Lost – Season 5 – Epis. 12 & 13 “Dead is Dead” and “Some Like It Hoth”

Previously on Lost: Sayid shoots young Ben in the 70′s. Kate and Sawyer take Ben to Richard Alpert who says that if he helps Ben, Ben will always be one of them. Because Ben won’t give himself up, Whitmore’s mercenary kills Alex. Sun takes off with Lapidus to find Jin. Locke realizes Ben is back on the island too.

And now…

On the island, a guy with curly thick hair rides a horse. He looks like something off an old romance novel’s cover. He storms into the camp of The Others and approaches Richard.

He’s pissed that Ben is there. He tells Richard he should have let Ben die. Richard says the island chooses who it chooses and that Jacob wanted it done. This shuts Fabio Jr. up.

He goes in to see Ben and tells Ben that he has to go back, but Ben wants to stay. He wants to be one of them. The stranger with the fancy hair tells Ben that even if he lives with the DI, that doesn’t mean he isn’t one of them. Fabio Jr. is a young Charles Widmore.

Back in present day, Ben wakes up and claims that he knew that Locke would survive. Locke wants to know why Ben was trying to get to the other island. Ben says he came back to be judged. By the monster. Sweet! I love smoke monster episodes.

And we have semi-credits…

Ben approaches Elana and some others on the beach. They’re moving something in a big box. He offers help and they turn him down. One guy looks like a cross between Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Rogen. They’re acting suspcious. So much for Elana being just who she said she was.

Caesar tells Ben that he will have his back if Locke tries anything. Ben plays into Caesar’s suspicions about Locke. Ben notes that Caesar has the sawed-off shotgun from the office.

Years ago, on the island, Ben as a young man and a kid (Ethan) go into Danielle’s tent at night. Ben is going to shoot her, but takes Alex instead. He tells Danielle that if she follows him, he’ll kill the baby. He tells her that if she wants Alex to live, every time she hears whispers she’ll run the other way.

Note: Ethan seems desperate to prove himself to Ben. Now we know how Ethan came to be a part of The Others posing as DI when we first met him after being born DI. I brought that question up a few episodes ago.

Back to present, Ben is going through his office stuff when he finds a picture of him and Alex. Locke shows up and wants to know why Ben killed him. Ben said it was the only way to get them all back. He said he couldn’t have allowed Locke to hang himself because he had info Ben needed. Then he didn’t have time to talk Locke back into killing himself. It was all in the best interest of the island. Locke says, “I was just looking for an apology.”

Locke says he wants to help Ben get to the other island to be judged. If Ben really has the island’s best interest in mind, Locke is down with that.

Ben and Locke are about to take a boat to the other side when Caesar and two guys show up. He’s not gonna let them take the boat. Ben plays like Locke is forcing him. Locke is all, “What’s up with that?” When Caesar reaches for his gun, Ben has it and shoots Caesar in the chest.

DAYUM.

Ben and Locke arrive at the main island. Ben tells Locke that Sun and Lapidus were there before them and that Sun knocked him over the head. Locke wants to know if Sun also hurt Ben’s arm. No, that was someone else. Locke tells Ben he doesn’t believe he wants to be judged for breaking island rules, but rather for killing his daughter.

Back in the day, on the island, Ben reports back to a much older Charles and tells him that he didn’t kill Danielle and that he took Alex. Charles is pissed. Ben refuses to kill a child and says he doesn’t think it’s what Jacob wants. He tells Charles that if he wants the baby dead, he should do it. There’s mad respect in The Others’ eyes.

And that, ladies and gents, is how Ben became a Daddy.

In present time, Locke wants to know whose idea it was to live in the DI houses after he murdered them. Good question! Locke doesn’t think it’s something the island would want. Ben says that Locke has no idea what the island wants. Are you sure, Locke counters.

A light goes on in Ben’s house, in Alex’s room, and someone is walking around. Creepy! Ben goes to investigate. It’s Sun. Lapidus shows up. He gives Ben the picture from 1977. Ben wants to know who gave them the picture. They tell him Christian did and that he told Sun if she ever wanted to see Jin again, she’d have to go in Ben’s house and wait for John Locke. Ben instructs them to look outside. Locke waves like it ain’t no thang.

This whole back-from-the-dead business freaks Lapidus out. He wants Sun to go back to the other island with him. She wants to find Jin, so she’s staying. Lapidus is all, “Aight. That’s on you. Peace.” He throws up deuces and he’s out. Sun wants to know how to find Jin, but Locke tells her Ben has something to do first.

Ben goes into his closet and goes through the secret underground passageway. He reaches into a muddy water puddle and unclogs the drain. The water disappears down the drain. “I’ll be outside,” he says.

Back in the day… Ben is pushing Alex as a little girl on a swing. Richard approaches Ben and tells him the sub is about to leave. Ben says he has to see off whoever is leaving. It’s Charles. He tells Charles he came to say goodbye, but Charles says he came to gloat. Ben says he brought it all on himself by leaving the island regularly and having a daughter with an outsider. Charles tells Ben he couldn’t sacrifice Alex for the island, but Ben says it was Charles that wanted her dead not the island. Charles says that if he’s right, Alex will be dead eventually.

Present day… Locke goes off to do something, Sun doesn’t know what or where. Sun tells Ben that Jack must have lied about Locke being dead. Ben assures her that Locke was really dead. She wants to know if Ben knew Locke would come back. Ben tells her that “Dead is dead,” and the fact that Locke is walking around the island scares the hell out of him. They hear a noise and Ben warns Sun to go inside cause he can’t control what is going to come out of the jungle.

