Writers: David S. Goyer and Lisa Zwerling
Grade: A
I’ve never really had much of a problem with Olivia, but she was almost entirely unlikable in this episode. The way she treated Mark during and after Charlie’s questioning was in no way justified, and I say this as someone who doesn’t even like Mark. “Charlie needs stability,” says the woman who kicked Mark out of their home because he wouldn’t quit his very important job and move the family to Colorado? How does that make any sense? Her apparent lack of curiosity and unwillingness to help Vreede piece together her connection to the murdered homeless man was also off-putting, although I did somewhat enjoy her and Vreede teaming up.
The impression I got from the last couple of episode is that there are at least two factions working against one another, but I was confused about who was working with whom. I kept getting the vibe that Frost and Flosso were at odds somehow, but the facts weren’t adding up. Until this episode, Frost was the only person we knew of who’d had flash-forwards, yet Flosso clearly knew enough about the future to set up the Suspect Zero surveillance footage, which Janis conveniently found. It makes a little more sense now that we know that a) Frost has parted ways with whomever he and Alda were both working for, and b) there were much older flash-forward experiments at Raven River. It wasn’t directly stated, but it was heavily implied that those experiments were performed on savants because they’d be able to remember every detail of what they saw (unlike drunk Mark!). If that’s the case, then Frost is not the only source for information about the future.
As for Frost as a person, he doesn’t strike me as being “evil” in the “total sociopath with no sense of responsibility or remorse” way. Crazy, yes, and responsible for some things that turned out horrifically, but it also looks like he was trying to save the world. Plus he was actually very nice to Charlie, and it was quite generous of him to allow for the possibility that Demetri might be the one to survive the day. That weird little combination of insanity and honor ended up saving Dem’s life, along with a very determined Mark. Frost was more an anti-hero than an outright villain.
Also, I initially thought that Janis was working with Frost because he found out so quickly about Marcy getting caught, but nothing in this episode really supported that. And since we haven’t gotten any forward movement on Janis’s mole storyline, I was a little worried about her being so involved in Dem’s rescue, but she seemed genuinely invested in saving his life. And they succeeded! Yay! Long live Demetri!
Other Stuff
-I thought the crazy guy at the coffee stand looked familiar, but I definitely didn’t recognize him as James Callis! His American accent is great.
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