History Series / FlashForward2009

%%** Flosso's [[JustForPun killer]] emphysema.

* ForeseeingMyDeath: * A variation: Demetri Noh doesn't experience a vision of his future despite ''almost everyone else in the world'' experiencing one, which leads him to the terrifying conclusion that it's because [[YourDaysAreNumbered he doesn't have a future]]. His arc for the rest of the series is involved in determining whether or not the future seen in the visions [[YouCantFightFate are preordained]] and if there's a reason why he didn't see anything other than him dying, [[SelfFulfillingProphecy consequently putting his life in even more danger]].

** [[spoiler: Frost's whole warehouse wall full of batshit crazy.]]

%%** [[spoiler: Lloyd]] doesn't start out this way, but [[CharacterDevelopment becomes one as the series goes on.]]

* BenevolentBoss: Though he does not allow himself to be taken advantage of, Wedeck ''really'' cares about his employees. He most definitely comes off as AFatherToHisMen after [[spoiler: Janis]] is shot, and sheds sincerely touching ManlyTears when [[spoiler: Al Gough kills himself]].

** Agent Noh and Olivia Benford do NOT care or want to hear what your flashforward was about, because [[spoiler: neither of them want theirs to happen.]]

** Simon is capable of anything when someone tries to manipulate him into doing something he doesn't want to do. [[spoiler: Even murder.]]

%%* BlackDudeDiesFirst: [[spoiler: Alas, poor Al Gough.]]

* BuryYourGays: Janis is revealed to be a lesbian, and by the end of the episode [[spoiler: has been shot and left for dead]]. However, this is later partially subverted when [[spoiler: she survives, but is left unable to bear the child [[AllLesbiansWantKids she now desperately wants]]]].

** Mark's pistol, the one that [[spoiler: was even predicted to murder Demetri Noh on March 15th]].

** Played with (briefly) then subverted at the end of the 2 hour recommencement special. In one of the scenes with [[spoiler:Simon's 'Uncle']], the quick can notice a chessboard on a computer screen being panned off-screen. He later [[spoiler: ends up dead after admitting to being only the middleman, not quite the guy in control after all.]]

%%* DeathTrap: [[spoiler: Dyson Frost puts Demetri into one.]]

* DramaticIrony: The episode "Let No Man Put Asunder" begins with [[spoiler: a flashback of Demetri, Marcie, Janis and Al's first day in FBI. Mark greets them with a speech about how they're going to give their lives to people who might not even know them, at which point the camera focuses on Al.]]

* {{Fauxshadow}}: Did anyone else think, based on the contents of his vision, that [[spoiler: Vogel]] had to be TheMole, until it turned out to be someone else?

* ForegoneConclusion: [[spoiler: December 12, 2016. The End.]] Whatever that would have meant.

* ForTheEvulz: Generally assumed to be the motivation of the people who caused the global blackouts [[spoiler: and is planning on doing it again,]] at least until their motivation becomes more clear.
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* AGodAmI: This is Simon's viewpoint on the fact that [[spoiler: his experiment maybe caused the blackout.]]
%%* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Invoked by [[spoiler: Dyson Frost]] after Demetri tells him "YoureInsane."

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Janis says this word-for-word after [[spoiler: revealing her double mole status to Mark]].
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: The mooks in the final episode. [[spoiler: Mark runs in front of the group of mooks who are firing like crazy, and Mark manages to take out at least one of the mooks, and gets nary a scratch himself.]]

* TheMole: The audience is led to believe this is someone who [[RememberTheNewGuy was apparently working with Mosaic all this time but was never given so much as a name before this.]] [[spoiler: Subverted. [[TheReveal The mole is Janis Hawk.]] Double subverted in that Janis is actually [[TheInfiltration working for the CIA to spy on her unknown employers]].]]

** [[spoiler: The Blue Hand group uses Mosaic to track down people who didn't have a Flashforward and convinces them to join a suicide club.]]

** When Demetri's fiancee realizes [[spoiler: that what she saw wasn't a wedding, it was a funeral.]]
%%** "Hello, Demetri. My name is [[spoiler: Dyson Frost. I'm recording this in 1991. Got your attention, didn't I?"]]

%%* PrepareToDie: [[spoiler: Simon does this, twice.]]

** The Vice-President insists she will be President as she saw herself sitting in the Oval Office in six months. In the finale [[spoiler: she isn't and was just sitting there for an unrelated reason.]]
** The most dramatic is how Zoey insists Dimitri is wrong that his seeing nothing means he's going to die as she saw herself in a white dress on a beach with Dimitri's family there and thus, it was their wedding. Then she discovers that [[spoiler: in the Korean culture, white is the color of mourning...]]

** [[spoiler: Dyson Frost]] was trying to redeem himself, but he got shot by a sniper working for the BigBad [[HeKnowsTooMuch before he could tell Mark what he needed to know]].
** [[spoiler: Al Gough]] killed himself so that he wouldn't inadvertently kill a woman he didn't even know. [[spoiler: Who then gets killed anyways.]]

* RememberTheNewGuy: Hey guys, remember Marcie? [[spoiler: You know, the mole?]] Her motivator was that - as a wallflower - nobody ever paid any attention to her in the first place.

** [[spoiler: Simon]] is Suspect Zero.
** [[spoiler: Marcie is a mole.]]
** [[spoiler: The twist is that so is Agent Janis Hawk.]]
** [[spoiler: A double twist is that Hawk is actually working for the CIA as a mole in the organisation of whomever wants her as a mole in the FBI.]]

** He is successful in [[spoiler: not killing Demetri]].

** The Blue Hand,[[spoiler: not having flash forwards, realized they will be dead in six months and begin committing suicide]].

