Season VI, Episode 12 – Everybody Loves Hugo

Line of the night – “What should we say to Locke, I mean, how do you break the ice with the smoke monster?” - Hurley





We are finally getting somewhere with the ultimate theme of Season 6. Legitimate connections are being developed between the sideways timeline and our ‘present’ situation on the island. Tonight's episode begins with a speech from Dr. Pierre Chang, who introduces Mr. Hugo Reyes as the Golden State Natural History Museum’s Man of The Year. Did any one notice that no one refers to him as “Hurley” in this alternate sideways timeline? Dr. Chang reveals that Hugo gained his wealth by the acquisition and expansion of the Mr. Cluck’s franchise and expanded it into a worldwide phenomenon. So in this timeline, he did not win the lottery. He is, however, still extremely wealthy living the good life…’Whooaa Fee, trying to live a life that’s completely free…’

Hugo and his mother are leaving the event (in which he sponsored the paleontology wing of the museum), and she ha set him up on a blind date with a girl name Rosalita? At this point, I check lostpedia.com and there is no Rosalita character in the world of LOST, interesting.

Grinding Metal/Plane Landing WHOOSH to the island, and we find Hugo leaving a fresh tropical plant at Libby’s grave. He wants to talk to her since she is dead, but no such luck. Ilana approaches Hugo and explains that they need to get dynamite from the Black Rock in order to blow up the Ajira Plane so that Locke can not get off the island. Angela comments, “Hurley has Highlights!” So now I am wondering where did Hugo score some Sun In?

All of the sudden, we hear a very familiar voice, “Hey, I’m hear to stop you from getting everyone killed!” Holy crap, it’s Michael! Hurley is a bit apprehensive about trusting the man that murdered Ana Lucia and Libby. Michael reveals that people are going to die, a lot of people, if he doesn’t stop Richard.

Whoosh to 2004, and Hurley is at “Spanish Johnny’s” for his blind date and the anticipation is building to ascertain who will be playing Rosalita’s character. A woman calls out, “Hugo?” I, in turn, call out…”Holy S- it’s Libby!” Sure enough Libby explains that she is not Rosalita and furthermore she is not his blind date. “Do you believe that 2 people can be connected, like soulmates?” Hurley responds, “I guess.” Libby answers back, “You don’t remember me do you?” I am loving this, because it appears that Libby has experienced the same ‘flashbacks to the island’ as Charlie and Desmond. Hurley responds to this, “should I?” Dr. Brooks from the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute interrupts to escort Libby away, and as he does she says, “Everything I said Hugo, I meant it!”

In addition to the ‘Hurley has highlights’ observation, Angela adds a very good point. In this sideways universe Libby appears crazy, because maybe she is stuck in this alternate universe, but recalls everything from the original time line…nice observation Lina.

WHOOSH to the beach on the island with Team Jordin Sparks, Ilana explains that she has been training her whole life to protect the candidates, and “with the plane gone, that THING won’t be able to leave!” Hurley mentions that Jacob never said anything about blowing up any plane, so maybe they shouldn’t do it. However, Ilana is adamant, “God Help Us if that thing ever leaves this island, because if it”…BOOOM! RIP Ilana, you will be missed. I didn’t see that coming.

We transition to the other side of the island where Sawyer and Kate confront Flocke about their next move. “You talk to wood now?!” Sawyer is clearly frustrated with the situation. Kate doesn’t understand what they are waiting around for, and Flocke explains that they got back to the island because they were all together, and that is the only way the can get off the island. Evil Bad-ass Sayid arrives back at Team Essau Flocke camp with a gift for Flocke. It's finally dawned on me that Sayid reminds me of the Black Spiderman. He can do really amazing things and has tremendous ability, yet he maintains a sense of rebellious disorientation and corruption about him. He takes Flocke to Desmond.

Back from commercial and Hurley is wiping “Ilana” off of his boots when he spots the sack that Ilana was toting around. I believe this contains Jacob’s ashes. Richard thinks they should go back to the Black Rock to recover more dynamite, and Hurley surprisingly agrees.

Whoosh to 2004, “Get me a bucket, family size.” Hurley eats when he’s depressed, and it just so happens that Desmond joins him while he waits for his order (#42). Hurley tells Desmond about his totally awesome encounter with Libby, except for the fact that she’s crazy. Desmond responds, “Did you believe her when she said she knew you?”

Whoosh to the island, and Flocke releases Desmond from the tree. Desmond explains the test conducted on him consisted of exposing his body to massive amounts of electromagnetism. Flocke wants to show Desmond something, so they leave. Back on the other side of the island, Ben tries to give some perspective on their situation. Ilana was hand picked by Jacob to protect the candidates, and once each of them found out who they were, she blew up. “The Island was done with her.” Richard, Jack and the others finally arrive at the Black Rock for more dynamite, but as they approach, Hurley comes running at them and the whole ship blows up. RIP Black Rock, you will be missed. Hugo blew up the Black Rock because Michael told him to do so. “I’m protecting us!”

Whoosh to 2004 and Hurley is at Santa Rosa to visit Libby. “Clearly she is well enough for a fajita field trip.” Hurley writes Dr. Brooks a check for $100K in hopes of spending some time with Libby. As the camera pans across the room, the chalkboard depicts a picture of an island with 1 palm tree, some fish, birds…and a Smoke Monster hovering near the island…just saying. Libby sits down and points out that after she saw his tv commercial for Mr. Cluck’s “all these memories came crashing back, only it was another life, there was a plan crash, I was on an island, we knew each other and we liked each other.” Libby adds that it felt as if she were at the mental hospital before too! She also recalls Hugo being in the same mental facility. Hurley can’t remember her, but he wishes he could (oh don’t worry Hurley you’ll remember buddy). She entered the center voluntarily, so she is ok to go on a date with Hugo.

Whoosh back to the island and we join Flocke and Desmond on their trek through the jungle. Flocke thinks the island has it in for Desmond, but Desmond says, “there’s nothing special about me brotha, the island has it in for all of us.” Just then Flocke, and Desmond for that matter, see a young young Matt Damon looking on at them with that smart-ass Boston grin. “Just ignore him,” says Flocke. Who? What? Huh? Help a brotha out Lost writers…

Back to the other side of the island and Hurley thinks the right thing to do is talk to John Locke. Everyone is on the fence with this idea, so Hurley says that Jacob instructed him to do it. Richard isn’t buying this load of crap, so he asks Hurley to find out from Jacob, “What is the island?” I guess not everyone believes Hurley, because Ben and Miles leave to go with Richard to find grenades and other weapons to blow up the plane. Jack, Sun, Frank and Hurley leave to talk to Flocke. On the way Jack shares with Hurley that ever since Juliet died, all he’s try to do is FIX IT, and he came to the realization that he can’t. Now he is finally understands that maybe he just needs to site back and let go…”You asked me to trust you, so this is me trusting you.”

Whispers can be heard in the background, who could this be? Hurley says, “it’s cool, I think I know what these things are.” He calls for Michael, and Michael appears from behind a tree. BIG REVEAL – It turns out the whispers are people stuck on the island because of something they did, and there are others like Michael in the jungle. “We are the ones who can’t move on!” Very, very interesting. So now I wonder who else may have murdered or committed some heinous sin on the island which would cause them to be ‘stuck’ between worlds. Michael leaves Hurley with this, “If you EVER do see Libby again, tell her I’m very sorry!”

Whoosh back to the sideways timeline and Hurley is finally having the long-awaited (4 seasons to be exact: May 3rd, 2006) picnic with Libby on the beach…how sweet. Libby seems off, like she’s on a date that they never had. “I wanna be with you because I like you.” Libby said something very similar, if not identical, to this phrase back in Season II. “You only like me because you’re delusional.” She goes in to kiss him…and with that physical contact Hurley’s past/future life passes before his eyes, events which included her. “Whoa dude, I think I’m remembering stuff.” NICE. Desmond is parked across the street, he slides his Ray Ban’s back on and drives away.

