FlashForward s01e21 Episode Script

[Wedeck.]
On October 6th, the planet blacked out for two minutes and 17 seconds.
The whole world saw the future.
In my flash forward, I was in my office.
It was 10:00, on the hour, and I happened to see the date.
April 29, 2010.
Oh, my God.
This is it.
We're here.
- How's it going? - Struggling with the decoherence equation.
- The equation.
Yeah, you do the math.
You do the numbers together.
You're both part of the equation.
- What's your name? - Keiko.
[Woman.]
We have a shift down at lmmigration tonight.
- I have something I have to tell you.
- Yeah, me, too.
We're here, now.
This is all that matters.
- I want to be a part of this baby.
- You don't have to do anything.
What if I don't wanna walk away? I'm gonna be on this plane tomorrow.
I'm hoping you will be, too.
I ran this gait analysis on Simon Campos and on Suspect Zero.
Simon Campos is Suspect Zero.
- Who's Hellinger? - [Lita.]
Hellinger's our boss.
Face down! On the floor! Simon Campos! Is he here? No.
Janis.
I need your help.
[Charlie.]
Mommy! Mommy! - [Crying.]
- Sweetie.
Oh.
It's OK.
Deep breaths.
- You're OK.
You're OK.
- [Breathing fast.]
- What happened? - I had a bad dream.
You did? It's OK.
Today's the day.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But you know what? It's gonna be all right.
I'm right here.
Today's the day Daddy's gonna die.
[Simon.]
You worked with my security detail.
So, you know what will happen when everyone finds out that the mad scientist was awake when the rest of the world was asleep.
- I'll be a dead man.
- What do you want, Simon? I want revenge.
I want to destroy the people who were really responsible for the global blackout.
Look.
They're cornered now.
We have Hellinger in custody.
You, of all people, must know it goes beyond one person.
- I want to get back at them.
- And who are they? I don't know.
They had me install a piece of software into the mainframe to make the accelerator fire on October 6th.
We've been over that system a thousand times and we didn't find anything.
Well, I designed it.
I'll find something other people won't.
Let me bring you to the Bureau, Simon.
We can help you.
I can't do this with the FBI.
I can't do this with the CIA contacts.
Those people won't let me anywhere near the mainframe again.
Look you get me into NLAP, I'll turn myself in.
Why did you start working for these people in the first place? I was a kid.
Told me I was destined for greatness.
I believed them.
That was a marathon night, but we did it.
We got Hellinger.
Yeah, we did it.
It's not the end, though.
I got a full morning with the digital forensics guys.
No, you don't.
You got a flight to catch.
- Here.
- What the hell's this? That, my friend, is 15 covers of Islands In The Stream.
[Chuckles.]
There's My Morning Jacket, Feist, The Constantines, some band from Croatia - When the hell did you make this? - Yeah, I don't get much sleep.
You're alive.
In the future you saw, you weren't.
Go to Hawaii.
Go be alive.
You kidding me? It's D-Day.
We need all hands on deck.
No.
The place is packed with CIA, FBI, NSA.
- We're covered.
Go.
- Mark Pick a version you like, dance with your bride.
- What's up? - Nothing.
Everyone gets cold feet, Dem.
It's not cold feet.
- Don't you love her? - Come on.
Do you want to marry her? Hell yes.
So what's stopping you? You know, even with the way everything went down Even though I lost her Marrying Olivia was the best thing I ever did.
Don't be afraid.
Especially on a day like this.
[Telephone ringing.]
You'll stay home from school today with me, sweetie.
- Hello.
- [Lloyd.]
Hey, it's me, Lloyd.
- Hey, Lloyd.
Can I call you back? - No, there's no need.
I was just - I wanted to talk about tonight.
- You know I really can't think about that right now.
Is everything OK? Charlie's having a really hard time.
Well, yeah.
You know, I'd really like us to be together.
Can I I'll call you back, OK? Sweetie.
Where's Demetri? He's taking care of something else.
What do we got? Hellinger invested big in dot-coms in the early 90s, then dumped them before the crash.
He put those earnings into real estate.
- Got out at the height of the market? - Every transaction.
- He bought low, sold high.
- Future-casting.
Yeah, listen, they used the flash forwards to determine the outcome of a particular event, then put money on a sure thing.
