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Lost

By EdHIll | Thursday, March 30, 2006 | 6:09 pm | 66 Comments

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 Marriedâ€¦. 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 seeâ€¦ 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?

In the flashback Locke and Helen are at his father’s funeral. They are the only ones there but they do notice a few shifty guys in the distance and a car with tinted windows that drives off. Unless gravediggers these days dress like Italian gangsters, I feel we may see them again. When its time for Locke to speak, he simply looks at the casket and says “I forgive you.”

We then cut right back to the hatch. Henry is asking Locke what all the commotion is about. Locke just yells at him to shut up. The static then clears and we can hear a countdown. “8â€¦7â€¦6â€¦5…” When it reaches 1, giant steel doors descend around the entire living quarters. Before the last one closes Locke quickly grabs a crowbar and races, Indiana Jones style, to ram it under the last remaining door.

On the beach Hurley is paying Poker with Sawyer and Kate for papayas. Jack walks up and tells Hurley to fold. It seems Jack knows quite a bit about Poker and can tell Sawyer has the better hand. Sawyer, feeling his machoness threatened, goads Jack into joining the game, as opposed to going back to the hatch like he planned. Jack of course falls for it and the boys start to play.

In the hatch Locke is trying to use the crowbar to wedge the door open, but it won’t budge. Henry keeps asking what is wrong but Locke says everything’s OK. We then go right to the flashback where we See Locke at his job. This is before he was wheelchair-bound and working at the box factory, so now he is a house inspector. As he is finishing up his latest inspection he notices the car with the tinted windows is sitting across the street. He walks up to it and the window lowers to reveal Locke’s supposedly dead father, only not quite as dead. As they are talking things over in a bar we find out that he faked his death because he cheated 2 guys out of 700 thousand dollars. He needs Locke to go to a safe deposit box and get the money. As a reward he gets to keep 200 grand of it. If he does that he can meet him at a motel. Also, he just got an email from a Nigerian banker who needs a small fee to open an account so he can transfer 8 million dollars in frozen assets. If he does this he gets to keep 15%!! (As an aside check out this website from a guy who scammed a bunch of Nigerian scammers, it’s awesome.)

From here we cut right back to the hatch. Locke explains to Gale what happened. He says that he needs his help in order to get out. Gale says he will help him only on condition that, no matter what, he makes sure the others don’t hurt him. Locke, in a fit of stupidity, agrees. Then Gale says that if he can fit his entire palm over his face it means he has cancer. Locke then raises his hand over his face andâ€¦whammo! Gale punches him.

Back on the beach, Jack is cleaning up at poker. This gets Sawyer upset because he likes to think he is the most macho guy on the beach. Sawyer loses his last mangos and when Jack is about to walk away Sawyer then asks him to name his stakes, for one more hand. Jack tells him he wants all the medicine he stole from the armory. It is on, and Sawyer has just been served.

Gale and Locke are trying to get the door open using some metal bars as leverage. Once they force it up a few feet Gale jams the toolbox under it to keep it open. Locke then immediately tries to shimmy under the opening but once he puts his legs under the door the toolbox starts to collapse shoving a metal rod from the bottom of the gate into his leg. Gale quickly grabs the lifting weights and stacks them under the door to ease the pressure but Locke is stuck. Like Winnie the Pooh, only on a deserted island hatch, bald and with rage issues. Gale says they should wait for help to arrive but Locke says they don’t have time to wait. The computerâ€¦.

Didn’t this guy have an arrow through his shoulder like, 2 days ago?

In the flashback Locke is at the bank opening the safe deposit box. It is full of cash just like his father said it was. When he gets home he comes in the door and tells Helen that they are going to go out and celebrate, but it looks like that will have to wait as they have visitors. The oily gangster kind. One of them is even wearing a gold necklace over a black shirt. That’s always bad news. In fact I think one of them was the evil pimp from the Pat Benatar “Love is a battlefield” video.

Heartache to heartacheâ€¦we stand. No promises, no demandsâ€¦â€¦Love is a battlefield!

“Hey, how ya doin? My name’s Vinnie Stereotype. This is my associate, Joey Caricature.”

Anyways, they want to know if they’ve seen his dad since he died. Locke says no, but they still suspect him because of the way he was acting at his funeral. Helen then demands that they leave, but before they do they want to see what’s in his bag. He says its just some papers. They want to take a look anyway and when they empty it out it isâ€¦ just papers and stuff. And a huge vibrating dildo. Awwwkward! After they leave Helen looks at him and asks, “Were you lying to those men John?” Locke makes another big mistake and says no.

On the beach Sawyer is asking Jack where he learned to play poker. Jack says “Phuket,” which is pronounced “Poo-ket” and not the foul pronunciation you think it means you dirty, dirty reader.

