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.
QUOTABLE
"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.
Season 2, Episode 19: S.O.S.
Overbearing Bernard is eager to gt his wife, Rose, rescued. He devises a plan to make it possible, while the backstory focuses on how the couple met and found their way onto the fateful flight, Oceanic 815.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Convinced the non-tailies have had life easy and are no longer actively seeking rescue, Bernard wants to build a massive SOS on an adjacent beach. Rose pooh-poohs his plan in front of everyone, believing its a silly and fantastic (as in fantasy-based) plan that will only breed false hope.
Jack has a plan of his own. He wants to go find The Others and try to swap "Henry," who still hasn't been revealed quite yet as Ben Linus, for Walt. Jack invites Kate to go along with him; he got the gun from Ana Lucia. As Kate apologizes for kissing Jack, and Jack says he's not sorry she did it, Michael appears from the jungle and passes out at Jack's feet.
Meanwhile, Locke tries to recreate the map from memory but becomes frustrated. He's less and less worried about entering the code, because of Ben Linus' contention he didn't enter the code when Locke was trapped under the blast door. It's eating away at Locke, who declares to Rose that he's done with the hatch. Rose, who remembers Locke in a wheelchair from the airport, suspects Locke is aware that the island is special though. After some time away from the hatch, Locke returns and, a bit refreshed, has better luck remembering the black-light map.
Bernard met and instantly fell in love with Rose after helping her get unstuck in the snow. A lifelong bachelor, Bernard proposes to Rose during a visit to Niagara Falls at age 56. She accepts, but only after telling him she has cancer and has only a year to live. Bernard decides, without cluing her in first, to take her a faith healer in Australia for the honeymoon. He drags her into the middle of the outback near Ayers Rock, to see Isaac of Uluru.
The faith healer tells Rose about special pockets of geological or magnetic energy that he can tap into, which allows him to heal people. But he also says he can't help her. It's not the right place for her to be healed, Isaac of Uluru said. Still, Rose decides to tell Bernard it worked, so they can simply enjoy their time together and not continue running around searching for a miracle with her remaining time. She eventually tells him the truth on the island and reveals that the island, much as it allowed Locke to walk again, has cured her cancer. That's why she doesn't want to leave, so Bernard stops building his sign.
Mr. Eko and Charlie are building a church.
QUOTABLE
Eko: "People are saved in different ways, Bernard."
Bernard: "I think I liked you better when you just hit people with your stick." — an exchange when Bernard asks Eko and Charlie for help making his SOS sign but they elect to continue building the church instead
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Convinced the non-tailies have had life easy and are no longer actively seeking rescue, Bernard wants to build a massive SOS on an adjacent beach. Rose pooh-poohs his plan in front of everyone, believing its a silly and fantastic (as in fantasy-based) plan that will only breed false hope.
Jack has a plan of his own. He wants to go find The Others and try to swap "Henry," who still hasn't been revealed quite yet as Ben Linus, for Walt. Jack invites Kate to go along with him; he got the gun from Ana Lucia. As Kate apologizes for kissing Jack, and Jack says he's not sorry she did it, Michael appears from the jungle and passes out at Jack's feet.
Meanwhile, Locke tries to recreate the map from memory but becomes frustrated. He's less and less worried about entering the code, because of Ben Linus' contention he didn't enter the code when Locke was trapped under the blast door. It's eating away at Locke, who declares to Rose that he's done with the hatch. Rose, who remembers Locke in a wheelchair from the airport, suspects Locke is aware that the island is special though. After some time away from the hatch, Locke returns and, a bit refreshed, has better luck remembering the black-light map.
Bernard met and instantly fell in love with Rose after helping her get unstuck in the snow. A lifelong bachelor, Bernard proposes to Rose during a visit to Niagara Falls at age 56. She accepts, but only after telling him she has cancer and has only a year to live. Bernard decides, without cluing her in first, to take her a faith healer in Australia for the honeymoon. He drags her into the middle of the outback near Ayers Rock, to see Isaac of Uluru.
The faith healer tells Rose about special pockets of geological or magnetic energy that he can tap into, which allows him to heal people. But he also says he can't help her. It's not the right place for her to be healed, Isaac of Uluru said. Still, Rose decides to tell Bernard it worked, so they can simply enjoy their time together and not continue running around searching for a miracle with her remaining time. She eventually tells him the truth on the island and reveals that the island, much as it allowed Locke to walk again, has cured her cancer. That's why she doesn't want to leave, so Bernard stops building his sign.
Mr. Eko and Charlie are building a church.
QUOTABLE
Eko: "People are saved in different ways, Bernard."
Bernard: "I think I liked you better when you just hit people with your stick." — an exchange when Bernard asks Eko and Charlie for help making his SOS sign but they elect to continue building the church instead
Season 2, Episode 18: Dave
Hugo Reyes is insane (and he digs crazy chicks, but I digress). Any remaining doubt is erased by this episode, where he first starts to see his nonexistent friend Dave on the island. Meanwhile, the group must decide what to do next with Ben Linus, who has been exposed as an impostor. He is not, in fact, "Henry Gale from Minnesota."
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Turns out that Hurley walked out onto a deck that had 23 people on it but was designed to hold eight, as his therapist Dr. Brooks explains during a session at the asylum. Two people died and Hurley blamed himself, becoming a recluse and punishing himself with food.
On the island, Libby is helping Hurley exercise. When he confesses his food stash to her, the psychologist helps him break his bondage by encouraging him to destroy the stash, which he does and feels liberated for having done so. Of course, the rest of the camp is now racing to the new food stash and when Hurley finds out about it, he's very distraught. No sooner has he beaten his demon when it challenges him again. And so, he turns to Dave.
Dave is a short, bald fella in a bathrobe and grandfatherly slippers that exists only in Hurley's mind. Dave, who we first meet with Hurley in the mental hospital, doesn't think Hurley needs to change and, in fact, encourages him not to change. Chasing Dave around the island, Hurley goes ballistic on Sawyer when he makes his typical snide remarks. The blowup prompts him to decide to move back to the caves alone, so he can't hurt anyone.
Along the way, he meets Dave again. Now, Hurley knows Dave is a figment of his imagination because Dr. Brooks showed him a Polaroid in which he supposedly had his arm around Dave, but in reality nobody was there. Hurley opted not to leave the mental hospital with Dave when he made a break for it and tries to get better, which he succeeded in doing until the visions of Dave started up again in the wake of the food shipment.
Dave tries to convince Hurley that he's still in a coma and that island is all a hallucination in his own mind. He shreds pretty much every aspect of Hurley's life and then leads him to a cliff, where Dave jumps off. He tells Hurley that he'll wake up if only he'll leap off the cliff, but Libby talks him out of committing suicide by convincing him she is real and then kissing him. Seems like gravy for the jolly tub of goo that is Hurley, who seems to remember Libby from somewhere else. But it may not be gravy after all when we learn Libby was locked up in the psych ward with Hurley.
Jack patches up Locke, who's leg is likely broken. But he refuses a wheelchair for obvious reasons and demands crutches instead. Meanwhile, Sayid tries to make good on his promise to shoot Ben Linus if he turned out to be a liar, but misses when Ana Lucia intervenes. (Something tells me Sayid will get another shot at the little bugger.) When Jack goes to tell the remaining survivors about Ben Linus, Locke pays the captive whose identity still isn't officially known a visit, during which he tells Locke he never actually pushed the button.
Elsewhere, Mr. Eko is continuing to build his church and gets help from Charlie. Of course, we don't actually know it's a church yet.
QUOTABLE
Locke: "God only knows how long we've been here."
Ben Linus (as captive): God doesn't know how long we've been here. He can't see this island anymore than the rest of the world can."
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Turns out that Hurley walked out onto a deck that had 23 people on it but was designed to hold eight, as his therapist Dr. Brooks explains during a session at the asylum. Two people died and Hurley blamed himself, becoming a recluse and punishing himself with food.
On the island, Libby is helping Hurley exercise. When he confesses his food stash to her, the psychologist helps him break his bondage by encouraging him to destroy the stash, which he does and feels liberated for having done so. Of course, the rest of the camp is now racing to the new food stash and when Hurley finds out about it, he's very distraught. No sooner has he beaten his demon when it challenges him again. And so, he turns to Dave.
Dave is a short, bald fella in a bathrobe and grandfatherly slippers that exists only in Hurley's mind. Dave, who we first meet with Hurley in the mental hospital, doesn't think Hurley needs to change and, in fact, encourages him not to change. Chasing Dave around the island, Hurley goes ballistic on Sawyer when he makes his typical snide remarks. The blowup prompts him to decide to move back to the caves alone, so he can't hurt anyone.
Along the way, he meets Dave again. Now, Hurley knows Dave is a figment of his imagination because Dr. Brooks showed him a Polaroid in which he supposedly had his arm around Dave, but in reality nobody was there. Hurley opted not to leave the mental hospital with Dave when he made a break for it and tries to get better, which he succeeded in doing until the visions of Dave started up again in the wake of the food shipment.
Dave tries to convince Hurley that he's still in a coma and that island is all a hallucination in his own mind. He shreds pretty much every aspect of Hurley's life and then leads him to a cliff, where Dave jumps off. He tells Hurley that he'll wake up if only he'll leap off the cliff, but Libby talks him out of committing suicide by convincing him she is real and then kissing him. Seems like gravy for the jolly tub of goo that is Hurley, who seems to remember Libby from somewhere else. But it may not be gravy after all when we learn Libby was locked up in the psych ward with Hurley.
Jack patches up Locke, who's leg is likely broken. But he refuses a wheelchair for obvious reasons and demands crutches instead. Meanwhile, Sayid tries to make good on his promise to shoot Ben Linus if he turned out to be a liar, but misses when Ana Lucia intervenes. (Something tells me Sayid will get another shot at the little bugger.) When Jack goes to tell the remaining survivors about Ben Linus, Locke pays the captive whose identity still isn't officially known a visit, during which he tells Locke he never actually pushed the button.
Elsewhere, Mr. Eko is continuing to build his church and gets help from Charlie. Of course, we don't actually know it's a church yet.
QUOTABLE
Locke: "God only knows how long we've been here."
Ben Linus (as captive): God doesn't know how long we've been here. He can't see this island anymore than the rest of the world can."
Season 2, Episode 17: Lockdown
The return of his father sends John Locke's life before coming to the island into a spiral again, while is seriously injured in an accident at the hatch and only "Henry Gale from Minnesota" can help.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Locke has decided to propose to Helen on a romantic picnic, but the plans are scuttled when she reads Anthony Cooper's obituary. For the sake of closure, Locke goes to the funeral, where he is dogged by a couple shadowy figures and notices a silver Mercedes that speeds off as the ceremony concludes. He forgives his father at the graveside. A home inspector, Locke checks out Nadia's home for her and spies the silver Mercedes across the road.
Upon investigation, it's his dad, who faked his death to duck the mob types he ripped off in a retirement con. Anthony Cooper convinces Locke to go retrieve the $700,000 he stole from a safe-deposit box, but returns home to find the thugs in his kitchen waiting for him. He proceeds to lie to Helen about knowing Anthony Cooper is alive. But she follows Locke when he meets his dad at the Flightline Motel to drop off the money. After swatting Anthony Cooper in the face, she storms away from Locke and rebuffs his impromptu proposal in the motel parking lot.
Across the island, Charlie finds the grave of "Henry's" wife and the giant smiley-face balloon, just as the map indicated. But back at the hatch, the shifty and beady-eyed "Henry" continues pitting Locke against Jack. Alone, Locke hears static over the intercom, but realizes too late it is a countdown that slams the blast doors down around him and locks him away from the hatch computer. Unable to lift the doors himself, Locke enlists "Henry's" help, which he grants but only with the promise of protection from the remaining survivors.
Locke gets the door open with "Henry's" help, but when he tries to slide under it with only a toolbox propping it up, the door slides down and pins his thigh. He proceeds to tell "Henry" about the hatch computer and the code that must be entered. Henry goes through the ventilation and enters the code, which causes the lights to flicker before the blast doors are raised. During the flicker, black lights come on in the living quarter where Locke is trapped revealing a detailed map on the back of the blast door.
Jack talks Kate out of going to the hatch and the two suddenly notice a light flashing in the jungle. It a food drop. While checking it out, Sayid, Ana Lucia and Charlie return. So the five head for the hatch and find "Henry" attending to an injured Locke. Sayid trains his gun on "Henry," who as it turns out had lied. The balloon and grave were where he said they'd be, but the grave contained a middle-aged black man with a Minnesota driver's license that read Henry Gale.
At the beach, Jack happens upon a poker game between Sawyer, Hurley and Kate and is dealt in by the ever-taunting Sawyer. Of course, Jack, who learned to play during a stint in Phuket, Thailand, annihilates Sawyer, winning back the stash of stolen medication.
QUOTABLE
"Hey, maybe he left you his kidney." — Helen to Locke after coming across Anthony Cooper's obit
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Locke has decided to propose to Helen on a romantic picnic, but the plans are scuttled when she reads Anthony Cooper's obituary. For the sake of closure, Locke goes to the funeral, where he is dogged by a couple shadowy figures and notices a silver Mercedes that speeds off as the ceremony concludes. He forgives his father at the graveside. A home inspector, Locke checks out Nadia's home for her and spies the silver Mercedes across the road.
Upon investigation, it's his dad, who faked his death to duck the mob types he ripped off in a retirement con. Anthony Cooper convinces Locke to go retrieve the $700,000 he stole from a safe-deposit box, but returns home to find the thugs in his kitchen waiting for him. He proceeds to lie to Helen about knowing Anthony Cooper is alive. But she follows Locke when he meets his dad at the Flightline Motel to drop off the money. After swatting Anthony Cooper in the face, she storms away from Locke and rebuffs his impromptu proposal in the motel parking lot.
Across the island, Charlie finds the grave of "Henry's" wife and the giant smiley-face balloon, just as the map indicated. But back at the hatch, the shifty and beady-eyed "Henry" continues pitting Locke against Jack. Alone, Locke hears static over the intercom, but realizes too late it is a countdown that slams the blast doors down around him and locks him away from the hatch computer. Unable to lift the doors himself, Locke enlists "Henry's" help, which he grants but only with the promise of protection from the remaining survivors.