What comes out of the jungle is Locke. He says that if the smoke monster isn’t coming to them, they need to go to it. Ben says he doesn’t know where it is. Locke does.

It’s probably not a good idea to keep showing off to the man that killed you once, and is totally enamored with the island, that you know so much about said island. Just sayin’.

They head off.

On the mainland, before the flight to Guam, Ben calls Charles and tells him he’s going back to the island later that day. He says he’s going to kill Penny first. He’s at the marina. I told you! He hangs up on Charles.

Back on the island, Ben wants to know how Locke knows where he’s going. “I just do,” Locke says. Now Ben knows what it was like to be Locke all that time. Ben figures out that they’re going to the same place Ben was taken as a child, where he was healed. Ben says the wall was built to keep people like Sun and Locke from ever seeing their temple which is a half mile from there. Locke says they’re not going the temple, they’re going under it.

Ben asks Sun to tell Desmond he’s sorry if she ever makes it off the island. “Sorry for what?,” she wants to know. “He’ll know,” Ben tells her.

At the marina, Ben watches Penny and approaches, but walks right by Desmond who spots him. He shoots Desmond, but it’s not a very good shot. It looks like he shot the groceries more than anything else. Ben apologizes to Penny and tells her that her father is a bad man responsible for killing his daughter. Little Charlie comes out and Ben pauses. Penny pleads for her son’s life. Ben lowers the gun and then Desmond comes and beats dat ass. He pushes Ben in the water. Now we know how he hurt his arm and got all bloody when he called Jack and had him pick up Locke’s body.

Back on the island, Lapidus makes it back. A man tells him that Elana and three other men found guns and claim to be in charge now. Lapidus wants to know what’s going on. Elana asks him, “What lies in the shadow of the statue?”

Um, the well? The creepy temple with the smoke monster?

Obviously Elana and Jimmy Kimmel have an agenda. She orders Lapidus tied up. He’s going with them.

Under the temple, Ben and Locke make their way with torches. Ben admits that Locke was right about why Ben needed to be judged. He did kill Alex by not surrending and now he has to answer for it. He tells Locke he will go the rest of the way alone. Ben starts to tell Locke that he’ll meet him outside if he lives, but he falls through a hole Pitfall style. Lockes goes to find something to pull Ben out of the under-underground room he’s in.

Ben looks around. There’s hieroglyphics on pillars and the walls. Uh-oh. The staticy electro-sounds of the smoke monster can be heard. It comes up through holes in the floor. In the smoke, Ben sees his past with Alex inlcluding the moment he let her die. The smoke monster leaves and he turns to find Alex behind him. He apologizes to her. She grabs him and slams him against a pillar. She tells him she knows he plans to kill Locke again, and that if he touches him she will hunt him and destroy him. He is to listen and follow Locke. She makes him swear to it and then she’s gone.

Ok, NOW will you people believe me in that the island can only take the shape of people who are dead ON THE ISLAND? Eko’s brother, Christian, Alex, etc. Hurley sees (Eko, Charlie, and Ana Lucia who are dead on the island, but I think he may really see dead people and that it’s not the same as the others.)

Anyway, Locke calls down to Ben wanting to know what happened.

“It let me live.”

Episode 13 – Some Like It Hoth

An Asian woman looks at an apartment. Her son, Miles, wants money for a vending machine. He looks to be about five or six. He is drawn to another apartment where he finds a dead body. When his mother and the landlord come running, they find Miles with the body. He says he can hear the dead man talking to him.

On the island, in the 70′s, Sawyer calls Miles and tells him to get rid of the security footage from camera four. He doesn’t want anyone to see that he and Kate took Ben to The Others.

Before Miles can take the tape out, Horace comes in and tells Miles he wants to bring him into the circle of trust. (Since Lafleur -Sawyer- is MIA) He tells Miles to go out to territory 334 and meet Radzinski. He’s gonna give him something. 334 is hostile territory.

Miles gives Radzinski a body bag and Miles watches as some other DI guys put a body in it. Radzinski ain’t offering up details. The dead body has a hole in the head.

He tells Miles to take the body back to Horace and leaves. Miles asks the dead body, “Ok, so what really happened?”

Um, he couldn’t have pulled away for a few feet first?

And we have fake credits…

Young and rebellious Miles (we know this by all the face piercings) wants to see his dying mother. He wants to know how he does the things that he does. He asks her about his father and she tells him that his father is dead and that he never cared about them. Miles wants to know where his body is. “Somewhere you can never go.”

Back on the island, Horace tells Miles to bring the body to Dr. Chang at The Orchid. Before that, Horace was on the phone talking to someone and he says, “Pierre, if it was caused by the electromagnetism, we need to know.” He tells the person he’ll have someone bring it.

Do they think the guy was killed by EMP? Is the first inkling that they may need “the button?”

Miles goes to get his van, but Hurley is loading it up with lunch for the crew at The Orchid. Since that is where Miles is going he reluctantly lets Hurley tag along.

Kate goes back to the hospital and tells Juliet that Ben is with The Others. Roger shows up and freaks out to see Ben is gone. Juliet pretends that Ben disappeared while she wasn’t looking. Roger freaks out some more. He’s going to security.

“Well, here we go,” says Juliet.

On the way to The Orchid, Hurley is writing in a composition notebook. He wonders if Miles has farted. He is determined to find out what the bad smell is. Miles pulls over (why?) and Hurley finds the body bag. Miles tells Hurley that he’s Alvarez. Alvarez was digging a hole, and thinking about a girl named Andrea, when his filling blew through his head and killed him. When Hurley realizes that Miles can talk to the dead, he tells him that his secret is safe with him because Hurley can talk to the dead too.