In the hatch Gale asks “What does it do?” referring to the computer and the numbers. Locke says they aren’t exactly sure, but they have to enter the numbers every 108 minutes. Gale will have to go through the vent in the pantry to get to the computer room to enter in the numbers in time. When Gale gets up on the shelves in the pantry to grab onto the vent he slips and falls, whether on purpose we aren’t sure. As he hits the ground he is knocked out. Whether he is knocked out for real or faking it we aren’t exactly sure. What we are sure of is once he hits the ground unconscious we here the ticking of the clock. They have less than a minute.

On the beach the great poker standoff continues. We also learn that Sawyer is a veteran of numerous venereal diseases. Oh, good for him. Jack then bluffs Sawyer on the last and final hand and wins back all of the medicine. As he walks off Sawyer asks him why he didn’t ask for the guns as stakes. Jack just responds, in his best Charles Bronson imitation, that when he wants the guns, he’ll get the guns.

Back in the hatch the clock is ticking and Locke is screaming at Gale to wake up. Henry finally comes to and groggily starts back up into the vents again. After he disappears from view the beeping turns into the giant alarm. They have only seconds now. And since this show likes to give you dramatic blue balls, we of course cut right back to the flashback.

Locke is meeting with his father at the motel room with the money. As he is counting the money Cooper asks about the woman at the funeral. Who is she? Her name is Helen and he’s gonna ask her to marry her tonight Locke says. Cooper then sets down his take on the table. 200 grand. “I didn’t do this for them money” Locke says”. Then why did you do it?” asks Cooper. Locke just looks at him. He did it for his daddies love. Awwwwww. Too bad his dads a jagoff who doesn’t give crap about Locke or his love. Oh Locke, you stupid, stupid man.

When Cooper goes to leave the room he is greeted at the door by Helen, and shes pissed. She storms off. Locke tries to explain but she can’t believe that he lied to her. I can’t believe she didn’t trust him and followed him in secret so were all surprised. Helen accuses Locke of wanting his father’s love more than hers. As a last ditch effort, Locke gets on his knees and pulls out the ring and asks her to marry her. What a story for the grandkids huh? “Gramma how did grandpa ask you to marry him?” “Well children, he was giving his con artist father 700 grand and I caught him by following him to a seedy motel.” Gets me all choked up just thinking about it. Alas this was not meant to be as Helen just drives off, leaving Locke a crushed man. But a crushed man with 200 grand worth of coke and strippers ahead if him. Time to par-tay.

Back in the hatch things are getting tense. The alarm is getting louder, the lights are flickering. An then we hear it. The ruffling of the numbers resetting into the hieroglyphics, the whirr of the turbines. Did Gale get to it in time? Then the lights go out entirely. And what happens next is one of the coolest moments of the show. Blue emergency lights come on bathing the entire room in a blue luminescence. When Locke looks up at the emergency door that is crushing his leg he seesâ€¦ a giant map, written in invisible glow in the dark ink. This caused me to have yet another true TVgasm.

Now we only get a brief glimpse of it but I was able to find a giant high resolution screen shot here. Since what it says can be construed as highly spoiler filled, I will white out the text of the next few paragraphs. If you don’t want to know skip ahead, if you do, just highlight below to read.

OK, so now that the other readers who don’t want to know what happened are gone, we can finally talk about them behind their back. God what a bunch of losers! Am I right?! I bet they are all fat and smell bad too. Too bad they can’t be as cool as us.

The entire thing looks to be a map of all the other hatches on the island. Each hatch has its own symbol, with the hatch that Locke is in marked on the map with a giant “I am here” as the Swan facility. So far we’ve seen only 2 other hatches. The medical facility, with the symbol of the AMA (known as the staff of Aesculapius), and the hatch where the tailies were hiding which had a spear symbol. You will also remember that the tattooed shark from the ocean also had the Dharma spear symbol on its underside. From the map it looks like Desmond was able to find 3 other hatches and their related symbols. The medical facility has the words “the staff” written below it. The one at the top I think is the spear hatch but I cant be sure of because the top is cut off because Locke has the door jammed up a few feet. it has what looks to be the word “hexon”written on it as the name. The third hatch, one we’ve never seen, is directly to the left of the Swan hatch. It’s got an odd wavy symbol with a line and a dot in it and the name is smudged but it looks like the first few words are “nef”. There are then two more hatches that only have the writing “C4?” on them.

Along with the hatches there are other things marked on the maps. You can notice that Desmond drew the topogrophy faintly over the maps of the hatches, with rivers and mountains marked. THere are other rectangular markings as well, designated as “CV” and numbered with roman numerals. Apparently CV 1, 2 and 9 are right near the hatch, with a CV 4 near one of the mystery hatches.

Also there is writing all around the map. The only parts I can make out refer to the incident and the accident. One sentence says “Possible CV II ” inactive since accident” That’s all I can make out so far, but I’m sure there are people everywhere on the case.