Locke gets the door open with "Henry's" help, but when he tries to slide under it with only a toolbox propping it up, the door slides down and pins his thigh. He proceeds to tell "Henry" about the hatch computer and the code that must be entered. Henry goes through the ventilation and enters the code, which causes the lights to flicker before the blast doors are raised. During the flicker, black lights come on in the living quarter where Locke is trapped revealing a detailed map on the back of the blast door.
Jack talks Kate out of going to the hatch and the two suddenly notice a light flashing in the jungle. It a food drop. While checking it out, Sayid, Ana Lucia and Charlie return. So the five head for the hatch and find "Henry" attending to an injured Locke. Sayid trains his gun on "Henry," who as it turns out had lied. The balloon and grave were where he said they'd be, but the grave contained a middle-aged black man with a Minnesota driver's license that read Henry Gale.
At the beach, Jack happens upon a poker game between Sawyer, Hurley and Kate and is dealt in by the ever-taunting Sawyer. Of course, Jack, who learned to play during a stint in Phuket, Thailand, annihilates Sawyer, winning back the stash of stolen medication.
QUOTABLE
"Hey, maybe he left you his kidney." — Helen to Locke after coming across Anthony Cooper's obit
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Season 2, Episode 16: The Whole Truth
Sun has a lot of dirty little secrets. Obviously, she speaks English, a fact her husband didn't know, but how that came about — among other things — is the central focus of the episode. Well, that and the continuing saga that is "Henry Gale from Minnesota."
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Sun and Jin were trying to start a family before coming to the island. Jin thought it would change everything and force Sun's father, Mr. Paik, to give him a safer job, but the couple has failed to conceive. A fertility specialist tells Sun she has endometriosis and no chance to get pregnant, but later tracks down Sun and confesses that it's Jin who is infertile. Knowing what he does and who he works for, the doctor didn't want to break the news he was shooting blanks worried Jin would bust him up.
Sun, meanwhile, is learning English from Jae Lee, though she insists she never had an affair with him. That's a dubious claim at best. She's actually glad a baby won't be coming, because she wants to leave Jin and make a new life in the United States.
Jin is angry that Sun is working in her garden again alone, so he destroys it and insists she not expose herself to attack anymore. She's unhappy with his decree, but she's also getting sick and goes to Sawyer for a pregnancy test, a Widmore Labs pregnancy test, and enlists Kate's help and support. Turns out, there's a bun in the oven. Out of guilt, Jin replants Sun's garden. She then tells him she's pregnant.
Regarding "Henry," Locke wants Ana Lucia to try her hand at interrogation at "my hatch." She convinces him to draw a map to his balloon and wife's grave. But rather than showing it to Locke or Jack, he takes it to Sayid. The two along with Charlie set off to verify "Henry's" claims. Along the way, Ana Lucia apologizes to Sayid, who blames The Others more than her. He hopes "Henry" is lying, so he'll have an excuse to shoot him. Freed by Jack into the main hatch for breakfast, "Henry" tells Locke and Jack about drawing the map and makes a joke about how he'd be setting a trap for Ana Lucia and whoever went with her is he really were one of The Others.
QUOTABLE
"Jack and Locke are a little too busy worrying about Locke and Jack." — Ana Lucia explaining to Sayid why she came to him with the map instead of Jack
"God, you guys have some real trust issues, don't you." — Ben Linus, posing as Henry Gale, to Jack and Locke upon telling them he map a map to his balloon for Ana Lucia
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Sun and Jin were trying to start a family before coming to the island. Jin thought it would change everything and force Sun's father, Mr. Paik, to give him a safer job, but the couple has failed to conceive. A fertility specialist tells Sun she has endometriosis and no chance to get pregnant, but later tracks down Sun and confesses that it's Jin who is infertile. Knowing what he does and who he works for, the doctor didn't want to break the news he was shooting blanks worried Jin would bust him up.
Sun, meanwhile, is learning English from Jae Lee, though she insists she never had an affair with him. That's a dubious claim at best. She's actually glad a baby won't be coming, because she wants to leave Jin and make a new life in the United States.
Jin is angry that Sun is working in her garden again alone, so he destroys it and insists she not expose herself to attack anymore. She's unhappy with his decree, but she's also getting sick and goes to Sawyer for a pregnancy test, a Widmore Labs pregnancy test, and enlists Kate's help and support. Turns out, there's a bun in the oven. Out of guilt, Jin replants Sun's garden. She then tells him she's pregnant.
Regarding "Henry," Locke wants Ana Lucia to try her hand at interrogation at "my hatch." She convinces him to draw a map to his balloon and wife's grave. But rather than showing it to Locke or Jack, he takes it to Sayid. The two along with Charlie set off to verify "Henry's" claims. Along the way, Ana Lucia apologizes to Sayid, who blames The Others more than her. He hopes "Henry" is lying, so he'll have an excuse to shoot him. Freed by Jack into the main hatch for breakfast, "Henry" tells Locke and Jack about drawing the map and makes a joke about how he'd be setting a trap for Ana Lucia and whoever went with her is he really were one of The Others.
QUOTABLE
"Jack and Locke are a little too busy worrying about Locke and Jack." — Ana Lucia explaining to Sayid why she came to him with the map instead of Jack
"God, you guys have some real trust issues, don't you." — Ben Linus, posing as Henry Gale, to Jack and Locke upon telling them he map a map to his balloon for Ana Lucia
Season 2, Episode 15: Maternity Leave
Turns out Rousseau is anything but a threat. She's already won over Sayid, but few others among the survivors. That will change, of course. No flashbacks, aside from Claire's during her abduction are offered in this episode.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Baby Aaron is sick, but Jack isn't concerned and wants to let the fever run its course. Claire, though, is convinced The Others have done something to Aaron. Bits and pieces of her period of abduction are flooding back, so she enlists Libby's help to being out additional repressed memories. Among them: Ethan Rom — an anagram for Other Man — was a doctor and administered prenatal shots to the baby at a Dharma medical station.
Rousseau again approaches Claire — she'd already kidnapped him once, hoping to trade him for her daughter — but is shooed away by Kate. Claire begins to suspect Rousseau could lead her to that station, though, so she and Kate, who used her doe eyes to get a gun from Sawyer, set off to find the reclusive Frenchwoman. She leaves Aaron with Sun.
Upon tracking down Rousseau, she only agrees to help when Claire mentions a teenage girl who was at the station. Claire also remembers a nursery The Others have built for Aaron and we see Ethan talking with Walt's kidnapper, who doesn't have a beard anymore. He is unhappy that Ethan didn't get his list made. Against his friends' wishes, he takes Claire for a walk and implores her to give The Others her baby (giving her sour water to drink on the walk?). Ethan also mentions that he's going to miss Claire, who is doped up and quite confused during her stay with The Others.
Rousseau takes her to where Claire scratched her and Claire eventually finds her way back to the medical station, which is now empty. The nursery has been taken down. During the search of the facility, Kate finds The Others' costumes, which disguise them as riff-raff, but the fridge with vaccine for Aaron is empty. Claire eventually remembers that Rousseau actually saved her from The Others and carried her back to the survivors' camp. Claire tells her that she met Alex and that Alex isn't like the rest of the group, who had planned to kill her and cut Aaron from her womb the night Alex helped Claire escape.
Elsewhere, Mr. Eko is building a log lodge of some kind. At the hatch to get a saw, he notices "Henry's" cot and confronts Jack about the captive. Eko asks to speak to him alone. He shakes "Henry's" hand and confesses that he killed two of The Others, but that he's back on a righteous path and regrets it. Eko then cuts off the two scruffies from his beard.
Aaron is OK in the end, though, Rousseau warns that Claire will have to kill him if he's infected. Meanwhile, "Henry" continues driving a wedge between Locke and Jack.
QUOTABLE
"You'll thank me for this one day." — Alex when helping Claire escape from the medical station
"Are you the genius or are you the guy who always feels like he's in the shadow of the genius?" — "Henry" asks Locke in reference to a conversation he overheard between Locke and Jack about Hemingway's jealousy of Fyodor Dostoevsky
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Baby Aaron is sick, but Jack isn't concerned and wants to let the fever run its course. Claire, though, is convinced The Others have done something to Aaron. Bits and pieces of her period of abduction are flooding back, so she enlists Libby's help to being out additional repressed memories. Among them: Ethan Rom — an anagram for Other Man — was a doctor and administered prenatal shots to the baby at a Dharma medical station.
Rousseau again approaches Claire — she'd already kidnapped him once, hoping to trade him for her daughter — but is shooed away by Kate. Claire begins to suspect Rousseau could lead her to that station, though, so she and Kate, who used her doe eyes to get a gun from Sawyer, set off to find the reclusive Frenchwoman. She leaves Aaron with Sun.
Upon tracking down Rousseau, she only agrees to help when Claire mentions a teenage girl who was at the station. Claire also remembers a nursery The Others have built for Aaron and we see Ethan talking with Walt's kidnapper, who doesn't have a beard anymore. He is unhappy that Ethan didn't get his list made. Against his friends' wishes, he takes Claire for a walk and implores her to give The Others her baby (giving her sour water to drink on the walk?). Ethan also mentions that he's going to miss Claire, who is doped up and quite confused during her stay with The Others.
Rousseau takes her to where Claire scratched her and Claire eventually finds her way back to the medical station, which is now empty. The nursery has been taken down. During the search of the facility, Kate finds The Others' costumes, which disguise them as riff-raff, but the fridge with vaccine for Aaron is empty. Claire eventually remembers that Rousseau actually saved her from The Others and carried her back to the survivors' camp. Claire tells her that she met Alex and that Alex isn't like the rest of the group, who had planned to kill her and cut Aaron from her womb the night Alex helped Claire escape.
Elsewhere, Mr. Eko is building a log lodge of some kind. At the hatch to get a saw, he notices "Henry's" cot and confronts Jack about the captive. Eko asks to speak to him alone. He shakes "Henry's" hand and confesses that he killed two of The Others, but that he's back on a righteous path and regrets it. Eko then cuts off the two scruffies from his beard.
Aaron is OK in the end, though, Rousseau warns that Claire will have to kill him if he's infected. Meanwhile, "Henry" continues driving a wedge between Locke and Jack.
QUOTABLE
"You'll thank me for this one day." — Alex when helping Claire escape from the medical station
"Are you the genius or are you the guy who always feels like he's in the shadow of the genius?" — "Henry" asks Locke in reference to a conversation he overheard between Locke and Jack about Hemingway's jealousy of Fyodor Dostoevsky
Season 2, Episode 14: One of Them
So, it turns out the Americans are responsible for turning Sayid into a torturer. But it's a skill that comes in handy when Rousseau hands over a prisoner, which Jack and Locke imprison in the hatch's armory.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Rousseau reappears at the survivors' camp looking for Sayid. She has captured one of The Others in the jungle and wants Sayid to have him. It's Ben Linus, the leader of The Others, but that isn't revealed until much, much later. For the time being, he lies and says he is "Henry Gale from Minnesota." Rousseau warns that he will lie for a long time and that he is one of them, even shooting him in the back with a crossbow when he tries to escape.
"Henry" claims to have crashed in a balloon with his wife while trying to cross the Pacific. Jack treats his injuries, but Sayid remains suspicious. Locke is inclined to believe "Henry," but wants to be sure and changes the combo on the armory door so Sayid can have some alone time with him. Jack, of course, is furious. After asking him for details about how "Henry" buried his wife, Sayid beats him bloody, insisting he would remember every shovelful of dirt if he had buried the woman he loved.
As the alarm begins to sound on the hatch computer, Jack detains Locke. He still doesn't think anything will happen. Jack forces a panicked Locke to open the armory door in exchange for the freedom to enter the code. Jack halts the interrogation. Sayid tells Charlie about "Henry." He says Jack has forgotten what The Others did to Claire and Charlie, but he hasn't
The Gulf War is winding down in the flashbacks, and Sayid, who was part of the Iraqi invasion force that entered Kuwait, is captured by American forces. Kate's father, Sam Austen, tries to get him to help out with the interrogations of other captors. The Americans are interested in the location of a captured pilot, in particular. Sayid is chastised by his former superior officer for aiding the enemy.
Of course, that same superior, Tariz, didn't stand up to the U.S. forces when they breached their communications compound. He also orchestrated a Sarin gas attack on a village where some of Sayid's relatives lived. Sayid is forced to torture his superior for the whereabouts of the pilot, who had already been executed. Sayid is released, but only after he is used presumably to torture many more of his countrymen.
Elsewhere on the island, a tree frog is driving Sawyer nuts. While out looking for it, he stumbles upon Hurley and his secret stash of food. He forces Hurley to help him find the frog, which he eventually crushed in his bare hand.
QUOTABLE
"I know because I feel no guilt for what I did to him." — Sayid describing his torturer's intuition to Charlie after beating "Henry Gale," who is actually the leader of The Others
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Rousseau reappears at the survivors' camp looking for Sayid. She has captured one of The Others in the jungle and wants Sayid to have him. It's Ben Linus, the leader of The Others, but that isn't revealed until much, much later. For the time being, he lies and says he is "Henry Gale from Minnesota." Rousseau warns that he will lie for a long time and that he is one of them, even shooting him in the back with a crossbow when he tries to escape.
"Henry" claims to have crashed in a balloon with his wife while trying to cross the Pacific. Jack treats his injuries, but Sayid remains suspicious. Locke is inclined to believe "Henry," but wants to be sure and changes the combo on the armory door so Sayid can have some alone time with him. Jack, of course, is furious. After asking him for details about how "Henry" buried his wife, Sayid beats him bloody, insisting he would remember every shovelful of dirt if he had buried the woman he loved.
As the alarm begins to sound on the hatch computer, Jack detains Locke. He still doesn't think anything will happen. Jack forces a panicked Locke to open the armory door in exchange for the freedom to enter the code. Jack halts the interrogation. Sayid tells Charlie about "Henry." He says Jack has forgotten what The Others did to Claire and Charlie, but he hasn't
The Gulf War is winding down in the flashbacks, and Sayid, who was part of the Iraqi invasion force that entered Kuwait, is captured by American forces. Kate's father, Sam Austen, tries to get him to help out with the interrogations of other captors. The Americans are interested in the location of a captured pilot, in particular. Sayid is chastised by his former superior officer for aiding the enemy.
Of course, that same superior, Tariz, didn't stand up to the U.S. forces when they breached their communications compound. He also orchestrated a Sarin gas attack on a village where some of Sayid's relatives lived. Sayid is forced to torture his superior for the whereabouts of the pilot, who had already been executed. Sayid is released, but only after he is used presumably to torture many more of his countrymen.