Off the island, Miles is scamming some man who lost his son. He wants to know if his dead son knew he loved him. Miles says that his son always knew and then takes the man’s money. When Miles gets to his car, he’s approached by Naomi. Her employer is interested in his unique services. He follows her to a restaurant.

On the island, Kate sees Roger drinking on the swing set. She tries to comfort him by saying that she has a feeling Ben will be okay. Roger gets suspicious because Kate is stupid.

On their way to The Orchid, Miles can’t believe that Hurley can actually see the dead people he talks to. With Miles he only knows what they knew up until they died.

When they get to The Orchid, Dr. Chang is shitty that Hurley is there. Hurley opens his big mouth and says that he won’t tell anyone about the dead body. Chang tells him that if he does, he’ll have him shipped to Hydra Island where he’ll weigh polar bear turds for experiments. He orders the body taken inside and leaves. Hurley calls him a douche. Miles says, “That douche is my dad.”

Told you so! I called that from the opening of the season premiere.

Naomi takes Miles to an abandoned restaurant where there’s a dead body in the kitchen. She wants to know about him. Miles tells her the man was named Felix and he was on his way to deliver photos of empty graves and a purchase order for an old airplane to Widmore.

She tells him she’s leading an expedition to the island to look for a man. There are a bunch of dead bodies on the island that the man is responsible for. Miles says no… until she tells him he’ll be paid $1.6 million. Then he’s down for whatever.

Back on the island, Hurley wants to talk about the fact that Chang is Miles’ father. Miles doesn’t. He says he knew something was weird when he was on line for lunch and his mother got in line behind him. Chang wants them to take him to Radzinski.

Jack is cleaning up a classroom when Roger comes in. Jack is cleaning Roger’s rooms because he thought Roger might need a minute… you know, with the missing, shot, son. Roger voices his suspicions about Kate to Jack. Instead of talking him out of it, Jack admits that Kate is his friend and that she wouldn’t hurt Ben. Way to make him suspicious of BOTH OF YOU, Jack!

On the way to Radzinski, Hurley tries to get Chang to talk about his family. He points out that Miles has the same name as Chang’s son… which is his son. Chang seems kinda nice.

When they get there, Miles and Hurley wait in the van. One guy needs to know the serial number that goes on the hatch door. Hurley knows the last number. When Miles asks him how, Hurley says that they’re building the hatch that crashed their plane.

Off the island, Miles is walking down the street eating a fish taco (I really need to try one of those things!) when some guys in a van jump him and toss him in the van. Hey, it’s Jimmy Kimmel! He tells Miles that he doesn’t want to work for Widmore and he damn sure doesn’t want to take his ass to that island. He asks Miles if he knows what lies in the shadow of the statue. He doesn’t. He tells Miles that if he goes with them they can answer all his questions about his ability, his father, etc. Go with them!

Miles turns them down and they kick him to the curb… literally. Jimmy Kimmel tells him that he’s on the losing team and they speed off.

On the island, Hurley and Miles are headed back to camp and Hurley tells him that there will be an accident with the hatch they are building and they’ll have to install “the button.” Hurley thinks it’s great that Miles has a chance to get to know his Dad, but Miles doesn’t see it that way. He doesn’t want Hurley in his business. He snatches Hurley’s notebook and reads from it.

Hurley is writing The Empire Strikes Back… with a few improvements. He’s going to send it to George Lucas. Miles thinks it’s stupid. I think it’s hysterical.

Jack is at Juliet and Sawyer’s place when Sawyer gets home. He warns them that Roger is suspcious of Kate and leaves. Phil comes to Sawyer’s house and tells him that he knows who took Ben. He has the video. Sawyer invites him to explain and then knocks him out when he realizes that Phil hasn’t told anyone. He tells Juliet to get some rope.

Off the island, Miles goes back to the man he duped out of money. He admits that he lied about talking to his dead son. He tells the man that if he loved his son, he should have made sure his son knew when he was still alive. Dayum. That’s cold.

On the island, Hurley tells Miles about his issues with his father. He compares their Dad situations to Luke and Darth Vader. Hilarious! “Let’s face it, the Ewoks sucked, dude.”

Miles watches through the window as his father holds baby Miles. Hegot his little DI jumper on! How stinkin’ cute! Chang gets a call and kisses baby Miles before leaving. He sees big Miles and tells him they have to go meet a sub of scientists from Ann Arbor.

Dan is one of the scientists off the sub!

Next week, we get a Lost special. The tale of the Oceanic 6 from a whole new perspective.

Then we get a new episode, the 100th. Sides are chosen, some go, some fight. It’s on, bitches!

Thoughts, predictions, questions… share!

 

Lost Season 5 – Epis. 10 & 11: He’s Our You & Whatever Happened, Happened

Previously on Lost: Ben was sweating The Others even as a kid. Sayid worked for Ben when he was off the island, killing people he believed worked for Widmore. Back on the island, Sayid is captured by the Dharma Initiative. Young Ben befriends Sayid.

And now…

Tikrit, Iraq – As a boy, Sayid killed chickens without flinching. He makes his fat friend look like a pussy.

On the island – Young Ben brings Sayid more food and a book. (A Separate Reality by Carlos Castaneda) Ben wants to know if Richard sent Sayid. He says when he ran away four years ago, Richard told him to be patient and he could join them. He tells Sayid that if he’s patient too, he can help him.

When he was off the island, Sayid kills a man from Widmore’s organization. Ben tells him that he has killed them all and he’s free to go live his life.

