| Episode | Gallery | Transcript |
| Episode No. | Season | |
| 69 | 5x07 | V |
| Original Broadcast Date | November 1, 2012  December 4, 2012  December 14, 2012 
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Forget Oblivion is the seventh episode in Season V and the sixty-ninth episode in Flashpoint.
Synopsis[]
A young man, gifted with a perfect memory, is abducted and forced to memorize the design of a prototype 'smart gun'.
Plot[]
Ed and Sam are out in the wilderness, practising shooting at golf balls and loser buys coffee. Though Sam misses his last target, Ed makes a perfect mark, only briefly sees May, the girl he shot in Broken Peace. He doesn't tell Sam about it.
Back on patrol, Greg can tell something's wrong with Ed but before he can pry more out of him, they get two hot calls. One is an attempted abduction at the University of Toronto another a break-in on Denmark St. Greg tells Winnie to hold Team Two on standby as Team One splits up. Greg and Ed go to University of Toronto, where a neurospecialist was abducted but gave her captor the slip after noticing a security guard and alerted him, forcing the gunman to flee.
Meanwhile, the rest of the team arrive on Denmark, the burglar having already fled. A neighbour tells them that he was wearing a business suit but his car was unmarked. The house he was trying to break into belongs to Elliot, a reclusive man who has little to no decorations. They managed to save Elliot from nearly suffocating himself in his own garage. But as he is hauled away by EMS, their ambulance is hijacked. Team One tracks down the ambulance but it is empty by the time they get there.
Greg and Ed talk to the neurospecialist, who is a friend to Elliot, explaining that he's a perfect photographic memory. However, it does goe out of control, so he avoids decorating his house to avoid stimulation. The neurospecialist recalls publishing Elliot's abilities in the paper, so anyone who's after him could've read it.
Leah finds that the hijacker failed to disable the ambulance's cameras. Using it, they learn the identity of Elliot's abductor, who is a gun runner. The team deduces that he needs Elliot because his photographic memory is more efficient than sneaking a camera into a weapons facility.
Elliot who is told that his friend is being held captive, is then coerced into infiltrating an R&D facility developing a new smart gun. They get past the security checkpoints and Elliot memorizes the lab blueprints. His kidnapper then makes his move by disabling a guard, take his gun and threatens the lead scientist. As Elliot memorizes the weapon's schematics, which can be physically or digitally removed from the lab, the kidnapper is shown the smart gun and after being told how it works He kills the scientist which greatly disturbing Elliot.
Team One goes after Elliot's kidnappers. Sam and Jules capture their escape vehicle but the bad guy wounds Ed with the smart gun and threatens to kill him if he and his cohorts are not released. He then takes Ed hostage as he escapes. However, Sam manages to fire a GPS tracker onto the getaway vehicle. Elliot begins to panic from witnessing the scientist's death. Ed, convincing his captor to let him calm him down, opens up to Elliot about his friend. While their captor is busy taking a call, Ed informs Elliot that his friend is safe. Elliot then fakes pain, enabling Ed to get the drop on their captor. He calls Team One to figure out how to stop the bad guys. Spike explains that the smart gun relies on a radio frequency and talks Elliot through on what frequency it goes on so he can disable it.
The Team determines that the kidnappers are going to Buttonville airport and make haste, knowing that they'll kill Ed once they make a clean getaway. As soon as the truck stops, Ed emerges, pointing a gun to Elliot's head, though the kidnapper call his bluff. The rest of the team then shows up. The kidnapper boasts that he has the ultimate weapon, unaware that Spike is hacking into the airport transmitter to broadcast the jamming signal. The kidnapper then fires a shot, assuming that it will hit Greg, hiding behind a shield, but it goes straight into a plane. Sam then shoots him in the head. The team then arrest his cohorts.
Elliot and his friend are then reunited. Ed then opens up to Greg about his guilt, who decides to refer him to a psychologist. The episode ends with Elliot finally opening the blinds in his house.
Cast[]
- Hugh Dillon as Ed Lane
- Amy Jo Johnson as Julianna 'Jules' Callaghan
- David Paetkau as Sam Braddock
- Sergio Di Zio as Mike 'Spike' Scarlatti
- Olunike Adeliyi as Leah Kerns
- Enrico Colantoni as Gregory 'Greg' Parker
Recurring Cast[]
- Tattiawna Jones as Winnie Camden
- Brooke Palsson as May Dalton (uncredited, archive footage)
Guest Starring[]
- Sebastian Pigott as Elliot Thaine
- Tara Spencer-Nairn as Lainie Summers
- Brennan Elliott as Jay Penak
- Dion Johnstone as Barnaby Howe
- Paula Brancati as Carla
- Damir Andrei as Trevor
- Steve Belford as Aaron
- Michael Reventar as Marshall
Uncredited[]
- Mercedes Leggett as EMT
- James Madge as Campus Security Guard
Producers[]
- Larry Bambrick - Producer
- Alex Levine - Supervising Producer