The freaking Nazis did it! Well, the freaking Nazis didn’t do it but they do get a substantial mention in episode 3 of Flashforward.
Benton and Janis, who is a computer wizard but terrible at lateral thinking, (more on this later) travel to a German prison after an ex-Nazi inmate requests a personal meeting with Agent Serious (Pictured right) to discuss the future and to negotiate his release. A few minutes of prisoner Geyer’s, for the moment, nonsensical riddles about Kabala, crows and the amount of seconds the blackout lasted, gets right up Benton’s nose.
Lunging for Geyer and banging his fists on the table, Benton does what any good government agent would do. Adopting the Jack Bauer whisper-grunt, he insists that under no circumstances will he be released unless his information is relevant, before caving into every demand Geyer makes. Geyer probably could have ordered a Big Mac and Fries and had it served by the one and only Ronald McDonald, or even better Colonel Sanders.
Interesting questions are posed about ‘the greater good’ and whether releasing a man guilty of heinous crimes for potential information about the global catastrophe is worth it?
With planes back in the air, Dead man walking, Demitri is finally reunited with his fiancé, Zoey, who had been grounded in another city. Afraid to tell her about his own non-vision and imminent murder, Demetri is given a lifeline as Zoey says she saw him in her flash forward on an idyllic beach on the day of their wedding. Now, call me sceptical but I don’t trust the woman. Largely because she’s a lawyer but also because actress Gabrielle Union, played a back-stabbing career woman in 24 and I don’t like her face. Also because introducing her character for no reason other than a kiss and cuddle with Demetri would just be a waste of time. I also don’t trust the woman who told Demetri he would be murdered and promptly became impossible to get hold of. Either that or she’s on business in some rural part of Devon and just has no signal.
The investigation into the mysterious mass blackout has a new lead, with Geyer revealing information about a group of crows (apparently a group is called a Murder of crows) dead on the ground after he awoke from his own unconsciousness. Benton then has a eureka moment during his departments wake for colleagues lost in the devastation caused by the blackout. Benton asks Janis to find the worlds population of crows and as that data is of prime importance to most if not all FBI investigations, it is only few clicks before it is shown that there was a similar drop in numbers on the day of the blackout and in 1991. Obviously as Janis (pictured left) has worked for the FBI so many years, conversations about crows and population levels are so frequent that she’s unable to realise that this might be an important one. Thankfully Benton is on hand to spell it out and ask if the blackout has happened before?
As it turns out, the freaking Africans did it! Well, they probably didn’t but the end cut scene is in Africa showing a Murder of crows (that is so confusing) falling unconscious near a tower emitting some kind gas or smoke suggesting the mass blackout phenomenon has been caused by foul means.
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