We start three years before the blackout. Mark is at the ER after “running into a bullet.” Liv isn’t sure she can handle it anymore. She gets that it’s who he is, but they have a kid now. He tells her about the Counterterrorism gig Stan’s just offered him. It’s surveillance which might mean that it’s a little safer since he’ll be sitting in a car eating hogies and listening to phone calls in Farsi. Liv reminds him that he’ll hate it, but he’ll be safer. His girls come first now.
In the present, Mark’s moving out of the house. He’ll be staying with Stan to keep Liv and Charlie safe. Charlie’s freaking out. She’s hiding in the car. Mark hops in and tells her that he’s going to Stan’s for a little while. Just until he knows that she and Liv are safe. Charlie gives him the friendship bracelet he was wearing in his FF. She’d given it to him before, but he “lost” it.
At the office, Mark and Dem are watching the taped message from Dyson Frost. On it, Frost says that if they’re watching it in 2010, the global blackout was successful and that they had a near-miss in Utah. He knows this because he’s had hundreds of FF. In nearly all of his visions, he dies on 3/15/2010. Like Demetri! They’re on a “collision course” of fate, and the next move is Mark’s. Mark does point out that Frost talks about narrowing possibilities, which means that what they’ve been seeing in the FFs are only possibilities of a future, not the future itself. He also points out that Frost has effectively warned them about another blackout. Dem wants to know how and when. Stan thinks that’s Mark’s next move.
Simon and Lloyd are reviewing the items they brought back from Somalia. Simon thinks that the blackout and Frost’s involvement means that they’re officially off the hook. Lloyd gives him a copy of the mirror-formula and tells him that he’s pretty sure it means he’s been working on blackout prevention in his FF. He doesn’t remember the rest of the formula he’s written. Simon thinks it means he needs to see “his girlfriend.” (Liv).
Dem ran Frost’s face through the system. He can’t find him on any of the facial recognition programs. He’s also been a ghost since ’90. Mark says that he was looking at the membership lists of chess clubs before 1990. His last opponent lives in San Francisco. Dem wants to travel, but there’s more…in the last tournament, each of Frost’s moves took exactly two or four seconds. It’s Morse Code. There’s also a jumble of number codes at the end. Ten of them. It’s a phone number. The boys call and reach a pre-paid cell to Dyson Frost. They leave a message. It’s now Frost’s move.
Keiko (remember her?) is sitting in an LA restaurant. Every time the door opens, she looks for Bryce. The waitress asks if she wants something to eat. Keiko asks if they can do it in English. She explains that she doesn’t know if she has enough money, but the waitress cuts her a deal and also tells her that they’re looking for a new waitress. The door opens again. It’s not Bryce, but a total uber-hottie. Don’t get me wrong, I love Bryce, but DAMN. The new guy is James Dean and Johnny Depp all rolled into one! Keiko looks at him like she’d like it to be HIM, but in the end shakes her head. Not today.
Speaking of Bryce: he’s in the chemo ward. Nicole’s hanging out with him. She offers to give him some fun before the chemo sick kicks in since he’s her friend and he pasted pennies on the wall for the crazy mum. He agrees, but he’s buying dinner.
Mark and Dem arrive in San Francisco to find that Frost’s last partner took two in the head just before their arrival. Detective John Smith asks if it’s a person of interest. Mark tells him: not anymore. Mark meets with Vogel and tells him that the mole was at work again. Eight hours after they identified the chess player as a lead, he eats a couple of bullets. The entire investigation has been compromised. Mark thinks they need to go “blast fishing:” throw out a couple of bullets and see what floats to the top.
The CIA takes over the investigation and orders everyone to the conference room (including Family Guy‘s Seth MacFarlane again — squee). They have to give up their cell phones while the FBI does a full sweep for bugs. In the conference room, Stan announces that the CIA thinks someone is a mole. Mark’s not in there, so it looks like he’s already been vetted. Vogel starts singing “You are the sunshine of my life,” and the bug sweeper goes off. There’s a bug under the “M” key on his keyboard. It’s voice activated, so when the sweeps are done at 4 AM, there’s not enough sound in the office to set it off. Vogel’s singing (pretty good, and trust me, I’m a karaoke DJ) is enough to set it off. Vogel wants to know who has access to his office. Mark tells him everyone in the conference room. It’s time to light the fuse.
