This workweek ’s Flash Forward may have been full of characters tell apart the hearing that the globe has changed , but its moral was one that we ’ve known for many , many years : Nazi are not to be confide . Even when they ’re onetime .
After last hebdomad ’s pyrotechnics and introduction of a 2nd Suspect Zero ( “ Suspect Minus - One ” ? ) , this week ’s installment “ 137 Sekunden ” sidestepped that plot of land in favour of a hook and switch about just what caused the worldwide blackout and flashforward in the first blank space .
We open with a repeat of last calendar week ’s climactic scene where Demetri gets a mysterious phone from a mystic Asian woman who tells him that he ’s going to mutilate , but this time we get a little fleck more information : He ’ll get scoot 3 clock time in the bureau … Although , as we ’ll get wind by and by , there may be much more to this than encounter the eye . Being a good FBI agentive role , Demetri hands in his cell to FBI tech guys to trace the call , which they fail at after finding out that it was send on by two different tug . You might interest about the competency of the Feebs because of this , but do n’t vex ; this is just the beginning . Not only do we see them making fun of foreign intelligence operation government agency ’ theories about what caused the blackout – because , you have intercourse , Mark ’s corkboard from the hereafter is much more believable – but all it takes is the find that a German captive call Geyer has mentioned Mark following his brownout to get Mark and Janis on the first Transatlantic plane to the Fatherland .
( As the show goes on , we wonder more and more about Mark ’s boss ; last week , he was all “ I kick in CPR to a guy who ’d crack into a urinal , crappy ! ” and this week , he completely reverses his “ There ’s no way you ’re flying to Germany ! ” position when Mark suggests that it may terminate up being utilitarian . Sure , he try out to sound very authoritative with his “ Book the flights ! ” command , but still : We all see you do a 180 for no grounds , dude . )
While Mark and Janis jet plane off to Germany , Demetri ’s fiancee Zoe get back in LA , and after a failed attempt to disorder her with sex , tells Demetri what she saw in her flashforward : Her wedding party twenty-four hours … complete with Demetri . As he lies and narrate her that he saw the same affair , I ’m leave wonder if ( a ) she ’s lie about what she saw , for some reason ( Is she the one who ’s going to kill Demetri ? ) , ( b ) whoever obliterate Demetri takes his place somehow , and ( degree centigrade ) if that is what happens , is it a way to keep John Cho in the show ?
After a workweek of not doing much , Aaron decides to take action about his potentially animated girl , and endeavor to get his wife Kate ( who works in a bar ! And is an soaker herself , it ’s implied ! ) to sign on papers allowing him to get the girl ’s grave exhumed , but understandably , she ’s not into the idea . discount her wishes because , permit ’s face it , if he did he would n’t have much of a plot leave , he convinces his AA sponsee Mark to get the FBI to dig it up anyway , only to find out that the DNA of the corpse matches the daughter ’s DNA … thereby giving us our 2nd “ What if the Flashforwards were wrong ? ” minute of the week . Maybe it ’s this week ’s paper .
No , wait ! This week ’s theme has to do with Nazis , like our German friend Geyer . turn out he ’s an onetime Nazi who was captured after hiding in the US for for a while , and he take that he knows why the amnesia only hold up 137 seconds ( or “ sekunden ” in German , hence the name of the episode ) , but he ’ll only tell if he gets pardoned , released and channelize into the US . Mark demands trial impression and Geyer asks if Mark and Janis are conversant with Kaballah ( Somewhere , Madonna is shouting “ Yes ! ” and getting activated ) . If you write the discussion “ Kaballah ” in Hebrew , Geyer explains , each character has a numerical economic value , and that when added , these characters add to 137 . He does n’t tote up like the seconds of the brownout ! , but you just know that he wants to .
Back in the US , Mark ’s married woman Olivia is having lunch with Gina Torres , who turns out to be the wife of the FBI foreman . Just as Olivia examine herself with a fresh lover in the future , Gina take in herself with a new son – who she happen to see in the nowadays for the first fourth dimension by the terminal of the sequence , which would be a niggling too much of a coincidence if the entire series was n’t full of them ( See also : Olivia treating the son of her next fan , the flashforward bechance at the same time as Bryce ’s suicide attempt , etc . ) .
In Germany , meanwhile , Mark and Janis want more than clever numberplay to release Geyer , and so he tells them that in his flashforward , he saw himself entering the US and thanking a “ murder ” for it happening , advising them to check with the US custom officer , whose name he luckily remember , for substantiation . Demetri does so , finding the officer ( who is n’t in reality an policeman yet ; he use after he saw the flashforward , which is a fun example of the future - fuckery the show does n’t do enough of , outside of Mark ’s corkboard wall craziness ) , and the international practice of law wheels turn with a speed lie with only to television , organizing Geyer ’s waiver . As soon as he hears he ’s a destitute man , he reveals his secret : When he woke up from the flashforward , he find batch of deadened crows . clearly , Mark and Janis are somewhat underwhelmed , but what did they expect ? He was an malefic Nazi . German Nazi consist , it ’s just what they do .
Disappointed , Mark and Janis head back to the US , where ( at a memorial for bushed FBI agents , always a good “ montage of people looking sad while emotional medicine plays ” moment ) Mark suddenly determine to count at how many other crows fail during the flashforward . Answer : A lot . Crosschecking , Janis discovers that the only other aggregate - crowdeath scenario occurred in Somalia in 1991 , accompanying everyone in a small settlement collapsing at the same time . stinger to Somalia in 1991 , where a small male child watches heaps of crows fall to the land before tramp over a hill to see lots of people collapsed ( OMG He ’s Suspect Zero ! Or a Suspect Zero ! ) and some kind of spooky swarm . What does it all stand for ? ! ?
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