Make no mistake. I love this show. I’m hypercritical, I obsess with certain characters, I go on rambling non sequiturs, and I tend to be long winded. But there are kernels of truth scattered throughout, I hit a robust percentage of the theories I throw out there, well maybe not robust, but I’m at least almost mediocre, and these write ups are a labor of love. Now go screw.
I finally finished up all the episodes and watched the Incident a couple of times. I know I toss around a lot of speculation, sometimes I’m right, sometimes I’m wrong, sometimes I forget stuff. We can't wrap anything up quickly, as we need more information, which is Season 6. We can only put together as many pieces of the puzzle as we can. But I am convinced of a few things at this point. We’ve been watching similar scenes from different loops, as the Losties and other characters have been reliving a loop of time, to put right what once went wrong. The loop continues all the way to Juliet beating on the rock, because her bleeding was different from scene to scene. Replay that scene, and watch the blood on her face. Hell, just watch the blood pouring out of her mouth, then it’s gone. Loops start most likely when a group of people arrive at the island. When the Black Rock is trapped by the island, their looping begins. When Oceanic 815 is trapped by the island, their looping begins. As Jacob says, you need to just find one loophole, everything else (past loops) is progress. The loophole can be one of many different things coming together, but the most important assumption is that the primary loophole is that only the leader of the Others can ask for an audience with Jacob, as X pretending to be Locke was able to do. Otherwise, he could not find Jacob without Richard’s help, and could not confront him in the statue. We can assume that the bomb detonating and Jacob being stabbed are game changers, with neither happening in past loops. But I assume each Oceanic 815 loop begins with Jack waking up in the jungle and the plane is in pieces on the 2 beaches. This doesn't mean things haven't happened in the past to prepare for such a moment, as Jacob visits young Sawyer and Kate, and course correction is happening with Widmore, Hawking, and the Others prior to the plane crash. Ben moving the island seems to be something that always happens, because Locke needed to die for the island and become a vessel for X. A loop lasts a certain amount of time, or more likely when something catastrophic happens, either of which can reset the loop to the beginning of Jack waking up in the jungle. If the plane doesn't crash and continues to Los Angeles, that loop is broken.
Starting with episode 7. This was a sad episode all around. The Selfish 6 are really sitting on a high horse, and as Locke is making the rounds and having a talk with all of these self absorbed lunkheads, he falls into more of a depression, loses his faith in the island escapees. Sure, I tend to run around yelling about milk shakes and beating up religious leaders with a bowling pin while sporting a pretty sharp mustache, but I’m not heartless. Locke was taking a pounding by some bad people all around him. The events leading up to the death of Locke and later Juliet were rather sad and touching moments. Caesar is searching the Hydra offices, finds maps, a gun, interrupted by Ilana because they found someone not on the plane, and his name is John Locke. I had to rewind here. I swear, I don’t see the scar that runs through the outside of Locke’s eye on his face. Sun and Frank have stolen a boat. A search is on for the passenger list. Locke bites into a mango and declares it the best mango I’ve ever eaten. Shades of that horrific movie City of Angels, don’t ask but I watched that dreck, and Nicholas Cage goes from an angel to a man, one of the dumbest things something with intelligence can do, but he eats some peaches or pears or something and he nearly sh!ts his pants over the taste explosion in his mouth. The point is, here is X eating something in a man’s body. Although Jacob has eaten fish, we technically don’t know if X can eat regular people food, despite telling Jacob that he had “eaten” earlier. He is a manifestation. I digress. Locke isn’t remembered on the plane, which Locke can’t really explain, but he remembers dying, meaning he is aware that Ben killed him. So he has no knowledge of the activities between being strangled and waking up on Hydra island, or who was on the plane and returned to island. John turns the wheel, and wakes up in Tunisia. He is tossed in a car, has surgery in a remote medical facility which is basically a tent, and I swear that Nadia is one of the nurses, or her exact twin, as I rewound that a few times. Abaddon is hovering in background. When Locke comes to, Widmore is at bedside. He has some interesting things to say. John came out the exit of the island, the poop shoot. Widmore was their leader, but Ben tricked him into leaving the island. Widmore protected the island peacefully. Stop for a second. It’s not like the Others have been peaceful for quite some time. They killed the military people, feuded with Dharma and eventually killed them, Widmore ordered the death of Rousseau and her kid, Widmore killed his fellow captured soldier by breaking his neck, the Purge, and if you want to include time jumping, the death of Daniel Faraday and the Incident where many people died on the island during the battle at the Swan station. Widmore is full of sh!t. Widmore says that he was exiled by Ben, which I believe, as all Ben has to say is “Jacob wants you to leave” and Widmore has to leave. Widmore deduces that Locke is here to bring back the Selfish 6. They’ve been back 3 years, they have normal lives, and they are lying. Widmore further explains that a war is coming, and if you are not on the island, when that happens, the wrong side is going to win. So, whose side is Widmore on? I tend to think he may be on X’s side. While both Ben and Widmore are feuding on a personal level, it would seem that Hawking is working for Jacob and the Others, as she was one of their leaders and is working with Ben to help Jacob’s chosen people. Widmore is trying to help Locke who is to be the vessel for X to return, and ultimately that leads to the death of Jacob. Widmore is so hell bent on revenge on Ben, he has joined the other side. Widmore gives John surveillance reports. I haven’t tried to kill you yet, unlike Ben. Well, this isn’t particularly true, as secondary protocol called for the death of everybody on the island other than Ben. CW: I needed Linus removed for it to be your time, the island needs you, it has for a long time. Um, Locke is not to have any time. The island needs Locke dead so he can become the vessel for X, and that is why it has needed John for a long time. Not John himself. JL: Richard says that I could die. CW: I don’t know why he said that, but I won’t let that happen. Right away, Widmore is working against the wishes of Richard and by extension Jacob. If Locke is to die, he needs to stay alive. I don’t know if there was much truth, but certainly there was no sincerity to anything that Widmore said. Abaddon is John’s tour guide for the Amazing Wheelchair Race. Sayid is working for a charity, building houses, trying to feel less guilt over killing so many people. Sayid mocks John “Why do you really want to go back? You have nowhere else to go?” In New York, Walt senses John’s presence on the street. W: I’ve been having dreams about you. You’re on an island, wearing a suit, and there are people all around you, they want to hurt you John.” Locke decides to leave Walt alone, since he has been through enough. It’s probably fair to say this is a good bye to Walt, as he looks nothing like the kid during Season 1, and it’s easier for the writers to simply write his character off than try to bring him to the beginning of a loop or something. Walt was a character I had no issues with, but I sure hated his name, as his father yelled it a couple of thousand times during Season 2. Abaddon is mocking John for his lack of success. JL: All I have to do is convince one; if I do that, the rest will come.” Prior knowledge? Assumption? Ben is watching. Locke visits Hurley, who is still constantly seeing dead people. JL: I need you to come back. Abaddon’s presence freaks out Hurley. A: I help people get to where they need to get to, John. Abaddon is a course corrector for Widmore, but the question is whether these activities have to happen over and over for the loops? Ah, now it’s a visit to the Kate monster. K: You made yourself perfectly clear, everybody on the island is going to die if I don’t go back, and the answer is NO. Holy fock balls. The selfishness is just oozing out of her. The hell with the lives of numerous people on the island. Kate has a nice cash settlement, is out of jail by way of probation, has a stolen kid, a nanny, and occasionally has sex with a junkie doctor. Life is good. Karma is a funny thing. Kate continues to pummel John for his outrageous request to help save people’s lives. K: Even been in love? You were so desperate to stay on the island. It was because you didn’t love anyone. Is Kate talking to Locke or Sawyer? Kate is the worst human being when it comes to issues of love. Yet, she is pontificating as if she wrote some kind of advice book and is sitting on Oprah’s couch. Instead of John punching back with what he read in Kate’s file, John goes the earnest route. Helen. I was angry, I was obsessed. K: Look how far you’ve come. And we can ask the same question of you, Katie Bates. You going to push Locke out of his wheelchair and smash his legs some more? Helen is dead. A: John, your path leads back to the island. JL: You say that like it’s inevitable. Reality is, John going back to the island is inevitable. Like Desmond going to the island in the first place. These course correctors are making sure certain things happen in the loop. Unfortunately for Abaddon, I don’t think anybody told him that he was going to get shot by Ben at the cemetery. John drives off and gets into a multi car accident. Some key dialogue in the most goose bump inducing, cringe worthy, misguided dialogue in the history of LOST. Jack SUCKS moment for the ages.
