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Wednesday, May 10, 2006

the grand facade, so soon will burn...

Back right where we left off... “Michael?”

He’s not responding. Jack wants to search for Others nearby, but Kate convinces Jack that Michael came back to them on his own. Jack eventually hoists him over his shoulder and they start back to camp.
Under the hatch, Ana’s chopping up some fruit in the kitchen while Locke saws some wood, loudly, in the bedroom.
Flashback – LAPD parking lot. The cars we can see are units 04, 08, 15, 16, 23, and 42. Ana and her partner pull up. Mom is there to confront her as she gets out of her cruiser, asking Ana Lucia where she was the night before. Ana hasn’t thought of much of an alibi, past ‘watching TV’. Mom takes her for a ride; to the morgue. “Remember Jason Alder?”
His corpse is laid out on the table in front of them, riddled with bullet holes. Mom knows Ana did it, and tells her she needs help. She needs to come clean, if not for mom, then for the badge. “You’re a police officer Ana, if you don’t respect me, at least respect that.”
Ana hands over her badge and quits.

Back under the hatch, Ana brings the bowl of fresh fruit in to Henry and starts talking at him. She tells him she was a cop; she’s been around a lot of killers in her life and, surprisingly, they all love to talk. “But you’re different, Henry…quiet.”
Henry mutters something under his breath. - “he said you were safe”? -
Ana leans in closer to hear... bad idea. He lifts up his arms, smashing the bowl into her face, and starts throttling her. “You killed two of us...good people who were leaving you alone."
(the woman on the beach during the second attack, and Goodwin)
“You’re the killer, Ana Lucia.”
He throws her down and continues choking the life out of her, but Locke comes up from behind and canes him before he can finish the job.
“I guess he decided to start talking, Ana.”



Flashback – Ana has a new job as a TSA security wander, working the Pan Pacific airlines gate. She hits the airport bar after work and Christian Shepherd is there getting drunk(er).

That makes two castaways he’s run into sitting at a bar - there's a joke in there somewhere. He recognizes her from being ‘wanded’ earlier, and they start chatting. She tells him she used to be a cop, and he tells her he used to be a doc, until his own son cost him his job. Ana doesn’t think family should work together, and Christian will drink to that. I think Christian would drink to anything... he invites her to come to Sydney with him. “Why would I go to Sydney with you?”
Christian tells her maybe fate brought them together, two drinks in an airport bar - like Ana and Jack - She wonders why fate would do that, and he tells her it’s for the same reason fate does anything. So they can help each other out. “You do need help, right? Unless you don’t...”
He tells her he needs a bodyguard because it could get dangerous for him down under. Ana would like to know his name at least, but Christian suggests they make up names for each other instead. She tells him he looks like a Tom, and he calls her Sarah. His daughter-in-law. Creepy. Ana’s considering his offer.

Back on the beach, Ana is cleaning the gash on her forehead. Libby comes over and asks what happened, if she's okay? Ana tells her the guy in the hatch did it, and she’s fine, but he won’t be. Libby tells her not to try anything stupid... is she trying to protect Henry? Under the hatch, Locke is fiddling with the retracted blast doors before he decides to open up the cell and talk to Henry. He needs to know why Henry didn’t kill him when he had the chance. “Because you’re one of the good ones, John.”
Henry knows he’s a dead man either way; Jack will come back empty-handed and they’ll kill him, or Jack will get what he wants and turn Henry over to the Others, and the man in charge will kill him. “...the man in charge...he’s a great man, John, a brilliant man. But he is not a forgiving man.”
He tells John he’ll be killed for failing his mission; he was coming for Locke all along. Before Locke can question this, Jack and Kate return with Michael.
Ana tracks down Sawyer picking mangos in the jungle. She asks for a gun, and Sawyer tells her she should ask Jack for his gun, that is, if he wasn’t so busy running around in the jungle with Kate. When Ana responds, saying he’s bitter because Jack is “making time with his girl” (weird anachronism here - sounds more like something Locke would say), Sawyer yells at her to “scram”, to “git”, as if she’s a stray dog.

