In my flash-forward, I was investigating
what caused all this.
I seemed to have an idea why all of this was happening. Priority number one... Finding out what caused this.
Priority number two is figuring out whether or not
it'll happen again. What if I didn't see anything because six months from now,
I'm gonna be dead? D. Gibbons is a bad man.
Tracy was killed in Afghanistan, but in my flash-forward,
she's alive. You're worried your future's gonna come true.
I'm worried mine won't.
This is Demetri.
Mr. Noh? I'm sorry to disturb you,
but I'm calling in response to your Mosaic board posting.
Who is this? How did you get this number?
I can't divulge that,
but I can tell you my vision involved you.
Go on. In my flash-forward,
I was reading an intelligence briefing,
and I am sorry.
There is no delicate way to say this,
but on March 15th, 2010,
you are going to be murdered.
What? What the hell are you talking about?
I understand why you're upset,
but my hope is by telling you what I know,
you will be able to prevent your murder from happening.
Your briefing... did it say who killed me? I'm afraid not.
Well, what did it say then? That you were an Agent from the American FBI,
and that you were shot three times in the chest.
You gotta give me more to go on here.
What... What kind of briefing was this?
I'm sorry, Mr. Noh. I have to end this call now.
No. Wait, wait. Hello? Hello!
Hello? Hello?
We're sorry. your call
cannot be completed as dialed. Come on!
We're trapped in here. We have to get out. I'm f-freezing!
At least you have fur.
Oh! Oh!
Hey, Nicole, it's Olivia again.
Look, babe, we're not mad, okay?
We're just worried about you. So can you please call
and let us know you're all right?
Okay, we'll speak to you soon. Bye.
Man. We gotta cover for Nicole again.
I can pick her up after school, take her back to work with me. Are you sure?
Yeah. We're sifting through blackout intel
from Interpol and such. I'll welcome the distraction.
Okay.
That's Aaron. Aaron's coming here?
Phone's broke. Said he'd take a look.
I just called Nicole.
Yeah, the problem's with my work line.
You called me from your work phone, said it was urgent.
Now you're lying to Olivia?
If you want to prevent the future and save
your marriage, first step isn't keeping secrets from your wife.
Take that from a guy who's already been divorced, huh? This is different. It's about Charlie.
What happened? You know she's been freaking out about what she saw, right?
There's a guy we've been investigating.
We've been calling him D. Gibbons.
Charlie's vision had to do with him.
She knew who he was.
She said, "D. Gibbons is a bad man."
How is that even possible? In my flash-forward...
masked gunmen were coming into the office.
Maybe D. Gibbons is connected to 'em.
You think whoever's supposed to be after you
will come after Charlie? What if this whole investigation circles back on me?
Well, isn't that always the risk with your line of work?
And shouldn't you be talking to somebody down at your office?
Blackout's changed everything.
I'll tell you what I'd do... Father to father.
If someone's gonna hurt your family,
the best thing to do is catch 'em before they can.
The world's changed.
Maybe the rules need to change a little, too.
If it were up to me, I'd do whatever I had to do.
Flight attendants, please prepare the cabin for takeoff.
So are you flying to home or from?
To. Back to my fiance.
I've been stuck here since the blackout.
But now that the airlines are up and running again...
I hopped on the first flight they were offering.
What were you doing in Seattle?
I'm a lawyer... Criminal defense.
What about you? Why are you flying?
I have to.
I'm the C.E.O. of the airline.
All the executives are taking flights today
to prove to our customers that the skies are safe again.
How's that working out for you?
Gangbusters.
Another scotch.
Al.
Yo.
Can I ask you a favor? Sure. What do you need?
I got a call last night from an unknown number.
Can you have the tech guys back-trace it
through the carrier and see if they can identify
the cell sites it was routed through? What's the priority on this?
Nuclear.
How's it going? Let me put it this way... I miss the good, old days
when law enforcement didn't share their leads
with each other.
