Naturally the cops have little trouble running Hurley down and pinning him to a wall. As they cuff him he starts bellowing "I'm one of the Oceanic Six!" In the first three minutes of the episode, we have been given a pretty strong indication that six people got off the island. Since we know that Jack and Kate are alive and living in the present, and Hurley obviously is too, we are left with three mystery survivors, one of whom is likely the anonymous corpse that Jack visited in the season finale.
Oh, and that set up I mentioned? Behind Hurley there's a sign for "MP3 Players". I doubt it was accidental that they placed that right behind the guy who had the only CD player on the island. In 2004, MP3 players weren't very common and Hurley's Discman was just what a rich audiophile would have been carrying. Today, of course, MP3 players are the standard. It's a minor point, but it drives home the fact that this is a future scenario, not a flashback. Well, that and the fact that Hurley is screaming at the top of his lungs that he's one of the Oceanic Six.
Why, we oughtta drive you downtown in a hybrid using gps technology, you damned criminal in 2008!
Down at the station, Hurley is being interviewed by a detective. He wants to know what made Hurley bolt from a convenience store and lead ten squad cars on a high speed chase. The detective turns out to be Ana Lucia's old partner from her squad car days. When the detective tells Hurley about the "funny coincidence" that he knew someone from Hurley's apparently famous flight, Hurley lies that he never met her, an oddly out of character moment.
To give the big guy some time to watch the convenience store surveillance tape and perhaps jog his memory about what he was running from, the detective leaves Hurley alone for a moment. While he's gone, Hurley sees the mirror in the interview room change to an underwater window and watches in horror as Charlie swims up and destroys it, allowing the water to flood into the room. Written on Charlie's hand is "They need you." Hurley pounds frantically on the door and the detective returns. Naturally there is no water.
My guess is he's talking about Taco Bell. Stocks took a dive while our boy was away.
The detective threatens Hurley with a trip to the nut-house. Hurley is bizarrely pleased with the threat and gives one of his patented sweaty Hurley hugs to the cop for offering to send him to a mental hospital. My spidey-sense tells me that all is not well in Hurley-town.
Back on the island, Hurley is doing a little better than his future self. He's got hold of Jack on the radio and the good Doctor tells him that they've got rescuers on the way.
The good Doctor has some problems on his end, but he doesn't burden Hurley with the fact that Locke killed the woman who is responsible for bringing them rescue and that the (amazingly fit for someone who was shot in the chest only a few hours ago) bald guy has disappeared.
Rose comes across Sun and Claire talking about Sun having her baby back in civilization. Rose congratulates Claire on "her man"s heroism, telling her that Claire better treat him "real good" when she sees him. I don't know what Rose's definition of "real good" is, but judging by her reaction, I'm betting I'd really like whatever popped into Claire's dirty little mind.
Still tied to his tree, Ben tries to convince Rousseau to take Alex as far from the group as possible, to protect her from whatever fate he thinks is in store for the survivors when the rescuers arrive. We would know what it is that he anticipates if only he hadn't called Alex his daughter, which prompts Rousseau to interrupt him with an elbow.
Hurley is ecstatic. He's actually so happy that he tells Bernard his lottery secret and how it was the worst thing that ever happened to him. He's not just happy to be rescued, but he figures that since everyone thinks he's dead, the money will be gone and his hard luck will be over. This merits celebration. A cannonball into the ocean is just what the doctor ordered. In slow motion, Hurley runs for the shore line. I think that it's in slow motion because this is the last moment of happiness that good-time Hurley is going to have from now until the end of the series.
Or it's a twisted homage to 10.
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Comments (31)
Let me start by saying I'm glad you're back to recap. You point out things that sometimes I don't catch. Kudos for getting the recap up so fast too.
Hurley in slo-mo is a no-no! But he did look like a 10.....haha
I missed the hand message from Charlie when he was swimming towards Hugo in jail..... and I agree with you on Naomi's possible nine-lives like our one-eyed russian friend. I think he's still out there somewhere.
