Awake Season 1 Episode 12

Awake Season 1 Episode 12: Two Birds

Michael learns of the conspiracy behind the accident that killed his family and goes after Detective Hawkins. Meanwhile, Evans and Lee force Michael to choose a path.

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Following a car crash, Detective Michael Britten (Jason Isaacs) returns to work and finds himself in one of two different realities every time he wakes up, one in which his wife Hannah (Laura Allen) survives the accident and the other in which his son Rex (Dylan Minnette) survives the accident. To differentiate between the two realities, Michael wears a red rubber band in the reality in which his wife is alive and a green one in the reality in which his son is alive. As a cue to viewers, scenes in the red reality use warm tones, while scenes in the green reality use cool ones.

At the end of the second episode, Britten's captain, Tricia Harper (Laura Innes), is shown talking to an unknown man (Mark Harelik), later revealed in the seventh episode to be called Carl, revealing that he had organized the car crash to take out Britten's whole family in attempt to protect an illicit activity in which both he and she are involved. In the eleventh episode, Britten remembers another detective in his department caused the accident.