- FBI's LA office has a head start on investigating the flashforward with Mark's vision and by opening a web site. At least one man didn't black out. Mark's wife meets the man from her vision. A clue brings Mark to Utah.
- The FBI begin to acquire vital clues about the blackout. The web site they've established leads them to Utah and eventually to the conclusion that there were at at least two people awake during the blackout. Mark Benford is more convinced than ever that his wife Olivia's vision, that she will take up with another man, is inevitable after she meets the man, Lloyd Simcoe, while treating his son at the hospital. Olivia insists that she will never love anyone but him but Mark's attitude may turn the vision into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Demetri Noh gets more information about his own fate. Mark learns some frightening information from his daughter Charlie about her blackout vision.—garykmcd
- After discovering someone who did not black out with the rest of the world, the FBI discovers there may be others that were, also, not affected by the incident. This leads Mark and his partner to Utah in an effort to track someone else down. Meanwhile, Mark's wife, Olivia meets the man from her vision and their daughter's teacher seems concerned when the young girl refuses to play with the other children. This only leads to more bizarre events when the girl seems to know the son of the man from Olivia's vision.—Moviedude1
- Following the blackout, the new playground game for kids to play is "Blackout," where all the kids lay on the ground and have to tell everybody what they saw. However, Charlie is not much for playing it, and the other kids tease her about it and rip her stuffed animal. Of course, she fights back, but runs away when the teacher confronts her. On the streets of Los Angeles, they are in a state of martial law. Certainly Mark could have used the military when someone in his AA meeting goes off about the flashes. But he should cut the guy some slack: the man wrecked his father's Ferrari as a kid and almost blew up on a speeding bus. Aaron chides him for lashing out, because at least Mark has a support group for dealing with what happened, something very few people have.
At FBI HQ, Director Wedeck gives a pep talk that is part Mike Ditka, part Casey Stengel. As agents, they don't get the luxury of freaking out, since the public is looking to them to solve this problem, which has become too much for 18 agents who resigned. The Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Anastasia Markham (Lynn Whitfield), is none too happy that the L.A. office took it upon themselves to investigate the blackout, even setting up its own public Website at taxpayer expense. The Mosaic Collective, as the site is called, has received over 800,000 reports thus far. Also, the fact that the blackout occurred at the top of the hour, a 1 in 3600 chance, is notable. Markham is not happy the office is kowtowing to the public's fear of "hypothetical flights of fancy." That is, until Wedeck and Janis Hawk show Markham their "flight of fancy": the moving figure at the baseball game in Detroit.
Mark and Olivia pick up Charlie at the principal's office. The school advises them to talk with her about her dream, since they hadn't thus far, nor has Charlie at school. They also had to talk about Olivia's dream as well. There was another man in the house, and Olivia clearly had feelings for him. Mark wonders if Charlie saw the same man in her dreams. For now, they reassure each other their marriage won't fall apart, no matter what the vision shows. Olivia takes Charlie to the hospital since their babysitter was AWOL and repairs Charlie's bear, Bryce updates her on several cases, including finding Lloyd Simcoe, the father of the young boy she helped and knew her name. Lloyd appears, and Olivia meets the man she saw in her vision.
Lloyd has been waiting for Olivia for three days to thank her for saving Dylan's life. Lloyd lets her know that Dylan is autistic, he and his wife were divorced soon after the diagnosis, and he hasn't told Dylan that his wife diet yet. Olivia immediately passes off his medical questions to Bryce, and they part ways before Olivia completely freaks out. Speaking of freaking out, Demetri freaks out that Mark is wearing the friendship bracelet Charlie made for him and refuses to take it off. Demetri thinks Mark wants these things to come true, but Mark cuts through the BS and tells Demetri he's panicking over not having a vision and thinking he's dead. They refocus on the task, and specifically D. Gibbons, one of the names on the bulletin board. Local authorities are knocking on doors investigating the 4,000 D. Gibbons' in the U.S. However, Didi Gibbons decides to save them shoe leather. She owns a cupcake store, bringing in a sampling of cupcakes, which immediately get logged into evidence by Wedeck. (Insert donut joke here.) She was hellbent on finding Demetri Noh, since she heard his name in her flashforward. She was arguing with someone on the phone, apparently someone harassing her.
Mark and Wedeck take a break with impounding the cupcakes, since Wedeck didn't give many details of his flashforward. He's mad as hell, but after dressing down Demetri for being too dismissive of Didi, he doesn't really have a choice. He was in the bathroom during the blackout and hit his head on the toilet paper dispenser. He exited to find Agent Rafalski drowning in one of the urinals. He didn't have much of a choice: he had to give Rafalski mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. (I swear, ABC and its damn toilet humor! When is it going to end?!)
