FlashForward Episode 1.01 No More Good Days

FBI agent Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) crawls from the wreckage of his overturned car to find all of Los Angeles in chaos. Something has happened. Something catastrophic!

In a flash, we're sent back four hours to a calm, quiet, sunny morning. Mark and his wife, Dr. Olivia Benford (Sonya Walger, aka, Penny from Lost) are happily married parents to their little girl, Charlie. Mark and Olivia are our core focus here, but here's a quick breakdown of the other important people in their lives:

- Demetri Noh (John Cho) is Mark's volatile, soon-to-be-married FBI partner.

- Stanford Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance) is their decisive FBI boss.

- Aaron (Brian F. O'Byrne) is Mark's AA sponsor who's had a rough time of it ever since DNA tests confirmed the remains of a fallen soldier belonged to his daughter, Tracy.

- Bryce (Zachary Knighton) is an intern on Olivia's trauma team who contemplates suicide.

- Janis Hawk (Christine Woods) is an FBI agent with a lousy dating history.

- Nicole (Peyton List) is a college student who earns money as the Benford's babysitter.

Everyone is going about their normal business to start the day. Mark and Demetri tail a trio of suspected terrorists. Olivia is performing surgeries at the hospital. DWP worker Aaron climbs a pole to repair a power line. Nicole and her boyfriend get busy in the Benford living room as Charlie sleeps upstairs. Only Bryce is doing something drastic, as he pulls a gun from his backpack at the beach, looking to kill himself.

Everything rushes up to a flood of parallel action as Olivia steps into the O.R., Bryce places the gun under his chin, Mark races his car through the city in hot pursuit of his suspects until...FLASH! Mark is no longer in his car. He's in the FBI office at night, alone and anxious. He posts things on a bulletin board, drinks from a flask and writes down the words "Who Else Knows?" on a page-a-day calendar. The date on the calendar: April 29, 2010. Red beams pierce the room; they are laser sight guides from rifle scopes. Masked intruders are coming for Mark because he knows too much. They are closing in. Then...FLASH!

We're back in present day, where disaster has hit. Was it an earthquake? A terrorist attack? Or something else? Whatever it was, it didn't just happen in Los Angeles. This thing is global. Everyone on the planet blacked out for two minutes and seventeen seconds. The repercussions of the event are severe. Massive car pileups, downed airplanes, raging fires and there's even a kangaroo hopping along the streets of downtown L.A.

The blackout interrupts Bryce's suicide and he's taken this as a sign that it wasn't meant to be. He rushes to the hospital to help Olivia. She's treating, Dylan Simcoe, an eight-year-old boy who, somehow, knows her name. They save the boy's life, but his mother was killed during the mass blackout and they can't locate his dad.

Back at FBI headquarters, Mark and Demetri bring in the lone female survivor of their terrorist suspects. Mark reveals the details of his blackout vision. He says, "I was having a memory, only it wasn't of the past. It was of the future." Turns out everyone had flashes of events that have not yet occurred, all taking place on April 29, 2010-six months from now.

Demetri is concerned because he didn't have a flash. He wonders if that's because, six months from now, he'll be dead. Flashes from others include:

- Janis sees that she was 17 weeks pregnant, which is odd because she doesn't have a boyfriend.- An FBI agent is in London meeting with their Scotland Yard liaison, Fiona Banks (Alex Kingston). Inspector Banks and the FBI guy have the exact same recollection of each other's flash.

- Aaron sees his daughter, Tracy, very much alive.

- Olivia lovingly says, "Hey, honey" to a man in her living room, but that man is not Mark.

Mark's vision seems to indicate that he is investigating what caused the flash forward. That's enough for Wedeck to assign him, Demetri and Janis to run point on the case. Janis wants to create a Web site so people from around the world can post their visions. This way they can search for patterns. That's exactly what Mark was doing in the office the night of his flash.

Here's a breakdown of the key things Mark remembers from his flash:

- The name of the investigation is "Mosaic."

- The name "D. Gibbons" was written on a note card.

- There was a photograph of a doll that was burned with a bullet casing nearby.

- The words "Blue Hand" were written on another note.

- One of the masked men coming to kill him has a tattoo on his arm-three stars.

- He was wearing a friendship bracelet, like the ones kids make.

- Also, Mark remembers he was drinking again.

After a long day, Olivia is upset because of the strong feelings she had for the mystery man in her flash. Mark tries to comfort her by saying, "Just because we saw these things...doesn't mean they're gonna happen." We get the sense that Mark is trying to convince himself of this, too. At the hospital, Lloyd Simcoe, the father of the young boy Olivia saved, shows up to be with his son at the hospital. We're shocked see that Lloyd is the man from Olivia's flash.

During the blackout, Charlie says to Nicole, "I dreamt there are no more good days." She later tells Mark she had another bad dream. Mark notices Charlie has something in her hand. It's a present for him. A friendship bracelet. It's the same bracelet Mark was wearing in his flash. It's a jarring moment for him. Could something have happened to Charlie? Is that what triggered his drinking again? Mark hugs his daughter, overwhelmed by an ominous feeling.

Back at FBI headquarters, Janis has spent hours going through footage from hundreds of surveillance cameras. All videos show the same thing. Everyone collapses for two minutes and seventeen seconds at every location on the planet...except one. At a sporting event in Detroit, the entire stadium crowd passes out except for one solitary figure. He slowly walks along the concourse before ultimately disappearing into the darkness of the exit. Janis asks the questions we're now asking ourselves, "Who the hell is that? And why are they awake?"