The episode begins with Demetri having his conversation with Agent Shoreh Aghdashloo, per the show conventions of endlessly repeating all that has gone before. We re-establish that he's going to be murdered on March 15, 2010, and learn that Demetri will die courtesy of three shots to the chest. Agent Aghdashloo says, "My hope is by telling you what I know, you will be able to prevent your murder from happening." You and me both, lady. She hangs up, and Demetri's left to flip out alone in a parking garage.

We then cut to an aged man with a cane taking his morning constitutional next to a barbed-wire fence. He makes small talk with the guard who's pacing him on the other side, and we learn that Herr Geyer's flashforward consisted of "something that will release me from this hateful place." As the camera zooms back, the soundtrack music sounds uncomfortably like the background music on Prison Break -- it's okay if you don't recognize it -- and we get a caption telling us that Herr Geyer's incarcerated at Quale prison in Munich, Germany.

Several thousand miles to the west, Charlie is watching some dreadful morning cartoon that stars a pop-eyed girl and Squirrelio, and she's eating breakfast. Mark is watching her anxiously, but that's pretty much his default state these days. In the background, Olivia is still trying to raise the babysitter Nicole, who's surely off in the desert eating honey and locusts as she continues her God-sent-the-flashforwards-to-punish-me-for-bonking-on-my-boss's-couch trip. Anyway, Mark volunteers to pick up Charlie after school and take her to work. "We're sifting through blackout intel from Interpol and such. I'll welcome the distraction." Why make Charlie a distraction? Put her to work, I say. Children love pattern-matching games.

Aaron comes over right at that moment, and Mark lies about why Aaron's there -- why bother getting into the habit of telling Olivia the truth? -- and drags Aaron into his home office. Aaron points out, "If you want to prevent the future and save your marriage, the first step isn't keeping secrets from your wife." Alas, as is so often the case on TV, Aaron's words of sanity are completely overlooked. It turns out Aaron's here because Mark feels like talking about Charlie's flashforward -- again, a conversation he should perhaps be having with his good lady wife -- and then Mark flashes to his flashforward again (drink!). Aaron cuts through the bullshit with "You think whoever you're investigating will come after Charlie?" Well, sort of. Mark worries, "What if this whole investigation circles back on me?" Aaron says, "Father to father? I'll tell you what I'd do. If someone's out to hurt your family, the best thing to do is to catch them before they can. The world's changed. Maybe the rules need to change a little too. If it were up to me, I'd do whatever I had to do." Mark embraces this advice, since he so clearly doesn't need to talk to anyone at work who's ever dealt with the messy interstices between personal and professional obligations.