NOTE: Blogger is being a no-good so-and-so (in case there are children reading) tonight and made me take out all the pics and links I added when I updated this post. Something about not accepting HTML tags - HTML tags that Blogger puts in there itself when I make words bold, add pictures, etc. So, yes, it's telling itself that it's not allowed to do what it's telling itself to do. Anyways, I will add them back when Blogger realizes the illogical loop that it's stuck in. But the recap text at least is below. (This has been the MOST frustrating post I've EVER tried to post here!) In the meantime, I'm going to have a big, fat drink. Seriously.
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So what was cooler: Sawyer watching Kate help Claire give birth to Aaron, Locke seeing the beam of light from the Swan hatch and knowing he was there at that very moment, Kate's reaction to seeing Sayid and Ben and hearing that Jack is on Ben's side (and hearing Ben say, "She's right - it was me... Sorry."), seeing Jin wash up alive among the wreckage of the freighter on the island, or seeing a young, pregnant Rousseau? Is it possible to choose?
The producers of LOST are really outdoing themselves. It's exhilarating watching everything unfold, and to get so many answers while still raising some great questions. And it's the way we're getting answers at a rapid-fire pace. I sensed that "The Little Prince," tonight's episode, would finally be the first "slow" episode of the season, and to a point, it was; I think the other episodes were either so dense with information ("Because You Left" and "The Lie"), or were just plain amazing ("Jughead"), and this one was a little slower in comparison. But boy, did it ramp up to a fever pitch toward the end. We had a double-reveal in this one, of Jin being alive (and confirming what I think most of us already strongly suspected), and seeing Rousseau's arrival on the island. Two things we've been waiting to see, one for much longer than the other.
People, we're only on the fourth episode!
So, here's the recap - and thank you so much for being patient with me! I've updated some of my original comments (you'll see the updates in bold), and added a few more at the end. You'll notice them under the heading "A few more comments..."
In the opening scene, we see Kate holding baby Aaron and talking to Jack on the Searcher about what to say when they return to the world. Kate decides that they should say that Aaron is hers. They also talk about Sawyer. Jack reminds her that “he’s not dead.” Kate says, “I know, but he’s gone.” Jack tells Kate that they will need to lie, and that he will need her support to help convince the others. He asks her if she’s with him. “I have always been with you,” she tells him.
Three Years Later… Kate is dressed for success, thanks to Sun, who is going to watch Aaron while Kate runs an errand. (That kind of rhymes...or is it a clue?! Is bringing back an that the island demands? Uh, don't mind me...) As Kate leaves Sun’s apartment (or hotel…I don’t know why, but wherever Sun is this season, I can never quite tell exactly what kind of place she’s in), a delivery man arrives at Sun’s door with a nondescript white package. She goes into her bedroom to open it, and she finds a packet of reports and a delicious box of chocolates.
But of course, you never know what you’re gonna get in a box of chocolates (it’s like life, in a way); underneath the tray is a shiny handgun.
After the first commercial, Miles is by the stream filling a canteen with water. He brings it to where the other Remainders are as they are trying to revive a bloody-faced Charlotte. Daniel and Juliet are discussing what they think happened to her, and Juliet suspects that Daniel knows more than he’s letting on. She says, “Is there something you want to tell me? Now’s a good time.” He says that he thought this might happen because “our brains have an internal clock” which is thrown off by the time skipping, like “really bad jetlag.” Juliet observes that people’s brains don’t hemmorage from jetlag. As they are talking, they keep getting interrupted by Sawyer, who is angrily trying to figure out what to do. Juliet finally tells him, “James, go away.”
Kate is at Norton’s office, and offers to make a deal with him: she will give him the blood samples if she can meet with the person demanding them that he is representing. He says sure…but they both know that his client is going to say “no;” Kate is in no position to make deals, and his client plans on gaining custody of Aaron. Kate is shocked.
