Plot

Demetri and Mark fly to Hong Kong to find the woman, who forewarned Demetri's murder. The cause of the blackouts is made public.

Against Wedeck's orders, Mark and Demetri travel to Hong Kong in search of the woman claiming to know details of Demetri's fate; Lloyd tries to come clean about his and Simon's involvement in the global blackout - against Simon's better judgment -- and Zoey discovers the true meaning of her flashforward.—ABC Publicity

Mark and Demetri land in Hong Kong, where they hope to meet the mystery woman who told Demetri he would be murdered on March 15th. We see her watching "A Christmas Carol"; like Mark, she has posted a variety of photographs and assorted clues on the window of her office. Prominently featured in her collage is Demetri, with the code "A561984" underneath. Upon deplaning, the agents ignore Wedeck's repeated calls, but Marshall Vogel from the FBI approaches them in the terminal and suggests they answer the phone, since the FBI clearly can track their movements. He also cautions them that they're in a country the U.S. suspects of the blackout. They decide to stay, over Vogel's and Wedeck's protests. As it happens, Mark is protecting Demetri by taking the blame for the trip, even telling Demetri it was finally approved. Mark and Demetri trace the mystery woman's phone call signal to a restaurant area, where they find a closed restaurant that serves Persian food. Since the mystery woman, whom Demetri has dubbed "Eartha Kitt" for her sultry voice, was of Persian descent, they decide to return the next day.

In Palo Alto, the National Linear Accelerator Project conducts a press conference, where Lloyd and Simon are ready to discuss what happened on October 6th. Simon is none too happy about it, but a deal is a deal. Proton-driven Plasma Wakefield Acceleration is the concept that Lloyd introduces to the world. The idea was to re-create the energy levels present at the Big Bang on a controlled scale. A reporter demands to know if the NLAP will take responsibility for the deaths and devastation that took place on October 6th, but Simon chimes in and tries to play off the responsibility of the NLAP. While the world - including Mark, Demetri, Olivia, Wedeck,and Aaron - watches the press conference, Gordon Myhill, the project leader, tries to end the press conference, but Lloyd tries to apologize and tries to assure the crowd that there will be no more blackouts, noting his own grief over his wife's death. That doesn't satisfy one woman in the crowd, who grabs a security guard's gun and tries to shoot Lloyd. After they are rescued off the podium Simon goes ballistic at Lloyd for trying to take responsibility when neither can prove the NLAP was or was not at fault.

Wedeck is even more upset now than when he smashed the TV in his office following Mark's stunt. He wants Lloyd and Simon in the office immediately; both men have disappeared following the press conference, but Janis recognizes Lloyd's name and realizes that his son Dylan was in Olivia's hospital. Wedeck orders her to the hospital, to try and make unofficial contact with Lloyd. However, Wedeck doesn't have to worry about finding Simon, who shows up at the FBI office in Los Angeles. Simon wants to look at the Mosaic data the FBI has collected, arguing that D.C. won't fund the project anymore now that someone has stepped forward and taken the blame for the blackout. Wedeck decides to give him a little information to test him out. Simon is a bit offended by the offer, but he bites. Upon being shown the photos of the towers the satellites found in Somalia, Simon explains that they are specialized pulse lasers for a plasma afterburner, which he designed. He marvels at what he believes are computer-simulated images, but is bewildered when told that the towers are real structures, since he insists the design is still in the theoretical planning stages. Even more perplexing, he designed the laser in 1992, but the photos are from 1991. Since Simon points out that most scientists strive to be forever famous, he is intrigued and irritated that the person who actually designed the laser has to be an ultra-recluse with no interest in publicity for his work. Simon is shown the sketch of D. Gibbons and told he was awake during the blackout. Suddenly Simon is very cooperative, since this D. Gibbons already did what Simon and Lloyd were attempting... and succeeded.

