FlashForward s01e14 Episode Script
Better Angels
[Wedeck.]
On October sixth, the planet blacked out for two minutes and 17 seconds.
The whole world saw the future.
[Janis.]
In my flash forward, I saw that I was pregnant.
I have to conceive this baby next week to match what I saw.
[Mark.]
There's a guy we've been investigating.
We've been calling him "D.
Gibbons.
" Charlie said, "D.
Gibbons is a bad man.
" - You haven't asked her about it? - I've tried.
She's shut down.
Everything bad we saw was here in LA.
What if we just ran, upped and moved away? [Vogel.]
Ganwar region, 1991.
There were reports of a mass loss of consciousness.
Photos show five towers.
I designed that.
You can't make sense of the tower without me, and you know it.
OK, try this one.
[Speaking in a foreign language.]
[Repeating in foreign language.]
It means, "I don't eat dairy.
" OK, try this one.
[Speaking in a foreign language.]
[Repeating in foreign language.]
Yeah.
It means, "What did you see?" So [speaks in a foreign language.]
- I was baking bread.
- Bread! Yes! [Chuckles.]
- And you? - I was waterskiing.
Good for you.
Hey, I thought this weekend, you're supposed to bake bread.
Vogel's little field trip kind of closed the window on that.
[Man speaking indistinctly over radio.]
[Man over radio.]
All right, put her down.
Got that one? - If you have your key, unlock it.
- Go ahead, set it down.
- I want a gun.
- It's not happening.
Going into Somalia without a gun is like going scuba diving without an oxygen tank.
You're here in an advisory role.
They're here to back us up.
I suggest you stay close to them.
Let's get to the tower and get out of here.
OK, this is what we're gonna do.
I want you guys to get all the equipment out of the helicopter - [keyboard tapping.]
- [Knocks.]
Come in.
What is that? The Hydra.
Seven heads, bad breath, killed by Hercules.
- Why am I looking at it? - D.
Gibbons.
Dyson Frost.
Simcoe gave us his name.
Here's the rest of the story.
Brilliant, reclusive particle physicist.
Trained in engineering at MIT, minored in Victorian lit.
- An achiever.
- [Mark.]
Typical story.
Domineering father, only spoke to him in French, - even though they grew up in Wyoming.
- Mm.
Became a chess grandmaster at 15.
The chess piece you found in Pigeon.
The white queen.
Apparently, he still plays, which is weird considering he was killed in a boating accident in 1990 on a boat called Le monstre de Boisteau.
- "Boisteau's monster.
" - Who's Boisteau? Pierre Boisteau, 18th-century French writer.
He had illustrations of monsters in some of his books.
Among the more well-known, the Hydra.
- The Hydra.
- On my board on the 29th.
It's all leading back to Frost.
Somehow, he's even part of Charlie's vision.
- Charlie saw him? - D.
Gibbons is a bad man.
[Mark.]
"D.
Gibbons is a bad man.
" It's all I've been able to get out of her.
Meanwhile, everything we know about him is coming to a head.
All we've got are blind alleys and cryptic messages.
What the hell am I supposed to do with that? Be like Hercules and slay the beast.
Keep looking for Dyson Frost.
[Electrical buzzing.]
There it is.
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
Keep moving.
It's not so bad here.
A bit sleepy.
- A little hotter than I expected.
- [Machine gun firing.]
[Shouting.]
[Man speaks in foreign language.]
[Vogel.]
Awaale, we need you to translate.
Tell them we're aid workers with Red Panda Resources, a relief organization, protected under articles 59 through 63 of the Geneva Convention.
We have a right to humanitarian access.
[Speaking in a foreign language.]
[Man shouting in foreign language.]
My name is Abdi Kalif.
I speak English.
You don't need him anymore.
[Issues command.]
[Shouting.]
[Abdi.]
I know you.
I saw you on Al Jazeera, telling the world you caused the blackout.
Always nice to meet a fan.
[Men laughing.]
You did not cause this.
God caused this.
He merely put your finger on the button.
- We are employees - [guns clicking.]
of Red Panda.
We're on a relief mission - to deliver cholera kits.
- This man is not a relief worker.
We are having mechanical problems, OK? If you let us continue on to our destination Do not lie to me! This was your destination.
You arrived at your destination.
You came here for a reason.
Just like the others.
What others? When I was a boy [sheep bleating.]
foreigners came to our village and told us they would bring us electricity.
They said five towers would provide power till the end of time.
That it was a humanitarian act.
But those towers were not for electricity.
They were for something else, something not humanitarian.
I had gone out to tend the goats.
I was not away long, only a few moments.
But even a single moment can change everything.
What happened, it made no sense.
I felt afraid.
They were there, but they were gone.
[Speaking in a foreign language.]
But it was all part of God's plan.
This I learned from my mother.
Everything in this life happens for a purpose.
And before the hand of death could take hold of me too [braying.]
I ran.
[Speaks in a foreign language.]
[Men shouting.]
Let me go! Come on.
I'm just a pilot! That man, for instance, is here for a purpose.
[Man shouting.]
[Machine gun firing.]
And now, he has served it.
You are here for a reason.
And I will kill you, all of you, if you do not tell me what that reason is.
[Bryce vomiting.]
[Panting.]
[Pager beeping.]
[Gasping.]
Oh, damn.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's not a big deal.
Are you OK? Yeah, I'm fine.
Oh, a little light reading? - I like the pictures.
- Seriously? Orgo? OK, just shut up for a second.
I'm I'm kind of - I'm thinking about possibly - Thinking about possibly what? I'm trying out a pre-med class, all right? - So that's the big secret? - Well, I don't want people to know about it because it's hard.
I don't want them to see me fall on my face.
"Dr.