Back on the island, Horace comes to see Sayid, but Sayid ain’t talking. He gives Sayid an hour to change his mind or they’re taking it to the next level. Oooh.

From their happy home, Juliet and Sawyer watch Kate and Jack from the window. She worries that life as they know it will be over once Sayid opens his mouth. Sawyer says that Sayid won’t blab. Horace comes over and says that Sayid ain’t talking and they’re gonna be forced to sic Oldham on Sayid. Sawyer wants a shot at him.

Sawyer goes to see Sayid alone, ordering the guard to leave. Sayid wants to know how Sawyer can live with a mini-Ben Linus. Sawyer says they have no choice. Sawyer tells Sayid that he’s lucky he spent the last three years getting himself into a position to help him now. He strikes Sayid and says they need to pretend he was interrogated and that Sayid needs to say he wants to defect from The Others. Sayid refuses.

Hurley is a cook on the island. Go figure. He joins Jack and Kate for breakfast. Kate and Hurley can’t believe Sawyer didn’t give up any info on a plan. Hurley breaks the news to Kate that Juliet and Sawyer are together-together. Like bumping uglies together.

Ben’s father, Roger the janitor, comes to clean up outside of Sayid’s cell. He wonders aloud how Sayid got caught. He figures that Sayid must be pretty dumb. Sayid is all, “At least I’m not a janitor.” Ben shows up with a sandwich and plays like it’s for his Daddy. Roger goes all Daddy Dearest on him ’cause he knows the sandwich is for Sayid.

Off the island, in Santo Domingo, Ben comes to see Sayid. He tells Sayid that John Locke is dead, probably murdered… ’cause you killed him, bastard! He tells Sayid that he might be in danger and that men are watching Hurley too. Sayid realizes that Ben wants him to kill the men watching Hurley. Sayid insists he doesn’t like killing.

Sawyer and the others come for Sayid and tazer him. I love a good tazin’, but not on Sayid! They take him to Oldham; a rednecky old coot. Sawyer tells Sayid, “He’s our you.” They tie Sayid to a tree and Oldham forces him to swallow a cube of sugar with some liquid on it. Oldham tells Sayid that no matter what, he will tell them the truth.

Sawyer shits his pants.

Off the island, at the marina, Sayid is pissed when he realizes that he, Sun, Kate, and Jack have gathered with Ben to discuss going back to the island. “If I see you again,” he tells Ben, “it will be unpleasant for us both.”

At a hotel bar, Sayid downs scotch that’s $120 bucks a glass. Damn. Murder pays well. Elana is seated at the bar too and starts coming on to him. He buys her a glass of the scotch. Yeah, murder pays real well.

On the island, the questioning begins. Sayid answers the questions honestly. He was in handcuffs on the plane because he’s a bad man. He tells them he has returned to the island. He tells them about the first crash. He also tells them what he knows about all the stations. That freaks Radzinski the hell out. Sayid then tells them that they are all going to die. When he tells them he’s from the future they think Oldham used too much of the drug.

Juliet shows Kate around the garage where they work on the vans. Juliet is relieved that Hurley told Kate about her and Sawyer because if she had done it, she knew it would sound like she was telling Kate to stay away. Which we all know is what she wants to say.

They then watch as Sawyer and crew lead Sayid back to his cell.

Sawyer notices Juliet and Kate talking.

The DI peeps have a come to Jesus meeting and Radzinski pushes for Sayid to be killed. Sawyer wants to talk to Sayid again, but Radzinski smells blood. He says they need to make a decision or he will call Ann Arbor and they will make it for them. Another reason I won’t take my black ass to Michigan. Amy pushes for the vote. She won’t feel safe with Sayid around. They vote and everyone, including Sawyer, vote to kill Sayid.

Sawyer, say it ain’t so!

Off the island, Sayid and Elana are about to get down and dirty in a hotel room. She suddenly starts beating his ass and pulls a gun on him. She was hired to bring him to Guam to answer for killing the guy on the golf course.

Back on the island, Sawyer goes to see Sayid again and tells him that they’re coming to kill him. Again Sayid refuses Sawyer’s plan to escape. Sayid says that he realizes he has a purpose for being back on the island. Frustrated, Sawyer leaves. He goes to see Kate. He wants to know why they came back to the island. She says she only knows why she came back. Before she can say, “I came back for your fine ass,” a van on fire plows into a house.

Kate  helps people escape from the house while Sawyer rushes to get the hoses going. Sawyer tells Jack that the trouble only started when they brought their asses back.

While this is going on, young Ben sneaks to see Sayid. He asks Sayid, “If I let you go, will you take me with you? To your people?” Sayid tells him yes.

Off the island, as Elana escorts Sayid through the airport, he notices Hurley, Kate, and Jack. He wants to take another plane, but Elana ain’t having it. Sayid sees Sun and knows shit ain’t right. He knows shit really ain’t right when he sees Ben. He asks Elana if she’s working for Benjamin Linus. She wants to know who Ben is. Sayid says he’s a monster, liar, etc. She wants to know why she’d work for someone like that. Sayid admits that he worked for Ben.

On the island, Sayid and Ben are running through the woods when they come across Jin in a van.

Sayid tells Jin that Sawyer let him go. Jin wants to call and check on this before letting Sayid go on, but Sayid knocks him out before he can. He then takes Jin’s gun and shoots Ben.

Damn, he was right. That was unpleasant.

He shoulda shot his ass more than once!

