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10 best guesses: Who is FlashForward's suspect zero?
Tonight's FlashForward promises to focus on Simon (Dominic Monaghan). It will be the first full episode to feature Simon after he phoned Lloyd Simcoe (Jack Davenport) two weeks ago. Right now, we're wondering about an even more mysterious figure on the show.
Who is the guy in the stadium who didn't black out? Of course, the show will drag that mystery out for a while. We did some digging around on fan forums at ABC.com and other fan sites and found some strong theories regarding the FBI's suspect zero.
FlashForward airs Thursdays at 8 p.m. on ABC.
♦ Lloyd Simcoe is the man in the stadium—This theory has a lot behind it. Many viewers think the first time Simcoe (Davenport) appeared in the hospital, he was wearing similar dark clothes to the man in the stadium. That may be a stretch, comparing blurry black-and-white security camera footage to full character wardrobe. But last week's episode revealed that Simcoe is in on the evil scheme with Simon (Monaghan). Davenport said in his video interview that Simcoe would "have a fairly central role to play in terms of trying to work out what actually happened." Being suspect zero would indeed be integral. Also, he's British, so they usually play villains. But he arrives in L.A. too quickly after the blackouts to have come from Detroit. Plus, what was his endgame? Black out the world just so he can get with Olivia (Sonya Walger)?
♦ It's the Somali boy all grown up—This could be right. 18 years after 1991, the boy who saw the weird smoke when the crows died would be a grown man. Baysportsfan13 at ABC.com even went so far as to suggest actor Michael K. Williams to play the grown-up Somali.
♦ It's Demetri Noh. That's why he didn't have a vision—If this is true, Demetri (John Cho) is putting on quite an act. "Of course he didn't have a flash-forward. He was already awake." This was an early theory. Recent information that foreign agents saw files on Noh's murder would have to be discredited, and Noh really seems to be following those leads hard.
♦ It's Simon. He's already said he was behind it all—Sorry, this wouldn't work out practically. They have the stadium man's height at around 6 feet by measuring him against the railings. Monaghan, who plays Simon, is hobbit size. No offense, it's just statistics. Plus, do you really think they'd introduce an overtly menacing character in episode four and say, "Yeah, he's the guy. Case closed."
♦ He's a visitor from the future—If you traveled through time, you wouldn't be susceptible to the time-bending phenomenon that affected people in the present. For that matter, maybe he's from the past.
♦ He's an alien—Another reason the stadium man might not react to the earthbound phenomenon that made humans black out would be that he's neither human nor from earth.
♦ He's God—Well, once you've ruled out time travel and extraterrestrials, a supreme being is all that's left. Clarke910 at WeFlashForward analyzed the 2:17 blackout in bible terms and speculated that the man in the stadium is God.
♦ His clothes protect him from the blackouts—This theory still assumes that the man in the stadium is some evil conspirator in on the whole blackout scheme, and the best thing he could devise to keep himself awake was a trench coat.
♦ He's a patsy—Whoever caused the blackouts set up one man to stay awake and positioned him in the stadium where he would clearly be seen by security cameras. That way the FBI would waste all their resources on this "suspect zero," completely distracted from the real perpetrators.
♦ It's a total red herring—It's unlikely that something as striking as the one conscious man out of 7 billion doesn't matter. But how much would that mess with you? Yeah, some guy just stayed awake. While everyone's posting to the Mosaic and asking, "What did you see?", he just feels left out.
By danlb at 1:16 PM ON 10/29/09
About Simon, in the episode where they first see the stadium footage they estimate his height to be 5'8". According to IMDB, Dominic Monaghan is 5'7". Seems like a good fit to me!
By a different tim at 1:21 PM ON 10/29/09
All of those guesses are wrong because I am suspect zero!!!!!!! Put that in your pype and smoke it!
By Gsizz at 1:22 PM ON 10/29/09
My money's on Lloyd Simcoe. It's the most reasonable, and could be kind of a cool dynamic that the guy Mark is looking for, just happens to be cozying up to his wife. The rest of these sound as horribly stupid as all the Lost crackpots who claimed they were in purgatory all the way through its most recent season. To say they don't get it would be an understatement.
By rarhodes5 at 1:38 PM ON 10/29/09
To rule out a couple of these:
Demetri Noh: Unless he can be in 2 places at once then this is impossibe, he was in the SUV with Mark when the blackouts happened.
Lloyd Simcoe: i believe either last week or the week before we saw his flashforward, which means he was blacked out also.
By tekkblade at 1:47 PM ON 10/29/09
What moron put forth the Demetri Noh idea? He was in LA when the blackout started and was in LA when the blackout ended. Did he teleport from LA to Detroit walk around for 137 seconds and then teleport back to LA to maintain his cover?
By VichusSmith at 1:52 PM ON 10/29/09
Turning a black Somali kid into a white man is quite a feat. What kind of Michael Jackson technology do they have in Fast Forward? :)
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/flashforward/images/f/f0/1x01_Suspect_Zero.png
By alephnull at 1:58 PM ON 10/29/09
none of the above. It would be awesome of the writers to open a loop to introduce a new character, nobody better than suspect zero to be that new character, so my guess, it is nobody we have met yet.
By rarhodes5 at 2:27 PM ON 10/29/09
Its still possible that the subject zero is black (doubtful but possible) that photo is fuzzy and the man could still be black and his vary dark clothes make him look wihte
By kenmarable at 2:59 PM ON 10/29/09
It's Keyser Söze.
By considerthis at 3:07 PM ON 10/29/09
If they can make the whole world black out and flash forward, having Demetri appear in the stadium doesn't seem totally crazy. I doubt it's him, but it *could* be.