Mark and Vogel walk in and start laying down the smack down on the Mosaic team. When no one confesses, Vogel announces individual debriefings. Dem’s first. Mark tells him that he doesn’t think he’s the mole, but he needs the mole to think he suspects everyone. Stan wants to know how long they’ll be in there. Vreede (who I totally suspect) thinks they have to go through the whole set of procedures. Agent Stewie (Macfarlane, I forgot his character’s name) says that he didn’t give up his password. Simon thinks it’s because he was downloading pictures of naked cheerleaders. Stewie says that he just plays a World of Warcraft kind of game on the computer and doesn’t want anyone to know about it. He’s got invisibility powers. When Mark comes for Vreede, he asks if he can borrow the invisibility cloak (whee! Harry Potter reference!) . The boy crazy agent wants to know why they can’t go back to work. Mark shows them the bug.
Keiko manages to wander her way into a Snoop Dogg video. She runs into a guy that I think is the thug from the bus with Dylan. She offers to help with the hydraulics that make the car bounce. The guy agrees, and she climbs under the car.
It’s Janis’ turn in the hot seat. She’s taken a few more personal days than the number of visits at the fertility clinic. Vogel wants to know where she was. She’s been checking up on people since the blackout. Marcy (boy crazy) has a half-brother who’s dying in Missouri. She’s been hiding him. There was a deposit made to Marcy’s account three months ago. It was $50K. Does that have something to do with this? She doesn’t know anything for sure.
Liv and Charlie are having a girls’ day at the Santa Monica Pier. Charlie wants Mark. They ride the Ferris Wheel, and a guy is following them.
Dem looks into Marcy’s file. Her initial interview mentioned the brother, but later documents don’t. He’s pissed. Dem asks if he’s okay, and Mark tells him about moving out of the house. It’s a combination of what they saw in their visions. Mark tells him that the best why he can help is by continuing to dig in her files.
Back at the pier, Liv finally notices the guy that’s been following them. She makes a run for it with Charlie, but he catches up with them. He introduces himself as Special Agent Danforth Crowley. He’s been hired by Mark to keep ‘em safe.
Keiko and the thug are at his chop shop. He introduces her as a new employee. She’s part of the family and should be treated with respect. She’s in charge of working on the foreign cars since it’s all Greek, er Japanese to him!
Liv calls Mark at work to “thank him” for the security detail. Lloyd approaches and tells her that they need to talk. He wants to know exactly what she saw in her FF. She thinks she might have seen the other half of the formula. It was something about a Quantum Entanglement Device. She escapes to rounds.
Keiko and the thug are at the restaurant. She comes every night just in case Bryce shows up. She asks what he saw. He saw “something different,” but wants to leave it at that. Bryce takes Nicole out and almost takes her for sushi at the same place. They have a discussion about sushi and Keiko and Gremlins with the dietary restrictions, but he plays the cancer card and tells her that he doesn’t want sushi tonight. She asks what he does want to do, and he kisses her. Nicole tells him that the problem is, he’s thinking about another woman. It was an honest mistake. He should buy her a burger and call it even. They walk away, not noticing the Japanese woman drinking sake in the window.
Keiko and her new friend are going through the cars. Immigration raids the building and arrests all the undocumented workers: including Keiko. Bryce sees the paddy wagon pull away and calls Nicole. He doesn’t apologize for kissing her. He quite enjoyed it, actually.
Dem and Mark are watching a surveillance video of Marcy drinking coffee outside. She doesn’t use sugar in the coffee she normally drinks, but on the video she is. In fact, she puts sugar in her coffee every time a key piece of info is leaked. It’s a signal to her handlers. She realizes that they’re on to her and starts shooting up the FBI offices. Eventually, she jumps onto a motorcycle driven by a masked driver and attempts to speed away. Janis takes out the motorcyclist and bitch-slaps Marcy into submission. The motorcyclist is probably dead, they let him go. Stan asks why he wasn’t let in on the little plan, and deduces that he’s a queen’s sacrifice. Then Frost calls to congratulate him on getting rid of the mole.
Simon and Janis are in the parking garage. Simon’s trying some game (badly), and Janis points out that he’s not really her type. Janis tells him that she knows about Teddy’s death. Simon murdered him to send a message. Simon deduces that there were two moles: one to carry on if the other is caught.
The other one is Janis.
I SO did not see that one coming!