....and I wonder what the "Others" are doing while waiting for Ben.... I love this show.
1 of 31 | Posted by chooch850 | Posted on February 1, 2008 10:56 PM
Thanks Chooch!
It's nice to be back!
This week's ep didn't have the usual truckload of hidden tidbits, so there wasn't much to work with. Hopefully next week I'll be wearing out my google.
The hand thing was a shot in the dark. I didn't see anything when I watched the show, but had a sneaking suspicion, so freeze frame to the rescue.
I meant to post this in the recap, but forgot. Over the Fall, I did a couple of audio chats with two of the members of my own little discussion group. One has a wickedly well thought out Lost theory and the other is SUPER frustrated with the show. They were fun to do and hopefully fun to listen to.
You can find them (and a bunch of other stuff) at my blog. Just google my handle if you're interested.
2 of 31 | Posted by greybishop | Posted on February 2, 2008 6:59 AM
One more thing I think you may have missed. I could be wrong about it, but I ran it back in slo-mo. When Hurley looks into Jacob's cabin (before the eye startles him), there is a man sitting in the rocking chair. In profile, it looked dead on like Jack's father. His body was never found... could he be alive? Could that explain why Jack refers to him as alive in the future? Is he one of the Oceanic Six?
3 of 31 | Posted by Scarlet | Posted on February 2, 2008 7:00 AM
One more thing I think you may have missed. I could be wrong about it, but I ran it back in slo-mo. When Hurley looks into Jacob's cabin (before the eye startles him), there is a man sitting in the rocking chair. In profile, it looked dead on like Jack's father. His body was never found... could he be alive? Could that explain why Jack refers to him as alive in the future? Is he one of the Oceanic Six?
4 of 31 | Posted by Scarlet | Posted on February 2, 2008 7:00 AM
Scarlet -
You're right. After I finished the recap last night I ran across something about that, went back and took another look...
It certainly could be Christian. The white shoes and the shape of his hair are certainly consistant with him.
5 of 31 | Posted by Greybishop | Posted on February 2, 2008 8:10 AM
greybishop,
I have never posted on a site before and probably never will again but I just wanted to THANK YOU SO MUCH for coming back this year.I enjoy and learn things I missed from your recaps and want you to know that your hard work is very much appreciated
6 of 31 | Posted by marla | Posted on February 2, 2008 9:34 AM
Well, thank you Marla!
I appreciate the appreciation!
7 of 31 | Posted by greybishop | Posted on February 2, 2008 9:45 AM
Welcome back GB! Remember me?
A very solid episode all around. The "Oceanic Six" will be lots of fun to speculate about.
Someone pointed out to me that all shots of Jin were stock footage.
I'm kinda surprised Desmond went with Jack. Did he not take Charlie's warning seriously?
8 of 31 | Posted by Merick | Posted on February 2, 2008 11:35 AM
Here's my question. You talked about the Oceanic Six as survivors ... but, what if the secret they are all keeping, that Jack said he's tired of lying about, is that the rest of the survivors from the plane all chose to stay on the island? and that jack, kate, and hurley were three of the six that chose to leave, and they have to keep it a secret that the rest stayed?
9 of 31 | Posted by Mtwasik | Posted on February 2, 2008 11:52 AM
Hey Merick!
Thanks for the welcome!
I thought this episode felt very much like what we would have called a filler episode if it wasn't the season premier.
Good, but nothing earth-shattering came from it. The "Oceanic Six" is interesting, but not really a revelation since we already knew that some, but not all the survivors get back to civilization.
I definitely think that the writers and producers took all the complaints from last year seriously and gave us a more balanced opening show than what we got in season 3.
10 of 31 | Posted by greybishop | Posted on February 2, 2008 11:55 AM
Mtwasik:
I think that's a perfectly reasonable possibility.
11 of 31 | Posted by greybishop | Posted on February 2, 2008 11:59 AM
I, too, wanted to thank you for coming back and recapping, GB.
