The show starts as they always do, the moment after the last episode's cliffhanger moment. There's a boat right offshore. Now that Ana Lucia and Libby's two-minute funeral is over, everyone rushes to the beach, excited at the prospect of being saved. The holy hunky trinity of Sawyer, Jack and Sayid all take their shirts off and start swimming out to it. When they get on board they can hear some inside. As they approach the cabin hatch they see it's locked. Too bad Locke isn't there; the man specializes in opening hatches of all shapes and sizes. Then whoever is inside starts shooting at them, ripping holes in the cabin door. Jack pulls out his gun, and working together they open the hatch. It's Desmond, the former button-pusher, piss drunk on Dharma vodka (it's like Popov vodka, only not as good).

That night in camp, things are buzzing. At the huge outdoor dinner pavilion (where exactly did this thing come from?) everyone can't stop talking about the boat. Yet another testament to the enduring memory of Ana Lucia and Libby. Jack is alone with Desmond, who is still drunk. "Why did you come back?" Jack asks him. Desmond starts laughing. He didn't come back. He's been sailing for two weeks. He should be in Fiji right now, but instead he found himself back at the island. "There is no outside world! We are stuck in the snow globe brotha." Well if that's true they better start picking the mates soon. No one wants to get the short end of the stick and be forced to have kids with the ugly people. As Jack gets up to leave, Desmond asks him one last question. "You still pushing it?" "Yeah, were still pushing it." Jack says and walks off.

From here we cut to our final flashback of the year (it made me so sad to type that). It's Desmond. He is getting released from military prison, for a crime he didn't commit. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire: THE A-TEAM! Sorry. I got caught up in the moment there... Anyway, as Desmond is being given back his possessions, we see the picture that he had in the hatch of him and a woman. And then he hands him a book, Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens. When the guard asks him why he didn't bring it in to jail with him, he tells him that he wants that to be the last thing he reads. I feel the same way about The Godfather. I love those movies so much and want to wait until right before I die to watch the majesty that is The Godfather: Part III. The last thing I do on this earth will be savoring its genius, so nobody give anything away! With that the guard officially releases "David Desmond Hume" from prison with a dishonorable discharge. Of course we don't know why, but that will no doubt be revealed another day. If we don't ask, they won't tell.

When Desmond gets outside he sees a car waiting for him with a man in the back seat. He doesn't want to get in but he isn't given much choice. The man shows him two boxes. In one of them is his past, the other, his future. Then he has a red pill and a blue pill. If he wants to be set free, he must take the red pill. Or maybe that's the one that will make him smaller. I get confused. The box that is his past is filled with letters. Every letter he wrote to Penny Widmore. So I am now assuming this man is the long talked about Mr. Widmore of Widmore Industries. Widmore Industries, for those who don't know, has been popping up here and there throughout the series (and figures prominently in the book Bad Twin). Mr. Widmore tells Desmond that Penny has moved on and is getting married. He then shows him the box that is his future. It's filled with money. Not real money, but that goofy colored British money with the old lady on it. Widmore says he'll give Desmond this money if he agrees never to call or write to Penny again. When Desmond asks why he would do that, Widmore looks at him and says, "Because you're a coward". Desmond then wets his pants.

Posted by EdHIll on May 31, 2006 5:28 PM