J: What are you doing here?
L: We have to go back, the people we left behind need our help.
J: Yeah, it’s our duty, how many times are you going to say that?
L: Someone is trying to kill me, I’m important.
J: Have you ever stopped to think that these delusions that you’re special aren’t real? There is nothing important about you at all. Maybe you are just a lonely old man that crashed on an island….that’s all.
L: You’re father says hello.
J: My father is dead.
L: He didn’t look dead to me. You’re supposed to help me.
J: It’s done, we left. We were never important. Leave me alone.
Wow. Just jaw dropping idiocy. Again, you have a person pleading for help because the people left behind are in trouble. The French people ran right into that hole to save their crew. But people like Jack and Kate and Sayid simply mock the messenger and have no regard for helping save the lives of their friends. Outrageous. And Jack and Kate were pretty much wrong about every single thing they said to Locke. Like usual. They just can’t wrap that concept around their tiny little flea brains. Locke writes a suicide note in his hotel room and prepares to hang himself. Ben arrives at the exact moment (loop knowledge, like seeing a death certificate with time of death in a past loop) to stop Locke from killing himself. B: Widmore used you. We waited until you showed up so that you could help him get to the island. That is exactly right, Ben, and ironically, that is your plan too. Ben starts to really butter up Locke. John, you have no idea how important you are. L: I’m a failure. B: You’re too important, John. Locke tells Ben about Jin being alive and that he has to go to Hawking. Ben was winding up the chord as we was planning to choke John no matter what, but with the Jin info to use against Sun, and with the Hawking info, Ben no longer needs Locke, and strangles him. Sad moment, as this is the last time we see Locke alive in Season 5, and possibly ever. Locke was a fantastic character, and deserved a hero status at the end of this series. He may not get that distinction, which is a shame. Ben’s motivation? Of course, Ben wants to lead the Others again and getting his only competition out of the way was the right play in his eyes. But does Ben not know that X will use Locke as a vessel, and he has just made it easier for X, who I guess he knows nothing about. It must be all about Ben, trying to get back to the island, and they need a corpse. Ben stages the crime scene. Back on Hydra island, Locke interrupts Caesar in the office. L: I spent over 100 days on the island. Caesar describes Hurley on the plane, who was among the passengers who disappeared, and Locke seems a bit surprised by that. But then he finds Ben among the injured and declares that “He’s the man who killed me.”
Version 2 of Sawyer and Juliet and other time travelers at the well with a rope sticking out of the ground. Miles points to the statue. While great debates raged across the internet about which Egyptian god was the likeness of that structure, I was on Team Tawaret from day one, thank you very much. Flash, and headaches are gone, John saved them. Horace is drunk and tossing around dynamite at the pylons. Sawyer is head of security of Dharma, LaFleur. Daniel is in shock over Charlotte’s death and is useless for a while. Gunshots, and Sawyer and Juliet kill a couple of Others. Amy shows her gratefulness of being spared death by asking who are you? Thank you would have been nice. They bury the Others and take dead Paul, Amy’s husband. I realize that Smokie can imitate the dead, but it doesn’t matter if they are buried or not. When the Others gave Pickett’s wife a Viking funeral in Season 3, was it to prevent her from every being manifested by the smoke monster? Amy further repays her rescuers by zapping them at the pylons. Early on, we can see the Dharma people are hippie assh0les. Juliet is pulled out of the motor pool to deliver a baby. Sawyer and Jin are looking for their buddies which working as security. Juliet explains with her group how she used to live in Dharmaville and the Others wiped out “most” of people currently living here in the Barracks. Well, Radzinksy survived as he was pushing the button with Inman in the Swan after the purge timeline. Anyone else spared? Daniel sees Charlotte in a red dress, an homage to her just dying. Red means dead. And, yes, Daniel is creepy the way he looks at young Charlotte. Get a grip, Pete Townsend. And can the Super Bowl entertainment get any more lacking? The Who? Really? Why not bring on Sha Na Na if you are going to allow 100 year old musicians butcher music. Next year, half time presents the Lawrence Welk Zombie Orchestra. Alarm goes off, and Richard waltzes into camp. Pylons? Pshaw. That thing can keep out other things, but not us. Sawyer goes out to talk to Richard. He references Jughead, Locke, shooting the Others. A deal is struck. The Others want Paul’s body for unknown reasons. My best guess is that Miles and Smokie have similar abilities. They can read the mind of the dead. If the Others bring Paul to Smokie, they will know what happened at the shootout earlier. Sawyer, looking positively homeless, unshaven, greasy, tattered clothes, and probably mushing a steaming log in his shorts as he sits on a dock, convinces Juliet not to leave just yet. Three years later, Sawyer and Juliet are living together. They give each other a believable kiss. That might be the first believable kiss I’ve seen all series. Horace awakes to find out he has a son. Paul has been gone 3 years. “Is that long enough to forget someone?” Sawyer: Yep. Sawyer is summoned, and discovers that Jack, Hurley, and Rocky Dennis are back on the island. Kate looks like a lion. You could crack open a coconut on her forehead.
