"Boom." Jin. Just enough English to get the point across.
"Can you just tell me how to get Cashmere Mafia on this thing?" - Jin
Back at The Orchid, Jack is wondering why Locke is there.
There's a...a DHARMA station below us, and, um, I'm looking for a way to get in."
Locke tries to have a private conversation with Jack about what he's doing, but Jack suddenly remembers that he doesn't care about Locke or Dharma or any of it. He came for Hurley and now they're leaving.
"...What I need to do is to walk back to the chopper, get on it, and get the rest of our people off this island."
"Uh, dude, probably not the best idea right now. Those Rambo guys are taking Ben to that helicopter. He surrendered himself to 'em about an hour ago."
Sawyer wonders why the hell he would do that.
Out in the jungle, Ben's probably wondering much the same thing as he walks along with Keamy and the Keamettes.
"So tell me something, Ben. What is it that makes you so important, hmm? I'm curious. I'm curious as to why Mr. Widmore would pay me so much money just to come out here and capture you and bring you back alive."
I can put my fist in my mouth.
Ben does the "answer a question with a question" thing. "Charles Widmore tell you to kill my daughter?"
Before Keamy can decide whether to answer Ben or bust him in the chops for answering a question with a question, they come upon the chopper and Frank who has somehow managed to get a hold of the toolbox.
Keamy doesn't like anyone handling their tools around him without his permission.
Before Keamy is able to get Frank to tell him who handed him his tool, both of them get distracted by the bush.
Tools, bush...I suddenly feel the need to...garden.
It's Kate!
"Why are you running"
"I'm being chased...by his people." Ben's folks. The ones with all the eyeliner.
Keamy sends his men out to cover the area. He motions for Kate with his tool...er, gun.
"Come here. Get on your knees."
Apparently, Keamy is feeling the gardening urge too...
Suddenly, the area erupts in chaos as the Others attack. Keamy's men go down and it turns out that Kate wasn't running from the Others at all, but improvising an escape for Ben. She gets him running and the two of them haul ass out of the crossfire with Keamy hot on their trail. At least, he's hot on their trail after punting a grenade to his buddy Omar. Omar's not so good at hot potato. He go boom.
As he catches up to them, out of the underbrush flies Sayid. A very cool knifey, kickey, punchey, rolley, chokey, shootey-the-baddey-in-the-backey fight ensues, ended by Richard putting a bunch of bullets into Keamy's back.
(*Nobody's getting the Emmy for Best Direction for this episode sidenote: Was I the only one who got nauseus during the gunfight? Would it be too much to ask to have the camera stay still for more than a second at a time? It was a little better during the knife fight, but the first 15 seconds or so of this scene nearly had me reaching for the Dramamine.*)
"Thank you for coming, Richard."
"My pleasure."
Ben asks Kate to use the bloody knife to cut him free. The thought of adding a second blood type to the blade seems to cross her mind, but she cuts him free instead.
Ben learns that Richard bargained with Sayid and Kate for their help in exchange for their ticket off the island.
"Fair enough. The helicopter is yours. You and Sayid have a safe journey back."
"So we can go? Off the island? That's it?"
"That's it."
He's just springing for a Southwest ticket. Don't get so excited. It's like a bus in the sky and you only get like three fig newtons.
In Santa Rosa, a familiar older woman approaches Hugo. "Are you Hurley?"
"Yeah."
"Are you dangerous?"
Turns out that Walt's Grandmother has brought him to see Hurley and she's got the reasonable worry that the institutionalized man with the crazy hair and unkempt beard might do something unpleasant to him.
"I won't do anything crazy."
"Hey, Walt."
"Hey, Hurley."
"Gettin' big, Dude."
Dang, dude. So are you.
And that's enough of the small talk.
"You know, when you came back, I was waiting for one of you to come see me, but...nobody did."
"I'm sorry."
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Comments (17)
See you at greybishop.com, brotha.
Thanks for all the excellent recaps.
1 of 17 | Posted by Clair | Posted on June 7, 2008 6:15 PM
What a great finale and what a great recap..... I look forward to next season and your insight. Do you think we'll see the chaos on the island after the 6 left? It would be nice to see Sun crush a few people.
..... and I never caught Jack telling Kenny Roger's about the other island... and I watched it twice!!!
2 of 17 | Posted by chooch850 | Posted on June 8, 2008 6:01 PM
Great recap, greybishop!! If anyone wants some finale spoilers, go to YouTube and you can see:
1. The alternate endings of who was in the coffin
2. What Sawyer whispered to Kate before he jumped off the helicopter
3. What was whispered to Kate when she picked up the phone at the house
My daughter and I always watch the show with the captions on our t.v. because it picks up stuff you can't hear, but it didn't pick up what Sawyer said to Kate or what she heard on the other end of the phone.
See ya in January!!
3 of 17 | Posted by rubyslypperz | Posted on June 8, 2008 7:35 PM
Great finale and great recap.
I've never had a show that took me from extreme sorrow (Jin's death) to extreme happiness (Penny and Des's reunion) in a matter of an hour. I think the island has moved several times now. I think it moved in the season 2 finale, in the season 3 finale and Lock has now moved the island too.
4 of 17 | Posted by FreewayShark | Posted on June 8, 2008 9:34 PM
GB, thanks for all the recaps on what was a very solid season. I actually think the writers' strike may have actually helped make the season better by forcing the writers, once the strike was over, to really tighten things up and not meander so much.
As for the theory about the Ben's moving the island making a big "suck hole" in the ocean, did the island actually "move", or did it just move in time a little? If so, maybe that would explain why it didn't leave a void in the water? I'll definitely be stopping by your blog this summer. Thanks again.