Finally, the main point of the map is that all the hatches are designed in a giant hexagonal formation just like the Dharma symbol, and at the center of it all is the main facility, written in yellow, with a huge question mark. What is it?

OK, that’s all I could tell so far. Now let’s get back to the recap and those idiot non spoiler readers. Just everyone play it cool and don’t tell them what we talked about here.

OK, we’re back. Nothing to see here. Move along…

After only a few scant moments to read the map, the lights then come on and the blast doors retract. Locke then crawls into the computer room calling for Henry. He looks up at the timer which reads 107 minutes. Maybe Henry got there after all. He looks over and sees Henry. “You came back,” Locke says. “What did you think I was going to do? Leave you here?” Gale answers. Gale helps him to his feet and Locke thanks him for not leaving him there alone. NO! Locke! Don’t believe him! He’s a filthy Other! I just know it!

Out in the jungle its night time and we see Jack heading back to the hatch. Kate catches up with him and asks Jack if she can join him. She wants to take a shower. Jack lies and says that the plumbing is busted because of a cracked pipe. Kate then smiles and says she’s glad he beat Sawyer. Uh-oh, I sense some more flirting going on. Let’s just hope a black horse doesn’t come out of nowhere. That totally ruins the mood for her.

Well there is no horse but they do see something. Bright flashing in the distance. They go to investigate and they sere that the flashing is on top of a giant pile of Dharma food, attached to a parachute. A food drop. But how? Did the lockdown trigger an automatic food drop? The food drop was meant for them because it ahs the swan hatch symbol on it. Then they hear a noise in the jungle and turn around to see Sayid, Charlie, and Ana Lucia. Jack looks at them and asks, “What did you find?”

In the hatch Gale is tending to Locke’s wounds. Locke asks Gale what he did that ended it. Gale says he just entered in the numbers and pressed the execute button. Then he climbed back into the hatch and the lights went off. Ten seconds later, the doors went up. I don’t buy that story. But we’ll save that for another day.

When Gale goes to get him a glass of water, Jack bursts in and tells him to move away from Locke immediately. Gale tries to protest but he is followed by Sayid pointing a gun at him telling him to move away. And when Sayid tells you to do something, you do it. Locke tries to stop them by saying its OK, that he let him out to help, but they aren’t letting up.

“Couldn’t you find my balloon?” Gale pleads. “We did find your balloon Henry Gale. Exactly how you described it,” says Sayid. “We also found the grave you described. Your wife’s grave. The grave you said you dug with your own bare hands. It was all there. Your whole story. Your alibi. it was true.’ At this point Sayid is up in his face.

“But still I did not believe it to be true. So I dug up that grave. And found that there was not a woman inside but a man. A man named Henry Gale.”

Then Sayid holds up the driver’s license of a middle-aged black man named… Henry Gale.

He. is. so. BUSTED.

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1

TVGasm-obsessed

Posted March 30, 2006 at 6:38 pm

Ahhhh…Kevin Spacey (aka Henry Gale) at his best…
2

scandal

Posted March 30, 2006 at 6:50 pm

Did anyone else think that the woman who Locke was checking the house for in his flashback (before he saw his father in the car) looked like Nadia (I think that’s her name – the female Sayid liked)?
3

EdHill

Posted March 30, 2006 at 6:58 pm

scandal , that WAS Nadia. My friend just told me 10 minutes after I posted this.
4

Firecat

Posted March 30, 2006 at 7:02 pm

Awesome episode. Not that i’m all revved up for more, I imagine we won’t get a new episode for another month LOL. Bastards
5

Firecat

Posted March 30, 2006 at 7:03 pm

^typo – “not” should be “now”
6

ATCmurph

Posted March 30, 2006 at 7:15 pm

Great recap, EdHill. My favorite part was when you said you were on freeze frame looking for clues…you were not alone, my friend. Now I don’t feel quite as stupid. I’ve been looking at that weird writing and all I could really make out was “CV I, highly unlikely.” I feel this may push me over the edge, like the guy from “A Beautiful Mind.”

All in all, I thought this episode rocked. Between the writing, the mysterious food drop, and the ending, I was on the edge of my seat. And now this Nadia thing. Very cool.
7

ceenee

Posted March 30, 2006 at 7:19 pm

damn fine episode… lots of holy shit moments… me likey!
8

Lady J

Posted March 30, 2006 at 7:42 pm

I agree with EdHill on pretty much all opinions. The castaways shouldn’t tolerate Sawyer’s bullshit – although they do need to be careful how they deal with him. They can’t create a chink in their civility and social structure just to discipline the one person with a warlord complex.

Henry Gale is an Other. His story about the doors coming up is nonsense. And he was totally faking that fall. Who is so weak they could fall off a chair and pass out?!

