s5e10: He's Our You

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.