Locke is with the Remainders and tells Sawyer (I think) that they have to go back to the Orchid. If whatever Ben did at the Orchid caused all of the time skipping to happen, then maybe if they go back there, they can stop it. He wants to get off the island because he needs to make them come back, “even if it kills me.” Charlotte then wakes up, looks at Daniel, and says, “Who are you?” Daniel dreamily says, “It’s Daniel.” She seems to snap back to clarity and recognizes him. As she sits up, she notes that she still has a headache...
Sayid is in the hospital room that Jack brought him to. He tells Jack to take off all the wires so he can leave, and Jack doesn’t like the idea; “You’ve been unconscious for over 42 hours.” A hospital representative peeks her head in the door and asks Jack to step out to talk. He’s in BIG trouble with St. Sebastian, since he is practicing medicine while he’s suspended on charges of substance abuse. Jack’s cell phone rings, and he abruptly walks away from the rep. It’s Hurley – he’s calling from the L.A. County lockup, and is checking that Sayid was brought to Jack and that he’s okay. Jack is trying to ask him what’s going on, but Hurley says that he’s fine, and that Ben will never get to him there, and hangs up. Of course, Ben then walks through the doors in front of Jack. While Jack was in the hallway, an orderly comes into Sayid’s room, telling him that he has his medication. Sayid tells the man he has the wrong room, but the man assures him that he has the right room (room 133 or something), and he shouldn’t worry because luckily he can just put the meds in his IV instead of giving him an injection. Obviously, since Sayid was secretly brought in by Jack, he (and we) know that this guy is up to something. We also know that this guy is doomed; he quickly turns around and fires two tranquilizer darts, but they stick into an empty pillow. Sayid launches himself at the man from where he was momentarily hiding, wraps a wire around his neck, and is asking him who he’s working for. The man chokes out that there’s an address in his pocket, so Sayid throws him, grabs the dart gun and shoots him, and then finds the address. He opens it, but then Jack and Ben comes into the room and we never quite see what’s written on the paper. Jack looks at the trashed room and asks what happened, and Sayid asks him if he knows anyone who lives at 42 Panorama Crest. Jack says yes – it’s Kate address.
As Jack, Sayid, and Ben walk out of the hospital after the commercial break, Jack calls Kate. She’s in her car and seems distracted, as if she’s about to do something. She doesn’t want to talk to Jack, but Jack convinces her to tell him where she is. Then Ben and Sayid leave together. Ben tells Jack that they will meet up at the Long Beach Marina, Slip 23, and that they need to hurry: “We’re running out of time.”
The Remainders are walking through the jungle, when in the distance, they notice a bluish beam of light rising out of the jungle. Not only do we recognize what this is from Season 1, but of course, so does Locke; he tells everyone that “whatever it is, we need to stay clear of it.” Faraday senses that John knows more than he’s letting on (takes one to know one…), but all John says is that they need to keep moving. Miles then notices he has a nosebleed. Uh oh… Suddenly, a woman screams in the distance, and they run towards the sound, with Sawyer leading the way. As he gets closer, the sounds of crying and talking gets more clear. We can make out the voices of two women. The one screaming has an Australian accent. The other has a calm and encouraging but firm American accent. Sawyer walks up to discover that the two voices are…Claire and Kate! It is the scene from Season 1 when Kate helps Claire to give birth to Aaron on a large rock. We see Sawyer’s face change from recognition, to shock, to love, to pain. He seems like he doesn’t quite know what to do, but we can tell what he wants to do…and then another flash comes. After the flash, Sawyer is standing in the jungle in the daylight, looking at an empty rock. The others finally come up behind him, and Locke notices that Sawyer looks shaken. “James, did you see something out there?” he asks. Sawyer replies, “It’s gone now.”
After a commercial break, Kate is in her car, and Jack finds her and comes to her window. “You shaved your beard,” she notices. They talk, and Kate is obviously distracted and keeps turning to look at the road ahead. Jack is trying to get her to tell him what she is up to, but she tells him, “I can’t be dealing with this right now…just go.” But Jack gets her to admit that somebody wants to take Aaron, that they know she’s lying. She then notices a car pull out onto the street, and it’s just who she is looking for: Dan Norton. She begins to pull away and tells Jack to either come or don’t; he does, and they take off after Norton.
