Season V, Episode I - Because You Left

We are in the present and Jack is talking to Ben Linus aka Benry about getting the old band back together, the Oceanic 6. WHOOSH

Flashforward to the Sahara Desert and we find Benry covered in a little bit of ice (around his boots and jacket) just like that famous 1983 Delorean from that famous time traveling movie. Ben ends up in Tunisia after killing one desert rebel and assaulting another. FYI – the name “Halliwax” on Ben’s jacket is an alias for Dr. Marvin Candle from the Orchid Station Time Travel video. WHOOSH

Flashback – Kate’s sitting on her porch drinking a beer. She finishes up and takes off down the road on a dirt bike, just then the whole freakin house blows up. WHOOSH

Flashforward - Jack’s mom, Sun’s parents, Hurley’s mom are excitedly awaiting their arrival. Actually really felt bad for Kate. Is this the moment in her life when she comes to terms with the fact that…”it’s just you and me, Aaron!” Her bond is sealed with Aaron “Shephard” WHOOSH

Flashback – Locke is sitting on top of the uncovered hatch. He’s looking for answers and says, “Show me a sign” and puts his hands over his head. Just then a light comes on in the Hatch below…WHOOSH END Of EPISODE.

Wait wait…I sound like a broken record skipping around the whole freakin series of lost. That’s what tonight’s premiere felt like for real. If anything goes wrong, Fisher Stevens will be my Constant. Before I even get into this episode recap, I have a severe headache and my nose is bleeding…Remember Fisher Stevens (the actor who plays the Freighter communications officer George Minkowski) is my Constant.

OK LETS GET INTO IT…..EPISODE I – Because you left.

Best line of the night – “Oh Yeah, Libby says hi…….”

So….uh…..rrrrrrright. I walked out of tonight’s premiere episode beady-eyed and grabbing the bridge of my nose looking for my pills. I felt shaky and had vertigo much like present day Jack Sheppard.

We start off much like season II with an unknown character getting ready for their day in the morning. This unknown character, whom we all know will be revealed in just a matter of moments, puts on a record (that starts to skip). Turns out it’s Dr. Marvin Candle aka Dr. Pierre Chang aka Dr. Halliwax. We are back in the 1970’s when the Dharma initiative is just underway and they are building the Orchid station that has the ability to allow them to manipulate time. Whoops, excuse me, here comes Daniel Farraday bumping into Dr. Candle. “How stupid does this guy think we are?!?” and BAM opening credits. Ok, I’m digging this…great intro so far.

We are 3 years in the future from when the island disappeared which would take us to early 2008. My guess from last season (after being a uber-nerd and doing a time-line/line graph on Microsoft Excel) was that it was around February 2, 2008 when Ben found Jack in the funeral parlor. Jack is loony and hopped up on pills, he doesn’t believe the other survivors are his friends anymore. He reveals to Ben that John Locke said that everyone from the beach, Juliet and Sawyer would die if they didn’t get back. WHOOSH

Locke’s alive, Farraday and his Zodiac boat of Firewood gatherers were inside the radius and Juliet, Sawyer, Rose, Bernard and some more firewood gatherers are all still alive. But the camp is gone and they have traveled back in time. Daniel says “Your camp isn’t gone, it hasn’t been built yet” WHOOSH

Kate gets a court order from an attorney from Agostini & Norton requesting a blood sample to determine her relationship to the child. Kate freaks out and packs her bags. They show Aaron in the doorway and he really is the spitting image of my son Reece. WHOOSH

SIDE NOTE – I am going to send Carlton Cuse a picture of Reece and maybe they can use him for next season since the actor now will get too big to play the part of a 3 year old. Guess what – Reece turns 3 in July……JACKPOT.

Back in time again and Daniel is reluctant to explain the phenomenon going on with the island. Daniel gets bitch slapped and Sawyer drops his line of the night, “Shut it Ginger or you’ll get one too!” Daniel explains that the island is like a record spinning on a turn table and now that record is skipping. I like metaphors…thanks Daniel. So he believes that they are moving or the island is moving in time. WHOOSH

Locke sees the Heroine plane from Nigeria fly overhead and crash. He investigates it and gets shot at by non other than psycho Ethan Rom. He’s the guy who stole Claire, Hung Charlie, and later got shot by Drive Shaft’s bassist. WHOOSH

Hang with me people, it’s a lot to digest and it’s not even 10:00 yet. Sun Kwan gets held up by Mr. Widmore and her common interest is to “Kill Benjamin Linus”. I guess he is the other guy responsible for the death of Jin. WHOOSH

Still in the present, Sayid is on his way to the safe house with Hurley. Sayid explains that he used to work for Ben Linus, and if Hurley ever had the misfortune of running into him, “do the opposite of what he tells you.” Uh Oh someone broke into the Safe House and Sayid turns back into Badass Sayid. I love when he throws the guy on the knives in the dishwasher…he must have knew someone was coming, because everyone knows you put knives ‘blade-down’ in a dishwasher silly willy. WHOOSH

We are now in the Future because the debris of the SWAN Hatch are left behind. Richard finds Locke in the woods and provides first aid. “Next time we see each other, I’m not going to recognize you!” Richard gives Locke a compass and adds “the only way to save this island is to get them back, but you’re going to have to die John to do it.” WHOOSH Wow, well that sucks.

SIDE NOTE 2 – Uhhh, how come Richard and the others didn’t pull a Sam Beckett Quantum Leap?

Now we are in the past, and my nose has started to bleed watching this unfold. Daniel is at the back door of the hatch and Desmond Hume comes out in his Level B Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and calls him out. “the rules don’t apply to you, you are uniquely special, just remember to go to Oxford University and find my mother, her name is…” WHOOSH

Back to the present and there is our Scottish friend again Desmond waking up from a dream after realizing that his conversation with Daniel was a memory. “We have to go to Oxford”. BAM END CREDITS EPI.