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I’m going out on a limb this week and saying that Lost has really got it’s mojo back. The balance between adventure, humour and drama that it struck so well back in Season 1 and seemed to forget how to do in Season 2 has returned with consistency in the second part of this Season. Once again, the show seems to be firing on all cylinders and that’s good news for fans like me. The last few episodes have worked well on almost every level, so those of us who worried that maybe our Wednesday night love affair might be turning into a marriage of convenience can breathe a big sigh of relief. The fire really is back.
This week, we got a bunch of the elements that make Lost so much fun to watch: Previously unimagined connections, terror filled running through the jungle of death, Kate kickin’ ass, the return of the Smoke Monster, and awkward camp politics.
As a bonus, we even got an homage to buddy movies. All that was really missing was a car jumping a gorge at the end. Maybe Hurley’d lend Kate the Microbus….
More on running a good con, women in handcuffs, wet girlfights, and learning to say “I’m sorry” after the jump.
Kate finds herself in handcuffs in the Others’ recreation room. As she contemplates escape, she sees Juliette pass by a window, and decides to set an ambush. With a trusty pool cue and using the tried and true “Prisoner behind the door” trick, she gets ready to kick some Other ass. The door opens. Kate swings and misses as Juliette ducks out of the way. Like Jack before her, Kate underestimates Juliette, who proceeds to flip her effortlessly to the floor.
It’s really true what Kate told Lefty way back in Season 1. They really do listen to Patsy Cline everywhere. While “Walkin’ after midnight” plays in the background, we see that Kate’ s car has broken down and is going to take a couple of days to fix. She gives the name “Lucy” to the tow-truck driver. He drops her and her ailing vehicle at a gas station where a familiar face is running a familiar con. It’s Cassidy, the woman that Sawyer conned out of her life savings way back in the “Long Con” episode in Season 2. She’s trying to run the “hot necklaces, cheap” scam, but guy she’s picked as a mark isn’t buying it. In fact, he’s threatening to call the cops, which is what peaks Kate’s interest. We all know that darlin’ Kate has strong reasons to not be where the police are. To keep the savvy gent from calling the local constabulary, she jumps in, fakes jewelry expertise and buys one of the necklaces. The old guy gives up and walks away, much to both women’s relief.
When Cassidy asks Kate why she helped her, Kate claims it was just one gal helping another. Cassidy’s not buying that though. She figures out that Kate’s real motive in saving the day was to avoid a call to the police. She offers a ride in return for Kate buying her a drink.
Ah, girl-girl bonding.
Back in her makeshift cell in the recreation room, Kate is idly handling the pieces of a backgammon set when Locke enters the room. Oddly, he’s not shackled. She’s understandably a bit confused, asking if they captured him too.
“Yes, but only temporarily.”
He’s come to say goodbye, which confuses poor Kate even further. She fears that Locke has been brainwashed. It seems that Locke has thrown his lot in with the Others and is voluntarily leaving with them, while Jack and Kate are going to have to be left behind. Locke tried to make a case for her, apparently, telling the Others that she was a good person, but then they told him who she was and what she’d done.
“Forgiveness isn’t one of their strong suits.”
Not only did I just blow up a submarine and side with The Others,
but I just saved a ton of money by switching to Geico.
On the beach, Sawyer has put the Agatha Christie away and is once again reading Watership Down. Hurley walks by and gives the con man a kick to get his attention. The big man has come to warn him that the group is considering voting to banish him from the camp because of his selfish and disrespectful behavior. He suggests that perhaps Sawyer could make amends before it comes to that.
“I don’t do ‘amends’.”
“You might want to ask yourself about all the good stuff that comes from being a part of this…society. I mean you can’t even feed yourself. You use our latrines, you drink the water that Steve brings every morning to the trough…”
(*Detail detective side note. Sawyer was reading “Watership Down” WAY back in Season 1, in a couple of episodes, most notably in “White Rabbit” which is the episode when Jack gives his “Live together, die alone” speech. Watership Down is about a group of bunnies trying to find a home, and it is heavy with themes of home and building a working society, with home and society defined not only as a place of shelter, but one of happiness where the bunnies can live, grow, play and find spiritual harmony together. Agatha Christie as they investigated the mysterious deaths of Nikki and Paulo, Watership Down as Hurley tries to keep Sawyer from being banished from his home…*)
Sawyer blows the whole idea off, throwing in a “You sir, Hugo, are rotund, annoying and you’re ruining my damn view.”
