Line of the night – “I’m checking to see if I’m disappearing!” – Hurley
We see flashbacks of Cassidy (the mother of Sawyer’s child, Clementine), Kate with Cassidy, and Jack with Claire’s mom, so I am guessing this is going to be a Kate oriented episode since we just had a Sawyer episode 2 weeks ago. We are in the present and Jin wakes up after miraculously surviving an Iraqi Break-dance Fighting move from Sayid. Ben’s been shot in the chest, but he is not dead. I think we all saw that coming (except for Vinnie and Charlie Boo). Jin takes him back to the Dharma camp and Roger Linus gets all hot and bothered that his ‘kid’ is shot!
WHOOSH – Flash…..middle? It’s not really a flashback, so we’ll call these Flashmiddle's. Kate rolls up to an unknown house with a 6 month old Reece (Aaron). I am going to wager that this is where Cassidy and Clementine live. The door swings open…damn I’m good. “Sawyer sent me.” “That SOB is still alive.” “He told me to find you and take care of Clementine.” Kate explains how Sawyer jumped out of the plane to be a hero and save them, but Cassidy sees him as a Coward because he was trying to get away from Kate. “You have the same look on your face that I did when he ditched me.” I am already getting the feeling that this episode is turning into one of those sappy Lifetime Saturday afternoon movies that my wife lives for. This episode had better take a turn for the better.
WHOOSH and we are back in Dharmaville. Only 3 people have Janitor keys, Roger, Willy and the new guy Jack. I still think it’s hilarious that Sawyer set Jack up to be a janitor. Jack immediately becomes a suspect. We see Juliet doing her best to keep little Ben alive. She sends Sawyer to get Jack. Maybe this will be Jack’s first chance to ‘fix something’ on the island.
We transition to a Dharma house and Hurley is staring at his hand. Miles says, “What are you doing?” “Dude, I’m checking to see if I’m disappearing!” What a great freaking line (for all the BTTF nerds out there). Hurley almost quotes Dave Vanderslice’s Comment from last week verbatim. “If little Ben got shot, then he won’t grow up to become big Ben who eventually takes us back to the island, so we can’t be here and therefore we don’t exist”. Nice work Dave…nice work.
Miles goes into Doc Brown/Charlie Boucher mode and attempts to explain the situation. “You can’t change anything. Your maniac Iraqi buddy always shot Linus, that always happened, we just never experienced how it all turns out!” Sawyer comes in and Jack says, “No.” “If you don’t come with me that kid is gonna die.” Jack’s response, “Then he dies!” THIS IS GOING TO BE KEY LATER, I JUST HAVE A HUNCH. So, again, Jack is testing Fate on the island and actually doesn’t give in for once. Don’t you remember when Jack refused to push the “Button” in Season 2. John Locke finally swayed Jack into pushing the numbers to reset the 108 clock after much debate about science vs. faith back and forth.
Jack’s sticking to his guns when Kate comes in and tries to convince Jack to save Ben. “I already saved Ben Linus once, and I did it for you Kate!” The last time around Jack spent all his time trying to fix things, maybe he was just getting in the way of the island trying to fix things. Good point Jack, now you go enjoy that Ham and Cheese sandwich.
We see Roger Linus talking to Sawyer outside the Infirmary. Roger figures out that Ben stole his keys after Sawyer asks if Roger has his keys. He tells Juliet, “That bastard doesn’t ask a question he already doesn’t know the answer too.” Juliet allows Roger to stay in the Infirmary to keep Kate company. “Hello Kate, did you know I played the Wolfman in the 1987 cult-classic The Monster Squad?” Ben goes into Toxic Shock.
Back to Hurley and Miles and I can just imagine Lost fans Joe, Charlie and Bill giddie as school children that they are getting an explanation into ‘whatever happened, happened.' At the same time, I look over at Angela and just wait for it…….”Now I’m even more confused.” Don’t worry Angelina, I am sure you are not the only one. Here is what Miles said, “This conversation already happened, but for you and I it’s happening right now. When Ben turned the wheel, time isn’t in a straight line anymore. Our experiences in the past and the future occurred before these experiences right now. This is our present and this is Ben’s past.” So what this means that Sayid has ALWAYS been the reason that little Ben gets shot, Jack refuses to fix him, and Sawyer/Kate take him to Richard to become ‘an other.” So in theory we can all blame Jack for the way that Ben turned out. Hurley does crack me up when he says, “Sayid tortured Ben when he got caught in our camp, why wouldn’t he remember getting shot by that very same guy when he was a kid?”
