you can see his stripes but you know he's clean
- watching this episode the second time through is like doing the same with the sixth sense. It was all right there laid out for you the whole time... the clues and misdirection started right away with the 'previously on lost' scenes; Charlie’s mad at Locke, the others promise not to attack without provocation, and the red herring, Ana Lucia and the army. -
Jack and Locke are storing the contents of the steel briefcase, six guns and a box of ammo, in the armory. Jack notices the Mary’s full of H, and Locke tells him he stored them away here to keep them away from Charlie, and also because the H might “have therapeutic value, if it ever came to that.”
Jack asks if he’s gonna leave it all in the statues. “You wanna break seven virgin marys? Be my guest. I’m superstitious.”
Jack asks Locke for the new combination. Jokingly, Locke tells Jack he assumes he wants to know in case he should fall to his death from a cliff or something; rather than it being an issue of trust. Jack, playing along, points out that there are a lot of cliffs on the island. It almost seems like the beginnings of a friendship here. They agree to consult one another before opening the door back up, and Locke gives him the combo: right 7 left 33 right 18 – Jack has a good memory. Before he leaves he takes the key from his neck and puts it down with the guns. (So far the hatch has enabled Jin to lose the handcuffs, and Jack the key around his neck. The supermagnet down there is slowly collecting all their metal.) Locke tells Jack he should lock up the medicine as well, essentially tattling on Sawyer.
Shirtless Sawyer comes out of the ocean to find Charlie building a tent on the beach, and immediately starts ragging on him. “Ain’t that just like a woman. She gets the house, and you get the cheap-ass apartment.”
That’s the Sawyer we know and love. He’s impressed that Charlie is so hated now, he even got Locke to take some swings at him. “That’s like getting Gandhi to beat his kids!”
Charlie tells Sawyer he should be more concerned with Jack looting his tent. Sawyer runs over and confronts Jack, who accuses him of stealing the pills. Sawyer contends that they were his, and Jack is the one that stole them, while he was on the raft. “Seriously Doc, you don’t want to do this. Give me my pills and we’ll forget it happened.”
Jack does his best cornholio impression and walks off with the pills in hand.
Ominous music.
Angry Sawyer.
L O S T
Flashback- and Sawyers in bed with a woman. He checks the clock (1:37), gets up, and starts to pull the same con we’ve seen before. This time he’s busted, she’s completely onto him. She tells him she’s not worth it anyway, if he had done his homework he’d have known she didn’t take anything in the divorce. She wants him to teach her to con… or is she scamming him?
Back to today at Sawyers tent, Kate and he are talking about the pill incident. He tells her he and the Doc are on the outs. Kate brought him an issue of Elegant magazine to pass the time. (The model on the cover looks a lot like Kate with a Farrah wig on.) He asks if she could read it to him, because he lost his glasses during the raft debacle. He’s being extra flirty here... the long con is underway. Sawyer tells her "El Jacko and Ana Lulu" didn’t ask him to join their army, and acts surprised when he sees Kate get upset because she knew nothing about it. “Guess I’m not the only one on the outs with the Doc.”
Hurley finds Sayid shelling (is that what you call it?) coconuts, and asks if he’s “gonna put the lime in the coconut, drink them both up?” Sayid is not amused. at all. Hurley tells him he just came from Rose and Bernard’s (who is a dentist), and he brought the shortwave radio from the arrow station trunk. Sayid tells Hurley it’s not strong enough and it would be a waste of time to try and boost the signal. This Iraqi is in a serious funk. Hurley was just trying to cheer him up. He leaves… and leaves the radio with Sayid. Seems like our boy Hugo learned quite a bit of psychology in the nuthouse.
Ana and Jack are tramping through the jungle. She thinks the reason that no one is joining the army is because they’re not scared enough. Jack insists that everyone is plenty scared. She asks him for the combination to the safe, and then plays it off as a joke when she sees he’s not going to give it up.
Working in her garden, Sun is startled by Vincent. She says something to him in Korean, and he leaves as it starts raining. Oh shit. Someone comes up behind her and pulls a hood down over her head, then ties her up and drags her away.