Elsewhere on the island, a tree frog is driving Sawyer nuts. While out looking for it, he stumbles upon Hurley and his secret stash of food. He forces Hurley to help him find the frog, which he eventually crushed in his bare hand.
QUOTABLE
"I know because I feel no guilt for what I did to him." — Sayid describing his torturer's intuition to Charlie after beating "Henry Gale," who is actually the leader of The Others
Season 2, Episode 13: The Long Con
Ah, Sawyer. How can you not love this guy? Unless, of course, you're the one he swindled during his days as a con man before crashing aboard Oceanic 815. As the trust issues within the group of survivors get worse, Sawyer plots revenge against Jack and Charlie aims to get back at Locke.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
The episode opens with Jack adding the 9mm case to the armory's collection. Locke suggests it might not be a bad place to keep the medication either. Still recovering from being shot in the shoulder, Sawyer has walked off with some pain pills, which Jack takes back after rifling through his tent. Sawyer vows revenge, and he'll get it.
Tensions continue to heat up as Jack and Ana Lucia talk of starting of an army, but recruitment isn't going so well. People start to pay more attention when Sun is abducted and roughed up while working alone in her garden. Ana Lucia thinks it was The Others, but Sawyer has cast suspicion back on her (and perhaps Jack) as a way to help convince the survivors to prepare for war.
Bolstered by Sawyer's suspicions, Kate questions Jack about whether it's the kind of thing Ana Lucia might try. Jack, in turn, questions Ana Lucia, but is satisfied she had nothing to do with Sun's abduction. Still, Jin wants a gun to protect his wife now and people are joining the army. Sawyer then goes to Locke and tells him to beware of Jack, who will make a play for the guns soon. Locke, in response, decides to move them.
When Jack shows up with Jin to get one of the 9mm, they find the armory empty. That was Sawyer's way to get back at Jack, who then angrily confronts Locke about moving the guns. Locke swears they are safe, but only because he didn't realize Charlie, who had attacked Sun to get the whole thing rolling, followed him and then stole them from the hiding place and gave them to Sawyer. Now, Sawyer has all the guns — and he doesn't intend on taking orders from Jack or Locke anymore.
Away from the island, we flash back to Sawyer's long con of a woman who was handed $600,000 in a divorce settlement. He uses a familiar move — a briefcase full of cash opening as he leaves a one-night stand — to reel her in, which she doesn't immediately fall for. Cassidy does, however, want Sawyer to teach her how to con people. He starts with a simple jewelry con and the two form a quaint relationship over the next six months. But Sawyer's partner, Gordy, who set him up with Cassidy to con, is getting anxious for him to get on with the swindle.
Insisting he is now in love with Cassidy, Sawyer says he won't go through with it. Naturally, Gordy threatens harm to the happy couple. But, as it turns out, Cassidy was the long con in the first place. But Sawyer convinces her that he's changed and gets her to flee to Sioux City (with a duffel she thinks contains her cash but, in fact, does not). Sawyer then saunters out with her $600,000, having no intention any longer to share the spoils with Gordy.
Sayid is still understandably miffed about Shannon's death. Hurley, who got the short-wave radio from Bernard, tries to cheer him up with a present to tinker with, but Sayid isn't interested. He relents and eventually fixes the handset so he and Hurley can spend an evening on the beach listening to big band sounds.
QUOTABLE
"There's a new sheriff in town, boys. You all best get used to it." — Sawyer after partnering with Charlie to steal all the guns
"It could be coming from anywhere." — Sayid, explaining the radio signal he is listening to with Hurley
"Or any time. Just kidding, dude." — Hurley's response, which hints at the time jumping to come in future seasons
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
The episode opens with Jack adding the 9mm case to the armory's collection. Locke suggests it might not be a bad place to keep the medication either. Still recovering from being shot in the shoulder, Sawyer has walked off with some pain pills, which Jack takes back after rifling through his tent. Sawyer vows revenge, and he'll get it.
Tensions continue to heat up as Jack and Ana Lucia talk of starting of an army, but recruitment isn't going so well. People start to pay more attention when Sun is abducted and roughed up while working alone in her garden. Ana Lucia thinks it was The Others, but Sawyer has cast suspicion back on her (and perhaps Jack) as a way to help convince the survivors to prepare for war.
Bolstered by Sawyer's suspicions, Kate questions Jack about whether it's the kind of thing Ana Lucia might try. Jack, in turn, questions Ana Lucia, but is satisfied she had nothing to do with Sun's abduction. Still, Jin wants a gun to protect his wife now and people are joining the army. Sawyer then goes to Locke and tells him to beware of Jack, who will make a play for the guns soon. Locke, in response, decides to move them.
When Jack shows up with Jin to get one of the 9mm, they find the armory empty. That was Sawyer's way to get back at Jack, who then angrily confronts Locke about moving the guns. Locke swears they are safe, but only because he didn't realize Charlie, who had attacked Sun to get the whole thing rolling, followed him and then stole them from the hiding place and gave them to Sawyer. Now, Sawyer has all the guns — and he doesn't intend on taking orders from Jack or Locke anymore.
Away from the island, we flash back to Sawyer's long con of a woman who was handed $600,000 in a divorce settlement. He uses a familiar move — a briefcase full of cash opening as he leaves a one-night stand — to reel her in, which she doesn't immediately fall for. Cassidy does, however, want Sawyer to teach her how to con people. He starts with a simple jewelry con and the two form a quaint relationship over the next six months. But Sawyer's partner, Gordy, who set him up with Cassidy to con, is getting anxious for him to get on with the swindle.
Insisting he is now in love with Cassidy, Sawyer says he won't go through with it. Naturally, Gordy threatens harm to the happy couple. But, as it turns out, Cassidy was the long con in the first place. But Sawyer convinces her that he's changed and gets her to flee to Sioux City (with a duffel she thinks contains her cash but, in fact, does not). Sawyer then saunters out with her $600,000, having no intention any longer to share the spoils with Gordy.
Sayid is still understandably miffed about Shannon's death. Hurley, who got the short-wave radio from Bernard, tries to cheer him up with a present to tinker with, but Sayid isn't interested. He relents and eventually fixes the handset so he and Hurley can spend an evening on the beach listening to big band sounds.
QUOTABLE
"There's a new sheriff in town, boys. You all best get used to it." — Sawyer after partnering with Charlie to steal all the guns
"It could be coming from anywhere." — Sayid, explaining the radio signal he is listening to with Hurley
"Or any time. Just kidding, dude." — Hurley's response, which hints at the time jumping to come in future seasons
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Season 2, Episode 12: Fire + Water
Charlie's personal struggles on and off the island are chronicled. The roller-coaster of my impression of him swings back toward disdain with this episode as far as his on-island persona, but it also strikes a blow for sympathy in his pre-island affairs.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Charlie, of course, came from a poor British family, though, it's hard to tell judging by the toys both kids received at Christmas. Liam was loaded down with typical Toys R Us fare, but Charlie was given a piano. His mother believes in his musical gift and further believes he "will get us out of here. All of us." Of course, his dad, a butcher, doesn't agree and Liam is skeptical.
Doesn't matter as it turns out, because it's just a dream. And as it progresses, Charlie finds himself playing a piano in the surf (a la Augustana) then hears Aaron trapped inside, but can't open the piano's lid. He wakes up worried about Aaron, but Claire is still mad about the whole lying-about-heroin thing. Charlie notices that Locke has stepped into his role as Claire's caretaker even more. Now, he's really beginning to resent it.
During another dream, Charlie sees Aaron floating out to sea in cradle and rescues him. On the beach, his mother Megan and Claire kneeling in prayer together telling him the baby is in danger and he must save it. A dove also swoops in from the clouds, a sign Mr. Eko will later tell him is an indication Aaron must be baptized. When Charlie comes to, he has stolen Aaron from his crib and is standing with the baby in the surf at night. Now, Claire is über pissed and Locke assumes Charlie is using again. He lies to Locke about burning all the statues.
Charlie voices his concerns about Aaron to Claire, but she's still angry. After being shooed away by Kate, Charlie visits his heroin stash, where Locke catches him breaking open one of the Virgin Marys. Charlie insists he was planning to destroy them, but Locke doesn't buy and confiscates the remaining statues, which he'll lock up in the hatch's armory. At Claire's request, he then moves back to the beach and next to her for protection. Charlie then starts a fire in the jungle as a diversion, so he can steal Aaron again. But when he's caught, the entire camp is angry with Charlie and Locke gives him a beating. Still, just to be safe, Claire eventually seeks out Eko so he can baptize her and Aaron.
During the Charlie-centered flashbacks, we see him covering for his brother, who didn't show up to the hospital when his daughter, who was named Megan after the brothers' mom, was born because he was strung out on heroin at Charlie's apartment. Still a mess, Liam gets Drive Shaft fired from a diapers commercial. No sooner does a now-clean Charlie start writing again, when his brother Liam sells his piano in a last-ditch effort to save his relationship with Karen, the mother of his newborn daughter. Her family is in Australia and he has a job and a drug treatment stay lined up there. It's Liam's best hope for salvaging his family, but wrecks Charlie's life all over again.
Hurley seeks Sawyer's advice on wooing Libby and does laundry with her at the hatch.
QUOTABLE
"You've given up the right to be believed, Charlie. ... Trust is a hard to thing to win back. Claire needs time. You should leave her and the baby alone for a while." — Locke trying to direct Charlie back to sanity
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Charlie, of course, came from a poor British family, though, it's hard to tell judging by the toys both kids received at Christmas. Liam was loaded down with typical Toys R Us fare, but Charlie was given a piano. His mother believes in his musical gift and further believes he "will get us out of here. All of us." Of course, his dad, a butcher, doesn't agree and Liam is skeptical.
Doesn't matter as it turns out, because it's just a dream. And as it progresses, Charlie finds himself playing a piano in the surf (a la Augustana) then hears Aaron trapped inside, but can't open the piano's lid. He wakes up worried about Aaron, but Claire is still mad about the whole lying-about-heroin thing. Charlie notices that Locke has stepped into his role as Claire's caretaker even more. Now, he's really beginning to resent it.
During another dream, Charlie sees Aaron floating out to sea in cradle and rescues him. On the beach, his mother Megan and Claire kneeling in prayer together telling him the baby is in danger and he must save it. A dove also swoops in from the clouds, a sign Mr. Eko will later tell him is an indication Aaron must be baptized. When Charlie comes to, he has stolen Aaron from his crib and is standing with the baby in the surf at night. Now, Claire is über pissed and Locke assumes Charlie is using again. He lies to Locke about burning all the statues.
Charlie voices his concerns about Aaron to Claire, but she's still angry. After being shooed away by Kate, Charlie visits his heroin stash, where Locke catches him breaking open one of the Virgin Marys. Charlie insists he was planning to destroy them, but Locke doesn't buy and confiscates the remaining statues, which he'll lock up in the hatch's armory. At Claire's request, he then moves back to the beach and next to her for protection. Charlie then starts a fire in the jungle as a diversion, so he can steal Aaron again. But when he's caught, the entire camp is angry with Charlie and Locke gives him a beating. Still, just to be safe, Claire eventually seeks out Eko so he can baptize her and Aaron.
During the Charlie-centered flashbacks, we see him covering for his brother, who didn't show up to the hospital when his daughter, who was named Megan after the brothers' mom, was born because he was strung out on heroin at Charlie's apartment. Still a mess, Liam gets Drive Shaft fired from a diapers commercial. No sooner does a now-clean Charlie start writing again, when his brother Liam sells his piano in a last-ditch effort to save his relationship with Karen, the mother of his newborn daughter. Her family is in Australia and he has a job and a drug treatment stay lined up there. It's Liam's best hope for salvaging his family, but wrecks Charlie's life all over again.
Hurley seeks Sawyer's advice on wooing Libby and does laundry with her at the hatch.
QUOTABLE
"You've given up the right to be believed, Charlie. ... Trust is a hard to thing to win back. Claire needs time. You should leave her and the baby alone for a while." — Locke trying to direct Charlie back to sanity
Season 2, Episode 11: The Hunting Party
The unraveling Jack's life before arriving on the island continues to unfold, while Michael's quest to find Walt leads several survivors into an encounter with The Others. And nearly costs Kate her life.
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After successfully repairing Sarah's crushed spine (and marrying her), Jack's exploits take on a life of their own. A wealthy Italian man, Angelo Busoni, who has a supposedly inoperable spinal tumor, comes to Jack hoping he'll attempt to perform another miracle. Christian disapproves of Jack taking on the case, but he decides to try anyway.
Falling for the man's daughter, Gabriela Busoni, Jack performs the surgery after months of preparation. More than seven hours into surgery, and with the tumor nearly excised, Angelo dies. Christian, having noticed that Jack is falling for Gabriela and knowing that his son wouldn't brutalize himself for being unfaithful, tells the daughter and sends her on her way before Jacks sees her after surgery. But she waits for him in the parking lot and the two share a passionate kiss, which he decides to tell Sarah about that night. She then tells Jack she was leaving him anyway and that she's seeing someone else.
On the island, Jack awakens to find Locke unconscious. Michael then forces Jack into the same room and locks up both he and Locke after stealing some weapons to go after Walt. When Kate and Sawyer show up to get his bandages changed, they enter the code in the hatch computer and free Locke and Jack. Jack insists they must go after Michael. Locke and Sawyer opt to go too, but Jack forbids Kate from going.
Hot on Michael's trail, the trio hear gunshots in the jungle and are able to figure out it was an exchange between Michael and someone else. Still unable to find Michael, night falls on Sawyer, who is out for revenge, Jack and Locke. The man who kidnapped Walt from the boat appears as The Others surround the trio. They have a message: Walt is fine, but the survivors need to learn their place and stay on their side of the island. Defiant, Jack, Locke and Sawyer are convinced to give up the guns when The Others threaten Kate's life. She had followed the trio and was captured by The Others.
Angry that she defied him, Jack barely talks to Kate and barely accepts her apology on the way back to camp, where he asks Ana Lucia how long she thinks it would take to train an army. Meanwhile, Hurley's infatuation with Libby deepens.
QUOTABLE
"Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?" — Locke when Jack says couldn't just let Michael run off without going after him
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
After successfully repairing Sarah's crushed spine (and marrying her), Jack's exploits take on a life of their own. A wealthy Italian man, Angelo Busoni, who has a supposedly inoperable spinal tumor, comes to Jack hoping he'll attempt to perform another miracle. Christian disapproves of Jack taking on the case, but he decides to try anyway.
