White To Play

Season 1, Episode 2, Aired
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Mark and Demetri go to Utah to investigate a lead on a suspect who might have a connection to the global blackout. Olivia sees the man from her flashforward, while her daughter Charlie is having trouble dealing with hers.
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  • Wheres the action?

    7.5
    "Good"
    By AvatarBlue, Jan 04, 2011 Report Abuse
    Limited action scenes take away the intensity from an episode that should have provide more momentum towards the next schedule FF event.

    Instead scenes, screenplay & dialogue mostly aim to move forwards the internal conflicts faced by each one of the main characters. There is only one plot line that is action oriented. It revolves around the clues provided by Fiennes central character, which obviously will be the breadcrumb trail throughout the series. The problem is that if the portion of action/ characterisation remains the same, there will be a real lack of appeal to continue watching this. Hopefully, this will even out and move tilt towards more action in later epsiosde. As it is - the information dump of characterisation at least keeps us moving towards the future focal point.

    The real saving grace though is the tiny portion of action scenes that open up the conspiracy element of the plot, promising more revelations of who or what is involved. The final scenes where we find out what will happen to Agent Kho is a great ending, opening another set of questions up for the next installment.

    I was expecting more though. There is a real need for more intensity and more intrigue. Like in 24 for instance.moreless

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  • So Far, So Good.

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    By Sarah_LOST, Oct 12, 2010 Report Abuse
    Mark and Demetri go to Utah to investigate a lead on a suspect who might have a connection to the global blackout. Olivia sees the man from her flashforward, while her daughter Charlie is having trouble dealing with hers. I really enjoyed this episode, for me I think it was better than the pilot, but I'm still going to give it a 9 out of 10. Anyway, I really enjoy the storyline and the characters, so far my favourite is Demetri, gutted he gets murdered but still. I love the way that everyone links some how. I have my own little ideas to who the "person" in the baseball stadium is and other things, I'm really excited for this new show, and next weeks episode!moreless

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  • FBI keep investigation going and find more leads,even they are still very out of it.

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    By pr0teu5, Jan 10, 2010 Report Abuse
    FBI keep investigation going and find more leads,even they are still very out of it.

    Investigation moving on,but still the leads are soo little. The Episode it self is quite will done,but sometime I think they are talking little too slow. Overall the dialogue are well done,the acting are sometime little over the top,but mostly on the "ok" level.

    The main story is very intresting and it keep you lock too the screen. Also all side-story is giving screentime to moving forward,and most of them are good(atleast none are boring).

    The best part about this episode for me is in the first 15min,AD.Stanford Wedeck and Mark Benford are talking about what happed the "Flash" moment. I won't take the fun of telling what is(if someone reading this hasn't see it yet),but I strongly suggest you DON'T EAT when watching this episode,you could kill your self bacause it was soo funny. I almost chock on my diner :D

    Over all a good episode!moreless

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  • The FBI investigation gets moving by following leads from the future.

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    By RichardDalton, Nov 06, 2009 Report Abuse
    This wasn't a bad episode. The leads from Benford's flashforward lead him to Utah where he finds other pieces of evidence that were visible in his flashforward.

    The FBI agents seem to be a tad slow. The audience is about 5 steps ahead of them most of the time. Two people who had no vision of the future (and who expect they will die) walk into a dangerous situation without bullet proof vests or apparently any other precautions.

    The acting isn't good, the dialogue is strained and artificial. Everything is spelled out in painful detail for an audience that already gets it and has moved on.

    Still, the core idea is good, so it's worth checking out another few episodes.moreless

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  • better than the pilot

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    By efc91, Oct 27, 2009 Report Abuse
    Mark and Demetri go to Utah to investigate a lead on a suspect who might have a connection to the global blackout. Olivia sees the man from her flashforward, while her daughter Charlie is having trouble dealing with hers. This was a better episode of FlashForward than the first mainly because it contained loads of character development compared to "No more good days". There also a nice scene of action and a couple of small twists. The end was somehow shocking to me and it was good to get clarificaation that Demetri may die cant wait to see how he reacts next week. Also the first scene was good because I thought it was Charlie's flashForward or something but it turned out tgo be different. Good to see more of Davenport here as well compared to last weeks single scene. Cant wait to find out who the father of Janis's baby is and again like last week I thought that Stanford brought some humour to the show. All in all better episode then last week.moreless

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    • In the scenes where Dimitri is talking to the woman in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong skyline in the background is lit up at night - apparently the same time as where Dimitri is. This can't be as Hong Kong is 15 hours ahead of Los Angeles. If it were 8 pm in LA, it would be 11 am in HK and bright. If it were midnight in LA, it would be 3 pm in HK. The only possibility would be if it were about 5 am and just before dawn in LA, it would then be 8 pm in HK and just past dusk but the scene didn't seem to be set at those times. Edit
    • In the first episode, when Olivia had a vision with another man, she goes to the stairs and says, "Hi, babe." Here, she remembers the same vision, but this time she says, "Hi, honey." Edit
    • When Demetri was in the FBI office with Janis Hawk, he mentioned that he met a woman that day who didn't have a vision and five minutes after that, she was shot and killed. He was referring to Sheriff Keegan. However, earlier in the show, when Sheriff Keegan told Demetri and Mark she didn't see a vision, it was during the day where it's bright and sunny. She was only killed at night in the doll factory where it was very dark outside. It is definitely more than five minutes from the time Sheriff Keegan told them about her not having vision to the time she was killed. Edit

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    • Music: Place to Be (Nick Drake), Gravedigger (Dave Matthews) Edit
    • Peyton List is credited but doesn't appear. Edit
    • International Airdates: Australia: October 5, 2009 on Channel 7 UK: October 5, 2009 on FIVE Norway: October 15, 2009 on TV2 Czech Republic: November 23, 2009 on AXN Finland: January 14, 2010 on Nelonen Germany: March 1, 2010 on ProSieben Latin America: March 2, 2010 on AXN India: October 12, 2010 on Zee Cafe Sweden: November 6, 2009 on TV4 Slovakia: January 3, 2011 on JOJ Edit

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    • D.Gibbons: (Before bombing up the factory) He who foresees calamity suffers them twice over. Edit
    • Charlie: D. Gibbons is a bad man. Edit
    • Stan: All right, I wasn't in the meeting. I was having a bowel movement. Mark: Sorry I asked. Stan: No, no, no, no. You wanted it. Now you're gonna get the blow-by-blow. Just wait. It gets better. 'Cause I was also on the can when the blackout happened. When I woke up, I didn't know what happened. I banged my head against the side of the stall. I was a little out of it. Rafalski was in the john as well. Mark: What? Stan: Son of a bitch was drowning. Mark: What'd you do? Stan: What do you think I did? I gave the poor bastard mouth-to-mouth. You speak about this, e-mail, text, fax, twitter, whatever, to anyone, I will transfer you to the ass end of the cornfield so fast, your head will spin. You understand what I'm saying? Mark: Yes, sir. Stan: Get out. Mark: Mouth-to-mouth? Stan: Get out. Edit

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    • Title reference: White To Play is a term used in chess when the board has been set up for a chess problem, to indicate whose move it is to start the solution of the problem. Generally, for the most common variety of problems, there is only one way to accomplish the result from the given starting point in a specified number of moves. Edit
    • March 15th The mysterious caller at the end of the episode tells Demetri that he is going to be murdered on March 15th, 2010. Julius Caesar, the Emperor of Rome, was also murdered on March 15th and, in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, he was also warned of his future murder. Edit

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