Was this the bigger conspiracy you were talking about in Hong Kong? Because it sounds like Econ 101.
Imagine how you could use this technology to manipulate geopolitics.
NSA just finished up with Hellinger.
It's been eight hours and he just said his first six words.
"I'm only speaking to Mark Benford.
" Finally.
We need to talk.
Did you cause the global blackout? We have something more pressing that has to do with you.
Did you cause the global blackout? Yes.
I caused the blackout, but that really doesn't matter now.
- We can't change that.
- How'd you do it? I've seen today more times than I can remember.
And a lot of those days started with me sitting right here with you.
May I? - This? - Please.
Thank you.
There are so many possibilities.
Different paths this day could take.
I have seen so many different versions of this moment.
And the next one.
And the next one.
But in every version of the future I saw I saw this.
In this room, you will lose control, and then you'll lose everything.
You're going to attack me, Mark.
Because you realize you will never get the answers to your questions.
And then, at the end of it all, you'll be killed in your office.
When's the next blackout? I've seen how this goes, Mark.
If you keep me in custody, you will die.
I'm sorry.
You drew me a picture and now you want me to let you go? I know.
It seems self-serving.
But, please, you have to believe me.
This This is your life.
Tell me how you did it and how to stop it from happening again.
If you're not interested in saving your life, I don't have much to say to you.
That's all right.
You just told me what your next move is.
Mind if I take this? We're kicking civilians out at noon.
I was just packing up my stuff so I could carry on working at home.
Can I help you with something? That symbol.
What is it? The tachyon constant.
A theoretical number physicists have been trying to crack for centuries.
Sort of a Holy Grail thing.
It was on these blueprints that Dyson Frost was carrying.
It was in the formula in my flash forward.
At 10:00, I'm supposed to be on the verge of cracking something monumental.
That would certainly qualify.
I don't know if this will help, but there it is again.
Hellinger drew this.
He included that symbol as something his side is going to do today.
I wanna beat them to the punch.
So, what the hell is a tachyon wipe? Nothing.
It doesn't make any sense.
A tachyon is a particle.
You can't wipe it.
I mean, you literally can't even touch it.
[Doorbell rings.]
- Hey.
- Hey.
Happy Flash Forward day.
I know you love these.
They're for you.
Thanks.
I was just thinking about you.
- Liar.
- Seriously.
Check it out.
So, I haven't planned out everything for tonight, but I thought maybe we could start with some water polo.
We could bob for apples.
Maybe finish off with some scuba diving.
Uh, yeah, Keiko.
Are you sure that you're OK with tonight? With us? So the sweet, sexy woman that brings me cupcakes is worried about a pretend girl who lives half a world away? Come on.
[Woman speaking Japanese.]
[Gasps.]
[Woman.]
Attention travelers, you are not required to give money to solicitors.
The airport does not sponsor their activities.
Hi.
[Sighs happily.]
Baby I knew you'd come.
Oh, my God.
[Chuckles.]
So my parents are already at the hotel.
They said that there's a hot tub in the room.
You remember the last time we had a hot tub in the room? - Yeah.
- You ready? Um - Can I talk to you for a minute? - Yeah.
OK.
- [Clears throat.]
- What's up? I love you.
And I should have told you this a long time ago.
In Janis' vision, she was pregnant.
For that to come true, it had to happen while she was in Somalia.
OK.
I slept with Janis so she could get pregnant.
- What? - I know that was wrong.
I just The future was happening, you know, I My life was ending, another life was beginning.
I know it sounds crazy, but I thought I was gonna die, and it made sense at the time.
[Murmurs.]
Everything that I've been doing, Dem All the lines that I've crossed, the I did everything for you.
I did everything I could.
It was because I believed that I believed that you were gonna live and that we were gonna spend the rest of our lives together.
Obviously, you didn't.
I am so sorry.
I'm so sorry.
I just thought that our life together was over on March 15th, that's what I thought.
I was wrong.
You were right.
You believed that we can change the future.
But I want to start over.
I wanna marry you.
Please marry me.
Please.
Um I'm gonna I'm gonna go to Hawaii with my parents.
And I don't want you to come, Dem.
And after that I don't know.
[Aaron.]
Don't worry, Tracy, we made it.
This is where we were in our flash forward.
[Weakly.]
I was in a cave.
Jericho brought me here.
