In this deleted scene from The Sandman episode 1 "Sleep of the Just," Alex Burgess (Laurie Kynaston) confronts his father Roderick Burgess (Charles Dance) about the mysterious "Sleeping Sickness" caused by their capture of Dream (Tom Sturridge).

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Dream Dangerously. Enter the world of The Sandman on August 5, only on Netflix.

There is another world that waits for all of us when we close our eyes and sleep—a place called the Dreaming, where The Sandman, Master of Dreams (Tom Sturridge), gives shape to all of our deepest fears and fantasies. But when Dream is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for a century, his absence sets off a series of events that will change both the dreaming and waking worlds forever.