I had always pretty much assumed that Sawyer was off the island as well because of the way Kate & Jack spoke of her "getting away from 'him' without his knowing" or something close to that in the finale. They never mentioned him by name, but Kate said something about "him finding out" if she "keeps doing this" i.e. meeting up with Jack. I had assumed she continued her romantic relationship with Sawyer.
Thanks again for your hard work! I'll be checking out your blog again this year.
12 of 31 | Posted by ajkc41 | Posted on February 2, 2008 2:56 PM
ajkc41:
You are most welcome and thank you for the kind words.
I'm not sure about "him" being Sawyer though...
13 of 31 | Posted by greybishop | Posted on February 2, 2008 3:07 PM
it is jacks dad.
if you go to pink is the new blog, the guy does recaps and he has a picture of it in yesterdays entry
14 of 31 | Posted by catherined82 | Posted on February 2, 2008 3:30 PM
Hi all
Boy, did I have the warm and fuzzies getting to see Lost again... That said, I'll never be as hardcore as you, GB, so my own theories are based on nothing more than my gut feeling (and as a proud member of the Colbert Nation, that's good enough for me!)
Jack seemed a little too distraught in the last season finale to just feel guilty about keeping quiet about people wanting to stay on the island. I am wondering if he was given his own "Sophie's choice" and he had to choose the other people who would be taken off the island. I know spoilers have been posted, but of course he would choose Kate, Sun (to save her from dying in childbirth), and if he wanted to look like Mr. Selfless to Kate, Sawyer. Of course, there's Claire and Aaron... Hm. Tough decision. So did he pick Hurley over Sawyer? (well, it would make sense, because hey, who doesn't love Hugo?)
The idea that Christian isn't really dead, because after all, this is the Island Of Arbitrary Life Or Death and he is (living?) in Jacob's cabin is very intriguing... Of course, that would (SHUDDER!!!) open the door to the possibility of Nikki and Paulo returning. NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
15 of 31 | Posted by sayhuh | Posted on February 2, 2008 11:35 PM
We waited over half a year for *THIS*?
16 of 31 | Posted by ubiquitous | Posted on February 3, 2008 5:40 PM
My theory is that those who were rescued off the island (the so-called Oceanic Six) promised each other that they would never talk about the horrible things that happened on the island (i.e. the others, the smoke, all those who mysteriously died, etc.). However, I also think that those survivors who stayed on the island did so without the rescuers' knowledge, and Oceanic Six did not disclose this information to anyone either. The whole "they need you" thing could be about the fact that the survivors were (are?) in some sort of danger.
17 of 31 | Posted by isayseriously | Posted on February 3, 2008 6:23 PM
I don't think that Claire/Aaron necessarily have to be one of the Oceanic 6. In Desmond's vision, he saw them getting on a helicopter, but that doesn't have to mean they were rescued, right? And if they were, would Aaron count as one of the 6 as he is an infant?
I was so happy to see Charlie in this episode. I hope he shows up again. :)
18 of 31 | Posted by snootchy bootches | Posted on February 4, 2008 2:09 AM
GB, great to have you, and Lost, back again.
It's cool that the parachuting rescuer is played by Jeremy Davies ("Rescue Dawn", "Saving Private Ryan"). Guy is a great actor. Hope it's not a spoiler but when I went to imdb to make sure it was him they only have him credited for 2 episodes.
19 of 31 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on February 4, 2008 7:06 AM
Great recap for an alright episode. Though I guess it was nice to ease back in after such a long time off.
Now, not that I'm agreeing with Locke, but if there is some doubt as to who these "people on the boat" are, isn't it smart to split into two groups? Doesn't it make sense to have everyone hold up in a defensible position while a small armed group goes and meets with these people and figures out if it's safe? That just seems obvious to me considering all the other trickery thats gone on throughout their time on the island.
I know it's all about the power struggle but in this case it seems splitting up is the most logical thing to do.
20 of 31 | Posted by MODULUS | Posted on February 4, 2008 9:05 AM
JasonR, MODULUS -
Thank you. It's nice being back.