Falling for the man's daughter, Gabriela Busoni, Jack performs the surgery after months of preparation. More than seven hours into surgery, and with the tumor nearly excised, Angelo dies. Christian, having noticed that Jack is falling for Gabriela and knowing that his son wouldn't brutalize himself for being unfaithful, tells the daughter and sends her on her way before Jacks sees her after surgery. But she waits for him in the parking lot and the two share a passionate kiss, which he decides to tell Sarah about that night. She then tells Jack she was leaving him anyway and that she's seeing someone else.
On the island, Jack awakens to find Locke unconscious. Michael then forces Jack into the same room and locks up both he and Locke after stealing some weapons to go after Walt. When Kate and Sawyer show up to get his bandages changed, they enter the code in the hatch computer and free Locke and Jack. Jack insists they must go after Michael. Locke and Sawyer opt to go too, but Jack forbids Kate from going.
Hot on Michael's trail, the trio hear gunshots in the jungle and are able to figure out it was an exchange between Michael and someone else. Still unable to find Michael, night falls on Sawyer, who is out for revenge, Jack and Locke. The man who kidnapped Walt from the boat appears as The Others surround the trio. They have a message: Walt is fine, but the survivors need to learn their place and stay on their side of the island. Defiant, Jack, Locke and Sawyer are convinced to give up the guns when The Others threaten Kate's life. She had followed the trio and was captured by The Others.
Angry that she defied him, Jack barely talks to Kate and barely accepts her apology on the way back to camp, where he asks Ana Lucia how long she thinks it would take to train an army. Meanwhile, Hurley's infatuation with Libby deepens.
QUOTABLE
"Who are we to tell anyone what they can or can't do?" — Locke when Jack says couldn't just let Michael run off without going after him
Season 2, Episode 10: The 23rd Pslam
The 23rd Psalm is a prayer Mr. Eko offers near the episode's conclusion. Charlie's heroin addiction as well as Eko's backstory are also central to the episode.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
When his little brother Yemi is ordered to murder a town elder by guerrillas in Nigeria, a young Eko grabs the gun and pulls the trigger to spare his brother the horror. But the result is that Eko is taken into the gang and becomes one of its most-feared leaders, a ruthless black-market dealer and murderer. Trying to move a shipment on heroin out of the country, he enlists the help of his brother, who is now the priest in their hometown. Yemi, however, refuses even though the money is needed for polio vaccines.
Eko later returns with a few mercenary friends and forces Yemi to make them all priests, so they can get the drugs out of the country. Threatened with the burning of his church, Yemi agrees, but informs the military of the drug shipment. The heroin is stashed inside Virgin Mary statues packed in crates. In a case of mistaken identity, though, Yemi is shot and put on the plane wounded, Eko is mistaken for his brother, assuming his role as town priest, and the plane somehow crashes on the island.
Claire tells Eko about Charlie's Virgin Mary statue, which he immediately recognizes as one from the plane's heroin stash. Claire is appalled that Charlie was hiding heroin and even angrier when he lies about it. She kicks him out by show's conclusion. Eko, meanwhile, demands that Charlie take him to the plane. Charlie again lies, saying he found the statue by a tree in the jungle, but Eko isn't fooled and makes him show him the real location. Along the way, the two come across his former drug-runner friend as well as the smoke monster, which Eko stares down without being harmed.
Once at the plane, Eko replaces the statue he broke, giving Charlie another Virgin Mary. He also finds his brother's body in the plane and makes a funeral pyre from the wreckage, reciting the 23rd Pslam as the plane burns.
Elsewhere, Locke teaches Michael how to shoot one of the hatch's automatic rifles. Kate also cuts Sawyer's hair and clues him in to the fact that he's now universally beloved, which Sawyer naturally can't stand. Michael, meanwhile, takes Kate's shift at the hatch, hoping to communicate with Walt again. And he does, with Walt saying he's OK, but also telling Michael where to come find him.
QUOTABLE
"I understand that you live in a world where righteousness and evil seem very far apart, but that is not the real world." — Eko to his brother Yemi, a Nigerian priest, when twisting his arm into arranging a heroin deal
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
When his little brother Yemi is ordered to murder a town elder by guerrillas in Nigeria, a young Eko grabs the gun and pulls the trigger to spare his brother the horror. But the result is that Eko is taken into the gang and becomes one of its most-feared leaders, a ruthless black-market dealer and murderer. Trying to move a shipment on heroin out of the country, he enlists the help of his brother, who is now the priest in their hometown. Yemi, however, refuses even though the money is needed for polio vaccines.
Eko later returns with a few mercenary friends and forces Yemi to make them all priests, so they can get the drugs out of the country. Threatened with the burning of his church, Yemi agrees, but informs the military of the drug shipment. The heroin is stashed inside Virgin Mary statues packed in crates. In a case of mistaken identity, though, Yemi is shot and put on the plane wounded, Eko is mistaken for his brother, assuming his role as town priest, and the plane somehow crashes on the island.
Claire tells Eko about Charlie's Virgin Mary statue, which he immediately recognizes as one from the plane's heroin stash. Claire is appalled that Charlie was hiding heroin and even angrier when he lies about it. She kicks him out by show's conclusion. Eko, meanwhile, demands that Charlie take him to the plane. Charlie again lies, saying he found the statue by a tree in the jungle, but Eko isn't fooled and makes him show him the real location. Along the way, the two come across his former drug-runner friend as well as the smoke monster, which Eko stares down without being harmed.
Once at the plane, Eko replaces the statue he broke, giving Charlie another Virgin Mary. He also finds his brother's body in the plane and makes a funeral pyre from the wreckage, reciting the 23rd Pslam as the plane burns.
Elsewhere, Locke teaches Michael how to shoot one of the hatch's automatic rifles. Kate also cuts Sawyer's hair and clues him in to the fact that he's now universally beloved, which Sawyer naturally can't stand. Michael, meanwhile, takes Kate's shift at the hatch, hoping to communicate with Walt again. And he does, with Walt saying he's OK, but also telling Michael where to come find him.
QUOTABLE
"I understand that you live in a world where righteousness and evil seem very far apart, but that is not the real world." — Eko to his brother Yemi, a Nigerian priest, when twisting his arm into arranging a heroin deal
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Season 2, Episode 9: What Kate Did
This might be an episode about Kate, but that's just a guess. Turns out, she is a murderer. She's also going nuts on the island in real time.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Sayid must bury Shannon, while Sawyer is still unconscious and in Jack's care after his gunshot wound from the raft got infected. During his feverish ramblings, he asks Jack where Kate is — she has been looking over him pretty much non-stop — and confesses his love for her. A sleep-deprived Kate is in the jungle getting food for Sawyer at the time and sees a black stallion in the jungle, the first hint she thinks she's going crazy.
With Jack at Shannon's funeral, Sawyer wakes up and chokes Kate, asking why she killed him, so when Jack and Locke return to the hatch, they find the alarm sounding, Sawyer having rolled off the bad and Kate nowhere to be found. While Jack goes to find Kate, who kisses him after confessing her turmoil — much of which was revealed in flashbacks (see below) — Locke is manning the hatch.
During flashbacks, we see Kate put her drunk father to bed. She then rides away from the house on her motorcycle as the house explodes. Her father, for much of her life she thought he was her stepfather, beats her mother and constantly gives her dirty, suggestive looks. Kate decided to kill him after he broke her mom's wrist. With the deed done, she goes to say goodbye to her mother at the diner where she works.
As she buys a bus ticket to Tallahassee, U.S. Marshals catch up with her. Kate's mom turned her in for killing Wayne. But driving her back to Iowa, a stallion dashes in front of the marshal's car in the rain causing him to run off the road and hit a telephone pole. The wreck allows Kate to kick the marshal out of the car and escapes.
Back on the island, Kate believes she is talking to Wayne through Sawyer and tells him that she killed him because she couldn't stand the fact he was part of her. Sawyer then wakes up and believes the survivors have been rescued until Kate takes him out of the hatch and into the jungle, where both see Kate's stallion — the embodiment of Wayne.
At the hatch, Locke finally cuts off Jin's handcuff then shows Michael and Mr. Eko the the orientation video. Michael agrees to take shifts at the hatch, while Eko shows Locke a snippet of the orientation video he discovered in the Bible at The Arrow. The extra piece, which Locke and Eko watch, shows Chang warning that the computer's only function is entering that code. Using it for anything else, puts the project's integrity in jeopardy and could lead to another incident. But Michael is contacted by Walt, or someone posing as Walt, during a shift at the hatch.
As an aside, a very satisfied Jin and Sun emerge from their first night reunited. Could this be when she got knocked up?
QUOTABLE
"Don't mistake coincidence for fate." — Eko when Locke waxes poetic about the events that led the two of them to meet with separate pieces of the orientation video
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Sayid must bury Shannon, while Sawyer is still unconscious and in Jack's care after his gunshot wound from the raft got infected. During his feverish ramblings, he asks Jack where Kate is — she has been looking over him pretty much non-stop — and confesses his love for her. A sleep-deprived Kate is in the jungle getting food for Sawyer at the time and sees a black stallion in the jungle, the first hint she thinks she's going crazy.
With Jack at Shannon's funeral, Sawyer wakes up and chokes Kate, asking why she killed him, so when Jack and Locke return to the hatch, they find the alarm sounding, Sawyer having rolled off the bad and Kate nowhere to be found. While Jack goes to find Kate, who kisses him after confessing her turmoil — much of which was revealed in flashbacks (see below) — Locke is manning the hatch.
During flashbacks, we see Kate put her drunk father to bed. She then rides away from the house on her motorcycle as the house explodes. Her father, for much of her life she thought he was her stepfather, beats her mother and constantly gives her dirty, suggestive looks. Kate decided to kill him after he broke her mom's wrist. With the deed done, she goes to say goodbye to her mother at the diner where she works.
As she buys a bus ticket to Tallahassee, U.S. Marshals catch up with her. Kate's mom turned her in for killing Wayne. But driving her back to Iowa, a stallion dashes in front of the marshal's car in the rain causing him to run off the road and hit a telephone pole. The wreck allows Kate to kick the marshal out of the car and escapes.
Back on the island, Kate believes she is talking to Wayne through Sawyer and tells him that she killed him because she couldn't stand the fact he was part of her. Sawyer then wakes up and believes the survivors have been rescued until Kate takes him out of the hatch and into the jungle, where both see Kate's stallion — the embodiment of Wayne.
At the hatch, Locke finally cuts off Jin's handcuff then shows Michael and Mr. Eko the the orientation video. Michael agrees to take shifts at the hatch, while Eko shows Locke a snippet of the orientation video he discovered in the Bible at The Arrow. The extra piece, which Locke and Eko watch, shows Chang warning that the computer's only function is entering that code. Using it for anything else, puts the project's integrity in jeopardy and could lead to another incident. But Michael is contacted by Walt, or someone posing as Walt, during a shift at the hatch.
As an aside, a very satisfied Jin and Sun emerge from their first night reunited. Could this be when she got knocked up?
QUOTABLE
"Don't mistake coincidence for fate." — Eko when Locke waxes poetic about the events that led the two of them to meet with separate pieces of the orientation video
Season 2, Episode 8: Collision
The tail-section survivors' journey to the main group will end. We also begin to have Ana Lucia's portrait painted for us through flashbacks.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
A former LAPD officer, Ana Lucia was shot by a perp and had to go through counseling before her captain, who also happens to be her mother, would reinstate her. Her husband, Danny, has left her since the incident and her mother wants to assign Ana Lucia to the evidence room rather than put her back on the street.
A defiant Ana Lucia gets her way, though, and returns to duty with her old partner in squad car 8A16. Her first day back, responding to a domestic, Ana Lucia draws down on a guy holding a TV. Her partner orders her to holster her weapon and is unhappy at her potentially itchy trigger finger. Of course, she has every reason to be since a perp put four shots in her chest as she responded to a burglary. When the man who shot her is caught, she lies rather than ID him, then stalks him and shoots him outside a bar. It turns out, Ana Lucia was pregnant when she was shot and lost the baby.
With Shannon shot, Sayid goes after Ana Lucia in a rage but is headed off by Mr. Eko and tied up on Ana Lucia's orders. With Sawyer's condition worsening, Eko defies Ana Lucia, who is working out what to do and fears Sayid is intent on killing her. and leaves the group, trying to save Sawyer's life. He runs into Kate and Jack, who are playing a three-hole golf challenge (which Kate is dominating), in the jungle.
Ana Lucia decides she will have to go it alone and agrees to release Sayid if Michael will return with a survival kit for her that includes clothes and ammo. In the interim, Bernard, Libby and Jin also head for the main camp, leaving Ana Lucia alone with Sayid. The two bare their souls, revealing the depth of their guilt and talking about the scars from the murders they have committed, she frees him and gives him the knife and gun. She wants Sayid to kill her, because she thinks she deserves to die, but he refuses and instead gathers Shannon's remains and takes her back to the beach.
Jack has Eko take Sawyer, whose infection is now sceptic (in the bloodstream) to the hatch. Kate whispers to Sawyer and gets him to swallow the antibiotics, which will save his life.
Rose and Bernard, Jin and Sun as well as Jack and Ana Lucia, who met at the airport bar before boarding Oceanic 815, are reunited as the episode ends.
QUOTABLE
"She has no plan. She only has her guilt and a gun." — Sayid answering for Ana Lucia when asked what her plan is after accidentally shooting Shannon and detaining Sayid
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
A former LAPD officer, Ana Lucia was shot by a perp and had to go through counseling before her captain, who also happens to be her mother, would reinstate her. Her husband, Danny, has left her since the incident and her mother wants to assign Ana Lucia to the evidence room rather than put her back on the street.
A defiant Ana Lucia gets her way, though, and returns to duty with her old partner in squad car 8A16. Her first day back, responding to a domestic, Ana Lucia draws down on a guy holding a TV. Her partner orders her to holster her weapon and is unhappy at her potentially itchy trigger finger. Of course, she has every reason to be since a perp put four shots in her chest as she responded to a burglary. When the man who shot her is caught, she lies rather than ID him, then stalks him and shoots him outside a bar. It turns out, Ana Lucia was pregnant when she was shot and lost the baby.
