By Sobell
The first interesting thing the episode does: point out that the people who didn't have flashforwards have their own website, too -- one that acknowledges that they're already ghosts (www.alreadyghosts.com). Since these folks are linked to Janis's assault, the FBI Squad, Dude Division, decides it's time to infiltrate the local L.A. chapter. They're aided by MI6 agent Fiona Banks, as her flashforward showed her investigating this. So she's sort of like the British version of Mark, with the whole "I'm working on this now, because the future said I will be."
So, Mark, Demetri and Gough go to a Blue Hand meeting, where the first thing they have to do is play Russian Roulette. Gough totally pwns the game and gets handed the spare bullet for his troubles – "Your ticket in." (The bullet reads, "Not today," which is a nice cosmic up-yours to whatever force will wipe out the Blue Hand-ers before April 29.) So then they walk into a really pretentious party and bust it up, and their interrogation gets them pretty much nowhere, as their lead suspect learned from the Alda School of Interrogation Answering. The only point to that whole scene was to have someone talk about how the flashforwards are proof of an immutable future. Mark and Demetri accept this; Gough does not.
Bryce and Nicole re-meet cute, as Nicole is now volunteering at the hospital and Bryce is the lucky so-and-so designated to show her the ropes. We learn that Nicole is fluent in Japanese, on account of living in Okinawa as a child. She is therefore able to help Bryce decipher a missing part of his flashforward -- the kanji character behind the girl he's been sketching, which translates to "Believe."
While that's going on, Lloyd and Olivia have an awkward little talk, wherein Lloyd thanks Olivia for her work with Dylan and assures her that he has no intention of putting the moves on her.
Demetri finally comes clean with Zoey after she calls him on being "checked out ever since I got back from Seattle." It's not clear whether he's doing it because he really loves her, or because he really loves living in their sweet, sweet loft (honestly, this place combines the eye-rollingly-removed-from-reality comfort levels of a typical Nora Ephron set with DWR's inventory and somehow ends up tasteful), but whatever. Zoey hears him out, and is all, "You're not ruining my wedding by showing up dead."
Aaron gets Tracy's old pocketknife from a military pal of hers, and he's ecstatic, because he had seen the knife in his flashforward, and now this is proof that his vision is going to come true. But Mike (the military pal) says that the vision isn't possible, on account of him having watched Tracy getting blown out of a Humvee when they were under attack. Except Aaron walks into his house and… Tracy's there?
It would be the episode's big cliffhanger, except this time, it's not. Mystery women popping up in people's houses is really not that significant compared to the real point of the episode: Gough decides to blow the blue-handers' theory that this is all pre-ordained. His flashforward alluded to him doing something that somehow resulted in another person's death, so in his effort to keep the woman alive and to demonstrate that the flashforwards are not carved in stone … Gough kills himself. I am not ashamed to admit that I cried like a baby during that scene. This is going to be a soggy recap.
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