By art-101 at 3:26 PM ON 10/29/09
In my opinion, the way Zero walked around the stadium seemed like he was keeping a look out for someone else.
Maybe he wasn't the only one still concious.
By tekkblade at 5:19 PM ON 10/29/09
We do know for certain that suspect zero wasn't the only one awake during the blackout because of the cell phone found in that doll factory. Question about the cell phone, why hasn't anyone looked for every cell phone that started a call within that two minute window? Wouldn't that give the FBI a rather short list of people to start questioning?
By SethSJ at 5:53 PM ON 10/29/09
What if Demetri or Mark is Suspect Zero? Demetri didn't have a vision because his future-self was in the present. Or maybe Mark had a fuzzy vision because both himself and his future-self were in the same time period.
By SethSJ at 5:59 PM ON 10/29/09
Also, I tried to enter this the other day but it wouldn't take. What if the President is on the otherside of the world in his vision and the senator has launched a Coup.
By panzr32 at 6:10 PM ON 10/29/09
yeah, I don't know if anyone paid attention to the conversations surrounding Simcoe's arrival at the hospital; but they indicated that he showed up 3-4 days after the incident. that's definitely enough time to drive coast to coast.
By Halpert Island at 6:14 PM ON 10/29/09
The only possible answers, suspect zero is:
Simon 2.0
Simon from Lost
Simon from the future
Simon from the past
Simon now
Simon Simon
Impostor Simon
Charlie
Simon & Charlie
Jim Beaver
By Kevin at 8:06 PM ON 10/29/09
I go for Mark. Since I think Suspect Zero is from the future, it could be anybody and why not Mark? The new Veep's trying to kill him to prevent him from coming back from the future and wrecking her plans.
By Kevin at 8:07 PM ON 10/29/09
Or maybe it's Lex Luthor.
By AussieKen at 10:36 PM ON 10/29/09
So i think it could be Demetri Noh. From the future!
Just think, if the blackout was caused by Demetri travelling back in time, there could be two instances of him wandering around, one in LA, the other in the stadium. Current Demetri didn't have a flash forward for a reason, and being dead is way to obvious.
Current Demetri wouldn't need to put on an act, because it hasn't happened to him yet. I also think that Future Demetri will be the one who is reported as being killed, remember Future Demetri is probably still wandering around in Current Demetri's timeline.
By + at 12:44 AM ON 10/30/09
How is it Lloyd?
All air traffic was down. Even if every road out of Detroit and every freeway across the country to LA and every road into LA weren't complete chaos with drivers just crashing and creating an impossible barrier, and even if the police/military were letting people just drive about even if those roads weren't closed off, he still couldn't drive to LA on the morning of the blackout in Detroit to the evening in the same day.
Oh also? Lloyd had a flash forward.
Watch the show, mouth breathers.
By Lizard at 1:41 AM ON 10/30/09
I don't know. This show hasn't really grabbed me yet. I find the acting is sub-par, there seems to be no chemistry between the actors, some of the emotional scenes comes across as forced, pretentious, and corny, the plot moves way too slow, the action isn't that good, and they keep showing us the same flashforwards over and over again. Its like every new episode they keep trying to remind us everything we saw before. It gets very repetitive. After the first episode, I'm still waiting for the wtf moment that sparks my interest.
Lost got it right. It stimulated my interest from the start. Most of the characters were very interesting, they all have really good backstories that was worth seeing, the action and acting is amazing, and almost every episode created this motivation to keep watching every week.
By Lizard at 1:43 AM ON 10/30/09
I don't know. This show hasn't really grabbed me yet. I find the acting is sub-par, there seems to be no chemistry between the actors, some of the emotional scenes comes across as forced, pretentious, and corny, the plot moves way too slow, the action isn't that good, and they keep showing us the same flashforwards over and over again. Its like every new episode they keep trying to remind us everything we saw before. It gets very repetitive. After the first episode, I'm still waiting for the wtf moment that sparks my interest.
Lost got it right. It stimulated my interest from the start. Most of the characters were very interesting, they all have really good backstories that was worth seeing, the action and acting is amazing, and almost every episode created this motivation to keep watching every week.
By Rcdan at 7:09 AM ON 10/30/09
Can't be Simcoe he had a Flash.
By white Cat Eye at 11:58 AM ON 10/30/09
I think it was the woman behind the fountain. In fact, I know it is! See how she peaked? You know what I mean? It was her, I just know it!
By LLC at 12:00 PM ON 10/30/09
I think it was Wonder Woman!
By wildbuf at 5:58 PM ON 10/31/09
It's just some guy who has an odd and extremely rare medical condition that prevented him from blacking out. Probably some sort of brain tumor.
BTW, they are going to fake Demetri's death to flush out the perps. Maybe they'll fake the whole murder, but it's more likely that they'll fake his death. He didn't have a flash forward because he's in a coma.
By JoeCoe at 4:55 PM ON 11/02/09
The questions I have are, A) did they intend for this to be a global event & B) did they achieve what they wanted?
Considering Suspect Zero called D. Gibbons from the stadium means A) SZ hnew DB, B) SZ knew DG would be awake, & C) SZ knew the affect would be global since he apparently went to the stadium to see the affect. Course why didn't he just want the highway or roads for affects.
My real question is, is D. Gibbons culpable in the actions that made the event take place?
By JoeCoe at 4:57 PM ON 11/02/09
The questions I have are, A) did they intend for this to be a global event & B) did they achieve what they wanted?
Considering Suspect Zero called D. Gibbons from the stadium means A) SZ hnew DB, B) SZ knew DG would be awake, & C) SZ knew the affect would be global since he apparently went to the stadium to see the affect. Course why didn't he just want the highway or roads for affects.
My real question is, is D. Gibbons culpable in the actions that made the event take place?
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