Hurley tries to warn him that he’s making a big mistake by not doing more to work within their “society”.
Flies are buzzing around the remains of Kate’s sandwich as she lies on the floor. As she reluctantly gives in to hunger, she hears a commotion outside. The Others seem to be preparing to leave, just as Locke inferred they were going to. She watches helplessly as they don gas masks and start leaving, but before they leave, they take the time to toss a gas canister into the room with her. Panicking, she tries frantically to wrench the window open, but the gas overcomes her before she has the chance.
In another room, with a different pool table in the background, Cassidy asks Kate her name. When she hesitates, Cassidy calls her on it.
“Next time somebody asks you, don’t think about it.”
“I didn’t…”
“Not even for a second.”
Let’s all take a moment to enjoy the unexpected, but ever-so-cool, fact that some of Kate’s survival skills flow from Sawyer to Cassidy to her. Of course, training in the fine art of deception isn’t the only thing of his that both these gals have enjoyed…
Ah, girl-girl bonding.
Cassidy wants to know why Kate is trying to avoid the law. Kate tells her about killing her step-father, because he was a “Bad guy,” and how she’s in Iowa to see her Mom. Cassidy figures that “Lucy” hasn’t got a chance of seeing her Mom, since the Feds are going to be watching her too closely for “Lucy” to have a chance in hell of getting to see her without getting caught. Cassidy offers to help, because she fell in love with the wrong guy. He conned her, embarrassed her, took her life savings and he too was a “Bad guy”, so she figures at least one of them deserves something good.
In the jungle, Kate slowly wakes up. Looking around, she finds herself still handcuffed, only not the way she was. Now she’s cuffed to someone else.
Juliette.
Ah, girl-girl bondage.
On the beach, Sawyer is doing his best to prove Hurley wrong and feed himself. He’s fishing. Down the beach, Jin and Sun are bringing in a net full of fish. When he tries to nod a polite greeting to Sun, she glares daggers back at him.
“Ain’t gonna get the Korean vote.”
He does actually manage to catch a fish. He even makes an incompetent attempt to gut and clean it.
Failing miserably at the task of feeding himself, Sawyer goes hat in hand to Hurley, asking the big man’s guidance in making amends and avoiding banishment.
“Dude, you stink.”
Is it just me….
The first thing that Hurley asks of him is an apology for the names he’s called him.
“I’m really sorry I called you rotund.”
“Really?”
“Ah, God, you’re worse than a girl. C’mon, let’s spread the love…”
Speaking of Sawyer and his love spread, cut back to Kate and her new partner in the Island’s first annual three-legged race. She spies a knife in Juliette’s pocket and carefully extracts it. Before she has a chance to do anything with it, Juliette grabs her by the wrist and demands to know what she’s doing there.
Eventually, she lets Kate’s wrist go and watches as her former captive goes to work on the cuff lock with the knife. The blade is too large to jimmy the lock with, so for the moment, they’re stuck. Kate asks what happened to Juliette.
“I was making a cup of tea, canister came in through the window.”
“So, what’d you do to piss ‘em off?”
I guess the Others really don’t like tea.
Kate wants to go back to the village and try to find Jack and Sayid. She tells Juliette about Locke coming to say goodbye and what he said about the Others leaving. Juliette seems genuinely puzzled when she asks where the Others went.
“Welcome to the wonderful world of not knowing what the hell is going on.”
A woman wearing Kate’s hat, Kate’s hair and jacket walks up to a building, dragging a case on wheels behind her.
(*Kate fan side note. Full points for getting the walk right, but the second she came into the frame, I KNEW it wasn’t Evangeline Lilly dragging that case. I’d know that ass a mile away.*)
When she knocks on the door, Kate’s Mom answers. The two women stare at each other for a moment and then all hell breaks loose.
Kate’s nemesis, the Marshall is there, gun drawn, ready to haul his prize back to prison, only it’s not Kate, but Cassidy, posing as a door to door bible saleslady. Through a pair of binoculars, Kate watches the scene unfold.
When Cassidy returns to Kate’s hotel room, she wants to know why seeing her Mom would be worth risking running the gauntlet of all those cops and a Marshall with a personal grudge against her. Kate explains that her Mom was the one who turned her in, despite the fact that she killed her drunk, wife beating step-father after setting up a nice fat insurance policy so her Mom would be taken care of. Seems that Mamma Austen chose Wayne over Kate in the end and Kate wants to know why.
