Wht aunt_zelda Thinks: Lost, 'The Little Prince'
First of all, you should ALL rent/buy/Netflix Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. It’s got Lee Pace in it and he looks positively GORGEOUS. The music was fantastic and I was laughing and squeeing through the whole thing. Must have for the romantic British Comedy lover’s collection, or if you’re in the mood for something fun and cute.
Second of all, I’m sorry that this is late, but I’ve been fighting a loosing battle with one of the plagues that are running around (the one I’ve got is a cold) which has been so draining that I’ve been taking ACTUAL NAPS during the day (something I can never ever do unless I am in a play, VERY ill, or on a long car trip.) No only did I not watch Lost on Wednesday night, I spent a good bit of Thursday sleeping, skipped my dance class, and am taking the day off today.
I was able to watch the first part of last week’s episode, which was nice because it involved Desmond running around and huggling Penny and telling stories about Scotland to baby!Charlie. Not to be missed. Also, two Red Shirts get all blowed up. I’m kinda happy they’re shaving off background characters. They ought to have done that sooner, and then given Bernard and Rose more flashback episodes instead of Niki-n-Paulo and twelve-hundred hours of Jack-Kate-Sawyer. We needed more people like Artz, I’m sorry, but it’s true, and more of their stories. Maybe they could have had little skits and scenes during the credits at the end? I’d have loved that.
Then again, I’m still smarting slightly about the Meddling Executives Who Meddled with the original idea for Lost (Jack getting killed off by the Smoke Monster pretty quickly, and Kate - not an ex-con, an older woman who’d been traveling with her husband and still believed him to be alive despite him being in the tail section … basically everything we love about Rose, I imagine - leading the Losties. How amazing would that shit have been?)
Previously on Lost: a lot of stuff you already know. Mostly future-stuff, and Charlotte bleeding-to-death-or-is-she.
On the boat, during the chronological S4 finale, Kate and Jack talk at the railing of Penny’s boat. Kate asks what they’re going to do about ‘him’ and clarifies at Jack’s (probably not indented to be) hilarious expression of confusion. She asks if Jack knows that Claire was gonna give Aaron up for adoption in LA. He didn’t. Jack is a bad leader, even when he’s no longer on the Island.
Kate sits down and says she thinks they should pass Aaron off as her own child. Jack is appropriately stunned. Kate says that after all the people they’ve lost - citing Jin, Michael, and Sawyer - she can’t loose Aaron too. (Shouldn’t they be citing Claire in there too? She’s loster than anyone; we’re not even sure if she’s alive!)
Jack says that Sawyer’s not dead. Kate agrees “But he’s gone.” *wibbles* Worse yet, no one seems to realize that upon seeing the cloud of smoke where the Freighter (everyone on the beach, plus anyone they thought to mention it to) now believes that the Oceanic Six, Michael, Jin, and anyone on the Freighter are all dead.
Jack wows me with his grasp of human psychology. He tells Kate that tomorrow he’s gonna ask everyone to lie about the Island, to protect everyone still there, and knows that if it’s just him saying ‘Lie, lie lie!’ no one will buy it, hence he will turn to Kate first. Jack wants to know if she’s with him. Kate and the music get intense and she says “I’ve always been with you.” *gags* (That wasn’t because of my cold, people!)
Sun and lends Kate a pretty suit of hers and says she looks good in it. Just as I begin to drool over the Les!Yay, Kate hustles out of the room to ‘an appointment’ and leaves Aaron behind with Sun, the woman who is still keeping up that Kimiko-gone-wrong vibe of potential baby-snatcher. A package arrives for Sun, she skims really fast through some papers (much to my annoyance) and then gets to the photos. They’re black and whites of Jack and Ben, primed for macro-making at her convenience!
Under the box of chocolates (are they real, I wonder, or fakes?) is a GUN OMG A GUN! As Sun inspects it, I can’t help but notice her faint orange eyeshadow. Nice. (No, I don’t have a kinky I-want-her-to-tie-me-up crush on Sun, shut up!)
Miles gets some water for Charlotte. Naaaw. According to a very pissy Sawyer (why is he no fun this season? Is it Frogurt’s shirt? I bet it is.) Charlotte’s been out for ten minutes. Juliet’s Jedi-powers (which at first I laughed at but am now accepting whole-heartedly) drive him away. Daniel is STILL lying, but finally tells Juliet that the flashes caused the neurological bleeding, which he likens to ‘really bad jet-lag.’ With these experience points, book smarts, and time-travel know-how, Daniel could become the next Doctor Who! Juliet is calmly annoyed and asks if he knows why it isn’t happening to them. Dan doesn’t know (that’s not comforting at all!) and thanks god that it isn’t.