The Ajira plane hits turbulence, night turns to day, Jack Kate Hurley Sayid disappear. Frank shows off his skill in keeping the plane together, unlike the doofus first pilot of Oceanic 815. As the co-pilot tries to send a mayday, he hears the transmission from the radio tower. But it’s not Rousseau’s French message, or silence as the broadcast was turned off by Jack and the Losties. We hear the 4,8,15,16,23,42 being broadcast. Now, is it that Rousseau was overriding the numbers with her message, and now the numbers are back? We heard the numbers when the French arrived on the island, and when Hurley was talking to the widow of the military guy in Australia, she said all he talked about were the numbers being broadcast non stop. Frank lands plane on runway that Sawyer and Kate were working on during their time in the cages, and that Juliet describes in the finale of Season 3. The co-pilot is dead. Caesar calls Ilana “lady” so we know they are not working together. Sawyer interacts with the new arrivals, and is already making googly eyes at Kate. Time for small talk. It’s 1977. John’s dead. Yep, that just about covers it. Jin runs off to Flame and roughs up Radzinsky, who I think looks like Paul Giammati, as he thinks Sun is on island somewhere. Frank gives a speech on the island, much like Jack’s live together die alone drivel from Season 1. Was anybody else taken aback by Frank’s blatant chest hair as each episode progressed. He kept popping open more and more buttons on his shirt, and exposing more of that awful sheep’s wool on his chest. Worst V-neck idea ever. It was a field of dandelions. It was a scouring pad. It was a toupee. The more I saw Frank, the more I had an urge to go grab some soap and scrub my sink. Ben walks off, Sun follows, Frank follows. Worst spy movie ever. Amy’s baby is Ethan. No plane lands on the island, but an Iraqi did. Jin and Radzinsky capture Sayid. Hurley brings up purge to Sawyer, who seems oblivious to it. He must know about it, but why doesn’t he care to prevent himself from being a victim to it. Also, we have recently found out how Richard can bypass the pylons, tunnels, so it shows just how the Others got to Dharmaville to pull it off. Ben takes Sun to hidden boats. It stands to reason that if Ben built a runway, he might have a few boats stashed just in case he knows what is happening, and he does. Sun hits Ben over head with oar. What, is this some kind of feel good moment for the audience, maybe laugh. NOOOOOO. Sun is a useless sack of suck. Ben is somewhat aware of what is happening. He says he might be able to help you find your husband. He got you back to the island. And you hit him? Sun is out of control with her obsession in being around to ruin Jin’s life and her monstrous ego. Jin tried to blow himself up not to be around you anymore. Take a hint. Jack is a workman. The humbling continues. Radzinsky wants to kill Sayid because he might have seen Radzinsky playing with his Swan model Legos. While Sun clobbered Ben in broad daylight, she and Frank reach the shore of the island half a mile away in the middle of the night. Loops. The dock is disheveled and falling apart. Way too much wear and tear. Something has changed. There is a rustling in the jungle in the trees. Reminded me of the pilot episode when the monster was checking out the Losties. But if was definitely Smokie, about to take the form of a character. Sun and Frank walk up to a battered Dharma processing station. If the Other took over the Barracks, and they did, they would not allow Dharma stuff to be prominently displayed like this. Whispers. A light in a house, and it’s Smokie Christian. In the clearly abandoned house, most likely abandoned by Dharma and never occupied by the Others, there are pictures of past years. Ah, here it is, 1977, he is with your friends. OK, so there was a 1978, so the bomb didn’t destroy the island. But something has fundamentally changed on the island, too many details look…off. Sayid is in basement jail. Jack goes to see Sawyer and is surprised to see Juliet there. Jack and Sawyer have a philosophical discussion. S: back when you were calling the shots, you just reacted. See you didn’t think Jack, and as I recall, a lot of people ended up dead. J: I got us off the island. S: But here you are, right back where you started. Sawyer is telling Jack he doesn’t have to think anymore. S: Ain’t that a relief. Jack actually agrees. The problem here isn’t that Jack is taking a verbal beating and being reminded of his thorough incompetence. And as pathetic as Jack’s excuse that he got 6 people off an island when 100 died, that isn’t the problem either. Sawyer was a downright hero Season 3 and 4, but now he is simply becoming a megolamaniac and completely self satisfied. He has the perfect life going, and is upset that some d!ckhead doctor and an ex-girlfriend with homocidal tendencies is going to ruin things. He is lashing out that his lovely life is ending. But the end of season, he is as dirty and soiled as the rest of the Losties. Well, he is always dirty and soiled, but I mean from a personality and mental attitude standpoint. Young Ben drops off a sandwich to Sayid. If that was my kid, I’d constantly yell at him “Stop being creepy” and then punch him in the stomach. Just out of principle.
