Lost – Season 5 Epi. 8: LaFleur

Previously on Lost: Daniel explains that the island is dislodged from time after Ben spun the donkey wheel. Charlotte dies after the last flashy lights. Locke tells Sawyer that he has to bring back the O6 in order to get the flashy lights to stop.

And now…

Sawyer holds on to the rope after Locke dropped down into the well and the flashy lights stopped. He’s freaking out and Juliet says that whenever they are is before the well was built. Miles points out it must be way before and points to the big statue!

In season two, this is all we’d seen of the staute:

Four toes. *shudder*

We get to see it from the back this time, and damn it’s both awesome and creepy as hell!

Is it wrong that I think this statue has a nice ass?

What is that in it’s hands? Who is it a statue of? Jacob? Locke? Sexy ass Richard? AGH!

We are backtracked a bit as Locke spins the wheel. The last of the flashy lights occur taking Locke off the island. The well is back, but it’s closed up with rocks and debris. Everyone comments that the last flashy lights thing felt different and they don’t feel sick afterwards. They realize that whenever they are, they are there to stay and Sawyer says they will wait for their friends to return for as long as it takes.

Ok, so Ben turning the wheel started the time movement and then the wheel was stuck. Locke spinning it again moved the island in time again and it also corrected the problem of time jumping because the wheel isn’t stuck anymore? We know that when he travels he ends up 3 years after the O6 left the island and that it only took him a short while to get the O6 to come back.

Anyway…

Three years later, in one of the Dharma stations a guy named Jerry is dancing with a girl. His partner comes in and says if LaFleur finds out they’re in there dancing, he’s gonna be pissed. They notice someone on the monitors out by the security poles throwing dynamite. They tell the girl to leave. They don’t want to wake LaFleur at 3a.m. to tell him about Horace (dynamite guy), but they know he’ll be pissed if they don’t. They rush to LaFleur’s house. LaFleur is Sawyer! He grabs his Dharma jumpsuit labeled, “LaFleur – Head of Security” and rushes out.

Sawyer (I ain’t calling him LaFleur) picks up Miles from his house and they head off to get Horace. Sawyer says they’re gonna keep it on the downlow that Horace is off drunk by the security pylons. He leaves Miles to put out the small fire Horace caused with the dynamite while he takes Horace (who is passed out) home to Amy.

Amy and Horace had a fight. Amy is really pregnant. They fought about Paul. Before she can say more, she goes into labor.

Three years earlier, Sawyer, Juliet, Jin, and Miles come across Daniel mumbling in the woods. He keeps saying that he’s not gonna do it, he’s not gonna tell her. Charlotte is dead, he tells them. Her body disappeared with the last flash. Daniel confirms that wherever they are, they’re there for good.

Sawyer wants to head back to the beach figuring that’s where Locke will show up when he gets back with the others. Miles thinks it’s a dumb plan, but he follows anyway. Juliet has Sawyer’s back, even though she agrees it’s a dumb plan. They’re headed to the beach when they hear gunshots.

They come across two men holding a woman at gunpoint. They put a sack over her head. There’s a dead man on the ground next to picnic stuff. Miles debates whether they should get involved and Daniel is kinda indifferent; whatever happened, already happened.

Sawyer approaches and Juliet has his back. One of the men turns to shoot Sawyer, but Juliet takes him out. Sawyer pauses long enough to look at his gun like, “Did I do that?,” and almost gets shot again! He recovers from his stupidity long enough to kill the guy first. When they remove the sack from the woman’s head its Amy! (Reiko from One Life to Live! She was also on 24.)

Just call her Amy.

“Who are you people?,” she wants to know.

Based on their jumpsuits, Juliet figures they’re in the time of the Dharma folks in the 70′s or 80′s. Before her time. Amyfreaks out because the truce between The Others and the DI has been broken. They have to bury The Others before they leave and take the dead guy’s (her husband Paul) body back to the DI camp.

As they head there, Sawyer says he’s gonna convince the DI people they were on a boat to Tahiti when they crashed. Juliet stops Daniel from walking through the security pylons. Juliet demands that Amy turn them off. At first she pretends she doesn’t know what Juliet means, but eventually shuts them off. She walks through them first to prove they are safe. When the rest walk through, they are overcome with the sound and pass out. Amy takes ear plugs out of her ears.

Three years later...

Amy is giving birth, but the baby is breached. They don’t know what to do because the women always deliver on the mainland and Amy is two weeks early. Sawyer rushes off to a garage of some sort where Juliet and others are working on vans. Juliet is scared to try and help Amy because the other women she tried to help have babies on the island died. Sawyer says that maybe what caused that hasn’t happened yet. Juliet agrees to help.

Sawyer steps outside the delivery room and meets up with Jin. They’ve apparently been looking for signs of their friends return all this time, but Jin tells him they didn’t find anything that day. Juliet delivers the baby boy successfully. Wonder who he’ll grow up to be???

"Have you thought of names? Ethan, maybe?"