Kate meets with the lawyer dude who got lines two episodes ago. She says she’ll give up the bloodsamples if she can talk to the client. Lawyer-Dude switches from polite to creepy, telling her to prepare to loose ‘the boy.’ Kate looks terrified. IMHO, the ‘exchange of custody’ has already happened.
Back on the Island, Locke talks to Sawyer. He wants to get the Zodiac raft and go to the Orchid station, where Ben went and started the flashes. Sawyer is confuzzled. Locke plans out his craaaaazy plan of getting off the Island, and getting everyone back. Sawyer thinks that they’re all dead, Locke says they aren’t, but that it isn’t important how he knows that. He says he’s going to bring everyone back “even if it kills me.” Yeek. He means that literally this time.
Miles waves his arms and says his mandated two-lines. Charlotte is awake, after three-seconds of ‘oh my god she doesn’t remember Daniel!’ she does, and I heave a sigh of relief. She’s a little dizzy, but ok considering she just SPEWED HALF THE BLOOD USED IN A QUINTIN TERRANTINO MOVIE OUT OF HER NOSE. (Ok, not that much, but that was a helluva a lot of blood!) Miles says “Yay, everything’s back to normal.” he does a cute little flip of his vest and asks “Now what?” I love him.
Sawyer grits “I’ll tell you what,” exchanges a look with Locke and says “We’re going to the Orchid.” Heh heh heh. ‘Things you never expected to hear Sawyer say …’
In bed at the hospital (damnit, now that song’s stuck in my head!) a very coherent and more-than-ok looking Sayid wants to get the IV out of his arm and go save Hurley from Ben. Jack says no, says that Ben “is on our side,” and ignores Sayid’s words of wisdom about Ben “The only side he’s on is his own.” A lady Doctor peeks in and interrupts the burgeoning Ho!Yay, wanting ‘a word’ with Jack outside. This can’t be good.
Turns out Lady Doctor is a Cuddy-in-training. Jack’s ass is banned from the hospital, seeing as he’s facing charges of substance abuse! HA HA! That’s for wasting my TV-hours by crying for the past four years, Mr. Sheppard! Jack stupidly answers his cellphone. It’s Hurley, checking in on Sayid. Naaaw. He says he’s totally ok, and in jail, and that now Ben will never get him. *sporfleDIEZ* Hurley, ILU too!
Ben leaps onto the set in his vampire clothes, says it’s great that Jack is there, and asks where Sayid is.
Sayid - lookin’ WAY TOO HOT to be post-tranquilizer attack - is attacked by a man in Peter’s S1 scrubs. LOL. Sayid has lightning-fast reflexes and half-chokes the guy WITH THE IV LINE THAT WAS IN HIS OWN ARM SECONDS AGO! Will this man never cease being badass? He asks who sent the guy, guy says that the address is in his pocket, Sayid shoots him with the tranq gun (why do tranq darts look so stupid and cute?) and gets the address, slightly tired from his ordeal and sitting down. Jack and Ben rush in. Jack asks what happened. I’m confuzzled, because I thought Sayid had gone rogue from Ben and that Ben was sending these bad guys, but apparently not! Sayid asks if they know anyone at the address, and Jack says it’s Kate’s address. OMG! I didn’t see that one coming!
Jack calls Kate, and gets her location. He heads off to meet her. Ben says he’ll ‘deal with’ Hurley. “Sorry Ben, I’m not letting you anywhere near Hurley.” Sayid says, getting into what some might call Ben’s personal bubble. Both look very out-of-place in the bright sunlight, what with their black jackets and all. Hee hee hee. Ben says that they should focus on getting Sayid and Jack’s ‘friends’ out of trouble before arguing. Sayid takes the keys and says he’s driving. Oooo … somebody’s an assertive seme when he’s grouchy!
Ben tells Jack to meet them at the Marina, and to hurry, because they’re running out of time.
Back on the Island, Sawyer asks Locke what he’s gonna say to Kate to get her to come back, seeing as Kate was really eager to fly away from the Island. Locke hasn’t figured out what he’s going to say. I can’t blame him. Did I mention that in the choosing of sides, I’d choose Locke almost every time?
Locke sees the bright light from the Hatch and tells the gang they’d better stay clear of it. Daniel guesses that Locke knows ‘when’ they are, but Locke doesn’t confirm or deny this. It’s worth noting that it’s dark now. Why do we never see twilight or early morning nearly enough on this Island, only high noon and eleven at night? Ooops, that was me, forgetting that you NEVER ask questions on this show when watching a current episode.