In the jungle, Kate is trying to follow the trail the Others left when they dragged the two of them out into the trees. Juliette looks up and in a very “Locke” like tone tells Kate that it’s going to rain (Well, of course it’s going to rain. Two women are about to slug it out and there isn’t any other way that they can get wet out here in the middle of nowhere…) and suggests they wait until morning to get back to the village.
When it starts to rain, Juliette stops them and tells Kate that she hopes that she’s not going back just for Jack. Juliette’s little tirade sends Kate over the edge and she throws the first punch.
“Hey remember when I said, maybe we should wait because it looked like rain??”
I’ve been waiting to see Kate get into a good rain soaked jungle rumble since they introduced Ana Lucia, way back when. Gotta love a show that knows its audience.
Dear LOST Fans,
You’re Welcome,
- J.J. Abrams
After lots of punching, kicking, flipping and rolling around on the muddy ground, Kate gets the upper hand, landing on top of Juliette and twisting her arm painfully behind her back. She exerts a bit too much pressure and manages to dislocate Juliette’s shoulder with a sickening crunch.
As the blond doctor writhes on the ground in agony, Kate hears a sound even more chilling than the dislocating shoulder joint made. That’s right, Smokey is out there somewhere and by the sounds of it, that somewhere isn’t very far away.
Helping Juliette to her feet, the two women pelt headlong into the jungle, trying to put distance between them and the Island’s Big Bad. When it becomes obvious that they can’t out run Smokey, Kate finds a bamboo stand for them to hide in. She clamps her hand over Juliette’s mouth to keep the blond woman’s cries of pain and panicked questions from giving away their position.
Smokey doesn’t need to hear them to find them though. It comes right up to their hiding place and then exhibits some new behavior. Four quick flashes of blinding light happen in succession and then it backs off into the jungle, leaving the two women shaken but intact.
Was it taking pictures? Dosing them with radiation? Some kind of psychic scan? Trying to see through their wet shirts?
Back in camp, Hurley is coaching Sawyer through the foreign territory of being truly kind to people. He wants Sawyer to make nice with Claire, since she’s influential and her vote will go a long way to tipping the vote in favour of letting Sawyer remain in the camp. Sawyer figures that since he never did anything bad to Claire, there’s no reason for her not to want him to stay.
“Naw, but you never did anything good for her either. And have you ever even asked how Aaron is?”
“Well, I know how he is. He cries loud and he smells.”
“See, that’s what I’m talkin’ about. You’re sarcastic. People don’t like that.”
(*Character development side note. Didn’t it seem odd that an accomplished con man would need coaching on how to be nice to people? Sure, it’s not his nature, but you’d think it would at least be one of his skill sets…*)
After Hurley’s instructions, Sawyer approaches Claire and makes a really awkward “nice guy” overture.
“I just came by to say your baby’s…he’s not as wrinkly as he was a couple of weeks ago…”
Claire accepts the compliment and the blanket, earning Sawyer a thumbs up from Hurley.
Back in the stand of bamboo, once they decide that they’re safe, Riggs Getz Murtaugh to help her pop her shoulder back in. If those two ever get on the same side, they’ll make a real Lethal Weapon.
Sorry, I couldn’t resist.
While they are about the business of popping Juliette’s shoulder back together, Kate learns that her little soul (and other bits) bearing episode with Sawyer was caught on camera and seeing it broke Jack’s heart and that’s why Jack told her not to come back, not because he was trying to save her.
Sawyer has partnered up with Desmond, of all people, and the two of them are out boar hunting. Desmond is understandably curious why Sawyer would want to be his new hunting partner. It seems that Sawyer has figured out that with money not being worth anything on the island, meat is the currency of bribes. And he has a mess of people to bribe.
Sawyer:
“Whatever, Sanjaya straight hair is waaaay better than Sanjaya wavy hair, pfft.”
After a quick shot of Kate and Juliette waking and heading off to find the Others’ Village, cut to a diner where Kate’s Mom is serving chili to Cassidy. As she walks away, Cass slides the bowl to the edge of the table so that when Mamma Austen passes her a quick flip spills it all over her. Mamma Austen heads to the Ladies’ Room to fix the damage. She’s stopped cold when Kate walks in.