Locke and Sawyer talk about seeing the beam of light. Locke tells him that it was a time when he was pounding on the hatch in desperation, a time when he was looking for answers, and he thought that the light meant something. Sawyer asks him if it did, and Locke says, “No – it was just a light.” Sawyer than asks why Locke doesn’t go back to it to tell himself to do things differently, but Locke tells him no. “I needed that pain to get to where I am now.” Meanwhile, Miles asks Faraday about his nosebleed. “Why her?” referring to Charlotte. “Why me?” Daniel says that he believes it’s due to the duration of exposure to the island; if you’ve been on the island for a long time, you’ll be affected sooner. Miles protests, saying that he hasn’t been on the island that long and hasn’t been there before. Daniel says, “Are you sure about that?” The Remainders come to the beach, and their camp is back, but it’s in total disarray. Sawyer is excited to have some Dharma brew again, but notices that all the cans are empty, and he throws one in disgust. Even Vincent’s makeshift rope collar is empty. There is definitely something odd going on. They are hoping to get into the zodiac to make their way to the Orchid, but it is also missing. Instead, they notice that there are two outriggers on the beach. Inside one of them is an Ajira Airways water bottle, which is certainly mysterious to them and to us. Except for Juliet; she knows that Ajira is an airline based in India, but they fly internationally. Sawyer asks if the outriggers are from “other Others?” They take the outriggers into the water and begin to row towards the part of the island where the Orchid is located. Sawyer decides to tell Juliet that she saw Kate in the jungle. When she points out that what he saw happened two months ago, he tells her, “Time travel’s a bitch.” Suddenly, shots ring out. A group in another outrigger behind them is firing on them. Miles points out, “I think they want their boat back.” Juliet grabs a rifle and fires back, and it seems like she may have hit one of these mysterious boat people. But another flash begins, and Sawyer yells to the sky, “Thank the Lord!” The flash passes, and they are in the middle of a storm. “I take that back!” Sawyer yells in reaction. They decide to paddle back to shore.
Kate and Jack follow Norton to a motel. Jack offers that they should just go back, get Aaron, and they’ll work something out, but Kate is having none of it. They watch Norton walk up to a door, and a blonde woman answers. It’s Mrs. Littleton, Claire’s mother!
The scene continues after a commercial, and after Norton leaves, Jack tells Kate that he should go talk to her, that maybe he can get her to understand. “I can fix this, Kate. Aaron is my family, too.” He goes to Mrs. Littleton’s room, and she recognizes him from the Oceanic press conference. He begins to explain why they decided to keep Aaron when they left, that everything they did, they did for Aaron. Her reaction: “Who’s Aaron?” She has no idea what he’s talking about.
Ben and Sayid pull into a parking garage in the van. A car pulls up next to them – it’s Dan Norton. He tells Ben that there is no solid case against Hurley since he hadn’t escaped from Santa Rosa yet when the man in the car outside was shot (by Sayid, of course – but I thought Hurley was arrested for killing the guys in Sayid’s safe house, where he was photographed with the gun in his hand, but oh well…). He adds that the preliminary hearing will be the next morning, and that he fully expects Hurley to be exonerated. After Norton leaves, Sayid asks Ben who he was, and Ben matter-of-factly says, “He’s my lawyer.”
The Remainders have landed on the beach in their stolen outriggers. There is lightning off in the distance. Juliet wants to continue the conversation with Sawyer that they started in the outriggers before they were shot at. Like a therapist, she asks him what it felt like to see Kate. He says, “I could’ve reached out and touched her.” When she asks him why he didn’t, he says, “What’s done is done.” Then Juliet’s nose starts to bleed…
Charlotte notices some wreckage on the beach, and notes that it looks like it just washed up.
