- Mark interrogates Hellinger about the next blackout. Aaron discovers Tracy's link to Jericho. Lloyd figures out the equation in his flash-forward, Demetri debates helping Janis and Simon break into NLAP.
- April 29, 2010 - 3:23 AM
Charlie wakes up in the middle of the night screaming and crying. Olivia (Sonya Walger) goes to comfort her from her bad dream.
CHARLIE: Today's the day. Today's the day Daddy's going to die.
Olivia needs comforting herself.
April 29, 2010 - 7:26 AM
Simon Campos (Dominic Monaghan) and Janis Hawk (Christine Woods) are discussing his safety and the fact that he wants to take down the people responsible for the global blackout. It would only be a matter of time before everyone knows he was the one who was awake in Detroit. Having Hellinger (Neil Jackson) in custody isn't enough. He volunteers looking through the software in the mainframe to find anything wrong, since he was the one to drop the software in on October 6th in the first place. But he wants Janis...and Janis alone...to help him. In exchange, he would turn himself in.
April 29, 2010 - 8:11 AM
Mark (Joseph Fiennes) and Demetri (John Cho) have a lot of work to do today, but Mark wants him to head to Hawaii and get married. He even provides him with a CD of "Islands in the Stream," and 14 other versions of that song. Demetri wants to hide behind work, but Mark insists he should go to Hawaii and marry her.
MARK: Even with the way everything went down, even though I lost her, marrying Olivia was the best thing I ever did. Don't be afraid, especially on a day like this.
Speaking of Olivia, Lloyd (Jack Davenport) calls her and tries to talk about tonight. She's in full denial and doesn't want to talk to him. Lloyd is at the FBI, where Agent Vogel (Michael Ealy) tells Mark that Hellinger invested in dot-com businesses in the 90's and real estate in the 2000's with the classic "buy low, sell high" strategy, so money wasn't a problem. Vogel theorizes they used the flashforwards to earn their capital. As they contemplate the ramifications of seeing the future, Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance) tells them that Hellinger will only speak to Mark.
Hellinger needs to discuss a matter concerning Mark so important he spills that he caused the blackouts. He draws in Gabriel's book the pathways this particular day took. It started with him in the FBI room as he was now. But every different version of April 29th ended the same way: Mark attacked Hellinger for not getting the answers, and Mark will be killed in his office. Mark is more interested in finding out if another blackout will occur than preserving his life, which he could do by releasing Hellinger. But in the diagram, Mark finds a clue that he thinks will lead him to the next step. He takes the notebook with him.
April 29, 2010 - 9:10 AM
Mark consults with Lloyd about a symbol Hellinger wrote on the notebook that was also in Dyson Frost's blueprints. The symbol is for a tachyon, and Hellinger wrote the word "wipe" next to it. Lloyd says a tachyon wipe doesn't make any sense, but Mark is convinced this is the group's next step and he wants to get ahead of them.
Nicole (Peyton List) visits Bryce (Zachary Knighton), and he's interested in a date with her tonight. She sees a drawing Bryce made of her, one page after the drawing of Keiko. Nicole is concerned, but Bryce figures he'll never meet Keiko by the time the day was done. Nicole is not so certain, especially since Keiko is in the detention center and may try to raise her bail money so she can meet Bryce.
Demetri meets Zoey (Gabrielle Union) at the airport, who is excited about going to Hawaii. But Demetri is getting cold feet...about leaving the job on D-Day. Or perhaps he has a guilty conscience, because he confesses to Zoey that he got Janis pregnant in Somalia. He did it because he thought he was going to die then and he wanted Janis future fulfilled. She can't believe she moved heaven and earth because she thought he would live and he didn't think the same thing. She leaves for Hawaii without him. He goes to Janis' apartment and runs right into Campos.
Mark figures out that the tachyon is Tachyon Offsite Information Systems, a data warehouse company in Arcadia. Mark thinks Hellinger wants to wipe the information out of the warehouse, but Wedeck and Vogel don't think Hellinger would be so stupid as to give Mark such an obvious clue. Vogel orders Mark to continue interrogating Hellinger, and Wedeck cuts off any protest by Mark.