(*Side note. Is it just me or did Mamma Austen look freakishly like Juliette in this scene?*)
Kate asks her question.
“I wanna know why you told them what I did to Wayne.”
“I thought maybe you came because you wanted to say you were sorry.”
“I’m not sorry.”
Mamma Austen explains that despite the fact that Wayne used to beat her, she loved him.
Kate killed the man she loved. That’s why she told the police what Kate had done. Because Kate is her daughter, she’s not going to tell her two police shadows that Kate is there, but she warns her that if she ever sees her again, the first thing she’ll do is yell for help. That’s a promise we’ve already seen her keep.
Walking through the jungle, Kate and Juliette discuss Jack. Kate figures that Juliette doesn’t really know Jack. Juliette knows a bit about him.
This moment was soooo Laguna!
“I know where he was born. I know what his parents did for a living. I know that he was married and who he was married to. I know why he got a divorce. I know how his father died. I know his height, his weight and his blood type. What do you know about him, Kate?”
Forget “Love Triangles”. We’re into Quadratic Equation territory. I can’t keep track anymore.
Fortunately for Kate, Smokey chooses that moment to reappear, forcing the she-cats in chains to sheath their claws and run like hell. During their flight, they fall face first into a nice slimy mud puddle. Too bad Smokey’s on their collective tails or we might have been able to enjoy round three, this time in the mud. Alas, they are forced to continue running. Spectator sports will have to wait for another time.
A short run from the mud, they run up against the Others fence posts. I hesitate to call them the “sonic” fence posts, since I’m not certain they are sonic in nature. Whatever they are, Juliette tries to convince Kate that it’s safe to cross them, because they’re off. When Kate refuses to budge, Juliette pulls out a handcuff key and unlocks her cuff and crosses the fence line, leaving a stunned Kate lying on the ground.
With some coaxing, Kate too crosses the fence line, just in time for Juliette to activate it and save them both from Smokey.
Note to self, dont smoke before roaming in the jungle.
“Alright. We don’t know what it is, but we know it doesn’t like our fences.”
While she’s probably grateful that Juliette just saved her life, Kate’s pissed that she’s been played for a fool.
Wacthu talkin’ ’bout Julie??
“You had a key.”
“They left me behind, too. They gassed me. I know that you don’t care, but the people I spent the last three years of my life with, they just left me. I thought that maybe, maybe if I could make you think that we were in it together, maybe I wouldn’t get left behind again.”
Kate snags Juliette’s key, takes off the remaining cuff and heads off towards the village without a look back. Juliette, left with few options, follows.
On the beach, Sawyer is playing host, chef and waiter to the camp. Sawyer reminds Charlie to remember his hospitality when the time comes for him to vote. Charlie hasn’t got a clue what Sawyer is talking about. Slowly, realization dawns that the con man has himself been conned. Let’s see. Jack, Kate, Ben and now Hurley have all gotten the better of Sawyer by playing his own game against him. When he confronts Hurley about it, Hurley denies that it was actually a con. He just wanted to help Sawyer cement himself in his new, if unsolicited, role as leader. With Jack, Kate, Locke and Sayid gone, Sawyer is IT.
“Look around. You made everyone happy. Just for today, they can eat boar, laugh and forget that they’re totally screwed. And you did that for ‘em, dude.”
“What if I don’t wanna be the leader?”
“Well, I don’t think Jack wanted it either. Sucks for you, dude.”
Don’t look now, but that makes Hurley the power behind the throne. Big throne.
Dude, Leggo my giant dead boar carcass.
As some soft music plays in the background, Sawyer sees the peace and contentment he’s brought to the camp and seems to accept his new role. He even takes baby Aaron in his arms for the first time, to the delight of Claire. He catches Sun’s eye…
Still not getting the Korean vote.
At the Other’s village, Juliette volunteers to go find Sayid while Kate gets Jack.
Now, I’m just a guy, so I might not be reading this right, but I got the sense that this was one woman lording her superiority over another, rather than a magnanimous gesture on Juliette’s part. More “You can try, but he’s mine” than “Go ahead, I want you to have him”.
Kate bursts in to the room where Jack was staying, finding two gas canisters on the ground, which is likely why he’s still unconscious a full day later than the two women who were exposed to the fresh air and only a single canister each.
