- The discovery of a person in Mark's flashforward impedes a romantic getaway with Olivia. Aaron discovers information about his daughter. Simon and Lloyd attempt to resolve a conflict, and Janis returns to the Bureau.
- Mark cuts his romantic getaway with Olivia short when a tip leads to the discovery of the tattooed assassin seen in his flashforward, Simon and Lloyd settle a debate over a game of poker, Aaron learns the truth about daughter Tracy's deadly accident, and Janis returns to work but debates her future with the department.—ABC Publicity
- Change is the order of the day. Al Gough's suicide has much further-reaching implications that anybody would have realized. The letter that was delivered to Celia, the woman he blamed himself for killing in his flashforward, is now a media sensation. Suddenly, people aren't taking their predictions lying down. Mark and Olivia get away for a romantic weekend, Demetri is investigating the bulletin board instead of throwing it all away, and Lloyd Simcoe has decided to send a file off to several emails to take responsibility for what happened. As the FBI welcomes back Janis, they also have to deny her resignation. She is confused about whether to accept fate as it comes, or should she take being shot as a sign that some things aren't meant to be.
WEDECK: If Al's death proved anything, it's that our choices still matter. Now, more than ever.
Lloyd's email doesn't get very far. Simon goes so far as to infringe on Lloyd's time with Dylan to try and straighten him out, but Lloyd still feels the need to go public with the experiment, since it killed 20 million people. Mark and Olivia's weekend together gets interrupted by Demetri, who relays information to Mark about a murder in Barstow. The execution-style murder was committed by one of the men who was in Mark's flashfoward, if the 3-star tattoo is any indication. Olivia doesn't like it, naturally. But Mark has to go back to work. Perhaps it's just as well. Mark got Olivia a gift, which she opens back at the hospital. It is a sexy black lingerie set. The same lingerie she was wearing in her flashforward when she saw Lloyd on the couch.
According to the reports, the man killed was an engineer from El Segundo. It was assumed to be a robbery, as the witness who shot the footage saw the engineer hand something over to the killer before being shot. Mark is determined to put this person away to prove that Al was right and the future can be changed.
Aaron is having a difficult time with Tracy. She is having nightmares about being attacked, and her post-traumatic stress is something she can't get past since she refuses to talk about what happened to her. But Aaron is running out of patience. Everybody else still think she's dead, and she had the same flashforward as him: they were both under fire in Afghanistan.
Olivia continues to be tense around Lloyd and Dylan for obvious reasons...at least to her. Bryce is wondering what is going on, but Simon, posing as a "friend of the family" railroads Olivia and Bryce into saying that Dylan can go home soon. Once alone, Simon tells Lloyd he'll do whatever it takes to block him from going public, or they can settle their issue in a "civilized" manner: a poker game. Dice, chess, Simon brags that the gods decided the lives of mortals by fate. Lloyd can't believe he thinks they're gods.
SIMON: 20 million deaths on our shoulders. That's what you said. If that doesn't qualify us for Godhood, tell me what does?
Ingrid Alvarez, the woman who filmed the murder on her mobile phone, just missed being a victim herself. Her roommate was killed, and Mark and Demetri think it's a matter of the wrong person, as does the Barstow Police. They bring Alvarez to headquarters. The item the engineer gave him was a briefcase, and she had a hazy description of the two men. It also sounded like the men were talking about "Q.E.D." Nobody at the FBI knew what she meant, but Simon used the phrase when talking about winning every hand of poker against Lloyd because it was fate. Or so some are led to believe.
SIMON: The future's already happened. I've already won. Fighting it is futile.
Certainly Nicole is hoping you can fight the future. She keeps thinking about her flashforward. But she reassures Olivia that things can change. It's all over the news.
Tracy finally opens up about being attacked. Jericho, it seems, is a private military contractor, and they were the ones to attack her Humvee. Because they attacked her, she doesn't think she can trust the military. She was working recon in a village where Jericho was. Jericho wiped out an entire village, and Tracy witnessed all of it. She told her superior officer about it, and she ended up being attacked with Mike. She lost her leg, but she survived it. Aaron relays this information to Mark, and he asks Mark for help. Tracy hid for two years because Jericho was...and still is...after her. Mark talks about this with Olivia, although he withholds the specifics. Both of them realize they can change things. For example, Olivia throws out the lingerie. Tracy is upset with Aaron, but he insists that they both saw the same flashforward, including giving Khamir, the man who kept Tracy alive after she was attacked, an envelope. Aaron didn't know what was in it, but Tracy left him so Jericho wouldn't attack him. Aaron insists on trusting what he saw.
Mark decides to make Ingrid bait in trapping the two killers that attacked the engineer, who may have been selling corporate secrets. Wedeck isn't comfortable, but since they are convinced there is a mole in the Bureau somewhere, pretending to release Ingrid tonight will get them to make their move. Ingrid volunteers to become the bait. Janis stays with her in the store while Mark and Demetri keep watch outside. Ingrid's flashforward showed her as a blonde instead of a brunette and working at the Bronx Zoo. She believed it so much, she put her pet store up for sale. The lack of buyers dissuaded her, as did Gough's suicide. A loud noise and loss of lights made matters even worse. Mark and Demetri come in, guns pointed. Mark's flashes are getting too much for him. The tension builds. Mark sees a man and shoots him dead in the shop. They were right, but it was only one of the two men. Ingrid will have to go into witness protection.
Simon and Lloyd's game is near it's end. Lloyd is losing badly, and Simon is beyond confident. So much so, he puts his large pile of chips against Lloyd's non-existent one, winner takes all. Simon thinks he has all of Lloyd's "tells" down, but apparently not. In spite of Simon getting four Kings, Lloyd beats him with a straight flush. Lloyd is ready to tell, as he loves to do magic for Dylan. He decides to let Simon write the first draft of the admission statement.
Demetri is very upset with Mark, whom he suspects for intentional killing of the man with the tattoo in order to change his vision, but he wonders just how accurate Mark's vision is. However he supports Mark's version during the debriefing, for which Mark thanks him. Mark is shaking when he gets home, but now he knows he and Olivia have a second chance. However, there is more to it than that. There are several men with the same three-star tattoo, one of whom delivers a briefcase with six rings to a mysterious man, who lodges a complaint about a missing ring... by shooting the delivery person. That same ring can be found on Suspect Zero at the baseball game in Detroit.
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