They continue through the jungle, stupidly walking VERY close together and all having to grab a tree branch on their way past. As any remedial snowshoer knows, you ALWAYS leave a decent space between you and the person in front of you so that you don’t get thwacked in the face with a branch they just pushed aside. Silly people. Miles is getting a nosebleed. NOOOO! I like him and his ghostbusting ways! He’s an actively contributing member of this party! Charlotte doesn’t do much, but her dying would make Dan really depressed, so she’s gotta stay, Juliet provides fun facts about the Others and brings Jedi-mind tricks, Locke is the leader, Sawyer is the fan-bait, and Dan is Doctor Who. EVERYONE is useful! No one needs to die! We don’t need to jumble the party up or create new sheets for new characters! *needs to stop self before I start rambling on about neutral good, lawful evil, and chaotic neutral people on the show*
Suddenly we hear distant Claire-screams. Sawyer goes off to investigate, and walks onto the backstage area of a Season 1 scene. Kate is helping Claire give birth to Aaron. I wibble as the scene gets more and more touching and Sawyer gets more and more woobified in the face. There’s a flash, and suddenly it’s bright and sunny out. Sawyer composes himself somewhat and when Locke asks if he saw something, Sawyer says it doesn’t matter.
Back off the Island, Kate and Jack meet. Kate comments on the vanquishment of the Beast Jack shaving the Beard. Kate tells Jack about the potential-Aaron-snatchers (though really, I think it’s Sun who’s gonna do the snatching and probably take him to Whitmore … which is probably legal in some kind of messed up way.) She has to follow some guy in some product-placement car, and tells Jack to get in. He does.
Back on the Island, John asks who Sawyer saw, citing Charlie, Shannon, and Rousseau. Nice of him to realize that seeing people who are recently dead (like, within a month, at most) would be really dang disturbing to some people. Sawyer asks how John knew when they were, deflecting as is his norm. He guesses that the light was from the Hatch. Locke tells the truth about his breakdown after Boone’s death. *wibbles* Lost: the only show that WILL kill the pretteh and get away with it.
Sawyer suggests that Locke might wanna go back and warn himself. Locke says (intelligently) that he needed that Locke, to become who he is today. People rarely take this approach to time-travel, it’s very refreshing to see it.
Back at the end of the wagon-train, Miles tells Daniel about his nosebleed, with no one else around. Lol, so like a guy. He doesn’t want to worry the others. (Not the OTHERS OTHERS, the rest of the gang.) Miles wants to know why Charlotte and he are affected, and Dan says he thinks it’s about prolonged exposure. Miles says that that doesn’t make any sense, Locke and Sawyer and Juliet have been on the Island for months, he hasn’t been here before two weeks ago. Dan asks “Are you sure about that?” Miles only has a little time to look confused by that question before shouts from up ahead distract them. The D&D party arrives in the Losties’ camp. It’s abandoned, and looks like it’s been like that for a decent amount of time. There’s no moss growing on stuff, but it’s not far-off. I’m heartened to hear Sawyer calling out for Rose and Bernard, and that Locke finds Vincent’s collar, and everyone wondering aloud where the rest of ‘their people’ are. Why don’t we see what THEY are doing, the dwindling number of Red Shirts, led by Rose and Bernard and Vincent, forging ahead into the unknown with no main cast members to guide them? Maybe they’re hanging out with the Smoke Monster.
The party finds a couple of long skinny canoe things that you see people in the Pacific riding around in. They look old, but there’s water bottles from an Indian airline inside. Sawyer asks who came in the canoes “Other-others?” Juliet says “Don’t look at me.” Hee. Locke proposes they don’t stick around to find out (again, WISE LEADER MAN!) and they steal the canoe (BAD PLAN, but one I accept.)
Cut to the party rowing across the ocean, which strikes me as a little stupid. What if the canoes were rigged with holes? What if they have special Dharma shark attractors on the bottom? What if a flash happens and there’s suddenly a huge boat in front of them, or it’s low tide and there are huge rocks ahead, or they’re in the middle of a hurricane? I’d stick close to the shore, but that might be because I’m not an especially confident swimmer and DESPISE canoes. Miles remarks that the plan sounded better when they were going by motorboat, and upon hearing they’ll be going “around that point” and it’ll take a few hours says “Oh joy.” And now he has my heart. That’s something I used to say on long trips. *huggles him* Don’t you dare die, token minority Ghostbusting man.