Young Sayid breaks a chicken’s neck. I don’t know why I found this funny, but they say that killing animals as a child can lead you down a path to become a serial killer. I have a mass grave of parakeets with Dharma uniforms in my parent’s backyard. I have no idea how they got there. But it was difficult fitting those uniforms over their stiff bodies last week after a year of sewing. I mean, I imagine it would be difficult. Young Ben continues to bring awful sandwiches to Sayid in his cell. I bet it’s parakeet salad. Sayid kills another Widmore guy in Moscow. Ben tells Sayid that it’s over, no more jobs, and Mission Accomplished. Let’s see, that is a famous slogan for failure by Bush, and you just said it to an Iraqi. Oh, the layers of the irony. Horace and Radzinsky are interrogating Sayid, incompetently. Juliet to Sawyer: It’s over, isn’t it? This, us, all of it? S: Mission accomplished. OK, Sawyer didn’t really say that. Sawyer is unsuccessful in talking reason to Sayid. Sayid is being irrational in his hatred towards Ben. Sawyer is irrational because he doesn’t want his good thing in Dharma ruined. Hurley tells Kate about Juliet and Sawyer in the cafeteria. It’s like high school and they are passing notes back and forth. Yuck. Roger and Sayid match wits, and are exhausted by the process. Ben comes in with another sandwich. Ben says he made it for Roger. Roger knows that Ben never made him a sandwich, tells him not to lie to him, and roughs him up. What a rotten kid. Never made his hard working dad a sandwich? What, you think it’s easy to be drunk every day. Even I can’t pull it off. It takes dedication. And your lazy bones can’t slap some ham and cheese on some bread and give it to the old man and say thanks? Fock, this kid is the worst. Roger, this snooty punk kid needs to be taught a thing or two about a thing or two. And what’s with the kid’s eyes? Are you raising a wombat? Punch him in the face until he starts to squint. Ben visits Sayid in the Dominican Republic. Locke is dead. Our work is at fault. Hugo being watched. Ben continues to build up Sayid as a killing machine, setting him up to shoot young Ben when he time jumps. Ben is so crazed to be leader of the Others, once he is installed leader, he probably manipulates loops to his advantage to remain leader. And Sayid needs to shoot him for that to happen. Sayid is taken to Oldham, and is forced to swallow a truth pill. This is where the Marina Scene part 3 happens (refer to part one of this season’s writeup). Sayid in a bar is approached by Ilana. Sayid talking to Oldham, says he is not a Hostile, been on island before, been in 2 plane crashes, knew about different hatches and Swan, is from the future, and the Others ignored all this information except for the Swan. Way to go, Radzinsky. But ‘ole fussy britches isn’t done yet. As Dharma meets to decide Sayid’s fate, Radz rallies the other elders to his way of thinking of killing Sayid. Even Amy spouts “think of the children” like Reverend Lovejoy’s wife on The Simpsons. Vote unanimously to kill him. Dharma sucks. Ilana and Sayid fight in a hotel room, and it’s not over who gets to be on top. Sayid is the ladies man on this series. Who knew? She tells Sayid a story, and none of it is true, as she is in Jacob’s employ. Sayid explains to Sawyer he now knows why he is on the island. A flaming bus hits a house. Ben helps Sayid escape. Ben’s glasses are taped up as his dad hit him. Well, good for Roger. B: I hate it here, take me with you. They run through the jungle, Sayid knocks out Jin, takes his gun, and shoots Ben in the heart. I’ve re-watched this scene a hundred times. Through. The. Heart.
Jin picks up Ben, and the bullet hole is in the wrong spot. Not where the heart is, but on the opposite side of the chest, and about a foot lower. There is no mistake to be made here. Similar scenes in different loops. Ben actually dies in at least one loop. Sayid, in short range, is probably going to hit his stationary target. But the hole is all wrong, and this is a different loop. Dharma is cleaning up from the fire, Jack opens his cakehole, and Horace confirms the obvious that this was an inside job. Roger gets Kate to help him with his winch. If you know what I’m talking about. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. He introduces himself. Then Jin pulls up with a bloody young Ben. Roger does the unthinkable, and actually says “That’s my kid, that’s my kid.” Good job. Everybody knows that’s your kid. How about an “Oh my God!!!” or “What happened?” or something more appropriate. You are seemingly identifying your kid out of a police lineup. Kate goes to visit Cassidy, Sawyer sent me. Cassidy rags on Sawyer for a while, not a hero but a coward, he was trying to get away from you, etc. A woman scorned. But if Sawyer never cared about Clementine, what happened to that reward money he set up in a bank in New Mexico for his daughter when he did the con in the prison. Oh, did Cassidy spend it all already. Maybe buy the fancy house she is currently living in? Cassidy figures out that the baby is not Kate’s. This visit isn’t going as planned. Jack, Kate, Hurley under friendly house arrest, where Hurley and Miles discuss time travel. Miles explains that you can’t change anything, Ben was always shot, we just never experienced how it all turned out. When Sawyer asks for Jacks’ help to operate on Ben, Jack refuses. J: I already saved Ben once for you Kate K: We caused this J: When we were here before, I spent all of my time trying to fix things; maybe the island wants to fix things itself; I was just getting in the way. Jack has apparently had a moment of clarity. K: I don’t like the new you. J: You didn’t like the old me. Kate has been punched in the face like Ben from Roger. She has been told by Jack: beat it, broad. Wow. I didn’t think Jack had it in him. He’ll crumble soon enough, but he stood up to Kate while sober for once, so good for him. Kate decides to stop sucking the life out of Jack like some kind of parasite only found in sewers, crocodile teeth, and Howard Stern’s wig, and gives blood to Ben. Before Kate has a chance to sleep with Roger, Ben’s heart rate crashes, no doubt sickened by their flirting. Hurley: this conversation already happened, that we are having right now. And if the loops are true, it gets more weird in how many times that conversation happened. M: for you and me, it’s happening right now H: why don’t I remember any of this? Miles: Time is not a straight line anymore; the past and the future happened before right now; any of us can die; this is our present. H: when was tortured by Sayid, why didn’t he remember being shot by him? Other than the last statement by Hurley, I followed the conversation much better this time around. You have to read it over a couple of times and think outside the box. As for the Ben part, either Richard was telling the truth and Ben would forget being healed, or Ben knows, and needs Sayid to shoot him so that he eventually becomes the leader. Juliet suggests only the Others can save Ben, and Kate runs off with him. A marina scene, and Kate takes Aaron to a supermarket where he disappears. Aaron is found by somebody that looks a lot like Claire in weird makeup. Kate visiting Cassidy again. K: I expected him to be taken C: You took him Kate. OK, fine, that’s pretty rational so far. I’m on board. Now, abandon ship. C: You needed him, Sawyer broke your heart, how else are you supposed to fix it? Cassidy is Kate’s drug addicted friend. As soon as Kate is ready to get away from insanity, Cassidy walks in the door with a giant bag of crazy and dozens of needles. Sawyer tells Kate the only reason he is helping her with Ben is for Juliet. Jake comes out of the shower, and Juliet sees his winkie. She suppresses a laugh, it’s shrinkage from cold water, shrinkage I tell ya, ask anyone, J: I came back to save you Juliet J: We didn’t need saving. J: I came back because I was supposed to. Jack sort of gets it, in a condescending sort of way. None of the other main characters are acting rational or selfless. Kate and Sawyer talk about Clementine and other stuff. S: You and me would have never worked out Kate. Ouch, that’s two guys that Kate was trying to entrap in her life of misery that told her to beat it, broad. I’m so happy I almost smile. The Others show up. Kate visit’s Claire’s mother. K: Aaron is your grandson, Claire is alive, we lied. A stunned Mrs Littleton: Why didn’t you come to me? K: Because I needed him; I’m going back to find your daughter, This is all just bullsh!t. Kate is crying not out shame or guilt or genuine sorrow. She is sad because the child she abducted has been returned to his relatives, and Kate no longer has a purpose in life. She isn’t a criminal right now, so she needs to hurry up and plan her next evil act. Richard appears to Kate and Sawyer. K: we need you to save his life. R: if I take him, he’s not ever going to be the same again, he will forget any of this happened, and his incense will be gone. He will always be one of us. Richard refuses to check with Ellie or Charles first. R: I don’t answer to either of them. Richard takes Ben to Temple, above ground. Ben wakes up on Hydra island, sees Locke hovering over him. Welcome back.