Aaron (Brían F. O'Byrne) and Tracy (Genevieve Padalecki) bunker down in Afghanistan, although Tracy needs better medical attention than Khamir can provide. Aaron goes to work on his captured Jericho guard, giving him a taste of his own torture. The man tells Aaron that Tracy didn't see Jericho kill an entire village; they were passed out. The "experiment" for the global blackout had a radius of 1 kilometer, and Tracy was inside that range. Only, she didn't pass out with everybody else. And Jericho needed to know why.
April 29, 2010 - 1:34 PM
Demetri can't believe Janis is taking Simon to NLAP to work on the same computers that triggered the original blackout. Janis gets between the two pointed guns...and disarms Simon. She hands him over to Demetri to take to the FBI. At the FBI, Mark and Vogel hear the raid done by a strike team on the data warehouse. It was a trap, and the team is killed. Hellinger looks on with a smug look on his face, and Mark is ready to go the full Jack Bauer on him, but Wedeck...and a visit from Olivia and Charlie...stop him. Mark talks to his daughter while she looks at the Mosaic board. He tells her not to be afraid because Mommy and Daddy love her. He does the same thing when he has to fight the bad guys.
April 29, 2010 - 3:37 PM
Janis asks to be dropped off because she wants to walk away from everything and doesn't want Demetri to cover for her with the FBI. He drives away and then comes back to take Janis and Simon to NLAP.
Lloyd Simcoe is at home with Dylan with documents all over the carpet. Dylan starts rearranging the pages, saying everything has to be in the right place. Naturally, Lloyd is upset, but Dylan's got the right idea. Dylan's putting all of the numbers together, just like Gabriel told him.
Mark goes back to interrogating Hellinger, and Hellinger doesn't want to tell him anything because Mark doesn't care about his marriage, his life, nothing but that "scrapbook of your failures" that is the Mosaic bulletin board Mark keeps staring at.
HELLINGER: But there is an upside. This is going to sound harsher than it is. Deep down, you know what I mean. You're going to die, but your daughter's going to be better off when you're gone.
Mark loses it and beats the crap out of Hellinger. Several agents drag him out kicking and screaming, and Wedeck has them throw Mark out of the building.
April 29, 2010 - 4:17 PM
Nicole is definitely not enthused about the fireworks display Bryce wants to take her to this evening. She kept thinking about her flashforward where she was drowning and felt like she deserved it. She confessed to Bryce that she knew Keiko was in L.A. He's upset with Nicole for letting Keiko stay in the detention center. But if he wanted to get her, Keiko's mother beats him to it. She is taking Keiko back to Japan, but Keiko insists on being at the sushi restaurant at 10 to make her flashforward come true.
In Afghanistan, Tracy is in grave danger. Khamir begins to perform CPR on her. Aaron won't give up, but it is too late. Tracy is dead.
April 29, 2010 - 6:38 PM
L.A. is in full celebration for the moment of the flashforward, but Mark is in no mood to celebrate with everyone else. Mark goes over everything in his head. But a man who had quit drinking in his flashforward handed his flask to Mark. The same flask Mark was drinking from in the FBI office during his flashforward. He is overwhelmed by the fact that his future is coming true, anyway and starts drinking. (He was loaded, OKAY?!?!?)
April 29, 2010 - 6:46 PM
Janis and Demetri drive to Palo Alto. Demetri confessed he lost his best friend since he found out she was a double-agent. But driving Campos to NLAP sounded so much like the Janis he knew that he had to go back. He also told Janis he confessed to Zoey about the baby. She was in some pain, perhaps caused by her takedown of Campos earlier in the day.
Mark finds a bar and starts getting loaded. A patron comments on his string and comments that he was talking to Mark in his vision. Mark, of course, knows he's lying, but the patron insists he was in the vision. He's fighting fate, and Mark's already lost. And Mark beats up a second person, only the other patrons hep the guy out. Mark ends up in jail.
Lloyd calls Olivia, who decided to take off and make sure she wasn't at the house at 10PM. He was and insisted Olivia come back. Dylan comments that they weren't coming back.
And everyone awaits the final 3 hours.
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