Kirby.
" It's got a nice ring to it.
Mm-hm.
That's very funny.
Thank you.
No, seriously, that's the most difficult thing about becoming a doctor, is picking the right name.
I mean, take me, for instance.
My real name is Martin Goathead.
[Chuckles.]
- You're an idiot.
- Really? Martin Goathead.
Yeah, I think I like Bryce Varley better.
Of course you do.
It sounds rugged.
It's like a guy that eats protein bars and climbs mountains.
Dr.
Bryce Varley.
Promise me you won't tell anybody, please.
Nicole, I wouldn't do that to you.
[coughing.]
- Are you sure you're all right? - Oh, look at you.
Diagnosing patients already.
- I'm fine.
Look, I got to run - [pager beeping.]
Dr.
Kirby.
- Dr.
Goathead.
[Men chattering.]
[Janis.]
Why don't we tell him who we are and why we're here? We're not breaking cover.
[Demetri.]
He's not buying the Red Panda bit.
I'm not gonna sit around waiting for a bullet in my head.
[Sighs.]
Right.
'Cause you're waiting for three to the chest.
- What did you say? - You heard me.
Doesn't matter if it happens here or your couch or in the arms of your soon-to-be widow.
Let's face it.
You're done.
[Both grunting.]
- [Grunting.]
- [Shouting.]
[Gun cocking.]
- Hey, I thought we said not the face.
- My ball to call.
[Chuckles.]
Let's get to the chopper.
Get the guns, neutralize Abdi's men.
- Then we interrogate him.
- Let's move.
[sniffs.]
If all goes well, you might get that gun.
[Indistinct chattering.]
Now, once we start firing, Abdi's other men are gonna be coming.
Take the shot.
Fire.
Let's go! Go, go, go! Get the weapons! [Grunting.]
Move! He's down! Come on! Simon! Come on.
- [Engine rumbling.]
- Here they come! - What the hell is that? - Fire! Fire! They failed me, but you will not.
You will fulfill your part of the plan.
- Honey? - [Olivia.]
Hey.
Lunch is ready.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Three-bedroom colonial with a sun porch.
- That's right.
- In Denver.
- It's where we could go.
Denver.
- Big fan of the omelet.
It's one hell of an omelet.
But seriously, I mean, I've been doing some research.
There's two major hospitals in Denver, and they both need surgeons.
And the FBI has a division in Denver.
I mean, we can do this.
So this is why we're having lunch.
Well, that, and I wanted to see your beautiful face.
Mm-hm.
The Mile-High City.
I could join the ski police.
Be home at five.
Me by the fire, you wrapped up in a vegan tiger skin.
With nothing on underneath.
- Doesn't sound so bad.
- Mm-hm.
Look, you know, we don't have to make any decisions right now, - but I think we should soon.
- Mm-hm.
Hey, there's something I wanted to talk to you about, too.
Something we haven't been talking about.
Charlie, what she saw.
We need to know.
Livy, we've needed to know for a while now.
I thought we said we were gonna give her time.
We were doing that for us, but if she knows something that can help this investigation, then that goes way beyond us.
What is it you think that she knows? There are things that keep coming back.
- D.
Gibbons.
- He's at the center of everything.
I kept thinking I could do this without involving our family, but we can't ignore this.
We can't deny this anymore.
Listen, I have people at the FBI office who know how to talk to kids.
I wanna take Charlie down there tomorrow, just see if Let me talk to her first.
You can take her, but can I try talking to her first? OK.
- This isn't beyond us, Mark.
- I know.
And I mean it.
Will you take a look at this stuff? I mean, it is one hell of an omelet.
[Chuckling.]
[Abdi.]
On this continent, a child dies every six seconds from malnutrition.
Your country could easily provide this food, yet it does not.
That's not true.
Every year, we send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, just to have it stolen by people like you.
People who live in heaven shouldn't judge those who live in hell.
Tell me who you people are or I will kill him.
Sod off.
[Coughing.]
[Men chuckling.]
Who are you? Tell me.
They are CIA here to investigate the tower.
- We are security.
- [Laughing.]
This is your security? [Groaning.]
So you are with CIA.
- You are not afraid of death.
- I've gotten used to it.
What do you want with that tower? Why have you brought the scientist here? [Demetri.]
We think what happened on October 6th, the day of the blackout, happened before on a smaller scale in your village, because of the towers.
No.
I came back from herding the goats, I saw them on the ground.
They were dead.
It was no blackout.
- How do you know they were dead? - I saw the black camel.
What's the black camel? Black camel's considered a bad omen here.
"Death is a black camel that kneels at every man's gate.
" They were dead.
I returned from the refugee camps changed, a man now.
The bodies of my people were gone, and all that remained was a village of ghosts.
And there was only one tower left.
Word spread that I had lived when others had died.
And for this, I became feared.
I used this fear and became what I am now.
God's plan.
And then, the day of the blackout, I had my prophecy.
I saw it.
I was making a speech.
I spoke of the better angels.
when again touched by the better angels of our nature.
I called myself the new face of Somalia.
I was telling the world.
I spoke as a conqueror.
My enemies crushed.
God's plan.
I'm not willing to wait one day longer! [Crowd cheering.]
There will be one more war in this land.
My war.
I will rule this country.
The better angels the better warriors, will win.
And you will help because you are CIA.
You can get me these things.
Planes, tanks, boats.
What I will need to win my war.
That's not gonna happen.
[Grunts.]
Planes, tanks, boats! You will get me these things.
No, no, no, no! It happens every six seconds.
Vogel, just make the call.
The request alone will tell our people what's going on.
I'm not going to make the call because no one's gonna pick up the call.
It's like I told you before, there is no cavalry.
- We're on our own.
- There's gotta be some options.