With Shannon shot, Sayid goes after Ana Lucia in a rage but is headed off by Mr. Eko and tied up on Ana Lucia's orders. With Sawyer's condition worsening, Eko defies Ana Lucia, who is working out what to do and fears Sayid is intent on killing her. and leaves the group, trying to save Sawyer's life. He runs into Kate and Jack, who are playing a three-hole golf challenge (which Kate is dominating), in the jungle.
Ana Lucia decides she will have to go it alone and agrees to release Sayid if Michael will return with a survival kit for her that includes clothes and ammo. In the interim, Bernard, Libby and Jin also head for the main camp, leaving Ana Lucia alone with Sayid. The two bare their souls, revealing the depth of their guilt and talking about the scars from the murders they have committed, she frees him and gives him the knife and gun. She wants Sayid to kill her, because she thinks she deserves to die, but he refuses and instead gathers Shannon's remains and takes her back to the beach.
Jack has Eko take Sawyer, whose infection is now sceptic (in the bloodstream) to the hatch. Kate whispers to Sawyer and gets him to swallow the antibiotics, which will save his life.
Rose and Bernard, Jin and Sun as well as Jack and Ana Lucia, who met at the airport bar before boarding Oceanic 815, are reunited as the episode ends.
QUOTABLE
"She has no plan. She only has her guilt and a gun." — Sayid answering for Ana Lucia when asked what her plan is after accidentally shooting Shannon and detaining Sayid
Season 2, Episode 7: The Other 48 Days
The tail-section survivors haven't yet joined the survivors whose story has been prevalent throughout the series, but as they near the main camp we learn the backstory of their trials and tribulations.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Day 1: The tail-section crashes into the water. Mr. Eko and Ana Lucia are the main characters working to save people from the water, including a young brother and sister who were traveling alone to LA. Ana Lucia saves Emma by performing CPR. Eko later will fish the dead bodies from the water. Goodwin, meanwhile, emerges from the jungle to report that another survivor is stuck high in a tree still strapped into his seat. Ana Lucia goes with Goodwin to rescue Bernard. The Others attack that first night, taking three of the survivors, but Eko kills the two who try and abduct him. He then takes a 40-day vow of silence.
Day 2: The process of identifying bodies begins, while Cindy, a stewardess on Oceanic 815, reports that help may not be coming because the pilots had lost communication and were returning to Sydney for two hours before the crash.
Day 3: A fourth injured survivor, whose leg was set by Libby, is gravely ill. He dies two days later.
Day 7: The survivors kill a chicken. Eko is making carvings in his walking stick/club.
Day 12: Ana Lucia has emerged as the group's boss, though Nathan tends to defy her authority. That night, The Others attack and kidnap nine more people, including the children. Ana Lucia manages to kill one, who was carrying a 20-year-old U.S. Army buck knife and a list of the nine people to be taken. Clearly, there is a mole in the tailies' midst. Ana Lucia suspects Nathan.
Day 15: Ana Lucia has led the group deep into the jungle in search of shelter. Nathan essentially decides the location.
Day 17: Ana Lucia is seen building the captor's pit as Libby also grows suspicious of Nathan.
Day 19: Ana Lucia throws Nathan in the pit. No one can remember him from the plane, though he insists he is a Canadian on a company retreat.
Day 23: Nathan is still in the pit. He received a banana from Eko. Goodwin prods Ana Lucia for her intentions regarding Nathan, asserting that he should be let go. She tells him she plans to cut off a finger the next day to find out, once and for all, if he's lying or not. That night, Goodwin frees Nathan only to strangle him to death.
Day 24: Only Goodwin knows Nathan was murdered, but it's clear The Others still know where the tail-section survivors are, so Ana Lucia orders them to move again.
Day 26: The tailies are still on the move.
Day 27: The survivors stumble upon a door in the jungle. It is The Arrow, another Dharma Initiative station, and the inside of its door also reads Quarantine. Inside, few items remain aside from a box that contains a glass eye, a Bible and a short-wave radio. Goodwin wants to take the radio to higher ground to try and get a signal. Ana Lucia accompanies him and reveals that she knows he isn't a survivor of the plane crash. She remembers him showing up 10 minutes after the wreck from the jungle without being wet. Goodwin tells her he killed Nathan, because he wasn't a good person. Ana Lucia then kills Goodwin.
Day 41: Still hiding out in The Arrow, Bernard picks up Boone's transmission from the airplane he and lock found in the jungle. Ana Lucia thinks it's a trick by The Others. She goes off in the woods to cry and is comforted by Eko, who is speaking again.
Day 45: Cindy and Libby find Jin washed up on the beach. While the tailies discuss what to do with him, Jin escapes and finds Michael and Sawyer back on the beach.
Day 46: The tail-section survivors free Michael, Jin and Sawyer.
Day 47: The group leaves to find the main camp where Michael, Jin and Sawyer came from.
Day 48: While searching for Cindy, who suddenly went missing, the whispers return. A skittish Ana Lucia, shoots the first thing that runs at her from the jungle, which turns out to be Shannon.
QUOTABLE
"That's why he wasn't on the list." — Goodwin, explaining to Ana Lucia why he killed Nathan
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Day 1: The tail-section crashes into the water. Mr. Eko and Ana Lucia are the main characters working to save people from the water, including a young brother and sister who were traveling alone to LA. Ana Lucia saves Emma by performing CPR. Eko later will fish the dead bodies from the water. Goodwin, meanwhile, emerges from the jungle to report that another survivor is stuck high in a tree still strapped into his seat. Ana Lucia goes with Goodwin to rescue Bernard. The Others attack that first night, taking three of the survivors, but Eko kills the two who try and abduct him. He then takes a 40-day vow of silence.
Day 2: The process of identifying bodies begins, while Cindy, a stewardess on Oceanic 815, reports that help may not be coming because the pilots had lost communication and were returning to Sydney for two hours before the crash.
Day 3: A fourth injured survivor, whose leg was set by Libby, is gravely ill. He dies two days later.
Day 7: The survivors kill a chicken. Eko is making carvings in his walking stick/club.
Day 12: Ana Lucia has emerged as the group's boss, though Nathan tends to defy her authority. That night, The Others attack and kidnap nine more people, including the children. Ana Lucia manages to kill one, who was carrying a 20-year-old U.S. Army buck knife and a list of the nine people to be taken. Clearly, there is a mole in the tailies' midst. Ana Lucia suspects Nathan.
Day 15: Ana Lucia has led the group deep into the jungle in search of shelter. Nathan essentially decides the location.
Day 17: Ana Lucia is seen building the captor's pit as Libby also grows suspicious of Nathan.
Day 19: Ana Lucia throws Nathan in the pit. No one can remember him from the plane, though he insists he is a Canadian on a company retreat.
Day 23: Nathan is still in the pit. He received a banana from Eko. Goodwin prods Ana Lucia for her intentions regarding Nathan, asserting that he should be let go. She tells him she plans to cut off a finger the next day to find out, once and for all, if he's lying or not. That night, Goodwin frees Nathan only to strangle him to death.
Day 24: Only Goodwin knows Nathan was murdered, but it's clear The Others still know where the tail-section survivors are, so Ana Lucia orders them to move again.
Day 26: The tailies are still on the move.
Day 27: The survivors stumble upon a door in the jungle. It is The Arrow, another Dharma Initiative station, and the inside of its door also reads Quarantine. Inside, few items remain aside from a box that contains a glass eye, a Bible and a short-wave radio. Goodwin wants to take the radio to higher ground to try and get a signal. Ana Lucia accompanies him and reveals that she knows he isn't a survivor of the plane crash. She remembers him showing up 10 minutes after the wreck from the jungle without being wet. Goodwin tells her he killed Nathan, because he wasn't a good person. Ana Lucia then kills Goodwin.
Day 41: Still hiding out in The Arrow, Bernard picks up Boone's transmission from the airplane he and lock found in the jungle. Ana Lucia thinks it's a trick by The Others. She goes off in the woods to cry and is comforted by Eko, who is speaking again.
Day 45: Cindy and Libby find Jin washed up on the beach. While the tailies discuss what to do with him, Jin escapes and finds Michael and Sawyer back on the beach.
Day 46: The tail-section survivors free Michael, Jin and Sawyer.
Day 47: The group leaves to find the main camp where Michael, Jin and Sawyer came from.
Day 48: While searching for Cindy, who suddenly went missing, the whispers return. A skittish Ana Lucia, shoots the first thing that runs at her from the jungle, which turns out to be Shannon.
QUOTABLE
"That's why he wasn't on the list." — Goodwin, explaining to Ana Lucia why he killed Nathan
Season 2, Episode 6: Abandoned
The tailies are still trying to make their way back, Shannon is still crazy (and being wooed by Sayid) and someone is about to die. The episode flashes back to Shannon's late teens and the death of her father, which throws her life into chaos.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Sayid again takes Shannon away to a beach home he has built for her. The two are getting serious and christen the love shack in style, but when Sayid leaves to get water after that tryst, Shannon again has a vision of Walt. He appears to her in the hut, but Sayid thinks it was just a dream. Enraged that he doesn't believe her, Shannon storms off. She's convinced Walt is somewhere in the jungle nearby.
Shannon tries to use Vincent to find Walt by having him scent one of the shirts he left behind. Vincent initially leads her to Boone's grave, where Sayid catches up with her and refuses to let her traipse through the jungle alone with a lab leading the way. Shannon's real issue, fear that Sayid will abandon, comes to the surface, but Sayid reassures her then confesses his love. Both of them then see Walt in the jungle.
The tail-section survivors are still making their way from the other side of the jungle. Michael returns to the group with Jin and Mr. Eko. Libby, a clinical psychologist, mentions some missing kids, yet another hint at disaster that found the tailies. Sawyer's infected shoulder continues to worsen, which prompts Eko to make the risky decision to double back through the jungle in an effort to get Sawyer to help faster.
The travails of the tailies come into clearer focus during discussions along the way, primarily Ana Lucia's reluctance to go back into the jungle and the entire group's fear. Several of them were abducted by The Others. Sawyer collapses in the jungle, but Michael and Jin refuse to leave him and instead fashion a stretcher to carry him. But Cindy, the Oceanic 815 stewardess, goes missing as the group lifts an unconscious Sawyer up a muddy hillside. The whispers begin again, so Ana Lucia pulls her gun expecting an attack. Instead, she shoots Shannon in the belly when she runs toward them pursuing Walt.
On the beach, Charlie has taken on a parental role with Aaron, who is having trouble sleeping. Claire begins to resent the way Charlie has wedged into her life, while Charlie begins to resent Locke for also helping out with Aaron — and being better at it. Claire inadvertently tells Locke about Charlie's heroin stash.
We see Shannon as a ballet teacher on the verge of an internship with the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York during a flashback before her father, Adam, is killed after being hit by an SUV. We also begin to see the animus her stepmom has for her. With her dad dead, Sabrina cuts Shannon off, refusing even to support her in her internship. She turns to Boone for help, but he's accepted a job offer from his mother and will be leaving New York. After initially asking Boone to plead with his mom for money, Shannon refuses Boone's assistance because she doesn't think he has faith in her.
QUOTABLE
"They're smart and they're animals, and they could be anywhere at any time." — Ana Lucia, referring to The Others
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Sayid again takes Shannon away to a beach home he has built for her. The two are getting serious and christen the love shack in style, but when Sayid leaves to get water after that tryst, Shannon again has a vision of Walt. He appears to her in the hut, but Sayid thinks it was just a dream. Enraged that he doesn't believe her, Shannon storms off. She's convinced Walt is somewhere in the jungle nearby.
Shannon tries to use Vincent to find Walt by having him scent one of the shirts he left behind. Vincent initially leads her to Boone's grave, where Sayid catches up with her and refuses to let her traipse through the jungle alone with a lab leading the way. Shannon's real issue, fear that Sayid will abandon, comes to the surface, but Sayid reassures her then confesses his love. Both of them then see Walt in the jungle.
The tail-section survivors are still making their way from the other side of the jungle. Michael returns to the group with Jin and Mr. Eko. Libby, a clinical psychologist, mentions some missing kids, yet another hint at disaster that found the tailies. Sawyer's infected shoulder continues to worsen, which prompts Eko to make the risky decision to double back through the jungle in an effort to get Sawyer to help faster.
The travails of the tailies come into clearer focus during discussions along the way, primarily Ana Lucia's reluctance to go back into the jungle and the entire group's fear. Several of them were abducted by The Others. Sawyer collapses in the jungle, but Michael and Jin refuse to leave him and instead fashion a stretcher to carry him. But Cindy, the Oceanic 815 stewardess, goes missing as the group lifts an unconscious Sawyer up a muddy hillside. The whispers begin again, so Ana Lucia pulls her gun expecting an attack. Instead, she shoots Shannon in the belly when she runs toward them pursuing Walt.
On the beach, Charlie has taken on a parental role with Aaron, who is having trouble sleeping. Claire begins to resent the way Charlie has wedged into her life, while Charlie begins to resent Locke for also helping out with Aaron — and being better at it. Claire inadvertently tells Locke about Charlie's heroin stash.
We see Shannon as a ballet teacher on the verge of an internship with the Martha Graham Dance Company in New York during a flashback before her father, Adam, is killed after being hit by an SUV. We also begin to see the animus her stepmom has for her. With her dad dead, Sabrina cuts Shannon off, refusing even to support her in her internship. She turns to Boone for help, but he's accepted a job offer from his mother and will be leaving New York. After initially asking Boone to plead with his mom for money, Shannon refuses Boone's assistance because she doesn't think he has faith in her.
QUOTABLE
"They're smart and they're animals, and they could be anywhere at any time." — Ana Lucia, referring to The Others
Season 2, Episode 5: ... And Found
Distraught about Jin's presumed demise, Sun discovers she lost her wedding ring. She is desperate to find it. The flashbacks center on Jin and Sun coming together as a couple, going back earlier in their lives than before to uncover further their personalities and motives.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
The tail-section survivors — made aware of another group of survivors by Jin, Michael and Sawyer — decide to join the other group of survivors. But Michael still has only one focus, recovering his kidnapped son Walt. When he learns from Libby, one of the tailies, the direction he can find The Others, he takes off alone in an impetuous (and probably ill-advised) mad dash to find Walt.