21 of 31 | Posted by greybishop | Posted on February 4, 2008 9:17 AM
I think that one of the "oceanic 6" was the guy who died at the end of season three and Jack went to the funeral, but no one else was there. And, I think that it might be Locke. Kate said "Why would I go to his funeral" when Jack asked if she went. And, he had no relatives, which would explain why noone else was there. And, Jack described him as neither friend of family. I don't think he'd describe any of the other castaways in the same way, except maybe Sawyer, but then Kate would've went to his funeral . . .
That's my theory - in any event it makes sense that the dead guy was one of the six, since both Kate and Jack knew him, and his death was newpaper worthy.
22 of 31 | Posted by lawyergal | Posted on February 4, 2008 12:45 PM
I just had a thought. I wonder if Sun is one of the Oceanic 6. I cant remember if it showed them going with Locke or Jack, but I think it would make sense she would want to get rescued since all of the pregnant women die.
23 of 31 | Posted by catherined82 | Posted on February 4, 2008 2:01 PM
catherine.... as far as I could tell, a bunch of redshirts, Hurley, Claire & baby, Sawyer, Danielle, Carl, Alex and Ben were the ones to go with Locke.
24 of 31 | Posted by chooch850 | Posted on February 4, 2008 7:56 PM
GB! Great to read your recaps again!
MODULUS,
I totally agree with you about the seeming lack of caution in some of these people! And why, why, WHY does Jack not see this? I seems that there should always be "some doubt" about this island and everything having to do with it...
25 of 31 | Posted by qt | Posted on February 4, 2008 9:20 PM
I very seldom post comments for recaps because the sign-in is so hard. But Grey Bishop inspired me with an awesome recap. Plus, the sign-in seemed easier. Could it be? Here's hoping! Anyway, I loved the recap. I missed the writing on Charlie's hand so thanks for pointing that out. Mixing oj and a televised car chase was too wonderful, and for some reason, "the evil, evil rain" just made me laugh. Thanks for getting all the important info in there while still being funny and entertaining. I have always loved your recaps and I think they just got even better!
26 of 31 | Posted by LonnaSaur | Posted on February 5, 2008 11:04 AM
qt & LonnaSaur -
Thank you. It is nice to be welcomed back!
27 of 31 | Posted by greybishop | Posted on February 5, 2008 11:12 AM
I was just reading the comments from previouse seasons and like to see all the diffrent theories that are proven right and wrong.
28 of 31 | Posted by fawm316 | Posted on February 5, 2008 2:19 PM
GB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great to have you back. I have been on pins and needles waiting for Lost to come back and for your recaps to come back. I have no fascinating insights-just love to watch the show and this was a great episode....but
HOW DID THE OTHER CRAAAAAAZY GUY SEE CHARLIE?????
I hope the writer's strike doesn't cock up the season!
29 of 31 | Posted by jameswoods | Posted on February 5, 2008 4:55 PM
jameswoods -
Thanks!
As for the crazy guy seeing Charlie, I'd bet on one of two scenarios.
1) The crazy guy will turn out to be another figment of Hurley's imagination.
2) They'll explain that because of his "specially" wired brain, the crazy guy can see things that others don't. Hurley might be explained this way too...
30 of 31 | Posted by greybishop | Posted on February 6, 2008 8:03 AM
GreyBishop, I just read one of your Lost recaps(season 3 finale)for the first time. It was great! I like how you point out things that I didn't think about. OverAnalyzers unite!
My overall Lost theory is that the Losties are really the bad guys and the Others ARE the good guys as they keep claiming. Maybe the Lost writers/creator want us to identify with the bad guys (Losties) by getting to know them better than the Others so we'll think the Losties are good guys who've been forced by circumstance to do bad things. In other words, maybe the Losties are bad guys who act altruistically every now and then instead of the other way around.
All I know is that I can't resist mysteries and can't wait until the series finale when they (hopefully) tie this whole convoluted mess up.
31 of 31 | Posted by blahblah | Posted on February 14, 2008 12:25 PM