- Meeting his demands isn't one of them.
- That's it? We just die? Janis, come on.
You saw yourself alive on April 29th.
That lunatic actually saw himself the leader of this country.
Right.
"Better angels.
" "Better angels.
" Which will it be? [Speaks in a foreign language.]
- Wait.
Get off him.
- Hey.
Which will it be? - Which will it be? - Your prophecy is wrong.
What you saw, it isn't what you saw.
And I can prove it to you.
I know about the better angels.
Sit down.
You say you know about better angels.
Tell me what you know.
It's from Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address.
- Lincoln was - Your president.
Ended slavery.
He was strong, not afraid to crush his enemies.
They were fighting a civil war in our country, just like your country.
Better Angels was a speech about unity.
- About bringing people together.
- You do not know what I saw.
No, I don't.
But I think I might be able to find someone who did.
Can you get on the Internet here? We created a website where people can come on and share their prophecies with each other.
Here.
A man was at the Assembly of the African Union at a peace conference.
- You were speaking.
- How do you know - what this man says is true? - You tell me.
They know your name.
They say you were wearing a wire necklace with an amber bead surrounded by two red ones.
- Do you have something like that? - No.
But my mother did.
[Young Abdi calling out.]
I haven't seen that necklace or my mother since I was a boy.
Someone else says they saw you.
They say you were quoting Lincoln.
"To every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched" "by the better angels of our nature.
" You don't need tanks or guns.
Your destiny is to stop the war not start one.
- [Clicking.]
- [Beeping.]
- Yes! Spare! - [Cheers, laughs.]
I'm throwing rocks tonight.
Mark it, Mommy.
- Nice job.
- You wanna play? I think I'll play after.
I wanna talk first.
- OK.
- [Sniffs.]
Ah, Charlie-bear.
So, uh do you remember when Tim Tim talked to Squirrelio about heroes? When Finnegan the Super Shark trapped them in his Snow Globe of Snow-Doom? Yeah, Squirrelio-zactly! Yeah.
And Tim Tim said that heroes are people who help people, even when it's hard.
Yeah? Well, I need you to be like a hero, Charlie.
- How? - I need you to be brave and tell me what you saw in your flash forward.
Hey, it's OK to be afraid.
It really is.
It's OK.
But, if you tell me, you might be able to help me, you might be able to help Daddy, help a whole lot of people we don't even know.
- If I tell you - Mm-hm? something bad will happen.
- No.
No, it won't.
Nothing bad's gonna happen.
I promise, OK? Nothing.
Can you tell me what you saw? Go ahead.
It's your house, too.
We were in the kitchen, and Dylan wanted a cookie.
Daddy says that you said, "D.
Gibbons is a bad man.
" Why'd you say that? [Lloyd.]
The man you call "D.
Gibbons" lied to you.
[Charlie.]
He heard his dad.
He said D.
Gibbons lied.
Bad people lie.
[Charlie.]
And Dylan made the magnets say that - on the refrigerator.
- Bad people lie.
But you didn't see D.
Gibbons? He wasn't in the house? Keep going, sweetie.
What else did you see? [Charlie.]
I heard fireworks.
And I went to the back door.
I saw a man walk up to another man.
They were wearing suits.
And he said It's OK, sweetie.
You can do it.
What did he say? [Vogel.]
Mark Benford is dead.
"Mark Benford is dead.
" "Mark Benford is dead.
" - It's not possible.
- It's what she heard.
"Mark Benford is dead.
" It's why she's been so frightened to tell us.
She's afraid her daddy's gonna die.
That's not gonna happen, Olivia.
On April 29th, I'm gonna be in my office, at my board, alive.
Livy, whatever Charlie saw, what she said It's not that.
Then what is it? It's just that this is the part where I tell you that we could escape this.
We could go to Denver.
We could go anywhere and get away from it all.
Get away from all of this.
And this is the part where you tell me that you won't.
Right.
There's gonna be another blackout.
And I have to see this through.
I have to try and stop it.
I have to try.
What happened to the world, happened in your village first.
- At least, that's our operating theory.
- Your people didn't die, - they were blacked out.
- They had prophecies? That's what we think.
We had hoped to find some of them and talk to them.
The war came when I was gone.
My people, my mother, they must have been driven away.
I saw the black camel.
I thought the devil had taken their souls.
The Qur'an, chapter 66, verse six: "Save yourself and your families from a fire whose fuel is men and stones.
" I painted it myself, as a warning.
In all my time, I haven't been in there.
Devil or no, it is an evil place.
But there is one thing that can push a man more than fear.
- What's that? - Destiny.
- You look like you've seen a ghost.
- No, it's entirely the opposite.
What I designed was theoretical, it could only be done in the future.
And yet, it's been standing here for 18 years.
Welcome to the future.
You said these designs were stolen from you.
This was built in '91, but you didn't come up with the concept till '92.
- I don't know how that's possible.
- Someone invented it before you.
- No, this is exactly what I designed.
- I don't get it.
Whoever did this, why would they leave it behind for somebody to find? They were hauling these things away, and then the war came.
Why didn't they ever come back to finish? The war hasn't stopped.
[Demetri.]
I found something.
It's a chess board.
- It's been sitting here for 18 years.
- And we have portable power.
Here's to hoping.
[Man on tape.]
What did you see? [Speaking in foreign language.]
- I knew this boy.
He was my friend.
- What did he say? - He said he saw himself playing a game.
- [man.]
And did it happen? He said what he saw came true.
[Man.]
What did you see? [Speaking in a foreign language.]
This is my mother.
She was looking for me.
She couldn't find me, but she had hope.
She knew I would survive, that I would become great.
The preceding interviews from test group B confirm that the subjects uniformly experienced a consciousness shift two weeks into the future.