Jin decides to go after Michael and Mr. Eko decides to help. Sawyer refuses. and instead stays with Ana Lucia and the remaining tailies, who are starting off for the main group of survivors. Out in the jungle, Jin stumbles upon the body of Goodwin, who is one of The Others — the tail-section's version of Ethan Rom. Following Michael's trail, Jin and Eko are forced to hide from a barefoot patrol of The Others, which includes one dragging a stuffed teddy bear behind it. Jin and Eko eventually catch up with Michael, who reluctantly goes with his friends.
In her search for her missing ring, several people try to comfort Sun and offer advice. Out of frustration, she tears apart her garden. She's just worried about Jin. Finally, while talking with Kate, she decides to go unbury the bottle and discovers that Kate too is upset about the presumed demise of the raft quartet. She never got to say goodbye to Sawyer. Sun's ring, of course, came off when she buried the bottle and is found when she's with Kate.
During the flashbacks, Jin is seen preparing to interview for a job as a doorman at the prestigious Seoul Gateway Hotel. Remember, he is not content as the mere son of a fisherman and is determined to work hard and rise above his station in life. Sun, meanwhile, is under heavy pressure from her parents to marry and is set up with a hotel magnate heir. The two seem to hit it off in grand fashion, but Jae Lee confesses that he loves an American woman he met during his studies at Harvard.
Jin, meanwhile, quits his job after he is dressed down for letting a poor boy and his father use the hotel's restroom. He had been warned not to let "people like him" enter the hotel, which served as the setting for Jae Lee and Sun's blind dates. While leaving the hotel, Jin has a chance meeting with Sun.
QUOTABLE
"I'm not lost anymore. The same way anything lost gets found, I stopped looking." — Locke explaining to Sun why he's no longer angry or frustrated anymore
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
The tail-section survivors — made aware of another group of survivors by Jin, Michael and Sawyer — decide to join the other group of survivors. But Michael still has only one focus, recovering his kidnapped son Walt. When he learns from Libby, one of the tailies, the direction he can find The Others, he takes off alone in an impetuous (and probably ill-advised) mad dash to find Walt.
Jin decides to go after Michael and Mr. Eko decides to help. Sawyer refuses. and instead stays with Ana Lucia and the remaining tailies, who are starting off for the main group of survivors. Out in the jungle, Jin stumbles upon the body of Goodwin, who is one of The Others — the tail-section's version of Ethan Rom. Following Michael's trail, Jin and Eko are forced to hide from a barefoot patrol of The Others, which includes one dragging a stuffed teddy bear behind it. Jin and Eko eventually catch up with Michael, who reluctantly goes with his friends.
In her search for her missing ring, several people try to comfort Sun and offer advice. Out of frustration, she tears apart her garden. She's just worried about Jin. Finally, while talking with Kate, she decides to go unbury the bottle and discovers that Kate too is upset about the presumed demise of the raft quartet. She never got to say goodbye to Sawyer. Sun's ring, of course, came off when she buried the bottle and is found when she's with Kate.
During the flashbacks, Jin is seen preparing to interview for a job as a doorman at the prestigious Seoul Gateway Hotel. Remember, he is not content as the mere son of a fisherman and is determined to work hard and rise above his station in life. Sun, meanwhile, is under heavy pressure from her parents to marry and is set up with a hotel magnate heir. The two seem to hit it off in grand fashion, but Jae Lee confesses that he loves an American woman he met during his studies at Harvard.
Jin, meanwhile, quits his job after he is dressed down for letting a poor boy and his father use the hotel's restroom. He had been warned not to let "people like him" enter the hotel, which served as the setting for Jae Lee and Sun's blind dates. While leaving the hotel, Jin has a chance meeting with Sun.
QUOTABLE
"I'm not lost anymore. The same way anything lost gets found, I stopped looking." — Locke explaining to Sun why he's no longer angry or frustrated anymore
Season 2, Episode 4: Everybody Hates Hugo
As the episode's title implies, it's an episode about Hurley, who fears that the survivors' fondness for him will evaporate now that he's in charge of the hatch's food pantry. His fear is grounded in the fact that he believed his life and relationships changed after winning the lottery.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Hugo has a nightmarish dream about devouring the food at the hatch, a dream that includes Jin and the Mr. Cluck's chicken and in which Hurley speaks Korean. It's all part of his anxiety over inventorying the food and determining how it should be doled out. To help ease his worries, he includes the oft-comforting Rose in the process. And Rose, of course, is still convinced her husband Bernard is alive.
Locke also tells Charlie about the hatch after unsuccessfully laying a thick guilt trip on Hurley in an effort to score peanut butter for Claire. Fed up with the pressure, Hurley decides he will just blow up the food with dynamite, so he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. Instead, Rose talks him out of it and Hurley convinces Jack that the best way to handle it is to simply pass it out to the survivors as a sort of feast. It won't sustain a group of 40 very long after all.
At the beach, Claire finds the bottle with messages that was sent out with the raft. It has washed up on the beach, indicating something could be awry with the raft. She and Shannon decide to show the bottle to Sun, whose husband Jin was on the raft. She opts to bury the bottle in secrecy as an act of mourning.
Unbeknownst to the primary group of survivors, Sawyer, Jin and Michael are still in the pit, but the tail-section survivors interrogate Jin and Michael and decide that thy truly were also on the plane and aren't The Others. From an original group of 23 tailies, only a handful survive now. Among the survivors is Bernard, who asks about his wife Rose.
During the flashback, Hurley wins the lotto jackpot but hesitates to turn in the winning ticket. Aloof as he tries to decide what to do, Hurley is called into his boss' office and yelled at, which prompts him to quit. His buddy also quits. Making the most of their unexpected "day off," the two pal around as Hurley tries to savor the remaining days of his normal life. He even asks out the cute girl and the record store he's had his eye for some time, wanting to be sure she likes him and won't suddenly like him for money.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Hugo has a nightmarish dream about devouring the food at the hatch, a dream that includes Jin and the Mr. Cluck's chicken and in which Hurley speaks Korean. It's all part of his anxiety over inventorying the food and determining how it should be doled out. To help ease his worries, he includes the oft-comforting Rose in the process. And Rose, of course, is still convinced her husband Bernard is alive.
Locke also tells Charlie about the hatch after unsuccessfully laying a thick guilt trip on Hurley in an effort to score peanut butter for Claire. Fed up with the pressure, Hurley decides he will just blow up the food with dynamite, so he doesn't have to worry about it anymore. Instead, Rose talks him out of it and Hurley convinces Jack that the best way to handle it is to simply pass it out to the survivors as a sort of feast. It won't sustain a group of 40 very long after all.
At the beach, Claire finds the bottle with messages that was sent out with the raft. It has washed up on the beach, indicating something could be awry with the raft. She and Shannon decide to show the bottle to Sun, whose husband Jin was on the raft. She opts to bury the bottle in secrecy as an act of mourning.
Unbeknownst to the primary group of survivors, Sawyer, Jin and Michael are still in the pit, but the tail-section survivors interrogate Jin and Michael and decide that thy truly were also on the plane and aren't The Others. From an original group of 23 tailies, only a handful survive now. Among the survivors is Bernard, who asks about his wife Rose.
During the flashback, Hurley wins the lotto jackpot but hesitates to turn in the winning ticket. Aloof as he tries to decide what to do, Hurley is called into his boss' office and yelled at, which prompts him to quit. His buddy also quits. Making the most of their unexpected "day off," the two pal around as Hurley tries to savor the remaining days of his normal life. He even asks out the cute girl and the record store he's had his eye for some time, wanting to be sure she likes him and won't suddenly like him for money.
Season 2, Episode 3: Orientation
The mysteries of the hatch begin to be revealed as do the mysteries of the Dharma Initiative, which will become a central fixture in the series moving forward. The name Alvar Hanso is dropped for the first time. The backstory focuses on Locke in a series of flashbacks that reveal Locke's relationship with Helen.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Mr. Eko recaptures Jin and also takes Michael and Sawyer into custody, tossing them into a pit. Ana Lucia is added to the mix as well and claims to be from the tail section. Sawyer tells her that he plans to shoot Eko, but Ana Lucia takes the gun from Sawyer and reveals herself as a double agent. She one of the tail-section survivors.
At the hatch, Kate finds the armory and takes down Desmond with a shotgun butt to the face, ending a standoff between Jack and Dez. But Desmond, who crashed on the island three years ago and was brought to the hatch by the unknown Calvin, gets off a shot that hits the computer — the computer that is saving the world. Kate races back to the beach and gets Sayid to help fix the computer. If it's not fixed, everyone will die, Desmond warns. He then fries the mother board again trying to fix it and decides to pack and get as far from the hatch as possible.
Still unconvinced the computer does anything special, Jack follows Desmond, leaving Locke alone at the hatch. When Jack catches up with Desmond and expresses his anger that he pushes a button on faith alone. Suddenly remembering the chance meeting on the stadium stairs, Desmond eases Jack's fear and anger. Meanwhile, when Kate returns with Sayid and Hurley, they find Locke crying. Sayid gets to work fixing the computer — and he doesn't need to know why, which mystifies Locke. Sayid is merely a man of action. But when Locke goes to enter the code, he misremembers the sequence, thinking it ends with a 32. Jack returns and insists it is 42 and then, prompted by Locke, hits the execute button. That is Jack's leap of faith. Oh yeah, and Hurley discovers the food.
To prove it, Desmond directs Jack and Locke to a video behind Turn of the Screw, an orientation video for the Dharma Initiative's final initiative, which is the brainchild of Gerald and Karen DeGroot from Michigan. The hatch is actually The Swan, or station 3, and its protocols were created, according to the film, which stars Dr. Pierre Chang, after an incident involving the electromagnetic field contained in the cement bunker.
During flashbacks, Locke blows up at a group meeting and chastises the others in group for whining. He also meets Helen (played by Katey Segal of Married With Children fame) and taps that. Of course, he never spends the night because he's obsessed with getting answers from Anthony Cooper, his estranged con-man father who stole his kidney. Cooper tells Locke not to come back and that he's not wanted.
Helen gave Locke a key to her place, but only on the condition he actually stays over rather than going over to his father's house, which he promises to do. Of course, he goes to Cooper's anyone. Helen follows her and tells Locke he must choose between his dad and her, asking her to take a leap of faith.
QUOTABLE
"There's no why. You think you're the first person that ever got conned? You needed a father figure and I needed a kidney. And that's what happened. Get over it." — Anthony Cooper upon confronting Locke and telling him to stop making his uninvited visits
Locke: "Why do you find it so hard to believe?"
Jack: "Why do you find it so easy?"
Locke: "It's never been easy."
— discussing whether or not to continue entering the code into the hatch computer
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Mr. Eko recaptures Jin and also takes Michael and Sawyer into custody, tossing them into a pit. Ana Lucia is added to the mix as well and claims to be from the tail section. Sawyer tells her that he plans to shoot Eko, but Ana Lucia takes the gun from Sawyer and reveals herself as a double agent. She one of the tail-section survivors.
At the hatch, Kate finds the armory and takes down Desmond with a shotgun butt to the face, ending a standoff between Jack and Dez. But Desmond, who crashed on the island three years ago and was brought to the hatch by the unknown Calvin, gets off a shot that hits the computer — the computer that is saving the world. Kate races back to the beach and gets Sayid to help fix the computer. If it's not fixed, everyone will die, Desmond warns. He then fries the mother board again trying to fix it and decides to pack and get as far from the hatch as possible.
Still unconvinced the computer does anything special, Jack follows Desmond, leaving Locke alone at the hatch. When Jack catches up with Desmond and expresses his anger that he pushes a button on faith alone. Suddenly remembering the chance meeting on the stadium stairs, Desmond eases Jack's fear and anger. Meanwhile, when Kate returns with Sayid and Hurley, they find Locke crying. Sayid gets to work fixing the computer — and he doesn't need to know why, which mystifies Locke. Sayid is merely a man of action. But when Locke goes to enter the code, he misremembers the sequence, thinking it ends with a 32. Jack returns and insists it is 42 and then, prompted by Locke, hits the execute button. That is Jack's leap of faith. Oh yeah, and Hurley discovers the food.
To prove it, Desmond directs Jack and Locke to a video behind Turn of the Screw, an orientation video for the Dharma Initiative's final initiative, which is the brainchild of Gerald and Karen DeGroot from Michigan. The hatch is actually The Swan, or station 3, and its protocols were created, according to the film, which stars Dr. Pierre Chang, after an incident involving the electromagnetic field contained in the cement bunker.
During flashbacks, Locke blows up at a group meeting and chastises the others in group for whining. He also meets Helen (played by Katey Segal of Married With Children fame) and taps that. Of course, he never spends the night because he's obsessed with getting answers from Anthony Cooper, his estranged con-man father who stole his kidney. Cooper tells Locke not to come back and that he's not wanted.
Helen gave Locke a key to her place, but only on the condition he actually stays over rather than going over to his father's house, which he promises to do. Of course, he goes to Cooper's anyone. Helen follows her and tells Locke he must choose between his dad and her, asking her to take a leap of faith.
QUOTABLE
"There's no why. You think you're the first person that ever got conned? You needed a father figure and I needed a kidney. And that's what happened. Get over it." — Anthony Cooper upon confronting Locke and telling him to stop making his uninvited visits
Locke: "Why do you find it so hard to believe?"
Jack: "Why do you find it so easy?"
Locke: "It's never been easy."
— discussing whether or not to continue entering the code into the hatch computer
Season 2, Episode 2: Adrift
The Others have kidnapped Walt and left his dad, Michael, Jin and Sawyer, who was shot in the altercation, for dead adrift at sea. Away from the island in flashbacks, we see Michael's struggles with Walt's mom, Susan, about custody of the precocious boy.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
At sea, Sawyer saves Michael from the water and performs CPR. But upon coming to, Michael blames Sawyer for his son going missing. He yells at Sawyer to get off his raft, so he obliges and moves to a different piece of debris. Shot in the shoulder, Sawyer digs the bullet out of his own shoulder. He's also figured out that the boat which abducted Walt had a short range, so it had to come from somewhere nearby.
When his piece of the raft breaks up, Sawyer is forced to rejoin Michael. When the raft breaks up, Michael and Sawyer swim for a pontoon and now it's Michael's turn to save Sawyer by shooting a shark before it gets to him. Michael now blames himself for Walt's kidnapping, for taking him on the raft in the first place. As day breaks, Michael and Sawyer drift back to the island where they encounter a bound Jin fleeing "The Others," who are actually the survivors from the tail section.