She shakes him awake and explains that the Others have gone, leaving them behind. She tells him that she came back to help him and she’s so sorry that because of her, he’s lost his one chance to go home.
“I’m sorry. I’m so sorry.”
“God I miss Party of Five”
Jack asks if Juliette went too.
“No. They left her too.”
“Why?”
“You know her better than I do.”
“Now what?”
“Now? Now we go back.”
Kate helps him up and outside.
Back in the world, Cassidy drops Kate at her freshly repaired car. Kate asks for the name of the guy who ripped her off, so she can try and repay the favours that Cassidy has done for her by finding him and punishing him somehow.
Instead of giving Kate the name of the con man (How weird would it be if Kate had known who Sawyer was all along?) Cassidy instead tells her that she’s pregnant with the guy’s baby.
Kate’s advice is to go to the cops and get the guy locked up, but Cassidy wonders if Kate will ever be able to forgive her own Mother for doing that to her.
Kate’s answer is no.
In their last moments together, Kate shares her real name with her friend.
Anyone want to bet that’s not all they’ve now got in common?
Kate and Jack leave the house to find Juliette waiting for them. Sayid joins them, explaining that he can find no sign of where the Others have gone.
“It’s like fifty people disappeared into thin air.”
As they start off towards their camp, Sayid objects to Juliette’s presence.
“She is not coming with us.”
“Yes, she is.”
“Why?”
“Because they left her behind, too”
Along with bets about Kate’s oven and possible bun, I’m taking bets that Jack lives to regret that command decision.
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Eh, I thought it was a decent episode, but nothing great.
Juliet’s story is all kinds of weird, did she carry an unconscious Kate across the jungle, handcuff herself to her, and then fall asleep? Did she break into Kate’s room and handcuff herself to Kate, lose consciousness, and then get carried by someone else into the jungle? Or maybe she’s just a plant.
Glad to see the smoke monster again. How could she have never seen it before though?
I definitely think the Others took the underground tunnels somewhere. My little pet theory is that their project on the Alcatraz island is complete. It would seem kinda silly for there to be yet another encampment.
As of right now, I’m more interested to see where Locke and Others are going than to go back to the beach with the rest of the gang.
Maybe the beach gang will all take a ride in Hurley’s minivan and relocate to the Others’ empty commune.
Yay! PO5 reference!
Another great recap, Greybishop! Yep, I do agree that Lost is back on track this season and I’m lovin’ it!
I loved it when Hurley conned Sawyer into playing nice with his fellow Losties. And the smile on Sawyer’s face (a sincere, happy smile) was priceless. I almost melted into my couch!
I don’t believe for one second that Juliete was gassed and dumped in the jungle with Kate. That woman has an agenda, I’m just not sure exactly what it is yet….
And Locke joining up with the Others! Wow. He has an agenda, too. That ought to be really interesting….
I don’t know about Kate being pregnant, but I definitely think that Juliette’s motive is to get pregnant by Jack. I posted that on Ask Kristin and they totally deleted it! I wonder if I’m right..
I thought this episode stank. If it had come in season 1, I might have been OK with it. But after so much suckiness this season, I need waaaaaaaay more than a girls-wrestling-in-mud version of The Defiant Ones to get me back. Yes, Juliet’s story sucks (good points, Merick.) No, Anonimous, given this show’s sterling continuity, you can’t expect to see Locke’s dad probably for another six months to a year at least. Yes, it would make sense for the Losties to move into the compound, so of course they will NOT do it. And the whole Sawyer-Hurley idiot game? If Charlie looks so surprised at the idea of anyone voting on anything, just who chose Sawyer as their new leader anyway? I would personally think Sun would be a much better choice…
My theory is that the “project” the others were working on was a chance for every one of them to have a child. Now that they’ve acquired some new children, and some are dead, and Ben’s tumor is out, they have filled their quota and can move on. Just a thought.
This was a decent episode, and I definitely think that Juliette is a plant. Sayid is already suspicious, and in the previews for next week, you see him threatening her if she doesn’t tell him what he wants to know. Could be setting up a confrontation between him and Jack if he tries to torture her.
BTW, it looks like Naveen Andrews is in ‘Grindhouse,’ the new Tarantino splatterfest.
