we got your disease
Lennon, the scrawny Other dude, is rushing through the temple tunnels as Dogen works at his desk in what looks like the Others’ version of the hatch. He’s typing something on an old typewriter.
4 8 15 16 23 42? …kidding.
There are a lot of papers, books, and types of writing utensils scattered throughout the room. Is this guy a historian? Documenting everything? I’m sure there’s a version of this character in most mythologies, but I’m most familiar with the Dragonlance one, Astinus. Sad, I know. Lennon shows up.
“He’s alive.”
At the spring, the newly risen Sayid gets a bear hug from Hurley. Sayid asks Jack what happened.
“You died.”
Sawyer takes Kate aside and tells her he’s planning on running.
=flashsideways=
Back to Kate stealing the cab at LAX in 2004. Claire’s in the backseat and you can’t tell if she’s pregnant or not. The puppetmaster cabbie slams on his breaks to avoid running over Arzt, who is bent over in the crosswalk picking up his spilled luggage. Does this dude drop everything or what? Good thing there’s no nitro in his suitcases. He yells at the cabbie Ratso Rizzo (Marty McFly Jr.?) style, “I’m walking here!” …or is it Sawyer style – this same scene happened after he met Christian in the Sydney bar, but with Ana Lucia at the wheel. Skipping over the multiverse like a stone.
Kate glances over and sees Jack on his cell phone. He looks up at her and they sort of do a double take. Déjà vu.
Claire tries to escape; Kate pulls her back in the cab and tells the driver to step on it. He runs over Arzt’s bag.
“Hey! I got your license plate!”
Little dig at fans that read something into everything there? Um… it was 4DO(Q?)S554. Sad, I know. The cabbie jumps out at a red light, and Kate steals Claire’s purse at gunpoint before she forces her out of the cab. A very pregnant Claire wants her suitcase, but Kate takes off. Welcome to the jungle, baby, you’re gonna die!
=island=
Hurley tells Sayid the Others caught them… again, but they’re protecting them this time.
The gunshot wound is almost completely healed. Sayid is thanking Jack for saving his life when they are interrupted by Lennon and Dogen. They want to ask Sayid some questions and agree to answer any questions Jack has once they’ve finished. This is not good enough for Jack who ends up getting beat down along with Miles while Hurley cowers. A gun goes off – it’s Sawyer. Lennon tells him they won’t hurt his friend.
“He ain’t my friend. You do what you want with him and anybody else. But me, I’m walking outta here.”
Season one Sawyer is back. Dogan speaks English in front of everyone.
“Please, you have to stay.”
No he doesn’t. He gives Kate a stern, “Don’t come after me.”
Again.
L O S T
The Others want Sawyer back. Kate tells them she’ll track him, bring him back and make him stay. “I can be very convincing when I want to be.”
Jin, who still needs to find Sun, offers to go along.
=flashsideways=
That guy who’s been a guest star in every TV show (best gig was on ER) snags his LOST credit just in time. He’s a mechanic. Kate pulls into his garage, gets out of the cab, and there’s a great Tarantino-like scene I loved.
Kate, pointing the gun at him. “Where’s your tire hammer?!?”
Guy stops working, lifts up his sunglasses and looks down at her cuffs. “You got a problem.”
Gun. “So do you.” Where’s your tire hammer?”
Calm. “The hammer’ll just cut off your wrist. Your problem is you need a punch press and you’re not gonna be able to use one of those and keep that gun pointed at me.”
“You volunteering?”
“I got a steady hand but I kinda feel like we got off on the wrong foot.”
“I’ll give you two hundred dollars.”
He gets the cuffs off and asks why she had them on. She tells him she’s a murderer and asks to use his restroom. She opens up Claire’s bag to find baby stuff, including the stuffed whale Aaron had when he saw Jack and Kate fighting.
=island=
Jack and Kate share a tender moment before she leaves to get Sawyer with Jin and a couple Others. In his sanctum, Dogen has a whimpering Sayid strapped down to a table. He blows ash over Sayid’s bare chest – Smokey exorcism? – and attaches wires to his skin. Shades of Rosseau torturing Sayid. Dogan hand cranks a generator and turns it on, and up. Watches Sayid write in pain and flicks it off. Sayid asks why he is doing this, and tells him he has no secrets. Dogan uses a red-hot iron to brand Sayid on the ribs. The scarlet Smokey letter? Lennon releases Sayid.
“Sorry we had to put you through that. It was a test. We had to be sure.”
He tells him its okay, he passed. After Sayid is led out, Lennon asks Dogan if he just lied to him.
“Yes.”
=flashsideways=
Kate finds Claire (hey, it’s fate…) and she very convincingly convinces her to let her drive her to Langdon Ave in Brentwood, where the adoptive parents live.
=island=
Our old friend Aldo is one of the others with Kate and Jin, and he tells her what they are protecting her from.
“You been on this island a while, right? Ever see a big pillar of black smoke, makes a tickey-tickey sound, looks pissed off? From that.”