Whatever Happened, Happened

Previously on Lost: Sawyer finds out he has a daughter named Clementine. Kate, before ending up on the island the first time, encounters Sawyer’s baby mama. Kate pretends to be Aaron’s mother after leaving the island. She is threatened by someone who knows Aaron isn’t hers. Young Ben lets Sayid escape and gets a cap in his ass for his efforts.

And now…

Jin comes to and tells the DI people that Sayid is headed north. He then discovers that Ben is shot and puts him in the van. What? Let that little bastard die! And did he give up Sayid’s true direction?

Back at the DI camp, Horace says that someone must have set the fire to help Sayid escape. Jack is like, “How you know that?” And Horace pretty much tells him to shut up, newbie.

Kate helps Ben’s father, Roger, move the burnt out van from the house. She realizes that he’s Ben’s father. Jin shows up with an injured Ben. Roger freaks out.

Off the island, Kate takes Aaron to see Sawyer’s baby mama. She wants to know why Kate trusted her with the secret that Sawyer is still alive. She tells Kate that Sawyer is a coward. She also figures out that Kate isn’t Aaron’s Mommy.

Back on the island, Sawyer is looking at the surveillance cameras. Kate shows up and Sawyer tells Kate to scram before she messes everything up. Sure enough, Horace and crew shows up and Saywer acts like he was questioning Kate.

They realize that someone with janitor keys let Sayid out. There are only three janitors; some guy, Roger, and Jack. Sawyer and Miles leave to question Jack.

Sawyer tells Miles to get Jack, Kate, and Hurley and put them in a house and watch them. He goes to see how Ben is and realizes that Roger doesn’t have his janitor keys. Juliet tells Sawyer that she needs a real surgeon to stop Ben’s bleeding.

At the house, Miles tells Hurley, Jack, and Kate that Ben won’t die because he lived to be an adult. Sawyer shows up and says they need Jack, and if he doesn’t come, Ben will die. Jack refuses.

Later, Kate can’t believe Jack won’t save Ben. Jack says that he already saved Ben for Kate’s ass once, and he ain’t doing it again. Jack thinks that the island might just want to work shit out for itself. Kate doesn’t like the new Jack. Jack says you didn’t like the old Jack.

Kate goes to donate blood for Ben. She tells Juliet that she and Jack were engaged off the island after Juliet expresses confusion over Jack’s unwillingness to help Ben. Roger comes in and sits with Kate while Juliet checks on Ben.

Roger admits that Ben stole his keys to bust out Sayid because of him. Roger confides in Kate  how Ben’s mother died. Then Ben goes into shock.

Back at the house, Hurley has a hard time wrapping his brain around the fact that everything that is happening now, already happened. Miles keeps calling Hurley names.

Miles explains that when Ben turned the wheel time is no longer on a straight line. What follows is a bunch of time-travel mumbo jumbo that gives me a headache. Hurley does succeed in stumping Miles. He wants to know if everything has already happened, how come Ben doesn’t remember being shot by Sayid when he first meets him after the Oceanic crash. (Just like I wanted to know why Daniel didn’t remember telling Charlotte never to return to the island.)

Juliet tells Kate that Ben will die and Kate says they can’t let that happen. Juliet says that maybe there’s something The Others can do. Oooh, does this mean we get to see Richard’s fine ass? Please say yes.

Juliet and Kate sneak Ben into a van. Kate doesn’t want Juliet going with her. Juliet tells her that when Sawyer finds out, she will give Kate a head start.

Off the island, at the marina, Kate is pissed when she realizes they met with Ben to discuss going back to the island. She leaves with Aaron. They go to a supermarket because he’s thirsty. When Jack calls Kate on her cell, she takes her eyes off of Aaron briefly and he disappears. I would so beat Donny’s ass. She finds him with a woman that says she was taking Aaron for help.

On the island, Kate makes it to the security pylons when Sawyer shows up. He says he’s not there to stop her, he’s there to help her. And he calls her Freckles!!

Off the island, Kate goes back to Sawyer’s baby mama. Clementine calls her Auntie Kate. She tells the baby mama that Jack and the others want to go back. She also tells baby mama that as scared as she was when Aaron went missing, she also expected it. Baby mama tells Kate that Sawyer broke her heart so she took Aaron to fix it.

On the island, Sawyer disables the pylons. Sawyer says he is helping Ben for Juliet because she said that no matter what Ben grows up to be, it’s wrong to let a kid die. Sheeeit.

Juliet busts into the house and wants to see Jack who is in the shower. She makes Miles and Hurley leave. She confronts Jack for not helping Ben. Juliet says that Sawyer and Kate actually care and he doesn’t. He says that he cares, that’s why he came back. To save her. She says she didn’t need saving. She’s been playing house with Sawyer, and likes it! He says he came back because he was supposed to, but he doesn’t know why yet.

Sawyer and Kate carry Ben through the jungle. She tells Sawyer about Clementine. Sawyer tells Kate that they would have never worked out. He wasn’t fit to be her man or a Dad. Kate points out that he seems to be doing fine with Juliet. He says he’s grown up a lot in three years.

The Others show up and Sawyer tells them that they need to take Ben to Richard.

Off the island, Kate goes to see Clare’s mother. She tells her that Aaron is her grandson and that Clare is alive. Kate admits that she didn’t say anything sooner because she needed Aaron. Kate says that she told Aaron she’s his grandmother and that she will take care of him. Kate is going back to the island to find Clare.

As Kate cries over Aaron while he sleeps, I’m about to lose my shit… until Donny says, “It took her three years to feel like shit?”

Way to ruin the moment!

On the island, Sawyer brings Ben to Richard… who seems to appear out of nowhere. He also appears to still be young and sexy.

