Line of the night – “Your gonna leave me hear with the Mad Scientist and Mr. I speak to Dead People!?” – Jim LaFleur aka James Ford aka Sawyer.
LOST is back on track and I love the way they are taking the story. Finally we are done with the time flashes which gave the Losties (and me) headaches and nose bleeds. I spent more time trying to figure out when they were each time the screen flashed a bright light and less time just enjoying the show. This was an interesting episode to say the least, mainly because we see Sawyer as a cheesy, nice guy who actually CARES about the people around him and not just himself. I bet his sappy Dharma Facebook page is full of flair, he has cute little cocktail drinks sent to him by Jin and Juliet, and Val Speakman is tagged in every photo. This is NOT a good thing…where’s my bad ass Sawyer? I hope he comes back…off to the episode.
We are back with Locke, Sawyer, Miles, Jin and Juliet at the well. There’s a quick time flash and AWWWWW YEAH the backside of the 4 toed statue! Freaking Awesome! Please note that the frozen donkey wheel was functional back then, because the very next thing we see is John Locke turning the donkey wheel and we get our final time flash….BAMM. The headaches and nose bleeds are gone, but when are they?
Sawyer is pretty animate about trying to get Locke from the bottom of the well. He calms down and tells the others, “Now we wait for him to come back, as long as it takes!”
3 Years Later…Randall “Pink” Floyd and his girl are ‘keeping it real’ in a Dharma observation station (party at the moon-tower). All the sudden, Slater rolls in and kills the mood. We see our old friend Horace Goodspeed drunker than David Hasselhoff on the screen and he’s blowing up trees with dynamite. Pinky and Slater roll over to “LaFleur’s” Dharma Bungalow and seem scared to death to wake him. They knock and we hear an all too familiar voice…SAWYER. This episode just went from awesome to awesomer. Sawyer and Miles get Horace and bring him home to his wife, Amy. Amy explains that they had a fight about Paul, and then goes into labor in a house that looks a lot like Benry's.
3 Years Earlier…and I’ve noticed they aren’t playing the Whoosh sound effect. Daniel is a wreck over Charlotte’s death and keeps mumbling that he’s ‘not gonna do it.’ Daniel gets it together and explains, “Whenever we are now, we are here for good!” Sawyer decides to head back to the beach. Miles responds, “Who put him in charge!” God I love the foreshadowing the writers put into this.
Two hostiles are about to abduct a Dharma girl and it looks like a Dharma guy is already dead. Sawyer and Juliet want to help, and Daniel says, “Whatever happened..happened, it doesn’t matter what we do.” Side note – this is a recurring them which makes me wonder if keeping this Dharma girl alive is really going to screw something up in the future?!? We’ll find out.
Badass Sawyer gives the hostiles a chance to get away…too late…Juliet nails one and Sawyer takes out the other dude. So let’s see who this lucky lady is…well hello there Ms. Michelle Dressler. Shouldn’t you be running CTU (Counter-terrorism Unit) while attempting to keep Jack Bauer in line so that he can save the country? I guess not. Michelle’s name in LOST is Amy. They bury the 2 hostiles and head back to the Dharma camp with Amy’s dead husband Paul. This is where it gets really interesting…
Sawyer says, “now listen up…keep your mouths shut and let me do the talking.” Miles says, “you really think you will be able to convince them that we were in a boat wreck?” (This seems all too familiar, don’t you think?). They get to the sonic fence and I seriously think Amy was going to let them walk right through the barrier so that they can go Cujo on her and die (foam at the mouth and bleed from the ears). Juliet’s too smart and makes Amy turn off the system, but not before they are all knocked out by some high-pitched sound.