Flashback – Ana’s drinking in a Sydney hotel room at 3:51 am. There’s a knocking on the door, and she opens it up to find a very drunk Tom/Christian. It’s time for protection duty, he tells her. “After four days of drinking and doing nothing, now, in the middle of the night, you’re ready to go?”
“That’s exactly right...fate’s calling, Sarah.”
The two of them go driving in the pouring rain, while Pasty Cline sings ‘walking after midnight’ (Kate’s song, right? Wonder if that record is in the hatch's collection?) Christian/Tom has Ana/Sarah pull up to a house in the suburbs. He gets out and pounds on the door until a disheveled blonde woman answers (of course she's disheveled, it's four in the morning). He asks if he can come in, and she shakes her head no. He starts to get belligerent, “...she’s my daughter and I have every right to see her!”
The woman sounds like a native aussie, “...no, you don’t have a right!”
Christian starts to push his way in – he paid the mortgage on the house – and Ana rushes up to pull him back into the car.
“I was just trying to have a conversation with the lady.”
(isn’t that an Indiana Jones line? Or Han Solo? either way, the guy sounds like Harrison Ford)
The woman is young, but could definitely be Claire’s mom...

is Jack her half-brother? Or... did Jack's parents have a daughter he somehow didn’t know about and she and Christian sent/gave her away? Paid to have her taken away? explains the mortgage comment... Luke/Leia... of course it's a whole lot more likely Christian is just a slime that can't keep it in his pants.

The beach again, where Hurley’s looking to borrow the radio Sayid built. He'd like to get some tunes on it and impress Libby, Say Anything style. Apparently they didn’t have Say Anything in Baghdad, so Hurley tries to explain the 'in your eyes' scene to Sayid, before just telling him to check it out sometime... if they ever get off the island, that is. Sayid suggests a trip to a beautiful secluded beach instead, a beach that he once took Shannon to. Awww
Under the hatch Jack is trying unsuccessfully to wake Michael. Locke wants to know if the plan worked, but Jack tells him the Others didn’t hand Michael over, that he must have just heard and followed Jack’s voice. Locke is unconvinced, causing Jack to snap, “What, they just let Michael go hoping that we would keep up our end of the bargain? You think they’re on the honor system?”
The jungle again, where ‘little red riding hood’ is following the big bad wolf to his guns. "Lucy" tells him she doesn't need all of them, she'll just take the one he has, and they start wrasslin’ for it. We all know where this is leading, but Sawyer's pleasantly surprised. Easy way to snag the gun.

Flashback – Sydney, 5:29am (song on the radio?) Ana asks Christian who the woman was. “She is a very long story, Sarah.”
It's Ana Lucia, not Sarah, she tells him, but he wants to remain Tom. "Why are you here"' she asks? "I’m here because I can’t apologize to my son. He tried to help me so I thanked him by cutting him off; I thanked him by hating him."
He knows she’s there for the same reason, that she is running away from something.
- I wonder if Christian saw something in Sarah, and wanted her to get together with Jack, so he ordered Desmond to bump into Jack and pass on some smelly magic healing power? Probably not... -
Tom/Christian invites her to relax and have a drink or ten with him, but she adamantly refuses. Chris opens the door right into Sawyer as he’s walking by, who does his best Ratso Rizzo impression; “Hey, I’m walkin’ here!”
Ana tries to talk Christian into leaving Sydney with her and going back, but he “can never go back.”

On the island, post-coital Sawyer doesn’t notice Ana lifted his gun. He wants to cuddle. Libby catches Hurley raiding the pantry, and he confesses to the picnic idea. She acts as if she would be delighted to go with him. Ana shows up under the hatch, and Jack asks what happened to her head. Locke quickly makes up a story about her slipping in the bathroom, and Ana goes along with it. Is he covering for Henry, or Ana’s stupidity? Kate calls everyone over, Michael is waking up. “I found them.” He hiked north, then back to the place where the tailies found the rafties, where he saw an Other and followed him back to their camp. They live in teepees and tents and eat dried fish; they’re worse off than the castaways are. Kate asks how many he saw, and Mike says he counted twenty-two (if he adds himself it gets up to that magic number). He didn’t find the boat, Cindy, or any other kids, but he’s sure that Walt is there. “They have a hatch” – two metal doors leading underground. They could be holding the kids and Cindy there too. It's guarded 24-7 by two armed men. “...and two guns are all I saw; they’re barely armed. Most of them are old and half of them are women.”
Unable to rescue Walt alone, he came back, “...to tell you we can take them. As soon as I get my strength back, I will take us back there, and we are gonna get my boy back.”
Later, Locke is busy trying to draw the map he saw ever so briefly when Jack comes over to apologize. He shouldn’t have gotten in Locke and Sayid’s way when they first brought Henry down; they were right. “You did what you thought was right at the time you thought it”, Locke replies.
Locke just wants to be included in the upcoming attack, and they decide to take Kate and go get the guns back from Sawyer, leaving Ana to watch over Henry. Uh-oh.

