Lost – S6 Epi. 12 “The Last Recruit”

Previously on Lost: In Los Angeles, Sawyer busts Kate, Sayid busts caps in all kinds of asses, and Sun gets shot. Desmond runs over Locke. On the island, Jack comes face-to-face with Evil Locke for the first time.

And now…

Evil Locke wants Jack to go off into the woods alone so they can “catch up.” When they’re alone Evil Locke explains that he chose Locke because Locke was foolish enough to believe the island had a purpose for him and then there’s the whole matter of Jack being nice enough to bring Locke’s body back. He also admits to looking like Jack’s father in order to help them find water. He claims that he has only ever wanted to help Jack and the rest leave the island.

In Los Angeles: In the ambulance, on the way to the hospital, Ben explains to the paramedics that Locke was already paralyzed. Locke asks that they call Helen. As he’s being wheeled inside, so is Sun, and in Korean she says, “No… no!” It’s him!,” after seeing Locke.

On the island, Evil Locke and Jack come across Claire in the jungle. Evil Locke displays some manners and leaves them alone to chat. Surprisingly, she is coming off less crazy than usual… her hair still looks a hot ass mess though.

She couldn't have fashioned a comb out of some chicken bones or something?

Jack says he hasn’t decided if he’s leaving the island with Evil Locke, but Claire tells him that he has. He already decided the moment he let Evil Locke talk to him.

The next morning (they were in the jungle alone ALL NIGHT?), Sawyer tells Hurley his plan. They’re gonna leave via Widmore’s sub. He says Sayid ain’t coming ’cause his ass is all evil now.

Jack, Evil Locke, and Claire return. Hurley lies and tells Claire she looks great.

In Los Angeles, Sawyer questions Kate at the police station. He reads the list of crimes she’s wanted for and observes that she doesn’t look like a murderer. Kate says she’s not. At this point, in this alternate reality, they’ve never said what she has done or if she is really guilty. Kate figures out that Sawyer didn’t turn her in when he saw her in handcuffs at the airport because he didn’t want anyone to know he was in Australia.

Miles calls Sawyer over to investigate the shooting at the restaurant.They got Sayid on surveillance video and want to find him.

On the island, Kate tells Jack that Sayid is different now. Jack says they’re all different. This would be the perfect time for Kate to be like, “No, this mofo is REALLY different. Like, slashing people’s throats and almost let Claire slash my throat, different!” But she doesn’t say anything cause she’s whack.

Tina Fey (Widmore’s girl) shows up at the camp and says that Evil Locke took something from them and they want it back. He has until nightfall or else Widmore will rain down holy hellfire on their asses. No, really, he can totally send over fire bombs and shit. She leaves Evil Locke with a walkie-talkie, which Locke smashes.

“Oh, well. Here we go.”

For some reason, this makes Jack (my son) laugh his ass off.

In Los Angeles, Desmond approaches Claire in the lobby of the adoption agency. She remembers him from the airport. He tells her he’s seeing a lawyer in the same building and suggests that she go see this lawyer to have some help with the adoption negotiations. He convinces Claire to go see the lawyer because although the whole situation is uber creepy, Desmond is hot and has an accent.

The lawyer is Ilana and  turns out she was looking for Claire already! And if I’m not mistaken,Ilana no longer has an accent.

On the island, Evil Locke informs the group that Widmore is lying about him stealing something. He says they’re gonna go to the other island and get on the plane. He instructs Sawyer to go get the boat (Desmond’s boat) and pulls Sayid aside.

Sawyer snatches up Jack and tells him to break off from Evil Locke’s group as soon as he can and meet them at the boat. He tells him to bring only Sun, Lapidis, and Hurley. Everyone else can get bent and that includes Sayid and Claire’s crazy ass. Sawyer and Kate head off.

Evil Locke instructs Sayid to go and kill Desmond. Sayid is all, “Aight.”

Sayid approaches the well and finds Desmond all jacked up at the bottom of it. Desmond wants to know what Evil Locke offered Sayid. He says he owes him at least that information if he’s gonna shoot him in cold blood. Sayid admits that he will get the woman he loves back even though she’s dead. Sayid believes him because he also died, and Evil Locke brought him back (we better get a better explanation that night by the finale! I’m just saying.) Desmond wants to know what he’s going to tell this woman when she asks what he did to have them be together again. Sayid has no answer.

In Los Angeles, Nadia tries to stall Miles so that Sayid can make a run for it, but Sawyer (literally) trips Sayid up in the back yard and arrests him.

On the island, Sawyer tells Kate the plan and she’s upset that Claire isn’t invited. Sawyer is all, “That bitch is crazy.” Claire still looks skeptical even though four epis ago, Claire tried to kill her. Dumbass.

