Reiden Lake

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Reiden Lake is a fictional body of water located near Schenectady in East-central New York State.

"Reiden Lake" was visited in There's More Than One of Everything by David Jones and his team. After unsuccessfully trying to locate, and pass through, a "soft spot" between parallel universes on two attempts elsewhere, he established a stable passage in the forest near Reiden Lake.

Olivia accurately determined that the lake was a likely passage point because of the bizarre events, and crimes that radiate outward from the location. She led the law enforcement raid on Jones, and intercepted him just as he was about to travel through the rift he had established.

Peter and Walter found their way to Reiden Lake with a mechanical device that could patch, or seal, the rift between the parallel universes. They arrived just as the tactical team was engaging Jones' forces. Peter and Olivia teamed-up and isolated Jones just as he was walking through the event horizon. Olivia shot Jones, to no effect, however, Peter activated the device and closed the rift as Jones was walking through it, bisecting Jones upper torso and skull.

The lake was addressed again in Grey Matters. Olivia suggested that Walter's abductors may haven taken him to the lake to learn of the technology to establish a portal between universes.

Walter told Olivia about the incident that happened in 1985 - in Peter. In the backstory, Walter used Reiden Lake to open up a door between two universes and allowed him to bring Peter over to this side. It was believed that the body of water was able to buffer the energy created by the portal. When Walter and Peter successfully crossed over, the ice cracked and the two fell in. The Observer rescued Walter and Peter. This incident was known as Zero Event in the parallel universe and central to Walternate's ZFT (Over There, Part 1).

Theories about this topic should be addressed at There's More Than One of Everything/Theories