"For whatever reason, your path has lead you here, and now you're one of us. Welcome Brother."
I could swear it sounded like "Welcome Brotha."
"Thank you...Brotha."
That one I'm sure of.
On the beach, Desmond and Hurley borrow the First Aid kit for Desmond's "twisted ankle".
Jack asks if Des wants him to take a look at it.
"Taped my share of ankles." Shaking his finger at him, Jack recalls their first meeting, back in the real world during his aborted Tour D'Stade.
"Right."
The two men make off with the First Aid kit before Hurley's odd behavior can arouse Jack's suspicions.
Before he's willing to go on a hike that seems destined to end in the need of a First Aid kit, Hurley demands an explanation.
"I saw a sequence of events. Things that are gonna happen."
"Whatd'ya see?"
"It was like a sorta...jigsaw puzzle. Only I didn't have the picture on the box, so I don't know how the pieces fit exactly. But one of the pieces. The first one. It was you pulling the cable out of the sand."
"So what are the other pieces?"
"If I tell you that, it'll change the picture on the box."
"So what? Isn't that the point? Preventing something bad?"
"Not this time."
"So you're not trying to stop something from happening. You actually want it to happen."
"More than anything."
Speaking of wanting something more than anything, Sawyer saddles up to Kate's tent, opening it just in time to see her pulling her jeans up and over said something.
"What's up?"
Sawyer's eyes wander as he answers "I wanted to ask you something."
"I'm up here."
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(*Fellow drooly guy side note. To quote the immortal Homer Simpson in similar circumstances: "I've made my choice."*)
Sawyer wants to know if Kate told Jack about their little tryst in the cage.
"Well, now that that's out of the way, how 'bout a little afternoon delight?"
Kate's not buying what Sawyer's selling this time around. Poor guy. I guess he's only sexy when he's behind bars in a cage full of dried bear shit.
"D'ya need me to make you a mix tape?"
"Yeah, why don't you do that."
Ouch.
Desmond and Hurley set about recruiting Jin to fulfill Desmond's prophesy. Hurley gets the Korean guy to come "camping" with the boys. The marshmallows sold it.
Desmond heads off to gather up the fourth for their trek. When he tries Hurley's "camping" routine on Mr. Pace, the Brit is having none of it. He's suspicious of Des's motives for wanting him to come along. Desmond reassures him that he's only a part of the mosaic, not it's focus. Conveniently, he leaves out the part where Charlie tries to swallow an arrow without using his mouth.
Won over by the Scot's reassurances, Charlie agrees to join the fellowship of four.
Marching in a ragged line down the beach, the four men whistle a ragged version of The Colonel Bogey March.
(*Badly Whistled Famous Melody Sidenote. The Colonel Bogey March is inextricably linked with the movie "The Bridge Over the River Kwai," a film about prisoners who are forced to toil for the enemy and ultimately destroy their creation. You don't suppose...nah.*)
"Frodo?"
Hurley spots a familiar landmark and in short order, Jin finds the cable and Hurley frees it from the sand, just as in Desmond's vision.
As he pulls it free of the sand, he shares with the group.
"Last time I followed this wire into the jungle, I almost got kebobbed by one of Rousseau's spiky death trap things."
Desmond suggests that they make camp rather than risk trekking into the jungle, since it's getting late.
In the monastery, a newly minted novice named Desmond helps bottle the wine made by the monks. The wine is named after the mountain where Abraham was asked to kill Isaac, Moriah.
"Not exactly the most festive locale is it?"
"And yet God spared Isaac."
"Well, one might argue that God need not have asked Abraham to sacrifice his son in the first place."
"Well then, it wouldn't have been much of a test, would it brother? Perhaps you underestimate the value of sacrifice."
As the two men discuss sacrifice, a man comes in who has asked to speak to Desmond. He actually has no words to speak, only a message that he delivers with his fist.
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Comments (20)
Good episode, but nothing too important or interesting.