Claire admits to Jack that she trusts Evil Locke because he’s the only person that didn’t abandon her. Evil Locke notices that Sayid hasn’t caught up to them yet and asks Sun if she has seen him. Sun doesn’t answer because her English went bye-bye. Evil Locke is all, “Oh, that’s mature.” She writes him a note that he did it and he’s like, “Girl, I ain’t do shit to you.” Evil Locke says he’s gonna go back and make sure no one got left behind. Jack takes that opportunity to grab Sun, Lapidis, and Hurley and haul ass. Crazy Claire notices and follows.

Evil Locke finds Sayid and asks if he killed Desmond. Sayid said that he did. He’s clearly lying, but either Evil Locke believes him or doesn’t care.

As everyone is about to get on the boat, Crazy Claire shows up with a gun. Kate tells Claire that she can come too if she puts down the gun. Sawyer is all, “Bitch, is you crazy?” Claire seems to return to her old self and hands over the gun, but quickly goes back to Crazy Town when she eerily predicts that Evil Locke will be mad when he finds out they’re gone.

In Los Angeles, Jack and his son David show up at the lawyer’s office for the reading of Christian’s will. The lawyer is Ilana and she surprises Jack by introducing him to Claire. Claire tells Jack that she’s his sister. Before he can react too much, Jack receives a call. He is needed at the hospital.

On the boat, Jack tells Sawyer that leaving the island doesn’t feel right. Sawyer is all, “If you’re gonna keep up that crazy talk, you can get the hell off my boat.” So, Jack jumps off the boat. Kate loses her shit and says they have to go back for him. Sawyer says, “We’re done going back.”

And I have a feeling that may be the last time those characters see the main island they crashed on.

In Los Angeles, Sun wakes up in the hospital and finds out that the baby is okay. Jack prepares to operate on Locke. He is all super duper surgeon badass after looking at Locke’s x-rays. “I got this, bitches.” (OK, I added the bitches part.) Before he cuts, he realizes that he knows Locke.

On the island, Jack swims ashore and runs into Evil Locke and his band of merry crazymen. Evil Locke surmises that Sawyer took his boat.

As Sawyer and crew arrive on Hydra island, Tina Fey and crew show up and demand they put their hands up. Only Kate doesn’t listen at first. Tina Fey calls the base and tells someone to turn the fences off.

"Drop your weapons! Put your hands up!"

"No, I'm Kate and I never do as I'm told."

Sun sees Jin for the first time in three years. They run towards each other and I’m like, “I really hope they turned those fences off.” Sun’s English returns as she tells Jin that she loves him and never stopped looking for him. Everyone is all, “Aw, shucks,” except Sawyer who is suddenly very interested in his shoes and Claire who just looks crazier.

Tina Fey gets instructions from Widmore and she and company pull their guns on Sawyer and the rest. She tells someone on the walkie they can fire when ready on Evil Locke. On the other beach, Jack hears the holy hellfire coming and orders everyone to get down, which they do… except Evil Locke cause he’s badass like that. Jack is knocked back and Evil Locke carries him to safety.

“Jack? You alright? Don’t worry. It’s gonna be okay. You’re with me now.”

Ruh-roh.

Lost Recaps Season 6, Episodes 3 – 5

Previously on Lost…

Episode 1, “LAX Part 1 and 2”

Episode 2, “What Kate Does”

Episode 3 “The Substitute” -

In Los Angeles, Locke gets fired from his job for lying about why he went to Australia. He ends up getting a job as a substitute teacher in a school where Ben Linus works.

On the island, Evil Locke tries to get Richard to join him and Richard refuses. Ben lies to Ilana and tells her that the smoke monster also killed Jacob. Ilana gathers some of Jacob’s ashes. Evil Locke approaches Sawyer who is still grieving for Juliet. He convinces Sawyer to join him because 1. he has the answers and 2. he can get Sawyer off the island. Sawyer follows E.L. to a cave on the side of a cliff and E.L shows him a wall of names and numbers.

Things of Note:

• In the alternate reality, Locke apparently has a relationship with his father as his fiance suggests inviting him if they elope.
• Evil Locke is spooked by visions of a young boy with bloody hands.
• Richard knew nothing about the candidates, of which John Locke was one.
• In Los Angeles, Hurley is a lucky-ass, rich, successful business man. He gives Locke a job because he owns a temporary agency. I LOVE alternate reality Hurley!
• Ilana, Lapidus, Sun and Ben bury Locke’s body and Ben admits that he killed Locke. “John Locke was a believer. A man of faith. A much better man than I will ever be and I’m sorry I murdered him.”

Finally buried. Good thing. He was getting super ripe.

• Sawyer can see the mysterious kid who warned Evil Locke to remember “the rules” and that he can’t kill Sawyer (another candidate.)
• Rose works at Hurley’s agency and gives Locke a job. She still has terminal cancer.
• When Sawyer almost falls off the cliff, Evil Locke goes out of his way to make sure he doesn’t die. Either because he really needs Sawyer or because he truly doesn’t want to break the rules… or both.
• So far, the only explanation we’ve gotten for the numbers is, “Jacob had a thing for numbers.”
• When Evil Locke shows Sawyer the names that aren’t crossed off, Kate isn’t mentioned. He says, “Last, but not least…” before getting to Sawyer’s name. Kwon is listed, but Evil Locke doesn’t know if it’s Sun or Jin who is the candidate.
• Evil Locke takes a white rock from a scale and tosses it into the ocean. He calls it an inside joke. We later see Richard deliver the rock to The Man in Black for Jacob in Ab Aeterno.