** The Finale goes to town on this one. [[spoiler: So the second blackout was predicted by Gabriel's modifications to the board, who modified the board because he modified the board, because he modified the board, because he modified the board? Come again?]]

* ShootOutTheLock: how Mark gets into the building where [[spoiler: Demetri is stuck in a DeathTrap]] in "The Garden of Forking Paths".

** [[spoiler: D. Gibbons/Dyson Frost "talks" to Demitri from a video recorded decades in the past.]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink Sound familiar?]]

** Heroic variant in Marshall Vogel of the CIA. Most infuriatingly, he's most often right. In "Queen Sacrifice", Mark, Demetri and Janis all tell him to *** himself at different times whenever he suggests one of them could be [[spoiler: TheMole. Turns out he was right about Janis, too]].
** And in the villain corner, Carline, [[spoiler: Janis's contact within the mysterious conspiracy]] is one full-stop.

** In "Black Swan", the flashforward occurring in Echo Park (with all the carnage that implies, specifically, [[spoiler: an out-of-control city bus heading straight into a lake, ''running over several unconscious people in the process'']]) set to Bjork's "It's Oh So Quiet".

** The Nazi war criminal from "137 Sekunden", who would never have [[spoiler: been released]] if he hadn't seen that happening in his blackout.
* StealthPun: When the agents have to give cover stories about what they saw in their flash forwards, Janis says she was baking bread. Actually she was having a pre-natal sonogram, or in other words [[spoiler: she had a bun in the oven.]]

** "A561984". Just about every point of the meeting with [[spoiler: the woman in Hong Kong]] is its own mini-wham, and then you have [[spoiler: Simon working with the Good Guys]] and the things he reveals, plus what happens to Lloyd (and his son and Olivia!) at the end.

** "Countdown". Oh, boy. Where to begin? [[spoiler: Everyone's future goes severely downhill and strays ''very'' far away from the flash forwards: Mark is expelled from the bureau after beating up Hellinger (something the latter had just predicted it would happen), starts drinking again, gets in a bar brawl and is thrown in jail for good measure. Zoey departs for Hawaii alone after Demetri tells her he impregnated Janis, who in turn might have lost her baby while handcuffing Simon. Lloyd can't complete the tachyonic equation since Olivia decided not to let her flash forward become true. Nicole reveals Bryce she knew where Keiko was, but he misses her (again) because she's returning to Japan on immigration agents' watch. All of this mere hours before the moment of the visions. What else? Oh right. Too bad for Aaron, ''Tracy is dead''.]]

** [[spoiler: Dyson Frost]] again: [[spoiler: "Hello, Charlie! :)"]]
** Evil Pet Shop Lady to Janis: [[spoiler: "We need you to kill Mark Benford."]]
** Zoey speaking to Dimitri's mother on her vision of her on a beach with everyone in white and how she assumed that was their wedding...only how she recently found out that [[spoiler: in Korean culture, white is the color of mourning]]. Also, the presence of Dimitri's mother, who never approved of her and openly said she wouldn't attend any wedding. "A mother might ignore her son's wedding...but [[spoiler: she'd never miss his funeral"]].
** Series Finale: [[spoiler: "They Found Him!"]] [[AbortedArc Whatever that meant.]]

* WireDilemma: In "The Garden of Forking Paths", [[spoiler: the DeathTrap Demetri's in]] involves one of these.

** Nice job [[spoiler:killing the man who would eventually lead war-torn Somalia to peace, Vogel]].
*** [[spoiler:Vogel is CIA. It could be taken that once he learned Abdi was going to be a peacemaker, he began looking for an opportunity to kill him. Cause', you know, [[StrawmanPolitical that's what the CIA does.]]]]

* NietzscheWannabe: Dr. Raynaud, the highest ranking Blue Hand we've met so far. Mark when he asks Raynaud what made him turn from an ordinary nice guy into Friedrich Nietzsche.

** Heroic variant in Marshall Vogel of the CIA. Most infuriatingly, he's most often right. In "Queen Sacrifice", Mark, Demetri and Janis all tell him to *** himself at different times whenever he suggests one of them could be [[spoiler: TheMole. Turns out he was right about Janis, too]].

** "Countdown". Oh, boy. Where to begin? [[spoiler: Everyone's future goes severely downhill and strays ''very'' far away from the flash forwards: Mark is expelled from the bureau after beating up Hellinger (something the latter had just predicted it would happen), starts drinking again, gets in a bar brawl and is thrown in jail for good measure. Zoey departs for Hawaii alone after Demetri tells her he impregnated Janis, who in turn might have lost her baby while handcuffing Simon. Lloyd can't complete the tachionic equation since Olivia decided not to let her flash forward become true. Nicole reveals Bryce she knew where Keiko was, but he misses her (again) because she's returning to Japan on immigration agents' watch. All of this mere hours before the moment of the visions. What else? Oh right. Too bad for Aaron, ''Tracy is dead''.]]

* LuckyTranslation: The [[spoiler: "murder of crows"-pun]] only works in English. Luckily for the international dubs, the [[spoiler: crows]] ''were'' technically murdered. This way, the old Nazi's deception revolves around [[spoiler: the fact that the murder-victims are not human, as opposed to the meaning of the word "murder"]].

The series built a nice MythArc with a great [[HolyShitQuotient holy shit quotient]]. Based on the 1999 [[TheShowOfTheBooks sci-fi novel]] by Canadian author Creator/RobertJSawyer (who gets a blink-and-you-miss-it CreatorCameo in the pilot), though it shared little with the book other than the flashforward concept and a character name or two. This show is not to be confused with ''Series/FlashForward1996'', which is totally (and tonally) different.