FlashForward - Playing Cards with Coyote,S01E08

In Playing Cards with Coyote, we saw how the world was affected by Agent Al Gough (Lee Thompson Young)'s decision to commit suicide. Clearly, nowhere in the world had someone taken it in hand to prove in such a dramatic way that the future was not set in stone.

And yet, despite this prove, the characters still drift towards April 29th and the possibility that what they saw might still happen. Aaron Stark (Brian F. O'Byrne) clings to the hope of what he saw, even more so since his daughter Tracey (Genevieve Cortese) showed up in his living room, while Olivia (Sonya Wagler) opens a gift from Mark (Joseph Fiennes) to discover the package contains the lingerie she was wearing in her vision with Llyod (Jack Davenport). She proceeds to throw that gift in the trash, which is a mirror to Mark shooting a man who might later shoot him.

Meanwhile, Lloyd continues to be wracked with guilt over the flashforward and murder of 20 million people. He wished to come forward and take responsibility. I can't imagine what he thinks that might accomplish - save getting himself thrown in jail - but he is insistent. So insistent that he cheats at poker to beat Simon (Dominic Monaghan) and therefore get his way. Monaghan continues to be deliciously one-minded about everything. He's got his plan and that's the way things are going to be. Love it.

And so that lesson that is learnt is that the future may be able to be changed, but you have to want it. It's as if, instead of the flashforward being the only possible future, it has become the most likely one, and if anyone wishes to alter that, they must make a great effort or a huge sacrifice. Throwing oneself off a building can change the course of time...can throwing out a pair of panties?

What do you think?