In this week's episode, we first cut to — appropriately enough — an old version of A Christmas Carol at the exact point grouchy Ebenezer discovers he will be wanted by three spirits. Watching Scrooge learn of his nearing visit from a future spirit is none other than Demetri's future spirit so to say, the mystery woman who told him he would die March 15.
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This week's episode, entitled "Believe," appropriately gives viewers a better look into the back story of Bryce. Last week, we only saw him briefly but we do know he's on a serious quest to find the girl in his flashforward who he looks so happy to see on April 29, 2010. Nicole was able to decipher the tattoo on this mystery girl's wrist as "believe."
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First off, let me just say wow!! I don't think I fully realized what the impact of Al's death, what a truly big game-changer it is. Thanks to all the great comments, especially those who remember dearly departed Lee Thompson Young as Jett Jackson (and here I thought I was the only one) and a special shout-out to MDJones for the insightful guess into Demetri and Zoey's future: "I think she's probably walking on the beach in a white dress to scatter Demetri's ashes." After Al, I can't even begin to think about another death within the team but this definitely seems like a possibility.
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The latest FlashForward episode "The Gift" starts out innocently enough as we see a woman picking up her two young boys from school. However, as the woman approaches her car, she finds a flyer on her windshield advertising projectghosts.com with a note on the back saying "You are one of us."
Before any of this can be explained, we cut back to Mark, Demetri and Al headed back to the morgue to follow up on the three blue-handed dead bodies they found at the end of the last episode. The three people seem to have absolutely nothing in common, except for the fact that the all three killed themselves and had no flash forwards. Also, one of three dead people is Ian Rutherford, who Al remembers investigating in his own flash forward.
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In the beginning of this week's FlashForward, we see the elusive and mysterious Simon on a train to Los Angeles. He sees a hot girl by the bar and you know what line he uses? "I know what caused the flash forwards." (Aow aow, I wonder how many times he's used that since Oct. 6).We learn Simon is supposedly a quantum physicist genius. Soon Simon is spurting his theory of what caused the flash forward, something about a teeny, tiny cat and a poisonous sardine all the while during Simon's come-on, we see Janice being rushed through the ER for her gun shot wound to the abdomen.
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The fifth episode of FlashForward starts off ominously, as we see Benford and Wedeck's car and another collide head-on. Before anything more can be revealed, the episode jumps back a few days to show the FBI gang is on a road trip to the nation's capital to get more funding for the MOSAIC program. Early on, we see Wedeck playing hoops with an influential politician and ask him for his help in getting the team more funding for their efforts in investigating the flash forwards. This someone is obviously an old friend in a high place. Turns out, the man in question is President Segovia (played by the always wonderful Peter Coyote), who holds a press conference detailing the Senate Intelligence Committee Hearings are supposed to start about which groups should get what funding for their work on the flash forwards. Nothing too exciting here — except when we get a glimpse of the President's secret flash forward — when we discover that something very bad is going to happen come April.
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The fourth episode of FlashForward, "Black Swan," introduces us to Olivia's latest and strangest patient of the day, Ned. On the day of the blackout, Ned was in a bus that careened into a lake but still managed to bring himself and another passenger to safety. Considering how close he came to drowning, Ned seems a little too upbeat in the hospital when he goes in to check up on his injuries. So why's he so darn perky? Because in his flash, he was wearing leather pants and mingling in a happening club. And he had inexplicably gone from Caucasian to African-American. Ok then!
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On Thursday's FlashForward, Olivia meets the man from her vision, Demetri and Mark meet D. Gibbons — two of them, actually — the Homeland Security Department gets involved in the investigation, Janice connects some dots and discovers new information about Suspect Zero and Charlie reveals something frightening about her vision.
Hey folks, I owe you an apology. I had a TiVo glitch on Thursday, so I wasn't able to recap this week's episode in a timely manner. I offer this abbreviated recap to catch you up. I thought "White to Play" was a nice follow-up to FlashForward's explosive pilot episode, in that it's now possible to see how the series will be structured from week to week. So far, it's mostly encouraging — with one exception: Anyone else think the use of flashbacks to remind the audience of past events was a little heavy-handed? There's only been one episode! I'm guessing they just want to make sure they keep everyone's attention in these crucial early weeks, so for now I'll let it slide. Come April, I'm sure I'll be begging for more plot reminders. Let's get to it, shall we?
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FlashForward, ABC's intriguing new drama, chronicles a frightening world event in which everyone loses consciousness simultaneously for two minutes and 17 seconds. During that time, each person experiences a "flash-forward" to the same date about six months into the show's future: April 29, 2010. Many critics (including us) are calling the show the next Lost. Will it be? Let's meet the Flashers — and learn what they saw when the whole world blacked out:
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