I have no way to study what was on the wall, and I appreciate the spoilers.

So glad Sayid dug up the grave. How could it end there? Let’s get with the real interrogation! Screw Locke’s promises. Henry Gale has a date with the night.

Oh, we still don’t know how Locke wound up in the wheelchair. I’m betting either the wiseguys worked him over or he got drunk and drove into a tree.
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Leah3t

Posted March 30, 2006 at 8:10 pm

Great recap- I always appreciate a slammin last sentence.

Total gasm to see that door all lit up. And the Henry Gale moment was great too– who buried him I wonder? the others? another person in the balloon?

Jack also got a lot less annoying this ep, close to the former hottie in the suit from season one. that guy can walk like no other.
10

Blue

Posted March 30, 2006 at 8:18 pm

whoa, EDHILL you are the best..
but u derailed me by posting a link to the scammer who scammed the Nigerian scammers, LMAO…now back to ur recap…
11

BigTeebo

Posted March 30, 2006 at 8:35 pm

Funny to see the drivers license, for at one time I had the earlier-style Minnesota drivers license. They ALMOST got it perfect. The font on the top(MINNESOTA DRIVERS LICENSE) is slightly off.

We have newer style licenses now. That map, regardless of countles decodings on the web still confuses me.
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CapoSTAT

Posted March 30, 2006 at 8:39 pm

I also think henry did something a little extra while entering the numbers…he didn’t even need Locke to repreat them, even AFTER he was knocked out. hmmm…but maybe that’s trivial point.

Here is the “cleaner” map in English…

http://www.thetailsection.com/uploaded_images/cleanwall-707484.jpg
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plethLaura

Posted March 30, 2006 at 9:10 pm

Locke’s backstory is so painfully sad and pathetic. Too bad he wasn’t watching it with us or he’d have thought twice about promising to protect the creepy otherman.

There’s no way an actual person (read; non-other) could have recited those numbers once, fallen down, passed out, got back up and managed to get them entered exactly.

I was on the floor in front of my tv for 10 minutes looking at the happy glow fun map. Finally, a tv show made for TIVO/DVR people. They KNEW we were gonna pause and rewind a jillion times!

I didn’t catch Nadia! That is very cool!

Great recap as usual EdHill. Thanks for the Nigerian scammer scammer link.
14

m_ruv

Posted March 30, 2006 at 9:15 pm

This was an awesome episode—the end was so creepy! And yeah, I didn’t really recognize Nadia’s face, but her voice was unmistakable. Also it was funny to see the Oceanic plane fly overhead when Locke brought the money to the hotel by LAX.
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addison1356

Posted March 30, 2006 at 9:25 pm

OMG i think i just got a huge great idea from just reading the fact that it was Helen that noticed Locke’s father was dead. I then connected the rest of the dots myself. helen was in on it too. Do we have a time frame of how long they were together. She approached him at therapy, she wanted him to stay away from his father and she calmly handled strange mobsters in her own home. And when she caught locke with his father it was all part of the plan so she couldn’t accept his proposal. When Locke and cooper are at the bar and he says he needed to knock himself off because he got into a retirment con situation that just made me think about his past…… Locke’s dad….. same man who conned Sawyer’s family and caused all that trouble? Im pretty sure these are all valid points but correct me if anything disproves me, Im just a first time poster
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zevonia

Posted March 30, 2006 at 9:25 pm

Great recap, EdHill, and thanks again for all the research. Especially the musical and scammer website.
I just have one thing to nitpik: I think you will find Locke was hiding the ring in a cloth napkin and not a hankerchief.
These people love to tie everyone together, don’t they? (ie, Locke and Nadia). This episode was way too good for tv.
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Shollia

Posted March 30, 2006 at 10:14 pm

Apparently.. when Locke is at the seedy motel.. and that plane flies overhead.. it has a Dharma symbol on it’s tail.

http://s134005998.onlinehome.us/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=353

Now THAT is mighty interesting.
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Shollia

Posted March 30, 2006 at 10:16 pm

Oh.. I dunno if Henry is faking it.. BUT when he did fall.. I clearly saw him hit his head.
He could’ve just did it for show.. but I don’t think he did… even if he is an Other.
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Diana

Posted March 30, 2006 at 11:30 pm

Well, if a plane flew over a motel that low, the motel would no longer exist, as it would have been put out of business. The scale of the plane, and its position practically right over Locke’s head, is ludicrous.

Good episode tho’. ABC and the producers have finally gotten back on track with giving us good episodes, but tragically, they’ve killed the show with so many reruns. It’s almost as if they didn’t appreciate the series themselves, so many of us have started cooling off to the show as well.

You’re right, EdHill, a serialized show that carries so much information and clues from one episode to another should not be broken up (disrupted really), as badly as the network has done this season.