On the island, Locke rappels down into the hatch by himself and upon reaching the bottom, he enters the underground bunker, which has Dharma Initiative insignia throughout. He runs into Desmond, who asks, "Are you him?" Of course, Desmond figures out that he's not his replacement and takes Locke hostage. Kate is already bound, but when Jack shows up Dez locks up Kate in the food room (with a knife from Locke hidden in her pants). She manages to free herself and escapes into the ventilation system.
Locke enters the numbers and resets the countdown in the hatch to 108 minutes. Jack think it is pointless and protests Locke's willingness to do as Desmond says. Not messing around, Desmond shoots a warning shot at a vent and nearly drills Kate in the head.
During the flashback, Michael visits a hack lawyer in a last-ditch effort to keep his parental rights to Walt. Susan acknowledges that Michael's likely to win his battle and prevent her from taking him to Italy, but she convinces him that it's best for Walt to drop the court battle.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
At sea, Sawyer saves Michael from the water and performs CPR. But upon coming to, Michael blames Sawyer for his son going missing. He yells at Sawyer to get off his raft, so he obliges and moves to a different piece of debris. Shot in the shoulder, Sawyer digs the bullet out of his own shoulder. He's also figured out that the boat which abducted Walt had a short range, so it had to come from somewhere nearby.
When his piece of the raft breaks up, Sawyer is forced to rejoin Michael. When the raft breaks up, Michael and Sawyer swim for a pontoon and now it's Michael's turn to save Sawyer by shooting a shark before it gets to him. Michael now blames himself for Walt's kidnapping, for taking him on the raft in the first place. As day breaks, Michael and Sawyer drift back to the island where they encounter a bound Jin fleeing "The Others," who are actually the survivors from the tail section.
On the island, Locke rappels down into the hatch by himself and upon reaching the bottom, he enters the underground bunker, which has Dharma Initiative insignia throughout. He runs into Desmond, who asks, "Are you him?" Of course, Desmond figures out that he's not his replacement and takes Locke hostage. Kate is already bound, but when Jack shows up Dez locks up Kate in the food room (with a knife from Locke hidden in her pants). She manages to free herself and escapes into the ventilation system.
Locke enters the numbers and resets the countdown in the hatch to 108 minutes. Jack think it is pointless and protests Locke's willingness to do as Desmond says. Not messing around, Desmond shoots a warning shot at a vent and nearly drills Kate in the head.
During the flashback, Michael visits a hack lawyer in a last-ditch effort to keep his parental rights to Walt. Susan acknowledges that Michael's likely to win his battle and prevent her from taking him to Italy, but she convinces him that it's best for Walt to drop the court battle.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Season 2, Episode 1: Man of Science, Man of Faith
Welcome to the hatch, my friends. A new layer of intrigue is added to the show as a new character is introduced, Desmond. My first impressions of Dez weren't great as I recall, but I've grown to love the plucky Scotsman.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
As Season 2 opens, we are in unfamiliar environs, watching Desmond — who originally was slated to be little more than a plot device in a few episodes but became a central character — wake up to a beeping computer that he must placate with a few keys strokes and the "execute" command. No sooner does he punch in the correct code, which we will later learn is the 4-8-15-16-23-42 sequence, the hatch is blown and Desmond arms himself.
The inside of the hatch door, which is a half-mile from the caves, reads Quarantine. All signs, thus, point to avoiding it. With a broken ladder as its only means of entry, clearly the hatch won't work for saving the survivors from The Others, whose attack is anticipated at any moment. Therefore, Jack wants to return to the caves to formulate a new plan for keeping the group safe. Locke, meanwhile, just wants to see what's in the hatch.
During a flashback, we see Jack choose to save Sarah, who was first to the ER after a car wreck, while another patient on a nearby table dies. Later, when Sarah comes to and Jack is detailing her injures, his matter-of-fact bedside manner draws criticism from his father, Christian, who urges him to dole out a little hope to his patients. Jack recoils at the notion of passing out false hope.
But as in-fighting and confusion overwhelm the group when it becomes clear to all that the hatch won't provide salvation, Jack steps in as a calming influence. He even goes as far as to promise that everyone will be safe. Kate appreciates his optimism, but when Locke decides to go explore the hatch anyway, she goes along with Locke. Since she's the lightest, Kate drops in first, but the line slips. On high alert inside the hatch, Desmond grabs Kate as a prisoner (and, no doubt, a welcome sight). Jack, who ended up following Kate to the hatch, arrives to find neither his love nor Locke.
Wrapping up the flashback, Sarah's fiancee, unwilling to stay with her if she's paralyzed, pretty much dumps her. Out of pity as much as anything, when she prepares for surgery saddened that she'll only be able to roll around at her wedding (which she doesn't know will be called off quite yet), Jack promises to fix her. Sensing he failed after the operation (and waiting for her to leave the recovery room), he flagellates himself by running stadium stairs and, when passed by a fit young Scot training for a race around the world, twists an ankle trying to catch up. That young Scot turns out to be Desmond. Of course, even though Jack doesn't believe in miracles, Sarah can, in fact, wiggle her toes. Jack eventually will test sensations in other parts of her lower extremities.
Rappelling down himself into the hatch, Jack cautiously advances through the maze of tunnels he finds, which have walls covered in graffiti that repeat the number 108 (the sum of 4-8-15-16-23-42). Something powerfully magnetic tugs at the gun-case key around his neck, but before he can explore that he stumbles into the room with the Apple IIe-looking computer from the opening sequence. He also runs into Locke, who is being held captive with a gun to his head. Insisting upon seeing Kate, Desmond uses the term brother, which Jack remembers from the conversation at the stadium and there's a flicker of recognition.
Back on the beach, Vincent goes missing and Shannon is determined to find him. Sayid agrees to help, but she gets separated from him when Vincent takes off into the underbrush. Shannon joins a select group when she hears whispers in the jungle. She also encounters a soaking wet Walt — we know he's already been kidnapped by The Others — who warns her to be quiet.
QUOTABLE
"Do you want some advise? You have to lift it up. Your ankle; you have to keep it elevated." — Desmond, a med school student at one time, offering Jack counsel for his twisted ankle (and life in general)
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
As Season 2 opens, we are in unfamiliar environs, watching Desmond — who originally was slated to be little more than a plot device in a few episodes but became a central character — wake up to a beeping computer that he must placate with a few keys strokes and the "execute" command. No sooner does he punch in the correct code, which we will later learn is the 4-8-15-16-23-42 sequence, the hatch is blown and Desmond arms himself.
The inside of the hatch door, which is a half-mile from the caves, reads Quarantine. All signs, thus, point to avoiding it. With a broken ladder as its only means of entry, clearly the hatch won't work for saving the survivors from The Others, whose attack is anticipated at any moment. Therefore, Jack wants to return to the caves to formulate a new plan for keeping the group safe. Locke, meanwhile, just wants to see what's in the hatch.
During a flashback, we see Jack choose to save Sarah, who was first to the ER after a car wreck, while another patient on a nearby table dies. Later, when Sarah comes to and Jack is detailing her injures, his matter-of-fact bedside manner draws criticism from his father, Christian, who urges him to dole out a little hope to his patients. Jack recoils at the notion of passing out false hope.
But as in-fighting and confusion overwhelm the group when it becomes clear to all that the hatch won't provide salvation, Jack steps in as a calming influence. He even goes as far as to promise that everyone will be safe. Kate appreciates his optimism, but when Locke decides to go explore the hatch anyway, she goes along with Locke. Since she's the lightest, Kate drops in first, but the line slips. On high alert inside the hatch, Desmond grabs Kate as a prisoner (and, no doubt, a welcome sight). Jack, who ended up following Kate to the hatch, arrives to find neither his love nor Locke.
Wrapping up the flashback, Sarah's fiancee, unwilling to stay with her if she's paralyzed, pretty much dumps her. Out of pity as much as anything, when she prepares for surgery saddened that she'll only be able to roll around at her wedding (which she doesn't know will be called off quite yet), Jack promises to fix her. Sensing he failed after the operation (and waiting for her to leave the recovery room), he flagellates himself by running stadium stairs and, when passed by a fit young Scot training for a race around the world, twists an ankle trying to catch up. That young Scot turns out to be Desmond. Of course, even though Jack doesn't believe in miracles, Sarah can, in fact, wiggle her toes. Jack eventually will test sensations in other parts of her lower extremities.
Rappelling down himself into the hatch, Jack cautiously advances through the maze of tunnels he finds, which have walls covered in graffiti that repeat the number 108 (the sum of 4-8-15-16-23-42). Something powerfully magnetic tugs at the gun-case key around his neck, but before he can explore that he stumbles into the room with the Apple IIe-looking computer from the opening sequence. He also runs into Locke, who is being held captive with a gun to his head. Insisting upon seeing Kate, Desmond uses the term brother, which Jack remembers from the conversation at the stadium and there's a flicker of recognition.
Back on the beach, Vincent goes missing and Shannon is determined to find him. Sayid agrees to help, but she gets separated from him when Vincent takes off into the underbrush. Shannon joins a select group when she hears whispers in the jungle. She also encounters a soaking wet Walt — we know he's already been kidnapped by The Others — who warns her to be quiet.
QUOTABLE
"Do you want some advise? You have to lift it up. Your ankle; you have to keep it elevated." — Desmond, a med school student at one time, offering Jack counsel for his twisted ankle (and life in general)
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Season 1, Episode 25: Exodus Part 3
The season finale concludes with The Others still presumably coming, a small group returning from the Dark Territory with dynamite, Rousseau on the lam after swiping Aaron from Claire (with Sayid and Charlie in hot pursuit) and the foursome still blissfully at sea aboard the raft awaiting rescue.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Run. Hide. Die. Those are the options the survivors have if they want to continue surviving when The Others attack, Rousseau warns. The decision is to hide, which prompted the trek for explosives that will be used to open the hatch, if the group can get back safely. But that seems unlikely when Locke, Hurley, Kate and Jack encounter the Smoke Monster. Rather than run from it, though, Locke seeks it out only to have it catch him and try to drag him underground. Jack and Kate save Locke, who wishes Jack would have let it take him. He doesn't think the Smoke Monster would hurt him.
Discussing the incident, Locke talks about himself as a man of faith and Jack as a man of science. He believes the island brought all of them there for a purpose, but Jack claims not to believe in destiny. "Yes, you do," Locke replies. "You just don't know it yet." Boarding the plane in Sydney, Locke had to be carried, which may or may not have significance. Perhaps it illustrates that each person was destined to make that flight, Oceanic 815.
Out at sea, the radar Sayid rigged for the raft picks up a signal a few hours after nightfall. Michael reluctantly shoots the flare to draw its attention. But the boat turns out to be several of The Others in costume aboard a speed boat.
Meanwhile, when Sayid and Charlie reach the smoke, no Others are nowhere to be found, but Aaron is safe albeit with a now distraught Rousseau, who swears she heard The Others whisper that they were coming for the boy. She gives Aaron back to Sayid. And as it turns out, The Others were coming for the boy — only for a different boy, for Walt, who is snatched from his father in a kidnapping that also gets Sawyer shot and the raft blown to smithereens.
Finally back from the Black Rock, Locke and Jack rig the hatch to blow only to have a hysterical Hurley try to stop them when he realizes "the numbers" are stamped on the outside of the hatch: 4-8-15-16-23-42. The season ends with Jack and Locke staring in the dark abyss of the now-opened hatch.
No much happened flashback-wise, Hurley almost missed Oceanic 815 when the power blew in his room, but through extreme hustle — including a blitz past a girls soccer team also wearing "the numbers" in sequence, 4-8-15-16-23-42 — he miraculously makes the flight, arriving at Gate 23 and talking the gate attendant into letting him board minutes before takeoff. Not, as it turns out, a good thing.
QUOTABLE
"If we survive this, if we survive tonight, we're going to have a Locke problem and I need to know you've got my back." — Jack to Kate, already trying to forge an alliance against Locke
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Run. Hide. Die. Those are the options the survivors have if they want to continue surviving when The Others attack, Rousseau warns. The decision is to hide, which prompted the trek for explosives that will be used to open the hatch, if the group can get back safely. But that seems unlikely when Locke, Hurley, Kate and Jack encounter the Smoke Monster. Rather than run from it, though, Locke seeks it out only to have it catch him and try to drag him underground. Jack and Kate save Locke, who wishes Jack would have let it take him. He doesn't think the Smoke Monster would hurt him.
Discussing the incident, Locke talks about himself as a man of faith and Jack as a man of science. He believes the island brought all of them there for a purpose, but Jack claims not to believe in destiny. "Yes, you do," Locke replies. "You just don't know it yet." Boarding the plane in Sydney, Locke had to be carried, which may or may not have significance. Perhaps it illustrates that each person was destined to make that flight, Oceanic 815.
Out at sea, the radar Sayid rigged for the raft picks up a signal a few hours after nightfall. Michael reluctantly shoots the flare to draw its attention. But the boat turns out to be several of The Others in costume aboard a speed boat.
Meanwhile, when Sayid and Charlie reach the smoke, no Others are nowhere to be found, but Aaron is safe albeit with a now distraught Rousseau, who swears she heard The Others whisper that they were coming for the boy. She gives Aaron back to Sayid. And as it turns out, The Others were coming for the boy — only for a different boy, for Walt, who is snatched from his father in a kidnapping that also gets Sawyer shot and the raft blown to smithereens.
Finally back from the Black Rock, Locke and Jack rig the hatch to blow only to have a hysterical Hurley try to stop them when he realizes "the numbers" are stamped on the outside of the hatch: 4-8-15-16-23-42. The season ends with Jack and Locke staring in the dark abyss of the now-opened hatch.
No much happened flashback-wise, Hurley almost missed Oceanic 815 when the power blew in his room, but through extreme hustle — including a blitz past a girls soccer team also wearing "the numbers" in sequence, 4-8-15-16-23-42 — he miraculously makes the flight, arriving at Gate 23 and talking the gate attendant into letting him board minutes before takeoff. Not, as it turns out, a good thing.
QUOTABLE
"If we survive this, if we survive tonight, we're going to have a Locke problem and I need to know you've got my back." — Jack to Kate, already trying to forge an alliance against Locke
Season 1, Episode 24: Exodus Part 2
The season finale continues with The Others on the way, a small group off to the Dark Territory with Rousseau in search of dynamite and another foursome at sea on the raft.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
As promised, Rousseau gets Locke, Jack, Kate, Hurley and Arzt to the Black Rock only to disappear immediately after arriving at the ship. Arzt spectacularly blows himself up when preaching about how old dynamite sweats nitroglycerin and how unstable it is. Hurley, of course, believes Arzt's demise is because he came along.
