We open with the extended scene from last week in which the strange foreign woman tells Demetri that he will be shot three times in the chest on March 15, and he should maybe just stay home that day. This seems to confirm that his lack of flashforward indicates his death, although I really liked what the poster said last week about how if everyone on earth sees the same moment then like a third of them must have been asleep at that time so this wouldn't be that big of a mystery.

Also, Lost called, they want their cryptic French woman back.

The scene shifts to Germany, where some prisoner is telling a guard that in his vision he saw something that will ensure his release. I guess that's kind of scary, but I'm sure a lot of prisoners would be saying something like that after the Black-out.

Meanwhile, our favorite FlashForward couple is at home, making phone calls to find their wild teenage babysitter, unseen since episode 1. Aaron shows up and Mark stumbles his way through some lie about the phones being broken. Mark proceeds to spill his guts about Charlie's vision and the search for D. Gibbons (and didn't we learn that that's Deedee, our favorite racist baker?) and even the masked gunmen that attacked him in his flashforward. Aaron tells him to "do whatever he has to do," which is pretty much the least helpful advice you could ever give anyone. Also, why is it OK to share FBI secrets with your telephone repairman?

Meanwhile, Demetri's girlfriend Zoey is getting on a plane, and in a ridiculously expositional conversation with the man next to her we learn that she's traveling back to LA and hasn't been home since the Black-out. Also, she's a lawyer. Also, exposition man is the CEO of the company who is flying to show confidence in the company. Is this important? Survey says, almost surely not.

Back at the FBI, Demetri asks some guy named Hal to backtrace the cell phone number. And he gives it "nuclear" priority, which makes me think that the writers just picked a word that sounded vaguely urgent. In the offices, the FBI agents have spent the week on the FlashForward message boards and have a list of possible Black-out causes, including plankton and toxic gas. They've also got the claim of the prisoner we saw earlier, who was apparently an ex-Nazi. Oh, ABC. When I first saw the old guy in a German prison, my first thoughts were more Nazi jokes than I can write down. But no, I thought, give the Germans a chance, do away with the stereotypes. But America's Broadcasting Company is here to remind us that yes, they're all Nazis.

So Mr. Nazi claims to know why the Black-out lasted exactly 137 sekunden (German for "seconds" and "time it takes to conquer Poland"). This seems like a scam, but because Mark remembers it from his board, we're off to Deutscheland. It's a good thing that Mark actually wants to solve the mystery, cause this would be an easy power to abuse. "I saw myself living in a castle. And bank statements of my millions of dollars. And naked pictures of Megan Fox. Let's get to work, people!"

Demetri meets Zoey in the airport, and they kiss romantically. She's really excited to share flashforwards (damn women) but he temporarily distracts her with cheap motel room sex. If I had a nickel...

Aaron goes to see his ex-wife Katie in her bar, and a quick trip down imdb.com-lane confirms that yes, that is Cassidy from Lost playing Katie. Poor Kim Dickens. Doomed to forever play secondary characters in confusing sci-fi shows. Anyways, Aaron tells her that their daughter is alive (based on his flashforward) but Katie will have none of it. She's already moved on, damnit. Aaron asks her to sign a form to exhume their daughter's remains, but Katie refuses and gives him the bum's rush.

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