I've got a feeling that the 'flashbacks' are attributed to intense emotions experienced in this 2004 timeline when our characters make contact with the other characters they were close to, i.e., Des was close to Charlie on the island, and the intense emotion of saving his life from drowning sparked the emotion. I wonder what caused Libby to first experience her flashbacks to the island???

Back to the island and Flocke/Desmond reach their destination, a remote well location. Locke reveals that the well is so old that it was dug by hand. The people who dug the well were not looking for water, but answers. This particular location made a compass needle spin, so they wanted to find out why. “Charles Widmore is not interested in answers, he’s only interested in power.” Flocke is intrigued that Desmond is not afraid of him. Desmond responds, “what’s the point in being afraid?” Flocke smiles and then throws Desmond down the well. (So why do that? Why not turn into the Smoke Monster and toss him around like a rag doll?)

Flocke arrives back at his camp. Moments later, Hurley enters as well. “I don’t know who you are, or what you want, but we have to talk to you.” Hurley also doesn’t want anyone to get hurt or killed, so they’ve come to Flocke’s camp with no intention of using weapons. Flocke gives his word that they will not retaliate or attack them. Flocke makes direct eye contact with Jack, and we have a little stare down between them in which Jack looks scared as hell. Oh and by the way, this is the first time in 3 years that Sun has seen Claire or Sawyer, but she makes no attempt to engage or reach out to them. I guess she is solely focused on finding Jin (who is conveniently on Hydra Island).

We arrive at our final scene of the night and Desmond is staking out John Locke like Emilio Estevez. Ben Linus confronts Desmond like he is some sick child molester, but we all know Desmond is there just to help John Locke ‘see’. Desmond takes off in his car, and instead of engaging in conversation with John Locke, he proceeds to nail him with his car. John Locke is left there writhing in pain, hanging on for dear life…..

BAMM- LOST

I am having some trouble trying to figure out why Desmond would do that to Locke, unless of course in this alternate time line Locke is actually Essau? Any thoughts or theories on this?

I did not notice if Hugo saw himself in a reflection in the alternate time line, did this happen?


I found out more information about the ‘whispers’ from the jungle. From lostpedia.com it says that the whispers are unredeemed souls of people trapped on the island for bad things they have done. Whispers have also been heard in some situations off the Island. The whispers are not random noises, but rather actual speech.

This episode did a nice job of building off the connections made in “Happily Ever After” and I hope they just keep rolling on.

Until next week, Namaste and Good Luck!

-Slice

Season VI, Episode 11 – Happily Ever After

Line of the night – “Can you get me the manifest of our flight from Sydney, of Oceanic Flight 815, just the names of the passengers…*(Sure, but what for?)*…I just need to show them something!” – Desmond




I take back everything I said last week about how disappointed I was that “Desmond” was the package…because tonight’s episode was the best so far this season…Welcome Back LOST…you are on POINT. Just when I almost gave up hope on the series, they come back and totally redeem themselves with one of the best episodes ever. This is the third time we’ve seen Desmond’s mind/consciousness travel back and forth through time. In season 3, Flashes Before Your Eyes, Desmond’s mind travels as a result of the hatch implosion and the massive release of electromagnetism discharged from the hatch. Then again in Season 4, The Constant, when the helicopter Desmond is traveling in (with Badass Sayid) goes slightly off its heading of 305 and drifts towards a heading of 310, causing another episode of his consciousness to travel back and forth through time.

We start off tonight with Tina Fey (Zoe) waking up Desmond who looks like he just got the piss beat out of him. Widmore admits that he took Desmond from the hospital where he was recovering from a gunshot courtesy of Benjamin Linus. So Widmore and his group must have mobilized the submarine shortly after Ajira Airways Flight 316 took off from Los Angeles. Charles explains that he has brought Des back to the island because, “the island isn’t done with you yet.” A theme we’ve heard before from Season 5. In the Lamp Post Station, Eloise Hawking tells Desmond the exact same thing.

Widmore instructs Zoe to prepare for the test, and the theme music to Jurassic Park can be heard in the background as we see a large generator containing 2 Solenoids which closely resembles the raptor crate. Widmore wants to run a functioning EM (Electromagnetic) Field Power Test. There’s a white rabbit in a cage that is going to be the test subject, so I wonder if they are trying to manipulate time travel again? I guess they don’t have a health and safety plan in place, because Extra #2 hits the breaker and fries Extra #3 while they are still troubleshooting the EM generator unit. Now we hear music from Close Encounters of a Third Kind as they prepare for DESMOND to enter the generator. Charles Widmore asks Desmond to make a sacrifice, because if he doesn’t help them, then all of it will be for nothing. “Penny, your son, and everyone else will be gone forever.” Again, we are seeing a recurring theme, because back in Season 3, from Flashes Before Your Eyes, Ms. Hawking tells Desmond while he is mind/consciousness is in 1996, that “he isn't supposed to take the ring, because his not buying it led to his original fate of ending up on the island and turning the fail-safe key. She also states that "if you don't do those things, Desmond David Hume, every single one of us is dead.” Could it be that the writers actually did know what they were going to do with the story line all along?

Back to the EM Generator, and Charles says, “That man is the only person that I’m aware of who has survived a catastrophic magnetic event, and I need to know that he can do it again.” They strap Desmond poorly into a chair, and switch on the machine. Desmond breaks out of the chair and begins to glow like the aliens from 1985's sci-fi movie, Cocoon.

The screen goes white as we observe puffy white clouds in the sky, and Desmond staring at his “Michelle Gallaway” reflection in the Arrival screen at LAX. Desmond politely assists Claire with her baggage and offers her a ride…you sick freak. He also guesses that she is having a boy. Desmond is picked up at the airport by his Mind/Consciousness traveling companion from “The Constant” episode, Mr. George Minkowski. It’s revealed that Desmond was in Sydney because he was closing a deal for the boss. I am guessing his boss is a very nice Mr. Charles Widmore in this sideways 2004 reality.

Desmond arrives at his boss’s office, and yes, it is Charles Widmore. There is a photo of Jacob's Scale holding a black and white stone on the wall. Desmond enjoys a glass of MacCutcheon whisky with Widmore. In this sideways 2004, Charles’s son is in a band, and wants to perform with the hard rock group Drive Shaft. Unfortunately Charlie Pace is currently in jail because he tried to swallow a bag of heroine on the plane. Widmore bails out Charlie, and Desmond is asked to chaperone Charlie to the concert. Joe Britz and Alyssa Boucher are smiling from ear to ear right now, because their favorite character is back! Leaving the jail, Charlie doesn’t seem to care about his life as he almost gets nailed by several cars crossing the street. Des follows Charlie into a local pub. In the pub, Charlie asks Desmond if he has ever been in love, because Charlie reveals that when he was dying from choking on the bag of heroine, he looked into the abyss and saw a very beautiful and rapturous blonde who he was 'apparently' in love with. “Always been and always will be.” I am guessing Charlie saw Claire in his near-death experience, and this episode is getting a little creepy, yet extremely exciting.

Segue to the car and “You are Everybody” is playing on the radio. Desmond and Charlie get to talking about choices. Charlie says, “I’ll offer you a choice, I can either show you what I am talking about, or you can get out of the car.” Desmond does not get out of the car, so Charlie grabs the wheel and they plummet into the Marina waters. It looks like Charlie is trying to kill himself again, Desmond escapes and comes to the passenger side door when exactly at 26 minutes and 58 seconds into the episode we experience a profound “OOOOHHHH YEAHHHHH!!” moment.

