You would have END OF FLASHBACK to indicate the, er, end of the flashback. There's no hard and fast rule, but I think a bit of Action to reset the scene...
END OF FLASHBACK
Alex is in a cold sweat on the bed...
...or something like that is useful - you have to think of the reader and put them back in the picture (as it were) but with something that adds to the scene, so it's not too obvious that you think they might be too thick to remember :-)
As for montages, obviously you don't want a full-blown slugline (since the whole point is that they don't really have enough content for that - hence the montage) but it's not easy to say what you need - it depends on how signigicant the montage is - is it in the 'plane takes off from New York'/'same plane lands on London' category, or is it as significant as the 'trying new chat ups' in Groundhog Day? Depends... (well, that's I reckon, someone else might have a better answer)
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