FlashForward: Season 1 Episode 14 - Better Angels

Hello Future Dwellers!  We had another great outing of FlashForward last night.   Lots of action, great visuals and more twists and turns than you could shake a stick at!  Of course, being on the Thursday before a holiday weekend, probably nobody even saw it.  I know that I had problems fitting it in last night and I do not have much time to recap but I will try my best to give you all your money's worth.  Let's dig in!

Better Angels followed a couple main story lines.    There were some brief scenes with Bryce and Nicole at the hospital which we'll try to knock out pretty quickly.  Then we had Mark and Olivia's marriage crumbling as they try to explore Charlie's FlashForward.  But, I think we can all agree that the significant part of the story and the most visually stunning was Demetri, Janis, Simon and Vogel's trip to Somalia.  We learned some very interesting tidbits, almost proved my Janis pregnancy theory correct (I said almost!), and that final twist will have us talking for 7 days! (you know, because they'll go right back to it next Thursday, I'm guessing)

Bryce and Nicole

Bryce's story opens up with him huddled over a toilet throwing up.  I actually forgot that he had cancer.  It has been so long since we discussed it.  Of course, in terms of the show, it's only been a few episodes since we found out.  That 3 month break was rough!  But this was a good reminder.  When he leaves the bathroom he bumps into Nicole.  And their budding friendship/relationship continues to grow. 

• We find out that Nicole is studying to become a doctor.   She's keeping it low key because she's afraid she will fall flat on her face. 
• Bryce is very supportive but tells her to pick the right name as he ponders Dr. Kirby.  Hard to tell if he's kidding or not but he tells Nicole that his real name is Martin Goathead.  Ouch! 
• Nicole senses that Bryce isn't feeling too well, but Bryce plays it off at first. 
• Later on we see Nicole bagging up a 100 packs of graham crackers because he promised some kid if they stood still for their x-ray she would.  Bryce again is supportive of her going to become a doctor.  He gives her his "lucky calculator" that got him through many tough times of Med School.  Sweet gesture.  Look out again Keiko!

• Nicole does the math and realizes it will take her 12 years to become a doctor.   And then they'll be able to work together.  And right after Bryce said he doesn't lie, he had to come clean on having cancer.   He says he might not be around in 12 years.   For some reason I thought he felt cured in his FlashForward, but I think he just saw something worth living for.  (Might be mixing it up with that other mythology show again and ROSE's "feeling" that she was cured)

The Interrogation of Charlie

Mark starts off his day talking to Stan back at FBI HQ.  They talk D. Gibbons for a little bit, and Mark understands that he has to get information out of his daughter's head about what she saw in the flash.  Back at home, Olivia is still trying to convince Mark to run away from it all.  Mark's loyalty and desire to unravel the mystery behind the blackouts seems to be what causes their undoing (if they let it).  Here are some of the main points we learned. 

• Mark shows Stan the Hydra picture from his Flash Forward Board.  7 heads, bad breath, Killed by Hercules.   He then talks about Dyson Frost (D. Gibbons) and his background.  Brilliant, Reclusive, Particle Physicist, trained in Engineering at MIT, Minor in Victorian Literature.  He was a domineering father who only spoke to his kids in French even though they grew up in Wyoming.  BIZARRE.  He also became a Chess Grandmaster at age 15 (Yep, the white Queen they found in from Pigeon, Utah)
• "Dyson Frost" supposedly died in a boating accident in 1990 on a boat called Le Monst de Boaistuau (French for Monster. Excuse me if I spelled anything wrong!) but also represents French writer Pierre Boaistuau who was an 18th century French writer who had illustrations of monsters in his books.  The more well known would be our favorite HYDRA picture.

• Mark tells Stan about Charlie's cryptic words from her flash "D. Gibbons is a Bad Man".   Stan tells him to "be like hercules and slay the beast.  Mark gets his mission to get the information he needs out of Charlie's head so he can find Dyson Frost. 
• Mark returns home and talks to Olivia.  Olivia has been researching Denver.  She continues thinking they should run away.  She has done her research.  2 Major hospitals need surgeons and FBI has a division there.  Mark jokes around with her and she says that they don't have to make any decisions but should soon.  Mark kind of just blows it off (Penny did not look happy!) 

