Turns out Sun is something of a liar and a dirty, little whore — and always has been. Jack, Kate and Sawyer remain in the web of The Others, whose intentions are not yet clear.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
The episode opens with a young Sun shattering a glass ballerina then blaming it on a maid, who she knows will be fired by her father for the lie. We later see her naked in bed with Jae Lee, who offers her a pearl necklace — she doesn't accept it — and wants her to run away with him to the United States. The couple is interrupted by Mr. Paik, Sun's father, who lies to Jin and says Jae Lee has been stealing from him rather than reveal the affair. He wants Jin to take care of the problem instead of simply delivering a message, which prompts Jin to threaten to quit. But Mr. Paik talks him into it by appealing to Jin's sense of the family's honor.
Fearful that her father will tell Jin of her infidelity, Sun now wants to leave Korea with Jin, but he refuses and goes to see Jae Lee. Jin cannot bring himself to kill the him, but instead tells him to disappear and never return. No sooner does Jin reach his car when Jar Lee, clutching the pearl necklace Sun refused to accept, commits suicide by jumping from his hotel penthouse and landing on Jin's car.
On the island, Sayid, Sun and Jin have yet to be contacted by Jack's group, but Ben Linus and The Others have been made aware of their presence as well as the existence of the sailboat. Jin wants to turn around and go back to camp, but Sayid doesn't want to abandon the survivors who went off with Michael. He and Sun hatch a plan to trick Jin and eventually come across the dock, where another signal fire will be set as a trap for The Others.
Jin reluctantly agrees to the plan only after scolding Sun and Sayid. He understands English better than they realize and knows he's been betrayed by his wife. He will help Sayid with his trap only if Sun remains on the boat for her safety. Of course, when The Others bypass the beach and abscond with Desmond's boat, it no longer seems like such a wise idea. Sun escapes into the ocean, but only after shooting Colleen Pickett during the boat-theft.
As Juliet continues to befriend Jack at the Hydra, Kate and Sawyer are put to work breaking up rocks. Alex tries to talk to Kate, who apparently is in her dress, asking the whereabouts of Karl. Sawyer makes a grand gesture, walking over to plant one on Kate (in part, because he's horny and, in part, as a distraction). When some of The Others try to pull them apart, he disarms one and grabs an AK-47, but Juliet only has to point a gun at Kate, who I have no doubt tastes like strawberries as Sawyer later confesses, to end the mini-rampage.
Back in the cages, we learn that Ben can see and hear everything Kate and Sawyer do and say in the cages through a monitoring station at the Hydra. He then goes to see Jack, claiming to have lived on the island his entire life and asking that Jack change his perception of The Others. Ben needs Jack's cooperation for something, promising to take him home if he cooperates and showing him video of the final out of the 2004 World Series, which the Red Sox won — their first title since 1918.
QUOTABLE
An exchange between future lovers while breaking up rocks at the Hydra quarry:
Sawyer: "Having fun yet, Freckles?"
Kate: "Quit staring at my ass."
Sawyer: "Then give me something else to stare at."
"Chain gang looks good on you, Freckles." — Sawyer hitting on sexy, sassy Kate in captivity
Monday, December 28, 2009
Season 3, Episode 1: A Tale of Two Cities
The story of the plane-crash survivors has been the focus of the first two seasons, but now the series switches gears and we begin to learn more about The Others.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Juliet's book club is interrupted by Desmond's hatch-quake and the subsequent plane crash. Upon seeing the plane break apart over the island, Ben Linus dispatches Goodwin to the shore where the tail section has come down and sends Ethan to the beach where the remaining survivors wind up.
Back in real time, Jack wakes up in a room with a plexiglass wall as a captive of The Others. We learn later in the episode that he's in the Hydra, which is the DHARMA Initiative's underwater station. His first visitor is Juliet, who reveals herself to be a doctor. Jack attacks her when she tries to bring him food and water, but his escape doesn't get him very far. Opening a door, Jack nearly drowns himself and Juliet.
Kate, meanwhile, wakes up in a shower facility where Tom Friendly, who first hints at being gay, orders her to clean up and then put on a sexy little sun dress. She is taken to a beach-side breakfast with Ben Linus, where she is warned the next few weeks won't be pleasant.
Finally, Sawyer wakes up in a cage across from another enclosure that has a boy, Karl, in it. The cages had been used to house the polar bears. Hungry, Sawyer pushes a giant red button with a fork and knife on it until he's electrocuted. Eventually, he'll figure out that he needs to step on a pedal, pull down a lever and then push the button to get a fish-shaped biscuit and water. In the interim, Karl picks his cage's lock and also frees Sawyer, but both are recaptured. Karl is taken away, while Juliet returns Sawyer to his cage. Kate is later tossed in Karl's old cage.