Rousseau, meanwhile, had sinister intentions for leaving the survivors. She returned to the beach and sought out Claire, conking her on the head and kidnapping Aaron. During the encounter, Claire also realizes she's had a run-in with Rousseau before and scratched her arm. Though, the details remain fuzzy, because it was when she had been kidnapped. Sayid suspects that Rousseau took Aaron hoping to exchange him for her own daughter, who had been taken 16 years earlier, so he sets off toward the black pillar of smoke with Charlie. During a brief rest at the Boone-killing Beechcraft, Charlie scores a Virgin Mary filled with smack to take back to the caves.
Kate and Locke, meanwhile, are bringing back the dynamite — or at least think they are — but Jack has switched packs with Kate trying to protect her, which only rankles Killer Katie.
During the flashbacks, which continue to cycle through the main characters rather than focus on one in particular, we see Paik threaten Jin through an intermediary, telling him that he is not free and never will be. We also see Michael making a phone call to his mom from the Sydney airport in an attempt to pawn off Walt onto her, though, the two finally begin connecting and communicating on the raft.
Fueling speculation about the show's greater meaning, assuming there is one, Sun openly questions whether "all this" is punishment from fate, a notion that Claire vehemently disagrees with because she doesn't believe in fate.
QUOTABLE
"Hope. I think hope's inside." — Locke when Hurley asks what he thinks is inside the hatch
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
As promised, Rousseau gets Locke, Jack, Kate, Hurley and Arzt to the Black Rock only to disappear immediately after arriving at the ship. Arzt spectacularly blows himself up when preaching about how old dynamite sweats nitroglycerin and how unstable it is. Hurley, of course, believes Arzt's demise is because he came along.
Rousseau, meanwhile, had sinister intentions for leaving the survivors. She returned to the beach and sought out Claire, conking her on the head and kidnapping Aaron. During the encounter, Claire also realizes she's had a run-in with Rousseau before and scratched her arm. Though, the details remain fuzzy, because it was when she had been kidnapped. Sayid suspects that Rousseau took Aaron hoping to exchange him for her own daughter, who had been taken 16 years earlier, so he sets off toward the black pillar of smoke with Charlie. During a brief rest at the Boone-killing Beechcraft, Charlie scores a Virgin Mary filled with smack to take back to the caves.
Kate and Locke, meanwhile, are bringing back the dynamite — or at least think they are — but Jack has switched packs with Kate trying to protect her, which only rankles Killer Katie.
During the flashbacks, which continue to cycle through the main characters rather than focus on one in particular, we see Paik threaten Jin through an intermediary, telling him that he is not free and never will be. We also see Michael making a phone call to his mom from the Sydney airport in an attempt to pawn off Walt onto her, though, the two finally begin connecting and communicating on the raft.
Fueling speculation about the show's greater meaning, assuming there is one, Sun openly questions whether "all this" is punishment from fate, a notion that Claire vehemently disagrees with because she doesn't believe in fate.
QUOTABLE
"Hope. I think hope's inside." — Locke when Hurley asks what he thinks is inside the hatch
Season 1, Episode 23: Exodus Part 1
Now, we've reached the three-part season finale for the inaugural season of Lost. The flashbacks ripple from character to character and then back again like a wave rather than focusing on a single character as many of the preceding episodes. Finally, and officially, we also are introduced to The Others — kind of. While most of the first season centered on developing the character profiles of the survivors, The Others now take on an active role.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Rousseau comes to the survivors' camp to warn that The Others are coming. She says they are drawn by Claire's baby and tells a tale about delivering her own baby, Alex, then seeing a pillar of smoke rise 5 kilometers inland a week later and having The Others come and abduct her child that night. As the raft is being moved to the ocean's edge, a dark, thick spiral of smoke appears just as Rousseau predicted. Hurley and Rousseau accompany Jack, Sayid and Locke to the hatch, which could serve as a shelter from The Others' impending attack.
Just one problem, they still haven't figured out how to open the darn thing. But Rousseau suggests using dynamite from the Black Rock, which is deep in the Dark Territory and turns out to be a centuries-old shipwreck that is curiously miles into the jungle. With precious little time remaining before nightfall, Jack, Locke, Kate, Hurley and Leslie Arzt, a bit character/high school science teacher who will make sure they handle the dynamite properly, head off with Rousseau.
Upon reaching the Dark Territory, Arzt gets cold feet and retreats only to be chased back to the group by The Smoke Monster, which Rousseau tells the survivors acts as a security system for the island.
Following the raft party, meanwhile, Jack has given Sawyer a gun as a precaution. In return, Sawyer tells Jack about the chance meeting with his father: that Christian apologized, thought Jack was a better doctor, was proud of him and loves him. Unable to take Vincent on the raft, Walt gives him to Shannon, sensing she needs the companionship, before he and his father, Jin — armed with a book of simple translations from Sun — and Sawyer shove off at last.
In flashbacks, we see Walt rebelling against Michael, who doesn't know how to handle a child, and we're also introduced to Ana Lucia, who shares a drink and flirty conversation with Jack in the airport bar before both board Oceanic 815. Now divorced and transporting Christian home after he died of a heart attack, Jacks agrees to have another drink with her on the plane. She is sitting in the plane's rear, seat 42F. From seat 23B, it's Jack's job to find her.
We also learn that Sawyer, presumably in a drunken rage after shooting the wrong man, delivered a headbutt to the Australian minister of agriculture, which earns him an immediate deportation and permanent banishment from Down Under. Sayid also was detained after asking Shannon to watch his bag at the airport. Instead, she left it unguarded and reported Sayid — an Arab-looking man — for leaving it unattended.
QUOTABLE
"He'll take care of you. ... Vincent took care of me when my mom died and nobody would talk to me. They pretended like nothing happened, so I had to talk to Vincent. He's a good listener. You could talk to him about Boone if you want." — Walt to Shannon, explaining why he thinks she should look after Vincent
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
Rousseau comes to the survivors' camp to warn that The Others are coming. She says they are drawn by Claire's baby and tells a tale about delivering her own baby, Alex, then seeing a pillar of smoke rise 5 kilometers inland a week later and having The Others come and abduct her child that night. As the raft is being moved to the ocean's edge, a dark, thick spiral of smoke appears just as Rousseau predicted. Hurley and Rousseau accompany Jack, Sayid and Locke to the hatch, which could serve as a shelter from The Others' impending attack.
Just one problem, they still haven't figured out how to open the darn thing. But Rousseau suggests using dynamite from the Black Rock, which is deep in the Dark Territory and turns out to be a centuries-old shipwreck that is curiously miles into the jungle. With precious little time remaining before nightfall, Jack, Locke, Kate, Hurley and Leslie Arzt, a bit character/high school science teacher who will make sure they handle the dynamite properly, head off with Rousseau.
Upon reaching the Dark Territory, Arzt gets cold feet and retreats only to be chased back to the group by The Smoke Monster, which Rousseau tells the survivors acts as a security system for the island.
Following the raft party, meanwhile, Jack has given Sawyer a gun as a precaution. In return, Sawyer tells Jack about the chance meeting with his father: that Christian apologized, thought Jack was a better doctor, was proud of him and loves him. Unable to take Vincent on the raft, Walt gives him to Shannon, sensing she needs the companionship, before he and his father, Jin — armed with a book of simple translations from Sun — and Sawyer shove off at last.
In flashbacks, we see Walt rebelling against Michael, who doesn't know how to handle a child, and we're also introduced to Ana Lucia, who shares a drink and flirty conversation with Jack in the airport bar before both board Oceanic 815. Now divorced and transporting Christian home after he died of a heart attack, Jacks agrees to have another drink with her on the plane. She is sitting in the plane's rear, seat 42F. From seat 23B, it's Jack's job to find her.
We also learn that Sawyer, presumably in a drunken rage after shooting the wrong man, delivered a headbutt to the Australian minister of agriculture, which earns him an immediate deportation and permanent banishment from Down Under. Sayid also was detained after asking Shannon to watch his bag at the airport. Instead, she left it unguarded and reported Sayid — an Arab-looking man — for leaving it unattended.
QUOTABLE
"He'll take care of you. ... Vincent took care of me when my mom died and nobody would talk to me. They pretended like nothing happened, so I had to talk to Vincent. He's a good listener. You could talk to him about Boone if you want." — Walt to Shannon, explaining why he thinks she should look after Vincent
Sunday, November 29, 2009
Season 1, Episode 22: Born to Run
Kate is kind of devious, but I tend to go for the crazy gals anyway, so she floats my boat fine. And while we already know she's like Sawyer in certain ways, criminal ways, we also learn she shares some of Jack's troubles. She just can't let go, and she does some stupid stuff for love.
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
With her mother on her deathbed, Kate returns to Iowa to see her one final time and needs help from a ravishing young doctor (hm, coincidence?) named Tom Brennan — the love of Kate's life and her childhood sweetheart. He agrees to help, but in the downtime the two go and dig up a time capsule they planted under a weeping willow tree in a pasture. Inside the bitchin' New Kids on the Block lunch pail, among various other childhood memories was Tom's plane. The two share a kiss in the car before heading to the hospital for a few minutes with dear old mom.
But the goodbye doesn't go as planned for Katie, that's what Tom calls her, when Diane panics and begins hollering for help. Kate, still a fugitive, must flee again and does so in Tom's car, which he refuses to get out of when they are cornered by a deputy leaving the hospital's parking garage. Undaunted, Kate drives through the cop-car barricade and Tom is shot and killed in the process. She grabs his plane and flees on foot, but will come to blame herself for Tom's death.
On the island, the jockeying for a spot on the raft begins. Kate tries to talk Michael into giving Sawyer the boot, since he had bought his way onto the first raft and didn't necessarily deserve a spot on the second. But when Michael's water is poisoned one afternoon, Sawyer and Kate are pitted against each other in trying to curry Michael's favor. When Michael decides to boot Sawyer from the raft, presuming he poisoned him, Sawyer rats out Kate's fugitive past — and the fact she plans to assume JoAnna's identity in order to run if rescued — to the entire group and she becomes the newest pariah when she admits she was on the plane in the marshal's custody.
Jack has figured out it was neither Kate nor Sawyer who poisoned Michael. It was Sun, but she was trying to make Jin sick so he wouldn't leave on the raft. She fears he will die at sea, but fears never seeing him again more. Jack, using his discretion, opts not to tell the others, while Sun opts not to tell Jack it was Kate's idea — a clever back-up strategy to get on the raft. Sawyer ends up back on the four-person raft.
Meanwhile, Locke has Sayid bring Jack out to the hatch. Both Locke and Jack continue to distrust one another, but the truth is that both are keeping secrets from the larger group when they feel it is appropriate. Jack, like Locke, wants to open the hatch. He believes much-needed supplies can be found inside. Sayid, however, thinks it was sealed and handle-less for a reason and that it's best left alone.
Walt issues an ominous warning when Locke grabs his arm. He'd gone to Locke to tell him that he didn't poison his dad, suspecting Locke might think he did since he had burned the first raft. But when Locke touches him, he freaks out and tells Locke not to open it. The "it" isn't clear, but we assume it is the hatch. Of course, "it" could also refer to something Locke may have to open in Season 6 too, but for now we'll assume it was the hatch. Walt confesses the arson to his dad, but has changed his mind and now wants to leave, fearing the future on the island now more than moving again apparently.
QUOTABLE
"When I was a little girl, I thought that once I found the man I loved I would be happy forever." — Sun to Kate
MAJOR PLOT POINTS
With her mother on her deathbed, Kate returns to Iowa to see her one final time and needs help from a ravishing young doctor (hm, coincidence?) named Tom Brennan — the love of Kate's life and her childhood sweetheart. He agrees to help, but in the downtime the two go and dig up a time capsule they planted under a weeping willow tree in a pasture. Inside the bitchin' New Kids on the Block lunch pail, among various other childhood memories was Tom's plane. The two share a kiss in the car before heading to the hospital for a few minutes with dear old mom.
But the goodbye doesn't go as planned for Katie, that's what Tom calls her, when Diane panics and begins hollering for help. Kate, still a fugitive, must flee again and does so in Tom's car, which he refuses to get out of when they are cornered by a deputy leaving the hospital's parking garage. Undaunted, Kate drives through the cop-car barricade and Tom is shot and killed in the process. She grabs his plane and flees on foot, but will come to blame herself for Tom's death.
On the island, the jockeying for a spot on the raft begins. Kate tries to talk Michael into giving Sawyer the boot, since he had bought his way onto the first raft and didn't necessarily deserve a spot on the second. But when Michael's water is poisoned one afternoon, Sawyer and Kate are pitted against each other in trying to curry Michael's favor. When Michael decides to boot Sawyer from the raft, presuming he poisoned him, Sawyer rats out Kate's fugitive past — and the fact she plans to assume JoAnna's identity in order to run if rescued — to the entire group and she becomes the newest pariah when she admits she was on the plane in the marshal's custody.
Jack has figured out it was neither Kate nor Sawyer who poisoned Michael. It was Sun, but she was trying to make Jin sick so he wouldn't leave on the raft. She fears he will die at sea, but fears never seeing him again more. Jack, using his discretion, opts not to tell the others, while Sun opts not to tell Jack it was Kate's idea — a clever back-up strategy to get on the raft. Sawyer ends up back on the four-person raft.
Meanwhile, Locke has Sayid bring Jack out to the hatch. Both Locke and Jack continue to distrust one another, but the truth is that both are keeping secrets from the larger group when they feel it is appropriate. Jack, like Locke, wants to open the hatch. He believes much-needed supplies can be found inside. Sayid, however, thinks it was sealed and handle-less for a reason and that it's best left alone.
Walt issues an ominous warning when Locke grabs his arm. He'd gone to Locke to tell him that he didn't poison his dad, suspecting Locke might think he did since he had burned the first raft. But when Locke touches him, he freaks out and tells Locke not to open it. The "it" isn't clear, but we assume it is the hatch. Of course, "it" could also refer to something Locke may have to open in Season 6 too, but for now we'll assume it was the hatch. Walt confesses the arson to his dad, but has changed his mind and now wants to leave, fearing the future on the island now more than moving again apparently.
QUOTABLE
"When I was a little girl, I thought that once I found the man I loved I would be happy forever." — Sun to Kate
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