We're gonna be cashing in our pensions before we finish
sifting through all of this intel.
Kingdom of Tonga?
Now who knew they even had an intelligence agency?
They're blaming the flash-forwards
on phytoplankton blooms.
Well, I'll see your boring and raise you an insane.
"The flash-forwards were caused by a toxic gas
"that was released from deep within the earth
as a result of crustal rifting."
So the earth farted, and we blacked out.
That makes sense to me.
At least this one's vetted by our legates in Germany.
Apparently there's a-a prisoner, a former Nazi...
a Rudolf Geyer... who's claiming to know why the blackouts
lasted exactly 137 sekunden.
Sekunden. That's German for "seconds."
Wait a minute. The guy who sent this in...
Do you have a picture of him?
That's him. He was on my board.
We gotta follow up on this.
Based on what, Mark... your spidey sense?
Something spookier.
The Nazi's report...
mentions Mark by name.
Let me see if I got this right.
We got agents working 24/7 to identify the two guys
who were awake during the blackout.
This week alone I've gotta figure out
how to eulogize eight dead agents,
and you want to fly to Germany to talk to a Nazi?
Well, a former Nazi.
Well, that just makes me feel so much better. Geyer requested a meeting with me specifically.
How does he even know you? I have no idea, but he says he can explain
why the blackout lasted 137 seconds,
and he won't talk unless I see him face-to-face.
And in the meantime, you're getting nowhere
with tracking down Suspect Zero or D. Gibbons.
N.S.A.'s still working on the Suspect Zero video.
And we're running down digital forensics
from D. Gibbons' cell phone. For all we know,
it's Geyer's information that will lead us to them.
Book the flights.
From New York Kennedy International Airport...
I thought I was never gonna see you again.
Me, too.
So can I tell you now?
Tell me what?
What I saw in my flash-forward.
Zo...
What's the big deal, babe?
It's not like we didn't see the same thing.
Here. We could talk, or...
Or? Or we could go to a motel...
Oh! I like your thinking, stranger.
What can I get you?
Just a soda water, Kate.
What the hell are you doing here?
Our daughter's alive, Kate.
I saw her during the blackout.
In my vision, I was with her.
She was wounded.
I th... I think it might have been somewhere in Afghanistan.
Are you sure you weren't dead?
Maybe you were in heaven with her.
Hey, you might want to check on that with your higher power.
I'm serious, Kate. You know what people have been saying.
This thing is real... glimpses of what's to come.
What's to come?
You want to know what I saw?
This.
I was doing the same thing I'm doing now,
same thing I've been doing the past five years.
And those sorry-ass regulars there? they were here, too.
What you saw was wishful thinking.
Let her go, Aaron.
I can't. Not when I know she needs me.
She's out there. I'm positive. She's dead! She's buried!
This isn't about some vision.
This is about you coming up with a fantasy
because you feel guilty, 'cause you're the reason
she went into the military in the first place. That's not true.
No, of course it is.
She's daddy's little girl, following in your footsteps.
Why are you doing this, anyway?
What do you want from me, anyway? Hey.
Stop. It's all right.
I just want your signature.
I need you to sign an affidavit
so I can exhume her remains.
Well, you're not gonna get it, Aaron.
Why don't you just take this and go?
I'm gonna find her, Kate, whether you help me or not.
And when I do, I'll let you know.
That's the second time I've blacked out this week.
Now can I tell you about what I saw?
Okay.
It was our wedding.
It was on a beach...
Hamoa beach in Hawaii, I think, where we went last spring.
It was so peaceful. The wind and...
and the waves...
everything was perfect.
And you saw me there? Yeah.
Did you see me?
Yeah.
Of course I saw you...
in that white dress...
Barefoot.
Baby, you were so beautiful.
It's just like you described.
You realize that's gonna be our wedding day, don't you?
April 29th? D-day?
All that's happened, baby, I'm not sure we should...
commit to a date.
We already have.
So...
can't you just...
fall back...
let the future happen
like it's supposed to?
