Flashforward 11/12 (spoilers!)

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Episode 11

It’s been a while!

The start does a good job of exploring the chaos of the blackout. I’m still a bit sceptical about the number of buildings with aircraft strikes though. Good to see Mark Benford making copies of things, avoiding a standard cliché; and like he says, what else is he going to do?

It seems a good bet that the three star tattoo guys who were collecting α rings are the same outfit as kidnapped Lloyd Simcoe, since they both delivered to Flosso. Speculation: they are the Jericho Private Military Company who nearly killed Tracey Stark.

Campos is even less sympathetic than I remember him being, so his being added to Flosso’s physicist collection wasn’t exactly upsetting (and the revelation of his duplicity, while I didn’t see it coming, didn’t exactly astonish either). It was Simcoe actually trying to do something constructive while in their dungeon, which I’d initially interpreted as a comment on the character of the two men but could instead have been a hint as to Campos’s dubious loyalties.

Episode 12

“Flashforward, so what, boohoo. I have a hallucination every day, nobody gives a damn.”

Nicole was born in 1989 which makes her 20/21 now. Flosso credits CERN with a maximum of 500 TeV; not so long ago the LHC set a new record with 3.5 TeV.

Campos (at last revealed to be suspect 0) has been involved since age 13; I don’t think we know how old he is now. When he faked anaphylaxis and then ran off, I was so hoping he’d run straight into two huge FBI dudes. But being accosted by agent Hawk and several heavily armed copes will do, as will her catching quoting Shakespeare along with him. The arc from Campos retaliating against a childhood bully with rocks, to giving Flosso his richly deserved end, reminds me of Ender Wiggins.

Agent Hawk reminds me of Teresa Lisbon (Robin Tunney) from The Mentalist. Wild speculation: the father of her baby will be Campos.

Characters

Name	Actor	Description	Notes
Mark Benford	Joseph Fiennes	FBI agent	Husband of Olivia Benford Father of Charlie Benford Colleague of Demetri Noh
Aaron Stark	Brian F. O’Byrne	AA-goer	Confidant of Mark Benford
Tracy Stark		Soldier	Was thought to be dead
Nicole Kirby	Peyton List	Student	Babysitter for the Benfords Japanese speaker, helps out Bryce
Olivia Benford	Sonya Walger	Doctor	Wife of Mark Benford Mother of Charlie Benford Apparent future lover of Lloyd Simcoe Colleague of Bryce Varley Operated on Dylan Simcoe
Demetri Noh	John Cho	Junior FBI agent, apparently doomed	Colleague of Mark Benford Fiancé of Zoey Andata
Zoey Andata		Gabrielle Union	Fiancée of Demetri Noh
Bryce Varley	Zachary Knighton	Formerly-suicidal doctor	Colleague of Olivia Benford
Lloyd Simcoe	Jack Davenport	(Self-described) annoying parent	Father of Dylan Simcoe Apparent future lover of Olivia Benford Apparently unwilling co-conspirator of Simon
Dylan Simcoe	Ryan Wynott	Injured autistic child	Son of Lloyd Simcoe Saved by Olivia Benford
Charlie Benford	Lennon Wynn	Winsome child	Daughter of Mark and Olivia Benford Saw D. Gibbons in vision and didn’t like him
Stanford Wedeck	Courtney B. Vance	Assistant Director FBI LA Field Office	Boss of Mark Sanford and Demetri Noh Former fixer for the current president
Joyce Clemente	Barbara Williams	US Senator	Political opponent of Stanford Wedeck
Janis Hawk	Christine Woods	FBI agent	Girlfriend of Maya Pregnant in her flashforward
Al Gough	Lee Thompson Young	FBI agent	Would have killed Celia had he lived, but suicided
Celia ?	?	Mother	Would have been killed by Al Gough
Timothy	Gil Bellows	Windowcleaner, prophet	Narrowly avoided a long fall; founder of Sanctuary.
Keiko Arahida	Yûko Takeuchi	Robot researcher at Nakahara	Seen by Bryce in his vision?
Maya			Girlfriend of Janis Hawk
Alda Hertzog	Rachel Roberts	Terrorist
Nhadra Udaya	Shohreh Aghdashloo	Spook	Sheltering D. Gibbons Learned of Demetri Noh’s death
D. Gibbons	Michael Massee	Obscure hacker/bomber	Telephone interlocutor of suspect 0Simon Campos Killer of Pigeon local cop
Simon Campos	Dominic Monaghan	Sinister guy on phone; suspect 0	Tells Lloyd Simcoe they’re responsible for the “greatest disaster in human history” (presumably the flashforward). Uses expertise in QM to pick up women on trains. Telephone interlocutor of D. Gibbons
Flosso	Ricky Jay	Collector of rings and physicists	Has six out of seven α rings, which immunize the wearer against the Flashforward. Also (temporarily) had Simcoe and Campos. Self-declared villain. But nonetheless, the monkey, not the organ-grinder...
“Reynaud”	Jeff Slingerland	Blue Hand organizer
Annabelle Campos	Hannah Marks	Sister of Simon Campos	Kidnapped by Flosso’s associates