Get your notebooks out. It's time for another episode of The Event...

"Protect Them From the Truth"

"The stories are starting to become more clear, but there are still plenty of questions to keep us tuned in to next week"

The temporal confusion in the editing style of The Event makes recaps unusually problematic, so bear with me as I try something new...

The president offers Sophia and all of the inmates of Mount Inostraka their freedom, permanently, in exchange for information about the alien B group, the ones who infiltrated our society. One alien takes the President up on the offer, but that ends really, really badly. Sean Walker convinces Claire, the female FBI agent, that he's not totally crazy by way of getting the entire FBI field office killed by a creepy federal marshal. Vicky shoots a sheriff, but she does not shoot the deputy. She does get into some fisticuffs with Leila but can't kill her, because they need her to be bait since Sean Walker is on the run with Claire. And in the end, the bodies from the plane crash start to wake up.

Seriously. Good thing they didn't rush into burials and cremations with those guys.

Sean Walker holes up in a motel with the female FBI agent, Claire, who is wavering in and out of consciousness and injured in her shoulder. I know you won't believe this, but he actually rescued her from a near fatal car wreck at the site of the roadblock where we last saw them. Sean hasn't gone a single episode without risking his life to save some (or many) other people's lives, while never coming to serious harm himself. I don't like his odds. Statistically speaking.

Anyway, Claire calls the FBI to come and rescue her from the motel while Sean is in the bathroom taking an ill-timed shower, or is he? He actually escapes out the window and stows away in the trunk of an FBI car, makes it to the field office, breaks into the server room, hacks into the system and plugs Vicious Vicky into the facial recognition software. Just as Claire realizes that Sean has her computer and must be on the premises, the facial recognition turns up Vicky's driver's licenses, all six of them. He's taken into custody but it's enough to make Claire not convinced, but intrigued enough to check into it.

Also, they are releasing information about the disappeared plane on the news - that it lost contact over the rain forest in Brazil; but they said it happened within the hour and Sean was raving about it to Claire four hours ago. Just as Claire and her FBI partner (PS, not a lot of talk about the fact that her previous partner just bit it in a car accident, but anyway) realize that Vicky is some kind of underground government agent, federal marshals come in with a transfer order for Sean, but start shooting up the place and all the agents inside. Sean saves Claire's life(although to be fair, she saves his first) and the two escape together.

Creepy Director Sterling asks the President to allow him to torture the prisoners from Mount Inostraka, but the President says no - apparently, he has other ways of making them talk. He shows Sophia the pictures of the bodies at the Yuma crash site, and asks her for information. She refuses. So he tells her that he has offered all the prisoners their freedom in exchange for information about the other group of aliens. One (William) takes the President up on his offer. He tells Creepy Sterling in Washington DC that he can easily tell them who made the plane disappear, and answer all questions about the aliens' plans, but in exchange he wants some fancy witness protection and also for them to release his girlfriend, Maya, from the prison. (There is a really weird shot of William discovering the camera and putting his face right up to it, behind the President's back. Total wiggins.)

Simon Lee and Sophia meet in the prison and Sophia tells Simon he has to deal with William, harshly. Eek! There's another flashback to the crash site in 1944, where William tries to leave with the second string (Thomas') group but he's too injured to make it. Maya is uninjured, but stays behind with the prisoners to be close to William. Ah, young love. When Maya (hey, it's the girl from Carnivale!) is brought to William's hotel room in Washington DC, she confirms that he hasn't given any information as yet, then stabs him in the stomach (and also the heart, in a metaphoric but no less icky sense.)

Director Sterling also finds out that Sean Walker was on the plane before it crashed - a partially recovered black box reveals part of the conversation between Sean and the pilot; security footage reveals images of Sean sneaking on plane in maintenance coveralls, and he finds out that Sean was taken into custody by the FBI. We also get some background on Sean; he broke into the Pentagon server for fun at age 16, got a full ride to MIT, and has been freelancing as a gaming developer since graduation. Sterling tells his underling to get Sean Walker from the Arizona FBI immediately but to keep it on the down-low. Were the federal marshals that shot up the place sent by Director Sterling?

Vicious Vicky drives a van in the middle of nowhere with a bound and gagged Leila in back. When she's stopped by a local sheriff for a busted tail light, she tries to bribe him and then just shoots him, dead, and throws him in the van with Leila. Then she takes Leila to a shipping container and they have a scuffle - Leila actually gets in a good shot with the sheriff’s badge, cutting Vicky right in the neck. Go Leila!

But Vicky subjects her to a pretty vicious beat down, which doesn't stop Leila from pronouncing that Sean will never stop looking for her. Later, Leila is alone in the container and she hears a dog barking outside, but when she tries to knock on the walls and yell to get someone's attention, Vicky barges in with a gun in her hand and a band aid on her neck. She puts the gun to Leila's head and is about to pull the trigger when the phone rings - the marshal who shot up the FBI office is calling to let her know that Sean got away, so they still need Leila. Leila hears this and smirks, smugly and gets pistol-whipped for her smirkiness.

And the closing shot is of the temporary morgue, where the bodies of 183 passengers of flight 514 are laid out, awaiting their probable transport to the Brazilian rain forest. A lone guard walks among them when there is a gasping noise - one of the passengers, a young woman, is breathing (is that a gash in her neck? Yoinks!) The soldier tries to comfort her but as he calls for help, suddenly everyone starts breathing again, and sitting up.

This episode was way better than #2 - there was a lot of action and some pretty tense moments: Vicky killing the sheriff, Maya killing William, even the car crash that killed the one FBI agent was pretty scary. The stories are starting to become more clear, but there are still plenty of questions to keep us tuned in to next week. Good one! Let's keep it up - #4 will be telling. A dragger like the second episode, or a fun one like this? Could be the difference between a Lost versus a Flash Forward.

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