- Mark flies to Germany to speak with an imprisoned Nazi war criminal claiming to know why it's 137 "Sekunden". Aaron wants a new DNA test of his daughter's remains with Mark's help.
- The FBI follow-up when a Nazi war criminal imprisoned in Munich claims to know the cause of the blackout. He also knows Agent Mark Benford by name. Benford and Agent Janis Hawk travel to Munich to interview the man and while he is prepared to share what he knows, he has only one requirement: that he be set free and allowed to return to the United States where he once lived. His information does lead the Agents to realize something very important about the blackout. Having seen his daughter alive in his future vision, Mark's friend Aaron Stark tries to get his ex-wife's agreement to exhume her remains and have further DNA testing to confirm if it's really their daughter. Agent Demetri Noh's fiancée manages to return from Seattle now that flights have been re-instated but he doesn't tell her about his lack of a future vision.—garykmcd
- QUALE PRISON - MUNICH, GERMANY
A man named Geyer is talking to a guard, Schultz. He asks him what he saw in his flashforward. Schultz was at the breakfast table, talking to his wife. Or rather, not talking as usual. Geyer, imprisoned in Munich, saw something that would insure his release from Quale Prison.
LOS ANGELES
Mark has called Aaron over for a face-to-face. Aaron isn't happy that Mark lied to Olivia, given that he found out the hard way what lying to your wife can do. But Mark tells him about Charlie's flash and his own, and the fact she knew about D. Gibbons. Aaron makes it simple: get D. Gibbons before he gets your family. "The world has changed. Maybe the rules need to change a little, too."
SEATTLE, WA
On a mostly empty plane, a woman, Zoey Andata (Gabrielle Union), talks to another man who decided to take the first flight possible after the groundstop on planes was lifted. He was the CEO of the airline, so he didn't have a choice. She is trying to get back to her fiance, Demetri. Demetri, who is trying to get a trace on the woman who called him the previous night and told him he would be shot 3 times in the chest on March 15, 2010.
LOS ANGELES
There's no lack of intelligence data on the blackouts, although there might be a lack of INTELLIGENT data regarding the blackout. One example: the flashforwards were caused by a release of toxic gas from deep inside the earth caused by crustal rifting. ("The earth farted and we blacked out?") However, a report from Germany has some promise. A prisoner named Rudolph Geyer knows why the blackouts lasted for 137 Sekunden, which is German for "seconds." Mark thinks it's a good lead, since the phrase 137 Sekunden was on the bulletin board in his flashforward. So was a picture of the guy. Even creepier is that the intelligence report from Germany mentions Mark by name. Geyer insists on talking to Mark and only Mark. Wedeck sends him overseas.
Demetri meets Zoey at the airport, and she is eager to tell him about her flashforward. He quickly switches topics to something slightly more mundane, and much more fun. After having her second blackout of the week, she tells him about seeing her wedding in her flashforward on the beach in Hawaii, and she says he is there. He is surprised, but he tells her he saw the same thing. Sadly, Aaron's reunion with his ex-wife, Kay, is far more somber. She thinks he is crazy to believe their daughter is still alive, and she has plenty of hostility towards him, clearly blaming him for her death. She throws him out of the bar she had been working in for the past 5 years and was working in during her flashforward. She refuses to sign the releases allowing him to exhume the daughter's body to prove the military lied about her death. However, he is not so easily stopped. He will find her.
MUNICH
The powers that rule the prison are not very happy about this visit, but Geyer is eager to talk to Mark. He saw Mark's name in his vision. However, Geyer insists he wants to return to the United States, where he hid from authorities for over 20 years. The German government is not too thrilled to allow a Nazi soldier to be released. However, Geyer won't breathe a word until he does. Janis Hawk doesn't want him to make the deal, since they could be letting a mass murderer go free for potentially nothing. Mark doesn't want to do this, but billions of lives are in the balance. Geyer's lawyer offers a compromise: a couple of pieces of information for Mark to verify, then the pardon comes and the rest of the information with it. Mark asks about the 137 seconds. Geyer talks about the Hebrew translation of the word "Kabbalah," the numbers of which assigned to each letter in the Hebrew alphabet add up to 137. Mark immediately calls BS and threatens to leave. Geyer says that he was being repatriated during his flashforward into the USA. The agent checking his credentials hears that Geyer has murder to thank for it. He remembers the name: Jerome Murphy. The lawyer wants Mark to find Jerome Murphy and compare flashforwards to prove the validity of Geyer's claim.
LOS ANGELES
Felicia Wedeck (Gina Torres) talks to Olivia about her flashforward. Her college-age son is away, but a 9-year-old boy is in his room, and she is putting him to bed. Suddenly she has a young son in her flash. She wonders about the validity of it, but like Olivia not having Mark around, Felicia doesn't have Stanford around, since he has to deliver a eulogy for 8 dead FBI agents.
Demetri tracks down Jerome Murphy, who wasn't a customs agent yet. Most likely because he was too busy putting on his boogie shoes. (I am switching to boxers tomorrow.) However, Demetri shows him the picture of Geyer and Murphy confirms everything Geyer said. But Demetri has an interesting decision to make. He finds a bong in Murphy's house, and he could obviously arrest him for it, thus ending his chance of being a customs agent. Murphy begs him not to do it. But given his lack of a flashforward, does he change the future?
MUNICH
Janis is downing a few shots to moral relativism, and is not happy that Mark is actually considering the deal. Mark has had to let the occasional murderous drug dealer go to get the major distributor. But Janis can't understand about allowing an admitted Nazi killer go free. Wedeck calls to inform Mark that Murphy confirmed the flashforward, and the State Department is calling in its favors. Everybody is on shaky ground now, including Aaron, who got Mark to pull a few strings to get his daughter's body exhumed without Kay's approval.
WEDECK: The world's changed. Some of us...all of us...are making decisions based on what will happen, not what could. Makes us do things we would not ordinarily do. You'd think knowing the future would make us less concerned about it. But just the opposite has happened. The future is what all of us are living for now. It's what we're living by.
InfoTech couldn't come up with a trace on Demetri's mysterious caller. The person in question was very good at covering her tracks. Geyer has been freed, and he talks about waking up from blacking out. When he woke up in his cell, the city of Munich was on fire, and there were dead crows all over the prison yard. He hands Mark a book he had on birds of South America. He thinks Mark may need the book at some point, but he isn't sure whether or not it will be of any use. The German government will hamstring him for as long as possible to keep Geyer in prison for playing them. At least they think he's playing them.
Mark returns home, and Aaron returns to the bar. He was wrong: his daughter's remains were in that grave. This time, however, Kay was far more forgiving. At the FBI memorial, Demetri tries to take in Wedeck's words regarding having hope. Felicia sees the young boy from her flashforward: someone who is now an orphan because of what happened during that 137 seconds. At a bar following the service, Mark hears something that might have some relevance to the case. Demetri gets rid of his cold feet regarding getting married in Hawaii and agrees to marry Zoey on April 29th. As it turns out, Geyer may have given them something after all. Crows died all over the world the day of the blackout. Doing some research, a blackout occurred in Somalia in 1991 with very similar circumstances. The crow population died out that day as well. In the sky in 1991, a young boy watches a strange shape go across the sky.
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