That's the man who shot at us in Utah.
That's D.
Gibbons.
- D.
Gibbons was here in 1991.
- [Simon.]
Conducting an experiment.
You see, God didn't have anything to do with this.
This was man.
[Simon.]
Over here! What do you see, Simon? Simon! This tunnel, the vacuum systems, the lead shielding.
It's a linear accelerator.
One of five.
Smaller, less powerful versions than the ones we used at NLAP.
They ran a perimeter around the village.
Somehow, they unleashed a tachyon burst, creating a beta test of the global blackout in this village.
You weren't in the village at the time the experiment was conducted.
Explains why you didn't lose consciousness.
If what you're saying is true, it took five accelerators to create this beta blackout.
No way that just one knocked out the entire world, right? How can you possibly say that? Technology moves fast, Agent Noh.
Even if you knew the rules, which you don't, I don't think they apply anymore.
I got something down here! Ready? Go.
I don't think your people were driven off by the war.
They were shot.
Executed.
All of them.
[Demetri.]
Remote village, war-time.
Given all the unrest, they knew nobody would ever find these people.
They showed them tomorrow and ripped it away.
You said God had nothing to do with this.
That it was man.
But it was not any man.
It was you.
No.
Those plans were stolen from me.
I said you were sent here for a reason.
Now I know what that reason is.
- God delivered you to me - Abdi, no! so I could avenge my people.
Let your end mark a new beginning! No! [Janis.]
Oh, my God! Better angels, his vision This wasn't supposed to happen.
You want some cookies to go with that milk? No.
I want to leave.
I wanna go away with you and with Charlie.
I just wanna get away from all of this, from everything that we saw.
Yes or no? [Whispering.]
Livy Yes or no? You want to say both, don't you? That's who you are, Mark.
You can't have it both ways.
This is what we signed on for.
You save lives, I save lives.
- This is how we do it.
- But we saw how we did it.
You're at your office.
I'm here with Charlie hearing you've died.
I love you, Mark.
That doesn't work for me.
- This is how it happens.
- Don't say that.
You say you need things to play out like you saw.
You want them to, you need to.
You're forgetting there's another part to what we saw.
The part where we're not together anymore.
Livy, I don't want that.
You can't have it both ways.
Yes or no? - Hey.
- Whoa, where'd you get that? Abdi's men.
Brutalized his people, but they were too scared to say anything because destiny said he was their leader.
We changed their destiny today.
Rum? [Chuckles.]
Yeah.
To yet another flash forward never coming true.
- You OK? - Yeah.
Fine.
So what? I don't have a baby.
Who cares? - Lots of people don't have babies.
- You'll still have a baby, right? - Yeah, but I can't have Willa.
- You named her.
Willa.
- That's nice.
- Well, I would have.
It was supposed to happen this weekend.
And now her window's closed, and she's never gonna get here.
- [Chuckling.]
God! - What? It's It's so stupid.
I just saw a mass grave, and all I can think about is a mythical baby.
Grave, the baby You're having a circle of life moment, right? You know, the weekend's not over.
[Both cracking up.]
I'm just saying, if it's baby-making you need, I will take one for the team.
OK.
First of all, - no offense, but that's kind of gross.
- What? And, second of all, that's like a thousand percent wrong.
- Desperate times.
- I'm gay.
I will make you gayer.
Oh, yeah? What about Zoey? Chances are l'm not gonna be around in a couple of months, OK? I think it'd be nice if Willa was.
- Are you serious? - Mm-hm.
- How the hell did you get that? - I fixed their satellite TV.
I know you think that I can't handle weapons, but in my vision I was killing a man.
Didn't even need a gun.
- How many fingers did you have? - Enough to do the job.
What about you? What did you see? [Fireworks bursting.]
OK.
Mark Benford is dead.
I was doing my job.
What are you doing? I promised our little snowboarder that if he held still for his X-ray, I'd get him 100 packets of graham crackers.
You know, I've raided every floor, and I'm still only on 46.
- You are so very good at this.
- At what? Listening to people.
You know, figuring out what they need.
Bribing them with baked goods.
It's gonna make you a really good doctor one day.
I can ace graham crackers.
It's organic chemistry I'm worried about.
Uh Here.
This is for you.
- A calculator? - That's not just any calculator.
No.
I bought that my junior year at Duke, right before I miraculously passed a physics final.
And, ever since then, MCATs, med school, board exams, that's been my good luck charm.
This is great.
Up until today, my good luck charm was a Brainy Smurf.
- You really think I can do this? - Yeah, I really do.
- Not just saying that to be nice? - Well, I don't lie, and I'm not nice.
Four years of college.
- Four years of med school.
- Yeah.
- Four years of psychiatric residency.
- Psychiatry, huh? Like you said, I'm a good listener.
Plus, I'm an expert when it comes to dealing with people with problems.
So 12 years from now, when I finish my training, we'll be able to work together.
Twelve years? You'll probably be head of the department by then.
Yeah, about that Nicole, earlier today, I lied to you.
What do you mean? I told you that everything was fine with me.
It's not.
Twelve years from now, I'm not so sure that I'm gonna be around.
[Dyson.]
The preceding interviews from test group B confirm that the subjects uniformly experienced a consciousness shift two weeks into the future.
[Door opening.]
- What are you doing? - I couldn't sleep.
Just packing up stuff to take back to the Bureau.
- That all? - No.
Thinking.
Little things.
Life, death, fate.
Careful not to ponder too much.
The ancient Greeks did it all the time, usually ended up dead.
Well, all of them wound up dead.
What the hell? Hello, Demetri.
My name is Dyson Frost, and I'm recording this message in 1991.
Got your attention, didn't I?
