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Oct 15, 2009 · Black Swan: Directed by Michael Rymer. With Joseph Fiennes, John Cho, Jack Davenport, Zachary Knighton. Olivia and Bryce disagree on using a patient's flashforward in a diagnosis. Nicole returns and her flashforward is revealed.
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- Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
- Michael Rymer
- 2009-10-15
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Black Swan is the fourth episode of Season 1 of FlashForward. It first aired on October 15, 2009.
Blackout
The Global Blackout is revisited in the form of a flashback. This time, there is a slow motion scene of a park where people begin to blackout. A bus crashes into a lake and, except for the back seat, is submerged underwater. At the end of the blackout, a man who was braced against a pole and whose head remained above the water regains consciousness takes off his headphones. Almost immediately, a woman comes to the surface and starts speaking a foreign language. The man calms the woman and helps her to escape from the bus by kicking out a window. She swims away. He begins rising to the surface.
Angeles hospital
At Angeles hospital, the man from the bus later checks himself into the hospital under the care of Bryce and Olivia. He, apparently, finishes his tale of the GBO by saying that he swam to shore and wished that he could have saved more people. Bryce asks what he saw in his flashforward, to which he replies that he was confident and happy. He is in a club that he has always wanted to visit. In the mirror he sees himself as a black man. He attributes his ability to remain calm during the flooding of the bus to learning in his Flash that his future is secure. Olivia attempts to purchase a small bag of potato chips from a vending machine, but it jams and, after hitting the machine, she walks away in disgust. She asks the status of "Bus Crash Man" and Bryce begins to ramble about Ned's Flash. With annoyance, Olivia calls Bryce back to the present and he tells her that there is a delay in scheduling Ned for his CAT scan. Olivia tells Bryce she had spoken with Dr. Blythe Flemming, the psychiatrist with whom Bryce is supposed to be consulting on a weekly basis and had learned that he was not keeping his appointments. Just as she tells him that he will have to keep his appointments if he wants to keep his job, a clattering sound comes from behind. She turns to see a food tray come out of a room, followed by Lloyd Simcoe, who ends up with coffee on his shirt. Simcoe apologizes as he picks up the tray and returns to the room. Olivia tells Bryce to transfer Dylan Simcoe to physical therapy as soon as possible. She finishes by telling Bryce to do the scan of Ned himself if no one else can do it. Olivia encounters Lloyd in the cafeteria. He thanks her for putting up with him and observes that she is uncomfortable with his comment, although she denies it. Lloyd apologizes again for the food tray incident and talks about the difficulty he is having with Dylan and with his lack of sleep. Olivia responds that he should not be sleeping in Dylan's room every night; Lloyd comments that the police had given him his wife's house keys. Olivia tells Lloyd to visit Dylan's bedroom at home because he might learn something about his son. She reminds him that spending too much time in a hospital is not good for anyone and walks away. Bryce greets her and reports that he has the completed scan of Ned. Olivia tells him to have Dylan moved to physical therapy immediately and walks away. Lloyd stops to talk to Bryce and gives him a notebook Bryce had left in Dylan's room, telling him he is on his way to something that was recommended to him. It includes an image Bryce drew of a woman who he says he has not yet met. After a news item about the Mosaic Collective, Bryce asks Lloyd about his flash. After commenting about "global consciousness" and "temporal anomaly," Lloyd explains he was in a house other than his own. He received an urgent phone call and, although he did not know the caller, knew that the call was important. He knew Dylan was nearby, possibly in another room. After the call, he heard a woman's voice and turned toward her, but the Flash ended before he saw who she was. However, he knew they were together and that she was important to him somehow. A hospital employee delivers an envelope to Bryce. He