Charlie puts his hand to the glass, and with a quick wisp, Desmond sees Not Penny’s Boat on Charlie’s left hand. Holy crap, did that just happen? All the sudden Desmond sees Charlie’s hand again with no writing on it, and he rescues him. At this point in the episode I sit back and tell myself, “now this is what made LOST great, moments like this…”

Back from commercial and Desmond is at the hospital recovering from his marina accident. He is looking for Charlie, but his Cat Scan was inconclusive so he has to undergo a MRI. The technician tells him, “you need the button.” Kind of ironic that he mentioned a ‘button’ to a man that pushed a button every 108 minutes for years. In the MRI machine Desmond settles in, and suddenly sees images of Penny, Penny giving birth to their baby, and a 3 year old Charlie Hume. Just as he sees the image of his son he hears Penny’s voice say, “Desmond.”

Des is determined to find Charlie Pace because he has some explaining to do. As he searches the hospital he runs into Jack “see you in another life brotha” Shephard. Desmond chases after Charlie whom appears to be escaping from the hospital because no one there can help him. Desmond gets him cornered and Charlie says, “You felt it didn’t you, all this...all this doesn’t matter, what matters is that you felt it.”

Charlie is not going to be playing in Widmore’s son’s concert. George drops Desmond off at the charity ball to inform Mrs. Widmore of the circumstances. Of course, we can all assume that his wife is Eloise Hawking, and our assumption is correct. Eloise catches a glimpse of Desmond and looks at him with a nervous and disturbed gaze. Eloise tells Desmond not to worry about Drive Shaft playing the concert, “Unpredictability comes with the territory.” Is Eloise referring to the entire alternate time line as “unpredictable?” She also says, “what happened, happened.” Desmond begins to leave when he hears Penny’s name on the guest list. When he inquires to see the guest list, Eloise denies him that privilege. Desmond can’t see the guest list, because “you are not ready yet, Desmond”. As Des is leaving, a straggly man knocks on the car window, and it’s Daniel Faraday (Daniel Widmore in this time line)!

Daniel and Des sit down on a nearby bench. In this alternate sideways timeline it would appear that Eloise allowed Daniel to pursue his life's ambition of becoming a musician instead of a Quantum Physicist. “Do you believe in love at first site?” Daniel begins to recount the first time he saw Charlotte (beautiful red head with bright blue eyes and works at the museum), and explains how he felt, "It was like I already loved her, that’s when things got weird.” The next morning Daniel woke up and entered some very advanced Quantum Physics equations into his journal. Daniel adds, “what if something terrible, something catastrophic were to happen, and the only way to stop it is to release a huge amount of energy by setting something off, like a nuclear bomb. For some reason we changed things. I don’t want to set off a nuclear bomb Mr. Hume, because I think I already did” OOOOHHHH YEAHHHHH!!” moment number two of the episode.

Daniel finds out that Desmond experienced the same sort of 'revelation' and feelings towards Penny. He felt love. Desmond is still in disbelief, “she’s just an idea.” Daniel replies, “no Mr. Hume, she’s my half-sister, and I can tell you exactly when and where you can find her.”

In the next scene we find Penny running steps at the same stadium where Jack and Desmond met so many years ago. “Are you Penny…hello I’m Desmond!” As he makes contact with his ‘constant’, Desmond wakes up back in the EM Generator with Widmore’s Hydra island group. Widmore says, “Your talent is vital to our mission.” To which Desmond responds, “You brought me to the island to do something very important right, when do we start?”

Desmond is following Zoe and some armed Extras through the woods when all of the sudden “Evil / No Feelings” Sayid appears out of no where and kills a couple of Desmond’s escorts. Desmond leaves with Sayid.

WHOOSH to Sideways 2004 and Desmond wakes up from his faint spell with Penny. He is going to be meeting Penny for coffee in an hour, so he rejoins George in his limo, and says, “can you get me the manifest of our flight from Sydney...of Oceanic Flight 815, just the names of the passengers?” George responds with, “Sure, but what for?”

”I just need to show them something!”

BAMM- LOST

Happily Ever After is easily one of the best episodes of the series, and best so far this season. Here is my epiphany...perhaps the writers are setting us up for an ending where we are in the alternate time line of 2004, and all of the Oceanic Flight 815 passengers can recount the events that took place on the island. I imagine they would all get together at the end and share in this revelation?!?

So what and how does Eloise Hawking know about this alternate time line compared to what happened in the original time line?

We’ve also found out that there is something behind Michelle’s observation about everyone looking at their reflection, like they are not looking at their true self.

This season just got a WHOLE lot more interesting now they are back on the mind/consciousness time traveling topic.

Did this episode deliver for you?

Until next week, Namaste and Good Luck!

-Slice

Season VI, Episode 10 – The Package

Line of the night – “Unless Alpert is covered in bacon grease I’m not sure Hurley can track anything!” – Miles (hilarious)



If the actual ‘package’ ends up only being Desmond, then we've been left with a 'package' of Italian weak sauce. My first thought when I saw tonight’s title was…the package is going to be Aaron…Aaron and Walt…or maybe just Walt…nah, just Aaron.

So we start off with Charlie Sheen and his team of Navy Seals using their night vision goggles to investigate Flocke’s camp. Jin is waiting for Nurse Kim to tend to his bandage, when Flocke approaches. Flocke mentions the cave, and that a few of the names are not crossed out. One happens to be the name “Kwon” written on the ceiling. Flocke needs the people who are NOT crossed off to join him so he can get off the island. (If you remember from last week, Jacob said his purpose was to keep Essau / Flocke in check so that he could never get off the island, and the candidates were there to replace him, so maybe Flocke wants to get them together so he can kill them all (the Losties)).

Metallic Plane Landing WHOOSH to a sideways 2004, and TSA has confiscated Jin’s $25,000 in cash, Ouch! Jin was supposed to deliver the watch and $25K to an associate of Sun's father at the restaurant (whom I am guessing is Martin Keamy). Jin and Sun arrive at their hotel and Sun is not wearing a wedding ring, interesante! Jin informs the hotel attendant that they need 2 rooms because they are not married, muy interesante!

Back to the island and Sayid looks sad and pathetic…and what is with the weird low register piano music they play for him now??? Sayid doesn’t feel any pain, joy, or emotion. Flocke says, “that may help you get through what’s coming.” Jin is ready to bolt and find Sun, he’s tired of sitting around, and he wants to get out of there before that ‘thing’ comes back. The whole camp is infiltrated and attacked with blow darts (which look very similar to the blow darts from Season II). Dork No. I and, as B-Zack referred to her, Tina Fey are there to retrieve Jin, but for who…for what?

Back on the beach, Team Jordin Sparks (this is what she looks like Steph) led by Ilana and Jack are waiting for Richard to return. “Jacob’s never lied before, Richard will come back.” Sun looks pissed and drives a dagger into the official Oceanic Flight 815 warped-plank kitchen table. She runs off and finds her place of peace and sanity, her chia pet garden of herbs. Jack conveys to Sun that they are all there because they are chosen, because they are candidates. He starts to explain Jacob’s lighthouse, but Sun could care less. She just wants to reunite with Jin (like we ALL do).

WHOOSH to Los Angeles in 2004, Jin enters Sun’s hotel room and she begins to unbutton her sweater. All I can think is, ‘Are they actually speaking Korean?” Sun has gone from a conservative business woman to one of Tiger Woods’ escorts. Stay classy Sun. Jin takes advantage of the situation.

Back to the beach and Flocke shows up in Sun’s garden of Eden. He’s found her husband and he can take her to Jin right now. “I don’t believe you!” Flocke reassures her, “Come with me, Jin is waiting.” Sun takes off in the opposite direction. Now what would be really badass right here is if the producers spent some coin and CGI’d Flocke transforming into the smoke monster chasing after her? Guess not. Flocke ‘runs’ after her and Sun bumps her head on a tree. I liked it better when Charlie knocked her out.

WHOOSH to the hotel. Sun wants to run away with Jin. Jin loves her, and I think in this ‘universe’ Sun really does not speak English. There’s a knock at the door, and Sun goes to answer it. She checks herself in the mirror (great ‘sideways’ observation by Michelle G.), and takes an extra second to look at her reflection. Martin Keamy is at the door, this can’t be good.