In flashbacks, we see the continuing disintegration of Jack's personal life. His wife, Sarah, has left him and he's now obsessed with who she is seeing now. Jack has taken to spying on her. She is going through with the divorce, but won't tell Jack the name of her new beau. Furious, his obsession worsens and Jack decides to go through every number she's called from a phone bill.
Jack calls one number, which rings his father's cell phone as Christian stands in his son's office trying to convince him to stop the madness. Now, Jack is convinced his father was sleeping with his wife, follows him to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and assaults him. Sarah bails him out after getting a call from Christian, who had relapsed after a few months of sobriety.
Back at the Hydra, as Juliet reads details about Jack's life to him from a file The Others have on him, he finally appears to have come to grips with Sarah's decision to leave him. He only asks Juliet whether she is now happy with her life.
QUOTABLE
"I don't think you're stupid, Jack. I think you're stubborn." — Juliet to Jack, who is acting like a madman in his cell at the Hydra
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Juliet's book club is interrupted by Desmond's hatch-quake and the subsequent plane crash. Upon seeing the plane break apart over the island, Ben Linus dispatches Goodwin to the shore where the tail section has come down and sends Ethan to the beach where the remaining survivors wind up.
Back in real time, Jack wakes up in a room with a plexiglass wall as a captive of The Others. We learn later in the episode that he's in the Hydra, which is the DHARMA Initiative's underwater station. His first visitor is Juliet, who reveals herself to be a doctor. Jack attacks her when she tries to bring him food and water, but his escape doesn't get him very far. Opening a door, Jack nearly drowns himself and Juliet.
Kate, meanwhile, wakes up in a shower facility where Tom Friendly, who first hints at being gay, orders her to clean up and then put on a sexy little sun dress. She is taken to a beach-side breakfast with Ben Linus, where she is warned the next few weeks won't be pleasant.
Finally, Sawyer wakes up in a cage across from another enclosure that has a boy, Karl, in it. The cages had been used to house the polar bears. Hungry, Sawyer pushes a giant red button with a fork and knife on it until he's electrocuted. Eventually, he'll figure out that he needs to step on a pedal, pull down a lever and then push the button to get a fish-shaped biscuit and water. In the interim, Karl picks his cage's lock and also frees Sawyer, but both are recaptured. Karl is taken away, while Juliet returns Sawyer to his cage. Kate is later tossed in Karl's old cage.
In flashbacks, we see the continuing disintegration of Jack's personal life. His wife, Sarah, has left him and he's now obsessed with who she is seeing now. Jack has taken to spying on her. She is going through with the divorce, but won't tell Jack the name of her new beau. Furious, his obsession worsens and Jack decides to go through every number she's called from a phone bill.
Jack calls one number, which rings his father's cell phone as Christian stands in his son's office trying to convince him to stop the madness. Now, Jack is convinced his father was sleeping with his wife, follows him to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting and assaults him. Sarah bails him out after getting a call from Christian, who had relapsed after a few months of sobriety.
Back at the Hydra, as Juliet reads details about Jack's life to him from a file The Others have on him, he finally appears to have come to grips with Sarah's decision to leave him. He only asks Juliet whether she is now happy with her life.
QUOTABLE
"I don't think you're stupid, Jack. I think you're stubborn." — Juliet to Jack, who is acting like a madman in his cell at the Hydra
Season 2, Episode 24: Live Together, Die Alone Part 2
The drama of Michael's double-cross plot to save Walt and Jack's double-cross plot of Michael with Sayid plays out as does the drama in the hatch, where Desmond and Locke have taken control and are determined not to press the button. Mr. Eko, of course, is trying to prevent what he believes will be certain devastation.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Eko has retrieved the remaining dynamite from the Black Rock in an effort to blast his way into the hatch's computer room. Desmond is confident it won't work, but doesn't explain why. When Eko detonates the explosive, he succeeds only in injuring himself and nearly killing Charlie.
Desmond's backstory on the island is revealed through flashbacks. Radzinsky and Inman created the black-light map Locke sees on the blast door when his leg gets pinned and Ben Linus saves him. When Radzinsky killed himself with a shotgun, leaving a stain on hatch's ceiling, Inman, who left the Army because men followed his orders, buried him (in 108 minutes) and manned the Swan alone. That is, until Desmond arrived.
Inman refused to let Dez leave the hatch, even though he ventured out every day in the yellow bio-hazard suit. In a drunken fit later, Desmond finds a drunken Inman underneath the hatch computer room but unable to turn the fail-safe key. He does, however, explain that the code releases a discharge from the geologically unique pocket of magnetism before it builds up, which is how the Swan's keepers are saving the world.