• Mark goes right into the Charlie Flash thing and how he needs to find out what she said.  Mark wanted to bring her into the FBI to their specialists, but Olivia offers to make an attempt first. 
• Later on Olivia does have a sit-down with Charlie.  We can't let an episode go by without talking about SQUIRRELIO!  Olivia uses it as an analogy in trying to get Charlie to talk. 

• Charlie is clearly afraid and is worried that if she tells that it's going to come true.  Olivia promises that nothing bad will happen.  Tough promise to keep! 
• We continue in Charlie's flash in the kitchen where she is with Dylan.  Dylan got his cookie then overheard Lloyd talking to Mark on the phone "The Man you call D. Gibbons is a liar".  Dylan then went to the Fridge and said "Bad People Lie" and started putting magnetic letters in order to spell out "D. Gibbons is a Bad Man!" Nice:

• So Charlie did not see D. Gibbons in the flash.   She said she heard fireworks next and went to the back door.  Hmmm, did people set off Fireworks in celebration of April 29th 10pm actually happening? 
• Anyway, Charlie sees 2 men talking outside the back door and one of them says "Mark Benford is dead".  We do see a glimpse of the 2 men and if you pause it you could see who one of them was. But we get the reveal at the end of the episode anyway! 

• But I am confused, I guess Lloyd was off the phone with Mark at this point?  We know that the masked men, 3 star tattooed men come after him at the end of his flash, but how would they know he was dead so quickly?   Pretty intense though and definitely raises the stakes a bit!  
• Olivia is convinced now more than ever that they need to move away from all of this.  Mark, refuses to believe that it will happen and he wants to see his investigation through and prevent the next blackout.  Olivia foresees how their marriage crumbles.  Mark needs things to play out like he saw but one of the things that plays out is that they're not together anymore.  Yep, we've been saying this for months now!  How can you have it both ways?  Olivia makes a compelling argument, and Mark just can't agree with her.  He's too far into it.  Granted, we do not see him make a decision, but this wouldn't be much of a show if the man with all of the answers encrypted in his head just got up and left right?   (I know some would argue it would be an improvement to the show, but love it or hate it, Mark is definitely important!)   

Somalia

Finally, we made it to Somalia folks!  And it didn't disappoint.  We spend a majority of the episode in this locale (which looked amazing, I must say) and learned a few interesting tidbits.  Of course, my favorite was all of the extra personnel they brought with the cast (infamously referred to as Red Shirts ever since Star Trek).  We knew these guys were gonna get killed from the moment we saw them!   Let's dive in. 

Arrival

• On the Red Panda chopper, there is a translator teaching our FBI heroes a few lines of Arabic including "I don't eat Dairy" and "What did YOU see?"  Janis said she was baking bread in her flash (Get it?  Bun in the oven?).  Demetri lies and says he was water skiing.  The guy on the right? Something tells me he didn't see anything in his flash! 

•  Janis tells Demetri that DUTY calls and she won't be able to start baking that bread this weekend.  Of course, if you recall last week I put the theory out there that Janis may become desperate since she is supposed to get pregnant NOW, that she may turn to the nearest man around.  I predicted Simon may use his flirtatious ways and there might be alcohol involved.  And, while we don't get an answer by the end of this episode...I may not have been far off!  Just picked the wrong guy.  We'll get there folks. 
• Once they land, everyone assembles their artillery and equipment and prepare to move into the town with the lone tower.  Simon requests a gun from Vogel.  Vogel refuses as Simon is in an advisory role.   Yeah, that story doesn't last too long!

• They head into town and see the tower.  There is a marking on it when they look close up.  66:6 (creepy!)   This, we find out refers to the Koran Chapter 66 verse 6 "save yourselves and your families from a fire whose fuel is men and stones;" Simon quotes Dante when he says "Abandon hope all ye who enter here" which was symbolic to the entrance to hell.   Take from it what you will.  I still say creepy!  Plus, we learn who put the number on there and why later. 

• It isn't long before they find out they are not welcome in this town.  There are lots of armed men around the tower who start opening fire and one crazy guy who keeps shooting at the ground as he walks towards them.  

• Vogel tells the translator guy to tell crazy man that they are relief workers with Red Panda.  Crazy guy doesn't even waste much time as he just just shoots the translator.  And yes, we find out he speaks perfect english.  One Red Shirt down! 

