FlashForward - Playing Cards with Coyote - Recap

(Here's Noelle's recap of tonight's episode of FlashForward: Playing Cards with Coyote -- I miss you Lee Thompson Young!)

This week on Flashforward, Mark gets a lead on the tattooed assassin from his vision, Aaron discovers the truth about Tracy's "death", and Simon tries to stop Lloyd from going public about their experiments. After Gough seemingly proved that the future can be changed, everyone sets out to change their visions. I don't know what's worse. Choosing your actions based on what you see as the inevitable or choosing those actions to prevent what may or may not be the inevitable. Confused? Me too.

Janis is back to work this week but isn't sure she wants to be there. She's unsure about her future and wants some time off to figure things out. I guess she realizes her time is better spent at work because her future doesn't stop her from helping out our boys this week. A witness to a homicide provides footage of a gunman and he has the same tattoo that Mark saw in his vision. Whoever this guy is, he knows he was seen and fails at murdering the witness. Common sense says that he's going to try again so Mark and the boys decide using the witness as bait is a good idea. In a pet shop no less. Sounds pretty risky especially considering they're investigating the probability of a mole in the office. Each time they get a lead on a suspect, someone tips them off. Might just be the same someone who lets the assassins in to kill Mark in his vision.

Simon pays Lloyd another visit at the hospital after Lloyd admits he thinks they should come forward and take responsibility for the blackout. For obvious reasons Simon wants him to reconsider and challenges him to a game of poker. If Lloyd loses then he keeps his mouth shut. Simon seemed pretty sure of himself for most of the game. Like he had already seen the outcome. Am I reading too much into this or is he just a cocky jerk? Either way, Lloyd wins and Simon seems genuinely shocked about it. Is there a confession in Simon's future?

One of the major cliffhangers from last week's episode was Tracy being alive at Aaron's dining room table. Turns out that wasn't a dream and she actually has been alive this entire time. Yay! She is missing a leg though and if you were one of us who called her leg being the source of DNA used for her death then good job! It's not a happy reunion however and it seems that Tracy has been in hiding for the past 2 years. Oy. Another person with someone who wants to kill them. She saw something she shouldn't have while in Afghanistan. In her words, she saw a village being slaughtered by proposed "good guys" known as Jericho who then turn around and try and kill her and her friend Mike. They're still looking for her while she hides out at Aaron's place afraid, because she can't trust the military. Yikes..when you can't trust the military...

During the stakeout, the tattooed man does indeed take the bait and tries to kill our witness. Mark and Demetri rush in to try and catch him for questioning but things don't go as planned. Mark takes it one step further and kills him. He's now convinced he has changed his future, which has been his goal all along. He's relieved and believes he and Olivia now have their second chance. I am not so confident. I'm very sure to the opposite actually and pretty positive someone else will end up having that tattoo.

Janis is still at work with enhanced imagery of Suspect Zero, the mystery man who was awake during the blackout. The enhanced picture shows that he's wearing a ring. Cut to a shady warehouse somewhere where a bunch of men are loading packages into trucks. Sadly, they all have the same tattoo that Mark sees in his vision. One of these thugs brings a case of rings to a creepy old guy who looks like he belongs in the Mafia. Old guy mentions that one of the rings is missing, says something about their atom bomb testing, then shoots the thug. He's charming. What was all that about??

Questions from Tonight:

Was the group of tattooed men the same guys that tried to kill Tracy?
Why did Jericho slaughter that village? And what's up with the atom bombs?
Is the missing ring on Suspect Zero?
Will Lloyd confess next week?