On October sixth, the planet blacked out for two minutes and 17 seconds.
The whole world saw the future.
[Janis.]
In my flash forward, I saw that I was pregnant.
I have to conceive this baby next week to match what I saw.
[Mark.]
There's a guy we've been investigating.
We've been calling him "D.
Gibbons.
" Charlie said, "D.
Gibbons is a bad man.
" - You haven't asked her about it? - I've tried.
She's shut down.
Everything bad we saw was here in LA.
What if we just ran, upped and moved away? [Vogel.]
Ganwar region, 1991.
There were reports of a mass loss of consciousness.
Photos show five towers.
I designed that.
You can't make sense of the tower without me, and you know it.
OK, try this one.
[Speaking in a foreign language.]
[Repeating in foreign language.]
It means, "I don't eat dairy.
" OK, try this one.
[Speaking in a foreign language.]
[Repeating in foreign language.]
Yeah.
It means, "What did you see?" So [speaks in a foreign language.]
- I was baking bread.
- Bread! Yes! [Chuckles.]
- And you? - I was waterskiing.
Good for you.
Hey, I thought this weekend, you're supposed to bake bread.
Vogel's little field trip kind of closed the window on that.
[Man speaking indistinctly over radio.]
[Man over radio.]
All right, put her down.
Got that one? - If you have your key, unlock it.
- Go ahead, set it down.
- I want a gun.
- It's not happening.
Going into Somalia without a gun is like going scuba diving without an oxygen tank.
You're here in an advisory role.
They're here to back us up.
I suggest you stay close to them.
Let's get to the tower and get out of here.
OK, this is what we're gonna do.
I want you guys to get all the equipment out of the helicopter - [keyboard tapping.]
- [Knocks.]
Come in.
What is that? The Hydra.
Seven heads, bad breath, killed by Hercules.
- Why am I looking at it? - D.
Gibbons.
Dyson Frost.
Simcoe gave us his name.
Here's the rest of the story.
Brilliant, reclusive particle physicist.
Trained in engineering at MIT, minored in Victorian lit.
- An achiever.
- [Mark.]
Typical story.
Domineering father, only spoke to him in French, - even though they grew up in Wyoming.
- Mm.
Became a chess grandmaster at 15.
The chess piece you found in Pigeon.
The white queen.
Apparently, he still plays, which is weird considering he was killed in a boating accident in 1990 on a boat called Le monstre de Boisteau.
- "Boisteau's monster.
" - Who's Boisteau? Pierre Boisteau, 18th-century French writer.
He had illustrations of monsters in some of his books.
Among the more well-known, the Hydra.
- The Hydra.
- On my board on the 29th.
It's all leading back to Frost.
Somehow, he's even part of Charlie's vision.
- Charlie saw him? - D.
Gibbons is a bad man.
[Mark.]
"D.
Gibbons is a bad man.
" It's all I've been able to get out of her.
Meanwhile, everything we know about him is coming to a head.
All we've got are blind alleys and cryptic messages.
What the hell am I supposed to do with that? Be like Hercules and slay the beast.
Keep looking for Dyson Frost.
[Electrical buzzing.]
There it is.
Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.
Keep moving.
It's not so bad here.
A bit sleepy.
- A little hotter than I expected.
- [Machine gun firing.]
[Shouting.]
[Man speaks in foreign language.]
[Vogel.]
Awaale, we need you to translate.
Tell them we're aid workers with Red Panda Resources, a relief organization, protected under articles 59 through 63 of the Geneva Convention.
We have a right to humanitarian access.
[Speaking in a foreign language.]
[Man shouting in foreign language.]
My name is Abdi Kalif.
I speak English.
You don't need him anymore.
[Issues command.]
[Shouting.]
[Abdi.]
I know you.
I saw you on Al Jazeera, telling the world you caused the blackout.
Always nice to meet a fan.
[Men laughing.]
You did not cause this.
God caused this.
He merely put your finger on the button.
- We are employees - [guns clicking.]
of Red Panda.
We're on a relief mission - to deliver cholera kits.
- This man is not a relief worker.
We are having mechanical problems, OK? If you let us continue on to our destination Do not lie to me! This was your destination.
You arrived at your destination.
You came here for a reason.
Just like the others.
What others? When I was a boy [sheep bleating.]
foreigners came to our village and told us they would bring us electricity.
They said five towers would provide power till the end of time.
That it was a humanitarian act.
But those towers were not for electricity.
They were for something else, something not humanitarian.
I had gone out to tend the goats.
I was not away long, only a few moments.
But even a single moment can change everything.
What happened, it made no sense.
I felt afraid.
They were there, but they were gone.
[Speaking in a foreign language.]
But it was all part of God's plan.
This I learned from my mother.
Everything in this life happens for a purpose.
And before the hand of death could take hold of me too [braying.]
I ran.
[Speaks in a foreign language.]
[Men shouting.]
Let me go! Come on.
I'm just a pilot! That man, for instance, is here for a purpose.
[Man shouting.]
[Machine gun firing.]
And now, he has served it.
You are here for a reason.
And I will kill you, all of you, if you do not tell me what that reason is.
[Bryce vomiting.]
[Panting.]
[Pager beeping.]
[Gasping.]
Oh, damn.
- I'm so sorry.
- It's not a big deal.
Are you OK? Yeah, I'm fine.
Oh, a little light reading? - I like the pictures.
- Seriously? Orgo? OK, just shut up for a second.
I'm I'm kind of - I'm thinking about possibly - Thinking about possibly what? I'm trying out a pre-med class, all right? - So that's the big secret? - Well, I don't want people to know about it because it's hard.
I don't want them to see me fall on my face.
"Dr.
Kirby.
" It's got a nice ring to it.
Mm-hm.
