Young Ben thinks Sayid is there to take him over to the Hostiles, and offers to spring him. Meanwhile, in flashbacks - when was the last time we had any of those? - we learn more about Sayid and his killin' ways. He kills the last of Ben's list and then doesn't know what to do next (I'm guessing it involves whatever got him shackled and on the Ajira plane, but hey, we'll see).
Horace tries to interrogate Sayid but gets nowhere. Meanwhile, Juliet worries that things are going to fall apart with the others back. Horace tells Sawyer of his issues with Sayid, so Sawyer goes in alone. He tries to convince Sayid to claim he's a Hostile who's planning to defect, but Sayid refuses to play along with the Dharma game and decides to go it alone.
Hey, it's Roger Workman! And he's still an asshole, adding actual physical abuse to his delightful repertoire. Then it's back to Sayid's house-building project, where Ben visits him again. He tells Sayid that Locke was murdered and suggests that Sayid is in danger from Widmore. He also suggests that Sayid is simply a natural-born killer. Sayid isn't thrilled by this suggestion, of course.
Sawyer gives Sayid one more chance, and then it's off to the guy who, presumably, is "our you." (He is.) He gives Sayid drugs to make him tell the truth, which makes Sawyer look down, worried. Then it's back to the past/future in LA, when Sayid leaves after Ben makes clear the intention to return to the island. Then Sayid is in a bar, where he meets the woman who takes him onto the plane. And then it's back to the 1977 island (*whoosh*, motherfuckers, huh?), where Sayid is interrogated again under the effect of drugs. He admits he's not a Hostile and that he's been to the island before, describing his knowledge of the Dharma stations. Then he tells them they're all going to die and that he's from the future. The Dharmites think they've used too much truth serum, but Sayid laughs and says they've used exactly enough.
Meanwhile, it's time for Juliet and Kate to meet about Sawyer, but that takes like two seconds. Then it's a Dharma meeting where Radzinsky keeps agitating that Sayid should be killed, and says that if it's not put to a vote he's going to "call Ann Arbor and they'll make [a decision] for us." Amy agrees that it's risky to keep Sayid around. Horace puts it to a vote, which of course everyone but Sawyer agrees to; he ends up raising his hand in defeat so that Horace can say it was unanimous.
Past/future again. Sayid and the woman are pre-coital when it turns out she's a bounty hunter hired to bring Sayid to Guam (convenient!) for the family of Mr. Avellino, the guy Sayid killed on the golf course. And then it's back to 1977, where Sayid tells Sawyer he knows why he's back on the island. (Of course he doesn't actually say why.) Very Locke of him. So Sawyer runs off to Kate to ask why they came back. Kate doesn't know why everyone else came back, but she knows why she did. Of course she can't say why before the flaming Dharma van comes hurtling into Dharmaville and sets a house alight. Who did it? Why, young Ben of course. (Why do they bother hiding people's faces in scenes like this where it's so obvious who it was?) Ben says he'll let Sayid out if he'll take him to the Hostiles. "That's why I'm here," Sayid says, although he clearly doesn't actually think that. The purpose he feels is killing Ben to stop everything else, I'm sure of it. But will the island and/or time let him do it?
In the coda, we're back at LAX. Sayid doesn't want to get on the plane when he sees the other O6 there. He asks the woman if she's working for Ben, but she doesn't know him. And then it's 1977 again, and young Ben lets Sayid out. As they run through the jungle, another Dharma van drives past. It's Jin - Sayid ends up knocking him out, but it's just to get his gun. Then he tells Ben that he was right - Sayid is a killer. "What?" young Ben says. Sayid shoots him. Young Ben collapses, and Sayid runs.
Apparently the island will let Sayid shoot Ben (it's not a Michael situation, for example), but what next? Nothing good, if the teaser is anything to go by.
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
s5e09: Namaste
Sun and Ben - along with Frank and apparently everyone else on the plane - are in 2007. Meanwhile, Jack, Kate and Hurley are back with Sawyer and Jin in 1977. They brought Sun back against Jin's wishes and she's thirty years away from him? That blows. One wonders how these two camps are going to meet again; maybe that's this year's cliffhanger-in-waiting? Well, let's not overguess.