Of course, when Desmond spots a rip in Inman's bio-hazard suit, he follows him into the jungle, assuming the quarantine is just a lie. He follows Inman to a lagoon, where he finds his boat almost fixed up and seaworthy again. Inman was planning to leave the island and is killed by Dez in the argument and altercation that ensues when he cracks his head on a rock.
Unable to get back to the hatch before the alarm sounds, the discharge triggers a system failure on Sept. 22, 2004, at 4:16 p.m. Desmond was able to get the code entered and halt complete catastrophe, but he thinks the rumble created might have downed Oceanic 815. Dez suddenly wants to enter the code, but Locke smashes the computer's monitor. Desmond, who had sat down to read Our Mutual Friend (then presumably kill himself) only to find a letter Penny wrote him before he went to jail. She assumed he'd read the book in jail and find the letter, but instead found it the night he was prepared to kill himself. It also happened to be the same night he heard Locke banging on the hatch after Boone's death.
Desmond returns to grab the book, which now contains the fail-safe key. Upon using the key, which is a last-ditch safety valve, everyone experiences an intense bright flash, the hatch door lands on the beach and Desmond has disappeared. The disturbance was picked up aboard a Russian freighter, which then called Penny to say the island had been found.
Across the island, Sayid finds The Others' village and discovers that it's a sham. It's also abandoned and the hatch door Michael saw being guarded by men with guns hides only a solid-rock wall. Michael, as it turns out, wasn't leading Kate, Sawyer, Jack and Hurley back there anyway. The group discovers a mountain of notebooks from The Pearl, which suggests they weren't actually wanted or needed. It is in that clearing that The Others capture the quartet Michael brought to them.
Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Hurley are taken to a dock where Ben meets them in the boat used to kidnap Walt. Ben isn't happy with the arrangement worked out by Michael and Mrs. Clue, but nonetheless allows Michael and Walt to leave on the boat. He instructs them to follow a compass bearing of 325. Michael also had asked for assurances that his friends wouldn't be harmed — to which Ben replies, "We're the good guys." Ben then releases Hurley, telling him to return to camp and tell the remaining survivors never to venture to that side of the island.
QUOTABLE
"You saved my life, brother, so I can save yours. ... Sorry for whatever happened to you that made you stop believing, but it's all real. I'll see you in another life, brother." — Desmond to Locke after the code isn't entered, the computer has been destroyed and the world is nearly destroyed
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Eko has retrieved the remaining dynamite from the Black Rock in an effort to blast his way into the hatch's computer room. Desmond is confident it won't work, but doesn't explain why. When Eko detonates the explosive, he succeeds only in injuring himself and nearly killing Charlie.
Desmond's backstory on the island is revealed through flashbacks. Radzinsky and Inman created the black-light map Locke sees on the blast door when his leg gets pinned and Ben Linus saves him. When Radzinsky killed himself with a shotgun, leaving a stain on hatch's ceiling, Inman, who left the Army because men followed his orders, buried him (in 108 minutes) and manned the Swan alone. That is, until Desmond arrived.
Inman refused to let Dez leave the hatch, even though he ventured out every day in the yellow bio-hazard suit. In a drunken fit later, Desmond finds a drunken Inman underneath the hatch computer room but unable to turn the fail-safe key. He does, however, explain that the code releases a discharge from the geologically unique pocket of magnetism before it builds up, which is how the Swan's keepers are saving the world.
Of course, when Desmond spots a rip in Inman's bio-hazard suit, he follows him into the jungle, assuming the quarantine is just a lie. He follows Inman to a lagoon, where he finds his boat almost fixed up and seaworthy again. Inman was planning to leave the island and is killed by Dez in the argument and altercation that ensues when he cracks his head on a rock.
Unable to get back to the hatch before the alarm sounds, the discharge triggers a system failure on Sept. 22, 2004, at 4:16 p.m. Desmond was able to get the code entered and halt complete catastrophe, but he thinks the rumble created might have downed Oceanic 815. Dez suddenly wants to enter the code, but Locke smashes the computer's monitor. Desmond, who had sat down to read Our Mutual Friend (then presumably kill himself) only to find a letter Penny wrote him before he went to jail. She assumed he'd read the book in jail and find the letter, but instead found it the night he was prepared to kill himself. It also happened to be the same night he heard Locke banging on the hatch after Boone's death.
Desmond returns to grab the book, which now contains the fail-safe key. Upon using the key, which is a last-ditch safety valve, everyone experiences an intense bright flash, the hatch door lands on the beach and Desmond has disappeared. The disturbance was picked up aboard a Russian freighter, which then called Penny to say the island had been found.