Widmore confronts Richard over Ben. R: the island chooses who is chooses. I suppose this means Ben is being groomed to eventually become their leader. Ben continues to whine that he wants to stay with the Others. Ben tells New Locke that he broke the rules, he was coming back to answer for what he had done, going back to be judged. Ilana moving the cargo, at this point must know what is inside. Yet, she does nothing, watching Locke walking around. Why not put a spy on him? Say something? A dead guy is prancing around this island. Young Ben and young Ethan are crouching in the bushes. Ben walks in the tent, and proceeds to steal Alex from Rousseau; tells her any time she hears whispers, to run the other way. Ben in his old office in Hydra station. Ben explains to Locke that killing him was the only way to get you (and me, mostly me) back to island. Locke had critical information, his death was in the best interests of the island. Overly smug Locke was simply looking for an apology. It was clear that when Locke was reborn, he was a different person. I thought it meant that his attitude was due to being more in tune with the island. Turns out he was literally a different person. Caesar interrupts Ben and Locke taking a boat, and Ben shoot him. Ben wants to summon the smoke monster from his old house. John calls him out on his lie and that Ben doesn’t care about the rules. You are here for killing your daughter. Young Ben returns to the Other camp, his orders were to exterminate Rousseau, as told by Charles who continues to have a thick British accent despite many years on the island. Widmore wants to protect the island, Ben challenges him to kill the baby. When you realize that Alex is killed by Keamy 16 years later, and Rousseau it is the fulfillment of what Widmore had ordered to Ben. Ben realized that the island wanted them dead and has course corrected, and is here to say that he was wrong, and Widmore was right. I think. Ben reprimands Locke: You don’t have the first idea what this island wants. So wrong, so very wrong. A light in Ben’s old house, Sun and Frank ransacking it, Sun shows Dharma photo to Ben, who is surprised to see Jack Kate Hurley in 1977. Sun: a man named Christian told us to wait here for Locke. OK. If I was Ben, my immediate question is about Christian. Maybe Locke told Ben about him, maybe not. But I’d certainly be curious. Frank is done with the excitement and leaves. Ben goes into his secret tunnel in his house, then sticks his arm elbow deep into an ancient toilet, and unclogs it. I can see a couple of floaters and some kernels of corn. Somebody needs to eat more fiber. We see Widmore leaving the island, being banished, the work of Ben. Ben: You left the island regularly, you had a daughter (Penny) with an outsider, you broke the rules. Widmore tells Ben that if he is wrong about letting Alex and Danielle live, he will pay for it, because you cannot fight the inevitable. Widmore leaves by sub. It’s very strange that Widmore was able to go back and forth from island, but can’t find it again over the next 20 years. You would think that you might have some general idea where it is. Sun doesn’t believe that Locke could have been dead. Ben assures her that he was and that he had no idea Locke would be resurrected. B: John walking around this island scares the living hell out of me. No monster shows up, but Locke knows where it is. Ben calls Widmore to gloat about how he is about to return to island and is going to kill his daughter. He name drops the boat Our Mutual Friend, allowing Widmore to find Desmond and Penny later on with this information. Locke leads Sun and Ben to Temple wall. Ben is familiar with top of Temple, but they are going underground. Ben: find Desmond, tell him I was sorry. Back at a marina, Ben shoots Desmond right in the old grocery bag. Problem is that there was no bullet hole on Desmond’s shirt, so the Twinkies and Romaine lettuce must have been body armor. While Ben is brandishing a gun at Penny, Charlie surfaces. Ben hesitates, and Desmond beats the crap out of him, much to my disappointment. Under the Temple, and Ben falls through floor to go really under the Temple, probably unexplored territory for the Others. As Ben is admiring the scenery, Smokie comes up from a vent leading to the really, really under the Temple. It scans Ben in a really breathtaking way. Really nice scene. But now Smokie owns Ben’s memories, secrets, thoughts, lies on file, and as an extension, X probably does too. Alex appears and hassles Ben. A: I already know you are planning to kill John Locke again; you hurt him and I will destroy you; you will listen to John Locke and follow his every order. Ben is happy to be alive. I thought it was humorous that the monster already knew Ben’s secrets, and that killing Locke was already in motion again. Good stuff, Ben.
Young Miles can hear dead people talking to him. He is given a simple task of erasing a security tape and fails. He is put in a circle of trust, and we all know that a circle is a loop. He is sent to a trespassing site, the Swan location, where Radzinsky gives him a body for his body bag. Seriously, how can the Others not know about Swan being built. The island isn’t that big, and large construction projects make a lot of noise. I guess at some point Eloise allowed Dharma to work on the island based on Daniel’s journal and based on Jacob’s recommendation. Miles’ mother is dying, most likely cancer from prolonged exposure to electromagnetism on the island. She explains that Miles’ father kicked them out when he was young, and his body is somewhere you can never go. No deathbed confessions here, is that right Mrs. Chang? Roger Linus freaks out that Ben is missing. Instead of raising an alarm, telling Horace, looking for missing Ben, Roger instead does the most helpful thing possible in sitting on swing and drinking his ass off. I gotta tell you, Roger is hardcore. K: I have a feeling he is going to be OK. Roger freaks out and thinks Kate is involved. Roger: You want to help Kate? Why don’t you just mind your own business. Roger is actually perceptive, and should be promoted to something other than Workman. Maybe he can swap jobs with Jack. Oh, he’s a workman too. Well, the world needs ditch diggers too. Hurley Skipper and his little buddy Miles Gilligan go to Orchid. Hurley and Miles identify each other as being able to speak to dead. Naomi has a proposition for Miles. Miles reads the thoughts of a dead guy in a restaurant. The guy robbed graves and bought planes for Widmore. Miles is offered 1.6 million for services, exactly half of what he tried to extort from Ben in Season 4. Hurley is in circle of trust. Chang threatens him with a job of weighing polar bear turds at Hydra station with their ridiculous experiments. Well, how ridiculous are they if a polar bear ended up in Tunisia? Dr Change is Miles’ father. Duh. Who didn’t see that coming? This was clear for a very long time. Jack erases a chalkboard full of notes on ancient Egyptian civilizations. Roger is drunk and pissed off and thinks Kate is guilty of something. Hi, My Name Is Roger. Kharma is a funny thing. Miles is kidnapped prior to the freighter trip by Bram and his merry henchmen. Don’t work for Widmore. So, this is confirmation that Bram and Ilana are not with Widmore, but squarely on Jacob’s side. Was Miles the only one threatened, as I would imagine Daniel or Charlotte or Frank might have been affected by such an experience. Bram: Do you know what lies in the shadow of the statue? Then you are not ready to go to the island. What kind of litmus test is that? Bram tells Miles that Bram’s team is going to win. Hurley is writing Empire Strikes Back. Jack tells Sawyer that Kate squawked to Roger. Before Sawyer could go and yell at Kate, Phil shows up with incriminating evidence against Sawyer. The sub is back, and so is Daniel, from Ann Arbor. Well, why was he allowed to leave the island and go to Dharma headquarters? Did he tell them he was a physicist? I’m sure he continued his research, but I though his memory had issues. Did the island heal him so that he could function off island, or was it like Rose and that the island healed you only while you were there?
