Physical Graffiti - 
by EdHIll
The lovely and talented Kat has taken a brief sabbatical for the next few weeks so she has graciously passed her duties of Lost recapping onto me. I of course am thrilled because I was getting sick of having her episodes be the ones where all the good stuff happens and then I get stuck with the lame “Charlie does drugs” filler junk. And after last weeks preview I knew this episode was going to be a good one. I was of course right. All sorts of great stuff happened this week. The preview however said that there were "five things" that were going to happen in this episode that will shock us all, but I gotta tell ya, after seeing it I wasn't sure which 5 they were talking about. Like, when Locke told the woman in the flashback that her house showed no signs of dry rot. Was that one of the five things? Who knows. All I know is it was a crackling good episode. Shocking revelations, a huge mystery finally solved, and a new one rearing its ugly head, leaving us Lost nerds emotionally spent.
And seeing as how I literally spent about twenty minutes on my hands and knees staring at a freeze frame of this episode on my 51-inch television to try and find a clue, I finally realized that no matter how much I like to make fun of Lost geeks, I am one of them.
Hey it could be worse. I could be a Scientologist.
But before we recap, a brief walk around the internerd.
I would like to give a shout out to Lost commenter USNRNPage for giving us this link that reveals in detail all the whispers that we here whenever the Others make an appearance. Apparently someone who has surround sound not only transcribed the whispers, but listed in what speaker they came from. That is some true geek awesomeness. A warning however, if these whispers are true, they are highly spoiler-filled, so don’t read if you don’t want to know.
Lost: the Musical. A parody from the Jimmy Kimmel show. Unfortunately you need the downright evil RealPlayer to view it.
The spoilerfix.com website is a great place to go if you are the kind of guy who gets the Far Side daily calendar and reads all 365 cartoons on January 1st. If you get some good spoilers from there, a warning. Keep them out of the comments, or I will be forced to make you read my Desperate Housewives recaps, and nobody wants that.
An article on MSNBC about Locke that’s somewhat interesting, including all sorts of speculation about the mystery man.
That's about it. Of course if you hear of anything interesting drop me a line, and I will try and get it in the next recap.
The episode this week starts, as it almost always does, in flashback mode. We see Locke, with more hair, looking at the wedding ring he just bought. Soon he will ask Katey Sagal’s Helen to marry him and then someday they will be Married…. With Children. HAHA! Get it!? Ahem. Locke has it all planned out. A picnic lunch with the ring wrapped in a handkerchief. As Helen goes down to read the obits in the paper over breakfast (something my mother does too for some reason) she sees that Locke’s father, Anthony Cooper, the one who stole his kidney, is dead.
Back in the hatch the show starts off exactly where we left off last week with Henry Gale making an ominous threat about him setting up an ambush for Sayid, Charlie, and Ana Lucia. Jack tells him to draw the map again. Henry immediately starts backing down saying it was just a joke and he’s sorry he said anything. Locke tells Jack not to bother since it’s already too late, they left hours ago. Jack tells Locke to put Gale back in the armory and storms off. Henry, sensing an opportunity to push some buttons, asks Locke, “Why do you let him talk to you like that?” The button-pushing works and Locke grabs him and hurls him into the armory in a fit of rage. Locke has issues with being bossed around.
In the jungle Sayid and Ana Lucia are searching the open field in the pouring rain but haven’t found anything. They hear Charlie yell out. When they find him he is standing over a grave. Then they notice the rain isn’t coming down where they are standing and when they look up they see… a huge hot air balloon with a big smiley face on the top, just like Henry said. Whatever, he’s still a filthy Other.
This proves nothing
On the beach jack is asking around where Ana Lucia is. Hurley says that she left with Sayid yesterday. Libby then asks Jack to look at her hand which she hurt in the surf. When Jack says she needs some Neosporin, she says that the “going rate” is ten loads of laundry and then points to Sawyer who is playing cards on the beach. Sawyer of course is the man that stole the guns and the medicine and is selling them to the highest bidder, all the while being an arrogant prick. Why the other castaways don’t just string him up and force him to give back what he stole is beyond me.
In the hatch Locke is trying to burn off his rage on the bicycle machine, with some music blaring. Before he can move onto the Thighmaster, he hears something. Static noise in the background. When he goes to turn off the music he hears it even more clearly. There is a voice in the static and its coming from the speakers. He tries to fix the speaker and gets huge feedback. A quick cut to Henry Gale in the armory and we can hear a woman’s voice say something but I didn’t make it out. Anyone out there hear what she said?
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