Behind him, Sayid stands stock still, pointing the gun at Ben for a heartbeat before turning it on Bakir. He pours his hate, his rage and his sorrow through the barrel and into Bakir's body until the gun is empty, clicking the trigger impotently as if more bullets could somehow ease his pain.
"That should do it."
Ben turns to leave, but Sayid stops him.
"We're finished here, Sayid. Turn around and walk away. Mourn your loss. Get on with your life."
"I have no life. They took it from me."
"Go home, Sayid. Once you let your grief become anger, it will never go away. I speak from experience. This is my war. It's not yours."
Ben turns to leave again, but Sayid won't let him.
"I spent the last eight years of my life searching for the woman I love. I finally found her and I married her. And I buried her yesterday. So don't tell me this is not my war. Benjamin. Who's next?"
"I'll be in touch."
As he walks away, a "Long con successfully executed" smile touches Ben's lips.
While Sawyer pounds on the hidden door, Claire wanders out into the living room, shaken but not stirred. As the group looks to her, Ben emerges from his hidden office and gives them their marching orders.
You guys. My agent just texted me. Someone's been calling but they haven't left a message. Ideas?
"Okay, listen to me very carefully: I need all of you to do exactly as I say. In a minute, we have to run from this house as fast as we can. At that moment, when I give the order, I want you to head straight for the tree line."
Hurley asks the obvious question. "You mean towards the guys with guns?
"No, we want to be as far away from them as possible."
As Ben speaks, the house begins to shake. Ben watches as the smoke monster barrels into the compound past his house. After it passes he rushes the group outside.
The four watch in awe as the smoke monster devastates the mercenary group. One guy tries to escape, but smokie pulls him back, presumably to his doom. Ben shoos the group into the tree line. Locke is surprised that Ben is not running with them.
"I have to say goodbye to my daughter, John."
Again, if you missed Ben's first tentative steps on Hero road, the next moment between him and the lifeless body of his daughter was there to make sure you were paying attention.
Back on the beach, Faraday has managed to cobble together a crude Morse code device to send dots and dashes through the satellite phone.
And STILL, not ONE Gilligan's Island Coconut Radio joke.
He sends "What happened to the doctor?"
An extended message comes back and Faraday listens to the entire sequence before translating for the group.
"Okay. They didn't exactly say what happened to the doctor, but your friends are fine, and the helicopter's coming back in...in the morning."
Jack plays his trump card and looks to Bernard for confirmation. "Well?"
"He's lying. What the message said was, 'What are you talking about? The doctor is fine.'"
Apparently, Daniel was unaware that Bernard was not only a dentist, but a former sailor in the merchant marine, versed in Morse code.
"Why are you lying? Why did you say that the helicopters are coming back?
As Jack grabs Faraday by the shirt, Kate tries to calm him down, but he's past that point.
"Were you ever...gonna take us off this island?"
"No. No,no."
Jack almost gets to cry, but the pain in his gut cuts off the water works and he stumbles off into the night, alone.
Out in the jungle, the group is gathered, waiting for Ben. He shows up and Locke offers his simple condolences.
"Sorry about your daughter."
"Thank you, John."
"That being said, you lied to me. You told me you didn't know what the smoke monster was."
"You can ask Jacob all about it when we go to the cabin."
Sawyer is fed up with not being in the loop. "Hang on. 'Jacob'? Who the hell's Jacob?"
"He's the man that's gonna tell us what to do next, James."
Sawyer has had it. He tells Ben that he's taking Claire and heading back to the beach. Miles opts to tag along.
"Let's go. You, too, Hurley."
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Comments (12)
I didn't understand why Ben & Locke were taking Hugo to Jacob's cabin when Ben clearly knows how to get there on his own. I don't get the logic there. Was Ben lying to Locke about why they needed Hugo?
1 of 12 | Posted by kellyt | Posted on April 30, 2008 7:27 AM
On a previous episode, Hurley pointed out that the cabin was "the other way", earning a big time stink eye from John. Perhaps Hurley has been granted the ability to "see" the cabin that neither John nor Ben currently have . . .
2 of 12 | Posted by SOCKMONKEY | Posted on April 30, 2008 8:47 AM
kellyt: Jacob's cabin has moved since the time we saw Locke and Ben visit. Hugo was the one to stumble across its new location. Apparently, Ben does not know where it is at the moment. Which is puzzling, if Jacob's cabin moves all the time, does Ben spend a lot of his time looking for it?
What a great episode! Lots of action, the return of the smoke monster, and a Ben centric!
