By Sobell
The episode starts with a flashback to Mark swearing, “Our family will always come first,” and then he leaves it in the present.
The FBI reviews the tape that Dyson Frost left -- he warns that Demetri and his futures are on “a collision course” (he and Demetri share a death date of March 15), then namechecks Mark. How did he know all this? He’s had hundreds of flashforwards. Mark points out that Frost’s tape confirms that the flashforwards are visions of potential futures.
Then, using some serious deduction-fu, Mark figures out that Dyson Frost encoded a phone number in his chess strategy from the late 1980s, and when Mark calls the number, Dyson’s got a recorded message waiting for him. But when Mark flies up to San Francisco to meet Dyson’s former chess partner, he learns that the guy juuuuust took two bullets to the head. After he gets back, Mark and Vogel conclude there’s a mole in the FBI office. Vogel uses this as an excuse to get the CIA to come in and turn the place upside down. He finds a bug in Mark’s keyboard, and the question becomes, “Who has access to Mark’s office?” The answer: Everyone who’s a series regular, plus Agent Seth McFarlane.
The mole is revealed to be alleged series regular (i.e. background scenery) Agent Marcy. There is a shootout, but she is eventually taken down by Janis the badass. Later, Simon coos sweet nothing at Janis, ending in whispery admiration at how she clever she was to direct all the attention to Marcy, because she’s so clearly the second mole. Janis smiles evilly.
Finally, in the plot that is only going to get the one-paragraph treatment in the recap: Keiko wanders around Los Angeles, uses her robotics know-how to get a job at an auto shop which appears to be run by the extras in Stand and Deliver, and gets in trouble with immigration officials because she is taking a job that a gang-banger-friendly American robotics savant could be -- oh, wait. Anyway, she gets in trouble with la migra. She juuuuuuust misses Bryce -- they are like two sushi boats passing in the night. (Also: Bryce kisses Nicole, which freaks her out.)
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