Good recap.
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m_ruv

Posted March 31, 2006 at 4:43 am

Actually the logo on the plane’s tail isn’t the Dharma logo, it’s the Oceanic Air logo:
http://www.oceanic-air.com

Also did we all notice that the mysterious bald guy who pops up next week is HARRY GOLDENBLATT from Sex and the City? Haha.
21

chick110

Posted March 31, 2006 at 5:09 am

Here’s another shot of the writing on the door:

http://lost.cubit.net/pics/2×17/blastDoorMap.jpg

You did a great job with the recap, Ed Hill.
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jenny10girl

Posted March 31, 2006 at 5:19 am

Great recap…!! Geez I have to watch this episode again (thank God for TiVo) because I totally missed the Nadia connection..!!
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nocable

Posted March 31, 2006 at 5:25 am

Locke didn’t tell Gale the correct numbers. He told him 4 8 15 16 23 42. 42 not 32! And Gale specifically asked about the last number again because HE knew it was wrong.

Lost is back. Back to good.
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lynturn

Posted March 31, 2006 at 6:08 am

EdHill thank you for the recap. Please, no more Kat, make her do Desperate Housewives instead. Your talent is wasted on that crummy show. And thanks for the great links. Kat never goes to this much trouble or into such detail. Kat, don’t be offended, but EdHill is simply superior.
Lost was great! I still wonder how Locke ended up in the wheelchair, but I guess we’ll have to wait. For weeks I have wondered if Locke’s father was the one who conned Sawyer’s family. Now, even more than ever. I didn’t think about Helen and his dad conning Locke together. If so, she is a great actress but it does make you wonder. And yes! that was Nadia. WOW. I can’t wait to watch this episode again! So much to decipher.
Is Lost a repeat next week?
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soxfan

Posted March 31, 2006 at 7:01 am

nocable #23
Unless I misunderstand what you’re saying, those are the real numbers. 4 8 15 16 23 42.

If you haven’t seen this site it always has the answer to the question of if lost is a repeat.

Is Lost a repeat?
26

Leah3t

Posted March 31, 2006 at 7:10 am

addison1356- Very interesting theory! Even more plausible after our lessons on long cons where a man and woman do it together.

I like that.
27

khirth

Posted March 31, 2006 at 7:18 am

Fantastic recap, EdHill! Great show, too. Thanks for the “drawing analysis”. And thanks to whomever pointed out Nadia – I totally didn’t get that watching the show! My son was almost convinced that Henry was OK, so when the show ended he just kept repeating in a daze “Henry Gale is dead?” This show just has that effect on people. And OMG – I can’t believe you didn’t mention Kate saying “Should I get a ruler?” during the poker game! I just about fell on the floor, and then had to avoid explaining to my son what it meant.
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wniffene

Posted March 31, 2006 at 7:23 am

#27 I totally agree, the ruler comment was the best comedy in the show and it was sort of surprising to have it come from Kate.

Great recap for an awesome episode, I wasted more time than I’m willing to admit looking at map translations yesterday.
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madpuppy

Posted March 31, 2006 at 8:19 am

I thought that was Nadia, but I wasn’t sure.

Interesting theory about Locke Sr. and Helen.

Did anyone else notice the number on the safe deposit box- 1516?
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the_qwertz

Posted March 31, 2006 at 8:27 am

saying the plane flying over locke’s hotel has the dharma logo on its tail is like me saying OMG OMG OMG look at this picture of tina turner i found!!!

http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/nm/20060331/2006_03_31t095955_362x450_us_britain_usa_rice.jpg?x=277&y=345&sig=2tvwYn8PpBG_lyxZIvgZmw–
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Pandora

Posted March 31, 2006 at 8:28 am

It’s always great to read a recap here after watching the show… to get those hilarious little references (my favorite was the Pat Benatar video). Keep up the good work, guys!

BTW, if anyone is curiuos… I did a superimposition job of the hatch map over Rousseau’s map. It’s far from perfect, even with a bit of skewing… my belief is that neither map is to good scale at all, and is likely there for relative arrangements only.

Definitely a lot of interesting points to be made from the new map–including:

1) The inference to “the cure is worse than the disease” (Desmond & Aaron, who have both gotten injected, appear to be the only ones symptomatic).

2) The idea that Magnus Hanso (likely Alvar) is dead and buried at The Black Rock.

3) Cerberus may be the name of the project of “the security system”, but that it went horribly wrong. Cerberus from Greek mythology is the name of the 3 headed hound/beast that guarded the gates to Hades and kept people from returning to their previous lives. One time, it was tricked by Orpheus through music (is this where Danielle’s lyrics of La Mer come in?) and Cerberus was ultimately killed by Hercules, who was pure of heart (is this where Echo’s ability to face Smokie without fear come in?)

