'FlashForward': Simon (Dominic Monaghan) reveals his future

Tonight, "FlashForward" figured out how to do a Halloween episode. It wasn't like anything was really spooky, at least not more than usual, but it took place on Halloween, so that kind of counts.

Rather than really liking the Halloween stuff, I preferred the fact that we got some more of Simon. He may be a bad guy, but he's great fun to watch, and he showed us all a great way to get women: Look at one on a train, have her say something to mock you and then tell her to do an image search for "quantum physicist genius" on her phone, because it's your picture that pops up.

Simon is still definitely a mystery. There he was, still in bed with the woman, and he told her that he killed someone in his flashforward. Who does that? Was he telling the truth? And, why, after he did that, did he disappear for almost the rest of the episode? Don't we deserve more than just a few moments of Simon near the beginning and end of an episode?

We also got more on the Blue Hand people this week, mostly due to Demetri's dogged persistence on going after the folks who hurt Janis. I like the fact that that he's going after the baddies and all, but maybe he ends up dead because he doesn't sleep and his reaction times drop significantly. He should have been dead tired after last week's grenade incident.

I was intrigued about Demetri's argument with Al over whether they should be heading to Baltimore St. in L.A. to find Blue Hand folks or if they should be going to Baltimore, Maryland. I wonder if Demetri being right means that the show was in some way trying to save fictional FBI money by not wanting the guys to have to fly anywhere this week. Whatever the case, the Blue Hand group was in fact in Los Angeles, and by tracking them, Demetri and Al found a bunch of dead bodies and the opening of the Rutherford case that we heard about during Al's flash.

As for the best moment of the night, that was Dylan showing up at the Benford's and being followed by Lloyd and then Olivia. This may sound odd, but I wonder if the marriage has not actually broken up by the time the flash rolls around, if maybe they're all just living together because Olivia wanted to keep a closer eye on Dylan... and Lloyd. You know, they could have some sort of new-fangled, experimental, open sort of relationship going on. Maybe Olivia just calls everyone "honey."

Okay, that's all farfetched, right? I don't know why I'm against the Benfords being broken up, but I definitely am. Even Olivia and Mark appear to be wavering on the whole marriage thing - Olivia hiding Dylan being back on her team and Mark only now copping to drinking in his flashforward. Those two have some definite issues to work out, but if the future is any indication, they'll be parting ways instead. Olivia was absolutely right: They don't trust each other anymore.

Quick flashes:

• Simon seems to be a Scotch guy. I love that.
• The double-slit experiment -- as I understand it -- helps proves light is both a particle and a wave (or at the very least has properties of both).
• Janis Hawk proved to be alive this week. You weren't really surprised by that, were you? As I said last week, it's not like they were going to reveal the visions to be untrue at this point. That means that "almost impossible" for her to have a baby is not the same as "impossible."
• I get where Mark was coming from chasing the guys with the masks, but it would seem to me that anyone who launches a raid on an FBI building does it in a mask they've never used before (unless they're with Patrick Swayze, because then it's a signature move).
• Why did Wedeck apologize to Mark for yelling at him last week? Wedeck was pissed because Mark was drunk during his flashforward and Wedeck staked his career, reputation, livelihood, you name it, on Mark's flashforward. Wedeck should have been pissed.
• So, "we" are all worried about Lloyd, are "we?" I wonder who the "we" Simon mentioned are.

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