Sawyer tells Juliet about the return of the Ajira 3. Meanwhile, Jin hears that Sun was on the plane and starts running around trying to find out where the plane is (little does he know). In 2007, Ben tells Sun he's going back to the main island, although since he's still on the Hydra later (as this conversation must take place before the scene with Locke talking to Cesar in the Hydra building) something must go wrong.
Well, in case you were wondering if Horace and Amy's baby was someone we knew - it's Ethan. Sawyer tells the A3 to pretend to be Dharma recruits. Meanwhile, someone trips the motion sensor grid outside the Flame - it's Sayid, and Jin catches up with him first, but has to play tough guy when Radzinsky (in his pre-Swan days, apparently) runs up behind him.
Hurley wonders if Sawyer plans to warn Dharma of the Purge (he should have a good 15 years or so), but Sawyer says Faraday has ideas about what they can change. "Faraday's here?" Jack asks. "Not anymore," Sawyer says. Miles sees the A3; Jin reports Sayid's appearance to Sawyer. Back in 2007, Frank warns Sun not to trust Ben as the two of them head for a boat; Sun ends up clocking Ben with an oar (so that's how that happened), so presumably she's heading over alone.
The Swan, it turns out, hasn't even been built yet. Radzinsky is building a model of it, which Sayid apparently sees, so Radzinsky freaks out and won't just let Sawyer take Sayid away. Meanwhile, Jack is assigned "workman," and Kate nearly gets caught until Juliet swoops in to save her. Back in 2007, Frank and Sun row to the island and visit the now-empty barracks, at least until Christian shows up and says he can take Sun to Jin.
In a great little Shining-esque moment, Christian pulls down a 1977 Dharma photo with Jin and the rest in it. He tells Sun she has a long journey ahead. Back in '77, Sayid is stuck in a prison cell. Jack goes to see Sawyer to find out what's up; Sawyer somewhat revels in the fact that he's now the leader among the Oceanic survivors - Jack et al. are forced to rely on him. He tells Jack that Jack reacted rather than thinking when he was leader, and got a lot of people killed. Sawyer says he thinks instead, and that's what he's been doing and what he'll continue to do. In the final scene, young Ben - you knew he'd show up sooner or later! - brings Sayid a sandwich.
Next week! Sayid is tied to a tree! And Juliet tells Kate to stay away from her man! And then we're led to believe that Sayid thinks he's back on the island to kill young Ben and stop the Purge, which probably means that has nothing to do with what actually happens. I wonder what kind of timeline-breakage that would cause, if it did happen, though.
Sawyer tells Juliet about the return of the Ajira 3. Meanwhile, Jin hears that Sun was on the plane and starts running around trying to find out where the plane is (little does he know). In 2007, Ben tells Sun he's going back to the main island, although since he's still on the Hydra later (as this conversation must take place before the scene with Locke talking to Cesar in the Hydra building) something must go wrong.
Well, in case you were wondering if Horace and Amy's baby was someone we knew - it's Ethan. Sawyer tells the A3 to pretend to be Dharma recruits. Meanwhile, someone trips the motion sensor grid outside the Flame - it's Sayid, and Jin catches up with him first, but has to play tough guy when Radzinsky (in his pre-Swan days, apparently) runs up behind him.
Hurley wonders if Sawyer plans to warn Dharma of the Purge (he should have a good 15 years or so), but Sawyer says Faraday has ideas about what they can change. "Faraday's here?" Jack asks. "Not anymore," Sawyer says. Miles sees the A3; Jin reports Sayid's appearance to Sawyer. Back in 2007, Frank warns Sun not to trust Ben as the two of them head for a boat; Sun ends up clocking Ben with an oar (so that's how that happened), so presumably she's heading over alone.
The Swan, it turns out, hasn't even been built yet. Radzinsky is building a model of it, which Sayid apparently sees, so Radzinsky freaks out and won't just let Sawyer take Sayid away. Meanwhile, Jack is assigned "workman," and Kate nearly gets caught until Juliet swoops in to save her. Back in 2007, Frank and Sun row to the island and visit the now-empty barracks, at least until Christian shows up and says he can take Sun to Jin.
In a great little Shining-esque moment, Christian pulls down a 1977 Dharma photo with Jin and the rest in it. He tells Sun she has a long journey ahead. Back in '77, Sayid is stuck in a prison cell. Jack goes to see Sawyer to find out what's up; Sawyer somewhat revels in the fact that he's now the leader among the Oceanic survivors - Jack et al. are forced to rely on him. He tells Jack that Jack reacted rather than thinking when he was leader, and got a lot of people killed. Sawyer says he thinks instead, and that's what he's been doing and what he'll continue to do. In the final scene, young Ben - you knew he'd show up sooner or later! - brings Sayid a sandwich.