Across the island, Sayid finds The Others' village and discovers that it's a sham. It's also abandoned and the hatch door Michael saw being guarded by men with guns hides only a solid-rock wall. Michael, as it turns out, wasn't leading Kate, Sawyer, Jack and Hurley back there anyway. The group discovers a mountain of notebooks from The Pearl, which suggests they weren't actually wanted or needed. It is in that clearing that The Others capture the quartet Michael brought to them.
Jack, Sawyer, Kate and Hurley are taken to a dock where Ben meets them in the boat used to kidnap Walt. Ben isn't happy with the arrangement worked out by Michael and Mrs. Clue, but nonetheless allows Michael and Walt to leave on the boat. He instructs them to follow a compass bearing of 325. Michael also had asked for assurances that his friends wouldn't be harmed — to which Ben replies, "We're the good guys." Ben then releases Hurley, telling him to return to camp and tell the remaining survivors never to venture to that side of the island.
QUOTABLE
"You saved my life, brother, so I can save yours. ... Sorry for whatever happened to you that made you stop believing, but it's all real. I'll see you in another life, brother." — Desmond to Locke after the code isn't entered, the computer has been destroyed and the world is nearly destroyed
Season 2, Episode 23: Live Together, Die Alone Part 1
Drum roll, please! Desmond's back. After fleeing the Swan, where he served as the hatch computer's button-pusher for three years, he hopped aboard a boat that Kelvin Inman restored before Dez accidentally killed him. But in sailing to freedom, Dez somehow found his way right back to the survivors' beach mere miles from the Swan. Desmond backstory also begins to unfold.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Initially, we are led to believe that the Swam was a psychological experiment, but it turns out that The Pearl, where people observed the activity in the Swan and filled journals with observations, was perhaps the real experimental station.
Anyway, so this boat has appeared off shore at the survivors' beach and Jack, Sawyer and Sayid immediately swim for it only to find an inebriated Desmond aboard. He had traveled due west at nine knots for 2.5 weeks only to return to the island, much to his dismay.
Sayid sees the boat — the Elizabeth (after Libby) from Newport Beach, Calif. — as the advantage they need to surprise The Others (or hostiles as Dez calls them). He clues Jack in on the plan. Suspicious of Michael, Jack gives him an unloaded gun as the rescue mission to save Walt commences. Meanwhile, Jin and Sun set sail with Sayid on Desmond's boat hoping to out-flank The Others. En route, the trio sails past a giant four-legged left foot statue.
The group Michael is leading, meanwhile, is being followed by some of The Others. Sawyer shoots one of them when they are spotted and then confronts Michael, who confesses everything about his captivity and The Others' demand that he free Ben Linus and bring them Kate, Hurley, Sawyer and Jack. Hurley wants to turn back, but Jack convinces the group to push on and reveals Sayid's plot to take The Others by surprise.
Away from the island in flashbacks, we see Desmond being released from a military prison. A lance corporal in the Scottish Army, he was jailed and dishonorably discharged. Keys, a gold-plated pocket watch, a copy of "Our Mutual Friend" (the last thing he will read before dying) and a photo of him with Penny Widmore are returned before he exits the prison and meets Charles Widmore, Penny's father. He had intercepted all of Desmond's letters to his daughter, making Penny think he'd forsaken her. Charles also tries to bribe Dez to never see Penny again, an offer he refuses.
Instead, Desmond decides to train for Widmore's race around the world. Trouble is that he needs $42,000 to buy a boat for the race. But Libby offers him a boat to use during chance meeting at a Los Angeles coffee shop. The boat belonged to her dead husband, David. As he training, and right before Dez's first encounter with Jack at the stadium, Penny approaches Dez, who says he must enter this race around the world to get his honor back.
The boat, of course, encounters rough seas and Dez is knocked unconscious and runs aground on the island. Men in yellow suits drag him to the Swan, where he meets Inman, the Army officer who trained Sayid during Desert Storm and later joined the DHARMA Initiative. He had been partnered with Radzinsky, who made the edits to the orientation film, before Radzinsky shot himself.
At the hatch, Locke wants Mr. Eko to let the time run out without entering the code. He even tries to destroy the computer only to have Eko knock him around. Charlie finds Locke sobbing the jungle after the incident, but Locke isn't done scheming. He enlists Desmond's help to halt the button-pushing. Together, they lock out Eko from the computer room. Frantic, Eko tries to find a way back in, because he is convinced everyone will die if the button isn't pushed.
QUOTABLE
"We are stuck in a bloody snow globe. There is no outside world. There is no escape." — Desmond during his drunken ramblings after somehow ending up back on the island
"Smells like carrots?" — the answer to the query first posed by Inman and later by Desmond, "What did one snowman say to the other?"