- Honey, don't worry.
Don't talk.
- She needs a hospital.
I'm not sure I can care for her here.
Her pulse is thready.
They made me tell them.
Tracy, we know what we saw.
You're going to be fine, all right? [Coughing.]
Tracy? Khamir.
Tracy? Tracy? Tracy? I cross-referenced Hellinger's financial documents with the word "tachyon".
Tachyon Offsite Information Systems.
Their office is in Arcadia.
Do you think that's what Hellinger meant by a "tachyon wipe"? They warehouse data.
Maybe you can't wipe a tachyon, but data's a whole other story.
I'm going in with a team.
Mark Are you sure that's a good idea? Going after the bad guys? Yeah.
Think about it.
Hellinger helps organize a worldwide blackout.
You really believe he'd be sloppy enough to leave you a clue like this? Maybe.
People make mistakes.
Forget it.
- What? - You heard me.
You're staying.
You stay on Hellinger, I'll send a special ops unit to check it out.
No, you can't do that.
I can.
You're staying.
I'm not letting you walk into a trap.
- She's barely moving air.
- Tracy.
- Breathe, Tracy! Breathe! - Please! No, stop.
Aaron, please, let me work.
Please.
You! What the hell did you and your Jericho buddies do to her? [Man gasps.]
You're going to tell me why Jericho came after my daughter.
I'm just an independent contractor on a security [groans.]
She saw you guys killing an entire village.
I don't know what you're talking about.
You're gonna tell me why, now.
We weren't killing them.
She saw an entire village full of people passed out on the ground.
It was an experiment.
A test run.
For what? [Groans.]
Keep talking.
The experiment's radius was one kilometer.
We needed to know why she was awake.
Experiment for what? - For what? - For the global blackout.
[Simon.]
I hope the CIA gives you an expense account.
We're gonna stop by a hardware store, pick up supplies on the way to NLAP.
Breaking into a linear accelerator, we're going to need more than duct tape.
Not that kind of hardware.
Dem? What's going on here, Janis? What is he doing here? - Tell him to put down his weapon.
- What's he doing here, Janis? He's making a deal.
You were bringing him to NLAP, planning to let him touch that accelerator? He can give us more information than anyone else can.
In the meantime, you risk him using that machine to put the world to sleep again.
I didn't use it the first time.
I'm not going to this time, either.
Hey, hey.
Dem This is about nailing the people behind the blackout.
This about getting the job done the best way I know how.
Janis, come on.
You got more to worry about than just doing a good job.
OK.
Dem.
I just need you to pretend like you never came by.
Just let me do this.
No.
[Both gasp.]
You're gonna regret this decision for the rest of your life.
[Breathing heavy.]
[Man.]
We've secured the Tachyon Data Center.
All we've got is a room full of servers.
Has the data been wiped? No.
It's weird.
I'm getting nothing.
Just a blinking cursor.
[Clattering over speaker.]
What the hell was that? I don't know.
It sounded like it was coming from the storeroom.
- I thought you swept the place.
- We did.
I'm gonna go check it out.
We're getting thermal readings back now.
No, get out of there.
Get out of there, agent! Whoa! Heads up.
Movement on your - [gunfire, screaming over speaker.]
- Watch out, nine o'clock! [Gunfire, screaming continues.]
Get out of there! [Silence over speaker.]
Mark, wait.
Whoa, what's going on? They opened fire on three of our guys.
You were right.
Tachyon was a trap.
- Whoa.
Cool down.
Cool down.
- No, I gotta go talk to Don't worry.
I got this.
- I got this.
- [Charlie.]
Daddy! Hey, sweetie.
- You OK? - Yeah.
Hey, Stan.
- Are you? - Yeah.
It's been a slow day.
Babe, you wanna go wait in Daddy's office? I'm really sorry to bring her here like this.
She's scared.
I think the reality of today and everything that's happened, I think it's really hitting her.
She just needed her dad.
I really did not know what else to do.
I'm glad you brought her over.
Hey, Charlie-bear.
Charlie.
What's up? I don't want you to die.
Come here.
I need to ask you to do something for me.
Something really, really hard.
Don't be afraid.
I mean, it's OK to be afraid.
It is.
But that's just what happens at first.
After that, you have to tell yourself something.
"My daddy loves me.
And everything will be OK, no matter what.
