Person’s Unknown: Father Joe and Nurse Tori

Person’s Unknown: Father Joe and Nurse Tori

Posted by Dustin on 07.31.2010 at 9:33 pm

Wow just when I thought they couldn’t bring out anymore twists! Good show tonight! So what did we learn? . . . . . .

Well first, we got a back story on Joe, who in fact was Father Joe Tucker? Yes, he was a priest taken from a South American church and pulled into the program. He was put in the same situation as Janet, to kill someone to go free, and when he did it . . . . that was the first step to more for him. HE met the director of the program, who felt he was the future of the program.

However for most of this episode, a shaved Joe was on a table in a white steril room where he was being reprogrammed for the program. He either returned, or would die during the reprogramming. Tori showed up as a nurse . . . but was she there? Janet was in the room too . . . so it seemed like both were projections of his mind. However I think Tori was there . . . I don’t think she’s dead, I never did. I think she was a plant just like Joe.

Back in the town, Blackman pleaded with the cameras, saying he was a nobody, he didn’t know why they took him, he had no potential. The next thing he knew, he was outside of the town . . . free to go . . . but to where? He realized he was going nowhere and returned, hoping that proved something to the people.

Meanwhile Kat and Renbi met the one woman who escaped the program, she was in a looney bin in South America . . . turns out it was the director from Joe’s flashback! She sent them to a church where they learned about Father Joe. Later though the director had all but vanished from her looney bin cell.

I did like the Father Joe twist a lot . . . but at the same time it was similar to the jump the shark moment from last week for me. Shocking that “the church” is somehow involved in the program no? I’m wondering if “the program” in fact is going to end up being something along the lines of a certain trilogy of books that came out not so long ago . . . the first was made into a movie . . . I don’t want to spoil much for those who may want to read them . . . let’s just say I won’t be shocked if “the program” in fact is a giant organization posing as God/morality in the end of all this.

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  1. I agree with you about Tori being a part of the program. I also would not be surprise if Erica (why would anyone trust her?),and Janet(they trust Erica because Janet trust her) was as well. I wonder how they are able to make people Joe/and the director just disappear. I’m also worry about what Tom said to Joe. “rejoin the program,or die? so their only choice is death ?

    “What certain trilogy of books that came out not so long ago?” Do tell.

    Comment by Luv
    08.01.2010 at 8:08 am
  2. How on earth do you figure that Angela was the director? I think she was just in the program at the same time as Joe. If anything, the director looked a lot more like Janet’s mother, being blonde, while Angela has dark hair and looked nothing like the director. And since we’ve learned that Tori’s father was in the program too, makes sense that Janet’s mother was also. She seems to live in comfortable circumstances indicating she’s well off.

    Comment by sue
    08.01.2010 at 11:21 am
  3. It was the same actress playing the director and the woman locked up. Also she knew where they could go to find out who Joe was, she sent them there.

    Comment by Dustin
    08.01.2010 at 11:30 am
  4. I forgot what the book trilogy is actually called. I have it. But to name them would spoil them 🙂

    Comment by Dustin
    08.01.2010 at 11:42 am
  5. Dustin, At the end of the series can you spill on the books…. Cause if there are books that this is even loosely based on would not mind reading them. Loved the book that FlashForward was based on, and the series though one did not necessarily follow the other.

    Comment by CGinCA
    08.01.2010 at 12:21 pm
  6. The Books are the His Dark Materials trilogy, The Golden Compass was the first and made into a movie.

    Comment by Dustin
    08.01.2010 at 12:39 pm
  7. Having watched it. I cannot help but wonder who Janet really is.

    Comment by CGinCA
    08.01.2010 at 4:17 pm

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