“Flash Forward” returns this evening at 8 p.m. EST on ABC with a two-hour event to kick off its spring run.
Fans left hanging by December’s cliffhanger will be glad to learn that the producers and stars of the show are promising that this run of episodes will reveal answers to questions and begin to push things forward as we build to the day seen in the original flash.
Actor Dominic Monaghan spoke to SciFi Wire about what’s ahead and some of it is SPOILER material.
Monaghan says the first episodes back—”Revelation Zero,” parts one and two—pick up the story pretty much where it left off last year. “When we [left] the show, Simon and Lloyd [Jack Davenport] are at loggerheads because Lloyd, you know, obviously thinks that they were responsible for the blackout and wants to try and stop it from happening again,” Monaghan said. “And Simon doesn’t think that they were responsible and doesn’t want to kind of vilify himself, and so Simon volunteers his services with the FBI, to try and get himself a little bit closer to the lion’s den, and um, he’s able to use their database and is able to kind of push forward with his own agenda. You know, which is kind of where we find Simon when it comes back.”
We also learn something about Simon’s past involving his family, in particular, a younger sister. “Well, I liked working with the girl who plays my sister, you know?” he said. “That was kind of fun, to see that Simon’s motivation is coming from a place of trying to take care of his family, you know? That was good. I don’t have a sister, I have a brother, an older brother, but I always wanted a little sister, so interacting with her has been really fun, because I kind of, you know, can play like she’s really my sister. That was fun.”
Big secrets about Simon will also be revealed very soon, starting with the two-parter and leading up to the first-season finale. “I know some things that happen with my character in the finale,” Monaghan said. “You hope that the fans are going to like it, because it’s one of the more important shows of the year for FlashForward. I mean, I think that the initial pilot is obviously very important, just to show people what type of a world that they’re playing around with, but the finale is going to be key, because it’s going to keep people guessing.”
If you want to hear more about “Flash Forward” tune in to tonight’s live recording of Slice of SciFi or catch the regular show when it hits the Net on Saturday.
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