• His name is Abdi Kalif and he knows the real reason these guys are here.  He recognizes Simon from TV admitting they were behind the blackouts.  Abdi claims that God caused the blackout and Simon merely put his finger on the button.  He sees through the lies, pulls a page out of their Red Panda book with the towers and says that he knows they are all there for the tower. 
• Abdi mentions there were others that came to the tower too.  We flash back to 1991, and it is revealed that Abdi is the kid that was outside of the town when the towers were activated.  He said foreigners came to their town and promised, under false pretenses, that they would provide infinite electricity.  And they built the 5 towers.  But he now knows that those towers were not built for electricity. 

• He returned to the town after tending to the goats and saw the whole town collapsed.  He went into details though of how they were there but appeared to be gone.  We get a glimpse of his mother with a necklace he describes later. 

• And now joining our Kangaroo in weird animals just popping up, Abdi sees a Black Camel during this initial blackout.  Huh??  When he saw the black camel he ran.  A black camel is apparently a bad omen in Abdi's culture....

• We return to the present and Abdi shows his craziness by taking the pilot and explaining to them that he's here for a purpose.  They then take him in the other room and shoot him.  Purpose SERVED!  Woaaaa crazy much?   He asks who these Red Panda people really are and what their true purpose is.  He threatens to kill them if they do not reveal the purpose. 

Turning the tables

• The crew are held hostage and hang around pondering their options.  Apparently Demetri and Vogel already had a plan to act up like they are getting into a heated argument and cause a distraction.  It worked, but Demetri got a nice shot to Vogel's face in the process.  NICE! 
• Their plan now is to get back to the chopper, get some weapons and neutralize Abdi's men.  Yeah, but Abdi's men have Rocket launchers now.   They did succeed in getting the chopper and grab the guns...and Simon gets his gun as well!  Naturally, Abdi rolls in with an armored vehicle with a huge machine gun on top.  

• Abdi ends up shooting his own men and then tells the MOSAIC squad that they will fulfill their part of the plan.   Abdi then threatens Red Shirt #3 (guy from the helicopter) to try and find out who these people are again.  He crumbles under the pressure and tells Abdi that they are CIA here to investigate the tower and they are security.
• So all is out in the open and they tell Abdi what is up.  They have reason to believe the blackouts happened on  a smaller scale in 1991.  Abdi doesn't believe it as he thought all of the people of the town died.  He saw the Black Camel, ran and when he returned, the town was cleared out.  "Death is a Black Camel that kneels at every man's gate"    When he returned to the town, he came armed (a "changed man") and the bodies were all gone.   We don't find out how much tine had passed, but only one tower remained when he left.  Where did the other towers go?!  Did they destroy them, transport them somewhere else? 

• Abdi then spoke of his Flash Forward where he was speaking out about the "Better Angels".  He called himself the new face of Somalia and was telling the world.  He believes everything that has happened was part of God's plan.  He translated this to mean he will rule the country.  And realizes he was wearing his mother's necklace in the flash as well.  He believes the CIA can help him win his war.  He wants planes, tanks and boats.  Ahh yes, a man with a plan! 

• When Vogel refuses to comply, Abdi shoots ol Red Shirt #3 to prove how powerful he is!  Told you he was gonna get whacked! 

Janis's Revelation

• The MOSAIC squad has more time to reflect.  And Janis has the striking realization of what the "Better Angels" referred to.  And she wants to prove it to Abdi.  She asks for a computer to get access to the MOSAIC database.  She explains that "Better Angels" is from Lincoln's inaugural address.   They were in a Civil War just like Somalia now.  "Better Angels" was a speech about unity.  The MOSAIC database shows that there were many people who had flashes have seeing Abdi speak.  We find out it was a Peace Conference and people were inspired by Abdi's words.  They referred to Abdi's mother's necklace that he was wearing.  Abdi did not have possession of that necklace yet.  In his speech he is cited as directly quoting Lincoln's address  "will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature".  

• Janis reveals to Abdi that his destiny is to STOP the war, not start one.   Abdi becomes a believer and less of a threat. 

Heading into the Tower 

• Abdi is sold on the fact that in 1991, that was indeed a blackout and they saw the future.  But they still couldn't explain where the bodies went. 
• Abdi tells tells them that he painted the 66:6 on the tower as a warning and has never gone in.   But now, he believes it is part of his destiny.  
• Simon is befuddled that this tower even existed.  What he designed was theoretical and could only be done in the future.  And yet, here it is and has been standing there for 18 years.  

