- Mark must testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee about his flashforward.
- Mark, Demetri, Wedeck, and Vreede are in Washington DC, and Wedeck is not happy with what Mark said earlier in the evening. It would seem Wedeck is the master of damage control lately and had to do some earlier in the evening. However, we do not find out as a large SUV t-bones their car. 4 men of Asian descent get out , one of whom fires a grenade launcher at the car. It explodes.
39 HOURS EARLIER
Demetri is called into a meeting room in a sub-basement of the US Senate. Even though he already told them in his affadavit that he did not see a thing in his flashforward, they don't believe him. While Mark fiddles with his 7 Years Sober coin, we see the polygraph interviews by Mark and Vreede regarding their flashforwards. Vreede was exiting the FBI office in L.A. around 10 PM through a secure door, and he did not see anybody in his. Mark's story remains the same about being in his office and seeing two men. Once completed, Mark calls Aaron, who is fixing a few things at his house. Mark is feeling the pressure of having to be right about this investigation since he started it, and Aaron suggests attending an AA meeting while in Washington. Wedeck, however, is under more pressure, as Demetri and Vreede help him gather evidence to keep the Mosaic Collective funded. Wedeck had spent some time in DC and it didn't appear to be pleasant. Wedeck flags down an old friend, Dave (Peter Coyote), for some hoops and insider information. Dave advises him to tread lightly, something Wedeck wasn't very good at in the past. With a person named Clemente chairing the funding hearings, things could go bad, in spite of Dave's assurances to the contrary. However, Dave is in the business of assuring people no matter what. He's the President of the United States, and Wedeck has 5th-row seating for one of his press conferences.
As Janis Hawk and Gough pour over satellite pictures of Somalia from the CIA from the crow-death incident of 1991, the President tells the media that they are coordinating their efforts to properly fund the correct agencies that have the best shot at providing leads to the cause of the blackout. He also, like other world leaders, has declined to reveal his own flashforward, although we see it involves a Secret Service agent waking him to tell him something has happened.
Olivia talks with Aaron, having overheard part of his conversation with Mark. The last time they went through problems that were alcohol-related, Mark was also testifying in meetings, just after he got promoted. Between the familiarity of the current situation and her flashforward, she is concerned to say the least. Aaron tells her to just keep moving and keep supporting Mark as best as she can.
Following the press conference, Wedeck meets with the President in the Oval Office. Wedeck worked waist-deep in Beltway politics a few years back and apparently ticked off the wrong people, forcing the President to send him west. It was now time for the President to bring him back into the fold, since the present situation demanded level-headed people. Wedeck is offered a cabinet position as Director of Homeland Security.
The hearings are the epitome of the famous saying "If the opposite of pro is con, does that mean the opposite of progress is Congress?" The CDC has ruled out anyone tampering with the water supply, outerworld alien influence is a theory being investigated, and the CIA thinks there's a plot to destroy America since China had very few per capita fatalities. The fact everybody was asleep at 2 in the morning there had nothing to do with it. Wedeck gets a not-so-subtle introduction by Senator Clemente (Barbara Williams), and she goes no-holds-barred during a break, accusing Wedeck of ruining her shot at the presidency. However, as much as she wants to shoot down what Wedeck is doing before he even gets to testify, she saw herself as President in her flashforward. Wedeck explains that his office is collecting data on the flashforwards of anybody who calls in, and the data is analyzed. Clemente isn't hearing it, but Wedeck is ready to pull out several of his "smoking guns" that the Mosaic and Mark have discovered. To hold off the other senators on the committee, Clemente orders Mark to take the stand for the following day.
Janis wakes up the next day after her successful date with Maya, both of whom discuss their flashforwards on a date at her restaurant. Actually, both of them lie, since Maya had a wedding ring on, and Janis didn't want to tell her she was 6 months pregnant at the time. She makes it to the office where they're going over the satellite pictures. They find the picture they were looking for, a satellite image of what looks like an asphalt road where there shouldn't be one and a tower in the middle of nowhere.
In D.C., Mark Benford reported the presence of the man in Detroit and talked about the deaths of crows the day of the blackout. Senator Noland (Glynn Turman) wants to know why the L.A. office was running their own investigations without approval from D.C. Mark described how he seemed to be the point man in the investigation in his flashforward, with names, places, and events on a giant board in his office.
SENATOR NOLAND: So, you're investigating this because you had a vision of you investigating this.
Clemente doesn't believe him until Mark describes masked gunmen trying to kill him. But there is a problem. Clemente pulls out Mark's polygraph interview, where Mark only describes roughly 30 seconds worth of visions where most other people have vivid recall of the entire 137 seconds. Mark is naturally reluctant to reveal he was drinking in his flashforward, but Clemente's gloves are off and accuses the L.A. office of fraud. Wedeck has had enough and walks out. Clemente mentioning the ex-Nazi who was repatriated certainly didn't help, either. Demetri has to admit to an outsider, what they have found thus far would look a little crazy. This would be a good time to find some new evidence, which Janis and Gough are more than happy to call in. Wajid, Somalia is where the "towers" were built, roughly 100 feet tall, and took five months to complete from scratch right before the crows "did their face plant."
Wedeck calls Janis on the side and asks her for a favor. But Janis has problems of her own. Maya found Janis' flashforward information on Mosaic about her pregnancy. The situation is, to say the least, awkward. Janis goes away. But she had done the favor for Wedeck: she found Renee Garrigos (Mieko Hillman) in D.C. for him...and the President's son. As in the son who was paid $250K by the soon-to-be-President, and delivered by Wedeck, to pretend he doesn't know him. Clearly Clemente knew, which explains her ripping anybody working for Wedeck for no good reason.
PRESIDENT: You know why I liked having you around so much, Stan? You weren't just comfortable in the mud. You enjoyed being there.
The deal is simple: the President stops Clemente from cutting off Wedeck's funding, and the Mosaic Website conveniently forgets Renee Garrigos posted on it. Wedeck leaves, but the President didn't necessarily make the deal. Instead, he makes a phone call. Demetri is hitting the bottle because he thinks he only has five months to live and wants to blow off some steam...by singing Sister Christian with Vreede at a karaoke bar. Amazingly, not even this drives Mark to drink. However, Wedeck ripping him for his poor performance in front of Clemente forces Mark to admit he was hammered in the middle of his flashforward. Wedeck had pulled out a few too many miracles for Mark and now realizes the information Mark gave him may have been compromised by alcohol. But Wedeck is obviously a much better boss than he leads on, as he doesn't tell Demetri or Vreede, even buying them some rounds and announcing they got their funding. To make matters worse, someone unknown relays this information to Olivia, but she is unable to figure out who text'ed her that Mark was drinking during his flashforward.
As they go to the garage, President Segovia brokered his deal for Wedeck by nominating Clemente to replace Vice-President Pratt, who was killed in the blackout. Wedeck isn't happy, since Clemente's flashforward could come true, but this is "can't get something for nothing" D.C. and he plays it off. This brings matters back to the beginning, but there's more. Janis, while on the phone with Mark, hears the crash but is assaulted by two men in Los Angeles. She is able to kill both with her gun, but she is shot in the process. Mark, Demetri, Wedeck, and Vreede barely make it out of the car before it explodes and come out guns blazing. They take out two of the hired killers, but the other two escape. As Janis lies bleeding in the street, her vision comes back to her. She will have a girl.
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