In the previous episode, Mark and Olivia’s daughter Charlie freaked the crap out of me. We picked up where we left off, a woman is calling Demetri to say that her vision involved him. In her flash, she read that Demetri was killed on March 15, 2010. He’s understandably freaked out. She doesn’t know who killed him (by shooting him three times in the chest). She hangs up before giving him any additional information.

An old German prisoner (Geyer) is chatting with a guard in a prison yard. They’re discussing their flashes. Geyer says that he saw something that would guarantee his release from prison.

Charlie’s watching cartoons with Mark, who’s looking at her like she’s a little freaky. Babysitter Nicole is MIA, so Mark and Olivia make plans to take care of Charlie. Aaron stops by and we see that Mark is lying to Olivia about why Aaron is there. Mark tells Aaron about Charlie mentioning D. Gibbons. Mark wonders if Gibbons is connected to the men who were coming for him in his flash. Aaron suggests that Mark protect his daughter.

In Seattle, Gabrielle Union’s character (Demetri’s fiance) is heading home. She chats with a fellow air plane passenger and reveals that she’s a criminal defence lawyer. She’s actually talking to the CEO of the airline, because they want to prove that it’s safe to fly again. He’s understandably freaked out.

Demetri asks one of his co-workers, Al, to trace the call he got the previous night.

Mark goes to talk to Janis and another agent, who are wading through intelligence reports from various countries on the cause of the flashes. One report is from Germany and quotes Geyer, who says he knows why the blackouts lasted 137 seconds. Mark recognizes Geyer’s photo from his flash board and wants to follow up on it. Also, Geyer’s report mentions Mark by name.

Mark is trying to justify going to Germany to Stanford. Stanford thinks this will only distract Mark from his search of D. Gibbons and Suspect Zero. Mark thinks that Geyer might lead him to both, so he tells Mark to go ahead.

Demetri picks up his fiance (Zoey) from the airport. She can’t wait to tell him what she saw, but he sort of wants to avoid it. She assumes that they both saw the same thing, but he just distracts her.

Aaron walks into a bar, but just orders soda water. He’s actually there to visit Kate, his ex-wife (and played by a former Lost actress....because so many of the people on this show used to be on Lost). He says their daughter is alive, but she doesn’t believe it. She also says she just saw herself working in the bar. Kate wants him to let their daughter go and says that he’s the reason their daughter joined the military in the first place. He wants her to sign an affidavit to exhume their daughter’s remains, but she refuses.

Demetri and Zoey are in bed, in a hotel room. She tells him she saw their wedding, on a beach in Hawaii. He lies and says he saw her too. I think maybe she was dreaming the wedding. She wants to commit to April 29 as a wedding date, but he doesn’t.

Cut to a raining night in Munich, Germany, where Mark is arriving at Geyer’s prison, along with Janis. Their government liaison (Krieger) warns them about Geyer and says he’s not as frail as he looks. Mark and Janis greet Geyer, and Geyer greets Mark by name.

Geyer admits that he doesn’t want to provide information without getting something in return. He wants to return to the US and have all charges against him dropped. Mark says he’s nuts. Outside the room, Janis thinks Geyer is playing them and doesn’t agree that they should secure him a pardon. Mark thinks it’s important to get Geyer’s information.

Olivia’s having lunch with Stanford’s wife, Felicia (played by Gina Torres). They talk about how their husbands are throwing themselves into their work. Felicia asks what Olivia saw, but she says it wasn’t anything important. Felicia says she was in her son’s old room (who was off at college) and it had a young boy (about 8 or 9), who called her him (his name was Attaf). Felicia says she’s never seen that boy before.

Back in the prison, Geyer’s lawyer offers up some information now as proof and the rest after he gets the pardon. Mark agrees. Geyer talks about what he learned about Jewish culture while working at the concentration camps. Geyer asks Mark if he’s heard of Kabbalah. In Kabbalah, everything has a hidden meaning. Apparently if you translate the word “Kabbalah” into Hebrew and then add up the numeric value of those numbers, you get 137 (just like 108 in Lost!). Mark is not impressed and threatens to leave, but Geyer calls his bluff. Geyer says in his flash, he saw himself going through immigration into the US (and mentioned that it took a murder to get him there). He’s talking with a customs agent and suggests that Mark confirm his story with the agent.

In the prison hall, Krieger is not amused by Mark, who wants to proceed with getting the information from Geyer. Aaron calls to say he wants Mark to help him get his daughter’s remains (Tracy) exhumed. Aaron says Kate won’t sign the papers, so he needs Mark to help him.

Mark calls Demetri, who tries to brush him off, but says he’ll help with Aaron. Stanford comes by to chat with Demetri, who says there’s no J. Murphy working as a customs officer. Stanford suggests they check applicants and tells Demetri to get his head back into the game.

Demetri arrives at J. Murphy’s house. Murphy’s dancing in his underwear and is happy when Demetri reveals that he will be a customs official. Murphy recognizes Geyer’s photo and says he said something about a murder. Demetri knocks over Murphy’s bong and Murphy says if Demetri busts him for it, he’ll never get the customs job, despite seeing it in his flash. Which I think makes Demetri realize that he might be able to change his future.

Janis is upset about letting a monster like Geyer go free and tells Mark so, but he’s taking all of this on faith. Stanford calls to say that Dem got corroboration from Murphy and he will try to get the ball rolling on the pardon. Dem goes to the cemetery to give the warrant to Aaron. A backhoe is there to exhume Tracy.

Al tells Dem that they can’t trace the woman who called him. Demetri suggests they try to pull the numbers routed through the two cell towers the call went through - even if it’s a million numbers.

Krieger is not happy that Mark has secured Geyer his pardon. Geyer begins to talk. He says when he woke up from the flash, he looked out of his window and saw dead crows. Geyer then admits that he has no idea why the blackout lasted as long as it did, but thinks that the dead crows mean something. Geyer hands Mark a bird book. Mark is very upset that Geyer played them. Huh. I thought Mark was lying about securing the pardon. He should have just psyched Geyer out.

Mark returns home and tells Olivia his trip was a dud.

Aaron returns to Kate’s bar. He says that she was right: Tracy’s body was in the grave. Ok, I’m wondering if these flashes aren’t of the future, but of an alternate reality or a parallel universe, where there are similarities and differences with the lives the characters are currently living.

Stanford is giving a eulogy at a large funeral for many agents. He says that things will get better. He says they’re all prophets now and prophets suffer. A young boy turns around and Felicia recognizes him as the boy in her flash. The agents make a toast to “absent friends” at a bar after the service. The phrase “all over the world”, said by Al, trigers something for Mark. He asks Janis to help him with something and they go off.

Zoey repeats Dem’s horrible pickup line to him and he laughs. He tells her they should schedule the d-day wedding, but she sensed his reluctance. He convinces her.

Back in the office, Mark wants Janis to look up the worldwide crow population for the last year. Many dies crows died all over the world on the day of the blackout. In 1991, many crows died on the same day in Somalia. On that day, the inhabitants of the region claimed they suffered a mass loss of consciousness. Mark questions whether the blackout has happened before.

Cut to Somalia in 1991. A young boy is leading goats through a field and sees a huge mass of crows flying in the sky. He runs over the hill and looks down on a village to see all of the crows now dead on the ground and something weird in the sky (a shape....please don’t be an alien ship, because that would be a cop-out).

Written by: Clarissa
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