Welcome to Munich.
Agent Benford, Agent Hawk.
Stefan Krieger.
I'll be your B.N.D. liaison during your stay.
Thanks for arranging this meeting on such short notice.
You're here as guests of the German government.
As such, you have no actual authority
and will proceed with appropriate decorum. Agreed?
Agreed.
There are a lot of ghosts here.
Isn't this where Sophie Scholl
and the rest of the White Rose Nazi resistance group
were executed?
If I'm not mistaken, your country eradicated
its indigenous Indian population
and practiced institutionalized slavery for over 250 years.
We also gave the world Britney Spears.
Rudolf Geyer may present himself
as a frail, forgetful old man,
but I should remind you that he managed to elude capture
for more than half a century,
spending at least 20 of those years
within your own U.S. borders. He's an unrepentant murderer.
His entire existence
has been based on dissemblance and falsehood.
Never forget that.
Herr Geyer.
Gentlemen...
and lady.
I've looked forward to meeting you, Herr Benford.
How did you know my name? I saw it in my vision.
You said you had information about the flash-forward,
about how long they lasted.
It's not quite that simple, I'm afraid.
You see, before my unfortunate incarceration,
I lived in America,
and I learned how you can't get something for nothing.
We've anticipated this, Herr Geyer.
Upon verification of your information,
you will be transferred to a minimum security facility.
But I had more than a gesture in mind.
I want to return to America,
and all charges against me
are dropped.
You're dreaming. I'm not permitting my client to breathe a word of what he knows
without getting his pardon first.
I believe we have what's called
a game of chicken.
Who do you think will blink first?
Before you answer, consider the fact
that I have nothing to lose.
He's playing us.
Think about it. This is win-win for him.
At best, he's just jerking us around
for a few days' entertainment, and at worst he goes free,
and we have no... we'll figure out a way to cover ourselves if he's lying.
No, you heard his lawyer.
They're not gonna let us cover ourselves.
Mark, this is full pardon or nothing,
And that's exactly What Geyer's gonna give us. We don't know that. The only thing we know is
Geyer's important to our case six months from now,
which means, Janis... Yeah, listen to yourself.
I am listening. Mark, six months from now? Come on.
The only thing we know right now is how much we don't know.
Mark, you're talking about letting a mass murderer go free
in exchange for potentially nothing.
Janis, there are several billion people...
Several billion... who need answers.
That's not nothing.
They need to know why it happened,
whether it'll happen again.
The guy makes me sick.
But he's 86 years old. He's on his way out.
And as much as I'd like to personally help him on his way,
I have to ask myself if the ends don't justify the means here.
They never do, Mark.
And you know, Geyer's age is irrelevant.
There's no statute of limitations on evil.
Geyer deserves his punishment, and his victims deserve
him getting that punishment,
and you can't take that away from them on a hope.
So how's Mark handling all of this?
The usual way... throwing himself into work.
How about Stan? The same.
Since becoming Bureau Assistant Director,
he's convinced he has to work twice as hard
as everybody else in the Bureau. Mm.
He's pulled two all-nighters in a row,
working on this eulogy for the... the memorial service.
Like if he found just the right words,
he could bring these agents back to life. Well, Mark's convinced that what he saw in his flash-forward
is somehow going to save us all. So Mark saw himself saving the world,
and what did you see?
Hey, honey.
Nothing important.
How about you?
I was home.
I was in Jason's room, but all of his stuff was gone.
That makes sense. He's in college, right? He still comes home for holidays.
But in my vision, everything was gone
and replaced by a young boy's things.
He was about 8 or 9 years old, and I was putting him to bed.
Good night, mom.
Good night, Attaf.
And you've never seen this kid before?
No. No, never.
Look, people are saying these visions are real.
So I don't know how, but in the next six months,
this little boy's gonna come into my life,
and I'm gonna be his mom. I refuse to believe
these visions are random.
There is a purpose. I just... I know it.