Kate and Sawyer hear the screams from the beach and dash into the jungle. Shortly thereafter they find Sun, unconscious and bleeding from a wound on her head. Sawyer tells Kate to go get Jack, and he carries Sun to Jack’s tent. Kate shows up with Jack, and after checking Sun over, he assures Jin that she will be okay. Everyone is now gathered around the tent, and Kate tells them they found her out cold with her hands tied. Ana tells everyone, “They’re back.” (at this point I was convinced Ana did it, frigging Sawyer and the writers were conning me too.)
A little while later, Locke, Jack, Ana, Kate and Sawyer are discussing the situation. Locke is being rational, pointing out that the others had promised to leave them alone. Ana wants to go check out the area around the garden, “with guns.” Locke won’t have it, he wants to avoid handing out firearms at all costs. They decide to wait and see what Sun has to say, and then they’ll plan accordingly. Sawyer and Kate end up checking out the area where they found Sun. He convinces “Sheena” that the others weren’t behind it. After finding the hood dangling from a branch, he points out that it’s different from the one they used on Kate. He tells her, “It’s all in the details… and they’re wrong.”
The only reason to scare the 46 people left would be to con them into joining an army. He still had me convinced at this point.
Flashback - Sawyer’s teaching “Dimples” how to run a con. “it’s all in the details.”
(I can’t believe they were being this blatant. It should have been obvious- hell it was obvious- that Sawyer was pulling the con all along.) They’re at Eric’s Expert service station, home to J.D. Race Cars and packs of Portsmouth and Bilson (Rachel?) cigarettes. Damn, the gas is only a buck seventy-two! There’s a red GTO looking car by the shop, and a couple of preppy guys filling up their new red mustang. Easy marks, and Sawyer and Dimples pull off the con with no problem. He’s wearing a fatigue jacket with MAG 32 on the back.
At the watering hole on the island, Kate is asking Jack how well he knows Ana Lucia, and insinuates that she may have been the one that abducted Sun. Jack just walks off, shaking his head dismissively. Kate planted the seed though, because later, on the beach with Ana, he seems to be getting suspicious. Ana’s excited because she’s just recruited the big guy that lives behind Sayid and Scott. Jack tells her she must mean Steve, because Scott is dead. (Wait, how did she even know Scott’s name? That’s kind of odd. Did she have a list?) He makes her aware of his suspicions, and she asks him where he would even get an idea like that? - This is like a David Mamet movie at this point. I’m all turned around. Who’s doing what? - Claire interrupts to tell them that Sun has regained conciousness. They rush back to the tent, and Sun tells everyone what happened. Jin wants a gun. Sawyer and Kate are watching all of this unfold from a distance. Ana looks over at them and makes eye contact with Kate, which is all Kate needs to jump to the conclusion that this is Ana’s play to get her hands on the guns. (you’re half right there, Freckles.) She tells Sawyer he needs to go warn Locke that they’ll be coming for the guns.
Flashback – Dimples is tired of the pigeon drop, the Tulsa bag scam, and the looky loo. She wants to pull off a long con. It still seems like she might be setting Sawyer up. He tells her they need real money to pull off a long con, and she tells him she’s been hiding the fact that she has $600,000.00. With that kind of money, Sawyer would rather go find an island somewhere and sit on the beach drinking mojitos 'til they go toes up. Best be careful what you wish for, James.
Under the hatch, Locke is searching through the books. For what, more filmstrip? He's flipping through An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. “James” enters to tell Locke that the posse is on their way to get the guns because of what happened to “Tokyo Rose”. He knows Locke’s fear of the guns being handed out, and is playing off it. Locke talks himself into hiding the guns somewhere, and Sawyer tells him he’ll man the hatch while he’s gone.