Back to 2007 and Flocke finds all of his people unconscious. He makes sure that the ‘candidates’ are still there (Claire, Sawyer, Sayid, Kate), but where is Jin? Segue to Jin in a room of 1970’s speakers. He hits a breaker, and we find him in the room where Carl was being held captive during Season 3. Images that appear on the projector screen include: THINK ABOUT YOUR LIFE, and EVERYTHING CHANGES. Tina Fey aka Zoe enters the room and explains that he is being held in “Room 23 where the Dharma Initiative performed subliminal testing”. She shows Jin a figure that displays a grid map used to identify pockets of electromagnetism, and apparently Jin-Soo Kwon signed off on the figures (back in 1977).

Transition over to Team Flocke, and Flocke picks up a gun. Now why in the hell would Flocke need a gun? Claire asks Flocke if her name was on the cave wall. His response is, “No.” (So does that mean it’s not Claire, but actually Aaron whose name is on the cave wall, or was he simply lying to her?) He also says that Kate’s name was not on the cave wall, and he is 3 people shy of getting off the island, so once he gets Jack, Hurley and Sun on ‘his team’, he can eliminate Kate, but he needs her now to get the other 3 to join him. Then "what ever happens, happens." Sawyer asks the question we’ve all been waiting to hear: “What’s up with the guns, and why do you need a boat, can’t you just turn into smoke and fly your ass over the water?” Excellent James, excellent, but we get a weakass response from Flocke, “If I could do that, then why would I be standing here?” Flocke and Sayid are going to get Jin back from Widmore’s group on Hydra Island.

WHOOSH to 2004, and Keamy likes the watch but wants the $25,000, and does not speak Korean. “Get the Russian guy, Danny’s friend…who speaks like 7 languages…what’s his name…Mikhail.” Oh this might be too good to be true… Holy S-, it’s One-Eyed Willie himself, Mikhail, sitting down as an interpreter. Awesome. Mikhail will take Sun to the bank to get the money, and Jin will go to the restaurant until Sun arrives.

Back at the beach, and Ilana is happy because Richard has returned with Hurley. Sun can only speak Korean, but she understands English as a result of her head trauma. Richard tells them to pack their bags because they are leaving. This ‘man’ wants to leave the island, and we have to stop him.” So Richard plans to destroy the Ajira plane on Hydra Island. Transition to Flocke as he arrives at Hydra Island and stays on his side of the buzzing pylons. Charles Widmore lies about the location of Jin and describes Flocke as a myth, ghost stories and jungle noises in the night. Flocke calls Widmore’s bluff about the location of Jin, “You know a wise man once said that war was coming to this island, and I think it just got here.”

WHOOSH to Mikhail and Sun at her bank. Her daddy found out about her secret bank account, which means he probably has found out about her relationship with Jin. Keamy is tying up Jin in the restaurant refrigerator and explains that the $25K was for Keamy to knock off Jin. How ironic that Jin was supposed to deliver his own ‘hit’ money.

Back on Hydra Island, Zoe (Tina Fey) explains that she is a geophysicist, and she is instructed to get the package from the sub and take it to the infirmary. Widmore introduces himself to Jin, and shares Sun’s camera with him. Jin sees a few pictures of his daughter for the first time and begins to weep. Widmore explains that if "that thing got off the island, everyone we know and love would cease to be." Widmore and his team have come there to make sure that does not happen. (Sidenote building off a previous topic, how would Widmore know that Jacob was in trouble/dead, and know that without Jacob, Essau/Flocke would be able to get off the island?) Widmore says, “I think it’s time you see the package, it’s a who, not a what!” I just got the chills because I think we are about to see Aaron being escorted out of the sub, or maybe Walt, or maybe even Walt and Aaron?!

WHOOSH to the final sideways scene from 2004. Sayid kills Keamy and finds Jin in the refrigerator. Mikhail returns to the restaurant with Sun and finds them all dead. A fire fight ensues after Jin fails to kill Mikhail. Jin ends up shooting Mikhail in the eye, and Sun takes a bullet to the gut. “I’m pregnant!” Ohhh crap Jin.

Back at beach camp, Jack sits with Sun and gives her a pad and paper so that she can convey her thoughts in English. It’s just like the way Nick Andros (Rob Lowe’s character from The Stand) was able to communicate with Tom Cullen and the rest of the chosen ones. If you get that reference, then you’ve earned an extra gold star for the day. Sun doesn’t trust Flocke, but she does trust Jack. He promises to help her find Jin and get her off the island safely with her husband (I think we have heard that line before, Jack).

Final scene of the night and Flocke has sent Evil Sayid to see what Widmore is hiding on the sub. This is the moment we have all been waiting for. Who’s going to come popping out of the submarine? It’s……Desmond? I like it because he is a great character, but it was a complete let down. Even seeing Daniel Faraday pop out would have been cooler.

Sayid wades in the water like a curious mermaid and simply stares as Desmond is assisted to the infirmary.

BAMM- LOST

"The Package" delivered for the most part, I am just not a Sun/Jin kind of guy like some of you are. It was a let down that they still have yet to be reunited and we are already 10 episodes into Season 6.

So what purpose does Desmond have? Where are Penny and Charlie (their son)? Is he going to help them find, harness, and manipulate the electromagnetic areas of the island in an attempt to stop/kill Flocke?

Who is the wise man Flocke refers to when he is speaking to Charles Widmore?

Until next week, Namaste and Good Luck!

-Slice

Season VI, Episode 9 – Ab Aeterno

Line of the night – “oohh this should be interesting” – Ben Linus (subtle yet humorous line)




As I sat down for tonight’s episode, I applied my Richard Alpert guy-liner and was ready to absorb answers, answers, and more answers. LOST delivered tonight, but I felt a little let down. I was hoping to see Richard’s relationship with a younger Eloise, Charles Widmore, and Ben Linus...and maybe interactions with other ‘groups’ that Jacob brought to the island.

We start off in 1984, and a Pepsi commercial shoot has gone tragically wrong. Michael Jackson is lying in a hospital bed...oh wait...that’s Ilana. Jacob enters and wants Ilana to protect 6 people for him, they are the remaining candidates. “This is what you’ve been preparing for.” I felt a little buzz kill when we did not learn who or what caused Ilana to be pulverized in the hospital. When Ilana does get to the island, she is to take the candidates to the temple and ask for Ricardos because he will know what to do. Richard laughs, “Hehe…I have no idea what to do next!” Then it happens…we are filled up with a little secret that Richard’s been carrying for a very long time…

“You’re DEAD! And all of this…it isn’t here…we were never on an island.” Wah Wah What?!?!? “We are all dead, and we are in hell.” Richard is convinced Jacob was a liar, and he takes off to find MIB Flocke. “Maybe it’s time we start listening to someone else.” C-Ya, Audi 5000 pops.

Back on the beach Jack is trying to figure out the pieces to the puzzle with Ilana. Jack thinks if John Locke is dead, how can he be leading the other group? “It’s not exactly Locke!” Then we see Hurley on the beach talking in Spanish to a ghost…so who could this be? Ana Lucia?? Ben Linus explains to Frank Lapidas that he met Richard when he was 12, and he doesn’t age. Frank’s response, “Now how in the hell do you think that happened?” Perfect segue to Richard roaming in the jungle looking for Flocke.

WHOOSH to a sidewa…wait, where are we? It’s Ricardos riding a horse through a jungle. Are we on the island? It turns out we are on Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, and the year is 1867. Which means Ricardos is probably around 30 – 35 years old in this scene, and around 175 years old in our present time line on the island.