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Initially, we are led to believe that the Swam was a psychological experiment, but it turns out that The Pearl, where people observed the activity in the Swan and filled journals with observations, was perhaps the real experimental station.
Anyway, so this boat has appeared off shore at the survivors' beach and Jack, Sawyer and Sayid immediately swim for it only to find an inebriated Desmond aboard. He had traveled due west at nine knots for 2.5 weeks only to return to the island, much to his dismay.
Sayid sees the boat — the Elizabeth (after Libby) from Newport Beach, Calif. — as the advantage they need to surprise The Others (or hostiles as Dez calls them). He clues Jack in on the plan. Suspicious of Michael, Jack gives him an unloaded gun as the rescue mission to save Walt commences. Meanwhile, Jin and Sun set sail with Sayid on Desmond's boat hoping to out-flank The Others. En route, the trio sails past a giant four-legged left foot statue.
The group Michael is leading, meanwhile, is being followed by some of The Others. Sawyer shoots one of them when they are spotted and then confronts Michael, who confesses everything about his captivity and The Others' demand that he free Ben Linus and bring them Kate, Hurley, Sawyer and Jack. Hurley wants to turn back, but Jack convinces the group to push on and reveals Sayid's plot to take The Others by surprise.
Away from the island in flashbacks, we see Desmond being released from a military prison. A lance corporal in the Scottish Army, he was jailed and dishonorably discharged. Keys, a gold-plated pocket watch, a copy of "Our Mutual Friend" (the last thing he will read before dying) and a photo of him with Penny Widmore are returned before he exits the prison and meets Charles Widmore, Penny's father. He had intercepted all of Desmond's letters to his daughter, making Penny think he'd forsaken her. Charles also tries to bribe Dez to never see Penny again, an offer he refuses.
Instead, Desmond decides to train for Widmore's race around the world. Trouble is that he needs $42,000 to buy a boat for the race. But Libby offers him a boat to use during chance meeting at a Los Angeles coffee shop. The boat belonged to her dead husband, David. As he training, and right before Dez's first encounter with Jack at the stadium, Penny approaches Dez, who says he must enter this race around the world to get his honor back.
The boat, of course, encounters rough seas and Dez is knocked unconscious and runs aground on the island. Men in yellow suits drag him to the Swan, where he meets Inman, the Army officer who trained Sayid during Desert Storm and later joined the DHARMA Initiative. He had been partnered with Radzinsky, who made the edits to the orientation film, before Radzinsky shot himself.
At the hatch, Locke wants Mr. Eko to let the time run out without entering the code. He even tries to destroy the computer only to have Eko knock him around. Charlie finds Locke sobbing the jungle after the incident, but Locke isn't done scheming. He enlists Desmond's help to halt the button-pushing. Together, they lock out Eko from the computer room. Frantic, Eko tries to find a way back in, because he is convinced everyone will die if the button isn't pushed.
QUOTABLE
"We are stuck in a bloody snow globe. There is no outside world. There is no escape." — Desmond during his drunken ramblings after somehow ending up back on the island
"Smells like carrots?" — the answer to the query first posed by Inman and later by Desmond, "What did one snowman say to the other?"
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Season 2, Episode 22: Three Minutes
Michael snapped and murdered Ana Lucia as well as Libby, but the reason he did wasn't clear until now. The Others used Walt's freedom to get Michael to do their dirty work and free "Henry Gale," whose real identity is as Ben Linus, the leader of The Others.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
13 Days Earlier — Michael knocked Locke out cold and locked up Jack before talking with Walt online and heading north. He comes upon Danny Pickett, one of The Others, taking a whiz in a clearing and is captured by The Others, who seem to know who he is. Later that night, when The Others confront Jack, Locke and Sawyer, who have followed Michael into the jungle, Alex tells Michael that Tom Friendly is delivering a message and asks about Claire and her baby.
11 Days Earlier — The Others took Michael to a staged camp, where he meets Mrs. Clue but can't answer the questions she has about Walt.
3 Days Earlier — When Ben Linus is captured, Mrs. Clue goes to Michael with a new proposal: He and Walt can go free if Michael springs him from the survivors' custody. Michael is given three minutes with Walt, who says he's being tested by The Others and that they are not who they say they are. Michael agrees the deal, which also requires him to bring back a handful of specific survivors, but only if he's given a boat as well.
Today — Back with the Oceanic 815 survivors, Michael burns a piece of paper, which we will later learn had four names — Jack Shephard, Kate Austen, Hugo Reyes and James Ford — written on it. As a plan to free Walt is conceived, Hurley insists they bury Anna Lucia and Libby before seeking retribution Michael, meanwhile, helps clean the blood he spilled.
