The producers of The Event, perhaps having learned a lesson from the demise of FlashForward, promised that the second episode would provide lots of answers for the fans. And they weren't lying! In this hour, we learn where the plane went, who made it disappear, why Michael was flying that plane, how the detainees of Inastranka came to be here and who among their ranks is free and living in our world. But were they enough to keep viewers coming back? Here's a look at the answers we got:
Where'd the plane go after it disappeared?
The plane emerges from a similar wormhole and lands on its belly in the desert outside Yuma, Ariz. Sean moves away from the wreckage just before a fleet of ominous-looking helicopters crests the mountains. Michael warns that they aren't coming to help and tells Sean to run.
He eventually makes it to the hospital, where a nurse calls the police at Sean's urging and finds out that he's wanted for the murder of a fellow cruise-ship passenger: Greg.
In a frankly boring flashback, we also learn that Sean and Leila met cute while swimming laps at MIT five years earlier.
Sean tries to escape from the police, but he's apprehended and taken into custody. While driving through the desert, Sean tells the officers his entire fantastical tale and recognizes the area as where the plane crashed. A police officer tells the agents that there was a chemical spill and they're detoured.
Why was Michael flying the plane?
Because an unidentified malevolent man threatened the lives of Leila and his younger sister Samantha. "You watched us kill your wife," he says to Michael. "Do you really think we wouldn't do the same to your daughters?" Michael looks through a peephole and sees Leila with a gun to her head, held by Vicki, her fun-time pal from the cruise ship.
Who's behind Leila's kidnapping and Michael's blackmail?
We know that Greg and Vicki are working with that malevolent man, who also showed up on the cruise ship, stabbed Greg for some reason and sedated Leila.
How did Sophia and her group arrive here?
There was a fiery crash of some sort in Alaska in 1944. Sophia, the group's leader, decides to stay behind with those unable to move. A man named Thomas (Clifton Collins Jr.) leaves the crash site with the able-bodied members of their party.
Who and where are the crash survivors?
Well, we know that Sophia and 96 others are being held at Mount Inastranka, but there is an unspecified number at large in the world. Agent Lee tells President Martinez that testing at Inastranka has revealed that the detainees' DNA differs from that of humans by less than 1 percent, which may account for the fact that they age much more slowly than humans. We see a series of nearly identical, chronological pictures of Sophia dating from 1944 to present day.
Under questioning by the president, Sophia says she can't tell him the truth about her group, but half-threatens that they've been waiting for 66 years and their patience is running out.
So where are those at-large others? In a shocking twist, we see Agent Simon Lee fake a blood test by placing a plastic tube filled with blood under his skin to join the CIA. Later in the episode, an unwitting Blake Sterling appoints Simon the head of the task force to root out the missing members of the group.
Simon then meets with Thomas, the man we saw at the crash site in 1944 with Sophia, who tells him that the plane is in the desert in Arizona. But when Simon arrives at the crash site with a full government detail, all the passengers are dead — that is, except for Michael, who appears dead but probably isn't.
So what did you think? Enough answers for you? Who are these people, and where are they from?
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The producers of The Event, perhaps having learned a lesson from the demise of FlashForward, promised that the second episode would provide lots of answers for the fans. And they weren't lying! In this hour, we learn where the plane went, who made it disappear, why Michael was flying that plane, how the detainees of Inastranka came to be here and who among their ranks is free and living in our world. But were they enough to keep viewers coming back? Here's a look at the answers we got:
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