FlashForward

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Thinking Out of the Box By Stepping off the Ledge
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The episode starts with a slender, dark-haired woman crouching at the edge of a huge, gorgeous fountain. She's got two boys, and they're preparing to pull two toy sailboats from the fountain's pool. Then, they're walking to her car. As this is going on, we hear Agent Gough's voice: "Dear Celia -- I don't know your last name, and I don't know where you live, but I know you have two young boys -- twins, I believe. And I know you didn't have a flashforward. I understand how terrifying that is, and how powerless you must be feeling. But I want you to know, you are not alone." Celia's put her kids in the car and found a note under the driver's-side windshield wiper: One side has a picture of a blue hand and an URL: www.ALREADYGHOSTS.com, while the other has the scribbled message "We know you are one of us."

As is Demetri, who quickly closes his laptop when Zoey comes into the room. "Emailing your other girlfriend?" she asks. He replies, "No, we broke up. This is just porn." Demetri, I am going to miss you and your sense of humor if Agent Shoreh Aghdashloo is correct about her flashforward. And I will miss these fleeting glimpses of your loft, because it is pretty much Exhibit A for the message that indeed, crime can pay when you are the attorney trying to get the criminal off the hook. Anyway, Zoey's got wedding-invitation proofs on the brain, and she natters on about these for a while, but I'm distracted from the Zoey-Demetri banter by the thought that with all the money these two clearly have laying around, neither one of them thought to hire a wedding planner and have him or her sweat all those details? What is the point to being a DINK couple (dual-income, no kids) if you can't fling money at someone who will either handle the invites for you or give you the tough love necessary to hammer home the message that nobody will give a crap about what your invitation looks like, so long as they're invited. Anyway, the minute Zoey leaves, Demetri opens up his laptop and we see that he's hanging out on alreadyghosts.com.

Then we zip to Mark and Olivia's House of Recriminations, where she is telling Mark about how she'll be home late from work that night, so please don't go concluding that she's really off humping Lloyd instead. Mark repeatedly insists that Olivia doesn't have to explain, but given how pissily he's brushing his teeth -- and truly, someone is irritated when it comes through in the ol' Colgate routine -- it looks like Olivia certainly has to. Mark passive-aggressively adds, "I trust you." Olivia snaps back, "Good! I trust you too!" then leaves the bathroom before Mark can see that her pajama bottoms have spontaneously combusted. Mark continues flossing petulantly.

FlashForward