Line of the night – “Sayid’s gone over to the dark side.” – Sawyer “Yeah, but you can always bring people back from the darkside…I mean Anakin…” - Hurley
Love the Star Wars references...so where are we going in our alternate timeline? It would appear we are on a direct course for St. Sebastian Hospital in Los Angeles. A brilliant writer, Jo Garfien, brought this up in her blog last week. I’m sure Sayid is going to get hurt somehow and Miles/Sawyer will have to take him to Jack’s hospital as well. Maybe Claire can go into labor just in time too!
The Last Recruit appears to be Jack, since he is the only one left with Flocke (not counting Sayid). We start tonight’s episode right where we left off last week. “Hello Jack, I was hoping you’d come.” Jack is surveying the area, the new group of Others, and Flocke trying to work out the situation in his head. He has a private conversation with Flocke. “You look just like him, and I don’t have any idea what the hell you are!?” “So why John Locke?”
Flocke’s response, “He was stupid enough to believe he’d been brought here for a reason…and because he pursued that belief it ended up getting him killed...and because you were kind enough to bring him back in a nice wooden box.” Man, that is really harsh…it makes you wonder why there was so much hype around Locke being ‘special’ back in past seasons.
Jack confirms that Flocke had to be dead before he could look like Locke, and further confirms that Flocke/Essau appeared as other dead people, including his father, Christian Shephard. (Side note – I don’t truly believe Flocke, because how could he appear off the island to Jack in past seasons as Christian if he can’t leave the island?) Flocke goes on to explain to Jack that he appeared as Christian because he needed to be guided in the right path (he needed to find water), and now since Jacob is dead, they are not trapped anymore. However, in order for them to leave, it has to be all of them.
Jack isn’t convinced, “John Locke was the only one of us that believed in this place.” Flocke just destroys John Locke by saying, “John Locke was not a believer Jack, he was a sucker…” Ouch, but again...I think there is more than meets the eye with the John Locke situation.
We flash to the sideways timeline for the first time and just like it’s been theorized in the comment section of last week’s blog, Ben Linus is accompanying Locke to the hospital, and Jin has just arrived as well with an injured Sun. Sun is next to John Locke as they enter the hospital and she says, “No…no, it’s him…it’s him!” (OK, so I guess Sun is experiencing intense emotions now, and can remember some of her past experiences on the island.)
WHOOSH to the island, Claire interrupts the meeting between Flocke and Jack. Flocke inquires to why Claire was snooping around and she responds with, “because he’s my brother.” Annndd let the Luke / Leia sibling rivalry begin. “Did he tell you he was the one pretending to be our father?” Claire says. Jack and Claire go back and forth (as bickering siblings tend to do) about Jack’s destiny to go along with Flocke. “You decided the moment you let him talk to you.” So I guess this means that Jack is screwed, and will be coming with Flocke and the Others on the plane?
Back at Camp Flocke, Sawyer explains the submarine game plan to Hurley. Kate explains it to Sun. Sawyer informs Hurley that Sayid’s gone to the dark side. Claire comes up to Hurley and he delivers the 2nd best line of the night, “Hey Claire…you look…um great!” I can see the sarcasm oozing through the tv. Flocke returns with Jack, “So nice to have everyone back together again.” Indeed Flocke, it is nice seeing the old band back together.
Whoosh to the sideways timeline and Sawyer’s questioning Kate at the police station. “Don’t you think it’s weird that of all the cars in LA, you smash into mine? It’s almost like someone’s trying to put us together.” Indeed Sawyer…indeed. Miles interrupts their flirtatious behavior with a multiple homicide case that they have to investigate. Looks like Sayid Jarrah is the bad guy (in both time lines now). Back to the island timeline, Tina Fey aka Zoe enters the camp and demands that Flocke return what’s been taken from them (Desmond). Flocke doesn’t budge, so Zoe shows them what they are capable of…MATT RPG!! As the missile explodes in the trees ehind Flocke, I can vaguely hear, “Wolverines!” in the distance. Fun Fact: MGM is remaking the cult classic Red Dawn, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the 1984 original.
Whoosh to the sideways timeline and Claire is headed for the 15th floor to meet the Western Pacific Adoption Agency. Desmond shows up just in the nick of time to convince her to have an attorney (his friend happens to be one) assist with the adoption contract. Claire reluctantly agrees, and they enter the Sweetzer & Verdansky law firm, which coincidentally, is also on the 15th floor. Becomes I am a nerd, I ran the law firm’s name through a wordsmith anagram solver with limited success. There was nothing specific that made sense. So who’s the attorney going to be? Aha, Ilana is alive and well in the sideways timeline and I guess her last name is Verdansky. “Claire Littleton…from Australia? We’ve been looking for you.” Huh?