Kinda bummed that Alex died, but holy cow, it's worth it for Ben's reaction. I saw someone say that they would only read the transcripts of episodes now because the show "had become a bloodbath". *sigh* Ya know, we're kinda running out of time for Libby and Daniel's backstories. I have trouble imagining how they are going to fit them in without it looking really shoehorned in.
The Ben/Widmore scene at the end was extremely intriguing.
The first scene of the flashforward - Oh ma gaw, how awesomely weird was that? My little theory is that there's some sort of teleporter in the Arctic. Just as a polar bear mysteriously appeared in Tunisia, I think Ben got that arm wound via an angry polar bear. And hey, according to Wikipedia, polar bears live in some parts of Siberia, which was also mentioned in this episode! Perhaps the symbol on Ben's coat is for a hatch in Siberia?
One question: Do you all think the "Freighter Four" are going to be regular characters, or just recurring roles? It seemed like we were going to see quite a lot of them at first, but they've had little to do the past few episodes. Miles and Faraday certainly seem to have more characterization ahead, but Charlotte and Frank?
3 of 12 | Posted by Merick | Posted on April 30, 2008 8:48 AM
I found this little tid bit on the net and thought it was pretty cool. Gotta love google earth
There is a time portal/wormhole that connects Tunisia to the Island. That's how Ben ends up seemingly fallen from the sky in the Tunisian desert. That's how a polar bear skull is excavated from the Tunisian sand. And that how a small prop plane can take off from Nigeria and end up on the island. The proof: according to Google Earth, the coordinates for 'Tunisia' are: 33 deg, 53 sec N and 9 deg, 31 sec E. The polar opposite of those coordinates is: 33 deg, 53 53 sec S and 170 deg 29 sec W. If you follow those coordinates, you end up....just NE of Sydney, Australia in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, enroute to LA, and not far from Fiji.
4 of 12 | Posted by pauliewalnutz | Posted on April 30, 2008 9:26 AM
I love Ben. I don't care if we were meant to think of him as a 'bad' guy from the beginning, I still loved him lol.
He deserves any and all awards this show gets from now on. No one can deliver a line quite like him =)
5 of 12 | Posted by pixi-stix | Posted on April 30, 2008 9:55 AM
Great recap Grey. Worth the wait!
Someone got new headshots LOL!
I suppose it's not surprising that she'd see a munchkin...er, hobbit after having a house dropped on her. OMG LOL!!!!
I never thought of Ben as the hero. He always seemed so evil to me. But I look forward to more of your hero hypothesis.
6 of 12 | Posted by akgirl7 | Posted on April 30, 2008 10:30 AM
Interesting theory pauliewalnutz. I understand Ben in the desert and the prop plane, but don't see how this theory explains the polar bear excavation. Polar bears wouldn't typically be found on an island in the south pacific or in the desert in Tunisia. Am I missing something?
7 of 12 | Posted by Bryant92 | Posted on April 30, 2008 11:26 AM
so many gigglez taday:)
coconut radio jokes, fuk'n ninja jokes...
shaken not stirred...
sigh :)
aha! nobody else has mentioned.. i know iknow it's really nothing.. but noone noticed the painting, back wall bedroom (of the 'black rock' that widmore won at the auction, when confronted by dez during an episodic timetrip.....
yah.. and whaz up w/the 'we need hurley to find jacob's shack?
sounds like pfffft ta me....
great review.. i have sorely missed these..
how many more shows do we have left in the season....anybody?
8 of 12 | Posted by kikz | Posted on April 30, 2008 12:21 PM
I've been looking forward to this recap all week and you did not disappoint me!!! It was great once again and the comments from everyone were quite insightful. Thanks you guys. I've always loved Ben and those horrible eyes.... Ben deserves the Emmy!
9 of 12 | Posted by chooch850 | Posted on April 30, 2008 12:47 PM
I've been looking forward to this recap all week and you did not disappoint me!!! It was great once again and the comments from everyone were quite insightful. Thanks you guys. I've always loved Ben and those horrible eyes.... Ben deserves the Emmy!
10 of 12 | Posted by chooch850 | Posted on April 30, 2008 12:50 PM
Bryant92:
I'm pretty sure they kept polar bears in the Dharma Zoo, where Kate and Sawyer were kept. They weren't native to the island, but they were there.
11 of 12 | Posted by puregold | Posted on May 9, 2008 3:26 PM
Bryant92, I'm pretty sure they kept polar bears in that Dharma Zoo where Kate & Sawyer were held. They aren't native to the island, but they were there!
12 of 12 | Posted by puregold | Posted on May 9, 2008 3:27 PM