Flashback – Sawyer’s sitting at booth 36, and Kate’s mom, Diane, is his waitress. He’s meeting with a partner that hasn’t been seen or heard of until now, named Gordy. Gordy is very particular about his order, which is a little nod to Seinfeld. The two of them knew about the $600K all along, and have been working the long con on Cassidy (Dimples) for the past six months. James is balking though, he thinks he’s fallen in love. Gordy tells him he can’t back out. “A tiger doesn’t change its stripes, James – it’s not what you do, it’s what you are.” Sawyers not convinced, and he gets up to leave.(is he conning this guy? This part I don’t really get) Gordy threatens to kill James and Cassidy both if he backs out now.
Sawyer wakes up at the computer, with 3:50 remaining on the clock, as Jack and Jin show up. He tells them to hold on a second, because "he’s this close to the highest score on Donkey Kong."
He enters the numbers and the clock resets. “Locke went to the store for some smokes”, he tells them, as they see the emptied-out armory. Sawyer tosses his pill bottle at Jack - and this was the first time it really dawned on me that Sawyer had been pulling the con all this time. The flashbacks were yelling it loud and clear, but I was paying more attention to the story on the island. Misdirection and sleight of hand. Jack goes topside and confronts Locke about the guns, but Locke refuses to tell him where they are. Ana and Charlie are watching closely as a crowd starts to gather. Jack just wants two guns, and they start to shout at each other. Locke feels guilty and accountable for Michaels disappearance and possible death, and he doesn’t want to be responsible for what would happen were the guns to fall into the wrong hands.
Too late.
Their argument is cut off by a burst of automatic weapon fire as Sawyer emerges from the jungle with an AK-47. (so who followed Locke? Are Ana and Sawyer in cahoots? I was not thinking of Charlie at all here) Locke tells Jack he didn’t give away the guns, he hid them. Sawyer tells Jack that Locke is just stupid as he is. “You were so busy worrying about each other that you never even saw me coming, did ya?” (nope.)
Shot of a shocked and hurt Kate. She wasn’t the one helping him out. Sawyer’s gonna have his say. He doesn’t like what’s happened since he left on the raft to try and save everyone; all his stuff was divvied up, and Locke and Jack became the men in charge. Sawyer’s not taking any orders. It’s cool though, he doesn’t want his stuff back; he’s got the guns, and they're the only things that matter now. If anyone wants one they have to get it from him. Sayid is glaring at Sawyer, so he tells him he can torture him all he wants, but he’ll die before he gives up the location of the guns, and then everyone would be really screwed. “There’s a new sheriff in town, boys… y’all best get used to it.”
Awesome.
Flashback – Sawyer comes home to Cassidy and a an open briefcase on the table with $600K in it. He tells her his partner Gordy is sitting in a car outside, and is going to kill them if he doesn’t come outside with the money in the next few minutes. She was the long con all along, he tells her, but now they’re gonna die because he told Gordy he wouldn’t take her money. She can be mad at him all she wants later, but right now she has to get out of the house. He starts moving the money from the case to a duffel bag as he gives her instructions. Run through Evan’s yard, there’s a rental car waiting in front of his house. Check into the Sage Flower motel off of highway 29, where he’ll meet her in the morning. He tells her he loves her and sends her off with the bag.
Kate wants to know how he followed Locke while staying in the hatch. “A magician never tells his secrets.”
What kind of person does she think he is, he replies, when Kate asks if he had anything to do with Sun’s abduction. The kind that wants to be hated by everyone. “Good thing you don’t hate me, freckles.”
She asks why he has to do this. “You run, I con. A tiger don’t change her stripes.”
Hurley’s reading a manuscript he found in one of the suitcases, a mystery. “Bad Twin” by Gary Troup (purgatory?) – Hyperion publishing 2004. (life imitiating art imitating life? cool.) Sayid shows up with some huge antenna doodad and a jacked-up shortwave radio. Shades of the Professor, he was even working with coconuts earlier in the show! He and Gilligan turn it on, and almost immediately come across Rousseau’s broadcast. Sayid continues to turn the dial, and Hurley stops him when he hears a short burst of music. “That was the –something-just-something- Duke Ellington and his Orchestra featuring –something- on drums. Up next on WXO(?), the Glenn Miller Orchestra with ‘Moonlight Serenade’.” Hurley points out that the signal is so clear it must be broadcasting from somewhere nearby. Sayid bursts his bubble though, telling him that radio waves bounce off the ionosphere, possibly traveling thousands of miles. It could be coming from anywhere. “Or anytime,” muses Hurley. "...just kidding dude.”