4) Bottom right–”Ursus maritimus” is the scientific species name of the polar bear. Extreme climate change & gene therapy, eh???

5) At 11:00, one of the hatches is scribbed out. Was this from “the incident” also?

6) What are all the references to “the intranet” all about?

7) My suspicion is that the dotted line hatches on the right are either “under construction”, or underwater hatches. This makes sense with their geographic locale to one side, and also the fact that one of them is called “The Pearl” station (is this where the DHARMA shark comes in–marine research?)
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Pandora

Posted March 31, 2006 at 8:29 am

Woops, here’s the link.

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f278/ceciliaxchen/islandmap2ndattempt.jpg
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lightningwrx

Posted March 31, 2006 at 8:29 am

“Jack of course falls for it and the boys start to play.”

I don’t think Jack fell for anything. He scammed the scammer. Challenged Sawyer’s manhood, knew he’d be expected to prove himself, and took him for all his meds.
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Leah3t

Posted March 31, 2006 at 8:33 am

Pandora- your 7th theory is VERY interesing. now that would be a whole new cool level.

Does anyone know if there’s a mythological/ astrological/ anythinglogical basis for the different names of the stations?
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TimOD

Posted March 31, 2006 at 8:34 am

I know it was simply for plot, but why would Locke try to crawl under the steel door when it apparently takes 10 seconds to get to the other side through the duct work? Douchebag.
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Tracie

Posted March 31, 2006 at 9:18 am

Awesome recap! Thanks for getting it posted so quickly!

When I saw the hatch door, I let out an audible gasp, my husband was so confused. So of course I tried to TiVo it and analyze. Silly me, better nerds than I had already done that!

This was one of the best of the season! (Episodes and recap.)
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CB

Posted March 31, 2006 at 9:30 am

Edhilll you are the man, I agree with everyone else that you should take over the recaps. You do the research and have the jokes that crack my ass up. When you said “if you can fit your whole palm over your face then you have cancer” I laughed so hard people were looking at me funny at work! Brought me back to the good ole days of elementary school! hahaha

Where the hell did the food come from? If a plane flew overhead to drop it dont you think that someone would hear it?

5 things that happened

1. Nadia showed up
2. They found the balloon and grave
3. Doors closed in hatch revealing map
4. Food was dropped
5. The real Gale has been found.

am I missing something? Did I include something that I shouldnt have? ANyone?
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lynturn

Posted March 31, 2006 at 9:30 am

Soxfan….thanks for the link. I’ve used it before and was not sure how quickly it was updated.
don’t you think the survivors would have noticed a plane flying overhead and dropping a care package? I’m glad the food question was answered but now just something else to ponder.
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Pandora

Posted March 31, 2006 at 9:33 am

#36 Tracy– I had Tivo also, so instantly knew it was a map of the hatches, but I gotta tell ya… me (and many fellow internet nerds ) squinted at the darn thing until 3AM, and only got about 10% of it translated with any certainty. The next morning, we all found out that the original version of the map (producer’s high res version) had been leaked out to the press, and there was a whole magazine article that had done a lot of the translation! Well, took a lot of the fun out of it, though it probably saved our eyes. Also, the mag had mistranslated some of the phrases and not completed everything, so once we got the original high res version, it was corrected. The best version to date I think is with Sledgeweb’s site (though I may be a bit biased since I’m staff there now):
http://lost.cubit.net/pics/2×17/blastDoorMapOverlay.jpg

You can see the original unwritten over high res version here:
http://home.comcast.net/~towhateverend/LostWall.jpg

Thanks #34 Leah. What a good point on a mythology theme to all the stations. So far, I’ve seen mostly talk about the station names in regards to star constellations (which in themselves do relate to mythology also, such as Caduceus = Hermes’ staff; Hermes both a Greek God & a constellation).

A suggestion I’ve seen is that The Flame (maybe the station that has the energy source on the island??) = Prometheus. Aphrodite was born inside a shell, maybe that’s the pearl? Someone suggested Pandora for The Pearl, not quite sure where that reference comes in yet. Pericles also has a Greek root shared with that of the word Pearl.

Swans come into mythology of many cultures quite often. They frequently mean “rebirth”… such as the new life that the lostaways get on the island; or “see you in the next life” (Desmond & Nadia quotes from past season).
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Leah3t

Posted March 31, 2006 at 9:38 am

Pandora- those are good suggestions– esp the pearl one. isnt’ there a myth where zeus turns himself into a swan to cheat on his wife? maybe something to do with tricksters…..

ah i wonder i wonder
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m_ruv

Posted March 31, 2006 at 9:51 am

Leah – ooh yeah, Leda and the swan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leda_%28mythology%29
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bridgeguy

Posted March 31, 2006 at 10:05 am

#35 — Thank you. I was beginning to think I was the only one wondering why the heck Locke didn’t just crawl thru the vents in the first place!! Also, the hatch designers had a pretty big brain fart if they went to the trouble of installing this huge blast door system but you can easily escape thru the vents. That’s the oldest trick in the book!