excuses himself and takes the envelope to Olivia who saw Lloyd and had already turned to walk away. Bryce explained that he has the results of Ned's C-T scan. Olivia examines the film and diagnoses a hematoma. After another discussion about the relevance of Flash experiences, she tells Bryce to get Ned's consent to surgery. As Edward Ned completes his consent to surgery, Bryce reminds him of the risks. Ned repeats that he is not afraid and feels that all the worrying from the past is gone. He says that in six months he will have confidence. Knowing the future has changed him. Bryce searches the term "pigment change" on the Internet. When he gets the results he looks troubled. He goes to Ned's room to find him gone. Bryce asks the nurse where the patient went. She says he went to the operating room. Bryce tells her to call and quickly walks out of the room saying, "We're about to kill our patient." Bryce tells Olivia that he knows what is wrong with Ned. He recalls all the information Ned told them when he checked into the hospital about his flash. From his Internet search, Bryce says that Ned has Addison's Disease. Olivia and Bryce argue. Olivia refers to the "here and now" as why she needs to proceed with the surgery. Bryce continues to talk about Ned's Flash and that Olivia is burying her head in the sand because of her Flash. Olivia becomes annoyed with Bryce and tells him not to scrub for the procedure. During Ned's surgery, one of the doctors asks if anyone had been to Grand Rounds today. He says a guy from Yale said he could enhance memory of flash forwards using a calcineurin antagonist. Midway through surgery, Ned's blood pressure drops dramatically and then his pulse stops. The doctors attempt various ways to revive him, but none of them work. Finally, Olivia accepts the information Bryce had given her that Ned may have Addison's disease. She tells the other doctors Ned is having an Adrenal crisis and calls for an IV push of hydrocortisone. Ned's heartbeat is restored and he recovers. Afterward, Olivia and Bryce review the days events. Bryce apologizes and Olivia accepts. She asks him if he is really okay, considering that he was about to commit suicide when the GBO occurred. Bryce assures her that he is fine. As they part, Olivia sees Lloyd in Dylan's room doing a magic trick for his son, then telling him he needs to rest before there are any more tricks. Dylan says, "Thanks, Dad." as Lloyd goes to get some soup for his son.
Lloyd Learns More
On Olivia's suggestion, Lloyd goes to his wife's house and through Dylan's room. When Lloyd enters the house there is mail on the floor. He walks through the living room and looks at a picture of Dylan and his mom. In the dining room there is a basket of washed clothes ready to be folded. In the kitchen, he finds a calendar with pictures and appointments on the days of Tuesday through Friday. Saturday, Sunday and Monday are left blank except for two days. One is Saturday 3rd. There is a birthday party at 2 pm scheduled. On Sunday 11th, there is a BBQ at 1 pm. There is one picture of Lloyd, Dylan and his wife holding hands. In Dylan's bedroom, a kangaroo with boxing gloves is focused on. Dylan has drawn a picture of his family, limited to him and his mother. Lloyd finds a book titled "A Modern Magician's Handbook" by Marian Green. Dylan's bedspread is of a Star Wars scene with Yoda prominent.
General
•A scene early in the episode has Mark Benford, using an English accent, acting out a role as Eggbert the Egg for his daughter, Charlie. When Olivia enters the room, he drops the egg and she jokingly calls him "the Shakespeare of cheesy Dad humor." One of the most well known roles played by actor Joseph Fiennes, who plays Mark Benford, was as William Shakespeare in the popular film Shakespeare in Love. •The drowning woman on the bus in the beginning of the episode shouts "Nem tudok úszni!" repeatedly, which means "I can't swim!" in Hungarian.
Music
•"It's Oh So Quiet" by Bjork. (A bus plunges into a lake during the flashback). •"Atomic Dog" by George Clinton. (Ned 'rocks leather pants' in his flash forward). •"Look What You've Done To Me" by IKO.( Lloyd enters the his ex-wife's home and explores Dyan's room).
Bloopers and Continuity Errors
•In the opening sequence, after everyone has become unconscious, a stunt actor riding a bicycle extends his leg to break his fall to the side.
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