Next week! Sayid is tied to a tree! And Juliet tells Kate to stay away from her man! And then we're led to believe that Sayid thinks he's back on the island to kill young Ben and stop the Purge, which probably means that has nothing to do with what actually happens. I wonder what kind of timeline-breakage that would cause, if it did happen, though.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
s5e08: LaFleur
Recap time!
We start off with a pretty big mindfuck, but one that certainly explains Jin's appearance at the end of "316," as well as where Jack, Hurley and Kate are. After a quick refresher of Locke moving the island to stop the skipping (just before which we see the full statue of which the four-toed foot was clearly a part), we move ahead three years - at which point we see Horace (remember him?) getting wasted and blowing up trees. Two Dharma guys run to wake LaFleur, the head of security, who is not a very effectively hidden Sawyer (it's easy to recognize his voice before we see him).
Sawyer/LaFleur drags the drunken Horace back to his pregnant wife Amy. She admits they fought, then goes into labor. We jump back three years (this is starting to become a kind of loose concept, "years," but hey) and find out how our crew got involved with Dharma; Sawyer saved Amy from armed men. In other words, when the island stopped, our guys were in the 60s or maybe 70s (Juliet guesses 70s or 80s). This explains seeing Daniel in the past at the Orchid before as well, now that I think about it.
Amy is slippery like all Dharmites; suspicious after Juliet recognizes the sonic fence, she tricks the group into getting knocked out by it. But I guess everything worked out, since back three years later she's having problems giving birth (the baby is breech and the island's doctor can't help her; she was due two weeks later and booked on a submarine to see a doctor on the mainland). Sawyer recruits Juliet to help deliver the baby, which she does successfully despite worrying about her inability to help women give birth on the island. We also see that Jin's English has come along swimmingly in the three years, and he's apparently checking some list of people looking for other 815ers (or so I took from it).
Back to three years earlier. Horace interrogates Sawyer, who uses all his con artist skills to make up a story credible enough for Horace to tell him that he'll put the group on the sub to Tahiti. Sawyer doesn't like this plan, but Horace tells him he's not Dharma material. Later, Daniel sees young Charlotte just before the Hostiles breach the compound; from inside a building, Sawyer and Juliet exchange a glance as Richard Alpert - same age as always - strides into the compound. "Uh oh," Sawyer says.
Since Richard is there because of the broken truce resulting from Sawyer and Juliet killing two Hostiles, Sawyer goes out to talk to Richard, convincing him he's not with Dharma by citing the events of "Jughead." Richard is suitably impressed but still needs something to show his people, so Paul (Amy's first husband, who the Hostiles killed)'s dead body is traded. Juliet is ready to leave the island via sub, but Sawyer dates us (1974) and points out that she's not going back to whatever she thinks she is. Juliet doesn't care, but Sawyer has bought two weeks from Horace by helping save Dharma from the Hostiles' wrath (the next sub arrives in two weeks) and convinces Juliet to stay that long. Three years later? She's still there, of course, and now she and Sawyer are an item. Who wants to bet that Kate showing up soon is going to mess all that up?
Sure enough, she does. Sawyer has a heart-to-heart with Horace, who reveals that Amy was still holding on to an artifact of Paul's and wonders if three years is enough time to get over someone. Sawyer tells Horace that he felt strongly for a woman about three years earlier (Kate, obviously) but that now he can't even remember what she looks like. Naturally he gets a refresher. After being awoken from Juliet-spooning slumber by a Jin phone call (during which Elizabeth Mitchell's bare back gets its contractually-mandated yearly appearance), Sawyer drives out to the beach to find Jin with Jack, Hurley, and Kate. With music swelling and Sawyer staring, we cut to Lost logo.
Back in two weeks. Two weeks? Lame. The teaser shows that at least Sayid also appears in 1977; Sun is less clear, but you'd have to assume (Jin is no doubt thrilled). Is the rest of the plane in 1977? Seemingly not, since it's at the deserted Hydra station, which the active Dharma Initiative presumably would still be using. Are Locke and Ben going to be 30 years adrift of the rest forever? Are we going to see young Ben soon (by 1977 surely he was already a Dharma member based on his flashback)? And given that every heterosexual permutation of Jack/Juliet/Kate/Sawyer has happened by now (although Jack and Juliet never actually got it on), just how messy is that little love quadrangle going to get? And I'm still wondering where exactly this season is poised to leave off.
