High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Nightswimming" is the eighth episode of the American television police procedural fantasy drama Awake, which originally aired on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) on April 19, 2012. Written by Leonard Chang and co-executive producer Davey Holmes, "Nightswimming" was watched by 2.8 million viewers, including 0.9 percent of those aged between 18 and 49 in Nielsen ratings, upon its initial broadcast in the United States. Directed by executive producer Jeffrey Reiner, this episode received generally mixed reviews.