• They head inside and Simon is confused further.  As we learned before the tower was built prior to Simon coming up with the concept in 1992.  Simon realizes this is exactly what he designed.  Perhaps getting Simon to come to Canada at such an early age Flosso was able to perform experiments on him that unlocked future thoughts of his?   But why wouldn't Simon remember that?  Maybe it ties into the work D. Gibbons was stealing from Lloyd around the same time as well? 
• Vogel suggests that they hauled 4 of the 5 towers away and then the war came.  And that they haven't come to claim the 5th tower because the war hasn't stopped.  But we may find out by the end of the episode why the tower remains there. 
• Demetri finds a Chess Board very similar to the one we saw in Pigeon, Utah.  This reeks of D. Gibbons!  Which makes sense because they also find a VHS tape with Gibbons studying the effects of the 1991 blackout!  Gibbons asked each person what they saw.  The one kid said he saw himself playing a game and in a couple weeks it came true.   Then we see Abdi's mother who says  she was looking for Abdi.  She could find him but she had hope.  She knew he would become great. 

• D. Gibbons states that the study proves that the people uniformly experienced a consciousness shift 2 weeks into the future.   So we know D. Gibbons has been involved since the beginning.  Not a big shocker, but it is to them! 
• Simon finds a basement door and they head in.  They find a linear accelerator (whatever that is) with a "DANGER" Radiation sign on it.  Simon says that this was 1 of 5 and were smaller less powerful versions of the ones they use at NLAP.   So they realized that they created a perimeter around the village with the towers to conduct the small scale experiment.  Didn't we already assume this!?!  But yes it explains why Abdi didn't lose consciousness because he was outside the perimeter. 

• Demetri assumes this means that more than one tower was used to cause the current blackout.  Simon says that technology moves fast.  The rules don't apply anymore.  I guess if they were somehow using technology that couldn't be invented yet in 1991, could they potentially be using technology that may not exist in 2009/2010 either?   
• And of course there was one more unveiling in this trip to the tower.  A room full of skeletons!  Yep, the whole town full of bodies were in there, shot to death.  Including Abdi's mother (we know how he got the necklace now)   Was anyone else thinking "DHARMA GRAVE?"  (okay, 2nd and last LOST reference for the day!) 

 

• Abdi did not react to this news well, and returned to his violent ways.  He thought he had a destiny sent by God to avenge his people's death.  He put a gun into Simon's chest and Vogel shot and killed Abdi.  WOA.   Yet another flash that won't come true. 

Janis's Baby Making Plans

• Janis was upset knowing that this wasn't supposed to happen.  Abdi should have lived on to become an advocate for peace.  This is one more strike against her and her desire to have a baby.
• And then, almost if I could see the future myself, we then see Janis in her bedroom upset and desiring alcohol.  Demetri is there to save the day.  They have a long talk about how she needed to conceive the baby this weekend.  Demetri says that the weekend isn't over yet.  And then he ever offers his services! WHAT?!?!    Janis had named the baby Willa and she still wants THAT baby. And Demetri, disregarding having a fiance', said that the chances are he is not going to be around in a couple months.  It would be nice if Willa was.  Awwwww in a weird way that was kind of sweet.  But totally wrong!  Janis is gay and Demetri is engaged!   So, I'm not ruling Simon out just yet but considering it has to happen in the next day or so it seems like Demetri might be the guy.  If that's the case, I offer Kudos to the readers that called it! 

Simon and Vogel

• Simon ended up with a rifle for fixing the Somalian's satellite TV.  Nice!  He then tells Vogel in his vision that he killed a man.  Of course, now we know that he already did it.  He was awake during the blackout.   He then unwraps his finger that got chopped off.   WARNING, the next picture is graphic!!  (i'll make it as small as possible)

• Simon then asks Vogel what he saw, and we find out Vogel was the man outside of the Benford house delivering the news that Mark was dead.  WHAT!?!   Vogel says he was doing his job.  Hmmmm is Vogel on the Gibbons/Dental Flosso side?  Or was he just reporting the information for the FBI.  Who is the other man he is talking to?   Vogel says he was doing his job.  I guess we'll find out what that all means.  But, I guess we're all interested for Charlie to run into Vogel now aren't we?   

Back in the Tower

• Demetri is in the tower watching the D. Gibbons video and Simon comes in.  Demetri couldn't sleep and is pondering life, death, fate.  Simon tells him not to ponder too much.  The greeks did and mostly ended up dead. 
• After the little chit chat, the VHS tape was still running static and then the video returned with D. Gibbons. 