Three years ago…

Sawyer wakes up at the DI camp and Horace grills him about what they’re doing on the island. Sawyer lies about them being shipwrecked on their way to Tahiti. He says they were on a salvage ship searching for the old slave ship, “The Black Rock.” Sawyer claims they are looking for some of their friends that were with them. Horace says they will be put on a sub leaving the island tomorrow and if their friends show up, they’ll send them on after them.

Outside, Juliet tells Miles and the rest that in the future, she lived in one of the houses at the camp for three years. Miles asks if she were DI and she tells him that The Others took over the DI camp after killing most of the DI people living there. She was brought over by sub after that. Jin confirms with Daniel that there’s no more flash. Daniel says the record is spinning, but they’re not on the song they want to be on. He then sees Charlotte as a little girl. He stares her and I really hope this doesn’t get weird.

Touched by a Daniel

Sawyer starts to tell them about the sub taking them to Tahiti when an alarm sounds. Everyone starts running indoors and Horace ushers them to a house. They look out the window and see Richard Alpert stroll up looking all young and sexy. Again.

Still young and STILL sexy.

“Uh oh, ” Sawyer says.

Horace meets Richard. Richard mentions that the security pylons can’t keep them (the Others) out. Richard wants to know where his two men are. Horace comes in the house and asks Sawyer how well they buried the bodies. Cause if Richard finds those bodies, it’s ON! Sawyer insists on going out there to talk to Richard.

When he does, he admits that he killed his two men. He explains what happened and says it was self defense. Richard wants to know if his people know that Sawyer is telling him this. Sawyer admits that he’s not with the DI. He then asks about the Jughead bomb, and tells him he knows about Locke approaching him 20 years ago claiming to be their leader before he disappeared. Sawyer says he’s waiting for Locke to come back.  Richard believes that Sawyer isn’t with the DI, but his people will still need justice for their two men.

Horace asks Amy if they can give up Paul to The Others, but says that if she doesn’t want to, they are willing to suffer the consequences. She asks for a minute alone with Paul’s body before allowing him to be taken. She takes a necklace with an ankh (Egyptian symbol, Egyptian looking statue… hmmm) on it from his body. Horace says that Sawyer and his friends can stay for two weeks longer, until the sub returns, and look for their friends.

Sawyer goes to the pier and tells Juliet. Juliet says that she’s going to leave on the sub the next day. She has spent 3 years on the island and wants off. Saywer says it’s 1974 and that whatever she thinks is out there, isn’t. He doesn’t want her to go. She agrees to stay for the two weeks that the sub will be gone.

Three years later…

Sawyer is walking around the DI camp all comfortable and stuff. He picks a flower and enters a house. Juliet is cooking. They’re all kissy kissy and lovey lovey! Nooooo! I don’t want Sawyer to be with anybody but me. Did I say that out loud?  They’re in love and Sawyer is semi-clean shaven. I don’t like this at all. (Even though I totally told Donny at the end of last season that Sawyer and Juliet would hook up.)

Yum!

Sawyer is with Horace when he awakens from his drunken slumber. Sawyer tells him that Amy gave birth. Horace admits that he and Amy fought over Paul’s necklace that he found in her drawer. He wonders if three years is enough time to get over someone and if Amy really loves him. Sawyer says he loved a girl once that he couldn’t stop thinking about. Now, three years later, he can barely remember what she looks like.

The next morning, Juliet and Sawyer are in bed when he gets a call from Jin. He rushes out to meet Jin who arrives in a Dharma van with Jack, Hurley, and Kate.

"Bet your ass remembers what I look like now, huh?

Thoughts:

1. Where the hell was Daniel in 1977? We know he had to be around. We know he’s there when the donkey wheel is discovered.

2. If the whole length of time exposed to the island determined the order in which the nosebleeds start thing was true, we have to assume that if Miles younger self isn’t already on the island, he will be soon because Charlotte was already there in 1974.

3. It still doesn’t make sense to me how Charlotte could have a memory of Daniel telling her not to go to the island before it even happened… UNLESS, she got that memory just as Locke left and him leaving was all that was needed to set them on the course to be on the island in the 70′s, but that’s a stretch.

4. It would seem like what they said last week was accurate. The O6 returning wasn’t about stopping the island from jumping, it’s about them being integral to whatever shit is about to go down when this “war” starts. Because it seems that Ben leaving the island via wheel is what started the jumping, and Locke doing the same stopped it.

5. Richard Alpert in the 50′s = nice clothes. Richard Alpert in 1974 = nice clothes. Richard Alpert years later when Ben meets him in woods = Tarzan. Why?

6. At the start of the season, the Asian doctor was making the video for The Arrow’s orientation. He said to the person, “Given your level of expertise…” Who was that video for? Sawyer as LeFleur, someone else? The Arrow is obviously about defense per the name and tonight’s episode. Also, he mentioned in the video the island’s, “hostile and indigenous people.”

What do you have?