By Sobell
Simon's out for revenge. Janis agrees to help him break into NLAP after Simon promises to turn himself in, and then Demetri swings by and somehow agrees to go along with the the NLAP caper. He cites his deep affection for Janis as a friend; no doubt, she is playing him like a piano.
Mark has stuck a fork in his marriage and declared it done. This leaves him considerably more free time to talk to Hellinger. Maintaining the fine tradition of those who have endured multiple flashforwards, Hellinger is nuttier than the Harry & David storehouse. He warns, "You will lose control, and you will lose everything... and then, you'll be killed in your office." Mark is not too fazed, and rejects Hellinger's plea to prevent this future by letting Hellinger go.
He then spends the rest of the episode trying to anticipate what Hellinger's organization will do, and does a fairly crap job. He goes to beat the crap out of Hellinger As Has Been Foretold, but Wedeck steps in like the rockstar that he is, then Olivia brings Charlie by for a touching father-daughter scene. After Mark's wrenching goodbye to Charlie, he decides to make a bad day worse by going to talk to Hellinger again (why? Whhhhhhy?), and after Hellinger tells Mark that Charlie will be better off without him, that's when Mark finally loses it and attacks Hellinger. Vogel watches with the same dispassion as a middle-schooler looking at a paramecium in a microscope. Wedeck decides it's time for Mark to take a mental-health day.
Naturally, Mark then wanders into a flashforward-day party, where a strange man accosts him, claims that in his vision, he quit drinking, and hands Mark his stylish flask with, "You look like you could use this." Benford breaks into sobs and falls off the wagon. One bar brawl later, Mark is in jail.
Demetri meets Zoey at the airport with every intention of going to Hawaii. Her happiness at seeing Demetri is short-lived, because Demetri 'fesses up to sleeping with Janis ("I thought I was going to die, and it made sense at the time") and Zoey rightfully points out that while Demetri was being all fatalistically philandering, she was pouring everything she had into the conviction that she and Demetri would have a long life together. That conviction? G-O-N-E. As is Zoey -- she tells Demetri to enjoy hanging out alone in Los Angeles while she goes to Hawaii.
In the subplot we care about: Nicole 'fesses up to Bryce about Keiko having been at the hospital and now in a detention center, and Bryce huffs off to the detention... from which Keiko was sprung by her mother mere hours before. Keiko is being bundled off to LAX.
In the subplot that some of us may care about: Tracy dies, thanks to her brutal treatment at the hand of Jericho. Aaron unleashes the Wrath of Dad and we learn from some random Jericho guys that they weren't massacring people, they were conducting experiments in cahoots with Hellinger's group in advance of the global flashforward.
In the subplot that will have us all scratching our heads: Olivia decides, "Screw fate!" and decides to run far, far away from fate and Lloyd.
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