Amongst the wreckage is a can-like container with the words “besix douze” stenciled onto it.
We next see a scene of a group of people in a zodiac-like boat in the middle of storm. They are all speaking in French. They notice a body on a floating piece of wreckage – a door, maybe – and recover the body.
When they turn it over, we see that it’s…Jin!
After the final commercial break, we see a boat dock, and we assume it’s the aforementioned Slip 23. Jack and Kate drive up and park. Jack shows her the paper that Sayid’s would-be tranquilizer-er had with her address on it. She doesn’t quite know what is going on, but when she gets out of the car, she sees Ben arrive, along with Sayid, and is shocked. Jack tells her, “It’s okay – he’s with me. He’s here to help us to help everyone we left behind,” referring to Ben. Then Kate understands: “It’s him! He’s the one trying to take Aaron!” Jack starts to correct her, but Ben stops him and says, “She’s right. It was me.” And then adds, in classic Ben fashion, “Sorry.” Meanwhile, Sun has been in a parked car watching all of this take place. She has Aaron sleeping in the back seat, and a gun in the passenger seat.
In the final scene, Jin awakens on the beach. The storm is over, and the sun is out. The French boat people are there recovering and going through their equipment. One of them is holding a radio that is broadcasting a message: “4, 8, 15, 16…” One of the women comes over to Jin to check on him. She asks him where he came from, and he says, “Boat. Sink.” We hear the names of two of the men: Robert and Montand. One of them notes that Jin must have been caught in the same storm they were. The woman takes off her shawl and reveals that she is pregnant. She gives him a canteen of water and asks him what his name is.
He tells her, and she says, “Hello, Jin. I’m Danielle. Danielle Rousseau.”
The shock and confusion on Jin’s face says it all.
LOST
So, some things to ponder:
The title: I was expecting to see a copy of the children's book of the same name, maybe with Aaron at some point, but unless I missed it, there was no book or reference to the title anywhere. The Little Prince was written by a French author, though, so I'm wondering if, for some bizarre reason, Danielle Rousseau and her people may have brought a copy with them to the island.
UPDATE: There was a reference to the book The Little Prince, which was written by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "Besix douze," the term stenciled on the metal container in the wreckage that Charlotte found, is French for "B 6-12," from what I've heard elsewhere. B 6-12 is the name of the asteroid that the Little Prince character in the book lives on. And the book is about a boy whose job is to protect and guard the asteroid, but at one point, he leaves it to meet other people on other planets. Interesting stuff...
I can't wait to read the French dialogue spoken by Rousseau and her people once it's translated by someone online.
UPDATE: You can read the transcript here. (It's near the bottom.) Nothing too revealing - they basically say things that you'd expect people to say when they are about to be shipwrecked in the middle of a storm. And they see an unknown body floating in the water. Except it's in French.
What year has Jin ended up in? And it's interesting that he came to the island in the same storm that Rousseau did. Who came in on the right bearing, I wonder? UPDATE: According to the Lostpedia entry in the previous note, Rousseau and her crew arrive on the island along with Jin on November 18, 1988. (That's the day before I turned 12! Huzzah for me!)
The Remainders (Sawyer, Juliet, etc.) have flashed to the same time as Rousseau and Jin, right? They were also in a pretty rough lightning storm, so I figured they were trying to connect the two groups without having them meet yet. I could be wrong on this.
Who are those trigger-happy outrigger people? Are they, as I believe Sawyer put it, "other Others?" They came in outriggers, so I'm thinking they must have already been on the island, and one of them had an Ajira Airways water bottle. Ajira Airways, as Juliet pointed out, is an airline in present time. (See the link to "their" website in my links section to the right). So, they must be in 2007. (Remember, "island time" for the Losties was 2004 - 2005, so this would put them two years into their future.) Which means someone else found the island... Could it be the O6? Which means that maybe it's the O6 in the canoe firing on their friends but not realizing it. It could happen this way, but it's way too early in the season for that...isn't it?