Juliet turns around, sees Sawyer looking rather distraught, and asks if he’s ok. Ok, Juliet, I love you, but you’re turning into The Chick in this Five-Man Band. And it’s a Six-Man band! He tells her that he saw Kate and Claire and Aaron, Juliet stupidly remarks that that was two months ago, Sawyer says “Time travel’s a bitch.” and suddenly the Unkowns are shooting at them. After some furious paddeling, more shots, and Juliet proving herself to be an excellent markswoman, there’s a flash. Sawyer screams to the heavens “Thank you God!” … and they flash right into the middle of a decently bad storm. All are soaked. *sporfles* Sawyer yells “I take that back!” and I sporfle some more. Hee hee hee …
Back on the mainland, Jack and Kate are conferring outside of a motel. Jack says (in a rare displayal of wisdom) that just because the lawyer said he was meeting his client doesn’t mean that he really is. They finally see the client. It’s Claire’s mom. WOW. I never expected that one either! This episode is full of shocker-answers (answers, on Lost! Excuse me, I need a few moments to compose myself!)
Suddenly it’s raining. Kate is freaked and upset. Jack is trying to keep a cool head. He proposes talking to Claire’s mom, explaining why they lied. He says “Aaron is my family too.” and by God, Evangeline Lily is just as beautiful and able to sow confusing emotions in me as last season.
Jack rushes into Claire’s mom’s room, and things get a little tense. He asks what she’s doing in L.A. Next thing we see is him running out to the car. He tells Kate to call Sun and drive, but Kate’s not moving until she gets some answers, damnit! (An attitude we Lost-viewers can relate to.) Jacks says that Claire’s mom isn’t in on it: she doesn’t know anything, she’s just suing Oceanic. (ALL the family members should do that in one gigantic, big case!) We don’t know who wants to snatch Aaron … or do we?
Sayid and Ben (YAY!) drive. Sayid stupidly pulls into a PARKING GARRAGE. Doesn’t he, a card-carrying badass, know that parking garages are all build on bad karma graveyards and that VERY VERY bad things happen in them all the time on shows and in real life?
Thankfully, all we get inside the parking garage is more answers (*takes another breather*) Mr. Norton is Ben’s laywer. He’s keeping tabs on Hurley. Yay?
Back on the Island (night, no rain) the party lands on the beach. There’s lighting out in the distance. Everyone staggers around and collapses.
Juliet wants to finish her session with Sawyer. Music gets sad. So does poor Sawyer’s face. He wanted to touch Kate, talk to her, but didn’t because “what’s done is done.”
Juliet’s getting a nosebleed. Oh noes!
Charlotte says “oi” and finds wreckage from … something. Looks intriguing. There’s French on the boxes.
People on an octagonal raft speak French. I don’t understand it. Damn French. (The language, not the people.) They see a body in the distance on a lower-tech raft than theirs, basically boards of wood. Pretty nicely, they row over and pull the guy onto their raft. That’s very sweet, and they all work together. (They’re all gonna die.) We see that lower-tech-raft-man is none other than … JIN! Dun-dun-DAAAAAAAAA! Love preserves you in your hour of need! (Unless he time-traveled, but really? I doubt it.) So celebrate! Jin lives! YAAAAAAAAAAY! Don’t argue about how, or what kind of attitude he’ll have towards his wife’s recent badass level, just rejoice.
Back on the Mainland, at night, at the Marina (convenient for Des’s arrival, eh?) Kate finds out about the address.
Kate is freaked that Ben is there. She figures out that Ben wants Aaron, Jack is bewildered. Kate demands to know why Ben can’t leave her and her son alone. Ben says that it’s because Aaron isn’t her son. Ouch. Truth, but ouch.
Suddenly, we pan to Sun in a parked car. Aaron is in the backseat, the macros photos and files in the passenger’s seat. Looking a tad reluctant, Sun pulls the gun out of her purse. YEEK!
Back on the Island, Jin wakes up in the company of a French gang. One of the girls can speak English, and he admits he can speak a little English. They trade backstories. One of the French guys is a little mean, but I’ll let it pass seeing as he just crashed on an island after a storm and was probably up all night. Translator-Girl (who is Rou of course) takes off her practical poncho and we see that she is noticeably preggers. Jin gets some water, and tells her his name. She says she’s Danielle, Danielle Rousseau. Jin and his sunburned/exploded on face look alarmed. Poor Jin. He took a lot of craziness on the Island, but Time Travel? *huggles him* Poor guy. And the Others (we think) killed Rou’s team. Rut-row! Glad we get to meet them, though! More answers on the way! Huzzah! Rejoice! Break out the Dharma-brand beer!
Next Week!
