In this episode, “137 Sekunden,” the lead FBI agent on the case played by Joseph Fiennes travels to Germany to speak with an 86 year old Nazi imprisoned for life for his war crimes. This man claims he knows why everyone in the world flash forward for exactly two minutes and 17 seconds. In exchange for telling them what he saw in his flash forward, the war criminal wants to be pardoned for his crimes and be return to America.

The agents begrudgingly agree to the Nazi’s terms, but his flash forward is cryptic at best and it initially appears that they have been manipulated by the old man to get a free pass out of prison.

However, at the end of the show we discover that the man’s information has provided them with a major clue about the flash forward incident.

It seems while everyone was concerned whether or not the flash forward would happen again, no one stopped to ask the question if it had happened before. As it turns out, it had on a smaller schedule back in 1991 when an entire African village reported collapsing and having flash forwards of the future.

Flashforward is the modern day version of a great mystery novel. I love this particular episode’s back and forth nature appealing to what is right, as far as it comes to learning the truth about the flash forwards and doing the right thing in as far as keeping a dangerous, mass murder in prison. This episode exposes more clues that keep you thinking as well as anticipating what will be revealed in the episodes to come.