Zoey attends the funeral of a co-worker's wife. Earlier, she tried to convince Demetri's parents, who have refused to meet her or attend the wedding, to change their minds since she saw them in her flashforward. However, a lily on the casket of her co-worker makes her realize something. She was wearing white because white is worn at a Korean funeral. She was carrying a lily in her flashforward as well. She realizes that the although the Nohs had refused to come to the wedding, they would never miss their son's funeral, and that Demetri was right all along: she was not getting married in her flashforward but rather mourning his death. She visits Demetri's mother, who confirms what she saw, though Mrs. Noh didn't want to believe it was actually happening; she now embraces the planned wedding, having foreseen Zoe's grief. But Zoey thinks they might be able to change the future.

At the hospital, Janis' stakeout is making Bryce nervous, but she expresses her continued desire to have a baby. If she was four months pregnant in her flashforward, she has about a month or so to get busy. As expected, Lloyd comes to the hospital, and Janis offers the FBI's protection if he cooperates. He isn't interested. However, hospital staffers decline to help him transfer Dylan to a safe facility out of resentment after seeing his speech. Olivia intervenes and offers to transfer Dylan to a children's hospital, and Lloyd is certainly grateful for her help. Olivia is actually impressed that he took responsibility for what happened, even though she thought it foolish. They discover that Olivia would have lived at Harvard in the apartment next door to Lloyd in 1998 had Mark not gotten his transfer out to L.A.; that apartment is where Lloyd met his late wife. Olivia likes the "small world" moment, and Lloyd talks about the multiple-universes theory where every decision is played out (which was used in "Red Dwarf" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation.")

In the Persian restaurant in Hong Kong, Mark and Demetri play the recording of the woman's phone call for the owner. He denies knowing who she is, but Mark and Demetri suspect he is not being truthful. Mark makes a thinly veiled threat of CIA capture, and they get the name Nhara Udaya. They'll stake out the Dim Sum restaurant where she eats and wait for her. Even though they don't know what she looks like, her considerable entourage of armed bodyguards is a giveaway. Although Udaya is not willing to give details, as she thinks saying something will negatively alter the future, Mark and Demetri won't budge.

At their insistence, she tells Demetri that he will be shot 3 times at close range, which he takes to mean that he knows his killer. The agents are stunned when she not only tells them the killer is at the table, but that it is Mark. He is incredulous, but she correctly tells him the serial number of his pistol, which she got from the murder report. She assumes that a situation will arise where Mark has to kill Demetri, but Mark isn't having it. He takes Udaya hostage over Demetri's protests, but they are quickly surrounded by the local authorities.

Things get even more confusing for Mark, as Vogel arrives and seems to know Nhadra. She has her bodyguards lower her weapons and convinces Mark to let her go. Mark and Demetri are placed under arrest. Vogel basically orders them back to the U.S., but Mark isn't having it. If Vogel was FBI, Mark and Demetri would never have made it off the plane in the first place. Vogel is really with the CIA, and the Mosaic collective is suddenly of great interest to more than a few agencies and countries. Wedeck gets the video of Mark busting up the restaurant from the U.S. Ambassador to China, and is furious over Mark's insubordination, breach of protocol and diplomacy. Mark gives Demetri his gun and badge. Meanwhile, Udaya is seen in her office, and is revealed to be protecting D. Gibbons, who has come to Hong Kong against her advice.

At the hospital, Janis continues to express her desire to become pregnant, but admits to Bryce that this is problematic because she is a lesbian; he gives her a referral to a sperm bank where he has contacts. Nicole gives Bryce a gift of a cat figurine which carries a traditional Japanese meaning of luck in love. Olivia says goodbye to Lloyd and Dylan. The ambulance attendants put Dylan into the van, but their harsh behavior when he struggles with them raises Olivia's concern. They shoot the security guard she summons, and are ready to shoot her as well. Lloyd steps in between them and they pull him into the ambulance, as they were after him in the first place. The ambulance drives away, leaving Olivia and a screaming Dylan behind.

What will happen next? Find out in March 2010.