That's very funny.
Thank you.
No, seriously, that's the most difficult thing about becoming a doctor, is picking the right name.
I mean, take me, for instance.
My real name is Martin Goathead.
[Chuckles.]
- You're an idiot.
- Really? Martin Goathead.
Yeah, I think I like Bryce Varley better.
Of course you do.
It sounds rugged.
It's like a guy that eats protein bars and climbs mountains.
Dr.
Bryce Varley.
Promise me you won't tell anybody, please.
Nicole, I wouldn't do that to you.
[coughing.]
- Are you sure you're all right? - Oh, look at you.
Diagnosing patients already.
- I'm fine.
Look, I got to run - [pager beeping.]
Dr.
Kirby.
- Dr.
Goathead.
[Men chattering.]
[Janis.]
Why don't we tell him who we are and why we're here? We're not breaking cover.
[Demetri.]
He's not buying the Red Panda bit.
I'm not gonna sit around waiting for a bullet in my head.
[Sighs.]
Right.
'Cause you're waiting for three to the chest.
- What did you say? - You heard me.
Doesn't matter if it happens here or your couch or in the arms of your soon-to-be widow.
Let's face it.
You're done.
[Both grunting.]
- [Grunting.]
- [Shouting.]
[Gun cocking.]
- Hey, I thought we said not the face.
- My ball to call.
[Chuckles.]
Let's get to the chopper.
Get the guns, neutralize Abdi's men.
- Then we interrogate him.
- Let's move.
[sniffs.]
If all goes well, you might get that gun.
[Indistinct chattering.]
Now, once we start firing, Abdi's other men are gonna be coming.
Take the shot.
Fire.
Let's go! Go, go, go! Get the weapons! [Grunting.]
Move! He's down! Come on! Simon! Come on.
- [Engine rumbling.]
- Here they come! - What the hell is that? - Fire! Fire! They failed me, but you will not.
You will fulfill your part of the plan.
- Honey? - [Olivia.]
Hey.
Lunch is ready.
- Hey.
- Hey.
Three-bedroom colonial with a sun porch.
- That's right.
- In Denver.
- It's where we could go.
Denver.
- Big fan of the omelet.
It's one hell of an omelet.
But seriously, I mean, I've been doing some research.
There's two major hospitals in Denver, and they both need surgeons.
And the FBI has a division in Denver.
I mean, we can do this.
So this is why we're having lunch.
Well, that, and I wanted to see your beautiful face.
Mm-hm.
The Mile-High City.
I could join the ski police.
Be home at five.
Me by the fire, you wrapped up in a vegan tiger skin.
With nothing on underneath.
- Doesn't sound so bad.
- Mm-hm.
Look, you know, we don't have to make any decisions right now, - but I think we should soon.
- Mm-hm.
Hey, there's something I wanted to talk to you about, too.
Something we haven't been talking about.
Charlie, what she saw.
We need to know.
Livy, we've needed to know for a while now.
I thought we said we were gonna give her time.
We were doing that for us, but if she knows something that can help this investigation, then that goes way beyond us.
What is it you think that she knows? There are things that keep coming back.
- D.
Gibbons.
- He's at the center of everything.
I kept thinking I could do this without involving our family, but we can't ignore this.
We can't deny this anymore.
Listen, I have people at the FBI office who know how to talk to kids.
I wanna take Charlie down there tomorrow, just see if Let me talk to her first.
You can take her, but can I try talking to her first? OK.
- This isn't beyond us, Mark.
- I know.
And I mean it.
Will you take a look at this stuff? I mean, it is one hell of an omelet.
[Chuckling.]
[Abdi.]
On this continent, a child dies every six seconds from malnutrition.
Your country could easily provide this food, yet it does not.
That's not true.
Every year, we send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, just to have it stolen by people like you.
People who live in heaven shouldn't judge those who live in hell.
Tell me who you people are or I will kill him.
Sod off.
[Coughing.]
[Men chuckling.]
Who are you? Tell me.
They are CIA here to investigate the tower.
- We are security.
- [Laughing.]
This is your security? [Groaning.]
So you are with CIA.
- You are not afraid of death.
- I've gotten used to it.
What do you want with that tower? Why have you brought the scientist here? [Demetri.]
We think what happened on October 6th, the day of the blackout, happened before on a smaller scale in your village, because of the towers.
No.
I came back from herding the goats, I saw them on the ground.
They were dead.
It was no blackout.
- How do you know they were dead? - I saw the black camel.
What's the black camel? Black camel's considered a bad omen here.
"Death is a black camel that kneels at every man's gate.
" They were dead.
I returned from the refugee camps changed, a man now.
The bodies of my people were gone, and all that remained was a village of ghosts.
And there was only one tower left.
Word spread that I had lived when others had died.
And for this, I became feared.
I used this fear and became what I am now.
God's plan.
And then, the day of the blackout, I had my prophecy.
I saw it.
I was making a speech.
I spoke of the better angels.
when again touched by the better angels of our nature.
I called myself the new face of Somalia.
I was telling the world.
I spoke as a conqueror.
My enemies crushed.
God's plan.
I'm not willing to wait one day longer! [Crowd cheering.]
There will be one more war in this land.
My war.
I will rule this country.
The better angels the better warriors, will win.
And you will help because you are CIA.
You can get me these things.
Planes, tanks, boats.
What I will need to win my war.
That's not gonna happen.
[Grunts.]
Planes, tanks, boats! You will get me these things.
No, no, no, no! It happens every six seconds.
Vogel, just make the call.
The request alone will tell our people what's going on.
I'm not going to make the call because no one's gonna pick up the call.
It's like I told you before, there is no cavalry.
- We're on our own.
- There's gotta be some options.