WEDECK: You speak about this, email, text, fax, or Twitter, whatever, to anyone, I'll transfer you to the ass of the cornfields so fast your head will spin!
MARK: Mouth-to-mouth?
Wedeck does get a little karmic payback later, as he and Janis analyze the figure in Detroit with Markham. The figure is looking around as if they expected the even to occur. It's is likely a male, based on the 5'8" height and 150-pound weight. Markham considers this man very dangerous, not because he caused the blackout, but she doesn't want him to cause it twice.
At the hospital, Olivia is reunited with Charlie, and she takes Charlie by Simcoe to see if Charlie saw him in her flashforward, like Mark suggested. She didn't recognize Simcoe...but she was apparently good friends with Dylan, the autistic child who knew Olivia's name. Dylan was in Charlie's dream.
The background report on Didi Gibbons is clean. However, it would appear her credit card was used twice within a few minutes. Once in Newport Beach, then in Utah. In her vision, she was arguing something about pigeons. However, it wasn't a person: it was Pigeon, Utah. Despite Demetri's skepticism, Wedeck tells them to run it by the Salt Lake City bureau. Olivia brings Charlie to Mark and tells her about seeing Dylan in her flashforward. Olivia also tells him that Dylan's father, Lloyd Simcoe, was the man in her vision. Mark doesn't take the news well, since now she has met the man for whom she had feelings, despite Olivia's protests that she wouldn't stray. However, the conversation will have to continue later, since Didi Gibbons' credit card just bought a bus ticket in Pigeon, Utah.
All roads are blocked out of Pigeon, but the person who bought the bus ticket hasn't shown yet, according to the local sheriff. Like Demetri, she didn't see anything. However, she is more content because she hadn't drawn the conclusion that she was dead by then. Gibbons' ticket is never used. It was looking like a dead end, but an old warehouse across from the bus terminal has a clue. It's Divine Doll, an old company that went under a few months ago with the rest of the town. In Mark's vision, there was a doll next to D. Gibbons' name. Suddenly the dead end has come back to life. Mark, Demetri, and Sheriff Keegan enter to find lots of old doll parts...and an alarm system that Mark accidentally trips, which starts a baby menagerie of dolls hung with nooses. Shadows move across the office windows above them. They draw their guns on a mysterious figure, who has what appears to be explosives rigged everywhere.
"He who forsees calamities suffers them twice over."
The figure starts a fire to blind the three, and Keegan is shot. An explosion rips through the office.
Forensics is all over the scene, and a photo is taken of a doll with one eye missing, the same photo on the bulletin board. Demetri tries to avoid freaking out that Keegan, who didn't have a vision, is now dead. He finds a chess piece, which was in the office. The mysterious figure had some heavy duty computer equipment and was hacking every major computer system in the world since after the blackout. Demetri thinks this person was doing what they were doing: investigating what was going on.
Back in L.A. Olivia comforts Lloyd, who doesn't know how to tell his son his mother is dead. Mark's bulletin board is starting to take shape. Lloyd tells his son that his mother died, following Olivia's advice to tell him he loves him. Dylan very calmly says he wants to see Olivia.
At the FBI, an amazing revelation occurs. The D. Gibbons found in Utah used his cell phone that Mark and Demetri recovered to make five calls right before the blackout...and one DURING the blackout. Sure enough, the call during the blackout was made to a cell phone near the baseball stadium in Detroit. The mysterious D. Gibbons was also awake during the blackout. The Mosaic site is nearing a million hits, and Demetri has lost all of his skepticism towards Mark's flashforward. Didi Gibbons makes a late-night cupcake run for the group. Demetri and Janis talk back and forth about her being 17 weeks pregnant (you know where this is going, don't you), and Janis decides to post to her own site, hoping the sonographer replies back to see if she had the same vision as Janis. She now knows it will be a girl. She prompts Demetri to enter his, but he refuses. He relays the story about Sheriff Keegan being dead and not having a vision, either. Janis is curious whether Demetri wants to know how he'll die, since it might be prevented, or someone might have some information to help. He decides to try. Unfortunately, he is succesful. A woman in Hong Kong calls him, who can't divulge how she got his number or this information. But an intelligence brief she saw in her flashforward says Demetri will be murdered on March 15, 2010.
At home, Mark confesses he is working as if the future will happen, but at home he doesn't want it to happen. But he does thank Olivia for telling him about Lloyd. If only he would tell her about drinking during his flashforward. He also made a fire in the fireplace to burn the friendship bracelet. He checks on Charlie, who asks him about people having bad flashforwards. She is scared, because in hers, she knows "D. Gibbons is a bad man."
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