Kate asks if Richard can save Ben’s life. Richard kinda looks at Kate like he wants to eat her. Lucky girl. Richard says that if he takes Ben, he will never be the same. He won’t remember what happened, his innocence will be gone, and Ben will always be one of them.

Creepy.

“You still want me to take him?”

Kate says, “Yes.”

An other says that they need to ask Ellie (Daniel’s Mom?), and worries what will happen if Charles (Widmore) finds out… Damn, he looks like a young, and HOT, eyepatch guy. Richard says he doesn’t answer to either of them. Richard leaves with Ben and takes him to the temple where the smoke monster lives.

Older, current, Ben wakes up to find John staring at him.

Next week looks kickass!

 

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.

“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.

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.

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….

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.

Lost Season 5 – Epi. 4: The Little Prince

Three years later…

Kate gets all professional looking in Sun’s hotel room order to meet with someone and it’s Sun’s idea. Sun babysits while Kate is gone. Sun gets a package that includes photos of Jack meeting with Ben and a gun. Mama means business.

Back on the island, Charlotte is still out cold. Juliet insists that if Daniel knows what’s happening to Charlotte, he should tell her. Daniel plays dumb unconvincingly. He finally compares what Charlotte has to really bad jet lag, but Juliet still ain’t tryna hear it.

In present day, in Los Angeles, Kate meets with the attorney who came to her house. She says she will agree to give the blood samples if his client will meet with her. The lawyer ain’t buying it. He tells Kate that eventually she will lose Aaron and that her client is being nice by not pushing the situation faster.

On the island, Locke tells Sawyer they need to get back to The Orchid. Maybe there’s a way to stop what’s happening there. Locke suggests they head back to the beach to find the Zodiac raft and use it to get to The Orchid quicker. He tells Sawyer that he has to make the Oceanic 6 come back even if it kills him. He nicks Sawyer’s resolve by mentioning the possibility of seeing Kate again.

Charlotte finally wakes up with a bunch of dried and crusty blood under her nose. Will someone get homegirl a banana leaf, please? Sawyer announces to the group that they’ll be heading to The Orchid and some Planet of the Apes-style music plays.

In present day, Sayid warns Jack that they need to get to Hurley before Ben does. Jack tells Sayid that Ben is on their side. Before they can argue further, a doctor calls Jack out of the room to rip him a new one for coming up in the hospital treating patients like he works there. Hurley calls Jack and tells him that he’s in L.A. county lock-up and safe from Ben. He hangs up before Jack can get more out of him. Dumb Hurley.

Meanwhile a male nurse shows up in Sayid’s room telling him he has his meds. Knowing Jack ain’t order no meds, Sayid goes all Batman on the nurse’s ass before he can shoot Sayid up with more tranquilizers! Ok, it’s apparent whoever is behind this doesn’t want Sayid’s ass dead. Just really high.

Sayid is about to choke the man to death with an I.V. line (yeah, he’s that P.I.M.P) when the man reveals there’s an address in his pocket. Sayid shoots him with his tranq gun and gets the address. Ben and Jack arrive and Jack realizes the pseudo-nurse was carrying Kate’s address.

Jack calls Kate to warn her, but she’s all, “The last time we spoke you were drunk and scruffy and talking ’bout going back to Crazy Island, so yeah, I’ma hang up now.” He convinces her to give up her location downtown.

Ben and Sayid leave to get Hurley while Jack goes to meet Kate. Ben tells Jack they all need to meet up at the Long Beach Marina.

Back on the island, Sawyer wants to know what Locke is going to say to get Kate to come back, but Locke admits he has no idea. Sawyer is all, “She was too happy to bounce to want to come back so you have your work cut out for you.” As the group makes their way through the nighttime jungle, they see a light in the distance. Locke tells them to keep moving, but Daniel wants to know if Locke has an idea of “when” they are. Locke doesn’t answer.

I think they’re at the night when Locke was banging on the hatch door and the light came on. The night Boone died.

They hear screaming in the jungle and Sawyer goes to investigate. He sees Kate delivering Claire’s baby. The look on his face is wonderful. I really like this scene. It reminds us of the personal history they all share and how much they’ve been through together. Suddenly, the flashy light thing happens again and it’s daytime. Sawyer doesn’t tell Locke what he saw. By the way, I was right. That was totally the night Boone died.

Jack shows up at Kate’s car as she sits on a downtown street. He convinces her to confide in him. When the lawyer leaves his office, Jack hops in the car as Kate prepares to follow him.

On the island, Locke admits that he knew they were back to the night Boone died and said he wouldn’t warn his past self of anything that was about to happen. Miles (Asian Psychic Dude) admits to Daniel that he suffered a nose bleed with the last flash. Daniel said it has something to do with the amount of exposure one has had to the island. Miles balks seeing as how the Oceanic survivors have been on the island for months, but he has only been there two weeks. Are you sure, Daniel wants to know.

I told y’all!! Miles is the baby from the season premiere! He, Charlotte, and Daniel each have childhood connections with the island. I bet you.

They arrive at the camp and find it trashed and the raft gone. New boats are ashore with water bottles from an Indian airline. Locke and the gang decide to take the new canoe and head over to the Orchid. They’re not sticking around for the other others to come back.

As they row, Sawyer admits to Juliet that he saw Kate delivering Claire’s baby the night before. Before they can get too deep into the convo, someone starts shooting at them from another boat.

“Paddle!” Sawyer instructs.

And what follows is a comical Scooby-Doo style row-fest. I damn near pissed my pants laughing.