Episode 4 “The Lighthouse” -

In Los Angeles, Jack has a son that he doesn’t really connect with. They come together in the end when Jack realizes that his son is an accomplished musician.

On the island, Jacob approaches Hurley and asks for his help. Someone is coming to the island (Widmore?) and Jacob wants Hurley to help them get there. Crazy Claire rescues Jin. She thinks the people at the temple have her baby and she’s gonna go all Rambo on their asses. Jin tells Claire that Kate took her baby and has been raising him off of the island. Claire kills one of the Others from the temple, and realizing that Claire is crazy as pelican shit, Jin recants his story. He tells Claire that the baby is at the temple and they should go there together.

Hurley convinces Jack to go with him on Jacob’s mission. They find a lighthouse with mirrors and a dial that has all of their names with numbers on it. When Jack instructs Hurley to turn the dial to the point that corresponds with his name, he sees his childhood home. He realizes that Jacob has been watching him his whole life. Jack gets pissed and breaks the mirror.

Jacob appears to Hurley who realizes that it was Jacob’s plan all along to get Jack there so that Jack would realize he has a purpose. He also tells Hurley that something bad is about to happen at the temple.

Jin is surprised when John shows up at Claire’s camp, only Claire calls him “her friend.”

Things of Note:

• Alternate reality Jack doesn’t remember having his appendix taken out as a child.
• When confronted by Dogen, Hurley gets him to back off by telling him he’s a candidate – info given to him by Jacob.
• Jack’s mother is surprised to see Claire Littleton mentioned in his father’s will.
• Jack and Hurley find the caves where they used to live, Shannon’s inhaler, and the two skeletons with the stones. Jack admits to smashing the coffin because his father’s body wasn’t in it.
• Russeau is one of the crossed out names on the lighthouse dial.

Episode 5 “Sundown” -

In Los Angeles, Sayid’s love, Nadia, is married to his brother. Uncle Sayid shows up and there’s tension. The brother realizes Sayid is in love with his wife and uses that to try and get Sayid to help him with some guys he owes money to. Sayid doesn’t want to intervene, but is forced to once the bad guys rough up his brother looking for payment. Sayid kills the bad guys and discovers that they had Jin locked up.

On the island, Dogen tells Sayid that the machine they used on Sayid shows the balance between good and evil in people. Sayid tipped it the wrong way. They had a knock-down drag-out badass fight. Dogen stops short of killing Sayid when he sees a baseball hit the floor. He instructs Sayid to leave and never come back.

Evil Locke sends Claire into the temple to deliver a message. E.L. wants to talk. Dogen ain’t no dummy and knows that if he steps foot outside the temple, E.L. will kill him. He sends Sayid instead. He gives Sayid a knife and tells him that the man (evil incarnate) will appear to Sayid as someone he knows that’s dead. Sayid is to plunge a knife into his chest. If he allows him to speak, it is already too late. (Same directions given to Richard for Jacob in a later episode.)

Kate returns to the temple and Miles tells her Claire has returned acting crazy, but still hot.

Evil Locke tells Sayid that he wants him to deliver a message and that if he does, he can have anything he ever wanted. When Sayid says that the only thing he ever wanted died in his arms and he’d never see it again, Evil Locke asks him, “What if you could?”

Sayid tells everyone at the temple that Jacob is dead and the man outside is giving everyone till sundown to join him or die. A lot of people leave, including the flight attendant, Cindy and the kids.

Kate talks to Claire and realizes she is coo-coo. Sayid kills Dogen and the interpreter, fully aware that he has just allowed the smoke monster access to the temple.

The smoke monster comes in and kills a bunch of people. Miles and Kate get separated when she decides to get Claire. Ilana, Lapidus, and Ben show up looking for the candidates. Ben offers to fetch Sayid, but changes his mind when he realizes Sayid done gone Iraqi Boy Crazy. Jin is surprised to learn that Jin was there, but took off the day before.

In one of my favorite Lost moments EVER, Sayid, Kate, and Claire walk out (in slow mo) to meet Evil Locke and his followers. E.L. doesn’t look too happy to see Kate.

Things Of Note:

• Evil Locke already suspected that Dogen had someone try to kill Sayid. He would have to know that Sayid is infected then. And for that, that means that he either had something to do with it or could tell from the moment he saw Sayid. THEN, for him to know that Dogen tried to have someone (Jack) kill Sayid, that makes me wonder if neither side can kill a candidate.
• The main bad guy in Los Angeles (that Sayid kills) is the main mercenary sent to the island by Widmore in season 4.