Ben reiterates that the people back on the Island need their help. Things explode! Ben tells Sun that Jin is alive, and he can prove it! Sun yells at Kate to step away, holding up her gun. Sawyer and the party lower Locke down a pit on a rope, and things look dire! Did I mention that Jin is alive? (YAAAAAAAAY!)
Second of all, I’m sorry that this is late, but I’ve been fighting a loosing battle with one of the plagues that are running around (the one I’ve got is a cold) which has been so draining that I’ve been taking ACTUAL NAPS during the day (something I can never ever do unless I am in a play, VERY ill, or on a long car trip.) No only did I not watch Lost on Wednesday night, I spent a good bit of Thursday sleeping, skipped my dance class, and am taking the day off today.
I was able to watch the first part of last week’s episode, which was nice because it involved Desmond running around and huggling Penny and telling stories about Scotland to baby!Charlie. Not to be missed. Also, two Red Shirts get all blowed up. I’m kinda happy they’re shaving off background characters. They ought to have done that sooner, and then given Bernard and Rose more flashback episodes instead of Niki-n-Paulo and twelve-hundred hours of Jack-Kate-Sawyer. We needed more people like Artz, I’m sorry, but it’s true, and more of their stories. Maybe they could have had little skits and scenes during the credits at the end? I’d have loved that.
Then again, I’m still smarting slightly about the Meddling Executives Who Meddled with the original idea for Lost (Jack getting killed off by the Smoke Monster pretty quickly, and Kate - not an ex-con, an older woman who’d been traveling with her husband and still believed him to be alive despite him being in the tail section … basically everything we love about Rose, I imagine - leading the Losties. How amazing would that shit have been?)
Previously on Lost: a lot of stuff you already know. Mostly future-stuff, and Charlotte bleeding-to-death-or-is-she.
On the boat, during the chronological S4 finale, Kate and Jack talk at the railing of Penny’s boat. Kate asks what they’re going to do about ‘him’ and clarifies at Jack’s (probably not indented to be) hilarious expression of confusion. She asks if Jack knows that Claire was gonna give Aaron up for adoption in LA. He didn’t. Jack is a bad leader, even when he’s no longer on the Island.
Kate sits down and says she thinks they should pass Aaron off as her own child. Jack is appropriately stunned. Kate says that after all the people they’ve lost - citing Jin, Michael, and Sawyer - she can’t loose Aaron too. (Shouldn’t they be citing Claire in there too? She’s loster than anyone; we’re not even sure if she’s alive!)
Jack says that Sawyer’s not dead. Kate agrees “But he’s gone.” *wibbles* Worse yet, no one seems to realize that upon seeing the cloud of smoke where the Freighter (everyone on the beach, plus anyone they thought to mention it to) now believes that the Oceanic Six, Michael, Jin, and anyone on the Freighter are all dead.
Jack wows me with his grasp of human psychology. He tells Kate that tomorrow he’s gonna ask everyone to lie about the Island, to protect everyone still there, and knows that if it’s just him saying ‘Lie, lie lie!’ no one will buy it, hence he will turn to Kate first. Jack wants to know if she’s with him. Kate and the music get intense and she says “I’ve always been with you.” *gags* (That wasn’t because of my cold, people!)
Sun and lends Kate a pretty suit of hers and says she looks good in it. Just as I begin to drool over the Les!Yay, Kate hustles out of the room to ‘an appointment’ and leaves Aaron behind with Sun, the woman who is still keeping up that Kimiko-gone-wrong vibe of potential baby-snatcher. A package arrives for Sun, she skims really fast through some papers (much to my annoyance) and then gets to the photos. They’re black and whites of Jack and Ben, primed for macro-making at her convenience!
Under the box of chocolates (are they real, I wonder, or fakes?) is a GUN OMG A GUN! As Sun inspects it, I can’t help but notice her faint orange eyeshadow. Nice. (No, I don’t have a kinky I-want-her-to-tie-me-up crush on Sun, shut up!)
Miles gets some water for Charlotte. Naaaw. According to a very pissy Sawyer (why is he no fun this season? Is it Frogurt’s shirt? I bet it is.) Charlotte’s been out for ten minutes. Juliet’s Jedi-powers (which at first I laughed at but am now accepting whole-heartedly) drive him away. Daniel is STILL lying, but finally tells Juliet that the flashes caused the neurological bleeding, which he likens to ‘really bad jet-lag.’ With these experience points, book smarts, and time-travel know-how, Daniel could become the next Doctor Who! Juliet is calmly annoyed and asks if he knows why it isn’t happening to them. Dan doesn’t know (that’s not comforting at all!) and thanks god that it isn’t.