“Are those your people?” Miles asks Juliet.

“No, are they yours?!”

Priceless.

Before anyone can get a cap popped in their ass, there’s another flash and they’re now in the middle of a rain storm paddling to shore.

In present day, Kate and Jack follow the lawyer to a motel where he meets with Claire’s mother. Jack convinces Kate that he should speak with her and try to get her to stop what she’s doing. When he returns to the car, he informs Kate that Claire’s mother has no idea what’s going on. She doesn’t even know that Aaron exists. She was in town to pick up the settlement she won from suing Oceanic.

Ben and Sayid are on their way to Hurley, but make a stop. Ben meets with the lawyer who met with Claire’s Mom. He informs Ben that arrangements have been made for Hurley’s release.

“Who is that?” Sayid wants to know.

“That’s my lawyer.”

Ben is awesome.

On the island, Sawyer admits to Juliet he was close enough to Kate to touch her, but what’s done is done so he didn’t. Juliet suffers a nosebleed. They find more wreckage on the beach and a black box with French writing on it.

Out to sea, a bunch of French people find a body floating in the water. It’s Jin!!!!! Awesome! I’m so happy he’s not dead!

Happy dance! Happy dance!

Present day: Jack and Kate are the marina when Ben arrives. Kate accuses Ben of being behind what’s going on with Aaron and Jack tries to tell her he’s on their side. Sayid looks on. Ben admits that he was behind trying to take Aaron away. Ben is P.I.M.P. too!

Sun looks on with Aaron sleeping in the backseat. She takes her gun from her purse and begins to make her move.

Back on the island, Jin awakens to some very suspicious French people. Even though I don’t know what they’re saying, they manage to be obnoxious. Jin realizes that one of them is a pregnant, and much younger, Danielle Rousseau!

Goosebumps!

You know what sucks? The next light flashy thing will take Jin away from them. I want to find out what happened with her people and how they got sick! Also, where is the smoke monster!?!?

Lost Season 5 – Because You Left/The Lie Epis. 1&2

An alarm goes off at 8:15am. A woman tells a man it’s his turn to get a crying baby. He tends to the baby and leaves for work… and he’s on the island… which I totally knew. It’s a man in some nut-hugging tight pants. It’s the doctor from all of the orientation films by The Dharma Initiative. He’s in the middle of making a film when he’s told there’s a problem at The Orchid.

He heads down to where the big wheel that moves the island is. Construction crews have been through two drills trying to get to it. The doctor informs the crew to stop. They run the risk of releasing limitless energy that can be used to time travel. The construction chief is all, “Chyeah right.” And the scientist is all, “Yuh huh.” As the scientist leaves, he bumps into the OTHER scientist. You know, the one that came to the island on the freighter and was Desmond’s constant when he was all time-travelly, Daniel… the physicist.

Three years after the island moved, Jack and Ben talk about going back to the island with all of the Oceanic 6, and smelly, dead, Locke. Jack says that Locke told him all kinds of bad shit went down when they left and that if they didn’t go back, Sawyer, Juliet, and everyone on the island and boat would die.

Flash back three years to when the island moved and those on the island are all, “WTF?!” No one knows what the bright light and loud sound were all about. Where’s the freighter? No one knows. Also, no one knows where the hell the camp is ’cause that’s gone too. Daniel, who was on the raft when the island disappeared and within the radius, says that the camp isn’t gone. It just hasn’t been built yet. And I’m all, “Yeah, that’s nice. I’m just happy Rose and Bernard are still alive.”

Back to three years later, Kate is served with papers declaring she needs to give up a blood sample to prove she’s Aaron’s mommy. She’s all, “Um, no.” The lawyers won’t say who their client is and Kate demands they come back with the sheriff. While they’re gone, she packs up her and Aaron’s stuff and they bounce.

Flash back three years, and Daniel won’t explain to Sawyer and Juliet what’s going on. He says it would just be too complicated for their simple little brains. For this, Sawyer bitch slaps him and Daniel sings like a canary physicist.

Locke is making his way around the island when a plane comes dangerously close to crashing on his ass. It crashes in the distance, and in the process drops one of the Virgin Mary heroin statues. Locke makes his way to the wreckage, and not learning a lesson from what happened to Boone’s ass, he tries to climb up to it. Someone starts shooting at him and he falls. It’s Ethan!

Ok, so obviously the island went back in time. But why is Ethan alive? Is it ’cause his dead body was on the island? Is that why the drug plane re-crashed?

Anyway, Ethan is about to pop a cap in John’s ass when it suddenly gets all bright again and next thing you know, it’s nighttime. Daniel tells Sawyer and crew they are either in the past or the future. Well, no duh.

Three years ahead, Sun is travelling to Los Angeles when her passport causes her to be locked in a room. Charles Widmore arrives. He’s all, “Don’t be running up on me when I’m with my boys like that.” And she’s all, “My bad.” He wants to know what their common interest is. “To kill Benjamin Linus.” Well, no shit.

Ben and Jack see a news report about Hurley escaping from the mental hospital. This changes their plans.

Sayid and Hurley get some fast food and head for Sayid’s apartment. Hurley says he needs a cool coat. I don’t know about that… but he damn sure don’t need that fast food he’s eating. Sayid tells Hurley he was working for Ben for the past two years and Hurley wonders if this means Ben’s on their side now. Sayid tells Hurley to always do the exact opposite of whatever Ben says.

