Line of the night – Hurley wins again with - “You’re just jealous that my power is better than yours!”
There were about 8 minutes of quality LOST in this week’s episode. The title kicked ass, the dialogue between Hurley and Miles was exceptional, interesting twist with the character “Bram”, and the ending was a breath of fresh Faraday. However, I did not enjoy watching the scenes with Jack cleaning a chalk board or Kate being a jackass. This time could have been better spent, but I guess they are setting us up for later episodes.
The time shows 3:16 on the 1984 microwave. It’s Dr. Chang’s wife and a little boy who we all suspect to be Miles. 20 seconds later the little boy runs away and the mom says, “Miles…no running”. Theory confirmed! Miles makes his way through the South Seas Apartment Complex and I can actually see Daniel Larusso practicing karate kicks in the 2nd floor apartment window. Little Miles can hear dead people and finds a man lying on his apartment floor. This kid reminds me of a cross between “Data” from Goonies and “Cole Sear” from the Sixth Sense. “I told you I can hear him, I can hear him!”
Whoosh and we are in the greatest year of all time 1977. Kate and Sawyer are coming back from ditching little Ben. They are going to do their best to cover up the whole situation. Miles is in the security station and Horace enters with a task for him. Horace does his best Jack Byrnes impression, “I want to bring you into the circle of trust Miles…can I trust you?” (Now Miles should remember: with the knowledge you've been given, you are now on the inside of what I like to call... 'the Byrnes family circle of trust.' I keep nothing from you, you keep nothing from me... and round and round we go.) Horace gives Miles a bag of some sorts and sends him to grid 344 to meet Radzinsky. Once there, Miles finds out that the bag is actually a body bag and 2 Dharma workers bring out a dead man with a hole in his forehead. The workers are all dirty and go back into the jungle, but why? Miles gets ready to leave but not before he says, “Ok, so what really happened?”
We now flashback to a youthful Miles and his Punk Rocker Skunk Haircut and piercings. His mom appears to be dying of cancer and Miles wants the low down on his dad. Miles finds out that his dad kicked them out when he was just a baby. He’s dead and his body is, “somewhere you can never go.”
Back to 1977 and Hurley inadvertently hitches a ride with Miles on his secret mission to bring the dead body to Dr. Chang at the Orchid station. Kate joins Juliet in the infirmary and enter Wolfman Roger Linus. He freaks out when he learns that Ben was abducted from the infirmary.
We switch gears to Hurley and Miles in the Mystery Machine on their way to the Orchid. Their exchange is great and Hurley suspects Miles of dropping ‘a bomb’ so to speak. Hurley makes him pull over, “Dude, there’s a body bag back here with a body in it!” “That’s traditionally what you put in a body bag.” Love the sarcasm. Miles explains that this dead guy was Alvarez and he felt a sharp pain in his mouth which lead to a filling blowing up through his head. Hurley finds out that he is not the only one who can communicate with dead people.
Whoosh – we flashback to Miles visiting the Commanding Officer from Starship Troopers. I am pretty sure this is the dude that gets ripped apart by a giant bug as Johnny Rico and Dizzy Flores look on. The significance of this visit is that the Dad (who’s been in a ton of movies and shows, but most memorable for his death scene in Starship Troopers) wants Miles to communicate to his dead son that he loved him. As he is leaving we get a pleasant surprise from none other than a Wig Wearing Naomi. She’s there to recruit Miles for the Freighter mission.
Whoosh back to 1977 and Roger Linus is sucking back on grandpa’s cough medicine. He’s transforming into his alter ego, Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite. Kate approaches and looks to comfort Roger. “Ben is going to be ok, don’t give up hope.” Roger gets very suspicious, “Do you know something?” Kate walks away from the swing set and all I can say is…”Kate is such a dumbass.”
Transition to Miles and Hurley still on their way to the Orchid to deliver the body to Dr. Chang. Miles explains that he can’t talk to the dead people, he just gets a feeling, a sense of who they were and what they did before they died. Hurley on the other hand can verbally speak with the dead individuals that come to visit him (and even play chess). Dr. Chang approaches and seems extremely annoyed that Hurley is with Miles. “Dude, don’t worry I won’t say anything about the body!” Dr. Chang begins to rip Hurley and all of the sudden I have a “Nostradamus moment” because I write down, “Dr. Chang is a douche.” Dr. Chang tells Hurley that if he doesn’t keep the secret, he’ll send him over to “HYDRA ISLAND” to weigh Polar Bear turds for their ridiculous experiments. Without Fail, 10 seconds later Hurley says, “Dude, that guy’s a total douche!” Miles responds, “That douche is my dad!” I must be clairvoyant?