- Meeting his demands isn't one of them.
- That's it? We just die? Janis, come on.
You saw yourself alive on April 29th.
That lunatic actually saw himself the leader of this country.
Right.
"Better angels.
" "Better angels.
" Which will it be? [Speaks in a foreign language.]
- Wait.
Get off him.
- Hey.
Which will it be? - Which will it be? - Your prophecy is wrong.
What you saw, it isn't what you saw.
And I can prove it to you.
I know about the better angels.
Sit down.
You say you know about better angels.
Tell me what you know.
It's from Abraham Lincoln's inaugural address.
- Lincoln was - Your president.
Ended slavery.
He was strong, not afraid to crush his enemies.
They were fighting a civil war in our country, just like your country.
Better Angels was a speech about unity.
- About bringing people together.
- You do not know what I saw.
No, I don't.
But I think I might be able to find someone who did.
Can you get on the Internet here? We created a website where people can come on and share their prophecies with each other.
Here.
A man was at the Assembly of the African Union at a peace conference.
- You were speaking.
- How do you know - what this man says is true? - You tell me.
They know your name.
They say you were wearing a wire necklace with an amber bead surrounded by two red ones.
- Do you have something like that? - No.
But my mother did.
[Young Abdi calling out.]
I haven't seen that necklace or my mother since I was a boy.
Someone else says they saw you.
They say you were quoting Lincoln.
"To every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched" "by the better angels of our nature.
" You don't need tanks or guns.
Your destiny is to stop the war not start one.
- [Clicking.]
- [Beeping.]
- Yes! Spare! - [Cheers, laughs.]
I'm throwing rocks tonight.
Mark it, Mommy.
- Nice job.
- You wanna play? I think I'll play after.
I wanna talk first.
- OK.
- [Sniffs.]
Ah, Charlie-bear.
So, uh do you remember when Tim Tim talked to Squirrelio about heroes? When Finnegan the Super Shark trapped them in his Snow Globe of Snow-Doom? Yeah, Squirrelio-zactly! Yeah.
And Tim Tim said that heroes are people who help people, even when it's hard.
Yeah? Well, I need you to be like a hero, Charlie.
- How? - I need you to be brave and tell me what you saw in your flash forward.
Hey, it's OK to be afraid.
It really is.
It's OK.
But, if you tell me, you might be able to help me, you might be able to help Daddy, help a whole lot of people we don't even know.
- If I tell you - Mm-hm? something bad will happen.
- No.
No, it won't.
Nothing bad's gonna happen.
I promise, OK? Nothing.
Can you tell me what you saw? Go ahead.
It's your house, too.
We were in the kitchen, and Dylan wanted a cookie.
Daddy says that you said, "D.
Gibbons is a bad man.
" Why'd you say that? [Lloyd.]
The man you call "D.
Gibbons" lied to you.
[Charlie.]
He heard his dad.
He said D.
Gibbons lied.
Bad people lie.
[Charlie.]
And Dylan made the magnets say that - on the refrigerator.
- Bad people lie.
But you didn't see D.
Gibbons? He wasn't in the house? Keep going, sweetie.
What else did you see? [Charlie.]
I heard fireworks.
And I went to the back door.
I saw a man walk up to another man.
They were wearing suits.
And he said It's OK, sweetie.
You can do it.
What did he say? [Vogel.]
Mark Benford is dead.
"Mark Benford is dead.
" "Mark Benford is dead.
" - It's not possible.
- It's what she heard.
"Mark Benford is dead.
" It's why she's been so frightened to tell us.
She's afraid her daddy's gonna die.
That's not gonna happen, Olivia.
On April 29th, I'm gonna be in my office, at my board, alive.
Livy, whatever Charlie saw, what she said It's not that.
Then what is it? It's just that this is the part where I tell you that we could escape this.
We could go to Denver.
We could go anywhere and get away from it all.
Get away from all of this.
And this is the part where you tell me that you won't.
Right.
There's gonna be another blackout.
And I have to see this through.
I have to try and stop it.
I have to try.
What happened to the world, happened in your village first.
- At least, that's our operating theory.
- Your people didn't die, - they were blacked out.
- They had prophecies? That's what we think.
We had hoped to find some of them and talk to them.
The war came when I was gone.
My people, my mother, they must have been driven away.
I saw the black camel.
I thought the devil had taken their souls.
The Qur'an, chapter 66, verse six: "Save yourself and your families from a fire whose fuel is men and stones.
" I painted it myself, as a warning.
In all my time, I haven't been in there.
Devil or no, it is an evil place.
But there is one thing that can push a man more than fear.
- What's that? - Destiny.
- You look like you've seen a ghost.
- No, it's entirely the opposite.
What I designed was theoretical, it could only be done in the future.
And yet, it's been standing here for 18 years.
Welcome to the future.
You said these designs were stolen from you.
This was built in '91, but you didn't come up with the concept till '92.
- I don't know how that's possible.
- Someone invented it before you.
- No, this is exactly what I designed.
- I don't get it.
Whoever did this, why would they leave it behind for somebody to find? They were hauling these things away, and then the war came.
Why didn't they ever come back to finish? The war hasn't stopped.
[Demetri.]
I found something.
It's a chess board.
- It's been sitting here for 18 years.
- And we have portable power.
Here's to hoping.
[Man on tape.]
What did you see? [Speaking in foreign language.]
- I knew this boy.
He was my friend.
- What did he say? - He said he saw himself playing a game.
- [man.]
And did it happen? He said what he saw came true.
[Man.]
What did you see? [Speaking in a foreign language.]
This is my mother.
She was looking for me.
She couldn't find me, but she had hope.
She knew I would survive, that I would become great.
The preceding interviews from test group B confirm that the subjects uniformly experienced a consciousness shift two weeks into the future.