" - My daddy loves me.
- So much.
And everything will be OK, no matter what.
It's not easy, 'cause things can be scary, bigger than us.
We can fight it.
That's what I do.
I tell myself, "Charlie loves me, and everything will be OK, no matter what.
" - You do? - I do.
I tell myself that and it makes me strong.
It makes me brave.
'Cause when I say that you're always with me.
And when I say it? I'm always with you.
Always.
I love you so much, baby girl.
I love you with everything I've got.
Oh.
Thanks, honey.
OK.
You go and be with Mom, OK? You go ahead now.
- [Simon.]
You're making a big mistake.
- [Demetri.]
Shut up.
Janis, this guy has been lying to us about everything.
He was working for them.
He was awake during the blackout.
How the hell do you trust this guy? After all the lying, I think I've realized that you get to a point where you can't do it anymore.
- You coming with me? - To the FBI? - Yeah.
- No.
Tell them where you found him.
Don't lie for me.
This NLAP thing is totally insane, you know that? Yeah, I know that.
If I hadn't have shown up, you would have gone through with this? Yeah.
Get in.
No, Dylan, Dylan, watch out.
I am watching.
No, it's a figure of speech.
I mean, be careful.
Somewhere in here is the answer to a very big question.
Why did the eight die? What? Why did the eight die? Oh, no, no, that's That's not an eight.
That's infinity.
- What's infinity? - Oh, well, infinity means forever.
But you're right, it does kind of look like an eight on its side.
All the ones with numbers have to be together.
No, Dylan, just, please leave those there.
It all has to be in the right place.
What did you say? It all has to be in the right place.
[Gabriel.]
Do the numbers.
You do the numbers together.
And then you're both part of the equation.
OK, Dylan, Dylan, Dylan.
Go and get your coat.
Go now.
Go, go, go.
[Door opening.]
I hope your agents are all right.
In most futures, they survive.
When's the next blackout? I don't know if you're in a place where you can hear this, and I don't want to say "I told you so," but I gave you a choice, Mark.
I asked you a question.
When is the next blackout? I gave you a choice and you chose the wrong path.
I'm sorry the way this is turning out.
I mean it, but there is nothing you can do - to turn this back around.
- Shut up! When is it? You're going to die, Mark.
And I take no pleasure in that.
I really don't.
I had so many conversations with you in this very room.
You're a decent man.
This is just all over your head.
When is the next blackout? Mark, you work hard.
You're passionate about what you do.
But don't you see? All of this is just so futile.
All of it.
All of it? We caught you.
Your faith is admirable.
I mean, that board in your office.
How much time have you spent on that thing? How much time have you spent just looking at it? All on faith.
But you've got to know what that board really is.
Tell me.
What is that board about? It's nothing but a scrapbook of your failures.
Tell me when the next blackout is.
A freed Nazi, a botched mission to Somalia, - some monster paintings, dead birds - Tell me.
And you keep looking at it.
You keep believing and you keep fighting.
'Cause that's what you do.
You and that board, you're Mr.
Stick-To-lt, don't you see? That's why you're going to die, Mark.
You just don't give up.
You just I swear to God, Mark, I am gonna miss you.
Charlie's gonna miss you, too.
You are gonna die, Mark.
You're gonna die.
But there is an upside, and this is gonna sound a lot harsher than it really is Deep down, you know what I mean.
You're going to die.
But your daughter's gonna be better off when you're gone.
[Groaning.]
I'm not finished! [Growling.]
Let go of me! [Breathing heavy.]
Clean yourself up, playboy.
- Get him the hell out of here.
- You gotta be kidding me.
You've been on the brink of losing control all day.
All year.
- That crazy son of a bitch - Out now.
- I don't care what day it is.
- No, Stan.
I'm not going anywhere.
- Get out.
- You can't do this to me! You're not gonna do this! We are gonna have so much fun tonight.
I promise.
I was just really looking forward to a picnic.
That's what we're doing.
We gotta get there early and stake out some good seats for the fireworks.
It's just there's gonna be 2,000 other people.
I wanted to be with you.
There's never been a night like tonight.
In four hours, people are gonna be deciding whether to make their own futures happen.
I want to be witness to that.
Why? 'Cause your future didn't happen? Oh Where did that come from? I've just been thinking a lot about the visions lately.