Aldo tells Justin, the other Other, to shut up as he’s about to tell Jin what happed to flight 316. They continue through the jungle, and Justin stops Kate just before she springs a tripwire. Jin says it looks like one of Rousseau’s traps.
“The French woman? No, she’s been dead for years; this couldn’t be one of…”
“Justin, SHUT UP.”
Aldo reminds Kate that he’s the one she knocked out to escape from the Hydra just before she does it again. She trips the trap to topple Justin (why couldn’t they have named him Tim?) and she and Jin are free. Not that Jin asked for this.
Back at the spring, Hurley is getting some inspiration for his script. Someone needs to remix this scene on YouTube and put in the plaintive wookie cry when the limp Sayid gets tossed into Hugo’s arms. He tells Jack they tortured him, but “…they didn’t ask me any questions.” They didn’t ask Han any, either. Jack heads to Dogen’s sanctum. Do is in there reading from a cookbook and mortaring and pestleing away, while Lennon is reading a plain white book. Maybe it says the beatles somewhere on it. He tells Jack Sayid is sick with something that has no literal translation.
An “infection.”
Dogen hands Jack a green pill, telling him only someone Sayid trusts can give it to him. Jack wants to know what’s in it, and Dogen deflects to play Jack like a fiddle. He asks how Sayid died.
“He was helping me.”
“So it was your fault. And there have been others who were hurt or died helping you?”
“Yes.”
He tells Jack this pill is his chance to redeem himself.
“It’s medicine. And your friend needs it.”
If Jack doesn’t give it to him the infection will spread.
Miles is quizzing Sayid about the afterlife at the spring.
“So nothing, there wasn’t anything? No white light? Angels singing? No dead relatives?”
But leave it to Hurley to ask the best question of the season so far:
“You’re not a zombie, are you?”
“No, I am not a zombie.”
That’s right; you’re infected, 28 Days Later style. Not a real zombie. (At least not til next season.)
Jack comes back and sends Miles and Hurley away. He tells Sayid about the medicine and confesses that he didn’t save his life.
“I didn’t fix you, they did.”
“I don’t care who fixed me, I only care about who I trust. So if you want me to take that pill Jack, I’ll do it.”
In the jungle Jin and Kate go their separate ways with no love lost between them. Remember, Jin has been Sawyer and Juliet’s friend for the past three years. He only knew Kate for a few months before she left the island.
=flashsideways=
The house in Brentwood looks like a fancy Dharmaville cabin. The prospective mom is a mess; turns out her husband left her and her life is falling apart. Ok, JJ Abrams has got to have some pull with Jennifer Garner. Why not just call her up? “Jen, can you do me a solid? The role is a piece of cake; you’ve already done it once.” Juno shit aside, Claire goes into labor. Pretty sure that the first time we saw this story, she wasn’t in touch with the adopters at all, it was set up though the psychic. This time she’s been in contact before leaving Sydney.
=island=
Speaking of Dharmaville, Kate has tracked Sawyer down to his old place. Old as in he lived there thirty years ago yesterday. She watches him as he tears up and tears up some floorboards to pull out a shoebox. Kind of like a time capsule, no? No airplane or baseball in this one, though. He catches Kate watching.
“The hell are you doing here?”
“I was worried about you.”
He storms out past her.
=flashsideways=
Kate brings Claire to the hospital in the cab and goes in with her. The nurse is the same woman that was Aaron’s nanny in the Oceanic 6 episodes. The doctor is Ethan Goodspeed! Ethan, who was evacuated from the island as a baby along with his mom, and never returned, you know, due to it getting all blown up and shit. I wonder if they ended up in LA because his mom got a job at CTU? He tells Claire that Mother Nature has gotten a little ahead of herself. She can have the baby now, if she wants to.
To stop the delivery, it “would require a number of drugs…They’re perfectly safe, I just don’t want to have to stick you with needles if I don’t have to. So it’s up to you.”
Said by the guy that was sneaking and sticking needles in her every night on the island. Awesome.
Claire decides she’s not ready yet, and the monitors start freaking out. So does Claire. She blurts out, “Is Aaron okay?!?”, and it looks like Kate recognizes both the name AND Ethan for a split-second – glitch in the matrix. The baby is fine, and Claire and Kate’s hands have been clasped together through the ordeal. Awww… tugs at the heartstrings like Locke and Jack’s handshake last episode.
=island=
Broken Sawyer is sitting on the dock of the sub. Kate sits next to him and tells him she came back to the island to find Claire, and she wants his help.
“I’m sorry, I never should have followed you.”
“Which time?” Sawyer growls.
He tells Kate that he’s responsible for Juliet’s death. He convinced her (he’s very good at it) on this very dock to stick around for two weeks back in 1974, and they stayed for three years.
“I made her stay on this island ‘cause I didn’t want to be alone. You understand that, right? But I think some of us were meant to be alone.”
It was a ring stashed in the shoebox; he was going to propose. He tosses it into the sea, ala Desmond, and leaves Kate crying on the deck. She is NOT an attractive crier, by the way.
