- Two FBI agents and all others in LA and the Earth experience a sudden 137 seconds blackout, where they see images from their future 6 months ahead. The two agents are assigned to find out what happened.
- On what seems to be a day like any other, everyone on Earth blacks out at the same moment for 2 minutes and 17 seconds. They also have a vision of where they will be or what they are doing some six months into the future, on April 29, 2010. For FBI Agent Mark Benford, the vision is disturbing: he sees himself working on this case, drinking again and with someone at the FBI building out to kill him. Mark's wife, a surgeon, sees herself in a relationship with another man, apparently someone she doesn't know yet. Mark's partner, Agent Demetri Noh has no vision at all and believes that can only mean one thing. As they begin to investigate the phenomena, the FBI come across startling videotape showing that at least one person didn't black out.—garykmcd
- FBI Agent Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) emerges from his overturned car, trying to shake off what has happened. He looks around to see nothing but destruction everywhere. Like him, many people are walking around in a daze, some crying for help because their loved ones are injured. Many people are dead in their cars, the result of a barrage of traffic accidents. In the background, the scene is repeated everywhere, including several buildings with severe structural damage. He starts shouting for his partner, Demetri Noh (John Cho).
FLASHBACK TO FOUR HOURS EARLIER
Mark is readying for another day at work. He takes his gun out of a safe, only to find a note from his wife, saying how much she hates him. She would appear to be joking as Olivia Benford (Sonya Walger) is in bed, and their daughter is fixated on a morning cartoon. Emerging from under his broken garage door, which Olivia reminded him to fix, their babysitter Nicole Kirby (Peyton List) arrives and agrees to work overtime since Olivia has to work a late shift at the hospital. A friend of the Benfords, Bryce Varley (Zachary Knighton) didn't show up to meet them the prior night, and Olivia gives him grief about it. Judging by the fact that Bryce is walking along a pier and is about to put a gun under his chin as he looks out at some morning surfers, it is obvious he is in some sort of severe emotional stress.
Mark finishes attending an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting with his sponsor, Aaron Stark (Brian F. O'Byrne), who relays the story of how he began drinking after his daughter's body was brought back from Afghanistan. Mark thinks Aaron should go out with this woman he is trying to set him up with, but Aaron is tired of being badgered, given that he's the sponsor.
Nicole told the Benford's she had to study and would be more than happy to babysit extra hours. It would appear studying her boyfriend while she is on top of him is part of the curriculum.
Mark and Demetri are in pursuit of two suspects and an unknown woman accompanying them. At the FBI's regional office, Janis Hawk (Christine Woods) received the video intel from the surveillance team, and their boss, Stanford Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance), wants the information fast on the two suspects and the unknown woman. However, Mark and Demetri are identified and a high-speed pursuit begins. Aaron Stark continues his job with the power company, Olivia is in surgery, Nicole is with her boyfriend, and Bryce is about to commit suicide.
As Mark and Demetri are about to hit a gasoline tanker, Mark has a vision. He sees hazmat suits, a large bulletin board of information, with pictures, names, and forensic evidence with lines connecting them. He is barely coherent, and he is drinking hard. He writes a question on a desk calendar: "Who Else Knows?" He has no time to think, as several assassins, based on their masks and tattoos, enter with laser-guided weapons, presumably to kill him.
Suddenly, he is in his overturned car. Aaron is hanging from a utility pole, his feet stuck in a power line, Nicole and her boyfriend have blacked out, Olivia comes to in the O.R., and Bryce is still alive. Los Angeles is in utter chaos.
Mark locates Demetri, and they try to help wherever they can. Bryce, who is apparently a doctor, goes down to the shore to help several people who may have drowned during the blackout. Worst of all, Mark and Olivia's daughter, Charlie, had a bad dream during the blackout.
CHARLIE: I dreamt there were no more good days.
Mark and Demetri locate the SUV they were chasing. It would appear that only the unidentified woman survived the crash, and Demetri demands to know what she planned to do with the terrorist attack the other two were apparently planning. Mark pulls him off for a moment, as onlookers note that the police and fire departments can't come, and whatever happened is happening all over the country. Demetri convinces Mark to look for Olivia, who is only two miles away. He tries to go, but bodies in the street, people in trouble, and looters have run amuck. Even a kangaroo is on the loose. Several TV's report that the entire planet blacked out, and helicopters fly overhead.