Desmond is in the hospital from a phantom bullet wound, well at least in one of the loops. Eloise visits. Daniel is excited because he saw the orientation photo and that Jack, Kate, Hurley were in their time. Daniel to Jack: You don’t belong here at all, Eloise was wrong. Young Daniel is addressed by his mother when playing the piano EH: Destiny is having a gift that must be nurtured; it’s my job to keep you on your path. Thank you Kathy Bates from Misery. Daniel goes to Orchid to talk to Chang, and recreates the opening scene from this season. The drilling is killing. Daniel wants Chang to evacuate the island of all non essential personnel, so that means we should say good bye to Roger, Kate, weird eyebrow Phil, Horace, and Radzinsky. Oh, some of them have titles? Well, get rid of Kate at least. Daniel tells Chang the Swan will be like 9/11 but a thousand times worse, or something like that while Chang looks at him confused. I’m from the future, Miles is your son, and 60 minutes is still on the air. Daniel explains to Miles: I’m making sure your father does what he is supposed to do. A bit of course correcting by Daniel. Eloise shows her disdain for Theresa, Daniel’s girlfriend/research assistant. Over lunch, she proclaims: the women in your life will be terribly hurt. Well, Theresa, Charlotte, and Eloise basically were. Daniel expresses how he is upset by being pushed all these years. You know, I get tired of people who whine about verbal abuse, and their feelings, and their right to be happy. Shut up, you sissies. I’ll give you some five finger therapy. Eloise is not happy to hear that Charles gave Daniel a big grant. Widmore is Daniel’s father. Eloise gives Daniel his journal as a gift. The Losties are having a group meeting. Daniel needs to find his mother and the Others. Eloise can get them to where they belong. Daniel again is course correcting. We see the scene of Daniel crying over the Oceanic 815 wreckage, and it’s blatantly different, as Daniel’s hair is much longer than the first time we see this scene. I need to finish this writeup, or I would review the dialogue, as I think it is different. It’s Sunday night, and I’m running out of time before Tuesday’s Season 6 debut. Widmore visits. Daniel has a memory issue, and admits that he tested his devices on himself before Theresa, but she suffered much more consequences. This sound like the background story of the Green Goblin from Spiderman. Widmore confesses to staging the plane crash in the ocean, the island has unique scientific properties, will heal Daniel. The Losties are arguing what to do, Kate is willing to take Daniel to the Others. Daniel stops to warn Charlotte to leave the island. Still creepy. Daniel is trying to change things. Gun fight at the motor pool, with minor wounding. Eloise visits Daniel to discuss job offer. Did Charles tell her about it? Journal? Loop? Eloise clearly knows that she shoots Daniel on the island, and she has forsaken her son, sacrificed him, for a higher purpose. She convinces Daniel to go to the island. Daniel reminds us and Jack that anyone of us can die. Thanks for the obvious clue. We get it. You are about to die. Phil is discovered in Sawyer’s house. Daniel: in 4 hours, the Swan drilling will be catastrophic, Chernobyl, but if Desmond doesn’t push that button, the plane Oceanic 815 never crashes, the freighter never comes, we can change the chain of events. Chain of events. Loopy. D: You can’t change the past, whatever happened, happened, I spent so much time on the constants, I forgot about the variables, us. Daniel continues: We think, we reason, we make choices, we have free will, we can change our destiny. That could be theme to the whole dam show, from Daniel’s mouth. Daniel thinks he can negate the energy generated from the Swan, the plane will land in Los Angeles, and they need to detonate a hydrogen bomb. Eloise in hospital talking to Penny: Desmond is a casualty in a conflict bigger than him, that’s bigger than any of us, for the first time in a long time (loops), I don’t know what is going to happen next. Well, Desmond turns out to be OK. Daniel walks into the Others camp demanding to see Eloise. Richard must suck at Pictionary and police lineups, as people keep walking into his camp, he is constantly saying “Who are you?” Also, remember how hard it used to be to find the Others camp. Now, everybody finds it in a couple of minutes. They are now building a passing lane and a toll stop on the road there. Eloise shoots Daniel. D: You knew, you always knew, you sent me here anyway, I’m your son. Daniel is completely demoralized at knowing his mother set him up to have him killed by her hand.
