Flash Forward 1.07: “The Gift”
At the beginning of tonight’s episode, we find out that the blue hand is actually the symbol of a club, for people who saw nothing in their flash forwards. They gather together to take fate into their own hands, “like a book club, with bullets” says Mark.
At Aaron’s workplace, Mike, an army veteran, gives back Tracy’s knife. Mike tells Aaron that he served with her and she wanted him to have it, as a good luck charm.
Back at the FBI, an agent from MI6 has flown in to help Al after seeing him in her flash forward. In his flash forward, he apparently admits to his attorney that he killed a woman, but we don’t yet know who.
While investigating the Blue Hand Club, Demetri, Mark and Al go to a meeting for members of the club. They meet a man in a room who has a gun and plays Russian Roulette with it. When he asks who is going to play, Al quickly grabs the revolver and pulls the trigger with it pointed at his head, basing all of his faith on the fact that he saw a flash forward. The gun doesn’t discharge, however, and Mark thinks it just doesn’t have any bullets. The man disproves him by pulling out a lone cartridge from the chamber with the words “Not today” written on it. He tosses the bullet to Al and welcomes them to the club.
At the hospital, Lloyd enters Olivia’s office and, through a very awkward conversation, tells her he would never do anything to threaten her marriage; he and Dillon are transferring to another hospital.
Mike stops Aaron later in the evening and tells him that what he saw in his flash forward with Tracy is impossible. He claims he was in the Humvee with her when she died. In his flash forward, her Humvee was destroyed by an RPG in combat, and he saw her die himself.
Back at the Blue Hand Meeting, the group starts to form into a kind of cult. Just before the leader of the meeting can kill himself, Mark jumps out from the crowd and stops him. The FBI then storms the building and captures the members. They take the leader back to the FBI building and interrogate him about the Blue Hand. He tells them that the Mosaic site allowed them to gather in masses and that nobody can escape their intended fate.
Mark and Demetri argue over Demetri’s lack of a flash forward. It seems as if he is beginning to really believe that there is no way to escape his fate. When he goes home, he finally explains to his fiancee that he had no flash forward. He seems to have given up all hope of living a full life.
Back at Aaron’s workplace, Aaron asks Mike to come work with him, grateful for the peace he has found about Tracy and her death.
At the FBI, Al leaves an envelope on Demitri’s desk before skipping out on the morning meeting. The camera follows Al, who is heading for the roof. We see his flash forward again where a woman named Celia is taken off of life support and dies, and Al feels responsible for it in some way.
Demetri reads his letter in time to run to the roof before Al jumps, but cannot talk him down from the ledge. In order to save Celia’s life, the woman from his flash forward, Al kills himself in an attempt to change the rules of the game. Demetri reads the letter Al left, which is addressed to Celia. In the letter he explains that she should not be worried about not having a flash forward. Because of his sacrifice, she will survive.
If that isn’t a big enough shock, at the end of the episode we get another thrill when Aaron arrives home from work. When he walks into the dining room, before him is Tracy, alive and well, sitting at the table.