We have a compromise to suggest...
one piece of information now
and one later.
An offer of proof.
You verify certain aspects of my client's flash-forward,
Pardon him.
Then he will give you the remainder of what he knows.
Fine.
The 137 seconds... why?
In my time at Treblinka,
I, uh, obviously came into contact with many Jews.
I also came to learn about certain aspects
of their beliefs, their culture... Is this going somewhere?
Eh...
Tell me, Miss Hawk, why do you wear a ring on your left thumb?
What's it matter?
In some Eastern European countries,
Uh, where homosexuality is illegal,
a ring on a woman's left thumb is considered an indication
of her proclivities.
What does this have to do with anything?
Everything and nothing.
I am merely referencing a certain kind of code.
I will now make a reference to another kind of code.
Have you heard of Kabbalah?
It's a set of esoteric teachings...
Jewish mysticism.
In Kabbalah,
everything has a hidden meaning.
This is the word spelled in Hebrew...
Qof, beit,
lamed, hei.
And each letter in the Hebrew alphabet
is ascribed a number.
And if you add up these numbers,
you arrive at 137...
exactly the number of seconds that the blackout lasted.
Listen to me.
The only reason I'm sharing the same air as you is because
you said you've got relevant information.
And you've got exactly one minute to prove that to me,
Or I'm gone.
You won't leave. Not yet.
I have information that'll prove crucial to your investigation.
And I know it, because in my flash-forward...
I was being repatriated
to the United States,
and I had bought my freedom
with the second piece of information...
which I am prepared to share with you.
What did you see?
I was in an American airport.
I don't know which one. I was clearing through immigration. Thank you.
There was a young man who was processing my documents.
I remember he had a nametag that read "J. Murphy."
Disappointing Agent Benford's not here to welcome me home.
Coming back from Germany, ja?
Returning home, actually,
and I have one murder to thank for it.
A murder? Whose murder?
This is just our offer of proof.
Locate this customs Agent, this J. Murphy.
Compare his flash-forward to my client's.
Confirm he's telling the truth. Are you enjoying watching us
jump through your hoops? I hope you are.
Because you're never leaving this prison, Geyer.
I will leave...
on April 29th, 2010.
It is a future that has already happened.
I can't believe you're running with this.
Let's just see if his flash-forward proves out.
If it does, it means Geyer's free in six months' time,
which means he's telling us the truth. Or a lie we believed.
Are you okay with this?
Benford.
Hey, it's me. You got a minute?
Just. What's up?
I need a favor... a big favor.
It's for Tracy.
I want to get her remains exhumed,
test 'em against the D.N.A.
The military's got on file for her. Aaron.
Tell you what... I'll listen
to any "This isn't a good idea" speeches you gotta give
if you can swear you wouldn't do the exact same thing
if it were Charlie. Okay. You fax over the paperwork.
I'll push it through. There's no paperwork,
'cause it's not signed, and it's not signed
'cause it needs Kate's signature.
I need you to push through more than paperwork here. Aaron, that's...
I said it was a big favor. Leaving aside the illegality,
have you thought about what'll happen
if the results come back positive,
and the person in that grave is Tracy?
I saw her, Mark. I saw her alive.
What you saw was impossible.
That's what makes it a leap of faith, Mark.
You've never taken a leap of faith?
Mark, I'm a little busy right now, all right?
Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm... I'm just...
Everything's fine with Zoey.
Listen, I'll take care of it.
You tell him I'll call when I've got the warrant. Okay.
A warrant? For a customs officer? No, that's... something else.
Listen, Marcie ran through the T.S.A. employee database,
and there aren't any J. Murphys working customs
at any of the airports in the Continental United States. Did you check applicants?
No. Geyer said he spoke to an actual officer.
Six months from now.
Our guy might not be working customs yet.
Have Marcie check. If she finds something, run it down.
There a problem? My head's just not in the game today, boss.
Demetri? Yeah.
Get it in the game.
Hello?
Hey.
Hey! Jerome Murphy?
