Dominic Monaghan is on a train, telling a blonde that he knows what caused the flash forwards. She snarks that of course the “world’s greatest mystery was solved by a boozer on a train heading towards Los Angeles.” He tells her to Google “Quantum Physicist Genius” on her phone, and she’ll find a picture of him. She does, and is shocked to find out that he’s at least telling the truth about the genius part. He turns it into a cheesy line about how her dark energy is so attractive that it caused the blackout. Fortunately, there’s only one place that can counteract it. His sleeper car!
Obviously, she doesn’t fall for it. But, she does want to know if he’s got any real theories. He does, but he’s not sure if he can explain them.
Cut to the hospital. Bryce is bringing Janis in. As Dominic explains Schrodinger’s Cat to the blonde, Bryce and Liv try to save Janis’ life. Is the cat alive or dead? Is Janis?
Janis is alive. Liv calls Mark, but she can’t seem to get through to him or anyone else at the FBI. She hangs up and finds that text message about Mark drinking in his flash forward.
Dylan and Lloyd are playing card games in Dylan’s room. Dylan engages on the card game, but starts to shut down when Lloyd mentions Palo Alto and Dylan moving in with Lloyd. Bryce comes in to collect him for trick-or-treating, and Lloyd remembers that he needs to get a costume.
Stan, Demetri, Al, Mark and the boy-crazy agent from last week come in to check on Janis . Mark splits off to check on Liv while Boy Crazy explains that only the agents and her doctors are allowed in the room. Mark still has blood on his shirt from the night before, but he asks Liv to give him an update. Stan tries to get Demetri to leave, but he doesn’t want to. He gathers Al, and the two of them leave the hospital to find out who attacked them last night.
In the ER, Liv rips Mark’s shirt off. It’s not what you think. She just wanted to see the stitching that the DC doctors did. He explains about the night before and she tells him that when she couldn’t find him she got worried. They need to “live in the moment.” One day at a time, right?
Janis managed to kill two of the guys who attacked her, but there’s no record on either of them. Demetri stares into the face of one of the guys, and sees himself on the table. Al asks if he’s okay. Since he put himself on Mosaic, everyone in the office knows about what he saw. Demetri doesn’t want to talk about his feelings.
They discover a blue hand stamped on the guy on the table. Demetri remembers it as being one of the clues from Mark’s board. Something about Baltimore. Turns out dead guy is going to be helpful after all.
Back at the hospital, Bryce, Lloyd, and Dylan (dressed as Flava Flav) are wandering the halls looking for candy. Bryce observes that he doesn’t seem to like the whole thing very much. Lloyd thinks it’s just because he’s mad about moving in with Lloyd. Lloyd wants to know if Liv will come by to say goodbye before they leave. Bryce, who knows that Liv’s got some sort of issue with the man, still agrees.
Back at the office, Al and Demetri are going over the possibilities of who shot them. Al thinks it was the Chinese since all of the guys who shot at them were Asian and there’s been some talk about the blackout being caused by China. That was the CIA’s theory anyway. Demetri points out that Mark talked about D. Gibbons for the first time outside of the office and not even eight hours later, they were shot at and blown up. Coincidence? He doesn’t think so.
Janis is in the hospital, answering questions about who she is and who Liv is, and what they’re doing there. She doesn’t recognize Liv which is worrisome, but when she starts going on about the husband being a “neat freak.” Oh, she’s back.
Al and Demetri are looking at the evidence with the Blue Hand. Al remembers that when they put it on the board, someone said something about “Baltimore.” Demetri wants to check out Baltimore Street, which is five miles away in Los Angeles. That’s all well and good, but they were shot in DC which is only about thirty miles away from Baltimore. Trust me, it is not that hard to get between the two cities at one in the morning. Plus, if they meant Baltimore Street, wouldn’t Mark have said “Street?”
Al ‘s with me on this one, but Demetri is still stuck on the blue hand dude being in LA. If they’re wrong, they’ve wasted an hour. Al realizes that this means that Demetri’s jumped on the vision train after all. He gets that too. After all, if he was the only one left out of a mass world-wide experience, he’d be a little bitter. Especially, after he finds out why.
Mark, Aaron, and Charlie set out to go trick or treating. And if this episode wasn’t weird enough, the kangaroo comes hopping down the street. Luckily, it’s not an alcoholic vision for Mark. Aaron and Charlie (who deems is the “best costume ever”) see it too.
Lloyd walks into Dylan’s room and finds out that he’s disappeared. He admits to the security guard that he’s dressed his child as a “pimp,” and the guard isn’t really phased. There are tons of kids around, he might want to check out the Nurse’s Station. Clearly, he’s got better things to do.
