Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey - 
by EdHIll
Growing up, one of my favorite shows was Patrick McGoohan’s The Prisoner. It was an allegorical sixties show where a Bond-like secret agent is captured and sent to a resort-like internment camp called the Village. He is given a number and interrogated by his captors about what he knows, all the time not knowing who they are or what they want. The show was originally designed with a seven episode story arc, but when the networks asked for more episodes so they could market it overseas, they threw together ten more “filler episodes.� Why am I blathering about a 30-year-old British TV show in a Lost recap?
1. Any Lost fan would love The Prisoner (rent the DVD's. You won't be disappointed.)
2. This week's Lost is a perfect example of one of those filler episodes where we spend an hour learning about Charlie's drug addiction, his brother and his freaky obsession with Claire's island baby, and not much else.
But first lets hit the net and see whats brewing.
For those who think they know everything there is the daily Lost quiz here.
Some guy cobbled together a complete Lost timeline starting with the birth of Locke's mother all the way up through last weeks episode here. In his spare time, of which there is apprently an abundance of, he paints Dungeons and Dragons miniatures.
The official website of the creative team behind Lost is called The Fuselage and can be found here.
Not much else going on, but if you hear anyhting drop me a line here and I'll see if it warrants a mention in my next recap.
The show opens with Charlie dreaming of Christmas Day in England back in that wonderful decade known as the eighties, where Mr. T wandered the land pitying the fools and respecting his momma. Charlie, our lovable Hobbit/heroin junkie is a small child racing downstairs to open his presents. While his brother gets a sweet ass Voltron toy, Charlie can’t find any of his presents. Then his mother tells him that his present is right here, and uncovers a brand new piano just for him. Voltron is still cooler. As he starts to play he turns and looks at his brother who is now the modern day druggie version, who warns him “You can't save us if you don't play�. Then we see a flash forward to Charlie playing the piano being berated by his butcher father telling him that music will never get him anywhere. Then his mother and brother both tell Charlie to “save us�. From here we see Charlie playing the piano on the island in the surf. He hears a baby crying and stops. It’s Aaron and he’s stuck inside the piano. Sure, why not. He tries to free him but he can't and the piano is washed out to sea. Cut to now where Charlie wakes up from his dream. And what a dream it was. It had everything but a backwards speaking midget. Charlie does have more interesting dreams than I do I have to admit. The last dream I had I was chasing Dustin Hoffman for stealing my nacho’s.
Once Charlie wakes up he then runs over to Claire’s tent and when he doesn’t see the baby freaks out screaming at everyone to tell him where the baby is. He then sees that the baby is OK and finally calms down, but not after seeing Locke with her, making Charile irrationally jealous. Charlie is a bit of an odd bird to think that his bizarre dream was actually real. You don’t see me waking up after a dream running down my apartment hallway screaming for Dustin to give me back my nachos. That’s because I am smart enough to realize that something that weird is just a dream, and that even if it wasn’t, I always keep a spare bag of nachos hidden for just such an occasion.
Later Charlie stops by Claire with some fresh “nappies� which in non sissified America speak means diapers. He’s trying to get back in with Claire but she won’t have anything to do with it. He can’t understand why the lying heroin addict isn’t allowed around her baby. Go figure. When he tells her that he wants things back to the way they were before she cuts him off saying that there is no before, “We were strangers on a plane and we became friends.� To that Charlie then says “Now Locke's your friend, huh?� Way to go Charlie. Nothing wins back a girl than paranoid jealousy.
In flashback we see Charlie at a maternity ward looking at a baby we soon find out is his brothers. When his sister in law comes up to him wondering where the father is, Charlie says he got delayed. When Charlie goes home to his super hip London apartment he sees his strung out brother sitting in the couch high on heroin. He starts yelling at him telling him that he is a father now and needs to get to the hospital, because he's acting like a bloody wanker bollocks pisser who done buggered off after being a right gobbin. Bob's your uncle.
Back on the island Hurley is asking Sawyer questions about the tailies. Libby in particular. Hurley you see has a burning in his loins for Libby. Sawyer picks up on this and starts teasing him. Then he notices that Jack and Ana Lucia are getting all pally wally in the jungle. He tells Kate trying to get a rise out of her but it doesnt get him anywhere.
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