Back to the infirmary and there is not much else that Juliet can do for little Ben. Kate ponders all of the people that could help. Juliet gives her token ‘potty smirk’ and says, “maybe there is something they can do.” “They”….”The others!” Ohh yeah…I like where this is going. Kate takes the Mystery Machine to the perimeter fence and Sawyer helps her get little Ben into the jungle. Kate is really set on helping this little boy.
WHOOSH – Flashmiddle to the dock scene yet again. We hear Kate refuse to be part of the group to go back to the island for the 8th time and she drives off with my son. “I’m thirsty, I need some milk.” So Kate takes Aaron to the grocery store instead of home, which is just weird. Aaron changes his mind from milk to a juice box just like every other toddler in America. All the sudden, Aaron is missing…he’s gone A-wall. Angela and every other mom watching starts to freak out. Oh my god, he’s missing…he’s been kidnapped! Then we see Aaron walking towards the check-out counter with a girl that looks all too familiar…CLAIRE? The girl turns around and I sulk. That would have been cool to see Claire.
We are still in a Flashmiddle and Kate is on the couch with Cassidy. Kate says, “As scared as I was, I wasn’t surprised. I thought it was about time…for him to be taken. Claire was gone, she left him, he needed me.” Cassidy goes Dr. Phil on Kate and says, “You needed HIM because Sawyer broke your heard.”
WHOOSH to Dharmaville. Kate and Sawyer venture off into the jungle to find the “others.” Juliet confronts Jack. She lays into Jack about not helping the little boy. He says that he came back to save them. “We didn’t need saving, we’ve been here for three years and you came back for you!” Jack responds, “I came back because I was supposed to.” To do what? “I don’t know yet.” Juliet leaves him with, “well you better figure it out!” Quick thought – wouldn’t you think Juliet would be happy as pie to see Jack and Kate, etc because maybe they would have a way back to the present and get her off the island so she can see her sister and the baby??? She was trying so hard to get off the island in Season 3 it was ridiculous.
We join our Lifetime movie already in progress…
Kate – “She looks just like you when she smiles” Sawyer rolls his eyes.
Sawyer – “I bet you and Cassidy had loads to talk about.”
Kate – “She had an interesting theory about why you jumped out of the helicopter. She thought you were worried about what would happen if you didn’t jump.”
Sawyer – “You and me would have never worked out. I wasn’t anymore fit to be your boyfriend, than I was to e that little girl’s father”.
Kate – “You seem to be doing alright with Juliet here.”
Sawyer – “I’ve grown up a lot in the past three years.”
I hear guns locking up and here come a bunch of Eddie Bauer / LL Bean catalogue models with guns. It’s the ‘others’ in their finest fall colors.
Kate tells Claire’s mom that Aaron is her grandson and that Claire is still alive. She tells her about the lie and that she had to protect Aaron. Kate checked into a room 2 doors down and Aaron’s waiting for grandma to pay a visit. “When your ready, he’s waiting for you. I told him you are his grandmom and you will take care of him while I am gone and that I’ll be home soon.” "I’m going back to find your daughter!” And now we have Kate’s M-O.
We view another classic – Aaron trying really hard to look like he is sleeping, but he’s doing a piss-poor job of it. Bye-bye baby and Kate leaves Aaron ALONE in a shady Compton motel. Again Kate, good move. Back to the future, or I guess the past and Richard appears out of the woods. He recognizes Ben Linus. “You two know each other?” Richard tells Sawyer, “If I take him, he’s not ever going to be the same again. He won’t remember this, and he’ll lose his innocence. He will always be one of us.” Other extra #2 has some lines, “You shouldn’t do this without talking to Ellie, what if Charles finds out.” So at this point we learn that the ‘others’ are apparently still under the leadership of Charles Widmore, right?
Richard takes little Ben to an old ruin where for a second I thought Richard was going to Morph into some weird alien, but instead he just ducks into the structure.
We flash over to the smaller island where Ben is sound asleep. He opens his eyes and sees John Locke, “Welcome back to the land of the living.” BAMM End Credits.
Soooo by Jack purposely trying to prove there is no such thing as “Fate” by not operating and saving little Ben in the Dharma compound, Jack causes Ben to be transported to the ‘others’ to be saved. Hence little Ben will become Benry Hence little Ben will become Benry.
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