In the deep dark jungle Sawyer is meeting with his accomplice. Out of the shadows steps Charlie. CHARLIE!! Holy shit – he was the one that followed Locke to the guns. Sawyer hands him a statue (just one? So he can have control over Charlie once he runs out? He may have been offering all of them, though.), but Charlie refuses it, telling Sawyer if he’d wanted them, he could have taken them before he told Sawyer where they were. He just wanted Locke to look and feel like a fool. (this is like Shakespearian Mamet on a desert island. One of my favorite episodes so far… the writing should win an Emmy.)
“Sun can never find out what I did to her. Never.”
Holy shit – he was the one that abducted Sun… c’mon Charlie. Ugh. So was the rain just a coinsidence, or does the island always start to cry when evil is afoot?
Sawyer tells him not to worry about it, and Charlie wants to know how Sawyer could do what he’s done.
Flashback – Sawyer watches Cassidy leave through the backyard, then walks through the house out to Gordy's car. He gets in the passenger side, and looks over at the empty drivers seat. (So Sawyer made Gordy believe that he was taking off with the girl to keep all the money for himself, or did he kill Gordy because he pissed him off - like Jack did at the beginning of the episode? I'm still not sure what happened there. If he was just pulling a switch on Cassidy, why wouldn't Gordy be there waiting for him? I don't think Sawyer killed him though, otherwise killing the fake real Sawyer wouldn't have affected him as much, unless it was because that was actualyl an innocent guy...) Sawyer waits for a few minutes, then goes back into the house and picks up the duffel bag with the $600K in it. He pulled the ol’ switcheroo on Dimples, and lays a picture of the two of them facedown on his way out - which make me believe he was in this for the money the whole time, and is pulling a fast one on Gordy as well. It's almost the polar opposite of 'What Kate Did'; this time nature, not nurture, wins.
Back on the island, Charlie is still waiting for an explanation. “I’m not a good person, Charlie. Never did a good thing in my life.”
L O S T
Jack and Locke are storing the contents of the steel briefcase, six guns and a box of ammo, in the armory. Jack notices the Mary’s full of H, and Locke tells him he stored them away here to keep them away from Charlie, and also because the H might “have therapeutic value, if it ever came to that.”
Jack asks if he’s gonna leave it all in the statues. “You wanna break seven virgin marys? Be my guest. I’m superstitious.”
Jack asks Locke for the new combination. Jokingly, Locke tells Jack he assumes he wants to know in case he should fall to his death from a cliff or something; rather than it being an issue of trust. Jack, playing along, points out that there are a lot of cliffs on the island. It almost seems like the beginnings of a friendship here. They agree to consult one another before opening the door back up, and Locke gives him the combo: right 7 left 33 right 18 – Jack has a good memory. Before he leaves he takes the key from his neck and puts it down with the guns. (So far the hatch has enabled Jin to lose the handcuffs, and Jack the key around his neck. The supermagnet down there is slowly collecting all their metal.) Locke tells Jack he should lock up the medicine as well, essentially tattling on Sawyer.
Shirtless Sawyer comes out of the ocean to find Charlie building a tent on the beach, and immediately starts ragging on him. “Ain’t that just like a woman. She gets the house, and you get the cheap-ass apartment.”
That’s the Sawyer we know and love. He’s impressed that Charlie is so hated now, he even got Locke to take some swings at him. “That’s like getting Gandhi to beat his kids!”
Charlie tells Sawyer he should be more concerned with Jack looting his tent. Sawyer runs over and confronts Jack, who accuses him of stealing the pills. Sawyer contends that they were his, and Jack is the one that stole them, while he was on the raft. “Seriously Doc, you don’t want to do this. Give me my pills and we’ll forget it happened.”
Jack does his best cornholio impression and walks off with the pills in hand.
Ominous music.
Angry Sawyer.