Kate meets with the lawyer dude who got lines two episodes ago. She says she’ll give up the bloodsamples if she can talk to the client. Lawyer-Dude switches from polite to creepy, telling her to prepare to loose ‘the boy.’ Kate looks terrified. IMHO, the ‘exchange of custody’ has already happened.
Back on the Island, Locke talks to Sawyer. He wants to get the Zodiac raft and go to the Orchid station, where Ben went and started the flashes. Sawyer is confuzzled. Locke plans out his craaaaazy plan of getting off the Island, and getting everyone back. Sawyer thinks that they’re all dead, Locke says they aren’t, but that it isn’t important how he knows that. He says he’s going to bring everyone back “even if it kills me.” Yeek. He means that literally this time.
Miles waves his arms and says his mandated two-lines. Charlotte is awake, after three-seconds of ‘oh my god she doesn’t remember Daniel!’ she does, and I heave a sigh of relief. She’s a little dizzy, but ok considering she just SPEWED HALF THE BLOOD USED IN A QUINTIN TERRANTINO MOVIE OUT OF HER NOSE. (Ok, not that much, but that was a helluva a lot of blood!) Miles says “Yay, everything’s back to normal.” he does a cute little flip of his vest and asks “Now what?” I love him.
Sawyer grits “I’ll tell you what,” exchanges a look with Locke and says “We’re going to the Orchid.” Heh heh heh. ‘Things you never expected to hear Sawyer say …’
In bed at the hospital (damnit, now that song’s stuck in my head!) a very coherent and more-than-ok looking Sayid wants to get the IV out of his arm and go save Hurley from Ben. Jack says no, says that Ben “is on our side,” and ignores Sayid’s words of wisdom about Ben “The only side he’s on is his own.” A lady Doctor peeks in and interrupts the burgeoning Ho!Yay, wanting ‘a word’ with Jack outside. This can’t be good.
Turns out Lady Doctor is a Cuddy-in-training. Jack’s ass is banned from the hospital, seeing as he’s facing charges of substance abuse! HA HA! That’s for wasting my TV-hours by crying for the past four years, Mr. Sheppard! Jack stupidly answers his cellphone. It’s Hurley, checking in on Sayid. Naaaw. He says he’s totally ok, and in jail, and that now Ben will never get him. *sporfleDIEZ* Hurley, ILU too!
Ben leaps onto the set in his vampire clothes, says it’s great that Jack is there, and asks where Sayid is.
Sayid - lookin’ WAY TOO HOT to be post-tranquilizer attack - is attacked by a man in Peter’s S1 scrubs. LOL. Sayid has lightning-fast reflexes and half-chokes the guy WITH THE IV LINE THAT WAS IN HIS OWN ARM SECONDS AGO! Will this man never cease being badass? He asks who sent the guy, guy says that the address is in his pocket, Sayid shoots him with the tranq gun (why do tranq darts look so stupid and cute?) and gets the address, slightly tired from his ordeal and sitting down. Jack and Ben rush in. Jack asks what happened. I’m confuzzled, because I thought Sayid had gone rogue from Ben and that Ben was sending these bad guys, but apparently not! Sayid asks if they know anyone at the address, and Jack says it’s Kate’s address. OMG! I didn’t see that one coming!
Jack calls Kate, and gets her location. He heads off to meet her. Ben says he’ll ‘deal with’ Hurley. “Sorry Ben, I’m not letting you anywhere near Hurley.” Sayid says, getting into what some might call Ben’s personal bubble. Both look very out-of-place in the bright sunlight, what with their black jackets and all. Hee hee hee. Ben says that they should focus on getting Sayid and Jack’s ‘friends’ out of trouble before arguing. Sayid takes the keys and says he’s driving. Oooo … somebody’s an assertive seme when he’s grouchy!
Ben tells Jack to meet them at the Marina, and to hurry, because they’re running out of time.
Back on the Island, Sawyer asks Locke what he’s gonna say to Kate to get her to come back, seeing as Kate was really eager to fly away from the Island. Locke hasn’t figured out what he’s going to say. I can’t blame him. Did I mention that in the choosing of sides, I’d choose Locke almost every time?
Locke sees the bright light from the Hatch and tells the gang they’d better stay clear of it. Daniel guesses that Locke knows ‘when’ they are, but Locke doesn’t confirm or deny this. It’s worth noting that it’s dark now. Why do we never see twilight or early morning nearly enough on this Island, only high noon and eleven at night? Ooops, that was me, forgetting that you NEVER ask questions on this show when watching a current episode.