SIDENOTE – It’s hard enough to write down key points characters say when I hear them, and even harder to read Spanish subtitles and then transcribe them. I’m in for a long evening if his whole back story is in Spanish...END OF SIDENOTE. Turns out Isabella is his wife and she is very sick. Richard is off to see a doctor, “I will save you my love.” Isabella’s response (and theme of the night), “We will always be together.” Richard sees the d-bag doctor in the middle of the night, and the doctor has medicine that will make her better. Richard gives him all of their money, in addition to the Christian cross from Isabella’s neck. Look, it's Desmond’s Vaccine from Season 2! Awesome! The doctor finds Richard's offering to be worthless, and starts to put back the medicine. Richard goes loco, and kills the doctor. This can’t be good.

He gets back to his hut, and Isabella is dead. Next thing you know Richard is in prison for murder. Il Padre enters Richard’s cell to hear confession before he is to be hanged. Richard explains that they were supposed to go to the New World and start a family. The priest will not absolve him of his sins because he committed murder. “There must be some way to earn God’s forgiveness?” The priest responds, “I’m afraid the devil awaits you in hell.” Well that sucks.

Mr. Whitfield enters the prison, and purchases Richard from the Spaniards. Richard is now a slave on ‘Captain Magnus Hanso’s ” British trading ship, The Black Rock. Confirmation at last! The Black Rock is caught in a very bad storm, and a fellow Spanish slave notices the statue of Taweret, “I see an island, and it’s guarded by the devil!” The ship smashes against the statue, and is carried by a high wave into the jungle. This area of the jungle is referred to as the “dark territory” which is a high-traffic area for Smokey / MIB / Flocke.

The Spanish slaves wake up, and a shocked Mr. Whitfield runs them through with his sword. Uh ohhh, I hear that ‘ticka ticka’ sound that always seems pissed off. Smokey kills everyone except for Richard. Richard faces Smokey head on before Smokey disappears (very much the same way we’ve seen John Locke from Season I and Mr. Ecko from Season II face the Smoke monster). I wonder if MIB Flocke ever considered recruiting Mr. Ecko to help him get off the island? So Richard starts to hallucinate as he attempts to use a very small nail to break free of the shackles. Isabella appears to him and says that they are both dead and they are in hell. Isabella attempts to run away when the ‘ticka ticka’ sound comes back, and she disappears. (MIB Flocke can only appear as a person that has died, so I wonder if he took the form of Isabella as a way to manipulate Richard later).

Richard is greeted by Essau (MIB Flocke). Essau introduces himself as a friend. He also tells Richard that he is in hell. Essau offers to free Richard only if he promises to help him and do anything he asks. Richard promises to do so. “There is only one way to escape from hell, you are going to have to kill the devil!” Essau shows him Gryffindor’s sword, and explains, “You have one chance, do not hesitate. Drive this through his chest, and do not let him say a word. If he speaks it will already be too late, he can be very persuasive.” Richard cannot imagine how he will be able to kill the devil if he is a pillar of black smoke. Essau’s response, “No, I am.” Ok, so he just revealed to Richard, like he did to Sawyer, that he is the smoke monster. Interesting. “The devil betrayed me, took my body, and took my humanity.” So if Richard ever wants to see his wife again, he needs to kill him if he wants her back.

Richard comes to the shadow of the statue and gets sucker punched from behind. After taking a beating like Johnny from the Outsiders, Richard ‘wants to live.’ Jacob wants to talk.

Richard asks if he is the devil. “No, my name is Jacob. I brought your ship to the island.” Jacob uses the bottle of Pinot Noir as a metaphor for Essau. Essau / Flocke is the wine and the cork is the island, keeping him in check. The island is the only thing keeping the darkness where it belongs. Essau believes everyone is corruptible, because it is in their very nature to sin. Jacob brings people to the island to prove him wrong. Their past doesn’t matter once they get to the island. Jacob brought others to the island, but they are all dead. He does not interfere or help, because “I want them to help themselves.” He offers Richard a job. “If I don’t want to step in, you could be my representative…my intermediary.” In return Richard wants his wife back…can’t do that, nor can he absolve Richard of his sins. “Then I never want to die, I want to live forever.” Jacob’s response, “Now that…I can do!” Cue Jacob’s touch.

Richard rejoins Essau, and puts a white rock in his hand. “You let him talk to you, didn’t you.” Essau reminds Richard, “If you ever change your mind, and I mean if ever…my offer still stands.” He gives Richard the Christian cross necklace, and Richard proceeds to bury the necklace in the soil. WHOOSH to the 2007 jungle and Richard finds the necklace after 140 years. Richard screams into the air, “I’ve changed my mind…does the offer still stand!” Enter...Hurley?

Now it makes sense, Hurley must have been talking to his ghost wife on the beach. “Your wife sent me…Isabella.” I feel like Hurley is Whoopi Goldberg, and Richard is Demi Moore from Ghost. It’s a very sentimental moment. Richard would do anything for them to be together again. Isabella says, “We are already together.” So sad as she fades away and Richard is all alone…except for Hurley. “Oh she said one more thing, something you have to do. You have to stop the Man in Black, you have to stop him from leaving the island, because if you don’t then we all go to hell.” Ok, to recap the series, we went from simply surviving a plane crash, to the discovery of a Dharma hatch, to conflicts with the Others, to conflicts with the Freighter crew, to a time traveling island, to an 'Incident', to good versus evil…angels and demons…heaven and hell? WTF?

Final scene with Essau and Jacob.
Jacob – “So you tried to kill me.”
Essau – “Do you blame me? I want to leave…just let me leave Jacob.”
Jacob – “As long as I am alive, you are not going anywhere.”
Essau – “Now you know why I want to kill you, and I WILL kill you Jacob.”
Jacob – “Even if you do, someone else will take my place.”
Essau – “Well then, I’ll kill them too.”
Jacob – “I brought you this (the wine bottle) to pass the time, see you around.”
Essau – “Sooner than you think!” Then we observe the imagery of Essau being released from his prison as he smashes the wine bottle on a nearby rock.

BAMM- LOST

Lots of information tonight, and I think we are setting the stage for the final showdown between good and evil. Is Jack up to the task to become the new Jacob? Maybe it’s Aaron who is the “Littleton” candidate from Jacob’s list?

Building off the comment from last week’s blog entry, I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if Aaron was in the locked room on the sub.

So if MIB Flocke is a singular being that can take the shape of a dead person and have intelligent conversations with people, how was Ben Linus able to ‘summon’ the pillar of smoke in Season 4?

I honestly think the writers had no idea the story line would end this way, but I hope and pray that they deliver as we come one episode closer to the series finale. Does anyone else feel like we are running out of time?

Until next week, Namaste and Good Luck!

-Slice

Season VI, Episode 8 – Recon

Line of the night – “They are setting up pylons, like the ones in New Othertown. You know, like the ones that keep out That Smoke Thing…” – Sawyer (not his best work, but still brought a smile to my face)


This episode was good, but I was actually more stoked with the PREVIEWS of next week’s ‘Richard Alpert’ episode. Off to the episode…It’s 8:42 pm and Sawyer’s knockin boots with a lady friend. It’s not Kate and it's not Juliet…holy sh!t, it’s Taylor Vaughan from “She’s All That”. Sawyer tries to pull the ‘pigeon drop’ con and Taylor ain’t falling for it because she is married to a con man. Taylor pulls out a gun, and asks who is going to save him now. Sawyer’s response, “I don’t need saving.” (We’ve all heard that line before). Sawyer admits that it’s a police setup and all he has to do is say the magic word, and cops will bust through the door. She still does not believe him, so Sawyer says the magic word, “Expecto Patronum!!” Actually he says, “Lafleur” and cops come bursting in. Turns out Miles is his partner in this side-ways timeline. Surprise.

