- Mark is suspended from the FBI, & Demetri must partner with Agent Vogel. Mark continues his investigation into Lloyd's kidnapping while seeing a psychiatrist. Janis investigates Simon, who is trying to steal files from Lloyd's computer.
- A man talks about the blackout. People saw many different things during those two minutes and seventeen seconds. He talks about a window washer who was preparing to do his job for the day. He was no one of consequence, no dreams or aspirations. ("Like most of us, he was already unconscious when the blackout hit.") As he told his partner to hook up his safety harness, the blackout occurred and he fell off a skyscraper. Before the blackout occurred, the man believed in nothing. However, his safety harness caught the scaffolding, and his life was saved. He considered it the turning point in his entire life.
NARRATOR: Big or small, what if that moment affected everyone, everywhere, at the exact same time? What would that mean to you? Where would you look for answers? The answer is NEVER about just one person. Every single person's life was touched by the blackout. None of us...are alone. Each one of us is unique, but we are being stitched together in a tapestry. Something larger that can't be understood until we step back and see the whole thing. We have to make a choice. Do we walk in hope, or do we stumble around, resigning ourselves to chaos?
The narrator was that window washer, who relayed his miracle to others as we saw the principal characters from the show waking up from the blackout.
Wedeck is tearing Mark a new one as he watches the video of Mark pointing a gun in a foreign country. Wedeck wastes no time in mandating that Mark visit the Bureau psychologist a minimum of three times a week until she clears him for duty. Mark is none too happy, but he takes some photos of the bulletin board with the clues he has compiled thus far before leaving. In the meantime, while Simon Campos assists the FBI with who may be behind Lloyd Simcoe's kidnapping, which Olivia Benford also reported, Demetri Noh has a new partner, over his protests: Agent Vogel, who busted Mark and him in Hong Kong. Mark continues the investigation at home, since Charlie was at school and he doesn't play golf. Olivia wants to talk about Mark seeing her hug Lloyd before he is kidnapped. He doesn't want to talk, but he does acknowledge he hasn't been the best husband lately. She proposes moving away from everything that was happening to save their marriage, but he doesn't think they're in trouble.
Mark's first meeting with the FBI's psychologist did not go well. She demands to know what he saw in his flashforward, but he told the same story everybody already knew, which did not account for the full 2:17. She thinks he has a God complex and that the world currently revolved around him. She departs and tells him to make another appointment. During this appointment, she used a drug to help Mark remember more of his flashforward. Mark didn't want to do it at first, but Mark was driving everyone around him crazy.
Lloyd Simcoe is in a dark basement, where one of his kidnappers brings him a drink and demands answers to his questions. Lloyd refuses to talk, and the man tells him he's going to find out what hell will be like very soon. Janis Hawk takes Simon to Lloyd's house to access his computer, while Vogel brings the detectives in who searched his house previously. After more than a few derogatory comments by Simon, Janis goes to the kitchen to get him the beer he requested...only two be assaulted by two men wearing masks similar to the ones on Mark's bulletin board. Simon ends up in the same basement as Lloyd.
Olivia keeps an eye on Dylan at the hospital, over the hospital's protests, and Olivia assures him that they'll find the people who kidnapped his father. Demetri and Vogel investigate the disappearance of an ambulance that was used as a ruse for Lloyd's kidnapping. Both the ambulance and the EMT's were never found. Vogel told Demetri in no uncertain terms that he better do his job if he wants to find a way to avoid his fate on March 15th. To be fair, throwing Demetri to the ground after he tried to take a shot at Vogel was a help. They found the bodies of the EMT's in a train yard. The EMT's were poisoned, but they found the leather case to a mobile phone, which they made sure we knew was a Palm Pre. The idea is hatched to triangulate the signal on the Palm Pre. If the Palm Pre is still in the ambulance, they can find the people who killed the EMT's and took their Palm Pre.