L O S T
Flashback- and Sawyers in bed with a woman. He checks the clock (1:37), gets up, and starts to pull the same con we’ve seen before. This time he’s busted, she’s completely onto him. She tells him she’s not worth it anyway, if he had done his homework he’d have known she didn’t take anything in the divorce. She wants him to teach her to con… or is she scamming him?
Back to today at Sawyers tent, Kate and he are talking about the pill incident. He tells her he and the Doc are on the outs. Kate brought him an issue of Elegant magazine to pass the time. (The model on the cover looks a lot like Kate with a Farrah wig on.) He asks if she could read it to him, because he lost his glasses during the raft debacle. He’s being extra flirty here... the long con is underway. Sawyer tells her "El Jacko and Ana Lulu" didn’t ask him to join their army, and acts surprised when he sees Kate get upset because she knew nothing about it. “Guess I’m not the only one on the outs with the Doc.”
Hurley finds Sayid shelling (is that what you call it?) coconuts, and asks if he’s “gonna put the lime in the coconut, drink them both up?” Sayid is not amused. at all. Hurley tells him he just came from Rose and Bernard’s (who is a dentist), and he brought the shortwave radio from the arrow station trunk. Sayid tells Hurley it’s not strong enough and it would be a waste of time to try and boost the signal. This Iraqi is in a serious funk. Hurley was just trying to cheer him up. He leaves… and leaves the radio with Sayid. Seems like our boy Hugo learned quite a bit of psychology in the nuthouse.
Ana and Jack are tramping through the jungle. She thinks the reason that no one is joining the army is because they’re not scared enough. Jack insists that everyone is plenty scared. She asks him for the combination to the safe, and then plays it off as a joke when she sees he’s not going to give it up.
Working in her garden, Sun is startled by Vincent. She says something to him in Korean, and he leaves as it starts raining. Oh shit. Someone comes up behind her and pulls a hood down over her head, then ties her up and drags her away.
Kate and Sawyer hear the screams from the beach and dash into the jungle. Shortly thereafter they find Sun, unconscious and bleeding from a wound on her head. Sawyer tells Kate to go get Jack, and he carries Sun to Jack’s tent. Kate shows up with Jack, and after checking Sun over, he assures Jin that she will be okay. Everyone is now gathered around the tent, and Kate tells them they found her out cold with her hands tied. Ana tells everyone, “They’re back.” (at this point I was convinced Ana did it, frigging Sawyer and the writers were conning me too.)
A little while later, Locke, Jack, Ana, Kate and Sawyer are discussing the situation. Locke is being rational, pointing out that the others had promised to leave them alone. Ana wants to go check out the area around the garden, “with guns.” Locke won’t have it, he wants to avoid handing out firearms at all costs. They decide to wait and see what Sun has to say, and then they’ll plan accordingly. Sawyer and Kate end up checking out the area where they found Sun. He convinces “Sheena” that the others weren’t behind it. After finding the hood dangling from a branch, he points out that it’s different from the one they used on Kate. He tells her, “It’s all in the details… and they’re wrong.”
The only reason to scare the 46 people left would be to con them into joining an army. He still had me convinced at this point.
Flashback - Sawyer’s teaching “Dimples” how to run a con. “it’s all in the details.”
(I can’t believe they were being this blatant. It should have been obvious- hell it was obvious- that Sawyer was pulling the con all along.) They’re at Eric’s Expert service station, home to J.D. Race Cars and packs of Portsmouth and Bilson (Rachel?) cigarettes. Damn, the gas is only a buck seventy-two! There’s a red GTO looking car by the shop, and a couple of preppy guys filling up their new red mustang. Easy marks, and Sawyer and Dimples pull off the con with no problem. He’s wearing a fatigue jacket with MAG 32 on the back.