Back from the LOST intro…Jeff Probst is getting Sawyer and Jin ready for the next Survivor Challenge when Flocke returns with the other Others, Kate, Claire and a whacked out Sayid. Jin wants to get out of there to find Sun, but his ankle is still hurting him, where’s Nurse Kim when you need her??? Claire goes to her “Degoba Yoda Hut” and grabs the rope, the knife and a candlestick. She’s up to something, and I don’t think it involves Professor Plum in the Conservatory.

WHOOSH to the Sideways timeline, Detective James Ford is calling every Anthony Cooper on his 'list' to find out if they were in Alabama in 1976. Please note, Anthony Cooper is John Locke’s con-man father whom Sawyer strangled to death with chains back in Season 3. Miles swings by and sets up James on a blind date “with a girl who works with my dad at the museum.” So in this timeline, Dr. Pierre Chang is alive and well.

Back to the jungle and Flocke has a one-on-one with Sawyer. Flocke tells Sawyer that the black smoke killed everyone who stayed at the temple, and furthermore tells him that “I’m the Smoke Thing!” “They were convinced that they were protecting the island from me, when in fact, all I want to do is leave.” Kill or be killed. Flocke has a job for Sawyer. He wants him to gather information from the people on Hydra Island. “You are the best liar I ever met.”

WHOOSH back to 2004 and the Sideways timeline. James Ford is on his blind date, and it turns out to be good ol’ Charlotte. While James and Charlotte are enjoying dinner, Daniel Faraday is sitting in the parking lot stalking Charlotte with binoculars…psycho. Just kidding. James says, “What are you like...Indiana Jones or something?” Chris Gallaway just fist-pumped like a champ. James ‘tells her the truth’ about why he became a cop, “I got to a point in my life where it was either become a criminal or become a cop.” They go back to his place for some hanky panky. She asks for a t-shirt and decides to root through his sock drawer. She finds a “SAWYER” file which reveals that James Ford’s parents still suffered the same fate as the original time line.

WHOOSH to Hydra Island. Sawyer is walking through the former Dharma station and sees the Polar Bear cages. He finds Kate’s shirt, and I was hoping that Isabel was going to sneak up behind him. Apparently she died back in Season 3 at the same time as Mr. Friendly on the beach, but I never noticed that….

Back at the Others camp, and Sayid is in a ‘dead’ zone. Kate asks if he believes Locke can get them off the island, and he half-heartedly agrees. Claire comes out of nowhere and delivers the signature Rock Bottom on Kate. Cat Fight…Cat Fight!! Flocke throws Claire out of the way like a rag doll and Claire continues to rant about how Kate took her baby. Flocke bitch-slaps Claire, “you disappeared, she couldn’t find you, she did what she had to do.” Wow, that was pretty intense!

WHOOSH back to Sideways timeline and Charlie Pace’s older brother, Liam, is trying to track him down. Nice cameo. Miles finds out that James Ford has been sneaking around and lying to him. “I’m not your partner anymore.” This reminds me of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, “you can find yourself a new best friend!!”

WHOOSH to Hydra Island, and Sawyer finds the beach camp of Ajira Airways. There’s a pile of dead bodies, so who killed them? In the distance someone is running away. It’s Marlee Matlin from Children of a Lesser God. Actually the girl’s name is Zoe, but she looks a lot like Marlee Matlin. She says that she was collecting fire wood and when she came back they were all dead. Sawyer responds, “Trust me god has nothing to do with it!” (I personally wonder if that is a subliminal message from the writers to us). Sawyer and Zoe walk along the beach, and as they are about to climb into his boat, he pulls a gun on her. Sawyer sees through her web of lies, but not before the cast of the Big Bang Theory jumps out of the brush armed with automatic rifles. “Take me to your leader.”

Back on the main island, Flocke sits on the beach with Kate to show her where Sawyer went. Flocke admits he was the one that told Claire that the Others stole Aaron. She needed something to keep her going. Then he has some very interesting comments, “I’m not a dead man. My mother was crazy. A long time ago before I looked like this, I had a mother just like anyone else. She was a very disturbed woman, and I had growing pains. I had problems I am still trying to work my way through, problems that could have been avoided had things been different.” So what the hell does that all mean? Who’s Locke’s mom? He also adds that, "Aaron has a crazy mother too." I knew it, I knew Aaron was going to have a prominent role, right…right?

WHOOSH to 2004 and Sawyer is enjoying a Hungry Man microwave dinner while watching Little House on the Prairie…interesting combo. RIP Michael Landon. He evaluates how he treated Charlotte when he kicked her to the curb at 3:00 in the morning. He goes to her but ‘he blew it’. Sorry bud, that awesome Sunflower didn’t charm her too much.

WHOOSH back to Hydra Island and the dorks from Big Bang Theory lead Sawyer towards…Widmore’s submarine. Marlee Matlin (Zoe) leads Sawyer down the submarine hatch. A guard that looks just like that dude from The Shield is waiting for him. He takes Sawyer to meet Charles Widmore. They establish an agreement that Sawyer will lead Flocke right up to his doorstep so that they can kill him. In return, Sawyer wants his friends to be protected and safe passage off the island. They shake…and the deal is done.

Back on the main land, Claire apologizes to Kate and they hug…how sweet. Part of me wanted Claire to grab Kate’s head and put her in the Sleeper hold, I am still not convinced Claire is back to normal. Sawyer gets back to the beach and tells Flocke everything about Widmore’s plan, even the fact that, “they are setting up Pylons like the ones in New Othertown…you know, like the ones that keep out That Smoke Thing…” Flocke appreciates Sawyers loyalty.

WHOOSH to our final scene from Sideways 2004. James explains to Miles his obsession with finding Anthony Cooper. He admits that he is trying to track down Anthony Cooper so he can kill him. A runaway vehicle slams into their squad car, and the driver takes off running. This has to be Kate…well Son of a Bitch!

WHOOSH to Camp Flocke, and Sawyer sits with Kate. He tells Kate that Widmore is there for Flocke, and he is going to ‘let them fight it out.’ While this presumed fight is taking place, they are going to get the hell off the island, but they ain’t taking the plane…they are taking the sub.

BAMM- LOST

My first thought at the end was, “Ok dipshit…so I guess piloting a naval submarine is sooo much easier than flying a commercial airplane Just like driving a car, no big deal.”

Will Jack and his group join Widmore to take on Camp Flocke? ORRRR is the whole Widmore arrival really a bait and switch tactic by the writers. What if Widmore is actually in cahoots with MIB Flocke? If Widmore was there to kill Flocke, then that would mean that Ilana (Jordin Sparks) and her "Jacob-is-Awesome" team should have an alliance with Widmore. However this is not the case, because back in Season 4 during Miles's flashback story he is picked up in a van by Bram (Ilana's friend) who informs Miles that he is playing for the wrong team (Widmore's Freighter team).

Where are Rose and Bernard, and who’s team will they be on?

Until next week’s long-awaited Richard Alpert episode, Namaste and Good Luck!

-Slice

Season VI, Episode 7 – Dr. Linus

Line of the night – “Is it like a terminator thing…are you a cyborg?” - Hurley




So just when you think we finally have established our 2 sides of the ‘war that is coming’ between Team Jordin Sparks and Team Flocke MIB, enter the wicked Tim Wakefield knuckleball of Charles Widmore. I wonder if Penny and Desmond are aboard the submarine?

We start off this week’s episode with Ben Linus running through the jungle (cue the dramatic trip and fall). He runs into Team Sparks consisting of Ilana, Miles, Frank and Sun as they are planning their next course of action (head back to the beach).

Flash sideways to Dr. Benjamin Linus portraying a European history teacher at a local high school. He’s describing Napoleon’s last days. Ironically, he is actually describing his alternate 2007 self, “On this island everything changed, here he lost his power even if he still had the title of emperor.’ ‘With no power it was meaningless.”

Dr. Linus ends class and a timid Principal Reynolds is waiting for him. Pop quiz, what other famous character did this actor portray? Answer – one of my favorite college movie villains, Professor Jerry Hathaway from Real Genius.