Regarding the map spoiler — how do we know Desmond drew the map? How would he know where the other hatches were? Wasn’t he supposedly locked inside the hatch? At least that’s what I always thought…
43

hardlyworking

Posted March 31, 2006 at 10:11 am

The only thing that makes a good Lost episode better is an EdHill recap!! Even with good material to work with Kat’s recaps are lackluster at best
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squeegie

Posted March 31, 2006 at 10:47 am

CB, I think Nadia wasn’t one of the 5 things. It wasn’t obvious enough. I think the blast door was one and then the map was one.

In general, I think a lot of people are getting too into conspiracy theories. I don’t think that every person from the characters backgrounds was somehow in on it. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

Personally, I think it’s just all one big psychology experiment that was dreamed up but then since it is unethical and illegal they needed to get outside funding and do it in secrecy. I think that’s why they take the kids, especially the babies. There are all kinds of psych experiments that can never be done about human development because it basically means torturing a human from birth. But who knows, I could be wrong!
45

America's Next Top Fan

Posted March 31, 2006 at 11:19 am

My DVR keeps cutting out the last 5-10 minutes of lost. Is this show running over and hour?
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BigTeebo

Posted March 31, 2006 at 11:38 am

Food drop theory:

1. It was intended for Desmond, or whoever’s hangin at the hatch. Of course, the quarantine warning on the hatch door would counter this. How would you get the food in a quarnatined area?

2. It was intended for the inhabitants to keep them alive, courtesy of Dharma. But it doesn’t seem that much.

So we have a bit too much food for 1 person(Desmond), and seemingly not enough food for all of the crash survivors.

And what do we see in the previews? Sawyer getting irritiable when the food is looted. Who died and made you boss?
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Pandora

Posted March 31, 2006 at 12:19 pm

Leah: That’s a clever suggestion.. and thanks for the link m_ruv.

The issue with Zeus is that he seduced MANY women in the guise of many different animals… bears, bulls, horses, etc. just to name a few. But I still like how you tied in trickery to that…. there’s a million and one ways you can go with the symbolism of names, I think.
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courtney123

Posted March 31, 2006 at 1:06 pm

Want to see what’s on the map on the door?
Caution: may be spoilers.
Go here:
http://lost.cubit.net/pics/2×17/blastDoorMapOverlay.jpg
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ethan

Posted March 31, 2006 at 1:37 pm

Well this episode is not the one that contains any spoilers. The episode that spoiled everything was aired two episodes ago when we first met this fako-Henry-Gale-other-dude. It was at the moment that they introduced this guy that the secrets of the island were revealed to me. Isn’t it obvious to everyone at this point that the island is all about gene mutation, and that they have created a Paul Rubens (aka PeeWee Herman)/Kevin Spacey hybrid? The only question now is if there are other celebrity hybrids on the island. Personally I’m hoping for a Charlize Theron/Pamela Anderson hybrid, genetically predisposed to experience severe skin irritation when wearing any clothing at all. Now THAT would be cool.
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Shollia

Posted March 31, 2006 at 1:38 pm

#30- Ya just couldn’t have said something like #20 did.. simply said that no.. it wasn’t dharma, it was the oceanic symbol on the plane.. nope.. you had to make yourself feel better by making other people seem stupid.
Good job there buddy.. hope it gave you that few mins of supremacy you desperately crave.

Anywho.. as for my mistake.. woops
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meagster315

Posted March 31, 2006 at 2:21 pm

one of the divisions said posible zoological zone…explains horses, polar bears, sharks with dharma labels….omgah i had like an hour long multiple tvgasms..thats still ongoing ho shit
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Greganda

Posted March 31, 2006 at 3:22 pm

I’m just wondering when/if we find out that Henry Gale (the real, dead one pictured on the drivers license) is also a part of the back story. Do any of the other characters have a Minnesota past?
53

Terence

Posted March 31, 2006 at 4:33 pm

Did anyone else notice the number 8 and 15 on Henry Gale’s ID?
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meagster315

Posted March 31, 2006 at 5:09 pm

ugh that map gives me chills reading it…its suuuuccchhhhh a spoiler…it peices soooo much together and i don’t care what ppl say…there is a master plan to all of this..the writers aren’t just piling things up…all of the intertwining is getting too intracite to be purely coincidental….the writers don’t get enuf credit and the use of this map is total and complete p[roof of this fact…. i’m excited to see more of the sites…especially the zoological one…well all of them…i’m guessing the show will be over when they answer that big question mark in the middle lol….fatalities=5 chills…and then all the square roots the first 3 numbers…..the numbers were all over this map…

i believe that it is Desmund who did the map because theres a line on the map that says distance does not meet 108 do not attempt…could be totaly off base thogh…what do you guys think
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USNRNPage

Posted March 31, 2006 at 8:00 pm

Thank you Edhill. Great recap.