Nice red herring with Claire's mother - I was definitely Scooby-Doo'ed. But it's another case of the writer's misleading us just for the sake of tricking us for a few minutes, and then completely moving on. They did this in the premiere, too.
The producers have said that this is "the year of Sawyer," and we've seen the setup for this little by little. Tonight was definitely his strongest and most emotional episode of the season so far. That change from total adoration while watching Kate help Claire give birth to total depression after the time skip took her from him (or took him from her, to be precise) was heartbreaking. Kate and Sawyer's dialogue was interesting tonight. Kate told Jack that "I have always been with you," but when Jack tells her that Sawyer isn't dead, she says, "I know, but he's gone." When Locke asks Sawyer what he saw in the jungle before the flash, he replies, "It's gone now," and Sawyer tells Juliet, when she asks him how he felt seeing Kate, "what's done is done." Obviously, in so many ways, we know that's not going to be the case.
I'm confused about what type of "home" Sun has. I thought she had some sort of private office in the hospital, but then we saw her in a bedroom in that place. Is she in a hotel?
The old gun-in-the-candy-box trick - well done, Mr. Widmore!
Daniel Faraday gave us his take on the nosebleeds: he said something about the brain having an internal clock for understanding time, and the time skips are messing with that clock. So we can now add Miles and Juliet to the list of victims of "really bad jetlag."
Locke is leading the Remainders back to the Orchid. He thinks this is a way to get off the island. "I have to make them come back," he tells Sawyer. "Even if it kills me."
The numbers: Sayid was unconscious for over 42 hours. Kate's address is 42 Panorama Crest. Ben, Jack, and Sayid meet Kate (and Sun secretly watches all of them) at Slip 23 at the Long Beach Marina.
Sawyer: "Time travel's a bitch."
Miles, as the canoe people are shooting at them: "I think they want their canoe back."
Ben, as he admits to being the one trying to get Aaron from Kate: "She's right - it was me... Sorry."
When Sawyer and Locke talk in private about knowing what time they're in, Sawyer asks Locke why he didn't go over to the Swan hatch to tell himself to do things differently. Locke says, "No. I needed that pain to get to where I am now."
Vincent's collar is empty. : (
It sounds like, with a little chicanery from Ben, maybe, Hurley will be free and clear of all charges. But as I mentioned in the recap, wasn't he charged with the deaths of the men in Sayid's safehouse? Wasn't he running to the cops, and away from Ben, yelling about how he killed 'all four of them...or three...however many there were, I killed them'?
Just think for a moment about what Jin is about to go through. He's washed up after the explosion of the freighter. He's alone. He can hardly speak English, and he's encountered people who themselves have English as a second language at best. Oh, and yeah - he's just met a young, pregnant Rousseau. The look on his face was perfect.
A few more comments...
Ben's van says "Canton-Rainier" on the side. This is an anagram for "reincarnation." A van with Locke's body inside that has a scrambled version of the word reincarnation on the side - nice touch.
The connections to the book The Little Prince are really interesting. If you want to really get into it, including reading about how he gets trapped in a desert, about the people on other planets that he encounters (which include a king who controls the stars by telling them to do what they'd normally do anyway, and a lamplighter whose planet rotates once every minute, and he has to light his lamp every time it rotates), and other things, check out the Wikipedia article here.
For the first time since I can remember (literally), I didn't watch the latest episode of LOST, "This Place Is Death," live as it was broadcast. (Told you I had a busy week!) I did watch it the next day, though. So it was very unusual for me, but I had no choice. The problem is that when I watched it, I was in that state of exhaustion where everything is clear to you, and you're alert and paying attention, but you know that after you get some sleep, you won't remember anything about what happened the day before. (And by the way, the only alcohol involved was one Pete's Winter Brew, so no, I'm not making a thinly-veiled reference to a hangover.) I also didn't take notes. So, I know what happened in the episode, I know how unbelieveable it was, but I'm going to need to watch it at least one more time before I can recap it for you.
So, until then, Namaste and Good Luck,
~Matt
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