In planning a rescue mission for Walt, Michael insists only the four people from his list accompany him to The Others' camp. Sayid forces himself into the group as well, but Michael insists that he can't join the rescue mission. Sayid relents, but believes Michael "has been compromised," so he wants Jack's help to recreate an secondary plan of attack against The Others.
At memorial services for Ana Lucia and Libby, Sun sees a sailboat on the horizon.
In other action on the island, Mr. Eko tells a cute story about his time as a priest in England when a boy came to confession asking about a dog he'd killed with a shovel. But the boy wasn't seeking forgiveness and instead wanted to know if the dog would be waiting for him in hell. Charlie is looking for Eko, who has stopped building the church. He has found a new purpose in manning the computer at the hatch, which leaves Charlie angry. As he struggles to build the church himself, Vincent brings him one of the Virgin Marys filled with heroin. Charlie then tosses all of them into the ocean.
QUOTABLE
"'Cause you're about the closest thing I've got to a friend, doc. Because she's gone." — Sawyer explaining to Jack why he felt the need to tell him he'd had sex with Ana Lucia before she died
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
13 Days Earlier — Michael knocked Locke out cold and locked up Jack before talking with Walt online and heading north. He comes upon Danny Pickett, one of The Others, taking a whiz in a clearing and is captured by The Others, who seem to know who he is. Later that night, when The Others confront Jack, Locke and Sawyer, who have followed Michael into the jungle, Alex tells Michael that Tom Friendly is delivering a message and asks about Claire and her baby.
11 Days Earlier — The Others took Michael to a staged camp, where he meets Mrs. Clue but can't answer the questions she has about Walt.
3 Days Earlier — When Ben Linus is captured, Mrs. Clue goes to Michael with a new proposal: He and Walt can go free if Michael springs him from the survivors' custody. Michael is given three minutes with Walt, who says he's being tested by The Others and that they are not who they say they are. Michael agrees the deal, which also requires him to bring back a handful of specific survivors, but only if he's given a boat as well.
Today — Back with the Oceanic 815 survivors, Michael burns a piece of paper, which we will later learn had four names — Jack Shephard, Kate Austen, Hugo Reyes and James Ford — written on it. As a plan to free Walt is conceived, Hurley insists they bury Anna Lucia and Libby before seeking retribution Michael, meanwhile, helps clean the blood he spilled.
In planning a rescue mission for Walt, Michael insists only the four people from his list accompany him to The Others' camp. Sayid forces himself into the group as well, but Michael insists that he can't join the rescue mission. Sayid relents, but believes Michael "has been compromised," so he wants Jack's help to recreate an secondary plan of attack against The Others.
At memorial services for Ana Lucia and Libby, Sun sees a sailboat on the horizon.
In other action on the island, Mr. Eko tells a cute story about his time as a priest in England when a boy came to confession asking about a dog he'd killed with a shovel. But the boy wasn't seeking forgiveness and instead wanted to know if the dog would be waiting for him in hell. Charlie is looking for Eko, who has stopped building the church. He has found a new purpose in manning the computer at the hatch, which leaves Charlie angry. As he struggles to build the church himself, Vincent brings him one of the Virgin Marys filled with heroin. Charlie then tosses all of them into the ocean.
QUOTABLE
"'Cause you're about the closest thing I've got to a friend, doc. Because she's gone." — Sawyer explaining to Jack why he felt the need to tell him he'd had sex with Ana Lucia before she died
Friday, December 18, 2009
Season 2, Episode 21: ?
Locke and Eko will discover a new hatch, while the drama surrounding the murders at the hatch committed by Michael continues to play out. The lives of people whose faith in God or themselves has been shattered continues to entertain.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Mr. Eko has a dream in which Ana Lucia tells him he must help Locke, who has lost his way. In the same dream, his dead brother Yemi tells him Locke is doing important work in the hatch and that he must make Locke take him to the question mark (?).
At the hatch, Michael pretends that Ben Linus, still the Henry Gale impersonator as far as the series is concerned, escaped when Jack, Kate, Locke and Sawyer return. Ana Lucia is dead, but Libby hasn't quite expired. Eko, who came to find Locke, offers to go with Locke to try and pick up Ben's trail. Instead, he forces Locke to help him find the question mark.
Locke and Eko camp at the plane and Locke now dreams that Yemi and Eko scale the tree to where the plane originally rested in the canopy. The next morning, Eko does just that and spots the question mark (?) below with the plane punctuating the image. Under the plane, they find a new hatch, Station 5 - The Pearl, which monitors The Swan station. The orientation film implies that The Swan is nothing more than a grand experiment. The Dharma Initiates stationed at The Pearl are to observe and report. This further disheartens Locke initially, but it convince Eko that the work going on at the hatch is the most important thing and vows to help push the button.