Hurley is leading Libby around in circles, before finally surprising her with the most excellent secret beach on the island.
“Hurley, this is our beach...,” she points out a Korean man cleaning a fish nearby, “...there’s Jin.”
This is as good a place as any for a picnic, she assures Hurley, but it turns out he’s also forgotten a blanket and drinks. She offers to go find a blanket if he tracks down Rose and Bernard. She saw them grabbing some wine from the Dharma drop. Hurley lights up, “Oh, wine...groovy. Hey, maybe if I get drunk enough I’ll remember where I know you from!” Libby forces a smile and walks away, before Hurley turns to see Jin giving him the thumbs up.


Locke, Jack and Kate arrive at the beach to confront Sawyer, who’s reading the “Bad Twin” manuscript. He’s almost done, but Jack throws the last few pages in the fire before he can finish. “It’s time to give us the guns back.” Sawyer refuses, and Jack pulls his pistol out, aiming at Sawyers wounded shoulder. Sawyer reaches back for his own piece... ”Oh, that bitch.”
It’s gone. He tells them Ana stole it. Locke speaks up (too little too late? he and Jack sure have some serious trust issues, and this ain't gonna help)
“Jack. I need to tell you something.”

Under the hatch, Ana cocks the gun and opens up the armory door. She slides a knife over to Henry and tells him to cut himself loose. Henry knows she’s planning to kill him, so he starts talking, as he does best. “He kept saying you were misunderstood. Goodwin. He told us all about you Ana, how he thought you were worthy; that he could change you. But he was wrong. And it cost him his life.”
He finishes cutting himself free and sets down the knife. It’s working, he’s rattled Ana. “He was gonna kill me.”
“Was he?”
She raises the gun to Henry's head. “So this is it, Ana?”
“Yes Henry, this is it.”
We’ll find out if Ana shoots him...after the break.

Flashback – Ana and Jin are in line at the Sydney airport. Jack’s in front of them, giving Chrissie behind the counter a hard time. He needs to get his dad’s body back to America on this sixteen-hour flight. Jack “...needs it to be done. I need it to be over.”
He inspires Ana to call her Mom. “I made a mistake, mom. You knew, so I got as far away from you as I could. But now, I wanna come home, mommy.”
“So come home.”

Under the hatch, Ana’s sitting on the couch, playing with the gun. Did she do it? Michael comes in and asks where everyone is. They went to get the guns from Sawyer, which is a long story in itself. She confesses to Mike about Henry, the prisoner in the hatch. “He tried to kill me today so I wanted him dead. I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t even kill him...I can’t do this anymore.”
(I get so tired, working so hard for our survival)
Michael gets up and stands before the armory door. “Then let me do it.”
The animals took his son right out of his hands. “Gimmie the gun. I’ll kill him. ‘Cause that’s what they’d do!”
She hands it over and gives him the combination to the lock.
– 18 right one left 31 right –
Michael looks down at the gun in his hands.
“I’m sorry”, he tells Ana.
“For what?”
He raises it and shoots her square in the chest.
(the grand facade, so soon will burn)
She dies almost instantly. He’s shaking and choking back tears when Libby enters the room.

“Michael?”
She startles him, he turns around and shoots her twice in the gut, through the blanket in her arms. She looks pretty dead... he looks very surprised, even scared, to have seen her there.

- He has a different look on his face then when he killed Ana... I've heard that quite a few people think that Michael was told to kill Ana as well as rescue Henry, but I don't think so. He was just told to get Henry free at any cost, but was he also told to send Libby back with Henry or something? Did he just fuck up? -

Michael opens the armory door – Henry stands and looks at him.
Michael is seething with rage at what the Others have made him do in order to get Walt back (wait until he finds out they're not going to give him up...). He raises the gun once more, this time pointing it at his own left shoulder, and pulls the trigger. Now Henry can escape, Michael has an alibi, and everyone is going to be ready to attack the Others after seeing the carnage. I bet "He" loves it when a plan comes together.




- sorry for the kind of half-hearted recap for one of the best episodes of the season so far. it's been a long week... and i dunno why blogger is sizing the pictures all weird. irritating -
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