Janis and Stan are in Janis’s room. She’s telling him that he doesn’t need to stick around. Of course he does. There are children disappearing everywhere! Stan doesn’t say that, of course, but he does say that he’s right where he needs to be. She’s not thrilled about her boss seeing him in the gown, but he’s okay with it. He associates the gowns with seeing his wife deliver their son. Janis once again flashes to her flash forward and the ultrasound (do we know why she’s getting it at 10:30 PM?). Then, her monitor goes off, and Liv tells her that her blood count is dropping.
Back on the train, Dominic’s cheesy line clearly worked out better than we thought. The blonde’s got her legs wrapped around him, and he tells her that in his flash forward, he saw himself wrapping his hands around some dude’s neck until the trachea snapped and the life drained out of him. That’s a Merry thought. Isn’t she glad she asked?
Lloyd and the security guard start reviewing the tapes, and find one of Dylan leaving the hospital. A bus picks him up. The driver starts harassing him about the fare, but a thug in a surprisingly similar (though dirtier and more beige version) sticks up for him and demands that the driver takes him home to the address that Dylan keeps repeating.
Al and Demetri are in the car. Demetri promise one hour, it’s been three. Plus, Janis is back is surgery. Demetri’s confident she’ll pull through. Why? Because she had a flash forward? No, because the night before he and Janis graduated from Quantico, he blacked out after five drinks and woke up to Janis playing quarters against herself. Her insides are stronger than anyone he knows. Al’s thinking that it’s wrong that they let him keep their badge after such a blackout (five drinks, that’s it?!?). No, he kept his badge because he’s always right. And to prove it, he points to the stop sign on Baltimore Street with the blue hand sticker. Fine, he wins.
Nicole’s answering the door to trick or treaters, and Dylan shows up. He lets himself in and helps himself to cookies. It’s his house, too.
Mark thanks Aaron for coming out with him and Charlie. Aaron’s been worried. Mark’s about to tell him that he’s going to start living in the moment a little more when he recognizes the masks from his vision walking down the street. He hands Charlie off to Aaron and starts running for the trio of guys who were wearing the masks. They start running through a mausoleum, and he chases them out into the cemetery. One pops up from behind a grave, and when Mark takes him down, he learns that the kid thought he was being pursued because of egging and TP-ing the neighborhood. The mask came from the supermarket. He’s not going to call his dad, is he? Mark doesn’t answer because he gets a call from Nicole.
Demetri and Al think that the hand is pointing them in a direction. They start driving towards it, and three blocks later (the hand had three fingers) find another hand pointing them two blocks in the next direction.
Nicole and Mark sit down with Dylan to try to figure out how he got there. He’s not sharing any information about his vision, but he recognizes Charlie. Lloyd shows up to collect him, and he too recognizes the house. Mark recognizes the Simcoe name, and Lloyd asks if he’s related to Liv. He’s her husband. Then Liv herself walks in. Awkward!
It gets even more awkward when Lloyd puts together the house and the vision and the fact that “Hey Honey,” is Liv and that’s why he made her so uncomfortable. He does it right in front of Mark, which isn’t smart at all. Aaron takes Charlie and Nicole into the kitchen to “check the candy.” Dylan says it’s his house too. Again. Lloyd thinks it’s complicated. Mark says it won’t be if Lloyd takes his kid, leaves, and doesn’t come back. Thankfully, Lloyd does.
Al and Demetri find a house with blood on the porch. Inside, they find the remnants of a party, more blood, an a couple of bodies with blue paint on their hands.
Stan brings flowers in for Janis. They’re from Maya. He asks if Janis is okay, and she’s not. Despite the fact that her uterus has been saved, it’s going to be almost impossible for her to have a baby. She doesn’t know why she’s crying, she’s never wanted one before.
Mark and Liv are fighting over Lloyd. He gets that Lloyd is the father of one of his patients, but how did the kid find his way there? She’s still the attending on his wristband, so why didn’t she say anything? Speaking of secrets, is he hiding anything from Liv? He finally admits to drinking in his flash forward. She’s not thrilled, and he tells her that she shouldn’t be condemning him for something he hasn’t done. Yet. He promises he’s not going to drink, but she says it’s about the trust, not the drinking. They don’t have it anymore.
Al shows Demetri something that one of the bodies had on him. It’s a driver’s license for some guy named “Rutherford,” which happens to be the case Al was working on in London when the bird hit the window. Clearly, “it begins tonight.”
Accompanied by “Across the Universe,” back at the hospital, Lloyd’s putting Dylan to bed. Dylan’s glad it’s not Halloween tomorrow. It was kind of scary. Mark and Liv aren’t speaking to each other. Demetri’s going through the blue hand evidence. Al’s looking the Rutherford evidence. Stan’s watching Janis as she sleeps, and Lloyd gets into a car.
Where Dominic Monaghan (Simon) is waiting in the backseat. They need to talk. Lloyd points out that their “experiment” killed twenty-million people. What more is there to say?