Since the text on the hatch door says “Minimal activity during lockdown and during restocking proceedures.” (I assume thats referring to the supply drop) And why the lights switch to emergency lights only. If Gale is an Other, he would have anticipated this occuring if this is on sone type of timer,or schedule.
Did anyone catch which hatch is highlighted in the lighter color? As is it supposed to be anywhere near where the supplies dropped?
My question is, why would they have to have minimal activity during restocking? And if Desmond was Quarantined in the hatch, who is picking up the supplies? They obviously had the flashing lights attached to notify someone outside of a hatch.

When Helen first saw Lockes dad, she asked “Are you him?” Where have we heard that before? lol
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ATCmurph

Posted March 31, 2006 at 8:14 pm

CapoSTAT…thanks for the translated map. I was going to go crazy trying to decipher it.

And by the way, just where the hell is Desmond? I hope he shows up again…he’s hot.
57

Silver559

Posted April 1, 2006 at 9:33 am

EdHill, the tailies’ hatch is called the Arrow, not the Spear.

Great recap!
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Leah3t

Posted April 1, 2006 at 11:46 am

for a second i actually thought the flashing light was going to be desmond doing a distress signal or something.
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Ruthiblu

Posted April 1, 2006 at 12:54 pm

Maybe the island is cloaked so it can’t be ever be found by the rest of the world but when it goes into “emergency mode” it becomes visible for short period of time so that the supply plane locate the drop zone.

I think the record Locke was playing has something to do with it, don’t you? At first I thought the modem sounds were coming from the record but then he shut it off…

Pandora said in message #31: “One time, it was tricked by Orpheus through music (is this where Danielle’s lyrics of La Mer come in?)”

I think it was the record ! It breaks through somehow and triggers something.
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dumbanddumber

Posted April 1, 2006 at 6:17 pm

EdHill, thanks for that link to the Nigerian scam site. Haven’t laughed that hard since your last recap.
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dbright

Posted April 2, 2006 at 11:50 pm

I’ve been loving these updates. You know Henry Gale can’t be up to any good since he tried to kill Dr. Gordon and wife and kid on Saw. That makes me a little suspicious; though I thought he was dead…hmmm.
62

tigereye

Posted April 4, 2006 at 8:41 am

so, if there isn’t enough food dropped for the ‘lostees’ and way too much for desmond (who couldn’t have gotten there anyway), maybe its for ‘the others’?
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Craig C

Posted April 4, 2006 at 10:04 am

Why go through all the trouble of planting “Henry Gale” inside their camp and giving him a verifiable backstory without making sure the body at the camp fits? I am assuming the wife of Henry Gale was captured by the ‘Others’ and thats how they came up with the plan.

Kinda weak.
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james_woods_rules

Posted April 5, 2006 at 4:46 pm

ED HILL- i hope that KAT is on vacation FOREVER, cause you are so much better than she is at recapping! You pick so much more stuff up and your research is so much more AWESOMER! No offence to Kat, i am sure she is a nifty human being-BUT ED HILL’S RECAPS ROCK! Kat would have never made the funny, like you did last week, regarding NO Trumpeters in Korean parks.

#46-ANTF-yeah, it runs over. It’s not over an hour long; it just starts a bit late. I am still in the dark ages with the old VCR, but i program mine to record till 11, just in case.

#1- RE: Spacey. I was thinking the same thing about old Henry Gale. That guy is channeling him BIGTIME. It’s pretty cool.
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Ceri

Posted April 9, 2006 at 10:52 am

WOW It was a good one. My first time posting here… Where is the recap for this week?? Its like waiting for the next epasode of lost! Just a thought but did anyone put the thougth together that the button is bad and AKA: Henry G didnt push it because of it?? We all know what Walt said….
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BarryJV

Posted April 12, 2006 at 4:22 pm

For what it’s worth, “Save yourself from Hell” were the last words uttered by the Captain in Event Horizon. However, because he said them in Latin and the recording was poor they were initially mistranslated as “Save me”.

I have no idea if that is connected to Lost in any way, but it might be a clue of some sort.

Physical Graffiti

This proves nothing

Didn’t this guy have an arrow through his shoulder like, 2 days ago?

“Hey, how ya doin? My name’s Vinnie Stereotype. This is my associate, Joey Caricature.”

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This proves nothing

Didn’t this guy have an arrow through his shoulder like, 2 days ago?

“Hey, how ya doin? My name’s Vinnie Stereotype. This is my associate, Joey Caricature.”

If you like it, spread it!:

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