Lost – Season 5, Epi.9: Namaste

The flight before the crash. Not the first flight, the second one.

(Remember when Sawyer and co. found some boats with water from an Indian airline? Wasn’t it the same airline?)

The co-pilot recognizes Hurley as an O6 member. Then all hell breaks loose. The flashy lights occur and it goes from night to day. The plane has no power. Lapidus is da shit! He brings that plane down on a makeshift runway on the island. Just call him Sully! His co-pilot gets a tree to the chest for his efforts.

Caesar wakes up Elana and she notices that Sayid is gone. Lapidus asks Sun where Jack, Kate, Sayid, and Hurley are. Ben states the obvious; they’re gone and he doesn’t know where either.

So, mystery #1: Why didn’t Ben and Sun disappear with everyone else? I can maybe understand Ben not going because I have a feeling he wasn’t a part of those “meant to go back,” and rather, was piggy-backing on everyone else’s trip. But, why not Sun?

Thirty Years Earlier...

Ah, so those left on plane are in current time. Well, current for the show. Three years after the original crash which would put them at 2007.

Anyway, thirty years earlier Sawyer is seeing Kate, Jack, and Hurley for the first time in three years. He calls Hurley “Kong.” Our first Sawyerism of the night. He doesn’t call Kate “Freckles.” Awwww.

Sawyer marvels over the fact that Locke actually did it. Jack tells him that Locke is dead, but doesn’t tell him how. That is why Jack is annoying. He is stingy with the info. Hurley wants to know why Sawyer and Jin are rocking the Dharma jumpsuits. Sawyer breaks the news that they’re in DI and that it’s 1977.

“Uh. What?,” says Hurley.

Hurley comments on Jin’s awesome English. Sawyer says they have to bring them in. When Jin realizes that Sun was on the plane, he hightails it to The Flame to find out from Razinski where the plane might be. Before Sawyer can go off to formulate a plan, Kate wants to know who else is still on the island…

Juliet goes to a station asking Miles if he has seen Sawyer. He finds him on a monitor. He’s back at his house. Juliet finds Sawyer going through the closet looking for clothes. He tells her about Jack and co. being back. He needs to figure out a way to bring them in, and Juliet reminds him that a sub is coming in that afternoon.

Jin has to grip Razinski up before he’ll check to see if a plane has landed on the island.

Thirty years later…

Elana asks Sun if she lost someone on the plane, but she says she was traveling alone. Lapidus tells everyone to hunker down. Caesar asks Lapidus where they are. How the frak is he supposed to know?! Lapidus says the island isn’t on his charts so he doesn’t know where they are. Caesar brings up the animal cages and buildings as if that is suddenly going to put the island on Lapidus’ chart. What that does, though, is let us know that they are not on the same island that the Oceanic flight crashed on. They’re on the other one where Ben and the Others first held Jack, Kate, and Sawyer.

Ben sneaks off when he realizes this. Sun follows.

Caesar suggests that they search the buildings for a radio and food. Yeah, you do that. I’ve already seen that show. It’s called Lost, season one.

Sun is a bad tracker ’cause Ben pulls an okey-doke and ends up behind her. She asks where he’s going and he says, “Back to our island. Wanna come?” Ho-hum.

Thirty years ago...

Amy is sleeping on a hammock when Juliet swipes the sub manifest. She tells Amy she doesn’t have to work that day. Amy says that two of the recruits dropped out at the last minute because they didn’t want to take the submarine. Juliet asks if they’ve decided on a name for the baby yet. They have. Ethan.

I totally called that three weeks ago.

Juliet hands Amy the baby.

"Thanks for giving birth to the little bastard that helped in bringing me to this God-forsaken place."

“Here, take this little bastard.”

OK, mystery #2: Ben helps The Others kill off all the DI people eventually. The Others take over the DI set up. I’ve never understood how that flew with the people back in the US (or wherever) running the DI. Did they not notice that everyone except Ben died? Did they not wonder who were all these new people suddenly living in their camps and operating their stations? Also, if Ethan was born to two DI members, why wasn’t he killed with everyone else? Donny reminded me that the Others liked to snatch children. Did they take, and raise, Ethan?

Back at the north point, Jack admits that Eloise Hawkin forgot to mention they’d be going back to the island in the disco era. Sawyer comes back with the clothes and explains that they’ll have to pretend they are new recruits coming in on the sub. They would have been sedated before the trip, so no one would have met them beforehand. Jack is hesitant, but Sawyer explains that there isn’t another group of recruits scheduled for six months. Either they do it now, or they’re camping in the woods for six months. They decide to go with Sawyer’s plan. He tells them that Jin will find their plane.

