FlashForward - Black Swan, S01E04

Try to think where you will be in 6 months. Where will you be, what will you be doing? Will you be at work, filling out paperwork, or answering the telephone? How many people will be doing something important at that time? It's funny to think about, isn't it.

The most interesting part is the emotions, that in the flashforward, people understood what they felt about the people they were talking to. This man I've never met before is my lover. I am being murdered and I deserve it. I have no worries. The consciousness was not sent ahead 6 months to witness a moment, it had lived everything in between and understood all the nuances of the situation.

This week, though Mark (Joseph Fiennes) wanted to go to Somalia to research the blackout that supposedly took place there in the early 90s, Demetri (John Cho) dragged him to Indiana to follow up on the advice of the blond woman the two had been pursuing when the blackout occurred. Though it turned up to be of no use, Demetri finally told Mark of his upcoming murder. I continue to hope that it can be changed.

Mark continues to believe in the importance of the Somalia incident, and is now going to get a hacker to break into the CIA files, since the FBI can't seem to get information legally. He continues to ask the questions Who? and How? and not so much Why? But the why does not seem to be the most dangerous part.

Meanwhile, at the hospital, Olivia (Sonya Walger) continues to struggle with her flashforward. She tries to have the autistic boy and his father, Lloyd Simcoe (Jack Davenport), moved out of her wing so that she does not see the man she was with 6 months from now all the time. She still wants to believe in her marriage to Mark, as do we since they continue to be adorable.

Of course, though Lloyd seems like a real sweetheart, as he learns how to interact with his son, playing magic tricks and such, by the end of the episode, we've received another big reveal. Lloyd knows Simon (Dominic Monaghan) and helped cause the biggest catastrophe in human history.

This reveal is much more significant than Nicole (Peyton List)'s. She saw herself being drown, and felt she deserved it. I can't imagine anything I could do that would make me believe I deserved to be drown...I really don't want to die that way. We'll have to wait to find out what she does.

FlashForward does a really good job both revealing a lot of new twists and information while knotting up the plot even more. What do you think?