I thought that this episode got us back on track after that stupid pointless episode last week. I really hope that they reveal the whole Locke’s Dad cliffhanger sometime soon. But the fact that they were able to get them there seems to suggest that they might be lying about their ability to leave the island and come back whenever they want. Even if the sub is destroyed. This makes me think that there might be a higher authority on the island we havent met yet. Maybe theres a complex in the middle of the island that controls everything and they want the castaways to think that they are trapped when really there is a way to leave right in front of them. I think that these revelations might be the cliffhanger of season 3 or maybe theyll reveal the location of the island from the season 2 finale. Is it in the Antarctic? Is it some kind of bubble that sustains life when the outside is a frozen wasteland. Who knows, the Dharma scientists could have succeeded at this “experiment”. Also has anyone noticed that there is a pattern of bad father figures in the show. Kates stepdad was a drunk who beat her mom, Suns dad was controlling and masterminded her lovers death, Hugo’s Dad abandoned him, Claire’s Dad left her as a baby, and was abusive, cold and unaccepting of Jack. Sawyers dad killed his mom, and Charlies Dad never believed in him as a musician. Lockes Dad conned him and pushed him out a hotel window, paralyzing him. I mean i think the writers have some father figure issues they need to express. Also isnt it weird how most of the people that have died have been women? Colleen, Ana Lucia, Libby, “Mrs Clue”, Shannon, the new blonde girl (spider bite), girl who drowned season 1, etc. I mean theres only three main female characters at the beach camp and one of the others. And why are so many of them blonde? Could Juliette be Kates mother when she was young? Is that why they look so alike? Is this some kind of time capsule? I dont trust Juliette I think she is a plant and has already lied to them (smoke monster, handcuffs, manipulating Jack.) I mean why would they leave her to possibly join forces with the castaways? Or divulge their secrets? I think that there is brainwashing goin on with those subliminal videos we saw Alex’s bf watch. I think that was what the flight attendant that was captured in Ana Lucias group meant when she said “were here to watch” outside jacks cage. I think these people are smart and rich and are creating some kind of utopia and need some new people to join. Should be interesting to hear Juliettes explanations of whats going on next episode. She must know a lot since it seemed she was semi-high up on the chain of command before they turned on her for helping Jack. When will they show Rousseaus reunion with Alex?
EvilDave: I completely agree that Juliette is a plant. What, did she somehow get gassed by the same stuff as Kate, but wake up significantly earlier, drag Kate into the jungle and handcuff herself to her? I hope the writers don’t come up with some bullshit to explain all that away.
takingbacksunday: I love your idea of Juliette trying to get preggo w/ Jack’s baby. They’re all obsessed with babies/pregnancy, and she’s a fertility doctor… also pointing to her still breaking bread w/ Ben & the gang.
My Lost-watching-buddy completely disagrees with me on almost every point, but I say:
- Juliet is definitely still bad – and by bad I mean an other.
- Locke is still good (and, if you haven’t caught on yet, by good I mean “not an other”), because I have faith… I think he is infiltrating. However, this is shaky because they’ve been hinting that locke is bad since like episode 2. However, he’s going with them because they have his dad. That’s been like his priority 1 in life, before the island and now… he’s obsessed, of course he’ll go.
- Jack still loves Kate
- Sawyer is awesome
- have we all just agreed that locke’s dad is also the real Sawyer (who killed our Sawyer’s parents?) Because that seems pretty straightforward, albeit a little obvious.
- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE WHISPERING? I was sick and re-watched season 1 and now I’m dying to know what the f that was… they better explain it.
Jason A: Kate and Juliet are the same age and the producers have said there is no time travel involved. Also, there is a higher authority, it’s “Jacob”, I assume. Or “him”, if “he” is not Jacob. But they are referenced often by the others.
Mo: Sawyer is the obvious new leader, because they have made it clear that the group we have been watching is not just who WE have been focusing on, but who have actually been the most vocal and active in the camp… ie Nikki saying that they felt left out… clearly these are the people who have been taking charge. Then consider who is gone (As Hurley did): Kate, Jack, Sayid, Locke (and I guess Michael)… Hurley, Charlie, Claire, Rose (who might be dead?) are not physically strong enough to be seen as a comfort, and Jin doesn’t speak English. Sawyer is left… and despite being sort of a dick, he has always been around and relatively useful in conflicts.