With Libby suffering, Jack makes Kate go along with Sawyer to retrieve the heroin, which he knows is stashed with the guns. Sawyer thus is forced to reveal the location of his stash in order to ease Libby's passing. The stash just so happens to be underneath Sawyer's pallet in his tent. Kate and Sawyer run into Hurley at the beach. He's looking for Libby, so they take him back to the hatch as well. As Hurley says goodbye, Jack pumps Libby, whose dying word is Michael, full of heroin.
During flashbacks, we see Eko as a priest in Australia. He is trying to leave for Los Angeles, but is asked to investigate a supposed miracle before leaving. A young girl named Charlotte allegedly drowned and then came back to life a day later. Eko was chosen to investigate because he is skeptical. Turns out, the undertaker was something of an idiot. She'd fallen into a cold river and went into hypothermic shock but woke up as the autopsy was about to be performed. Charlotte is the daughter of Claire's psychic, who admits that he's a phony.
Obviously, Eko concludes that it wasn't a miracle, but Charlotte finds him at the airport and delivers a message from Yemi. She tells him Yemi thought he was a good priest and has faith in him.
QUOTABLE
"One day you will believe me." — Charlotte to Eko at the airport
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Mr. Eko has a dream in which Ana Lucia tells him he must help Locke, who has lost his way. In the same dream, his dead brother Yemi tells him Locke is doing important work in the hatch and that he must make Locke take him to the question mark (?).
At the hatch, Michael pretends that Ben Linus, still the Henry Gale impersonator as far as the series is concerned, escaped when Jack, Kate, Locke and Sawyer return. Ana Lucia is dead, but Libby hasn't quite expired. Eko, who came to find Locke, offers to go with Locke to try and pick up Ben's trail. Instead, he forces Locke to help him find the question mark.
Locke and Eko camp at the plane and Locke now dreams that Yemi and Eko scale the tree to where the plane originally rested in the canopy. The next morning, Eko does just that and spots the question mark (?) below with the plane punctuating the image. Under the plane, they find a new hatch, Station 5 - The Pearl, which monitors The Swan station. The orientation film implies that The Swan is nothing more than a grand experiment. The Dharma Initiates stationed at The Pearl are to observe and report. This further disheartens Locke initially, but it convince Eko that the work going on at the hatch is the most important thing and vows to help push the button.
With Libby suffering, Jack makes Kate go along with Sawyer to retrieve the heroin, which he knows is stashed with the guns. Sawyer thus is forced to reveal the location of his stash in order to ease Libby's passing. The stash just so happens to be underneath Sawyer's pallet in his tent. Kate and Sawyer run into Hurley at the beach. He's looking for Libby, so they take him back to the hatch as well. As Hurley says goodbye, Jack pumps Libby, whose dying word is Michael, full of heroin.
During flashbacks, we see Eko as a priest in Australia. He is trying to leave for Los Angeles, but is asked to investigate a supposed miracle before leaving. A young girl named Charlotte allegedly drowned and then came back to life a day later. Eko was chosen to investigate because he is skeptical. Turns out, the undertaker was something of an idiot. She'd fallen into a cold river and went into hypothermic shock but woke up as the autopsy was about to be performed. Charlotte is the daughter of Claire's psychic, who admits that he's a phony.
Obviously, Eko concludes that it wasn't a miracle, but Charlotte finds him at the airport and delivers a message from Yemi. She tells him Yemi thought he was a good priest and has faith in him.
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"One day you will believe me." — Charlotte to Eko at the airport
Season 2, Episode 20: Two for the Road
Death again visits the survivors and we also learn how Ana Lucia wound up arriving in Australia.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Jack and Kate bring a still-unconscious Michael back to the hatch, where Ben Linus remains on a hunger strike. When Ana Lucia goes to drop off food, he tries to strangle her for killing two of The Others — "They were good people who were leaving you alone." — before Locke conks Ben with a crutch and saves her. Curious why Ben didn't similarly attack him when he was pinned by the blast door, Locke questions the captive, who insists that Locke is one of the good ones. In fact, before he was caught in Rousseau's net, Ben says he coming to get Locke.
Ana Lucia, meanwhile, has decided she will now shoot Ben despite the fact she had earlier stopped Sayid from doing it. She goes to Sawyer for a gun, but he refuses. She then stalks him and gives him the old in-out before stealing a gun as the two redress. When Jack gets back, Locke lies to him about Ben attacking Ana Lucia.
