Flash Forward – Season 1, Episode 1 – No More Good Days – air date 9/24/09. In this episode we see the aftermath of a two minute seventeen second global blackout. Literally everyone in the world passes out at the same time, and comes back to consciousness two minutes and seventeen seconds later. The aftermath is horrendous – car accidents, aviation accidents, deaths in hospital surgeries. Mass chaos.

The lead character, an FBI agent, remembers the vision that he saw during this time. He was in his office, late at night, with a huge story-board in front of him. It had to do with the case he was working on – which is the global blackout that just occurred! Two men come into his office, dressed in black with night vision goggles, to kill him. He sees himself reaching for a flask of alcohol (he is a recovering alcoholic).

It turns out that everyone has had a vision of the future. The FBI agent’s AA sponsor sees his daughter alive (she supposedly died in combat overseas). One member of his team remembers no dream – which convinces him that he will be already dead in the future of everyone else’s dream. (The time in the future dreams was the same date and hour for everyone.) The FBI agent’s wife sees of herself with another husband – the father of a young boy that she saves in the aftermath of the blackout.

Do we have control over our future, or is it preordained? And who is the man in black that is the only person seen conscious during the blackout?