- Demetri investigates a murderer who is targeting people that have escaped their futures, and Mark agrees to find Simon's sister. Nicole finds Keiko, the woman in Bryce's flashforward. The FBI close in on Suspect Zero.
- Demetri and Agent Banks attempt to track down a killer as questions arise about the universe course-correcting itself, when people who thought they'd escaped their fates are found dead; Mark reluctantly agrees to help Simon find his sister, Annabelle, but discovers he's withholding the truth about her true circumstances; the FBI discovers the identity of Suspect Zero; and Nicole learns the whereabouts of Keiko - the woman in Bryce's flashforward - but struggles with whether to share this information, due to her growing feelings for him.—ABC Publicity
- NLAP FACILITY - PALO ALTO, CA - TWO DAYS BEFORE THE BLACKOUT
Lloyd Simcoe (Jack Davenport) and Simon Campos (Dominic Monaghan) prepare for the experiment where they simulate the Big Bang Theory. Lloyd is optimistic to find out what all of their hard work was for, but Simon is cautious. He receives a call from his mother that his father died. Simon goes to Toronto for the funeral (and other business), while Lloyd conducts the experiment. We see the plasma wakefield spread across the Earth...and run into another one. At that point, the blackouts occur.
PRESENT DAY - APRIL 22, 2010
Lloyd goes on an interview program to discuss what happened back on October 6th. He explains the visions of the future are not set in stone and are flexible, but "the future has a way of fighting back." The interviewer badgers him until Lloyd admits that the universe may make those futures happen regardless of what people do to stop them, like Al Gough did by committing suicide to save the life of Celia Quinones. Celia was one of the "statistical anomalies" that Dr. Simcoe theorized. After all, Celia was still alive.
Mark (Joseph Fiennes) and Demetri (John Cho) are watching Simcoe but are keeping the possibility of another blackout on the QT to avoid panics and rioting. Simon watches it as well, but he is interrupted by seeing his sister, Annabelle. She can't go with him, if the half-dozen laser sights aimed at her are any indication. Her captors want the QED ring back in 12 hours.
As Simon has someone at the FBI run the license plate of the van watching his sister and Bryce (Zachary Knighton) takes another round of chemo at the hospital, Demetri meets up with MI-6 Agent Fiona Banks, who is investigating the fourth murder in Los Angeles of someone who lived past their original date of death. In the case of a man who was supposed to die of a severe allergy on March 2nd, someone laced his coffee with rat poison. This was in spite of the fact the man had enough guns to make the NRA drool. Finding a flyer of the "Blue Hands" mob, the people who never had flashforwards because they were dead, confirms for the two of them that someone is trying to make sure these people meet their fates.
Mark confronts Simon about the license plate, because it costs more than a weekend at the Bunny Ranch to run a plate. Simon tries to hold back information from Mark, but Mark keeps calling BS on him since he has the actual meet between Simon and his sister on traffic cam. He doesn't want to do it, but after talking with Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance), Mark agrees to help Simon retrieve his sister before the deadline.
Demetri and Banks seek out Slingerland, the man whom they questioned earlier about the Blue Hands. He's back teaching history. He remembers Andy Weeks, the man who was poisoned. Unlike last time, Slingerland is very helpful, especially when Demetri and Banks tell him about the person murdering those who live past their deaths...like him.
Olivia (Sonya Walger) is treating Gabriel (James Callis) at the hospital for infections he received where they found him. Lloyd is there, and Gabriel is adamant that Lloyd and Olivia are together. ("Olivia and Lloyd, sittin' in a tree...") Agent Vreede (Barry Shabaka Henley) asks Gabriel about one of the pictures in a notebook Gabriel had. Gabriel saw it in one of his flashfowards. It was Mark's Mosaic bulletin board.
Bryce finds out wonderful news: his cancer is in complete remission. He'll love the news Nicole (Peyton List) found out even more: she located Keiko, the woman in his flashforward. However, when Bryce goes to tell her about his news...and lays quite a kiss on her...he wants to forget out his vision and live in the moment...with Nicole. Suddenly she starts to question whether she should tell him about Keiko.
Demetri and Banks' investigation led to the coffee shop where Andy Weeks bought his coffee with a tall, geeky-looking guy who wore a horseshoe ring: Slingerland. They return to the high school, and he high-tails it out of there. Slingerland plans to do more than escape. He tries to course-correct the person who advertised cheating death: Celia. Demetri figures this out and goes to find her. He rams his car into Slingerland's before Slingerland can run over Celia. Slingerland will not be denied and chases after Celia. Demetri shoots Slingerland...and Celia gets hit by a car driven by Agent Banks. Demetri collars Slingerland.
SLINGERLAND: It's not me. It's the universe. Which never fails. It's funny. I was supposed to have an aneurysm, but you shoot me instead. It's done either way. See you soon, sport.
Back at the FBI office, Demetri is consoling Banks about running over Celia, but she remembers back to what Agent Gough suggested about the bird that hit the window in their respective visions. He suggested taping the window so the bird misses it, but Banks figured the bird would find another window. Banks gets a call from the hospital, and Celia is not expected to survive. She is devastated.
Mark tracks down the area where the van may be hidden. Simon wants to go with, but Mark has no tolerance for it because Simon has been lying to him since the beginning. Mark vows to find Annabelle and sit down with Simon right afterwards to get the truth. Mark holds up his part of the plan, locating Annabelle in an abandoned warehouse, and Simon runs after stealing the QED ring from the FBI vault.
Mark goes to Lloyd's house to tell him about Simon's disappearance. However, Olivia was over there to show him that the brain scans of people during the flashforwards were normal. Thus, he wasn't lying in his interview. Off the record, he asked her about them being together, since Gabriel was so convinced of it. Olivia certainly looked happy that they were, and they share a kiss. She goes, and Lloyd tells Mark that Simon went back for his father's funeral. What we didn't know was that Simon insisted the experiment take place at the original time, even though it could have been easily delayed.
MARK: Is Simon Campos capable of causing a global blackout.
LLOYD: Simon Campos is capable of anything. And he always has a plan.
Sure enough, the FBI confirms that Suspect Zero is Simon's size, and that a Canadian G-4 plane made an emergency maintenance landing in Detroit on October 6th, meaning no flight plans or passenger lists were needed. Simon Campos is Suspect Zero.
Mark immediately goes to talk to Annabelle, who tries to cover for Simon. Eventually, she tells Mark something she overheard from her captors.
ANNABELLE: They said he's going to cause another blackout.
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