We’re back from commercial and Naomi is ready for Miles’ audition. He begins to shake like Twitchel from Opie and Anthony. We learn that this particular dead guy was on his way to see Widmore to deliver pics of empty graves, and a purchase order for an old airplane. This confirms Theory #2 that Widmore was behind the staging of the fake Oceanic Flight 815 crash.
Whoosh back to Hurley and Miles. “So is like Marvin Candle his stage name? How weird is it that your dad is the dude from all those movies?” Miles doesn’t know what he is talking about and explains that he figured out that it was his dad after the 3rd day they were in the Dharma camp. His mom got in line behind him in the cafeteria.
Back at Dharma base camp we finally see the protagonist of the show, Jack Shepard, and he’s cleaning a freaking school chalkboard. Ugh, this is painful to watch. Uncle Rico is all buzzed up and calls out Kate again. Jack gets in his face and defends her.
In the Mystery Machine, Hurley, Dr. Chang, and Miles are on their way to meet Radzinsky. Dr. Chang reveals that the Orchid is top secret and his wife and child don’t know about it. “What about your kids?” “Well I have a 3 month old son named Miles.” Hurley responds, “What a small world…your name is Miles too!” Hurley suggests that they all hang out and talk over a beer. Just then they get to the destination and Dr. Chang opens a hidden gate. We are witnessing history in the making as the Dharma workers punch in the famous numbers 4 – 8 – 15 – 16 – 23 – 42. “They are building the hatch, the one that crashed down our plane.”
Flashback and Miles is getting a fish taco when a dark van and the guy that was Jordin Sparks’ sidekick from the other island is in the van. His name is “Bram” and he informs Miles that his apartment is being watched. They are there to do everything they can to keep Miles from getting on the freighter. They ask, “Do you know what lies in the shadow of the statue?” Miles doesn’t know, which means he is not ready to go to the island. Bram explains that they can help him figure out why he has a gift and really find out about his father. Miles wants more money, and the henchmen in the Van ditch Miles. “You’re playing for the wrong team!” Miles responds, “So which side are you on?” Bram says, “the one that’s gonna win!” (So does this mean that Jordin Sparks and her cronies were not sent on Ajira Flight 316 by Widmore?)
Whoosh to 1977 and Hurley is trying to get Miles to let out all his feelings and animosity towards his father. Miles doesn’t want to share his feelings and instead steals Hurley’s notebook. In it we find that Hurley is writing down the script to one of my favorites, “Empire Strikes Back”. The Hoth reference from the episode’s title is finally revealed. Hurley was going to send the script to George Lucas to help him along and offer some new ideas.
Transition back to base camp. Jack’s visiting his old fling and Sawyer walks in. Jack explains the Roger Linus situation and Phil (the other security guard) enters LaFleur’s house. He knows that Sawyer took Ben to the jungle. BAMM – punch in the face!
Hurley and Miles are back and Miles can’t stress enough that he wants nothing to do with his father, “I never knew him, I don’t want too.” Now for the best part of the whole show…take it away Hurley: “That was Luke’s attitude too. In Empire when he finds out that Vader is his father, he over-reacts and got his hand cut off. I mean they worked it out eventually, but at what cost? Another Death Star was destroyed, Bobafett got eaten by the Sarlac, and we got the Ewoks. All could have been avoided if they just communicated. But let’s face it, the Ewoks sucked!” I’m sorry Lost fans, but that was just AWESOME! Like Carl Spackler after his visit with the Lama, I just received total consciousness.
Miles goes from tough guy to pathetic soul as he watches his dad play with himself (you know what I mean) in the window. A phone rings and Dr. Chang has to meet some scientists from Anne Arbor at the submarine dock. “Hey, can someone give me a hand with this?” Out comes….FARADAY! Thank god! Miles says, “Hey Dan!” To which Faraday responds, “Hey Miles, long time no see!” BAMM END CREDITS.
I loved all the Miles/Hurley dialogue, but seeing Daniel at the end made the episode. So this must mean that everything in the world for them is 1977, right? So when Daniel is returning to the island from Anne Arbor, it was actually 1977 for Daniel in Anne Arbor???
With all the focus on Miles this week, are they setting us up for some big Father / Son show down? So whose side are Bram and Jordin Sparks on? Former Dharma staff?
And seriously, Jack is back on the island and he hasn’t done Jack Squat since his return? What gives?
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