At the watering hole on the island, Kate is asking Jack how well he knows Ana Lucia, and insinuates that she may have been the one that abducted Sun. Jack just walks off, shaking his head dismissively. Kate planted the seed though, because later, on the beach with Ana, he seems to be getting suspicious. Ana’s excited because she’s just recruited the big guy that lives behind Sayid and Scott. Jack tells her she must mean Steve, because Scott is dead. (Wait, how did she even know Scott’s name? That’s kind of odd. Did she have a list?) He makes her aware of his suspicions, and she asks him where he would even get an idea like that? - This is like a David Mamet movie at this point. I’m all turned around. Who’s doing what? - Claire interrupts to tell them that Sun has regained conciousness. They rush back to the tent, and Sun tells everyone what happened. Jin wants a gun. Sawyer and Kate are watching all of this unfold from a distance. Ana looks over at them and makes eye contact with Kate, which is all Kate needs to jump to the conclusion that this is Ana’s play to get her hands on the guns. (you’re half right there, Freckles.) She tells Sawyer he needs to go warn Locke that they’ll be coming for the guns.
Flashback – Dimples is tired of the pigeon drop, the Tulsa bag scam, and the looky loo. She wants to pull off a long con. It still seems like she might be setting Sawyer up. He tells her they need real money to pull off a long con, and she tells him she’s been hiding the fact that she has $600,000.00. With that kind of money, Sawyer would rather go find an island somewhere and sit on the beach drinking mojitos 'til they go toes up. Best be careful what you wish for, James.
Under the hatch, Locke is searching through the books. For what, more filmstrip? He's flipping through An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. “James” enters to tell Locke that the posse is on their way to get the guns because of what happened to “Tokyo Rose”. He knows Locke’s fear of the guns being handed out, and is playing off it. Locke talks himself into hiding the guns somewhere, and Sawyer tells him he’ll man the hatch while he’s gone.
Flashback – Sawyer’s sitting at booth 36, and Kate’s mom, Diane, is his waitress. He’s meeting with a partner that hasn’t been seen or heard of until now, named Gordy. Gordy is very particular about his order, which is a little nod to Seinfeld. The two of them knew about the $600K all along, and have been working the long con on Cassidy (Dimples) for the past six months. James is balking though, he thinks he’s fallen in love. Gordy tells him he can’t back out. “A tiger doesn’t change its stripes, James – it’s not what you do, it’s what you are.” Sawyers not convinced, and he gets up to leave.(is he conning this guy? This part I don’t really get) Gordy threatens to kill James and Cassidy both if he backs out now.
Sawyer wakes up at the computer, with 3:50 remaining on the clock, as Jack and Jin show up. He tells them to hold on a second, because "he’s this close to the highest score on Donkey Kong."
He enters the numbers and the clock resets. “Locke went to the store for some smokes”, he tells them, as they see the emptied-out armory. Sawyer tosses his pill bottle at Jack - and this was the first time it really dawned on me that Sawyer had been pulling the con all this time. The flashbacks were yelling it loud and clear, but I was paying more attention to the story on the island. Misdirection and sleight of hand. Jack goes topside and confronts Locke about the guns, but Locke refuses to tell him where they are. Ana and Charlie are watching closely as a crowd starts to gather. Jack just wants two guns, and they start to shout at each other. Locke feels guilty and accountable for Michaels disappearance and possible death, and he doesn’t want to be responsible for what would happen were the guns to fall into the wrong hands.
Too late.
Their argument is cut off by a burst of automatic weapon fire as Sawyer emerges from the jungle with an AK-47. (so who followed Locke? Are Ana and Sawyer in cahoots? I was not thinking of Charlie at all here) Locke tells Jack he didn’t give away the guns, he hid them. Sawyer tells Jack that Locke is just stupid as he is. “You were so busy worrying about each other that you never even saw me coming, did ya?” (nope.)
Shot of a shocked and hurt Kate. She wasn’t the one helping him out. Sawyer’s gonna have his say. He doesn’t like what’s happened since he left on the raft to try and save everyone; all his stuff was divvied up, and Locke and Jack became the men in charge. Sawyer’s not taking any orders. It’s cool though, he doesn’t want his stuff back; he’s got the guns, and they're the only things that matter now. If anyone wants one they have to get it from him. Sayid is glaring at Sawyer, so he tells him he can torture him all he wants, but he’ll die before he gives up the location of the guns, and then everyone would be really screwed. “There’s a new sheriff in town, boys… y’all best get used to it.”