Sayid realizes his safe house ain’t so safe. He kills two intruders, but not before one shoots him with a tranquilizer. He instructs Hurley to get him to the car. “I’m too old for this shit,” Hurley grumbles as he carries Sayid off. Well, what he actually says is, “We never should have left that island.” Same diff. Moral of this scene? Always put your knives in the dishwasher pointy side down.

Three years ago, Sawyer and crew find the blown up hatch. This means they’re forward in time, back to after the Oceanic people crashed there. Sawyer wants to head back and see if the camp is still there and possibly warn the people on the copter not to go. Daniel explains that they can’t change the past or future, they must not interfere… leave the stream be. And I have a headache. Sawyer wants to know who can stop the island from time jumping… cut to…

Locke hobbles to the drug plane and finds it as it was when they first found it; crashed with the heroin and skeletons. He fashions a tourniquet for his injured leg. Richard shows up to remove the bullet from his leg that Locke never told him was there… Richard says, “You did tell me… or you will.” He explains that Locke will be moving on soon and that the next time they meet, Richard won’t know who he is. Then he gives Locke a compass. He tells Locke he has to get his friends to come back in order to save the island. Locke wants to know how he’s supposed to do that… “You’ll have to die, John.”

Bright light and Locke is back in the daytime… back in the past.

Three years in the past, Sawyer and crew realize that they are back in the past, and the hatch is back. Sawyer wants to go into the hatch to get the supplies. Daniel warns him he can’t change the past. Sawyer says that everyone he cares about just blew up on Daniel’s freighter; he knows what he can’t change.

The foreign redhead chick has a nosebleed which causes Daniel to consult his notebook on the sly. When alone, he bangs on the hatch’s backdoor until Desmond answers. He quickly tells Desmond that if he made it off the island in the helicopter, Desmond needs to go to Oxford University in order to save those left behind. He tells him to find his mother… and the bright light flashes again. Desmond, of course, didn’t know what the hell he was talking about or who he was.

Three years in the future, Desmond awakes on a boat with Penny and realizes he just had a memory. He starts to un-anchor the boat, informing Penny they’re going to Oxford.

Three years ago… the Oceanic Six are discussing whether or not they’re going to lie once rescued. Everyone agrees to, but not Hurley. Jack tells him that they need to protect those they left behind from Charles Widmore. Hurley is outnumbered and pretty much bullied into lying. Hurley warns, “Ima ‘member this.”

Three years in the future… Hurley and Sayid are on the road. Hurley drives and tries to get Sayid to wake up. He’s out for the count. Because Hurley is a fool and driving like one, they get pulled over. The cop is Ana Lucia! She scolds Hurley for being a dumbass, tells him to get off the streets, and that Libby says hi. Freaky!

Three years in the past… the people left on the island try to figure out what their next step should be. Daniel want to try and figure out where they are in time.

Three years in the future… Hurley buys clothes and narrowly averts being recognized. Kate gets a call from a friend and rushes to meet him/her. Ben tells Jack to go home and pack anything that means anything to him because once they leave he’s never going home again. He says he’ll meet him in six hours. When Jack asks whether or not Locke is dead, Ben doesn’t respond. He just says, “I’ll see you in six hours, Jack.” Hurley shows up at his Dad’s house. (His Dad was totally watching, “Expose,” the show that starred Nicky from the island.)

Hurley’s Dad covers for him with the cops. Kate meets Sun at a hotel, and Ben shows up at a butcher shop where the lady behind the counter agrees to hold on to Locke so I guess he won’t be so stinky and maggoty after all.

Three years in the past, on the island, Asian psychic dude returns from the jungle with a dead boar. He said he found it dead. I’m guessing he used his special connection with the dead ability to find it.

The foreign redhead admits to Daniel that she can’t seem to shake a headache, and earlier couldn’t remember her mother’s maiden name. One of the survivors starts to over-freak out about the group not being able to start a fire when suddenly he has a fiery arrow in his chest. The survivors flee an onslaught of fiery arrows! WTF?!

In the future, Hurley’s father leaves with Sayid hidden in his car. Sun tells Kate that she must do whatever it takes to protect Aaron. Sun remembers that Kate told her to get Aaron on the helicopter and that she, Kate, would go get Jin. We all know how that turned out. Sun assures Kate she doesn’t blame her. Hurley’s father takes Sayid to Jack and warns him to leave Hurley alone. Jack calls Ben and tells him he has Sayid Ben’s eyes go wide… er… wider than usual. Hurley tells his mother the truth about what happened on the island. She says she doesn’t understand, but she believes his crazy ass.

Three years ago, on the island, Sawyer and Juliet encounter some men with guns who threaten to cut off Juliet’s hand if they don’t explain what they’re doing there. Guess they have knives too.

In the future, Jack takes Sayid to a hospital and gets him to wake up. Sayid is concerned that Hurley is now vulnerable. Ben shows up at Hurley’s house and tries to convince him he’s working with Jack and Sayid. Remembering what Sayid said about trusting Ben, Hurley runs out to turn himself in to the cops watching his house instead. Ben looks on like, “Dumbass.”

Locke comes out of the shadows all Jungle Badass and saves Sawyer and Juliet’s asses… and her hand.

Meanwhile, in the future, a cloaked woman is working on formulas on a blackboard, and typing into a computer. A weird pendulum swings leaving markings on the floor. She makes her way up to a church where Ben is waiting. He explains he’s having difficulty gathering everyone, but she warns he only has 70 hours. She’s the woman from the jewelry store! Ben asks what would happen if he can’t get them to return to the island.

“Then God help us all.”

So, what did you guys think? Predictions? Questions? More importantly, when do we get to see the smoke monster again?!

Me thinks that woman at the end may be Daniel’s mother.