They continue through the jungle, stupidly walking VERY close together and all having to grab a tree branch on their way past. As any remedial snowshoer knows, you ALWAYS leave a decent space between you and the person in front of you so that you don’t get thwacked in the face with a branch they just pushed aside. Silly people. Miles is getting a nosebleed. NOOOO! I like him and his ghostbusting ways! He’s an actively contributing member of this party! Charlotte doesn’t do much, but her dying would make Dan really depressed, so she’s gotta stay, Juliet provides fun facts about the Others and brings Jedi-mind tricks, Locke is the leader, Sawyer is the fan-bait, and Dan is Doctor Who. EVERYONE is useful! No one needs to die! We don’t need to jumble the party up or create new sheets for new characters! *needs to stop self before I start rambling on about neutral good, lawful evil, and chaotic neutral people on the show*
Suddenly we hear distant Claire-screams. Sawyer goes off to investigate, and walks onto the backstage area of a Season 1 scene. Kate is helping Claire give birth to Aaron. I wibble as the scene gets more and more touching and Sawyer gets more and more woobified in the face. There’s a flash, and suddenly it’s bright and sunny out. Sawyer composes himself somewhat and when Locke asks if he saw something, Sawyer says it doesn’t matter.
Back off the Island, Kate and Jack meet. Kate comments on the vanquishment of the Beast Jack shaving the Beard. Kate tells Jack about the potential-Aaron-snatchers (though really, I think it’s Sun who’s gonna do the snatching and probably take him to Whitmore … which is probably legal in some kind of messed up way.) She has to follow some guy in some product-placement car, and tells Jack to get in. He does.
Back on the Island, John asks who Sawyer saw, citing Charlie, Shannon, and Rousseau. Nice of him to realize that seeing people who are recently dead (like, within a month, at most) would be really dang disturbing to some people. Sawyer asks how John knew when they were, deflecting as is his norm. He guesses that the light was from the Hatch. Locke tells the truth about his breakdown after Boone’s death. *wibbles* Lost: the only show that WILL kill the pretteh and get away with it.
Sawyer suggests that Locke might wanna go back and warn himself. Locke says (intelligently) that he needed that Locke, to become who he is today. People rarely take this approach to time-travel, it’s very refreshing to see it.
Back at the end of the wagon-train, Miles tells Daniel about his nosebleed, with no one else around. Lol, so like a guy. He doesn’t want to worry the others. (Not the OTHERS OTHERS, the rest of the gang.) Miles wants to know why Charlotte and he are affected, and Dan says he thinks it’s about prolonged exposure. Miles says that that doesn’t make any sense, Locke and Sawyer and Juliet have been on the Island for months, he hasn’t been here before two weeks ago. Dan asks “Are you sure about that?” Miles only has a little time to look confused by that question before shouts from up ahead distract them. The D&D party arrives in the Losties’ camp. It’s abandoned, and looks like it’s been like that for a decent amount of time. There’s no moss growing on stuff, but it’s not far-off. I’m heartened to hear Sawyer calling out for Rose and Bernard, and that Locke finds Vincent’s collar, and everyone wondering aloud where the rest of ‘their people’ are. Why don’t we see what THEY are doing, the dwindling number of Red Shirts, led by Rose and Bernard and Vincent, forging ahead into the unknown with no main cast members to guide them? Maybe they’re hanging out with the Smoke Monster.
The party finds a couple of long skinny canoe things that you see people in the Pacific riding around in. They look old, but there’s water bottles from an Indian airline inside. Sawyer asks who came in the canoes “Other-others?” Juliet says “Don’t look at me.” Hee. Locke proposes they don’t stick around to find out (again, WISE LEADER MAN!) and they steal the canoe (BAD PLAN, but one I accept.)
Cut to the party rowing across the ocean, which strikes me as a little stupid. What if the canoes were rigged with holes? What if they have special Dharma shark attractors on the bottom? What if a flash happens and there’s suddenly a huge boat in front of them, or it’s low tide and there are huge rocks ahead, or they’re in the middle of a hurricane? I’d stick close to the shore, but that might be because I’m not an especially confident swimmer and DESPISE canoes. Miles remarks that the plan sounded better when they were going by motorboat, and upon hearing they’ll be going “around that point” and it’ll take a few hours says “Oh joy.” And now he has my heart. That’s something I used to say on long trips. *huggles him* Don’t you dare die, token minority Ghostbusting man.