Your colon: what does it look like? - classic Real Genius line.

I would have also accepted that prick Walter Peck from Ghost Busters. Actor William Atherton continues to shine as the authoritative jerk who commands Ben to cancel his History club meeting and get to detention. Side note - Wouldn’t it have been cool to have outside lockers like they do at Ben’s school (and like in the Karate Kid)? We transition over to the teacher’s lounge and after several comments by Ben and Doc Artz, a substitute teacher named John Locke suggests that maybe Dr. Linus should be principal.

WHOOSH to 2007 and Ilana has Miles relive Jacob’s last moments. “Linus Killed Him!” Miles describes Ben standing over Jacob’s dead body with a bloody dagger in his hand. Ilana says, “Jacob was the closest thing I ever had to a father.” OK, so does that mean Ilana’s been on the island before, and lived with Jacob? How long was she off the island, and what’s her relationship to Jacob?

We return from commercial and Team Sparks is making camp at the beach. No one seems to question Ilana as to why she considered Jacob to be a father figure?!? (I don’t get this part of the LOST)

WHOOSH to our sideways universe and Ben is making a TV dinner for his ailing father. In this reality, Ben’s dad is alive (barely), and appears to have a loving relationship with his son. Roger Linus reveals the following, “I wanted so much more in life for you Ben, that’s why I signed up for the Dharma Initiative and took you to the island.’ ‘They were decent people, smarter than I’ll ever be.’ ‘Imagine how different our lives would have been if we stayed?’ ‘Who knows what you would have become?” LOL – Actually Uncle Rico Wolfman, your son would have become a genocidal psychopath obsessed with power and control, and you would have been just another body in a pit of dead Dharma volunteers. There is a ring at the doorbell, and kiss my grits…it’s Alex Rousseau? At this point, I am excitedly expecting an untidy Danielle Rousseau to jump out of the shrubs and throw a net over Ben's head...no luck. Alex has stopped by to find out why History Club was canceled, and Ben agrees to tutor her the following morning instead. There is something very disturbing/creepy about the looks they give each other...

WHOOSH to the beach and Ilana explains to Sun that she does not know if she is supposed to protect her, Jin, or both since they are candidates. We confirm that a candidate is someone chosen to replace Jacob. “If you are selected, then I imagine you’ll find out!” There are only 6 left (Kwon, Ford, Reyes, Shephard, Jarah, and Austen).

Still on the island, Jack/Hurley head for the Temple and run into Richard (nice to see him again). Richard is supposedly going to lead them over to the Temple. Back at the beach, Frank Lapidas informs Ben Linus that he was supposed to pilot Oceanic 815. Ben seems extremely intrigued by this. “Well the island still got you in the end, didn’t it!?” Ilana takes Ben over to the make-shift cemetery and straps Benry to a tree instructing him to dig his own grave. That sucks.

Flash sideways to 2004 and Alex is being tutored by Ben. Alex wants to go to Yale, but needs a letter of recommendation from someone that went there. Alex refers to Principal Reynolds as a pervert because he had inappropriate ‘relations’ with the school nurse on school property. Ben looks ticked off and I actually slightly feel bad for his existing conditions.

WHOOSH to the beach and Ben offers Miles the $3.2 million dollars he was originally bribed in exchange for Miles’ releasing him. Miles responds, “Why would I need your money when there are a couple of jabronies, Nikki and Paulo, under there that got buried with $8 Million dollars in diamonds on top of them.” Nice reference to the biggest mistake from Season 3 Lost writers, you just made my evening.

Off to the jungle with Jack, Hurley and Richard. Hurley grills Richard with questions about his age, “You look the same as you did 30 years ago…how is that possible..is it like a terminator thing, are you a cyborg?” (No, I’m not a cyborg) “Vampire?” Richard then says, “Jacob gave me a gift!” They arrive at one of my favorite places on the island, the Black Rock! Jack’s pissed that Hurley knew the people at the Temple were in danger. Richard asks, “You spoke to Jacob?’ ‘Well whatever he said, don’t believe him!” Richard appears to be a little upset with Jacob as well and begins to board the Black Rock. “There’s something I need to do…DIE!”

WHOOSH to 2004 and Doc Artz helps Ben retrieve emails from the nurse to Principal Reynolds. “I guess you are a real killer!”

WHOOSH to the Black Rock and we find out that Richard has been there before. “All this time spent on this island, and today is the first day I ever came back.” Richard finds a crate of dynamite and reveals to Jack and Hurley that he can’t kill himself even if he wanted to, so that’s why he needs Jack to do it for him. More reveals in the Black Rock from Richard, “Jacob touched me, it was to be considered a gift, but it’s not a gift at all, it’s a curse.” Richard goes on to say that he spent his life in the service of a man whom said that everything was happening for a reason, and that Jacob had a plan he would eventually share with Richard. Now Richard wants to end his life, because he feels that his entire life had no purpose. Jack lights the fuse, sits down across from Richard and says, “Now…let’s talk.”

Jack explains that he was at Jacob’s Lighthouse. Jack feels that Jacob wanted him to see his house growing up, and Jack’s on the island for some ultimate purpose. Richard says, “But what if you are wrong?” Jack’s simple yet convincing response, “I’m not!”

Over to the Beach camp, and a ticka ticka sound can be heard in the jungle. Flocke appears and attempts to recruit Ben. Flocke’s getting a group together to leave the island, but once they leave, he needs someone to watch the island. Flocke wants Benry to take on that responsibility. Flocke and the rest of his gang will be at the Hydra Station.

WHOOSH to a sideways 2004 and Dr. Linus confronts Principal Reynolds about the 30 or so inappropriate emails from the school nurse. The principal turns the table when he reveals that Alex Rousseau wants a letter of recommendation to Yale. Here’s Ben Linus’s second chance to save Alex!!

WHOOSH to the Beach Camp and Ilana chases down Ben after he has escaped his shackle. Ben explains why he killed Jacob. “I had a chance to save her, but chose the island over her all in the name of Jacob!" Now he needs to go to Locke because he is the only one that will have him. Ilana goes soft on all of us and takes Benry back? Awwww…

WHOOSH to the final scene of our flash-sideways and Ben has saved Alex. Principal Reynolds wrote the letter of recommendation, and the history club is back on schedule. A happy ending for Ben and Alex…yeah!

WHOOSH to the beach with lots of slow motion shots and classic dramatic ‘reunion’ music. Hugs all around for Hurley and Jack as they join the beach group.
The camera shot quickly switches to the ocean and a periscope peers from the surface of the water. “Sir, there are people on the beach, should we stop?” Enter Charles Widmore, “No, proceed as planned!”

BAMM- LOST

Not one of the best episodes of the season, but solid. It was interesting to see such a selfless Ben Linus in the alternate reality, and even more interesting to learn about Richard’s past. I wonder when his flashback will be shown?

Like I said in the beginning, it would appear that now there is a third component in our ‘war for the island’. So who’s on the sub with Widmore?

Are Eloise and Desmond going to show up on the sub?

Where are Rose and Bernard?

Is Kate now stuck on Team Flocke for good?

Where are Jin and Sawyer?

Until next week, Namaste and Good Luck!

-Slice

Season VI, Episode 6 – Sundown

Line of the night – “She (Claire) just strolled in here an hour ago acting all weird…still HOT though.” - Miles




Well that was pretty dark, literally. I guess the darkness really did grow inside Sayid, enough to make him murder two people! We start out with a Flash-sideways and Sayid has a lovely bouquet of flowers for presumably Nadia. Let’s see who answers the door. Yep, Nadia is there and this should be a nice reunion for the two of them, except for the fact that two little Iraqi children enter the scene and call him “Uncle Sayid”?! Sayid’s brother, Omer, has married Nadia? You can obviously tell there are feelings between Nadia and Sayid.

