Because this show now has more characters than it knows what to do with, prepare to completely ignore Jack, Kate and Sawyer for an episode. Oh, but we get to see Locke and Sayid!... just kidding. They're immediately out of the picture as Desmond runs off to the ocean to rescue a drowning Claire, just after Charlie and Hurley (apparently camp bellwethers) are informed of Eko's death.
Charlie earns - sorry, reaffirms - my eternal hatred by flouncing about as Desmond performs CPR, and then having the sheer balls to say "Charlie's here!" as she comes to. Dude, I know she kissed you (for still no reason I can see) in the last season finale, but you are not Claire's husband. Or even boyfriend, really. Maybe she would like you more if you weren't such an overpossessive twit. Case in point: a couple minutes later when Claire sits down next to Desmond - the guy who just saved her life - for about three seconds, and then Charlie huffs over all, "Where have you been? Aaron's starving." I know, TV time and all that, but come on. She just sat down. Back the fuck up, guy.
Charlie and Hurley are suspicious of Desmond's talent for knowing that things will happen, so they get him drunk and then Charlie - ever with a Napoleon complex - bullies Desmond until the latter tackles him. "You don't want to know what happened to me!" Desmond yells, and then we see what happened.
And honestly, I'm not entirely sure what it was. My leading theory would be that Desmond got a very realistic life-flashing-before-eyes moment, but what was with the old lady who wanted to make sure that things happened the same way? If it was just a flashback and she was in fact a sort of conscience figure, why would it matter if he tried to do things differently, really? He already turned the key. If he was actually traveling through time (or leapt Sam Beckett-style into his own body, whatever), why does a hit from a cricket bat send him directly back to the island? More importantly, wasn't someone claiming recently that the show really wasn't very (or at all) supernatural? And yet here we have either time travel or seeing the future, and there's no real way around it. If Desmond knows the future because he's already lived through this timeline - although that makes no sense since turning the key sent him back before he got to this point - then it's time travel, and that's supernatural. If he knows the future because he keeps getting flashes of it, as he states, then that's obviously supernatural. Either way, I think we have our first confirmed plotline that science cannot possibly explain away, although I think most people would tell you that the show was firmly in the realm of the supernatural long before this point.
The point of all this runaround is that what Desmond keeps seeing is Charlie's future, and Charlie keeps dying, so Desmond's been saving him, but he knows he can't do it forever, and predicts that Charlie is going to die. Hooray! The universe hates Charlie as much as I do! Desmond, quit getting in the universe's way!
In miscellaneous plot news, man, Mr. Widmore is an asshole. That whiskey may be expensive but I doubt a single swallow is worth more than Desmond. Think about what you could get for his kidneys alone on the organ black market! Also, apparently the English pub crowd really loves them some Cass Elliott. And why is the angry guy with the cricket bat there immediately as the game ends? Did the bartender promise him the money would show up magically in his wallet if the team won?
Next week: Forget any of this ever happened, it's back to the Jack plot. Where he had the upper hand a week ago, apparently now he's just another prisoner, and the previously taken castaways are "here to watch," whatever that means. The tease promises answers to "three of Lost's biggest mysteries," which, yeah, I'll believe that when I see it.
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