By Sobell
Tonight is a Janis-centric episode. Her pregnancy isn't going as well as it needs to -- she's anemic and not gaining enough weight -- and it's due to her stress levels. Gosh, being a double agent is hard! Somewhere amid all of this, we find out that the blueprints Dyson Frost was carrying around provide the schematics for some sort of astrological clock. And the first date is October 6, 2009. We also find out he secreted a QED in the white queen chess piece he left back in Pigeon, Utah.
Those developments are somewhat secondary to the story of how Janis came to be working for the bad guys. We find out she was recruited as a mole two years prior to the flashforward. She's been passing information to her handler (who holds down a job as the harmless middle-aged matron in a pet store), albeit reluctantly since the flashforward. Equally startling: We find out that Vogel's been on to Janis since the day she graduated from Quantico, identifying her as a potential mole. And he's the one who urged her to become a mole, so he could get someone on the inside of whatever shadowy cabal. (Oh, Vogel, you are sort of like the Bruce Wayne of this show, always thinking a billion steps ahead.) So, in actuality, Janis is a double agent. Whew!
Meanwhile: Olivia has a friend in Gabriel. Although his greeting her in the Benford living room freaks her right the hell out (and understandably so) we find out that he's been shadowing her for much of her adult life. Olivia double-checks Gabriel's ravings against her old photos and, surprise, surprise, he's in the background in an awful lot of them. This convinces Olivia that Gabriel's ravings are probably more correct than incorrect, and she enlists Vreede in her personal "What the hell?" quest. We learn that Raven River was a mental hospital that was shut down back in the 1980s after some very sketchy experiments with schizophrenics and autism. Naturally, Vreede and Olivia rush on over. Unsurprisingly, Lloyd is there, and he leads Olivia and Vreede into the ward where, it turns out, Dyson Frost conducted tons of flashforward experiments on these poor mental patients. Gabriel begins raving again and amid his shouted revelations: Llyolivia was foreordained by fate! Mark is a mistake! And apparently, Olivia needs to get her love life in order or else it's the end of the world.
And in Afghanistan: Aaron zzzzzzzz. (All kidding aside, it turns out that it's hard to go anywhere in Afghanistan without someone trying to shoot at you. Aaron finds this out the hard way.
We've seen the future and we're pretty sure that it means the cast needs new jobs. We've got suggestions for their moves.
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