The Jarrah family sits down to quaint Iraqi dinner, and little Sally Jarrah finds a picture of mommy in Uncle Sayid’s bag. For a second I thought Sayid was going to fly across the table and snap her neck, but no luck. Omer hears his daughter, and Sayid is BUUUSTED.

Metal-Airplane-landing WHOOSH to 2007 and the Temple. My new favorite ninja, Dogen, explains to Sayid that the electrical machine they used on him works like a scale (one side is good and one side is evil). The scale tipped the wrong way for Sayid which means he’s becoming evil. Mental note - I really enjoy Dogen’s character so I hope he is around for a while. Dogen busts out his karate moves like Sho’nuff the Shogun of Harlem. Sayid retaliates by throwing little clay pots and various herbs and spices back at Dogen. Quite comical. A baseball drops from Dogen’s ancient desk, and he stops. “Go, leave this place and never come back.”

We transition to Flocke and Claire standing at the base of the gray ash surrounding the perimeter of the Temple. “Are you ready?” Claire responds, “Why me, you could send Sawyer or Jin?” Claire also adds, “I need to know you will do what you said you would, I want my son back!” It would appear that Flocke has made a promise to Claire and manipulated her in a way that she’ll do whatever he says in order to get Aaron back. Flocke is only going to hurt those that won’t listen. This is going to be an interesting episode.

Flash Sideways and Omer wakes up Sayid. Omer reveals to us that in this timeline Sayid was still an interrogator for the Iraqi Republican guard. Omer says, “I know what kind of man you are!” But Sayid is not that man anymore. I guess we won’t see any bad-ass Sayid fighting in this timeline.

WHOOSH to 2007, Sayid is leaving because apparently he is evil. Miles reveals that Sayid was lying there dead for 2 hours (I thought it was like 15 minutes). “They tried to save you, but you were dead, so whatever brought you back, it wasn’t them!” Very interesting, so who or what brought Sayid back from the dead? Claire enters the temple and wants Dogen to meet Flocke outside. Sayid really doesn’t seem overly surprised to see a disheveled Claire (after 3 years when they all thought she died somewhere in the jungle). Dogen tells the 5th Beatle, Lennon, to put Claire in the hole and get Shephard and Reyes to his room immediately. Not gonna happen since Shephard and Hurley are at the Lighthouse with Jacob.

Sayid asks Dogen why Claire is at the temple. His response reveals a lot (answers we have been waiting to confirm for quite some time). “Claire is under the influence of an ANGRY man. For years he was trapped, and now with Jacob gone, he is free. He is EVIL INCARNET!” Dogen wants Sayid to kill Flocke with a small version of Gryffindors’ Sword

“He will come to you as someone you know, someone who has died. As SOON as you see him, drive this deep into his chest. If you allow him to speak, it’s already too late.”

WHOOSH to 2004 where Nadia and Sayid arrive at a very familiar hospital. Nice cameo by Dr. Jack Shephard. Turns out Omer borrowed money from a loanshark, and can’t payback his debt so they beat the crap out of him.

Back to 2007, and Kate arrives at the Temple. NICE, we are going to see a little cat fight go down between Claire and Kate. Miles reveals that Claire is there, and was taken into custody. Kate’s going to find her…fantastic. Sayid leaves the Temple and makes his way into the jungle. The pillar of smoke that makes that ‘ticka ticka’ sound and always seems pissed off is surrounding him, when out of the brush comes Flocke. “Hello Sayid.” (Note to self, Dogen said Sayid had to stab him before he spoke, so I don’t think this is going to work). Sayid stabs Flocke in his chest. Flock removes the blade, “Now why would you go and do that?” Flocke gives him the Gryffindor mini-sword back, and explains how Dogen was attempting to have Flocke kill him. Flocke wants Sayid to deliver a message to the Others in the Temple. Flocke goes on to say, “what if I told you, you could have anything in the world!” Sayid replies, “the only thing I ever wanted died in my arms, and I’ll never see it again.” (Is he talking about Nadia…or Shannon?) Flocke retorts, “What if you could?!” Hmm, me thinks we are beginning to see how this alternate flash sideways timeline is going to develop.

Sayid makes it back to the Temple and delivers the message, “Jacob is dead, you no longer have to stay here, you are free.” The Others have an ultimatum; either leave the temple and join him (Flocke) or stay and die. They have until ‘sundown’.

Kate finally gets a moment with Claire, and Claire is sitting in the ‘hole’ singing that nursery song back from Season I, “Catch a Falling Star”

Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Never let it fade away
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket
Save it for a rainy day

It’s eerie because she is singing to a large boulder on the ground. Claire is excited to see Kate, “they have my son!” Kate’s quick to inform Claire that she took Aaron when he was left in the jungle. She took him off the island and raised him. Claire looks like she is about to open a can of whoop-ass on Kate and even busts out a Reese Witherspoon “under-bite of distain” towards Kate. “I’m not the one that needs to be rescued Kate…(you bitch!)”

WHOOSH to a sideways 2004, and Sayid is playing the role of ‘super-fun and happy’ Uncle Sayid. The kids are off to school, and a dark SUV rolls up. It’s Omar from the Freighter crew?!? Omar takes Sayid to a restaurant. Why is it that all these mob guys ALWAYS have a restaurant as their hideout? It’s just like the Russian Arms dealer from 24. Turns out this mob loan-shark is Martin Keamy, the other prick from the Freighter crew. Keamy wants his money, and bad-ass Sayid is back. He shoots all three guys in the chest without hesitation or mercy. Welcome back Sayid. There is a rustle from the refrigerator and Jin is all tied up and not speaking any English.

WHOOSH to the Temple in 2007, and Sayid enters the inner spring room of the Temple where Dogen says, “You let him talk to you!” (This could be important later). Dogen reveals that he used to work at a bank in Osaka (not the Osaka from the Christiana mall in the mid 1980’s, but the city in Japan). His son was killed in a car accident because Dogen was driving him around while intoxicated. Jacob came to him in the hospital and said that he could save his son’s life, but that Dogen would have to go to the island for a new job and never see his son again. “The man outside I take it has offered you a similar bargain?” Sayid politely asks, “I’d like to stay…” and then goes airborne. He leaps at Dogen and pulls him into the “healing spring”. Dogen drowns. Lennon sees this, “He was the only thing keeping it out…you idiot, you just let it in.” Sayid has had enough of Lennon and slits his throat like a hog going to slaughter. Party time.

The ‘ticka ticka’ sound can be heard on the outside of the temple, and then like a freight train rolling through the station, Smokey slithers through the temple grounds killing everyone in his path. Kate jumps into the hole with Claire, and Miles runs and hides like Carter Burke did in Aliens. Ilana breaks down the door, and this is the first time Miles has seen Frank, Sun and Ben Linus. Jordin Sparks is only concerned with the location of Shephard, Reyes and Ford for some reason, but does add, “where is Jarrah, is he in here too?” Ben runs off to save Sayid. “C’mon Sayid, we’ve gotta get out of here, there is still time!” Sayid painfully responds, “not for me…” Ben gets the picture and books out of there.

Kate, Claire and Sayid walk out of the Temple courtyard to an eerie version of the “Catch a Falling Star” song from earlier. Flocke gives Claire a nod, and seems a bit annoyed/concerned that Kate is with them. The group of Flocke, Sayid, Kate, Claire and several Others walk of into the jungle….

BAMM- LOST

So is this the war that Charles Widmore referred to?

Is it going to be Jack, Hurley, Ilana and a couple Lostie stragglers like Jin vs. Flocke and the rest of them?

Where is Richard? He would have made it back to the Temple way before Kate did. (I am getting a little anxious for his back story).

Which side will Rose and Bernard take?

Are they setting us up for some apocalyptic ending that will result with the alternate sideways timeline?

Is Kate Gosselin really going to be on Dancing with the Stars?

RIP Dogen, you will be missed.

Until next week, Namaste and Good Luck!

-Slice