"Hello Demetri.  My name is Dyson Frost and I am recording this message in 1991.  Got your attention didn't I? 

WOA

TO BE CONTINUED!!! 

Pretty awesome way to wrap up the show wasn't it!?  I mean, what?  D. Gibbons knew about Demetri in 1991.  He knew that they were going to be at that tower.  Probably why the tower is even still there.  Does he know that Demetri is going to see nothing in his flash?  Is he going to give Demetri some information that will change the way he looks at things and inevitably lead to the scene between Mark and Demetri with a gun pointed at him?  Lots of things to speculate, but one thing we can speculate is that this is not the end of the video we are seeing here.  So I'm excited to tune in next Thursday and find out what else Mr. Frost has to say! 

I think I went a little overboard with the pictures and recapping in this one.  But I didn't want to leave anything out.  Always a sign of a great episode!  Hopefully, this is a sign that the show will keep improving and possibly become MUST SEE TV for a larger population (not to borrow an NBC term or anything).   Right now, we just have to hope for a 2nd season!  Anyway, I was impressed.  What did you guys think?  And do you have any theories on what is going on here?  See you in the comments.  Hope you enjoyed my ramblings and I'll see you next week! 

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FlashForward: Season 1 Episode 13 - Blowback

Hello Future Dwellers and welcome back!  I must say we watched another very solid episode of FlashForward!  I am loving the more character-centric approaches (please don't hate me if I refer to LOST again.)  What made LOST so intriguing, and still does, has been the character stories, learning their backstories and really caring for these characters.  And they're just getting overall more interesting the more they all interact.  Mark and Lloyd developing a bond instead of being enemies, makes things even more interesting.   Trying to figure out how Mark and Demetri will come to blows is a good time.   How is Janis going to become pregnant? (I still have a theory and it's looking more and more like it will come true!)   And how about Aaron going all commando in this episode!?  Loved it!  So much better than hearing him whine all the time about Mark and Mark caring only about himself.  I love the idea of some of them trying to fight the flash forwards and they only keep becoming more real, some are embracing the stories and wanting them to come true.  It all makes for some good old fashioned speculation and that's what we're going to do!

Once again, I'm going to try and not give a full-on recap of the show.  We all watched it, right?  We just want to talk about it!  Plus, with my other blogging commitments this year, I just need to take it easy for a bit!  But we all know how wordy I can get, so we'll see how I do!

There are 4 Main stories going on in this episode.   We get a bit of a backstory on Aaron and we see his and Tracey's path to their Flash Forward escalate at a rapid pace.  Zoey gets Demetri's intel on how he is supposedly going to die and she goes to any lengths possible to prevent that from happening.  Janis keeps progressing in her baby making business.  And then Mark and Lloyd try to make a break in preventing the next blackout by figuring out their Flash Forward connection.  Ready to get into this thing?  Let's do it!

Aaron Gets Even

Aaron benefits the most from the character deep dive this week.  We get a few flashback scenes exploring his past battles with alcohol and broken promises with his daughter and dealing with the supposed loss of his daughter (again, with alcohol).  It ties nicely into the present day as the same people responsible for her disappearance back in the day are at it again and have kidnapped Tracy.  By the end of the episode he tracks down the head honcho of Jericho and shows him who is in charge!  An all around great storyline with showing some of Aaron's military surveillance and all around badA#$ fighting skills!  Here are a few interesting things to note out. 

Flashbacks

• 15 Years ago, Aaron spent some time in jail after getting in a bar brawl.  He had a bit too much to drink.  He was up for parole and probably would have gotten off on good behavior.  Tracy was there to talk to him and he promised he would try his best to smile and get out.  But his angry side came out again as the guard started talking about his daughter in some inappropriate ways.  We can assume Aaron broke his promise to Tracy and ended up staying in jail a little longer.  

• Note: Aaron looks a lot younger without that beard! 
• 2 Years ago we see Aaron get delivered the news that his daughter had died in action.  We are reminded (or maybe found out for the first time?) that Aaron too was in the marines.   We see that it was his daughter's death that drove him back to drinking as we see him torn apart after the funeral and getting pretty violent in his house. 