Juliet turns around, sees Sawyer looking rather distraught, and asks if he’s ok. Ok, Juliet, I love you, but you’re turning into The Chick in this Five-Man Band. And it’s a Six-Man band! He tells her that he saw Kate and Claire and Aaron, Juliet stupidly remarks that that was two months ago, Sawyer says “Time travel’s a bitch.” and suddenly the Unkowns are shooting at them. After some furious paddeling, more shots, and Juliet proving herself to be an excellent markswoman, there’s a flash. Sawyer screams to the heavens “Thank you God!” … and they flash right into the middle of a decently bad storm. All are soaked. *sporfles* Sawyer yells “I take that back!” and I sporfle some more. Hee hee hee …
Back on the mainland, Jack and Kate are conferring outside of a motel. Jack says (in a rare displayal of wisdom) that just because the lawyer said he was meeting his client doesn’t mean that he really is. They finally see the client. It’s Claire’s mom. WOW. I never expected that one either! This episode is full of shocker-answers (answers, on Lost! Excuse me, I need a few moments to compose myself!)
Suddenly it’s raining. Kate is freaked and upset. Jack is trying to keep a cool head. He proposes talking to Claire’s mom, explaining why they lied. He says “Aaron is my family too.” and by God, Evangeline Lily is just as beautiful and able to sow confusing emotions in me as last season.
Jack rushes into Claire’s mom’s room, and things get a little tense. He asks what she’s doing in L.A. Next thing we see is him running out to the car. He tells Kate to call Sun and drive, but Kate’s not moving until she gets some answers, damnit! (An attitude we Lost-viewers can relate to.) Jacks says that Claire’s mom isn’t in on it: she doesn’t know anything, she’s just suing Oceanic. (ALL the family members should do that in one gigantic, big case!) We don’t know who wants to snatch Aaron … or do we?
Sayid and Ben (YAY!) drive. Sayid stupidly pulls into a PARKING GARRAGE. Doesn’t he, a card-carrying badass, know that parking garages are all build on bad karma graveyards and that VERY VERY bad things happen in them all the time on shows and in real life?
Thankfully, all we get inside the parking garage is more answers (*takes another breather*) Mr. Norton is Ben’s laywer. He’s keeping tabs on Hurley. Yay?
Back on the Island (night, no rain) the party lands on the beach. There’s lighting out in the distance. Everyone staggers around and collapses.
Juliet wants to finish her session with Sawyer. Music gets sad. So does poor Sawyer’s face. He wanted to touch Kate, talk to her, but didn’t because “what’s done is done.”
Juliet’s getting a nosebleed. Oh noes!
Charlotte says “oi” and finds wreckage from … something. Looks intriguing. There’s French on the boxes.
People on an octagonal raft speak French. I don’t understand it. Damn French. (The language, not the people.) They see a body in the distance on a lower-tech raft than theirs, basically boards of wood. Pretty nicely, they row over and pull the guy onto their raft. That’s very sweet, and they all work together. (They’re all gonna die.) We see that lower-tech-raft-man is none other than … JIN! Dun-dun-DAAAAAAAAA! Love preserves you in your hour of need! (Unless he time-traveled, but really? I doubt it.) So celebrate! Jin lives! YAAAAAAAAAAY! Don’t argue about how, or what kind of attitude he’ll have towards his wife’s recent badass level, just rejoice.
Back on the Mainland, at night, at the Marina (convenient for Des’s arrival, eh?) Kate finds out about the address.
Kate is freaked that Ben is there. She figures out that Ben wants Aaron, Jack is bewildered. Kate demands to know why Ben can’t leave her and her son alone. Ben says that it’s because Aaron isn’t her son. Ouch. Truth, but ouch.
Suddenly, we pan to Sun in a parked car. Aaron is in the backseat, the macros photos and files in the passenger’s seat. Looking a tad reluctant, Sun pulls the gun out of her purse. YEEK!
Back on the Island, Jin wakes up in the company of a French gang. One of the girls can speak English, and he admits he can speak a little English. They trade backstories. One of the French guys is a little mean, but I’ll let it pass seeing as he just crashed on an island after a storm and was probably up all night. Translator-Girl (who is Rou of course) takes off her practical poncho and we see that she is noticeably preggers. Jin gets some water, and tells her his name. She says she’s Danielle, Danielle Rousseau. Jin and his sunburned/exploded on face look alarmed. Poor Jin. He took a lot of craziness on the Island, but Time Travel? *huggles him* Poor guy. And the Others (we think) killed Rou’s team. Rut-row! Glad we get to meet them, though! More answers on the way! Huzzah! Rejoice! Break out the Dharma-brand beer!
Next Week!
Ben reiterates that the people back on the Island need their help. Things explode! Ben tells Sun that Jin is alive, and he can prove it! Sun yells at Kate to step away, holding up her gun. Sawyer and the party lower Locke down a pit on a rope, and things look dire! Did I mention that Jin is alive? (YAAAAAAAAY!)