3 years later and I actually miss the Whoosh sound effect. A Dharma intern doctor reveals that all the expecting mothers leave for the mainland to give birth. Amy is 2 weeks early and he can’t deliver the baby. The intern doctor can’t help her. Sawyer runs out of the ward like Marty McFly running to get Doc Brown at the end of BTTF II (There’s only one man who can help me!). He finds Juliet working on trucks…that’s hot. Juliet is reluctant to help, but sappy Sawyer tells her, “You’re gonna do great, I know you!” Seriously I don’t know if I can handle this 180 in Sawyer’s demeanor. Here comes Jin and I’ll be damned, he can speak English very well now. Sawyer is head of security and it looks like he has Jin doing sweeps of the island looking for any signs of Locke and the Oceanic 6, herein referred to as the “Sixers” (love that name Charlie-Boo). “How long do we look James?” Again his response, “as long as it takes.” Juliet comes out and the baby is ok!
3 years earlier and Sawyer introduces himself to Horace as James LaFleur but you can call me Jim. Sawyer is extremely impressive at coming up with a bullshit story, but Horace wants them off the island by the morning. Side Note 2 – I don’t ever remember Horace being the leader of the Dharma Initiative, where is Dr. Marvin Candle? The rest of Sawyer’s crew are hanging at a picnic table and we see a little red-head girl cross the camera shot. Ohh how sweet, there’s Charlotte…and Daniel bugs out (like the rest of us). In the distance, I see Chris Gallaway approaching from the west with a torch in hand and he looks pissed…hold up…it’s the ageless wonder, Richard Alpert (I was close). Horace and Richard have a little heart to heart, but the ‘truce’ between the 2 groups has been broken because 2 of Richard’s hostiles are missing. Miles is ready to get the heck out of Dodge, but Sawyer jumps in…“Hold your horses Bonzai!” Sawyer goes out and speaks to Richard. Badass Sawyer explains that he killed the 2 hostiles, but also spills the beans about his time traveling adventure, and I don’t mean the one where he follows a bunch of treasure-hunting dwarves, who have "borrowed" a map to the Universe's time holes from The Supreme Being. (Whoever gets that reference gets a Gold star). I like Sawyers approach, honesty is always the best policy and Richard believes him because since it’s 1974, Richard has been following John Locke’s life for a number of years by now. This move buys the Losties 2 weeks on the island. Juliet wants to go back to the mainland since she has spent the last 3 years of her life trying to get off the island, but ends up staying.
3 years later and Casanova Sawyer, now officially Jim LaFleur, picks a sweet smelling flower. He must have a hot date….and we find out it’s with Juliet. “You were amazing today!” “Thank you for believing in me…I love you!” “I love you too!” Is this really happening? I made Angela punch me in the face to make sure.
Back from commercial and LaFleur is sitting with Horace. Horace got in a fight with Amy because he found a Cross in her sock drawer from her dead husband, Paul. Horace says, “It’s only been 3 years, just 3 years Jim and is that really enough time to get over someone?” Brilliant line Horace because interestingly enough, Sawyer hasn’t seen Kate in 3 years. “I had a thing for a girl once, I had a shot at her and I didn’t take it. Now I can barely remember what she looks like. Her face is just gone, and she ain’t never coming back!” Someone push the IRONY button right…………..now.
We get a phone call from Jin – meet at the north valley. LaFleur is listening to REO Speedwagon as his CJ-7 rolls up. I’ve got butterfly’s I am so nervous and anxious. Here comes the Dharma Dead-Head bus. There’s Jin…there’s Hurley…there’s Jack…and finally we get a shot of Kate. The look on Sawyer’s face is priceless and BAMMMM END CREDITS.
Awesome episode! They ended it at the perfect spot. In the almighty words of Dave Matthews…No words exchanged, no time to exchange them. Just end it and leave us wanting more and more.
I think I’ve said this before but I’ll say it again. Maybe the whole point of them going back is so that they can prevent the Hostile Purge from ever happening. But that wouldn’t go in line with what Daniel keeps saying, “whatever happens…happens. Thoughts on this?
And if the island is stuck in 1974, does that mean the entire WORLD is stuck in 1974? If Sawyer did leave on the sub, would he travel back to 2007 or 1974?
Until next week, Namaste and Good Luck!
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