Ok ok… I have way more because I’ve done nothing for 2 days but re-watch season 1, but I’ll end now. Please discuss, I love talking about this show.
ok one more
Merick: Juliet was lying about not seeing the smoke monster before… already giving herself away as bad. Because when she turned on the fences she said something, but basically like that she knew the fences stopped it.
Also, after the flashes from the monster, I was SURE that Juliet said to Kate “Who is he?” and Kate said “you tell me” or something like that… am I wrong? Can someone with Tivo and/or closed captioning confirm/deny for me?
Great recap, GB!
I didn’t like the whole Hurley cons Sawyer plotline. Like you said, Sawyer has already proven he knows how to pretend to be nice when he cons people. Plus he always seems to have his guard up so he definitely isn’t that gullible. He already held Aaron when he was a few days old, so why would he be that nervous now that the baby is older? And are we supposed to forget that Sawyer’s voice was the only thing that would stop Aaron from crying? I know it wasn’t supposed to be that serious & was just a little cutesy side story, but the writers should at least be consistent.
I agree with all of your points, Mallory. As for what Juliet said to Kate: when they first heard the noise, Juliet asks “What was that?” After they hide, she says “What the hell -” & Kate covers her mouth, then after the flashes, Juliet aks “Are we safe?” then Kate says “You tell me.”
Oh, wait – there was more after the commercial break:
Juliet: Do you think it’s gone? Are we safe?
Kate: Are you serious? You’ve never seen that?
Juliet: If you don’t believe me, you could always pull my other shoulder out of its socket.
Then they go on about the shoulder & Jack.
One more point. The blast door mentioned the name Cerberus (primary nexus of Cerberus related activity). Cerberus was the 3 headed dog who guarded the underworld in Greek mythology. I thought of that when the monster appeared, because it had split into 3 parts.
Just a thought.
Kate’s story was a yawn to me, though we pretty much can deduce from it that Locke’s dad is Sawyer’s Sawyer?
I don’t know why I knew Hurley’s ploy almost immediately, but it sussed out real nice, so I wasn’t annoyed. My impression is that Sawyer had a hard time with each of the tasks Hurley assigned (a clue that it was a con) because, to me, the real task was not to pretend to be nice, Hurley wanted Sawyer to actually be nice. That’s why Hurley kept asking “doesn’t it feel good to make these people happy?” Hurley was fully aware of the hurdle Sawyer had to jump to actually connect to the rest of the castaways, especially if he was going to be the leader.
And, as far as I’ve read, no one has mentioned what might happen when Jack comes back to camp after Sawyer has assumed leadership. Could be trouble.
Also, there’s one person who might know where the Others went: Danielle. Last we saw, she was tailing her daughter. And the wild card in the mix is Alex’s boyfriend. I can’t believe he just vanished.
Locke being all wet made me think that the Others escaped by the sub which he’d just hidden, but then, why were the protective fences turned off (unless Juliet had done it while dragging Kate in the forest to stage an elaborate “don’t leave me behind” excuse)? It appears you can only type in the code from inside the fence. Did the Others go by land, maybe? Juliet would know since she was absolutely sure the fences were off when the nano cloud was chasing them.
Finally, a quibble. If Kate can climb a tree and get to the other side of the fence, howcum a flying black cloud couldn’t just… like… fly over, too?
Thanks for the recap, GB.
When you say that we already knew that Kate’s mom would call for help if she ever saw Kate again– how do we know this? I can’t remember what happened. Could someone fill me in, please?
As for wanting to know what happened to certain storylines– what the hell happened with those Russians on Antartica/the Arctic who “found something” for Penny Widmore once upon a time?
I hope we get answers next week but I’ll bet the scene we see with Sayid/Juliet in the preview is the episode cliffhanger at the end.
Again, wtg GB!
- ac
When you say that we already knew that Kate’s mom would call for help if she ever saw Kate again– how do we know this?
Cos in an an earlier flashback, Kate visits her dying mom in the hospital and mom cries “Help!”
The smoke “monster” isn’t a living creature with a hunger for killing. It’s machine, a guardian, and once it gets too close to the fences, it knows it’s supposed not to cross it. Plus, Juliet totally knows what it is because she’s trying to infiltrate the Losties. Her agenda is anyone’s guess.
I actually don’t think Juliet knows what the monster is. From the looks of her when they first heard it, I don’t think she had any idea what it was.
As for her… She could be a plant, but who knows.
Maybe she really did come up with that stupid sceme to get the trust of Kate. It would explain why she knew the fence was off.