Nicole is also at the hospital, where she sees the man who drowned her in her flashforward. She gives chase but cannot locate him. However, it was clear he knew who she was. She reported her findings to Olivia and Bryce, who tell her to talk to the FBI about it. A nurse at the hospital tells her about "Sanctuary," where the window washer tells people to find a positive spin on flashforwards.
Simon and Lloyd talk in the basement, where Lloyd admits going public with the blame was not one of his brighter ideas. Among the many, many people who want to kill them is the mysterious man from "Playing Cards with Coyote," who got the set of rings that Suspect Zero had on him in Detroit. "Flosso," as he calls himself, proudly admits to being a villain, which he demonstrates by flicking his still-smouldering cigar ashes into Simon's eye. He demands Lloyd tell him how many electron volts were generated by the plasma wakefield experiment Lloyd conducted on October 6th at 11 AM. Simon tries to answer, but Flosso already knew Simon was at his father's funeral in Toronto, and Simon gets knocked down for his efforts. Flosso tells them they didn't cause the blackout; they simply amplified it. Flosso repeats the question, but Lloyd refuses to answer. Later, Lloyd and Simon are alone again, and each reveals their flashforwards. Lloyd talks about getting a text message from Simon, but Simon was too busy snapping someone's neck to send one. Simon is confused on how their flashforwards don't sync up, but Lloyd reminds him of Gough, who killed himself instead of accidentally killing that woman. Lloyd is able to get a small window open to leave a note for help, but it flies away. They are in some sort of industrial park.
Dr. Langer continues to help Mark recall more of his flashforward. More items can now be seen, including "Red Panda Resources" and the note for help Lloyd just wrote. He also takes a call, where he says "I just wish you were standing behind the eight-ball when I came crashing through. Go to hell, Lloyd." Mark is later sitting outside of a bar and calls Aaron for help instead of going in. He tells Aaron about the new things he knew about his flashforward from the drugs. Apparently, Lloyd was trying to help Mark with the investigation, saying he was close to cracking the Q.E.D., but Mark wasn't listening because he talked to D. Gibbons. Lloyd told him that D. Gibbons lied to Mark. Mark told him unless he could stop him, there would be another blackout.
Mark goes to Wedeck, who can't reinstate him, but he wants Mark to continue investigating his new clues on the Q.T. Wedeck warns him to keep the potential second blackout to himself unless he can come up with more information. After all, look what happened when Lloyd Simcoe went public. At home, while Mark looks over the version of the bulletin board he assembled there, Charlie suggests starting with the corners of the puzzle, like in an actual jigsaw puzzle. Mark tries that approach and investigates Red Panda Resources, which is a philanthropic organization that has been very busy making donations around the world since the blackout. Mark sees this as a chance to get into Somalia, since they do charitable work there. He asks to sneak in on one of their flights, but they refuse.
Nicole talks to Timothy, the window washer/Sanctuary founder at a coffee shop. He has been preaching about loving others since his flashforward, since he was in the middle of a rally in his. She questions why he thinks God is shining down upon us instead of the flashforwards being some sort of wake-up call for the world. Nicole tells Timothy about her flashforward, that she was dead at the end of her flashforward. She demands to know how that could be a good thing. He talks about how Jesus sacrificing himself was something that the Apostles couldn't understand, but the bigger picture made dying on the cross worth it.
TIMOTHY: It's not about fate vs. free will, it's fate AND free will. The answers to our most burning questions may be right in front of us.
Nicole returns home with Bryce, who kept an eye on her while she met with Timothy, where her mother was not in the greatest shape. That is, if burning a Bible and "don't touch my hair; you'll scare the butterflies" is any indication. Nicole's mother is making a wall of pennies, and Bryce donated to the cause. Nicole's mother only wants pennies from 1989, the year of Nicole's birth, as the wall is a tribute to her. Her mother can't understand people whining about their flashforwards when she has a hallucination every day. Nicole and Bryce stick around to help her with the wall.
