- Aaron infiltrates an Afghan village to find Tracy. Olivia finds a person who had several flashforwards. Janis tries to cover her tracks against her fellow FBI agents before they can discover her secret.
- Two years before the blackout, Janis (Christine Woods) relays her story of how she ended up at Quantico and training to be an FBI agent. She hated being a lawyer, and the concept of being part of something and doing some good had its appeal. Certainly she made a friend in Demetri Noh (John Cho), who helped her get through the tougher parts of training, especially the 6-mile obstacle course with yellow painted rocks to mark the trail: the "Yellow Brick Road." We see her talking to a woman two years before the blackout. It looks like she's on a date, but the woman, Lita, is actually a headhunter looking for some talent. Janis says she already has a job, but the woman thinks she can have a second job.
As Mark (Joseph Fiennes), Vreede (Barry Shabaka Henley), Vogel (Michael Ealy), and Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance) pour over the information that Dyson Frost was carrying, still upset the woman who killed Frost was in their custody merely hours before, Olivia (Sonya Walger) has a visitor at her house: Gabriel (James Callis). She is going to get the FBI agent guarding her place, but Gabriel is insistent (in his condition) about telling her things, such as a drink she supposed spilled on someone and that he tried to tell her to be with Lloyd (Jack Davenport), not Mark. As she runs to get the agent, Gabriel warns her "not to buy coffee from the guy who looks like Mr. Clean." Had she arrived at the hospital 10 minutes sooner, she would have bought that coffee...and been killed by an out-of-control taxi.
As we see Janis being set up with her dropoff point for information two years ago...a pet store...she talks to Mark in the present about the documents Frost had, indicating Alda Hertzog's fingerprints were also on them. Mark theorizes the two must have met at some earlier point (which we saw in last week's ep). Soil traces were also detected on the documents, which Janis said originated in Afghanistan. She takes the blueprints to an antiquities professor, who theorizes they could be some sort of ancient timekeeping systm. She leaves a copy for him to study. However, the pet store owner orders her to retrieve the original blueprint and destroy all copies. She does so at the Dr. Cory's office, destroying the computer files of them in the process, but when she goes to Mark's Mosaic bulletin board to get the copy from there, he catches her.
She tries to cover for herself, but Mark isn't buying it. He lets her go...so she thinks...and pretends to think all is well. Ironically, the pressure is building, and Janis goes to the doctor for an ultrasound. The doctor tells her to get more sleep, eat a better diet, and most importantly, scale back on the job.
Janis' late-night soujourn turns out to be all for nothing. Dr. Cory took pictures with his mobile phone as a backup and tells Mark that the plans were for some sort of astronomical clock. He crunched the numbers and came up with the date October 6, 2009...the day of the blackout. We return to that day and we see more of Janis' flashforward, where she was being warned about the same thing the doctor just told her. When she comes to, she realized what she had gotten into and goes to Carline, the owner of the pet store. She wants to quit, but Carline doesn't give her that option.
In Kandahar, Afghanistan, Aaron (Brían F. O'Byrne) is trying to keep a low profile, but a contact sent by Wedeck confronts him and tells him he's sticking out like a sore thumb. So much so that someone in the cafe is calling in someone to kidnap him right now. Aaron is not happy, but he acquieses. Aaron tells Malik about Tracy and tells him about some of the people he saw in his flashforward and the doctor who was with her. Malik tells him he knows how to find that doctor.
They drive through the night. Aaron asks him about his flashforward, but Malik angrilly told him it didn't matter, since he lost his wife and daughter during the blackout, and he didn't care about the future. His was a short one as a convoy from a group he didn't recognize opens fire on the car, killing him. Aaron holds out until another group attacks them. This group is led by Dr. Khamir, who recognizes Aaron from his own flashforward.
At the hospital, Olivia talks to Vreede, because she discovered everything Gabriel told her was true, such as spilling the drink, and being at her wedding. Gabriel also brought up Raven River, which Vreede confirms was mentioned by the other man that Frost had killed. Raven River could refer to a psych hospital in Arizona, which was shut down back in the 80's under suspicious circumstances. They were the first hospital to deal with autism. They drive to the abandoned facility and Olivia runs into Gabriel, who knew she was coming. Gabriel tells them that he saw the car accident and that she should have been with Lloyd. Gabriel says "this is where they did it." Specifically "the experiments." The residents were put to sleep every other day and were sent on trips. Sometimes it was a long trip, sometimes it was a short one. But Dyson was always watching Gabriel and the others.
GABRIEL: He told us we were special because we could remember things. We could remember everything.
It's obvious that Frost needed them to go through flashforwards and write down everything they remembered, which would be, literally, everything. Gabriel then told them that Frost ordered all of them killed, and Vreede told him that Frost was dead. But why come after Olivia? Because Gabriel always saw Olivia in his flashforwards. But every time, she was always with Lloyd.
GABRIEL: You're a piece of the puzzle! They can't go on without you!
Janis tells Mark she is pregnant. She apologizes for her lax professionalism of late, and asks Mark about Frost's last words to him. ("In the end, you'll be saved by the lady you see every day.") It turns out the lady was the chess piece they confiscated back in Utah. Inside of it was a QED ring.
Back at the FBI, Mark shows the QED (Quantum Entanglement Device) ring to Wedeck, Lloyd, and Simon Campos (Dominic Monaghan). He shows the tape of the baseball game in Detroit, where Suspect Zero was wearing the same ring. Simon explains what the ring is. It keeps the wearer of the ring from blacking out and keeping their minds from moving forward during the amplification of Simon's and Lloyd's linear accelerator to crazy levels that send everybody else's minds forward. Mark and Wedeck theorize that the men who supposedly attacked Mark on the 29th were actually after the QED.
Back to two years ago, Janis Hawk met with Agent Vogel. Vogel warns her she is a potential target for recruitment by enemy agencies. She denies it, but Vogel really wants her to play up that role. The CIA is suspicious of something that might happen, which "would make 9/11 look like a fender bender." Vogel needs someone on the inside. Vogel wants Hawk to be a double-agent, because they suspect that a group may try to recruit Janis. Vogel asks her if she can do it. Sure enough, the organization that recruited Janis now wants her to steal the QED ring from the FBI's vault to make up for not following Mark to Frost or destroying the plans quickly enough.
JANIS: I would not make a third mistake, Janis. This is where you prove your loyalty to the cause.
But the ring is only part of the assignment. Carline wants Janis to kill Mark.
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