiosity got the better of her and she broke into the lab. Jim caught her and made her swear not to tell anyone. Ed was Chief of Staff and he was really
