FlashForward: Blowback

I cannot decide which is worse, the fact that I was so bored with this episode that I attempted to come up with pithy insults to hurl at it in my future blogpost, or the fact that I could not come up with one good zinger. After last episode was almost exclusively Simon centric we barely got a cursory appearance this time around. Also, Janice did not think it was strange at all that Simon's uncle died of a heart attack? In fact, the Uncle's death was so run of the mill that it was not even worth mentioning to the FBI.

Aaron must be related to Chuck Norris or at the very least Steven Segal. He managed to incapacitate an armed, much younger man recently released from active military duty without a weapon. Then he used his ninja utility company skills to infiltrate the home of the most powerful military contractor in the entire world to simply inform the man that they were at war.

While he threatened this man he also managed to tap his phone line. Amazingly the evil Cerberus leader then made a phone call confessed to his crimes and ordered a minion to kill Aaron seconds after Aaron set up his surveillance equipment! To prove how serious he was Aaron then hung the solider he captured upside down on the porch of the Cerberus guy in a thereby delivering an extremely creepy birthday card.

All the while Mark is too busy playing house with his wife's future lover to pick up the phone for his buddy in need.

Mark and Lloyd had a terrible scene in the Benford household. Lloyd refused to give up the identity of D. Gibbons because, actually there was no reason he refused to tell Mark about D. Gibbons. Lloyd's refusal was simply plot device to get him and Mark into an awkward conversation. The only good to come out of that scene was when Lloyd finally told Mark that he needs to interrogate his daughter. Unfortunately, based off Mark's demonstrated competence in interrogation he is going to have to water board Charlie if he has any hope of getting information out of her.

Zoe and Demetri actually seemed like a real couple in this episode. That said their storyline was silly. Did the writers of this show think anyone would be surprised when the gun was missing out of the evidence locker?