By Sobell
To say that some people are not adjusting well to a post-flash universe would be an understatement. Eighteen agents have resigned from the FBI, the National Guard's come in and begun assisting in the clean-up of Los Angeles, and Charlie's tried to go AWOL at school because she refuses to share her flashforward with anyone.
Olivia meets Lloyd Simcoe, the man of her vision, and both of them lie about never having clapped eyes on one another (his flash is somewhat different than hers, but in both he's shirtless and hanging out in stately Benford Manor). Then Charlie reveals that she saw Dylan in her flashforward, and yet another sign of a pending Simcoe/Benfield merger reveals itself.
Deirdre Gibbons is the D. Gibbons of Benford's flashforward. She comes into the FBI because her flashforward specifically name-checks both Mark and Demetri. Since Demetri is vested in the idea that the flashforwards aren't to be trusted, he's fairly hostile to any and all leads in this investigation, including the cupcake-bearing Didi. His skepticism appears well-founded, as Didi is somehow linked to a person of interest in Pigeon, Utah, via a cloned copy of a credit card. So Noh and Benford head out to Utah to find the person of interest, while away the time debating the merits of predestination, and notice a warehouse which ties in nicely to the burned doll of Benford's flashforward.
While investigating the warehouse, they notice a really creepy staircase decorated with dolls all strung up in nooses, then head into a room where some total nutjob attempts to blow them up. Said nutjob does a respectable job of it, too, deploying all kinds of elaborate homemade explosives and killing the local officer who was tagging along with Demetri and Mark. (She had matter-of-factly told the men that she didn't have any flashforward, so that's just more fuel for the I'm-a-dead-man-walking dread Demetri's trying to ignore.)
The net benefit of this incident: the melted-doll photo is now in existence. And it occurs to Demetri and Mark that maybe other people are investigating the flashforward too. And thanks to the melted cell phone retrieved from the doll factory ruins, Janis is able to determine that their "D. Gibbons" (note: not the cupcake maker) made a call 30 seconds into the flashforward -- and he called the dude who was wandering around Comerica Park.
Later that evening -- or early that morning -- Janis talks Demetri into posting his lack of a flashforward on Mosaic, asking for information pertaining to his death, and within moments, Shoreh Aghdashloo has called and she tells him, "I'm sorry -- there's no delicate way to say this, but on March 15, 2010, you're going to be murdered." (Although since it's Shoreh Aghdashloo delivering the bad news, the blow is softened considerably by dint of being delivered in a velvety purr.)
And finally -- a moment of levity in the show! FBI Boss Dude Courtney B. Vance admits that his flashforward involves him chillaxing in a bathroom stall, then goes on to admit that the flashforward hit when he was also in the bathroom, and when he came to, he had to haul a colleague out of the urinal and give the poor guy mouth-to-mouth. I'm thinking the "B" stands for "-biotics, anti, get on some right away, sir." Also, Vance gets off several great lines over the course of the episode.
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