-JR
5 of 17 | Posted by JasonR | Posted on June 9, 2008 7:25 AM
Thanks for the kind words folks!
As for the void in the water, JasonR, if you're right and the moving of the island doesn't leave a big void in the ocean, I don't understand why they didn't just cut to a calm ocean. It would have been just as effective at getting the point across.
By giving us the big ripple like they did, they imply that the island's disappearance has physical consequences in the water. If that's the case, those consequences would be much greater than what we saw.
I know, I know, I'm nitpicking. Still it annoys me when a science fiction show messes up on the basic science stuff.
6 of 17 | Posted by Greybishop | Posted on June 9, 2008 7:52 AM
I don't know much about fluid dynamics, either, but maybe the big ripple in the water was the end of the larger, more dramatic (and thus more expensive to create) consequences. Water doesn't just geyser and come down flat....it keeps moving until it calms, with each movement getting smaller and smaller.
: )
Thanks for the recaps, and have a fantastic summer. I look forward to your re-recaps!
7 of 17 | Posted by marishka | Posted on June 9, 2008 8:19 AM
GB--you are the god damned greatest!!!!!
Great recaps! Great season!
I know NOTHING about science and I am not a huge science fiction fan, so I can't make any comments on the moving island waves. I just love this show and I am willing to suspend ALL of my logic to continue to enjoy it.
Loved Penny and Desmond. I hope we get to see more Jeff Fahey next season. And I'll say it...I was bummed when Keamy died. He was pretty smokin', even though his character was totally psychotic.
8 of 17 | Posted by james_woods_rules | Posted on June 9, 2008 2:28 PM
I'll second that james_woods! Keamy was a smokin' hot piece of man!
Great recap Grey!
*Nobody's getting the Emmy for Best Direction for this episode sidenote: Was I the only one who got nauseous during the gunfight?* No you were not! I had to look away because it was too much for me.
"He then does what all parents at the end of their ropes do. He parks John in front of the electronic babysitter while he does his grown up stuff." That was a perfect description of that scene!!! LOL!
I agree that Yunjin Kim deserves an award for her acting in the finale. She did a great job when the freighter blew. I don't want to believe Jin is dead. Did anyone else catch that during the first explosion he was at the back of the boat and could easily have jumped off before the second explosion? Or was that wishful thinking on my part?
I can't wait to see what happens next season. I'll definitely be checking out your other recaps from the previous seasons this summer!
9 of 17 | Posted by akgirl7 | Posted on June 9, 2008 4:16 PM
did you miss out on the ad near the end of the episode for octagon global recruiting? I was pretty sure it was 'fake', then there was a watermark at the end saying it was paid for by ABC, Inc. The dates for their 'recruitment fair' in San Diego are the same as the Comic Con there. Their website says they are recruiting for a new DHARMA Initiative project.
10 of 17 | Posted by jennifah | Posted on June 9, 2008 6:16 PM
Months ago I gave up watching this inane show without direction or plan, with 100 monkeys with typewriters writing the weekly scripts on the fly. However, I have never given up reading your recaps, GB. It really is more fun just to read your cogent prose and your musings and guesses, not to mention your eclectic knowledge of many different subjects.
In short, I think you do a fantastic job of making a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Enjoy the respite until January. Many thanks for enjoyable reading.
11 of 17 | Posted by talma63 | Posted on June 11, 2008 8:07 AM
Jennifah -
Yeah, I didn't comment on the commercial. I actually am not a fan of the tie in stuff that ABC has done with this show. The Lost Experience was silly and pointless, Bad Twin was Awful Novel and in this case two stikes is enough for me.
talma63 -
You REALLY need to come to my discussion forum. We have a guy there who you would get along with famously. He's our board's resident LOST skeptic and he regularly rips on the show. Given that the rest of the forum is made up of fans ranging from admiring to rabid, he could use a friend!
12 of 17 | Posted by Greybishop | Posted on June 11, 2008 10:21 AM
Heya, quick question to GB and the group...
During the scene of Farraday and Charlotte on the beach (page 5 of this recap), did anyone notice Farraday kind of going blurry or out of focus? I watched it at work, then watched it again at home on the VCR, so it could have just been the local cable provider. The reason I ask is because Charlotte seemed to be in focus, just Farraday was out...
I haven't been able to sort through all the Lost websites to find anything, so I thought I'd start here, since y'all are so smart. :)
13 of 17 | Posted by teri00 | Posted on June 18, 2008 11:54 AM
teri00-
I'll take a look at it tonight. If you're right, that would be neat!
14 of 17 | Posted by Greybishop | Posted on June 19, 2008 8:43 AM
teri00-
Just took a look. Nothing unusual that I could spot. Would've been interesting though...
15 of 17 | Posted by Greybishop | Posted on June 20, 2008 7:18 PM
This week (July 13) marks the beginning of the new series of season 2 recaps I'm doing.
Drop by greybishop.com for details.
16 of 17 | Posted by Greybishop | Posted on July 14, 2008 9:28 AM
Can't believe I just found this now. I completely agree with the assessment of the scene between Sun and Widmore. But I think Sun's had kick-ass potential all along. She's always been more tough than Jin. My thought is that Locke visited her like he visited the rest and told her what Ben did to make the boat explode. Working with Widmore could be a way to get revenge on Ben. So it they all go back, then Sun will be the "dark horse" working for the other guy. It's a crime that Yunjin Kim (and Jorge Garcia, for that matter) were Emmy-snubbed.
But the show delivers so many surprises...who knows? Can't wait until next month!
17 of 17 | Posted by Allison | Posted on December 27, 2008 3:41 PM