Yep, I’m with Shakes. He’s the ‘good guy forced into a bad position’. I’m wondering if he’s a physicist or a hired (blackmailed?) brain of some sort.
I think it’d be more interesting if he turned out to be just as culpable as the other conspirators. He might just be trying to weasel his way out of the rest of his responsibilities now that he’s reconnected with his son.
In his FF, didn’t he get a call from a “Simon”? I believe he did. Then he was sitting on the couch, looking pretty forlorn.
Just a quick snippet from my never-pick-the-villain correctly brain.
I reckon a lot of the plot resolution will revolve around the missing bits of each character’s
POV during their ff.
Is Dr.B. really talking to autistic boy’s evil dad or someone slightly out of frame? Henceforth
known as fffor ( flash forward frame of reference ).
And, yeah, if you are going to take three chest shots surely a kevlar solution beckons as well
as locking yourself away in some hidey hole?
It’s not as if the murderer will give up just because he wasn’t able to get him that day. Also the investigation may well cause the murderer to change the day and method of killing.
The only real solution is to find out why and who wants him dead. If I were him I would be wearing kevlar everyday until they catch the guy.
I’m undecided whether I like this show or not.
I want to enjoy it, the genre and set up are right up my alley, but I am getting frustrated by the plot a bit.
I’m not sure if this is intentional or just lazy writing, but the basic ‘time-travel’ self fulfilling prophecy is being way over used IMO.
Within the reality of the show so much is happening solely because the person saw it in their flash forward. i.e. The customs agent who only applied because he saw himself as a customs agent in his FF. The patient, Ned in this one.
If it was me I’d be so sorely tempted to find someone who had a FF and kill them just to disprove it all. 
(I’m only half joking)
Agree that Agent Dead guy should take some pretentive action now. Kelvar vest with metal/ceramic inserts, plus go hangout all day in an airport past the security checks or something.
But if the murderer changes his day, that completely invalidates the presumption by most people within the reality of the show that the FF are 100% correct and will happen.
Even something minor like that would suddenly reveal that the FF can be changed.
As been mentioned in previous threads the idea of them being locked in is a bit …odd?, hell just to be a bit silly wouldn’t you change at least some minor detail if you new, hang on I’m about to see my flash forward in a moment. As has been suggested previously, why not just sit there and stare at last nights winning lotto numbers? 
It wouldn’t disprove anything. If you killed them, then the person would not have had a flash forward - the memory would change to reflect the new future. And so as that person had not had a FF, they would not be the person you chose to kill, and so would be alive in the future, and so would have had a FF and so would have a memory of it. Ad infinitum. This is the paradox that makes a mess of stories that involve time travel.
I don’t think it’s clear that this is how things work in the show. It might be that the events in people’s flashes can be changed, although the show doesn’t seem to be going that way so far.
I thought this kind of argument was a missed opportunity in the scenes where the two doctors were arguing over the way to treat Ned. The guy doctor was arguing that they should use Ned’s vision to diagnose him; Dr. B should have countered that if they follow that logic, they know that he’ll be alive in 6 months, so it’s not possible that her treatment will kill him, and they have nothing to worry about regardless of the treatment they choose.
I may be coming from way, way out in left field, but I’m surprised I haven’t read the proposition that the people who’ve seen Flash-Forwards were simply glimpsing six months in the future of themselves in a parallel universe and that, therefore, none of these events will have happened to them at all. AA counselor guy seeing his daughter alive because in the parallel universe Earth she survived her wounds is but one example of this potential. I can easily think of more.
Also, it doesn’t track for me that autistic kid’s dad is part of whatever it was that caused the global blackout, nor that he was the guy in the stadium, because he described his own Flash-Forward, which dovetails perfectly with Penny Widmore’s.
Also, if we’re talking about linear time in a single universe why weren’t all the Flash Forwards of people waving back at themselves, saying “HI”, or “Hey me, the lottery numbers for today are 37,4,8,32,18,2” since everyone knows the date and time at which the Flash Forward takes place?
I think it’s possible we’ve gotten to a stage in the story where the writers need to throw us off a little, hence Evil Charlie on the phone at the end of the episode.
Right, and this is one of the obvious questions that the characters in the show don’t seem to consider. No one in the flashes is acting like they know the flash is happening, and many of the flashes don’t seem to show a future where the flashforward has happened.
And the kicker of it is this, wasn’t [Lost] Charlie’s Dad named Simon?
But yeah, I caught the first 4 episodes of LOST, and well, FF has way too many Actors I know from elsewhere. Really Messing me up.
Or do we think that FF will Officially tie in to LOST somehow?