- The FBI attempts to track down the missing Demetri. Olivia discovers who texted her about Mark's flashforward. Alda Hertzog wants to strike a deal to tell Zoey information about Demetri's whereabouts.
- Demetri (John Cho), having been captured by Dyson Frost, awakens to find himself in a room with a very large writing board full of information, not too unlike Mark's wall at the FBI. Included on that wall is March 15, 2010, with his picture next to it. However, the wall is the least of his problems. A laser sight from a gun is aimed at him, and he is strapped to a chair that appeared to be rigged to the gun. No doubt the gun...Mark's gun...would fire if he attempted to move. Time was not on his side, as today was March 15th.
At the FBI, Charlie tries to tell Mark (Joseph Fiennes), Olivia (Sonya Walger), and Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance) about Dyson Frost. She didn't remember a lot of details at first, and Olivia worried that Mark was pushing her too much for information. Wedeck tells Charlie to close her eyes and try to remember what she saw. We then see the conversation between Charlie and Dyson. Although she was taught not to talk to strangers, Dyson claimed he was working with Charlie's father on something very important. He asks her if she like Dr. Seuss. She likes Horton, which he agrees with, because Horton was determined to do his job, regardless of what anybody else said. Dyson asks Charlie to give Mark a picture of Oedipus, which had a meeting time and place on the back to allow Dyson to talk to them. Everybody thanks Charlie for her help, but Olivia is still worried about Charlie. Mark recommends the child psychologist on-staff at the FBI.
OLIVIA: She doesn't need therapy. She needs stability. She needs to feel protected. She needs to know there aren't scary men who are going to ask her to deliver messages to her daddy. She thinks you're going to die!
Zoey (Gabrielle Union) visits Alda Hertzog in prison to get more details about Demetri's death. Alda refuses to tell her anything, especially given she had been held for five months in prison without being charged. Zoey tried to get her a hearing but was unsuccessful. Although next to impossible, Alda demanded a hearing that day and wouldn't say another word to Zoey until she got it. Zoey manages to get her a hearing but surrounds her with marshals just to be on the safe side. Alda wasn't worried one bit, since she was apparently part of the group who tasked Dyson Frost to create the blackout. Six monts before the blackout, one of the people involved, who was one of the people to torture Lloyd Simcoe and Campos earlier, convinced her to use whatever means at her disposal to keep Dyson on a tight leash. However, upon visiting Dyson, he played a videotape of their conversation, boasting he was always six moves ahead of them. On the good side, Dyson assures them they are on schedule for October 6th, the day of the blackout. Also, one of the QED's, which are the rings that needed to be worn to prevent blacking out, was ready. The other rings would take time.
In the present, Demetri tries to test the limits of the rig holding him in place and decides it'd be better not to. With six hours to go until his death, Dyson Frost explains why he has Demetri there. It was nothing personal, but Dyson had been working with thousands of flashforwards since the 1980's. Some flashforwards went ahead 20 minutes, some 20 years. 78% of the time, Demetri died on March 15, 2010...and so did Dyson...usually killed by Demetri. With the many different pathways the future could take (hence the title "The Garden of Forking Paths"), Demetri is actually there for insurance. Dyson simply wants to live past March 15th, the most important day on the forking paths.
DEMETRI: You're insane.
FROST: Most oracles are. They see the future and the knowledge ends up destroying them.
At the train station, where Dyson wants to meet Mark, the FBI is ready with a team, including Janis (Christine Woods) in the van watching everything over CCTV monitors. Dyson never shows, sending a kid to Mark instead to hand him a backpack. In the backpack is a photo of Demetri and a mobile phone. Mark talks to Dyson on the phone where the team can't hear it and sends Mark running, threatening to kill Demetri if he fails any of the tasks Dyson orders. Mark is instructed to slip out of the train station, lose his gun and mobile phone, and pick up a rental car in the lot. Mark drives off, leaving the team behind with only the words "Figueroa" and "Pico" to go on, which are phony clues. Dyson sends him out to the Antelope Valley. He tells Mark to walk one mile north into the Tehachapi Mountains for one mile.
Hertzog's hearing was a phony setup for her to escape, and the only new thing she tells Zoey is that they find Demetri's body in Building 7. Anothger clue was provided when an autopsy was done on the homeless man Dyson shot. He wasn't a homeless man; he was hiding out. He possessed the phone that texted Olivia about Mark's drinking during his flashforward, and the advanced hippocampus on him suggested the kind of intelligence "savants" have, which might include mathematical skills or photographic memory. Agent Vreede (Barry Shabaka Henley) had a box of items of the man that he wanted Olivia to go through that might lead to a clue concerning Demetri.
With 90 minutes to go, Mark meets Dyson Frost. "So here we are again, Mark. Time for you and me to save the world." And Dyson's first thought is to aim a gun at Mark. Dyson's associates wanted Mark dead long ago. But Dyson wanted to see it all the way through. Mark takes a drink of water from his bottle...and spits it in Dyson's face. It was actually gasoline from the car's tank, and Mark takes the gun, demanding to know where Demetri was. Dyson says he already told Charlie everything. He is slowly losing it and begs Mark to listen. Dyson notices someone followed him here...Alda Hertzog, who takes out Frost with a sniper rifle. Frost dies before he can tell Mark anything, but a series of pictures in his briefcase might lead to clues.
With 43 minutes to go, Mark gets in Dyson's car and, remembering what Vreede said about the picture given to him being by Ingres, he finds an address in the GPS with the same name. Without mobile phone service, Mark takes off and finds the address to be an old Army depot. With three minutes to go, he is able to contact Wedeck. Zoey tells him Building 7, but none of the buildings are marked. Janis checks the satellite image on the computer and finds the numbers on the rooftops. He finds Demetri and tries to mess with the rig. The only option is to force the aim of the gun away from Demetri when the clock hits zero. Six minutes of commercials later, Mark remembers that Dyson told Charlie about his favorite Seuss story: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish. Mark guesses that's the sequence to pull the wires. He tries it...the gun goes off...and misses Demetri. Safe from the gun, Demetri gets up, which sends jets of water to wipe out all of Dyson's writings on the Garden of Forking Paths.
MARK: Even in death, he manages to screw us.
Or does he? While investigating how the address book of a doctor got into the belongings of the man Dyson shot, another man, Gabriel, tells Olivia he's seen her order the same coffee hundreds of times in line...even though Olivia has never been there before. Gabriel's friend told him about this, only he's dead now. The same friend who texted Olivia. And Mark did remember one thing from the Garden of Forking Paths before the data was washed clean: December 12, 2016..."The End."
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