FlashForward Episode 1.08 Playing Cards with Coyote

When the details behind FBI agent Al Gough's suicide become public, people suddenly believe the future can be changed. This revelation does wonders for Mark and Olivia, as they seem to be reconnecting. He sends her a gift of some sexy lingerie. Nice thought, right? Well, Olivia is totally turned off because this is the lingerie she was wearing in her flash forward starring the ever-present Lloyd Simcoe. She tosses the sexy garb into the trash.

Speaking of Lloyd, he sends an email to multiple recipients, one of whom is a man named Myhill, who forwards the email to Simon. The subject line reads: WE HAVE TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. Simon still has doubts as to what caused the blackout, Lloyd doesn't. Simon suggests a game of Texas Hold ‘Em to resolve their impasse. If Lloyd wins, they go public and hang themselves out to dry. If Simon wins, Lloyd stays mum.

Simon is quite the card player. Most of the chips are stacked on his side. He suggests one final hand, winner take all. It doesn't look good, but Lloyd is in. Simon has four of a kind. There aren't a lot of hands that can beat that. But a straight flush would. And that's just what Lloyd draws. Looks like all those sleight of hand cards tricks he's been playing with Dylan have come in handy. We're thinking the world may be receiving an interesting press release in the near future.

Janis returns to work with plans of resigning. She wonders if getting shot was a sign that her baby wasn't meant to be. Wedeck says, 'You gonna let a bullet decided whether or not you bring a baby into this world?' He refuses her resignation and she reconsiders her baby options. Back on the job, Janis checks out enhanced video footage of Suspect Zero. She and Wedeck notice that he's wearing a ring. Could be a clue.

A woman named Ingrid captures the murder of a man on her cell phone camera. The gunman and his accomplice are seen taking a case from the man. Enhanced images show the gunman with a three star tattoo on his arm, just like the one adorned by the assassin who was hunting down Mark in his flash forward. The team believes they have a mole in their department. They figure the gunman will come after Ingrid, so they opt to use her as bait in a trap.

Janis guards Ingrid inside her pet store while Mark and Demetri stakeout the place from the outside. Suddenly, the lights go out. There's been a breach. Mark and Demetri rush into the store, guns drawn. They come upon a man with three stars on his arm. BANG! Mark shoots him dead. Was it a justified kill? Or was this Mark's way of assuring that his future does not come true?

Tracy is having nightmares about the ambush of her Humvee, an attack that took away her right leg. The DNA from her missing limb got mixed in with others who were killed. This led the army to believe Tracy was dead. In truth, she has been on the run for two years because she witnessed a group of private military contractors slaughter a village of civilians. The contractors were known as Jericho. About a week after she told her superior officer about the massacre, Tracy's Humvee was attacked. She believes Jericho was behind it.

Tracy thinks she has to run again when she discovers her dad told Mark that she's alive. But Aaron reminds her that she'll be all right, as she was alive in his flash forward. He further tells her that, in his flash, a man told him 'the account has been verified' after Aaron handed him an envelope. Aaron doesn't know what this means, but Tracy knows the person her dad spoke to that day. He's a field medic named Kahmir and he saved her.

At what looks to be a military base, a man with three stars tattooed on his arm hands a case to another three star tattoo guy. It's the same case that was stolen from the man who was murdered in the cell phone video. More three-starred men are seen carrying cases larger, sturdier cases around the base.

The murder victim's case is delivered to a bearded man in a sparsely-filled structure. He opens the case. There are rings inside. Beard man says, 'There are supposed to be seven.' He then closes the case and promptly shoots the delivery man dead. He calmly walks off with the case of rings. Say, wasn't Suspect Zero was wearing a ring?