I love how Desmond has been and continues to be haunted by questions of fate and destiny.
I wonder if Naomi will die soon, or become a regular? Speaking of dying, surely Charlie sometime this season? I mean, he had one flashback in season two, and it was one of the first "nothing important" flashbacks, and none in season three so far. He's had nothing to do since he beat heroin.
1 of 20 | Posted by Merick
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Posted on April 19, 2007 7:05 PM
I'd also like to add that I soooooo don't care about Jack/Sawyer/Kate/Juliet's romantic feelings for each other.
2 of 20 | Posted by Merick
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Posted on April 19, 2007 7:20 PM
Merick -
Ditto and double ditto on that.
Love rectangles should be relagated to daytime television.
3 of 20 | Posted by Greybishop
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Posted on April 19, 2007 7:27 PM
Beatriz -
I've already come across a couple of fixes I missed in the editting process today, but I'd be happy to hear from you on corrections.
4 of 20 | Posted by Greybishop
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Posted on April 19, 2007 7:32 PM
Hey Grey,
The woman in the picture that you felt was "photoshopped" was the woman in Desmond's flashback that helped him pick out a ring for Penny. So, I wonder what her involvement is with the monk?? Is that how Desmond knows her?
5 of 20 | Posted by AvaMarie
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Posted on April 19, 2007 7:47 PM
AvaMarie -
I called the picture "interesting" because of her presence in it. Her knowing Brother Campbell puts an interesting spin on the "You have to do these things or we all die" statement from Desmond's previous Flash-whatever when he may or may not have travelled in time.
Is the Brother Campbell "Jacob" or someone else in the Others or maybe one of the other Others?
6 of 20 | Posted by Greybishop
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Posted on April 19, 2007 8:21 PM
Another great recap, Greybishop!
Since I have neither an inner nor an outer geek, I guess I didn't enjoy this episode quite as much as you did....
Now we know where Brotha' came from.
Who knew you could get fired from a Monastery?
And, who knew Koreans like to tell scary stories around a campfire too?
I find Charlie a little more tolerable when he's hanging out with Hurley. They get a good interaction going with each other.
I'm looking forward to next week.
7 of 20 | Posted by Lady-in-Gray
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Posted on April 19, 2007 8:51 PM
I liked this episode, but (naturally), I'm confused about something...
In his jigsaw puzzle vision, Desmond never actually saw Penny as the parachutist, right? He had flashes of the time when the picture was taken, but nothing like him taking the helmet off and seeing her face. (Obviously, please correct me if I'm wrong.) So why was he so convinced it would be her? I know, he hoped it was her and the picture was in the book in the backpack... but I don't get why he's so pissed that he saved Charlie's life when he had no guarantee that it was Penny who fell from the sky. Maybe it's just me not wanting Charlie to die though.
8 of 20 | Posted by Lisa
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Posted on April 19, 2007 9:25 PM
ok
so I sat down to watch the episode, say to my friend "man, I wonder if Charlie's going to die this episode..." and BAM he gets shot in the neck with an arrow and F-ING DIES.
I nearly had a heart attack. No show kills someone in the first 5 minutes. It took me like 10 minutes into the next scene to fully recover. Thanks, Lost.
LOVE this recap, you totally like tied together the theories that we are all piecing together, and your "nerd" knowledge is super intriguing... the perspective thing with superman and the flash is super interesting, as well as the reference to isaac and abraham which I totally didn't get because I was too focused on the catch-22 aspect. So is this chick portugese, or brazilian? The guys in the plane at the end of season 2 were portugese so I suppose that makes sense.
things that were great:
- camp talk! the talk in the kitchen was weird we never see like normal, non-disaster related camp interaction. It was nice, shows the closeness that's developed, despite the weird friend-zone tension
- Sawyer: "What are you guys doing, playing who's your favorite other" or something to that extent, was hilarious.
- so into sawyer and sayid hanging out.