Michael finally comes to and says he knows where The Others are, that they live in a tent city with their own hatch, are small in number and could be overrun by the survivors. Jack, who admits the Locke's and Sayid's instinct to torture "Henry Gale" was right, patches things up with Locke and the two unite to approach Sawyer about getting the guns back and going after The Others. Ana Lucia is left behind at the hatch to watch over Michael, but her real ambition is to kill Ben Linus.
Hurley, meanwhile, is trying to set up a romantic date with Libby, but botches it. He can't find Sayid's romantic beach, but Libby wants to try and make the best of it. Of course, Hurley forgot blankets for the little getaway, so she goes to the hatch to grab one and sends Hurley off to find some wine.
When push comes to shove, Ana Lucia can't murder Ben. Michael, however, says he'll have no trouble doing it. She hands over the gun, which he then uses to blast Ana Lucia in the chest, murder Libby (who just happens to be at the hatch looking for a blanket) and then shoots himself in the arm while setting Ben Linus free.
In flashbacks, Ana Lucia's mother knows she gunned down Jason McCormick — the man who shot her, causing her to miscarry and inadvertently broke up her marriage. She quits the LAPD as a result and goes to work as an airline security wanding specialist, which is where she meets Christian in a airport bar. Having recently had his license yanked for operating drunk, he's heading for Sydney on a mission he considers dangerous. Christian, who goes by Tom, convinces Ana Lucia, who he calls Sarah, to be his security in Australia and flies her Down Under with him.
After four days of drinking and little else, Christian rouses Ana Lucia in the middle of the night and tells her its time for her to protect him. He then has her drive to the Sydney suburbs where he wakes a woman up and yells at her something about his daughter. (We'll later find out it was Claire's mother he was harassing, because Claire is his kid.) Ana Lucia makes him leave the lady alone and tries to convince him to leave Australia. Instead, he heads to the bar where he'll later meet Sawyer. Headed home, Ana Lucia calls her mother and is forgiven before boarding Oceanic 815.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Jack and Kate bring a still-unconscious Michael back to the hatch, where Ben Linus remains on a hunger strike. When Ana Lucia goes to drop off food, he tries to strangle her for killing two of The Others — "They were good people who were leaving you alone." — before Locke conks Ben with a crutch and saves her. Curious why Ben didn't similarly attack him when he was pinned by the blast door, Locke questions the captive, who insists that Locke is one of the good ones. In fact, before he was caught in Rousseau's net, Ben says he coming to get Locke.
Ana Lucia, meanwhile, has decided she will now shoot Ben despite the fact she had earlier stopped Sayid from doing it. She goes to Sawyer for a gun, but he refuses. She then stalks him and gives him the old in-out before stealing a gun as the two redress. When Jack gets back, Locke lies to him about Ben attacking Ana Lucia.
Michael finally comes to and says he knows where The Others are, that they live in a tent city with their own hatch, are small in number and could be overrun by the survivors. Jack, who admits the Locke's and Sayid's instinct to torture "Henry Gale" was right, patches things up with Locke and the two unite to approach Sawyer about getting the guns back and going after The Others. Ana Lucia is left behind at the hatch to watch over Michael, but her real ambition is to kill Ben Linus.
Hurley, meanwhile, is trying to set up a romantic date with Libby, but botches it. He can't find Sayid's romantic beach, but Libby wants to try and make the best of it. Of course, Hurley forgot blankets for the little getaway, so she goes to the hatch to grab one and sends Hurley off to find some wine.
When push comes to shove, Ana Lucia can't murder Ben. Michael, however, says he'll have no trouble doing it. She hands over the gun, which he then uses to blast Ana Lucia in the chest, murder Libby (who just happens to be at the hatch looking for a blanket) and then shoots himself in the arm while setting Ben Linus free.
In flashbacks, Ana Lucia's mother knows she gunned down Jason McCormick — the man who shot her, causing her to miscarry and inadvertently broke up her marriage. She quits the LAPD as a result and goes to work as an airline security wanding specialist, which is where she meets Christian in a airport bar. Having recently had his license yanked for operating drunk, he's heading for Sydney on a mission he considers dangerous. Christian, who goes by Tom, convinces Ana Lucia, who he calls Sarah, to be his security in Australia and flies her Down Under with him.
After four days of drinking and little else, Christian rouses Ana Lucia in the middle of the night and tells her its time for her to protect him. He then has her drive to the Sydney suburbs where he wakes a woman up and yells at her something about his daughter. (We'll later find out it was Claire's mother he was harassing, because Claire is his kid.) Ana Lucia makes him leave the lady alone and tries to convince him to leave Australia. Instead, he heads to the bar where he'll later meet Sawyer. Headed home, Ana Lucia calls her mother and is forgiven before boarding Oceanic 815.
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