Present Day

• The kid Mike Willingham that was a friend of Tracy's and that Aaron got a job in a previous episode ends up being connected to the Jericho plot.  I had this written down as a theory, but in just like many other times on this show, they answer it before we can even speculate!  Now, it did seem like he may have been involved against his will, but apparently he was going to be ordered to kill Aaron.  Naturally, he didn't get the chance.  
• We find out that Tracy has been so cold to her father because of why she was back in Los Angeles in the first place.  Kahmir, Tracy's commanding officer (?) in Afghanistan, has actually told Tracy to return to Los Angeles and bring her father back to fulfill the flash forward.  She couldn't bear the thought of bringing her father to Afghanistan.   Looks like that will be happening anyway! 
• Once Aaron finds out that Tracy is kidnapped he goes on a rampage.  He realizes he tipped of Mike by telling her Tracy was alive and at his house.  Not long after Tracy was kidnapped and placed in a box.   Aaron went back after Mike and somehow tricked him into getting into the truck.  (really, this guy would go for a burger??)   Anyway, Aaron talks about his past in prison and how he was an animal.  And he brought the animal back to beat the living daylights out of Mike.  That was a real good time.  Mike even brought a knife to the fist fight but it did no good.   Mike does say that he is going to get them both killed which made me think there was more to his possible reluctant involvement.  But I guess we'll see. 

• Aaron then takes previous intel he received on the head of Jericho, James Erskin.  He went to his house, cut the power and rained on Erksin's daughter's bday party.  James denied involvement, but Aaron's plan was to tap his cell phone somehow.  And he did.   Aaron finds out that they have Tracy, and her keeping her alive for questioning in Kandahar, Afghanistan.  And of course, he wants Aaron dead.  But Aaron has other plans, while it looks like he's going to kill Mike he hung him upside down outside the screen door at the Erskin home with Happy Birthday written on his chest (ahhh good times)   If anyone noted, this also was the image shown to us right after the FlashForward Title at the beginning of the episode. 

• Aaron leaves Mark a message saying he is going off the map for awhile, but is totally buying into his Flash.  Everything is happening as planned.  He looked at the knife he took from Mike and it's the exact knife that he hands to his daughter in Afghanistan in the Flash.   "How did you find me?"   "I'll always find you"  Awwwww     Very powerful stuff. 
• And, of course, we must note that Erksin is played by Dexter's DAD (another totally awesome show)!  

Zoey Creates Tension

In probably the most annoying part of the episode, Zoey goes to great lengths to try and prevent Demetri's death from happening.  Once Demetri explains that Mark is supposed to shoot him, she starts going on a rampage with the FBI crew.   And, most likely, she is causing some damage that may result in the actual situation that Mark and Demetri will come to blows with on March 15th 

• She visits Mark at the Benford home.  She suggests that maybe Demetri has a gun pointed at Mark first and asks if he would shoot back.  Mark doesn't answer.  She asks what could Demetri do that would drive Mark to shoot him.  Mark throws out the outrageous theory that perhaps Demetri could be the LEAK in the office.  As outrageous as it sounds, maybe it will be true.  Maybe Demetri is unknowingly the leak.
• Zoey gets even further into a mess by going to the FBI and putting Demetri in an awkward situation with Wedeck.  She throws some Legal Mumbo Jumbo out there and claims that the MOSAIC investigation has leads that could be beneficial to her and The Freedom of Information Act.  Wedeck and Demetri both know it's about preventing Demetri's death.    Dem is not happy! 

• We should also note that Demetri has plans to destroy Mark's gun.  I believe some people brought this up in the blog comments last week.  A very good call and something that should have already been done! 
• Anyway, Zoey believes that the Terrorist Alda Hertzog (that Mark and Dem caught in the first episode) may have more information about Demetri's death than she has led on.  Her sheet says that she has a history of Public Intoxications.  Not sure if that is the information that Zoey is referring to or not.   Doesn't really seem to make sense that this would be a connection between an alcoholic wanting to kill his partner! 