Flosso and his goons returned for Round 2, including returning the help note that Lloyd wrote that supposedly flew away. Lloyd doesn't answer any of his questions...or that he CAN'T answer any of his questions. Flosso lets "the wild rumpus begin," by cutting off Simon's finger with a cigar cutter. Several beatdowns later, Flosso shows photos of Lloyd's family to him, and Lloyd confesses they generated over one quadrillion (1,000,000,000,000,000) volts from the experiment.
Mark finds a menu from the restaurant on his car; the same menu with Lloyd's "Help Us" written on it and on his bulletin board. He goes to the restaurant's new location and finds out where the old location was; the one that burned down a month prior. Mark can't get in, but it was the place where Lloyd and Simon were being kept. At first, Mark leaves, but memories of his phone call to Lloyd in his flashforward compel him to drive his car through the restaurant. Mark engages in a shootout with the bad guys and rescues Lloyd. Mark sits down with Lloyd and wants to know everything. Simon goes out the back and shoots one of his captors. Flosso was already long gone. Or so it seemed. He was in the ambulance waiting for Simon, who apparently was in cahoots with Flosso the whole time. Simon wants out, but Flosso can identify Simon as the man at the baseball game in Detroit who was awake during the blackout. Simon was Suspect Zero. He buried his father earlier that morning in Toronto, but Flosso's bosses wanted to talk to him. He was taken to Detroit, where a person on the phone that has known him since he was 13 ordered him to take his seat at the baseball game. Inside a tub of popcorn is a ring similar to the ones Flosso obtained previously. Simon is ordered to put the ring on, which prevents him from blacking out when the rest of the stadium...and the world...does. The man calls him back, telling him to walk to the nearest tunnel, where Flosso, also awake, takes the ring back.
Olivia treats Simon at the hospital and releases him into the custody of Janis Hawk. The FBI is already grilling Lloyd Simcoe and they intend to play him against Lloyd to get one or both to admit to what happened. So far, neither was bending. Mark, now reinstated for rescuing Lloyd and Simon, interrogates Lloyd. Most importantly, Mark wants to know if another blackout is coming and why Lloyd didn't say anything before now. Lloyd demands the same thing of Mark, and Mark refuses to let Lloyd play, given that Lloyd called him in the vision from Olivia's bedroom. Unfortunately, Simon fakes an allergic reaction to the penicillin he was given and escapes. However, the FBI isn't that stupid and catch him returning to Toronto. He wants to visit his sister, who ran away. Wedeck allows them to stay the night if Simon wears a tracking bracelet. It turns out Simon was telling the truth. Simon visits his mother, who blames herself for his sister running away. Simon had been returning to Toronto once a month to help look for his sister. Simon slips out of the bathroom window, masking the tracking bracelet with aluminum foil. He goes to visit an old professor, but Janis cannot be fooled. She catches him again. The professor confirms that he advised Simon on the towers he built in Somalia, and that an amplification of power could have caused everyone's flashforwards. However, the professor has no idea how to build a structure to prevent it from happening again.
Back at Simon's mother's house, Janis helps her prepare dinner while Simon gets a visit from Uncle Teddy, AKA Flosso. They kept themselves at bay during dinner. However, Simon was starting to crack a bit and looked ready to kill "Uncle Teddy." As it turns out, Simon's alibi for not causing the blackout, being at his father's funeral, was arranged by Flosso through a "hunting accident." Simon had been part of this experiment since he was 13 because of his exceptional skills in theoretical physics, and his father was killed so that people wouldn't blame him for it. Simon was told to have a story for his fake flashforward, and strangling Flosso 's thug who shot his father became that story. Now, however, Flosso wants Simon to stay in and continue providing information on the experiment. Flosso shows a video on his phone of Annabelle, Simon's sister, reading a fake note with a gun to her head to make her mom think she simply ran away. Flosso also killed his old professor and thinks he has Simon under his control. However, Simon calls his bluff and knocks Flosso to the ground. He cuts off Flosso's blood supply and kills him.
SIMON: I never get pushed around...and I always get even.
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