But then again she did say Ben liked to play mind games, and putting her in to the Losties mix would certainly fufill that!
I loved it when Juliette kicked Kate’s ass.. even if it was in self defense for a split second.
GOD I’ve been waiting so long for someone to do it!
Kate is such a whiney stuck up BITCH! God I hate her.
Best episode ever would be if Kate, Charlie & Claire all got eaten by the smoke monster!
Kates backstory remined me more of Thelama and Louise
when juliette was going through that whole spiel about how well she knew jack, his height, weight, etc. was i the only one who thought the she was gonna say she knew his “shoe” size, too? lol
-babeblue
Alternate caption for Greybishop’s Locke “Geiko” photo:
“I’m not an Other, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.”
hee hee
If she doesn’t already know it babeblue, I think it’s only a matter of time. And if Kate finds out, it’s gonna be a bona fide “love square”, for a lack of a better term.
I also thought it was a great ep. Laughed so hard at the opening when Juliet was like “enjoy your sandwich” while it’s all over the floor.
I agree on the reading of Juliet going to look for Sayid first.
Show is def back on track, in my opinion.
Mallory – what Juliet said after she turned on the fence was “well, we don’t know what it is, but we know it doesn’t like our fence”. Now “we” could have meant she and Kate or it could have meant she & the others.
Just a random side note, I’m re-watching the first season, and in Episode 4 “White Rabbit”, in the scene where Jack’s daddy is all “Don’t try to be a hero”, he’s drinking whiskey.
Wonder if it’s MacCutcheon?
Normally I wouldn’t say anything, but the shot of that scene focused on the whiskey first. So, important? Perhaps.
And good recap, GB (=
Wow, my first comment!
Although this episode was pretty “meh” it sets the stage for some pretty awesome things to come. First off, there’s going to be a power struggle or upheaval at Camp Losties. They’ve been without Princess Jack for some time, and the first reaction will be to turn to him. However, the presence of Juliet is going to throw things off-kilter. The losties see her as The Other aka BAD GUY (gal, whatever) and I have the feeling Jack is not going to offer any explanation other than to yell yell yell that “we HAVE to trust her!” Jack is going to come off as being a fool to blindly trust The Other….this may be Juliet’s masterplan, to have the Losties lose faith in Jack.
So who steps up as Leader? Locke is gone, for now; Kate is in no position to take control because she’s just going to whine and pine. Sayid is too much of a foot soldier to be the leader. So Sawyer will become “leader” by default. Sayid is more than likely going to align himself with Sawyer since they both don’t trust Juliet. If Kate would wipe off her drool and take a stance with S and S, then we have the start of a cool coupe.
Oh, and one last thought; if Juliet’s goal was to dethrone Jack, then having Sawyer step up is just icing on her cake. Because we all know Sun (and Jin, maybe) don’t like Sawyer, and Sun might have it in her to do some revenge. Also, Locke could show up any moment with Daddy Sawyer and down will come Sawyer…
How DO the others know so much about the plane survivors? When the crash happened, the others ran from their homes in shock. Then Ethan was sent to get info. So they didn’t know about them at that time, I guess.
Eggo:
“Also, Locke could show up any moment with Daddy Sawyer and down will come Sawyer…”
Yeah, like, hypothetically… but Sawyer doesn’t know what ‘Sawyer’ from his past looks like… he never met him… so even if Locke showed up with his dad, it would require some serious coincidence and/or digging for anyone to realize that this was Sawyer.
Sharon:
The others knew plenty about each of the losties well before the crash even occurred. There were plants in both camps, the front and the tail, and they already had lists of everyones names. We don’t know enough to know how they have this information, that’s one of lost’s major secrets.
Kate tells Juliet that even though they are stuck together, they are going back. Juliet says ˜What?! They did this to us! Why would we go back?” Kate snaps back ˜You say “they” like you didn’t lock me in a cage and watch me break rocks all day!”. When she said this I literally stood up and did a slow clap. And I don’t mean in that lame way when people say “I literally shit my pants!” when they really didn’t literally shit their pants. (That is a David Cross Joke BTW, full disclosure). Anyways, I actually clapped. Goddamn Others on their high horses.
Anyways, if anyone is interested, my Lost recap should be up soon at http://www.midseasonsreplacement.com/. think of it as an apertif to Graybishops recap.