- Jin's storytelling was so funny I think I died.
- "if we don't play every 108 minutes the island will explode" ... awesome. sawyer is ON lately.
Other:
- I hate hate hate juliet, and my opinion of jack is really suffering.
LISA: I totally agree! From what I remember, the flashes of him and penny were them posing for the photograph... that he already has a copy of? Some serious time bending stuff... but essentially, he saw a parachuter and penny, but I don't think there was any real reason to think they were the same person. Could someone find a video of his flash-forward?
I am glad they indicated rose and bernard's existence by getting the phil collins tape from bernard. I really think sawyer is trying... and he obviously really cares about kate, he's just sort of inept.
9 of 20 | Posted by MalloryS
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Posted on April 20, 2007 9:45 AM
Call me crazy, but doesn't the monk in the photograph with the white haired woman look an awful lot like the dude with the eyepatch that they saw on the one screen in the Pearl Station? Anyone?
10 of 20 | Posted by JohnGalt
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Posted on April 20, 2007 9:49 AM
Merick: maybe I'm being really dumb, but who's Naomi?
11 of 20 | Posted by MalloryS
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Posted on April 20, 2007 9:50 AM
Naomi is the girl that parachuted onto the island.
12 of 20 | Posted by JerseyGirl
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Posted on April 20, 2007 10:15 AM
JohnGalt, I actually did notice the monk's resemblance to Mikhail (sp?). Weird.
Great recap, GB. Just wanted to say that, I've got more to comment on later.
13 of 20 | Posted by Cody M.
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Posted on April 20, 2007 11:00 AM
"You'd have sacrificed me."
"The flashes don't happen exactly how I saw them. The picture changes. I was supposed to let you die, Charlie."
i didnt get that... How does this convince charlie that desmond wasn't going to sacrifice him? Desmond was "supposed to let charlie die" 3 times before, what does it mean to tell him that he was supposed to die this time?
didnt the picture happen exactly how desmond saw it? charlie stepped on the wire--and desmond already saw the arrow in place. Or was desmond trying to say that he didnt know for sure that the death trap event would happen altogether, but only until he saw the arrow?
NOTE: I easily skipped this entire recap because of the comic book picture placed on the front in place of a LOST screencap... good thing i saw the word 'LOST' near the bottom of the intro.
14 of 20 | Posted by CapoSTAT
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Posted on April 20, 2007 11:38 AM
Great recap Greybishop!!
Just wanted to note the reference to Catch 22 - Abraham and Isaac (from book of Genesis, Chapter 22) and Phil Collins (of Genesis). Dang, these guys are clever! I don't care what anyone else says!
15 of 20 | Posted by d
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Posted on April 20, 2007 12:24 PM
Greybishop, ignore my dumb ass. You're recaps are great, mistakes and all. Like another commenter said, "Oh, for pete's sake!"
That being said, I DO have a few edits...:) It's not my fault, I'm an editor, it's the way I see the world.
16 of 20 | Posted by Beatriz
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Posted on April 20, 2007 3:43 PM
And just to confirm that I really am a dumbass, I went ahead and made a first grade error in my previous post. "You're" and "your"....geeeeez!
17 of 20 | Posted by Beatriz
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Posted on April 20, 2007 3:46 PM
Beatriz-I was wondering if you did that on purpose :)
18 of 20 | Posted by LuvzSunshine
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Posted on April 20, 2007 4:23 PM
Thanks Beatriz.
Anything you noted you can send to gettheaddy@yahoo.ca and I'll make any required fixes.
19 of 20 | Posted by Greybishop
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Posted on April 20, 2007 7:50 PM
"Tell 'em Large Marge sentcha!" You gotta love a "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" reference! Great recap, Grey! D (#15 out of 19), good call on Catch 22, Genesis 22, & Genesis. Awesome!
20 of 20 | Posted by Darth Wader
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Posted on April 23, 2007 7:41 AM