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FlashForward Recap: All Hail Squirrelio -- Vulture 

"Only villains smoke. We know that, right?"

Ricky Jay, the magician who got tapped to play FlashForward's biggest bad guy to date, finally gets a character name: Flosso, which is a reference that creator David Goyer is making to a magician named Flosso in New York, whom Jay idolized in real life. And the cigar-smoking, emphysemic Flosso kidnaps both Lloyd, via ambulance in the last episode, and Simon, drags them back to his lair, and proceeds to grill Lloyd about how many "electron volts" their particle accelerator experiment produced. He throws around some physics mumbo jumbo about plasma wave-field generators, Tachyonic dark matter, and Cherenkov radiation, and ultimately has one of his goons clip one of Simon's pinky fingers off with a cigar cutter because Lloyd isn't talking fast enough.

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