At the Flame, Razinski tells Jin there was no plane. He does get a signal that a hostile tripped a motion sensor inside their perimeter and Jin takes off. It’s Sayid! Jin asks about Sun, but Sayid doesn’t know where she is. Before they can talk further, Razinski shows up and Jin has to play along. He tells Sayid to shut up, or he’s dead. Sayid looks at him like he’s bumped his head.

Did anyone else notice that some of the monitors in The Flame were tuned to TV shows?

In the van, on the way to the DI camp, Hurley reminds Sawyer that the DI gets wiped out. Sawyer says he’s not there to warn them or change anything. He says that Daniel has interesting theories on what can and can’t be done. Jack asks about Daniel, and Sawyer says he’s not there anymore.

Mystery #3: What up with that?

At the camp, Sawyer drops Jack and co. off at the Processing Center, and tells them to act groggy from the trip. They should watch a little video and then wait for their names to be called. Juliet added them to the list. Hurley wants to know what they should do if someone asks them questions like who the president is. What he needs to be concerned with is whether or not they had to pass a physical. Then, he’d be shit outta luck.

Yeah, I went there.

Miles shows up. He’s surprised to see Jack and co. He tells Sawyer about the hostile Jin found. Sawyer gets Jin on the walkie and finds out that the hostile is Sayid.

Thirty years later…

Ben knows that there are three outriggers near where they are and he’s gonna take one back to the main island. Lapidus shows up and says he followed when he saw Ben leave. When Sun says she’s going with Ben, Lapidus wonders if she can trust him. Sun doesn’t have a choice. Lapidus follows along.

When they reach the boats, Lapidus reminds Sun that a boatload of commandos came to the island for Ben.

"And you see how that worked out for those bitches, right?"

Ben starts going on about the dock across the water and the camp it leads to. There are resources there that can help those from the plane. Before he can blow more smoke, Sun knocks him over the head with an oar. I always find it funny when people seem to hit someone with just the right amount of force, and in just the right spot, to knock them out and not kill them or simply annoy them. For once, I’d like to see someone get hit, and instead of passing out go, “Oww! Whatcha do that for?!”

Thirty years ago…

Jack gets called for check-in. Peter Chang, from the orientation videos, is checking him in. He tells Jack that, according to his aptitude test, Jack is pretty much a janitor.

Kate is approached by one of the security guys who can’t find her name on the list. When he gets suspicious, Juliet swoops in to save the day with a list from Amy with last minute additions. I bet she did that shit on purpose.

Sawyer shows up and Razinski wants to kill Sayid. He’s worried that Sayid saw the model of The Swan and where they plan to build it. We get our second Sawyerism, he calls Razinski “Quickdraw.” When Sawyer questions Sayid he hints to him that he should admit he’s a hostile so that, according to the truce, they won’t have the right to shoot him. Not being a dummy, Sayid plays along. Razinski looks disappointed. Sawyer says they’re taking Sayid to the barracks, and Razinski says he’s coming to. It’s obvious that Razkinski’s an ole bitch-ass.

Thirty years later…

Sun and Lapidus arrive at the other island at night. As they approach the jungle, you can hear the click-click noise of the smoke monster and the trees shift. Sun lies her ass off saying it’s probably an animal. Lapidus doesn’t buy it.

They get to the DI camp and it’s deserted and jacked up.

If this is 2007, is the camp messed up because the last time we saw it, Ben called the smoke monster to jack things up?

The whispers come and a light comes on in one of the houses. Christian Shepard appears and Sun asks if he knows where her husband is. He tells them to follow.

Christian take Sun and Lapidus to the processing center and shows them a picture of Hurley, Kate, and Jack as new recruits back in 1977.

Thirty years earlier…

Jack and co. get their picture taken and are told to make themselves at home. Don’t drink the kool-aid!

Sawyer arrives with Sayid in cuffs and takes him to the barracks.

That night, Jack goes to Sawyer’s house and finds Juliet there. I don’t think it sunk in what she was doing there. Sawyer is chillin’ and reading a book. Jack wants to know what they’re gonna do next and what they’re gonna do about Sayid. Sawyer says he’s handling it and Jack says it looks like he’s reading a book. Sawyer says that’s how he rolls. He reads and thinks, and unlike Jack’s way, it doesn’t get people killed. He tells Jack to go home and chill and let him handle his damn business.

When he steps outside, he sees Kate and suddenly he ain’t all hardass. He’s all mushed-face and cute with those damn dimples you just wanna stick your fingers in, or maybe your tongue, oh sorry….

Yum!

Anyway, some kid comes to the barracks to bring Sayid some food. With his sick hostile fascination, you just know it’s Ben. It is. It’s totally bug-eyed Ben.