• Zoey meets with Alda who is less than cooperative (Sending her early condolences).  But Zoey asks if Alda was in prison in her Flash Forward.  Alda doesn't comment.  So I guess we can make 2 assumptions.  She is in prison, and by letting Zoey represent her, she is hoping to get out.  Or vice versa, she is NOT in prison and perhaps letting Zoey help her is the way she gets out.  Either way, Demetri again is very displeased.   Zoey continues to say she'll do anything.   
• Hmmm...I could definitely see something escalating in this mess where Mark is in a situation with a gun pointed at Demetri.  Maybe Demetri tells Zoey something who tells Alda something who tells somebody else something.  Maybe Zoey is part of the leak?  Was Demetri telling her stuff before she got this far into the FBI?  Other suspects could still be Wedeck or Agent Vreede who doesn't seem to do much but just linger in the background!  I'm sure we'll find out eventually. 
• Demetri finally gets over his anger and understands Zoey is doing it all for love.  We'll save the last Zoey/Demetri moment until the end of the post. 

Janis Is Baby Happy

Janis is getting very close to the point where she needs to get pregnant.  And, unlike Zoey, she is going to great lengths to make her Flash Forward come true!  Here are some pointers. 

• Janis is taking prenatal vitamins and also goes to a fertility clinic and is advised to wait a little longer due to her being shot recently.  Janis does not want to wait and truly believes in her Flash Forward.  She wants that flash baby and not just A baby.  She spends every waking moment thinking about it  

• Eventually the clinic accepts her as a patient, as she explains to Demetri.  She talks more about her dreaming about this baby girl and all of the plans she has for her.  She was afraid she was going to lose it all when she got shot.  She doesn't want her life to just be FBI.  She wants a family.  And she needs to get pregnant like in a week's time.  (you guy's see where I'm going with this yet?  No, not Demetri, hang on!)     Anyway, she talks about how she really wants her flash to come true but how Demetri needs to fight for his NOT to come true.  She encourages him to destroy that gun!    

MOSAIC Stuff 

(Mark/Lloyd & Guest Starring the FBI)

Mark and Lloyd Investigate their Flashes

So Mark summons Lloyd again to discuss his FlashForwards in order to prevent another blackout.  He wants answers, he wants to know who D. Gibbons is.  Lloyd won't budge.   So eventually, he takes Lloyd to the Benford home.  AWKWARD!!  Definitely awkward and Mark isn't enjoying it either but they go through it and end up sort of bonding by the end.   I like the direction they are going with the Mark/Lloyd dynamic.  They have to work together but somehow Lloyd and Olivia will end up growing closer together.  Will the Flash actually pan out the way they saw it?  Only time will tell.   But we do get some nice tidbits of information here.  We'll dive in now!

• First, Mark shows Lloyd a sketch of D. Gibbons (it's the same guy we have seen portraying him). Mark is convinced Lloyd knows the man, but Lloyd keeps denying it.  This man was cloning credit cards at the time of the blackout. (I think we knew that already, but it's been awhile!) 

• So we start in the bedroom.  Lloyd keeps bringing up the point that he never saw Olivia, just heard a voice.  
• We see Lloyd's text from Simon.  U(t)=exp(-Ht/h-bar) and it's part of a larger formula that he wrote on the mirror in lipstick.  Any quantum physics experts out there want to crack this stuff?

• Lloyd calls Mark in the flash and asked if he was drinking to which Mark says to go to hell.   (BTW, I think someone suggested that maybe Lloyd texted Olivia with the tidbit that Mark was drunk in the FlashForward.  Makes sense since we know now that he knew too.)  
• They bring up the QED again.  And both of the things we brought up in prior posts were mentioned here.  Mark brings up the latin quote "quod erat demonstrandum" (that which was to be demonstrated.  Lloyd says it could stand for Quantum Electro-Dynamics.   But then Lloyd realizes he said "THE QED" in the flash which doesn't make sense for either.  He then absolutely believes he is referring to the formula.  This makes Mark try to smile!   I have no idea what it means, but it's progress.  Perhaps the QED is a formula to help determine how to prevent a blackout?
• Lloyd then remembers being downstairs and hearing a little girl's voice (Charlie) who went into the kitchen with Dylan.  He was still on the phone with Mark and said that the formula is "only theoretical but he's close to figuring it out"    And then he heard a voice and before he could see who it was (Olivia) he woke up at NLAP.  
• Mark realizes he left the part out where he was adamant that D. Gibbons is a liar.  After refusing to admit he knew the man a few more times he finally cracked saying that he IS a liar.   His real name is Dyson Frost.  It turns out that he gave Frost information for some Electron Wave something or other.  (Lloyd was talking way too fast about stuff I have no idea about!)  The point was, whatever it was (and we do find out a little more later)  Frost was giving a lecture at Oxford taking credit for Lloyd's work.  Lloyd was researching Wave Mechanics on sabbatical.  Apparently, Frost faked his death and assumed the name D. Gibbons.    
• Mark then brings up that he thought Lloyd may have told Charlie that D. Gibbons is a bad man.  He did not.  So then Lloyd advises Mark to try and talk to Charlie again even though past attempts have failed.  
• Mark then changes the line of questioning to when he was kidnapped.  Lloyd comes clean and tells Mark everything he told them about energy levels, equipment settings, monitoring parameters.  He was afraid that he gave them the information that will cause another blackout.  Mark wants to work with Lloyd to stop Dyson Frost.  And Lloyd is willing to do whatever he can.  Good times! 
• (I know I know...I went into recap mode, It's a bad habit!  I can't help it!) 