Mark finally contacts Olivia to relay the news, but Olivia's hospital is getting deluged with injuries, including a little girl that seemed to know her name mysteriously. Mark makes it back to the office, where Wedeck briefs him that none of the intelligence agencies can figure it out, but the entire world blacked out for two minutes and seventeen seconds. Wedeck is trying to assess the overall damage between vehicular crashes, plane crashes, and someone just falling down the stairs. However, Mark wants to know about the blackouts themselves, as he remembers parts of his own vision.
MARK: We've been saying that people have been blacking out, but that wasn't my experience.
Mark wasn't the only one. Several of his colleagues had a similar experience. Not hallucinations, it felt more like a memory that wasn't of the past...it was of the future. Mark describes his...
It was April 29, 2010 at 10 PM. (which everybody confirms in their visions)
VEDECK: Are you saying that everybody's consciousness jumped forward six months to April 29th?
MARK: As crazy as that sounds...yeah.
Demetri has brought the mystery woman into the office, since she was still planning to kill thousands of people. Mark tells him about the "flash forward," and an interesting hypothesis comes up. One of their partners was in New Scotland Yard in London during the vision with someone names Fiona Banks (Alex Kingston) when a bird hits the window of a high-rise. They call her and ask if she saw anything, and she corroborates their story. It had to do with the Rutherford case.
Some of the information that people saw in their visions were being confirmed as well, such as a senator brought up on ethics charges, and the Dow rising quickly. A "Grand Mosaic" was the phrase used by one of the talking heads, which is what Mark saw in his vision. Operation Mosaic was his case during the future, and it had to do with what was happening.
Wedeck wants more information. Demetri claims he only blacked out, but he was a bit shifty about it. Janis was 17 weeks pregnant in her vision, and she begins to wonder about the father she hasn't even met yet. Wedeck had the misfortune of being in the bathroom, so all he knew was Kobe Bryant tearing a ligament and the Rays swept the Red Sox.
To gather more clues, Janis suggests setting up a Website where people can enter their visions and cross-reference them. Mark realizes they actually do that, and he was following up on leads. Demetri is skeptical, but Wedeck has made the decision to put Mark at point on this. He begins the investigation that Mark has a vision on.
Mark and Demetri start to build the bulletin board he saw in his vision. He adds the names where he can, along with pictures he thinks he saw. Some of the words included "D. Gibbons", "Baltimore", "Blue Hand", and "Friendship Bracelet". Mark also had a friendship bracelet on, like one kids would make. Mark also confesses that he had a gun, people in masks were coming to get him, and one of them had a three-star tattoo on his arm. Demetri is upset because he didn't see anything, and he only had one viable reason for it: he was dead six months from now.
Back home, Nicole tells Mark that Charlie was OK, and she had been watching the news all day. The fact that Mark can't give her any information does not help her peace of mind. At the hospital, Olivia is having a hard time dealing with saving the life of a young boy, only to find out his mother was killed earlier in the day and nobody can locate his father. Bryce confessed to Olivia he was about to commit suicide on Venice Pier that morning, but his vision showed he was alive in six months and his whole life had changed. He thinks it was a sign from God, although Nicole thinks God was punishing the world. Olivia was not as optimistic, as she saw the end of her marriage in her vision.
Mark confesses to Aaron that he was drinking in his flash forward. It wasn't a one-time thing, as far as he could tell. Aaron tries to make him see the positive: perhaps Mark could do something to prevent becoming an alcoholic again. This would appear to be the impetus for their marriage ending. Aaron's flash forward is very unusual: his daughter is alive again. Aaron is convinced that she needs his help.
AARON: You're worried that your vision will come true. I'm worried that mine won't.
Mark successfully fixes the garage door as Olivia comes home. In bed, Olivia asks what he saw. He tells her about being in the office with gunmen coming. He conveniently doesn't mention that he was drinking. She decides not to talk about hers because it was too upsetting. He insists, and she was with another man in her vision. She is in tears, wondering how in the hell she would betray him or cheat on him.
The young boy who's father hadn't been contacted arrives. Lloyd Simcoe (Jack Davenport) wants answers, but Olivia won't be back until morning. He insists that he'll wait for her. He is also the man in Olivia's vision.
As Mark sits outside, doubly-worried about his impending alcoholism and Olivia's infidelity, Charlie comes out and gives him a gift: a friendship bracelet.
At work, Janis has been going through the surveillance feed of every camera she can find. During the blackout at Comerica Park in Detroit, a figure walks along the left-field bleachers while everybody is blacked out. The figure looks around and exits the park.
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