FlashForward - Gimme Some Truth, S01E05

FlashForward continues to generate questions, though this episode did not really answer any. And that's okay, because heaven forbid that we run out of questions.

We got a big reveal though, Agent Janis Hawk (Christine Woods), who saw herself pregnant in her flashforward, is gay. That's right, she likes to date women. So, how she got herself knocked up is a bit of a mystery and explains why she is so surprised by the idea. Her colleagues are also unaware of her sexual orientation because apparently the FBI does not trust homosexuals with guns...okay...

We don't really need to get political right now.

But the episode itself got very political. Agent Standford Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance), the head of our branch of the FBI, Agent Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) and Agent Demetri Noh (John Cho) went to Washington DC to gain permission and funding to head up the mosaic investigation. Things look a little hairy at first. Wedeck has some old connections there - apparently he helped get the President into office - but he also has some old enemies. In the end, he bribes his friend, the President, into letting his team have the funding.

Only afterwards does he take the questions to Mark which prevented them from getting the funding through clean channels. And Mark finally admits that in his flashforward, he was loaded. He was drunk off his ass.

Olivia (Sonya Walger) also finds out that Mark was drinking from a mysterious text message. Who sent it? Will we ever find out? She is worried about his return to the habit, and it would certainly explain why she saw herself with another man 6 months in the future. This is likely the beginning of the rockiness of Olivia and Mark's marriage.

Finally, as the episode ended, Mark & co were attacked by some Asians. They fought off their assailants and were unharmed. Janis, who was back in LA, was also attacked. The episode ended with her shot in the stomach, bleeding on the ground and thinking of her flashforward when she was told her baby was a girl. Will she survive? Or will she die, proving the future can be changed? Or will this event convince her to get inseminated?

Also, the FBI co-worker, Al, was at the office when Mark was in the flashforward and saw himself going out a side door, though he claimed he did not know why. Might he be involved with the conspiracy and have left through that door to let the gun men in?

What more will we find out next week?