Whoosh back to the island. Flocke is going to head over to Hydra Island, but needs Sawyer to get the boat so they can all go over together. Sawyer recruits Kate to join him, but before he leaves he convinces Jack to corral Sun, Frank and Hurley, and have them meet at an alternate rendezvous point. “Sayid’s a zombie, and Claire’s nuts!” So I guess they won’t be joining their friends. Flocke sends his new apprentice, Darth Sayid, to kill Desmond in the well.
Sayid arrives at the well and finds Desmond alive. Desmond demands to know what he was promised from Flocke. “He told me I could get something back that I had lost…the woman I love.” Desmond replies, “So, what will you tell her when she asks what you did to see her again?” Good mind games Des…top notch.
Whoosh to Nadia’s house in Los Angeles. Sayid arrives at her home and begins to pack. He explains that he took care of the situation, but he has to leave and never come back. Too late, Miles and Sawyer are on the scene and Sayid Jarrah is under arrest.
Whoosh to the island. Sawyer and Kate find the boat, and it turns out it’s Desmond’s boat (actually it’s Libby’s boat if your keeping score) that they are going to use to get to Hydra island. Sawyer informs Kate that Jack is bringing Hurley, Sun and that pilot that looks like he stepped off the set of a Burt Reynolds movie. Kate’s pissed that Claire was not part of the plan. “I promised I would bring her back!” Out in the jungle, Jack is walking with the Others towards Flocke’s original boat rendezvous point. He asks Claire if she trusts Flocke, I guess in an attempt to gauge if he should bring Claire to meet Sawyer. Claire says, “He’s the only one that didn’t abandon me.” Um, I’m pretty sure that YOU left Sawyer in the jungle back in Season 4 Claire! Flocke leaves the hikers to go check on Sayid, and that’s when Jack makes a break for it. Too bad Claire sees what’s going on, and follows them. Jack and his group meet up with Kate and Sawyer. They all board the boat, but Claire shows up with a rifle pointed at Kate. Kate explains that she came back to get Claire, and that she never should have raised Aaron, he should have been with his mother. Claire drops the rifle but points out, “If he finds out we are gone, he is gonna be mad!” Point taken.
Whoosh back to 2004, and Jack enters the same building as Claire with his son, David. They are there because they have to hear his father’s Last Will and Testament read aloud. I bet that’s how Ilana knew Claire Littleton (from Australia), because Christian left her something in his Will. “Do you believe in fate?” asks Ilana to Jack Shephard. Jack knew that Claire was important to his father, but he did not realize that Claire was his sister. When Claire reveals this information, Jack does his patent “I’ve got a migraine” expression (that never gets old Jack). A call comes in and Jack has to reschedule, he’s got a surgery to perform (on an old friend).
Whoosh to the boat and Jack doesn’t seem comfortable. “Doesn’t feel right leaving the island. I remember how I felt the last time I left and it feels like a part of me was missing.” Sawyer’s snappy remark is, “well they’ve got pills for that Doc.” Jack explains that they were brought there to do something, the island isn’t done with them yet. Sawyer doesn’t want to hear this so he gives Jack an ultimatum, shape up or ship out. “Sorry I got Juliet killed.” Not the best timing on that comment Jack, so I guess you better jump off the boat, which he does. Kate wants to go back and get him, but Sawyer says, “we’re done going back Kate.”
Whoosh to our final scene in the sideways time line. Sun is recovering well and the baby is ok. Jack gets a vote of confidence from his son before entering surgery. Jack looks at his patients x-ray and notices the dural sac is completely obliterated. Pretty interesting that he said this, considering it was the dural sac that caused him so many problems with one of his first surgeries prior to his arrival on the island in 2004. As he is about to start the procedure he realizes that he knows John Locke (from the airplane, but nothing more at this point).
Whoosh to the island. Jack makes it to shore and is greeted by Flocke who is pissed that Sawyer took his boat. Sawyer's group arrives at Hydra Island and is ambushed by Zoe and her band of dorks. Ohhh snap, we are about to witness the long awaited Sun / Jin reunion. They see eachother, experience a bit of shock and race towards one another. Did anyone else think for split second that once Sun (or Jin for that matter) crossed over the pylons”, that one of them were going to start foaming at the mouth like Mikhail back in Season 3. Just a thought. It’s been 3 long years, and our asian family is reunited at long last. The reunion is not an emotional roller coaster like it was expected to be, just blah.
Zoe makes all of them get down on their knees as she fires more missiles at Flocke on the beach of the other island. Jack takes a hit, and Flocke takes him into the jungle. “It’s gonna be ok, you’re with me now!”
BAMM…LOST
So it does appear that we really are going to see all of the characters converge at St. Sebastian’s hospital. I wonder if Charlotte, Daniel, or Boone will also show up because they have experienced a flashback of their past?
The Sun / Jin reunion was kind of weak, didn't you think?
And now what happens with the Jack under the care of Flocke?
How badass would it be if Jacob empowers Jack with the ability to turn into smoke too (or some sort of ability to fight Flocke)????
Until next week, Namaste and Good Luck!
-Slice
