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Mark, Demetri and Stanford are leave some sort of meeting and while Mark insists that he remembers something clearly, Stan tells him to keep his mouth shut. Dem and Stan get into a car and Mark calls someone (maybe Olivia?) to say that even though the trip was a bust, Stan may have accomplished something. A van smashes into their car and three men exit the van with guns and blow the car up.

39 hours earlier, Vreede is briefing Mark and Dem about a Senate hearing. Demetri gets called in and denies seeing anything, but the aide thinks he lied in his affidavit. Mark, meanwhile, is playing with his sobriety chip.

Mark and Vreede are recounting their flashes while hooked up to a polygraph and it seems like Vreede was in the building, along with Mark.

Outside, Mark calls Aaron to see how things are going back home. Olivia comes outside and hears Aaron tell Mark to go to an AA meeting in DC.

Dem is walking with Vreede while carrying a box of documents. Dem reveals that Stan is worried the government will pull the funding for their investigation into the blackout.

Cut to Stan, who’s playing basketball (Dave) with an old friend. Dave tells Stan not to worry about the congressional funding. Stan says their Mosaic investigation is paying off and they are starting to piece together what April 29 will look like. Dave reveals that Congressman Clemente will be chairing the hearing and Stan isn’t happy to hear that.

We open 14 days ago, with everyone walking happily, until the blackout occurs. We see people falling and a bus plunging into a lake, presumably drowning everyone inside. No, wait, some people are still alive. Including one foreign woman, who is saved by an American man.

The man (Ned) is being examined by Olivia and Bryce in the hospital. He’s not suffering from pain, which is why he’s going to see a doctor. Bryce asks what Ned saw…..apparently he was “rocking” leather pants in a bar. Apparently Ned was also African-American. Except he’s actually white. So this is obviously weird.

Zoey wants Demetri to tell his parents that they’ve moved up the date for the wedding. Dem’s distracted, still preoccupied with the call from the lady who said he was going to be murdered. Zoey asks if Demetri if the FBI is holding a blonde woman from the day of the crash, but he won’t confirm or deny it.

At home, Joseph Fiennes is putting his real British accent to good use as Mark horses around with his daughter, Charlie. Olivia comes in to announce that Nicole will be babysitting for Charlie again.

Remember how Lost opened with the lead male character becoming conscious after a crash and the whole experience is very jarring? You know how people are saying that FlashForward is the next Lost? Well, apparently the show runners are taking that to heart, because we literally open the pilot episode of FlashForward with the lead male character (Mark Benford) becoming conscious after a crash. Close up on his face – he’s upside-down in a car and climbs out. We see dead/unconscious people on the road, people screaming and wandering around. Mark calls out for Demetri and there’s a dude on fire. Nice.

Four hours earlier, the city of LA is waking up to another morning. I think this is how that movie Volcano started out. That movie kind of sucks, but I like it. Mark opens his safe to pull out his gun and then goes to kiss his wife, Olivia. He makes breakfast for his daughter, Charlie and then heads off to work. The babysitter, Nicole, arrives just before he leaves.

On the patio, Olivia is now awake and leaving a message for her co-worker, Bryce, who wasn’t at work the day before. Bryce is walking along a pier (Santa Monica pier?). He stares out at the water and the other people and sees that he has five missed calls, but doesn’t bother checking his messages. Then he pulls a gun out of his bag.