Awesome.
Flashback – Sawyer comes home to Cassidy and a an open briefcase on the table with $600K in it. He tells her his partner Gordy is sitting in a car outside, and is going to kill them if he doesn’t come outside with the money in the next few minutes. She was the long con all along, he tells her, but now they’re gonna die because he told Gordy he wouldn’t take her money. She can be mad at him all she wants later, but right now she has to get out of the house. He starts moving the money from the case to a duffel bag as he gives her instructions. Run through Evan’s yard, there’s a rental car waiting in front of his house. Check into the Sage Flower motel off of highway 29, where he’ll meet her in the morning. He tells her he loves her and sends her off with the bag.
Kate wants to know how he followed Locke while staying in the hatch. “A magician never tells his secrets.”
What kind of person does she think he is, he replies, when Kate asks if he had anything to do with Sun’s abduction. The kind that wants to be hated by everyone. “Good thing you don’t hate me, freckles.”
She asks why he has to do this. “You run, I con. A tiger don’t change her stripes.”
Hurley’s reading a manuscript he found in one of the suitcases, a mystery. “Bad Twin” by Gary Troup (purgatory?) – Hyperion publishing 2004. (life imitiating art imitating life? cool.) Sayid shows up with some huge antenna doodad and a jacked-up shortwave radio. Shades of the Professor, he was even working with coconuts earlier in the show! He and Gilligan turn it on, and almost immediately come across Rousseau’s broadcast. Sayid continues to turn the dial, and Hurley stops him when he hears a short burst of music. “That was the –something-just-something- Duke Ellington and his Orchestra featuring –something- on drums. Up next on WXO(?), the Glenn Miller Orchestra with ‘Moonlight Serenade’.” Hurley points out that the signal is so clear it must be broadcasting from somewhere nearby. Sayid bursts his bubble though, telling him that radio waves bounce off the ionosphere, possibly traveling thousands of miles. It could be coming from anywhere. “Or anytime,” muses Hurley. "...just kidding dude.”
In the deep dark jungle Sawyer is meeting with his accomplice. Out of the shadows steps Charlie. CHARLIE!! Holy shit – he was the one that followed Locke to the guns. Sawyer hands him a statue (just one? So he can have control over Charlie once he runs out? He may have been offering all of them, though.), but Charlie refuses it, telling Sawyer if he’d wanted them, he could have taken them before he told Sawyer where they were. He just wanted Locke to look and feel like a fool. (this is like Shakespearian Mamet on a desert island. One of my favorite episodes so far… the writing should win an Emmy.)
“Sun can never find out what I did to her. Never.”
Holy shit – he was the one that abducted Sun… c’mon Charlie. Ugh. So was the rain just a coinsidence, or does the island always start to cry when evil is afoot?
Sawyer tells him not to worry about it, and Charlie wants to know how Sawyer could do what he’s done.
Flashback – Sawyer watches Cassidy leave through the backyard, then walks through the house out to Gordy's car. He gets in the passenger side, and looks over at the empty drivers seat. (So Sawyer made Gordy believe that he was taking off with the girl to keep all the money for himself, or did he kill Gordy because he pissed him off - like Jack did at the beginning of the episode? I'm still not sure what happened there. If he was just pulling a switch on Cassidy, why wouldn't Gordy be there waiting for him? I don't think Sawyer killed him though, otherwise killing the fake real Sawyer wouldn't have affected him as much, unless it was because that was actualyl an innocent guy...) Sawyer waits for a few minutes, then goes back into the house and picks up the duffel bag with the $600K in it. He pulled the ol’ switcheroo on Dimples, and lays a picture of the two of them facedown on his way out - which make me believe he was in this for the money the whole time, and is pulling a fast one on Gordy as well. It's almost the polar opposite of 'What Kate Did'; this time nature, not nurture, wins.
Back on the island, Charlie is still waiting for an explanation. “I’m not a good person, Charlie. Never did a good thing in my life.”
L O S T
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