Daniel is dead. Jack turns around and run’s face first into the butt of Widmore’s rifle. Kate is captured too. Eloise is browsing Daniel’s journal, muttering something about how she wished it was on a Kindle. Eloise realized right away that Jack and Kate aren’t Dharma. Locke strolls into the Others camp. Right away: You seem different now. JL: I have a purpose now. No, he’s different. Ben explains to Sun that Locke is the leader now, Richard is an advisor and has been for a very, very long time. Sun shows Richard Dharma photo. R: I remember them very clearly, because I watched them all die. Of course Richard never saw Hurley in 1977, but that’s just nit picking. Maybe they all die in the previous loops, but this time they are alive after the bomb. It’s not like Richard said they exploded, since the island and the Others are still around. I suppose they might die, Kate Hurley Jack in Season 6. Oh, how wonderful that would be. Road trip for John Ben Richard, the compass reappears. As Kate and Jack are waiting in a tent, Kate questions Jack about his plans. K: put things back the way they were supposed to be, what did you mean by that? J: land in Los Angeles and everybody we lost since we got here, they’d all be alive. Actually, this is a very noble gesture on Jack’s part. Of course, we learn that is not his primary objective later on. Still, it sounds good. K: And what about us? At this point, I wanted to hear Jacob’s voice booming from the sky, What about us? But, instead, it’s just Jack. K: we just go on living our lives because we never met? I nominate this for one of the most selfish speeches ever told. You are equating a fling with Jack to losing about a 100 people. What a cvvnt. I swear I’m trying to cut back on my cursing on these writeups, in case ABC Family channel wants to read the transcripts on their airwaves, but Kate is a CVVNT, and I meant it in capital letters. Please tell me people like this don’t exist in the real world. I think I need some reassurance here. Jack: All the misery we’ve been through, we just wipe it clean. Never happened. Kate: It was not all miserable. Jack: Oh, enough of it was. FACE. Jack getting his shots in, before heading down the idiot trail again. Eloise wants to know what they need the bomb for and answers in general. Jack: if we do what is written in that journal, none of this will have happened (or it loops). The bomb is under Dharma. Meanwhile, Radzinsky is beating up Sawyer, Horace has lost a power struggle, Juliet takes a punch from Phil better than Snookie did. Hurley grabs food, and Chang follows. Hurley Jin Miles are quizzed about current events and Hurley responds that there is no such thing as the Korean War. Chang and Miles connect. Look if I want a father moment, I’ll watch Big Fish. Or maybe call my father. But not now. Miles: Faraday has been right about everything so far. Charles thinks Faraday looks familiar, better memory than Richard I guess, and then holds Eloise’s stomach, telling us she is pregnant, with Daniel. Richard says he saw a bright light when John disappeared before, but nobody else has said the same, just that someone suddenly disappeared. No light. Locke wants a meeting with Jacob, and instructs Richard what to do when he sees someone in the jungle, setting up the Locke Richard scene from the first episode, removing the bullet from John’s leg. I wish I had time to compare the two scenes, but I have to plow forward. John’s timing is perfect, something that he couldn’t possibly do on his own. JL: the island told me. Locke tells Richard that Ben killed him. Chang wants an evacuation, but Radzinsky is now in charge, not Horace. Sawyer cuts a deal to be put on the sub with Juliet to leave. This is just a cowardly move by Sawyer, the first of several. Eloise, Richard, Jack, Kate, Others are by a creek, ready to swim into the tunnels. Sayid kills some background Others and then brags he killed Ben, which didn’t happen. Kate: since when did shooting kids and blowing up hydrogen bombs become OK. Jack: this is our destiny. Kate: Do you know who you sound like? Jack: Maybe he was right Kate: No, he wasn’t. I know you are but what am I? It’s a fight that could be taking place on an elementary recreation center. Juliet and Sawyer on sub. Kate decides to quit and run. Again. The rest swim to the tunnels. Locke is making life difficult for Richard. Some of the Others are at the Temple, so the ones on the beach are only some of them. Locke gives a speech. JL: You’ve all been taking orders from Jacob, no one has actually seen him, I want to know who he is, I’m going to go see Jacob right now, and I’d like all of you to come with me. Actually this is a smart way to keep Richard or Ben from killing him on the way. Plus, he has a bunch of witnesses for all that he is going to do. R: I’m starting to think that John Locke is going to be trouble. Ben: Why do you think I tried to kill him? Nice exchange. While Juliet and Sawyer are making plans for the real world, those are quickly dashed as the destroyer of all things nice Kate becomes a third wheel after being captured at the Barracks. It’s pathetic. Kate is rejected by Jack, and bounces back to Sawyer. Sayid Jack Eloise Richard find Jughead. Now what? Everybody looks at Jack, and such an absolute expression of pure idiocy on that mug of Jack was priceless. I had to rewind a few times and laughed every time. Others march towards Jacob. Ben to Locke: Richard is concerned. Locke: We are going to Jacob so that we can kill him.
Jacob is using a loom, weaving tapestry, and is surrounded by Egyptian symbols. The tapestry has three lines: may the gods grant thee all that thy heart desires, may the gods grant thee happiness, only those that have died have seen the end of war. This is fitting, as dead Locke as X is seeing the end of the war between himself and Jacob. The island is full of signs from many different civilizations. This is 140 years in the past. The Black Rock is approaching the island from a distance. The nemesis approaches Jacob on the beach. X: You brought them here. You’re still trying to prove me wrong; it always ends the same. J: It only ends once, anything before that is progress. X: Do you have any idea how much I want to kill you? One day I will find the loophole. There is their competition in a nutshell. Jacob wants to prove Jacob wrong, and X wants to kill Jacob. Simple enough, let’s move on. We are at the base of the statue Tawaret, the fertility god, again making me wonder about the importance of Claire and Aaron is the larger picture. And thus begins the central theme of the show, the cast are variables in this competition between these two beings. And it’s not as simple as good vs evil, as we don’t even know for sure which side Jacob and X are on. But it seems to be more about free will and choice vs. predetermined outcomes. X says that it always ends the same, fate, destiny, etc. Jacob is bringing people to the island to change what happens. Young Kate is stealing a lunchbox. When caught, Jacob pays for it, touches her like the creep that he is. Yes, we noted last year that Jacob touched every person we met off island, with the possible exception of Ilana, as we don’t know either way. Jacob touching people is how he draws them to the island. Jacob gets Kate to promise to never steal again And she never did, and lived happily ever after. Yeah, right. Stealing, assault, bank robbing, attempted murder, murder, kidnapping, vagrancy, and possibly buggery. Model citizen. Sawyer, Juliet and Kate are on a sub, and Sawyer realizes that his life is sunk. Get it? S: We were happy until you all showed up. At least some venom is finally being tossed at the Kate monster. Sayid and Jack are trying to take apart Jughead. Radzinsky and Chang argue over the drilling at the Swan station. Back to 2007, and the Others are on their way to see Jacob. Ben explains to Sun that Jacob is their leader, and that Ben has never met nor spoken to Jacob. Richard credits Jacob for his ability to never age. Locke says Jacob is responsible for his resurrection. Ajira Leftovers arrive on the island. “Is he a candidate?” talking about Frank. A candidate for being a vessel? A candidate for joining their group? They show Frank what is in the box. After the funeral for Sawyer’s parents, Sawyer starts to write him famous revenge letter. Jacob hands him a pen. What’s done is done is first spoken by Sawyer’s