That's the man who shot at us in Utah.
That's D.
Gibbons.
- D.
Gibbons was here in 1991.
- [Simon.]
Conducting an experiment.
You see, God didn't have anything to do with this.
This was man.
[Simon.]
Over here! What do you see, Simon? Simon! This tunnel, the vacuum systems, the lead shielding.
It's a linear accelerator.
One of five.
Smaller, less powerful versions than the ones we used at NLAP.
They ran a perimeter around the village.
Somehow, they unleashed a tachyon burst, creating a beta test of the global blackout in this village.
You weren't in the village at the time the experiment was conducted.
Explains why you didn't lose consciousness.
If what you're saying is true, it took five accelerators to create this beta blackout.
No way that just one knocked out the entire world, right? How can you possibly say that? Technology moves fast, Agent Noh.
Even if you knew the rules, which you don't, I don't think they apply anymore.
I got something down here! Ready? Go.
I don't think your people were driven off by the war.
They were shot.
Executed.
All of them.
[Demetri.]
Remote village, war-time.
Given all the unrest, they knew nobody would ever find these people.
They showed them tomorrow and ripped it away.
You said God had nothing to do with this.
That it was man.
But it was not any man.
It was you.
No.
Those plans were stolen from me.
I said you were sent here for a reason.
Now I know what that reason is.
- God delivered you to me - Abdi, no! so I could avenge my people.
Let your end mark a new beginning! No! [Janis.]
Oh, my God! Better angels, his vision This wasn't supposed to happen.
You want some cookies to go with that milk? No.
I want to leave.
I wanna go away with you and with Charlie.
I just wanna get away from all of this, from everything that we saw.
Yes or no? [Whispering.]
Livy Yes or no? You want to say both, don't you? That's who you are, Mark.
You can't have it both ways.
This is what we signed on for.
You save lives, I save lives.
- This is how we do it.
- But we saw how we did it.
You're at your office.
I'm here with Charlie hearing you've died.
I love you, Mark.
That doesn't work for me.
- This is how it happens.
- Don't say that.
You say you need things to play out like you saw.
You want them to, you need to.
You're forgetting there's another part to what we saw.
The part where we're not together anymore.
Livy, I don't want that.
You can't have it both ways.
Yes or no? - Hey.
- Whoa, where'd you get that? Abdi's men.
Brutalized his people, but they were too scared to say anything because destiny said he was their leader.
We changed their destiny today.
Rum? [Chuckles.]
Yeah.
To yet another flash forward never coming true.
- You OK? - Yeah.
Fine.
So what? I don't have a baby.
Who cares? - Lots of people don't have babies.
- You'll still have a baby, right? - Yeah, but I can't have Willa.
- You named her.
Willa.
- That's nice.
- Well, I would have.
It was supposed to happen this weekend.
And now her window's closed, and she's never gonna get here.
- [Chuckling.]
God! - What? It's It's so stupid.
I just saw a mass grave, and all I can think about is a mythical baby.
Grave, the baby You're having a circle of life moment, right? You know, the weekend's not over.
[Both cracking up.]
I'm just saying, if it's baby-making you need, I will take one for the team.
OK.
First of all, - no offense, but that's kind of gross.
- What? And, second of all, that's like a thousand percent wrong.
- Desperate times.
- I'm gay.
I will make you gayer.
Oh, yeah? What about Zoey? Chances are l'm not gonna be around in a couple of months, OK? I think it'd be nice if Willa was.
- Are you serious? - Mm-hm.
- How the hell did you get that? - I fixed their satellite TV.
I know you think that I can't handle weapons, but in my vision I was killing a man.
Didn't even need a gun.
- How many fingers did you have? - Enough to do the job.
What about you? What did you see? [Fireworks bursting.]
OK.
Mark Benford is dead.
I was doing my job.
What are you doing? I promised our little snowboarder that if he held still for his X-ray, I'd get him 100 packets of graham crackers.
You know, I've raided every floor, and I'm still only on 46.
- You are so very good at this.
- At what? Listening to people.
You know, figuring out what they need.
Bribing them with baked goods.
It's gonna make you a really good doctor one day.
I can ace graham crackers.
It's organic chemistry I'm worried about.
Uh Here.
This is for you.
- A calculator? - That's not just any calculator.
No.
I bought that my junior year at Duke, right before I miraculously passed a physics final.
And, ever since then, MCATs, med school, board exams, that's been my good luck charm.
This is great.
Up until today, my good luck charm was a Brainy Smurf.
- You really think I can do this? - Yeah, I really do.
- Not just saying that to be nice? - Well, I don't lie, and I'm not nice.
Four years of college.
- Four years of med school.
- Yeah.
- Four years of psychiatric residency.
- Psychiatry, huh? Like you said, I'm a good listener.
Plus, I'm an expert when it comes to dealing with people with problems.
So 12 years from now, when I finish my training, we'll be able to work together.
Twelve years? You'll probably be head of the department by then.
Yeah, about that Nicole, earlier today, I lied to you.
What do you mean? I told you that everything was fine with me.
It's not.
Twelve years from now, I'm not so sure that I'm gonna be around.
[Dyson.]
The preceding interviews from test group B confirm that the subjects uniformly experienced a consciousness shift two weeks into the future.
[Door opening.]
- What are you doing? - I couldn't sleep.
Just packing up stuff to take back to the Bureau.
- That all? - No.
Thinking.
Little things.
Life, death, fate.
Careful not to ponder too much.
The ancient Greeks did it all the time, usually ended up dead.
Well, all of them wound up dead.
What the hell? Hello, Demetri.
My name is Dyson Frost, and I'm recording this message in 1991.
Got your attention, didn't I?