This special recaps the first ten episodes of the first season.
An otherwise normal day becomes a life-changing event when every single person on Earth appears to have blacked out for 2 minutes, 17 seconds. To compound this, during The Event, each person had a dreamlike vision, apparently of their own future, of what was happening to them on April 29, 2010, at 10pm Pacific time, while they were blacked out.
As people recover from the blackout, the FBI team assembles the Mosiac website, Demetri and Mark follow a future-clue leading them to the town of Pigeon, Utah, and Olivia meets her mystery future-lover at the hospital.
When an elderly Nazi prisoner claims he can explain why the blackout lasted 137 seconds, Mark and Janis travel to Germany to see him and discover they have to pardon him in return for his information. Meanwhile, Demetri learns when and how he will die from a anonymous caller, and Aaron tries to learn the truth about his daughter's death by requesting an exhumation of the body.
Olivia and Bryce encounter a very upbeat patient who relates to them his flashforward. When a problem is found, he is scheduled for surgery, but Bryce realizes that an important piece of health information was contained in the patient's flashforward. Olivia, trying the inevitability of her own flashforward, resists acting on Bryce's revelation, and endangers the patient. Meanwhile, Demetri and Mark wind up at odds, with Demetri wanting to act directly somehow to prevent his own believed doom, while Mark realizes that Demetri's fears are driving his actions more than rational consideration. Nicole returns to work as the Benford's babysitter, but with a shocking revelation about her flashforward. And we discover some truly remarkable information regarding Mr. Simcoe.
The Senate Intelligence Committee holds a hearing to decide where to allocate funding in regards to investigations into The Event. The Committee, unfortunately, is headed by a Senator who has a very bad history with Stan. A key personal fact about Janis is revealed, and its effect with regard to her FlashForward becomes relevant. The investigations into the crow die-off in Somalia bears fruit. Stan pulls in a significant marker to get support. Olivia discovers a fact about Mark's FF that he withheld from her.
Janis winds up on Olivia's operating table, and survives, but barely. Demetri and Al head out in search of those behind the attack and find new information. Dylan inadvertently brings Mark, Lloyd, and Olivia face to face, with harsh results. And Simon confronts Lloyd about his reluctance in regards to The Event.
Mark, Demetri, and Gough look into the people behind the Blue Hands, and its connection to suicides and/or murders. Al reveals significant new information about his own Flash Forward. Aaron is met by a former army buddy of his late daughter's, and Demetri comes clean with his fiancee, Zoey, about his being a "Ghost", one of those without a Flash Forward. Nicole volunteers at Olivia's hospital, and, meeting Bryce, helps him to uncover certain details about his own Flash Forward. Al and Aaron connect to striking new information regarding their own Flash Forwards.
The discovery of a lead to the tattooed assassin Mark saw in his FlashForward causes Mark to cut short his romantic getaway with Olivia. When Lloyd expresses the determination to go public, Simon challenges him to settle the matter over a game of poker. Aaron confronts his daughter Tracy regarding the details of her accident and disappearance, and Janis returns to FBI duty but, after Al's action and her own shooting, debates whether she should continue working or not.
The reasons for Bryce's former suicidal intentions are revealed, even as Bryce gets some clues in his search for the woman in his Flash Forward. Aaron expresses concerns, as well as guilt, over Tracy's behavior and situation. Mark finds out about the texts sent to Olivia regarding his drinking in his FF, and wonders who it was doing it. Those around Demetri discover some interesting revelations regarding the mysterious call he received regarding his impending demise.
Against Stan's orders, Mark and Demetri travel to Hong Kong in search of the woman claiming to have details regarding Demitri's murder. Lloyd forces Simon to hold a press conference, where Lloyd and his group acknowledge the possibility of their being responsible for The Event. The resulting fury puts both Lloyd and Simon in danger. Lloyd is concerned for the safety of Dylan, and Simon goes to the FBI for both protection and information, insisting that his group is not responsible. Meanwhile, Zoey realizes that her flashforward did not mean what she thought it meant.
After Lloyd's abduction, Mark is removed from the case and forced to meet with a therapist, while Demetri must team up with Vogel to find the missing scientist. When Simon is abducted as well, the FBI must locate both scientists before its too late. Meanwhile, the truth behind Suspect Zero is revealed.
While Mark tries to force Lloyd to reveal what he knows about D. Gibbons, Zoey makes a deal with the devil to save Demetri from his foreseen death. Meanwhile, Vogel organizes a trip to Somalia and Aaron resolves to hunt down the men responsible for abducting his daughter and make them pay.
While Demetri, Janis, Simon and Vogel go to Somalia to investigate the remaining tower, Olivia talks to Charlie about her flashforward. After she learns what her daughter saw, she presents Mark with a decision. Meanwhile, Bryce tells Nicole his secret and the young boy from the Somalian village learns his future.
As Mark and Vogel try to find the mole within the FBI office, Keiko begins a new life in Los Angeles in anticipation of when she will meet the man from her flashforward. Meanwhile, Olivia deals with the aftermath of Mark leaving the house, and Dyson Frost makes contact with Mark and Demetri.
As the day of his foreseen death approaches, Demetri takes Mark's advice and plans a hasty wedding and an extended honeymoon. Meanwhile, Stan gets an assignment from the Vice President, Aaron gains an unexpected ally in his quest for Tracy, and Lloyd and Olivia grow closer.
Frost engineers the captive Demetri's death using Mark's stolen gun, while Mark and the other agents try to find their friend before time runs out on March 15. Meanwhile, Zoey inadvertently engineers Alda Herzog's escape, while Vreede and Olivia learn more about the dead homeless man.
Janis' employers put pressure on her to deliver as the FBI grows ever closer to discovering their secrets. Meanwhile, Gabriel pays Olivia a visit and warns her she's on the wrong path, while Aaron tries to locate his daughter in Afghanistan.
When blue hand individuals who foresaw and avoided their own death are apparently murdered, Demetri and MI6 agent Fiona Banks team up to find the person or persons responsible. Meanwhile, Simon tries to track down his missing sister and is forced to involve Mark, Bryce gets startling news about his medical condition, and Nicole has to decide whether to inform Bryce of Keiko's location.
As the world waits on the eve of the flashforward date, Mark tries to protect Gabriel against the Blackout conspirators. Meanwhile, Aaron tries to rescue Stacy in Afghanistan, Stan confirms what is going on with Jericho, Janis must make a difficult decision, and Simon is forced to go on the run after his alternate identity as Suspect Zero is revealed.
An increasingly desperate Mark interrogates Hellinger, who warns him that there's no escaping his fate. Meanwhile, Nicole admits her secret to Bryce, Lloyd realizes what he has to do to solve the formula, and Simon, Janis, and Demetri form an unlikely alliance.
It's April 29, 2010, and less than an hour before everyone's flashforwards may or may not come true. While they wait, Mark enters FBI Headquarters despite a bomb threat and discovers the date of the next Blackout. Meanwhile, Demetri and Simon infiltrate NLAP to learn the identities of the conspirators, Lloyd insists he must be with Olivia to solve the formula, Janis goes to the hospital, Keiko and Bryce try to meet, Aaron worries about the fate of Tracy, and Nicole's flashforward of drowning comes to pass.