At the end of last week’s episode we got a nice little teaser featuring Dominic Monaghan’s character, known only as Simon, on the phone with Jack (the man Olivia Benford supposedly cheats with in her flash forward), claiming to have had caused the worldwide blackouts. Feel’s a lot like another show I used to watch…
This week’s episode, “Gimme Some Truth,” begins with Benford walking through a parking garage somewhere; presumably where the agents took a trip for their investigation as he begins to tell someone there is good news as he climbs into a sedan with the other agents. Before we can hear what the good news is, however, their car is struck by a speeding vehicle while still inside the garage. Suited men with automatic weapons climb out of another vehicle across from the accident and one fires a rocket into the agents’ car. Rewind two weeks.
The agents in the Mosaic investigation are being polygraphed about their specific flash forwards. Apparently they have traveled to Washington, D.C. to present a case to a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing to keep their investigation alive. Finally they have some cooperation with the CIA, as well as the president, a personal friend to Agent Wedek.
Benford takes the stand to tell the committee about his flash forward, hoping to persuade them to allow his team to continue pursuing Mosiac. Clemente drills him hard; doing anything she can to discredit his flash forward. Tensions between Benford and Wedek rise when Wedek bails halfway through Benford’s testimony and leaves him to dry on the stand. Later, Benford admits that he was intoxicated in his flash forward, risking everything they have been working for by hurting his credibility.
Agent Janis Hawk is featured a bit more in this episode as well. As her flash forward showed she was pregnant in six months, it is crucial when we find out a bit of information about her that makes it seem impossible. Janis likes girls. Not only that, but she is in a relationship with a gorgeous woman to boot. When the woman “Mosiacs” Janis, however, the romance is snuffed out and Janis ends it.
In the office, she is given satellite surveillance photos of Somalia to comb through while the rest of the team is in D.C. trying to keep the investigation alive. They discover pylons in the middle of nowhere that look to have stood over 100 feet tall, right around the time of the initial blackouts and crow incident took place years ago. Interesting…
We also find that Stan’s bad deed was paying off a woman the current president had an affair with. He made her go away for a lot of money and, according to Clemente, the cover-up caused her to lose the election. Stan pulls the friend card on the president regarding the past woman and insists he help keep the Mosaic investigation alive.
Back home in L.A. Olivia gets an anonymous text message stating that “Jack was drinking in his flash forward.”
The ending flashes back to the beginning of the episode. After their sedan is attacked, the four agents have a shootout set to some 80s music and we see prior to the attack that Benford was on the phone with Janis. She is attacked simultaneously and in the scuffle she is shot in the abdomen. The four agents in D.C. survive but the curtain falls as Janis lies bleeding to death on the side of the road in L.A.
Next week: Simon, played by Dominic Monaghan, officially becomes a part of the cast and plenty of new questions will be brought to the table. Get ready, Flash Forward fans.
Interesting developments in this episode:
Stanford Wedek: We find that he used to live in D.C. but left on very bad terms six years before the blackouts. He hates the city now and the show lets us know it over and over. As a personal friend to the president, he is pulling most of the weight to keep the L.A branch’s investigation into the blackouts alive.
Senator Clemente: On the board for the Senate Intelligence Committee to decide whether or not the investigation will stay alive, she is also an old enemy of agent Wedek. She knows what he did six years ago and claims to have seen herself as president of the United States in six months. This is later backed up when the president chooses her as the new vice president.
The President: During a press conference in this episode, we find that he and other world leaders have decided not to tell the public about their visions. But we aren’t the general public are we. All we do get, however, is a scene showing the president sleeping in bed when a secret service-looking man bursts in and says that “something has happened” before it cuts away. He is also an old friend of Wedek’s from his campaign days.
Janis: Although her flash forward shows her she is pregnant in six months, we find out that she is into girls, which happens to be a pretty big road block for the future. When her current other half “Mosaics” her, however, she confronts her about it and admits that in hers she is wearing a wedding band. Janis tells her she cannot continue the relationship. By the end of the episode, she is laying on the side of the road bleeding to death after an attack on Mosaic agents.
Benford: He admits to Wedek that he was intoxicated during his flash forward; meaning anything that he saw during it could have been because of the boozing. But he still believes what he saw was real. Wedek isn’t so sure. He shows off his bad ass side at the end of the episode with some shootout skills.
The Blackouts: Janis and team in L.A. find large pylons while searching through satellite photos of Syria during the time the initial blackouts and crow incident took place.
