- Olivia and Lloyd grow closer. Wedeck helps Aaron infiltrate Jericho to rescue Tracy. Demetri moves up his wedding date after finding out more information about his murder.
- TWO YEARS BEFORE THE BLACKOUT
Agent Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) is addressing a new crop of FBI field agents. Demetri Noh (John Cho), Janis Hawk (Christine Woods), Al Gough (Lee Thompson Young), and Marcie Turoff. Benford is telling the new field agents that every one of them will have a story about their first day. Some are funny, some are tragic, some are boring. But the most important day for them will sneak up on them on some random Tuesday, when they're in the right place at the right time to do the right thing and help someone who won't even know their name. As the rookies gathered, Marcie is not thrilled to be working for Janis in the office doing analysis, especially since she scored higher ("in one category!") at Quantico. Everyone is convinced Marcie will be out there ahead of all of them. And that she was.
MARCH 12, 2010
Mark and Demetri are handling Marcie's interrogation, but she refuses to say anything about who recruited her and why she shot six FBI agents during the mole hunt. She does admit to the sugar in her coffee was a signal to her handlers that she had information for them, but Mark and Demetri already knew that. Demetri is peppering her with questions with only three days to go before his supposed murder, but Mark pulls him off of the interrogation, replacing him with Janis. Janis plays it like she doesn't know anything, but Marcie is incensed because nobody ever asked her about her flashforward. In it, she's in prison and happy, since they can't execute her for murder until she tells them who recruited her. She only reveals being recruited three months before the blackout.
Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance) pulls Mark out to introduce him to two liaisons from D.C. who immediately take Marcie back there for questioning instead of letting the L.A. office handle it. They also find Mark's revolver; the one that was to be Demetri's murder weapon. Someone was warming it up by performing another murder. A fiftysomething man sleeping in a shelter takes three in the chest from Mark's revolver, but the man seemed to know who the person was, since witnesses heard him say "I knew it was you; I just didn't want to believe." Mark is less worried about the shooter and more worried about the person who took his gun out of lockup in the first place. One of the people who had access was Marcie. They catch up to her before the FBI puts her on the plane. She didn't know who wanted the gun nor did she have a reliable phone number. All she knew is that he was to die in L.A.
Olivia (Sonya Walger) takes Charlie to a park near their house because Charlie apparently made a playdate with Dylan. Sure enough, Lloyd (Jack Davenport) is with him, and the awkwardness begins. Even with Mark out of the house, Olivia is hesitant to be near Lloyd, but his help when Charlie falls off the slide is appreciated. Later that night, Olivia comes over to Lloyd's house to thank him for his help with Charlie that day. She wants to leave, but he wanted to know why she came to his house just to thank him. Why not just call? A heart-to-heart conversation later, both talk about the mistakes they made since all of this started. She wants to walk away, but he reminds her that he was in that room, that bed with her on April 29th, and not by accident.
OLIVIA: That scares me.
LLOYD: It should. (they kiss)
Wedeck left the office for a few hours for a meeting...on Air Force Two at LAX. Having done the dirty work for the President back in the day, the Vice-President was interested in talking to him. She asks him about Jericho, since the CEO tripled the security around his Malibu house. The Vice-President knew Jericho had done some things to threaten national security in her flashforward, and she needed Wedeck, not the NSA, to do some off-the-book investigating. Whatever Jericho is doing, it's bad enough to bring down President Segovia.
VICE-PRESIDENT: These flashforwards are coming true. Segovia is going down. Do you want to be out with the old or in with the new?
Wedeck asks Mark about why he researched Jericho a few months back. He tells Wedeck about Aaron (Brían F. O'Byrne) and how his daughter might be involved. Wedeck seems to have an idea to possibly talk to Aaron and "encourage" a little investigation into Jericho. The only problem is, Aaron has gone off the grid, and Mark can't find him. But Demetri did find where Mark's gun...and the man who had it...were. A man named Ross, off his rocker because he thought a mobile phone salesperson caused the blackouts, takes her hostage. Demetri talks him into releasing the woman and then shoots him, stopping Ross from killing the hostage with Mark's gun.
Unfortunately, a closer examination of the gun reveals it wasn't Mark's. Now Mark wants to know why Demetri went through all of that. Demetri wanted to ask Ross before the cops came in and shot him dead. Demetri was losing it, but Mark couldn't give him any good advice, given all the bad decisions he has made as well. His only recommendation for Demetri: take Zoey (Gabrielle Union) and get lost. Don't wait for her to attend his funeral. Demetri doesn't want to run away, but Mark tells him he's being smart. We also get a look at how Demetri and Zoey met...in a courtroom, where she grilled him about his notes on a suspect. She offered to take him to dinner to make up for embarassing him on the witness stand. In the present day, he asks her to get married right then and there, perhaps go to Hawaii and stay there until well past April 29th. She says yes.
Wedeck, after searching around Echo Park, because he was also looking for a nerdy guy with a computer in his head and the hot CIA agent who protects him, found Aaron. He explains that some very powerful people want Jericho taken down, and he wants Aaron to get the proof for him. Aaron tells Wedeck about Tracy (Genevieve Padalecki) being kidnapped by Jericho and taken back to Afghanistan. He explains Tracy seeing Jericho wipe out an entire village. Wedeck puts the plans in motion to smuggle Aaron over there and equips him for the mission. He warns Aaron that this is probably a one-way trip, and the only thing he wants from Aaron is Tracy's recorded testimony or any evidence he can record. Aaron is convinced he'll see his daughter since he did in his flashforward.
After having a quick bachelor party at the nearest bar, Janis escorts a wasted Demetri home. Demetri still thinks he's scared for running off, but Janis tells him it's always good to have an exit strategy. He tries to apologize for Somalia, but she tells him she is pregnant. How is something of a mystery,
As Demetri and Zoey look over the church for their wedding (while a mysterious stranger watches out of sight), Vreede (Barry Shabaka Henley) finds a videotape of a man fitting Frost's description getting into a 1970's blue Citroen sedan, the same sedan spotted at the homeless shelter. They can't understand why Frost made a videotape for Mark 19 years ago, gave him a number to call, and yet goes to murder a homeless person. There had to be a connection, since Mark's gun was used. The connection, unfortunately, was to be found at Demetri's house, where he was attacked by Frost as he prepared to get married. Everybody is waiting for him at the church, while Frost has his body in the back of his car near a carnival at Charlie's school. Mark calls Olivia at the carnival and tells her about Demetri not showing up for his wedding. Mark warns her to be careful, but she needs to worry about Charlie even more, as Frost is with her.
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