FlashForward Episode 1.14 Better Angels

The team heads into the last remaining tower with Abdi. Inside, Demetri finds a chessboard that hides a VHS tape. The video shows testimonials from the villagers about what they saw in their flash forwards in 1991. One of the people on the tape is Abdi's mother, still wearing her necklace.

The next message comes from a man who most definitely was not a member of the village. It's D. Gibbons. He says, "The preceding interviews from Test Group B confirm that the subjects uniformly experienced a consciousness shift two weeks into the future."

Simon finds access to a tunnel. They discover a linear accelerator, one of five that created a perimeter around the village. A burst was released in 1991 as part of a beta test for the global blackout. Abdi wasn't in the village at the time. That's why he stayed awake.

They also discover a chamber filled with skeletons. It served as a mass grave for executed villagers. Abdi finds his mother's necklace around one of the skeletons. He blames Simon for all that has happened. Abdi is about to kill Simon when Vogel shoots him in the back. He's dead. His vision of Better Angels is now also gone. Janis says, "This wasn't supposed to happen."

Back in the States, Bryce's cancer is taking a toll on him. He tries to hide his illness from Nicole, who reveals that she's thinking about going to medical school. Bryce gives her his good luck calculator and eventually comes clean about his cancer.

Mark has accumulated more info on D. Gibbons/Dyson Frost, but he still has no idea why Charlie mentioned him after her flash forward. He wants her to chat with a child expert at the FBI, but Olivia convinces him to let her talk to their daughter first. Olivia also wants Mark to consider a move to Denver. Though he's a big fan of the omelet, Mark knows that a move to the Mile High city means the end of his Mosaic investigation. Olivia doesn't have a problem with that. Mark does.

When Olivia asks Charlie about her flash forward, she says Dylan overheard his dad talking about D. Gibbons on the phone. But that's not what has Charlie so upset. She also heard fireworks. When she walked up to the back door, she saw two men wearing suits, one of them being Agent Vogel. After finishing a phone call, Vogel said, "Mark Benford is dead." That move to Denver is looking better and better. Olivia wants a yes or no answer. Mark can't give her one. Olivia believes this may be the start of how they drift apart.

Thousands of miles away, Janis is feeling sad about another flash forward never coming true. She's thinking of both Abdi's legacy and her future baby. The window of time for conception is closing. It's not like she can make a baby while stuck in Somalia. Demetri begs to differ. After all, he's a man...she's a woman... These are desperate times. When Janis asks about Zoey, Dem says that odds are he won't be around in a few months. But it would be nice if Janis's baby was.

As Demetri packs up items from the tower, he watches the D. Gibbons portion of the videotape again. When Simon enters, Demetri lets the videotape run past its presumed ending. But it's not over yet. There's another recording of D. Gibbons. This one is personalized. D. Gibbons says, "Hello, Demetri. My name is Dyson Frost and I am recording this message in 1991. Got your attention, didn't I?" Sure did.