FBI. Have a minute?
Like, you're saying I make it?
I'm gonna be a Customs Official?
Man, I saw it, but I didn't really believe it, you know?
This rocks, dude. I totally thought I blew the physical.
Do I get a gun and stuff? Jerome, I need you to focus here, okay?
I'm trying to corroborate a suspect's flash-forward,
and he claims that you were in it.
Do you understand?
Yeah, sure. No problem.
What's "corroborate" mean?
I need you to tell me whether you saw the same thing
in your flash-forward as this guy claims he saw in his.
I know that dude.
I was working in an airport. It felt good, you know?
Badge... uniform...
It gave me purpose.
Coming back from Germany, ja?
I woke up after the blackout, applied the next day.
Do you remember anything else, anything odd?
You know, come to think of it, he did.
He said something about a murder. I have a murder to thank for it.
I figured I just misheard him.
All right.
I might be in touch.
I can explain that.
That's okay. I know what a bong is. That's not mine.
It's... my roommate's.
Look, um, home slice,
if I get tagged for this, that's it for me.
They won't hire me with a drug bust on my record. It does seem unlikely, yeah.
But I was doing it. I saw myself doing the job.
I saw myself wearing the uniform,
and it wouldn't have happened if you bust me.
I mean, it won't happen if you bust me.
I mean, what I'm saying here is
it's up to you whether or not my future happens.
Thank you.
Buy you a drink?
No, thanks.
To moral relativism.
I'm sorry this is bothering you so much.
Oh, I'm sorry this isn't bothering you at all.
Oh, don't make this personal.
You know what? Don't hide behind the badge.
You're the one driving this thing, Mark.
You are.
Just own it...
At least.
Fine. I've been driving this.
It's what we do, Janis.
We cut the dealer a pass to get the distributor.
We let the foot soldier walk to bust the kingpin.
But there have to be some limits, Mark.
There have to be people
that we won't deal or flip.
And I'm sorry,
but if we can't even draw that line at a Nazi...
I just don't even know what we're doing anymore.
Have you ever taken a leap of faith?
What's that got to do with anything?
I'm pushing this because I have faith
that seeing Geyer's picture in my flash-forward
means his information will be important to us.
Well, there you go. There's our problem,
because in my flash-forward,
all I saw was a baby that I don't even know I want.
So how can I have faith
in something I'm not even sure is real?
Then you've got a problem,
because that's what faith is.
Benford.
Dem found your Nazi's customs Agent.
Same flash-forward.
So he's telling the truth. I'll put a call into State,
have them start the arm-twisting of the German government.
You sure?
Hell, no, but something tells me
I better get used to that particular feeling.
We all better. World's changed.
Some of us, all of us, are making decisions
now based on what will happen,
not what could.
It makes us do things we wouldn't ordinarily do.
You'd think knowing the future
would make us less concerned about it.
But just the opposite has happened.
The future's what all of us are living for now.
It's what we're living by.
Hey, D. we got nothing on your unknown caller.
Tech traced it to somewhere off the New York coast,
But from there, They read the signal
as coming from two different sites at once.
Whoever it was, they know how to cover their tracks.
Thanks for trying.
Hey.
Can you pull the L.U.D.s off those two repeater sites?
There's probably a million or so calls
routed through those towers.
At least.
You can't do this!
You need my government's consent to free Geyer,
and my superior... signed off five minutes ago.
Congratulations. You're a free man.
Just like that?
Start talking.
I blacked out, as we all did.
The flash-forward happened as I described it.
And then I woke up.
I went to my window,
and I saw the city burning in the distance.
And on the ground,
in the courtyard outside...
I saw crows.
They were dead.
Dead crows?
The ground was littered with them.
"A murder of crows..."
in proper parlance, a grouping of crows.
What the hell does this have to do
with the Kabbalah and 137 seconds? Nothing, Fraulein.
I have no idea why the blackout lasted as long as it did.
So what, it was all crap...