And I'm I'm worried mine may have already started.
You'll be with me.
No.
It won't.
It's not.
Nothing is gonna happen to you tonight.
I promise.
Come on.
Let's go.
It's not the drowning.
It's that feeling I had.
You know, like I deserved it.
I've been keeping a secret from you.
It's really stupid now, because when I tell you, you're gonna hate me.
Come on.
Give me some credit.
Keiko.
- She's in Los Angeles.
- What? I'm sorry.
I should have told you as soon as I found out, but I just I was afraid you'd choose her.
No, just Just tell me where she is.
Some people from the hospital, they went down to this immigration detention center in Lancaster.
- She's in jail? - No, it's just a holding facility.
You let her stay in jail? I should have told you, Bryce.
I'm sorry.
[Woman.]
Keiko Arahida.
[Buzzer.]
There's someone here to see you.
[Man speaking over loudspeaker.]
Keiko.
Keiko.
[Both speaking Japanese.]
Aaron! Aaron! Her heart has stopped.
I need your help.
Come on.
Trace? Trace? Trace, no.
Trace, breathe.
Breathe, Trace.
Tracy, no, no.
Come on, sweetheart.
Come on, sweetheart.
Come on! This can't be like this.
Come on back.
Come back, Tracy.
Come back.
[Distant cheering.]
Yeah! [Hellinger.]
This is just all over your head.
You have no idea.
[Gunfire.]
In every version of the future I saw, I saw this.
[Lloyd.]
The forces of the universe are maybe pushing us towards the futures we've seen.
You are gonna die, Mark.
But there is an upside.
Deep down, you know what I mean.
Your daughter's gonna be better off when you're gone.
Uh, excuse me.
Hey, look, I don't mean to bother you, but In my vision, I had just quit drinking.
And I, um I'd really like to make that happen.
Right now.
See, I saw you and You look like you could use this.
Here.
No.
It's OK.
I don't [chuckles.]
[Inhales, exhales deeply.]
What made you change your mind? I don't know.
I mean, I get why you did it.
It worked, we have Hellinger.
But Janis, I was so pissed off at you.
Working for the CIA since Quantico.
I I felt like I lost my best friend.
It was like I didn't know who the hell you were.
You know, and then I'm driving away, I got Campos in the backseat, I'm looking in the rearview, and I'm thinking, "Going to NLAP? This is" It's so like you.
I know you, Janis.
I mean, I don't know what you were doing.
I don't know what the hell we're doing tonight, but I I do know you.
I told Zoey about the baby.
- What? Oh, Dem.
There just comes a time when you you can't lie anymore, right? - Aaron, we need to stop now.
- She's going to be OK.
Her brain has been deprived of oxygen too long.
I know what I saw.
- She's been through enough.
- We were here together.
Her heart has stopped beating.
She's gone.
Aaron [sobs.]
Let her go.
I saw you, Trace.
Tracy.
I saw it.
[Rock music plays.]
I like the string, buddy.
The Chinese say red string brings luck.
The Dutch say leave me alone.
In my vision, you and I were talking to each other.
You ever think about that? Nope.
'Cause that's not what I remember.
[Cell phone rings.]
Lloyd? Hey.
I'm sorry, I meant to call.
I'm at your house.
Why haven't you been answering your phone? - Uh I just needed to get away.
- When are you coming back? Uh Not for a while.
- What are you talking about? - I just need some space, Lloyd.
I need to get away from you and Mark and the flash forwards and all of it.
- I need to get away.
- No, Olivia, listen to me.
Look, certain conditions have to be met if I'm At 10:00pm, - you have to be here with me.
- Don't do this.
Don't make this about fate.
Don't make this about free will, OK? I have Charlie to think about.
So I am not gonna be in that house with you tonight.
- I'm sorry.
- [Phone beeps off.]
They're not coming back.
No.
[Rock music continues.]
Yeah, no, I'm sure it was you.
Cheap suit and the bad breath and the droopy eyes.
I kept saying, "Hey, man, why are the eyes so droopy?" That's it? Is that the best you can do? [Chuckles.]
So, you're one of those guys.
- Am I? - Yeah.
You're fighting fate.
And it's so sad, man.
'Cause it's so obvious, man, you've already lost.
[People shouting.]
[Groaning.]
[Soft guitar rock music.]