The fate of Demetri hung in the balance tonight. In FlashForward time, tonight was March 15, 2010, the day foretold and seen by Nhadra (Behrooz's mother from 24) as the day of Demetri's death. Zoey's flashforward vision of their wedding, after March 15, which she realized was Demetri's funeral, added credence to what Nhadra saw. So did the fact that Demetri had no flashforward vision at all.
Gibbons/Frost is holding Demetri prisoner, tied-up in a get-up of wires connected to a gun pointed right at his heart. Any movement by Demetri, any attempt to put something in way of Demetri and the gun, will cause it fire.
It's not 100% clear what Frost wants out of all of this, but it has something to with stopping his own death, which he has also foreseen for this day. Frost leaves a set of clues with Charlie, whom he talked to on the bench in the amusement park.
Mark first races brilliantly to get to Frost, in the best action sequence so far in the series. He gets to Frost with just a little time left to save Demetri - Frost has left Mark a literally ticking clock - and Mark gets the drop on Frost-
Only to see Frost shot to death by Alda (female terrorist) who has escaped. The Frost's death part of Frost's visions for the day has come true. Will Demetri's?
Mark risks literally fulfilling Nhadra's vision - Mark killing Demetri with Mark's gun - by trying to turn the gun at least a little away from Demetri. With seconds left - and with Demetri's life literally up for grabs by fate, because we've seen that most of the flashforwards do come true - Mark succeeds. Demetri's death didn't happen, just as Gough's death did, both contrary to all the flashforward visions that have irresistibly, recalcitrantly, come to be. All that's shot is Demetri's picture on the timeline Frost has created on the wall.
It's a timeline that shows events well into the future - teeming with interconnections, like a Hari Seldon psychohistory map (see Asimov's Foundation novels) - come to life in today's Los Angeles. But as soon as Demetri leaves the chair to which he's been confined, that map turns to sand and dissolves into the instant like an emptying hour glass. One last trick of Gibbons/Frost.
You couldn't ask for anything more from this top-notch episode - written by David Goyer and Lisa Zwerling - except more tricks to come in the future.
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2 comments:
What has me most intrigued about this episode, aside from the heartpounding, edge of your seat, waiting to exhale, and every other cliche you can think of coming onto the post, was one thing, one date in particular...
...December 12, 2016!
Maybe a little play on the Mayan Long Count Calendar date that some attribute as the "End Times" date predicted on December 21, 2012. But now, that brings a whole new significance to why the flash fowards might have been happening in the first place, and also why Frost said the world doesn't have much time left. Maybe the flash forwards were an attempt stop this? Or to make it happen?
The only words affiliated with December 12, 2016 are "The End" (a nice connection with Lost might I add with the final episode entitled "The End" as well). So now Benford and his gang have something else to chew even if they are capable of stopping another blackout. With Demetri now being saved, they are headed down a path that leads to "The End."
I just hope this show has enough viewers to where "The End" doesn't happen after THIS season!:(
Yeah - good points. It also occurs to me that the current producers may be setting the audience up for a movie...
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