The Kabbalah, the birds?
The crows are real. They were dying outside my window.
That must mean something. Tell us!
I can't tell you what I don't know.
Please take this. I have no further use for it.
But I believe you will, Herr Benford.
In my vision, I knew that I'd be freed
because of what I told you about the crows dying.
It could be helpful in your investigation.
How helpful it will be... Uh, we'll just have to see.
Then you'll rot in here until we do.
Ah, my Attorney is here to prevent that, Herr Krieger.
You played us.
The future will tell whether it's true.
But in the meantime, I am, as you said, however...
A free man.
Mmm.
Hey. You look horrendous.
Glad I accomplished at least something with this trip.
That badly?
As bad as it could've gone without getting shot at, yeah.
My mom... she always says, "Live in the now."
How the hell is anyone supposed to do that anymore?
Come here.
What you doing?
What am I doing? Mm-hmm. What you doing?
Living in the now. Oh.
Uh-huh. Living in the now.
Mm-hmm.
Mm. I guess my mom's advice wasn't so bad after all.
Not so bad, huh?
Hi, Jack.
He's been here for a while.
Hasn't asked me to pour a drop.
But you can tell he's thinking about it hard.
I can't be too sure since I had a few yesterday,
but I thought I was pretty particular
about not wanting to see you again.
Yeah.
Well...
I figured you'd make an exception for... for good news.
You were right.
The body...
The remains.
Tracy's grave.
You were right.
I'm sorry I went behind your back.
I'm sorry I didn't listen to you.
I'm... It's okay.
It's all gonna be okay.
There are no words for this...
None that mean half a damn anyway.
The people we love are gone, and they're not coming back.
And we'll miss them.
But things are going to get better.
The sun's gonna rise on a new day.
I know it doesn't feel like it will,
But that dawn is coming.
There's hope.
One of the agents here repeated to me
something that a friend had mentioned to him.
And he said, "We're all prophets now."
You know, I can't think of a prophet worth a damn...
that didn't suffer.
And I also can't think of a prophet...
that god didn't love.
Good night, mom.
This little boy's gonna come into my life,
and I'm gonna be his mom.
Absent friends.
How many of these speeches
do you think have been given since the blackout?
You gotta figure something like this is happening every day,
all over the world.
All over the world. Hmm.
I need your help with something.
What? Excuse me. Just come on.
I'm a raindrop,
and I'm falling for you.
What? That's how you tried to pick me up. Remember?
I would never use that line. Mm-hmm.
I said, um, you owed me a drink
for, uh, shredding my ass on the witness stand.
I did shred your ass, but I left all the good parts.
You all right?
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
Let's do it. Huh?
The "D-day" wedding. Let's do it.
Are you sure? 'cause the other day...
the other day was the other day.
I, um... today...
I want us to make our future happen.
Yeah?
Baby!
Okay, just go with me on this for a second.
It says here
that the Audubon Society tracks bird population trends.
Okay, I need you to look up the worldwide crow population
for, say, the last year.
There. See that dip?
The day of the blackout.
Geyer said that crows died outside his cell,
but it wasn't just in Germany.
Crows died all over the world during the blackout.
Mark...
And I say this with love,
Who gives a damn?
Look and see if there were any other instances
of crow populations plummeting like this.
In the Ganwar region of Somalia.
In 1991, all the crows died on the same day.
Mark, who cares? Why did we set up Mosaic?
To look for patterns.
Thanks to Geyer, we now know
crows died all over the world during the blackout.
Search on Ganwar and the date those crows died.
Just one hit.
A C.D.C. request for additional funding from D.H.S.
You know, Mark, this is just anecdotal.
Look, they don't even have any corroboration.
No, no, no, no. Wait, wait, wait, wait.
"C.D.C. doctors travel to the Ganwar region
"in response to claims
that the inhabitants suffered a mass loss of consciousness."
Janis, we've been so worried
the blackout might happen again.
We haven't stopped to ask ourselves,
what if it happened before?