We start off with a pretty big mindfuck, but one that certainly explains Jin's appearance at the end of "316," as well as where Jack, Hurley and Kate are. After a quick refresher of Locke moving the island to stop the skipping (just before which we see the full statue of which the four-toed foot was clearly a part), we move ahead three years - at which point we see Horace (remember him?) getting wasted and blowing up trees. Two Dharma guys run to wake LaFleur, the head of security, who is not a very effectively hidden Sawyer (it's easy to recognize his voice before we see him).
Sawyer/LaFleur drags the drunken Horace back to his pregnant wife Amy. She admits they fought, then goes into labor. We jump back three years (this is starting to become a kind of loose concept, "years," but hey) and find out how our crew got involved with Dharma; Sawyer saved Amy from armed men. In other words, when the island stopped, our guys were in the 60s or maybe 70s (Juliet guesses 70s or 80s). This explains seeing Daniel in the past at the Orchid before as well, now that I think about it.
Amy is slippery like all Dharmites; suspicious after Juliet recognizes the sonic fence, she tricks the group into getting knocked out by it. But I guess everything worked out, since back three years later she's having problems giving birth (the baby is breech and the island's doctor can't help her; she was due two weeks later and booked on a submarine to see a doctor on the mainland). Sawyer recruits Juliet to help deliver the baby, which she does successfully despite worrying about her inability to help women give birth on the island. We also see that Jin's English has come along swimmingly in the three years, and he's apparently checking some list of people looking for other 815ers (or so I took from it).
Back to three years earlier. Horace interrogates Sawyer, who uses all his con artist skills to make up a story credible enough for Horace to tell him that he'll put the group on the sub to Tahiti. Sawyer doesn't like this plan, but Horace tells him he's not Dharma material. Later, Daniel sees young Charlotte just before the Hostiles breach the compound; from inside a building, Sawyer and Juliet exchange a glance as Richard Alpert - same age as always - strides into the compound. "Uh oh," Sawyer says.
Since Richard is there because of the broken truce resulting from Sawyer and Juliet killing two Hostiles, Sawyer goes out to talk to Richard, convincing him he's not with Dharma by citing the events of "Jughead." Richard is suitably impressed but still needs something to show his people, so Paul (Amy's first husband, who the Hostiles killed)'s dead body is traded. Juliet is ready to leave the island via sub, but Sawyer dates us (1974) and points out that she's not going back to whatever she thinks she is. Juliet doesn't care, but Sawyer has bought two weeks from Horace by helping save Dharma from the Hostiles' wrath (the next sub arrives in two weeks) and convinces Juliet to stay that long. Three years later? She's still there, of course, and now she and Sawyer are an item. Who wants to bet that Kate showing up soon is going to mess all that up?
Sure enough, she does. Sawyer has a heart-to-heart with Horace, who reveals that Amy was still holding on to an artifact of Paul's and wonders if three years is enough time to get over someone. Sawyer tells Horace that he felt strongly for a woman about three years earlier (Kate, obviously) but that now he can't even remember what she looks like. Naturally he gets a refresher. After being awoken from Juliet-spooning slumber by a Jin phone call (during which Elizabeth Mitchell's bare back gets its contractually-mandated yearly appearance), Sawyer drives out to the beach to find Jin with Jack, Hurley, and Kate. With music swelling and Sawyer staring, we cut to Lost logo.
Back in two weeks. Two weeks? Lame. The teaser shows that at least Sayid also appears in 1977; Sun is less clear, but you'd have to assume (Jin is no doubt thrilled). Is the rest of the plane in 1977? Seemingly not, since it's at the deserted Hydra station, which the active Dharma Initiative presumably would still be using. Are Locke and Ben going to be 30 years adrift of the rest forever? Are we going to see young Ben soon (by 1977 surely he was already a Dharma member based on his flashback)? And given that every heterosexual permutation of Jack/Juliet/Kate/Sawyer has happened by now (although Jack and Juliet never actually got it on), just how messy is that little love quadrangle going to get? And I'm still wondering where exactly this season is poised to leave off.
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