Mark catches Wedeck and Vogel up

• Mark returns with the Dyson Frost information.  The information he stole from Lloyd was all about some kind of Mirror Test.  It recognizes consciousnesses between species.  He brings up humans, elephants and crows. Yep, Somalia.  All leads point to the experimentations that were going on in Somalia.  He references speaking to a team leader at Red Panda that fly in and out of there all of the time.  I love how Wedeck asks how he's going to sell "Bird Watching" to Washington.   And of course Vogel steals Mark's line about it being better to beg for forgiveness than to ask permission.  

• So some experiment that causes a shared consciousness between humans.  Could that mean that this experiment could have shown a FALSE/POSSIBLE future?  That it somehow tapped into the collective brainwaves of the world and threw some stuff out there?  And maybe they did it to see if people begin to self-fulfill these prophecies?  Maybe these experiments can SUGGEST certain futures to their liking?   I guess that's the other big question we're looking at.  WHY?   Why would  Dental Flosso and the higher ups want to knock out the world?  Do they care about the visions they're having?  Or do they like the idea of the entire world being knocked out for 2 minutes while they rob Fort Knox or something?   Is MONEY the key to it all?  Is it Power?  Or is it creating some kind of utopian future to whatever liking they desire?      (Well, I had to break RECAP mode just for one bullet!) 
• We find out that while Vogel was finally being nice to Mark, he still dislikes him.  He considers him very important to all of them, because of what is in his head.  (he lied before)   So because of all of this, Janis and Demetri are chosen to go to Somalia. 
• The 2 are briefed on the mission.  They reference information from previous episodes with the crows falling from the sky, a mass loss of consciousness and a perimeter of towers.  Only one tower remains standing today. Their mission is to go to this tower, gather intel and determine if a blackout ever happened there.  And they are going undercover as RED PANDA.  Simon drops by and says that with his expertise he must go along.  He references his designs from when he was 13 and naturally, he also sells Vogel that he can go because he saw Blackhawk Down!  

• Here's my continuing theory folks.  Janis and Simon will continue their flirtation in Somalia and she is going to get preggers!  I know, she likes the ladies, but maybe she tells Simon about her flash and he volunteers for help.  Or there is alcohol involved.  I don't know.  She may be upset because it is the exact day when she needs to get pregnant and become vulnerable.   I started the theory last week, I'm sticking to it this week.  Let's see if it happens NEXT week! 

Gun Destroying Time! 

So, Demetri brings Zoey to the Evidence Department to retrieve Mark's gun and destroy it.  Zoey gets all happy and apologizes to Demetri for being so confrontational.  Demetri had plans to throw the gun in the river before the guy in Evidence suggested a blowtorch.   In either case, it's going to be pretty hard to destroy Mark's gun.  Why?   Because it's GONE!!!    HUH???

TO BE CONTINUED

Woa, who on earth would take the gun?  Certainly Mark didn't try to get it back right?  Maybe whoever the LEAK in the department is took it?  Maybe that person wants Mark to get this gun back?  Perhaps, Nhadra's connections made sure the gun wouldn't be destroyed?  Lots of possibilities, but it is definitely intriguing.   The show has definitely picked up the pace and it's a fun adrenaline ride each week.  Next week looks to be just as exciting! 

Speaking of next week, just as a heads up it is a Thursday leading into a Holiday Weekend.  I will try my best to get to the recap in a timely manner but I ask for your patience if it is not up around the normal time!  I may be running into a few issues during the month of April with getting the post up on Friday morning.  But I will continue to try my best!  

As always thank you for reading.  Definitely share your comments below.   I hope you enjoyed my ramblings and I'll see you next week! 

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