Lloyd Simcoe
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| Lloyd Simcoe | |
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| Actor | Jack Davenport |
| Debut | "No More Good Days" |
| Name | Lloyd Simcoe |
| Status | Alive |
| Job | Physicist |
| Saw in Flash | Himself with Olivia Benford |
| Images of Lloyd Simcoe | |
Lloyd Simcoe is the father of Dylan Simcoe, a patient of Olivia Benford. He is a physicist and claims to be responsible for the GBO.
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[edit] Character Biography
[edit] Before the Blackout
Lloyd worked at Stanford University as a physicist. He won the MacArthur Fellowship and was a finalist for a Nobel Prize. ("Playing Cards with Coyote") He and his wife were separated, and he rarely saw his son, Dylan. He was running an experiment at the National Linear Accelerator Project (NLAP) which he thinks is the cause of the GBO. ("Black Swan")("Scary Monsters and Super Creeps")
[edit] Flash
Lloyd was leaving a bedroom shirtless in an unknown house (in actuality, the Benford house), holding a cell phone, and saying he has to "take a call." He walks downstairs to the living room and sees toys strewn about the floor, presumably Dylan's because Dylan was "close by." He sits on the sofa, receives an urgent call from whom he says is an unknown person. He then hears a woman (Olivia Benford) behind him and turns his head toward her. However, the flashforward ends before he sees her face. His feelings during the flashforward indicate the two are romantically involved.
It is uncertain if he actually doesn't know the identity of the caller or if he simply withheld it because of his possible involvement in the GBO.
[edit] After the Blackout
Lloyd's wife was killed in the aftermath of the blackout, and his son, Dylan, was badly wounded. Dylan arrived at the hospital and was saved by attending surgeon Olivia Benford and her intern, Bryce Varley. Soon after, he becomes fond of Olivia and enjoys how good she is with Dylan, while Lloyd himself has a difficult time pleasing the autistic child.
One night at the hospital, after entertaining Dylan, he receives a call from an unknown accomplice, Simon, stating that "we're responsible for the single greatest disaster in human history." ("Black Swan")
Lloyd has trouble building a relationship with his autistic son at first, but warms up to him after visiting his late wife's home and discovers Dylan likes magic tricks. Dylan's autism proves to cause some problems for his father when he runs away from the hospital on Halloween in search of the Benford's home (the address he recognizes from his flashforward). Soon after arriving at the house, Lloyd recognizes the living room from his flashforward and Olivia's voice when she returns home. Lloyd later returns to his car to find Simon, who berates Lloyd for not keeping in touch with him. Lloyd expresses regret about being involved in the cause of the flashforward, considering it killed twenty million people, and the two drive off together. ("Scary Monsters and Super Creeps")
Simcoe defeats Campos in a poker game with the stakes being whether they go public with their experiment. ("Playing Cards with Coyote")
Myhill, Simcoe, and Campos subsequently call a press conference in Palo Alto, California in which they announce that their experiment was responsible for the Global Blackout. Soon after the press conference Lloyd goes to the hospital in which his son is in. He gets him transferred, only to be kidnapped the day of the transfer by the two men who where attending the ambulance. ("A561984")
[edit] Trivia
- Though they share the same name, Simcoe differs somewhat from his namesake in the novel:
- The two are of different ages (the one in the novel is somewhat older) and live in different countries (although in the novel it may be that Simcoe is only temporarily working at CERN; most researchers there are not associated fulltime with the facility).
- In the novel, Simcoe's fiancee has a daughter who dies in the flashforward, while in the series he has a son, who, although injured in the same sort of accident that killed the daughter in the novel, survives his injuries.
- Lloyd has appeared in 7 of 10 aired episodes.
[edit] Unanswered Questions
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- Theories for these unanswered questions should go on this article's theory page
- What connection does Lloyd have to the GBO?
- Why does he think he is responsible?
- Was his involvement entirely voluntary?
- Did he realize what would happen when he did get involved?
- What was the higher purpose of the "experiment"?
- What connection does Lloyd have to Simon?
- If he was connected to the GBO, why did he have a flash forward and blackout himself?
- Who is he talking to in his flash forward and about what?
- Why did Lloyd book a flight which left an hour after his and Simon's press conference but didn't take it?
- Why is there a not-so-old picture of Lloyd, Dylan and Dylan's mom in their house when Lloyd said they separated when Dylan was little?
| Main Characters of FlashForward | |
| Mark Benford • Olivia Benford • Simon Campos • Janis Hawk • Nicole Kirby • Demetri Noh • Lloyd Simcoe • Aaron Stark • Bryce Varley • Stan Wedeck | |
