- Bryce searches for his woman in Tokyo and starts learning Japanese. He flies to Tokyo. Demetri gets help tracking the phone call forewarning his murder.
- Bryce begins his search for the woman in his flashforward, Aaron becomes concerned over Tracy's odd behavior, Mark attempts to track down the person responsible for texting Olivia and outing his drinking during his flashforward vision, and Demetri's co-agents try to find the mysterious caller who forewarned him about his unfortunate fate.—ABC Publicity
- Olivia was awfully hard on Bryce for attempting suicide. She was even harder on him during a surgical procedure when he was a little slow in providing information for her to do her job. We now know the reason why he attempted it. Four weeks before the blackout, Bryce was getting an update on his cancer diagnosis. He had been in treatment, but nothing worked. Given news like that, smashing the convertible of some pretentious jerk in the parking garage seems trivial by comparison. However, two weeks before the blackout, we see the woman in his flashforward in Tokyo, trying to psyche herself. Keiko Arahida is a Tokyo engineer who is trying to get a job at a robotics company. Apparently, liking salsa dancing and Jimi Hendrix helped seal the deal. Unfortunately, having a mother who tries to jumpstart your love life is clearly universal, as Keiko's mom throws her a party and invites a few guys over for Keiko to consider.
On the day of the blackout, Bryce tells someone about his diagnosis: his shrink, Dr. Fleming. Nobody at work knows, and he figures his family went though enough watching his father have lung cancer take him slowly and painfully over three years. The psychiatrist tries to convince him that he doesn't really know what the future holds, but clearly the walk onto the pier with a .38 would indicate he didn't listen to her. We see his flashforward. He sits in a Tokyo restaurant ordering food, and meets Keiko. Apparently, he had been waiting for her. Both are clearly smitten with each other, much like the ultimate first date. He sees a tattoo on her wrist: the Japanese symbol for "believe." He wakes up with a whole new perspective, and across the Pacific, Keiko awakens in her bathroom from the blackout, more than pleased about her side of the same flashforward.
Bryce is definitely determined, almost borderline obsessed, to meet with this woman. His apartment consists of nothing but paintings of things he saw in his flashforward, like the symbol on her t-shirt and drawings he made of her, along with a computer and Japanese language software. But Nicole is still impressed that Bryce is learning Japanese merely for the purpose of meeting that woman. In Tokyo, Keiko is a little low-key at her desk, although that must be a nice company she works for, as they don't block her access to watching a Bob Dylan concert performance. She is brought before the higher-ups... to serve them tea. Apparently, she doubles as a secretary from the 1950's. That ticks her off enough to go down to a tattoo parlor for a little bit of rebellion.
Mark's investigation into Jericho for Aaron only reveals a few things. They are based out of Santa Monica, they are a Blackwater-style private security contractor, and they have enough friends in D.C. where Mark would need some serious authorization just to park in their lot. Aaron is concerned because Tracy is hitting the bottle and won't talk very much out of fear. Mark will try to find out more, but he also has to find out why someone sent Olivia that text message that he was drinking during his flashforward. She didn't deem it important to tell him about the text message because he already admitted to the drinking. Mark is curious to know who sent it. The only two people who knew about his drinking in the flashforward are Aaron and Wedeck. He asks Aaron about it, who is already having difficulty dealing with Tracy hitting the bottle in his own house. Aaron does not take the implication well and tells Mark to find a new sponsor.
At the hospital, Bryce tries to keep quiet, but his health is starting to deteriorate. Olivia refuses to let him work because he is pale and almost passed out. She discovers the central line he had put in for his chemotherapy. He admits to having renal cell carcinoma, stage 4. He had a kidney removed before he went to work at the hospital. He didn't want to put his family or anybody else through it, hence the suicide attempt. But the thought of meeting Keiko has kept him going. He has rough days right after chemo, but he bounces back. Olivia decides to play friend instead of boss and gets him an appointment with a specialist in Houston working on an experimental drug. Bryce is uncertain because he knows he has something to live for in a few months, but she points out that he may still be alive in his flashforward because he did take this experimental drug. She practically sends him to Houston, but he goes to Tokyo instead.
Agent Levy, an NSA computer analyst, reports to the team that Suspect Zero's ring had the Greek letter Alpha on it. However, all of the cameras on him in Detroit wouldn't produce a decent shot of his face. Wedeck can smell the bullshit from her a mile away, and she indicates that one of the agents in his group was red-flagged by Homeland Security: Demetri. They intercepted a call he received where the caller did everything to hide their trail. More accurately...her trail. It was the woman who called Demetri to tell him he would be murdered on March 15th, that set off the alarm bells in the NSA. Demetri wants a copy of that message. Mark gets the message from the NSA, and he gets the same treatment from Wedeck that he got from Aaron when asking about the text message to Olivia.
In Tokyo, Bryce finds the restaurant and is able to find out that Keiko frequents the place. However, she'll have to deal with her mother being upset that she quit her job. Her mother goes ballistic that Keiko won't do any of the things they want, like marry the stuffy businessman they found for her. She gets thrown out of the house. But she is determined to find the person she saw in her flashforward: Bryce.
The FBI team analyzes the message and discovers the call came from Hong Kong. Wedeck isn't sending them because there's enough flak going on with the CIA thinking China is to blame for all of this in the first place. Of course, Mark won't let that stop him. He and Demetri are heading to Hong Kong.
Back home, Aaron continues to watch Tracy drink herself into a stupor. This makes Mark's arrival even worse. Mark tries to apologize, but Aaron is falling apart because of Tracy's behavior. He blames himself for what Tracy is doing because she always wanted to be just like him. Right now, Mark can't have him for a sponsor, but Aaron really needs a friend and Mark offers himself.
Bryce makes it to Keiko's house. ("Mom! There's a white guy at the door!"). But Keiko's mother is none too trusting of him, especially given that Bryce shows her a drawing of Keiko. She denies even knowing Keiko and shuts the door in his face. Bryce is beside himself, but Nicole tells him on the phone to be patient. He thinks that maybe it was about a fantasy rather than an actual future. He returns to L.A., not realizing that Keiko was on the same flight the whole time. Watching Bob Dylan at her workplace inspired her to come to L.A. with a guitar. It would seem the flashforward they shared didn't take place in a restaurant in Tokyo. It took place in Los Angeles.
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