uncle. Despite Sawyer’s objections, Juliet leads the escape effort. As we know, Juliet has been flashing a red shirt for a couple of episodes, and she is not long for the world. As they move through the tunnels, Richard asks Jack about Locke, and how he doesn’t seem all that special. He visited Locke 3 times off the island. Well, I remember the nursery in the hospital, and at the foster home to pick items. When was the third? Jack points out that his lack of faith in Locke was disastrous. Locke is a bit surprised to find out that Ben is willing to do whatever Locke says based on what the monster told him. Jacob’s Leader of the Others is now on the hook to kill Jacob, as Smokie and X both maneuver Ben into a predicament. Jacob saves Sayid from being hit by a car, but Nadia is road kill. Richard won’t allow the leader Eloise to be harmed, so he knocks her out. Richard breaks open a wall to reveal the basement of a Dharma house. It’s odd that Dharma built right over the tunnels but never seemed to explore them. Surely, after the incident, someone in Dharma would have noticed the hole in a wall in this house and seen a tunnel and explored. Right? As Jack and Sayid try to escape, Roger Linus shoots Sayid in the belly, a fitting pendulum swing as Sayid had shot Ben in the heart. Hurley, Jin, Miles show up with the getaway car. Sawyer, Juliet, Kate wash up on shore, and find Vincent, Rose and Bernard. We’re retired. This is a goodbye to Rose and Bernard, or Adam and Eve in the caves from Season 1, the skeletons. They’ve had it with the shenanigans on the island. I thought the reunion of the two characters was interesting back in Season 2, but since then, they’ve been useless in almost every way. Wave good bye to these characters, barely one step up from a background Losties. Don’t come back. You want some tea? J: maybe another time. Aha!!!! Another loop, perhaps? Frank is shaken by the contents of the cargo box. The group needs to show somebody what is inside, what they are up against. We’re the good guys. Which is what Ben said Season 2. They notice the break in ash around the cabin, so whatever had been trapped there in the past has long since escaped. Most likely, Jacob was trapped in the cabin, as a way of controlling him and his movement around the island. Who let him loose? No idea. When did he leave the cabin? Not clear. Jacob visits Ilana in a medical facility and speaks to her in a Russian dialect. Hmm. Mikhail was Russian. Could Mikhail be related to…..nah. Because Jacob tells her I need your help. Going by gut feeling, Ilana seems to have a more ancient feel to her, like a Richard. Perhaps she is a bit ancient, and Jacob is recruiting her help for this supernatural war. Ilana declares that the cabin has been used, but not for a long time, and they should burn it. Now, a possibility is that X has been Christian and the other manifestations all this time. Maybe Jacob was always in the statue, but X has been pulling the strings of Locke and Ben, playing them for suckers until he got their help in killing Jacob. Not much is really that clear here, so we have to defer to Season 6. The bit of cloth that Ilana found seemed to be pinned to the wall that Jacob used to gut and cook the fish at the beginning of The Incident episode. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire. We don’t need no water, let the motherf***** burn. Burn, motherf*****, burn!!! Locke falls from the hotel, and Jacob touches him. Well, Jacob can call you to the island, but his chosen people can still be possessed by X. That probably was the reason Jacob called on Locke to come to the island. John begins to manipulate Ben, talking about the first meeting in the cabin and how Ben lied, Alex was murdered, Jacob never talked to you, why wouldn’t you kill him? Sun finds Charlie’s DS ring. Jacob attends the Sun Jin wedding. J: Never take your love for granted. Don’t worry, they have, and then some. The Hurley van is stopped by Sawyer, Juliet, Kate. Richard brings the Others to the statute foot, the statue foot we first saw in the Season 2 finale. This is where Jacob lives. Sawyer demands a 5 minute talk with Jack.
Jack is struggling with a surgery. After a pep talk from his father, he goes outside and whines that his father embarrassed him. Go call a whaaaambulance. Jacob hands Jack a candy bar to calm down his childish tirade. Sawyer and Jack hash things out. Sawyer correctly deduces that Jack is trying to fix a screw up of his by blowing up the world. Oh, but which of Jack’s millions of screw ups was it. Like we didn’t know. J: Kate, I had her, and I lost her, it’s too late to get her back. Never mind that Kate is about 20 feet away and if you go talk to her, maybe you don’t have to set off a hydrogen bomb hoping that you don’t die and try to get her back. It’s called risk and reward, stupid. A pretty decent fight breaks out, Sawyer pissed off that he had a life here, well, he would have at least until the Purge happened. Juliet sabotages the fight, and tells Sawyer that Jack must blow up the bomb. She is tired of Sawyer making goo goo eyes at Kate, and apparently wants to end the world rather than have Sawyer end up with Kate. OK, not a single rational person in this bunch. Check. Juliet flashback, but no Jacob touching. J: Maybe we were never meant to be together. Sad. Kate: Remember when I first sewed you up? J: seemed like a million years ago. Yeah, in loop years. Jack talking about the detonation of a bomb: Nothing in my life has ever felt so right. OK, ladies and gentlemen, we are so focked. Hurley is kicked out of jail, and shares a cab with Jacob. Jacob assures Hurley that he is not cursed and that he is not crazy. He gives Hurley a guitar and information on what plane to catch. Sayid is dying. Jack is totally believing that they will end up in Los Angeles. When Richard and the eager Others reached the statue, it was daylight. Well, it is now the middle of the night, odd since Locke was so eager. That kind of time shift can only be resolved by seeing two similar scenes from two different loops. Only one leader can request audience with Jacob, but Locke insists that Ben is going with him. Into the statue they go. L: things will change once he (Jacob) is gone. Miles with an alternate thought: maybe Jack will cause the incident, but everybody else is gung ho to help Jack. A massive gun fight, people dying, Jack reaches his pinnacle moment of his life, drops the bomb, and MASSIVE FAILE. Nothing happens. Things are getting pulled into the hole. Chang has his arm crushed. Jack is knocked out. Phil dies. Juliet gets tangled in chains and is being pulled in. Sawyer is barely holding on to her, as Kate reaches out with alligator arms and declared I can’t reach her before actually trying to reach for her. I understand that they deleted the scene where Kate picked up a huge boulder dropped it into the shaft and yelled to Juliet “Catch”. Really stunning scene between Sawyer and Juliet, hell of a lot of emotion, and Juliet gets pulled down the shaft. We knew many episodes prior that Juliet was going to die, but this was….hey, I’m not that big of a monster. If I were to ever tear up watching TV, it would be….not here. What? You think I’m going to boo hoo over a TV show. No focking way. Do you know who you’re talking to? I laugh my way through the Saw movies. Go screw. Ilana’s group finds Richard/Ricardos. What lies in the shadow of the statue? He who will save us all. The cargo contains Locke’s dead body. Locke is not who he says he is. But you have to wonder. Doesn’t a mortician remove a person’s guts before a person is put on display in a coffin? How exactly do you get resurrected without internal organs? Ben and Locke are inside. Jacob: You found the loophole. Jacob to Ben: you have a choice. Ben: I did as I was told. All the lists. I was told to wait, be patient. So why him? What about me? Jacob: What about you? Ben goes stab, stab, stabbing like a sissy. Geez. Get some arm extension. Might as well hit him with a purse, Ruth Buzzi. J: They’re coming. Juliet wakes up, broken, bleeding from her face and mouth. Next shot, no blood coming from her mouth. Different scenes from loops. She finds a rock and while screaming pounds the sh!t out of the bomb. White light. I shed a tear….no I didn’t.
I’m done. No more previews. Enjoy Tuesday night. It will be better than the Super Bowl.
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