Jack enters Dogen’s room and finds him spinning the baseball – is he practicing the gyroball? Jack asks what it is.
“It’s a baseball.”
He explains to Jack that he pretends not to understand English because it keeps him separate from the people he’s in charge of. It makes it easier when they don’t like the decisions he makes for them. He’s the decider. Shit, Dubya shoulda spoken Japanese. Jack asks if he was born here, and Dogen tells him he was brought here like everyone else.
“What do you mean, brought here?”
“You know exactly what I mean.”
Jack refuses to give Sayid the pill until he knows what’s in it.
“You just have to trust me.”
“I don’t trust myself, how can I trust you?”
Jack swallows the pill and Dogan jumps into fucking hyper-Heimlich kung-fu mode and forces jack to eject the pill.
“Now are you gonna tell me what’s in it?”
“Poison.”
=flashsideways=
Claire is looking at her ultrasound - dated October 22, 2004 at 9:29:42 am, one month after the crash of Flight 815 in the first time line, and one day before the Red Sox start their World Series run. I hope Jack didn’t fuck that up. But maybe Bush doesn’t get reelected (something else Ben refers to when showing Jack the end of game 4)? I hope he DID fuck that up. Anyway, this is huge, it moves around everything we think we knew. Detective Rasmussen and her partner come in looking for “Joan Hart”. Claire tells them she was just the cab driver and they believe her. The teenage witch comes out from a back room to thank Claire once the cops leave. Claire asks what Kate did. Would Claire believe her if she said she was innocent? Yeah, she would. After all, Kate can very convincing when she wants to be. But hey, it could be the truth in this universe, right? She told the other guy she was a murderer sure, but maybe just to keep him wary. Claire offers Kate her credit card. Kate, about to leave, stops for a second.
“Aaron’s a great name.”
“I don’t know why I said it. It’s like, I dunno, I knew it or something.”
Kate tells Claire she should keep the baby, they wish each other luck and share a long lingering look. Déjà vu… just a glitch in the matrix.
=island=
Kate fills a canteen before heading out to find Claire, leaving mopey Sawyer alone at his house in Dharmaville.
Back at the temple, a flabbergasted Lennon asks Dogen, “He swallowed it?”
Dogen hands Jack a cup of tea to wash away the taste of deathly poison, and drinks his own cup first. Jack wants to know why they are trying to kill Sayid. They believe he is “claimed”.
“There is a darkness growing in him. Once it reaches his heart, everything your friend once was, will be gone.”
“How can you be sure?”
“Because it happened to your sister.”
Back in the jungle the Others have caught up with Jin. Aldo wants to kill him, but Justin stops him, saying he’s “one of them.” (the 1977-2007 group - 7707ers?). Jin makes a break for it but doesn’t get far before stepping on a bear trap. Fucking ow. Aldo is about to kill Jin when he is shot and killed instead. Another shot rings out and Justin goes down. Jin looks up to see Claire with a rifle, looking like a young blonde Rousseau. His poison angel.
L O S T
dug these quotes:
“’Course he’s fine. He’s an Iraqi torturer, he shoots kids. He definitely deserves another go around.”
“As you can see, Hugo here has assumed the leadership position so… that’s pretty great.”
“Yeah, see private talks kinda freak me out cause they usually lead to me having to do something I don’t quite understand.”
“Right there with ya.”
4 8 15 16 23 42? …kidding.
There are a lot of papers, books, and types of writing utensils scattered throughout the room. Is this guy a historian? Documenting everything? I’m sure there’s a version of this character in most mythologies, but I’m most familiar with the Dragonlance one, Astinus. Sad, I know. Lennon shows up.
“He’s alive.”
At the spring, the newly risen Sayid gets a bear hug from Hurley. Sayid asks Jack what happened.
“You died.”
Sawyer takes Kate aside and tells her he’s planning on running.
=flashsideways=
Back to Kate stealing the cab at LAX in 2004. Claire’s in the backseat and you can’t tell if she’s pregnant or not. The puppetmaster cabbie slams on his breaks to avoid running over Arzt, who is bent over in the crosswalk picking up his spilled luggage. Does this dude drop everything or what? Good thing there’s no nitro in his suitcases. He yells at the cabbie Ratso Rizzo (Marty McFly Jr.?) style, “I’m walking here!” …or is it Sawyer style – this same scene happened after he met Christian in the Sydney bar, but with Ana Lucia at the wheel. Skipping over the multiverse like a stone.
Kate glances over and sees Jack on his cell phone. He looks up at her and they sort of do a double take. Déjà vu.
I didn’t discuss this in the last post, but if the bomb went off in ’77 and the island has been underwater since then, then yeah sure, Faraday was right and the plane didn’t crash because Desmond didn’t not push the button, but did he think far enough back about why Desmond didn’t push the button? When Jack did his double take with Desmond on 815, what I thought at first was hey, the stadium, they met there. But why would Des have been there if there was no ridiculous race around the world plot device set in motion by Widmore to get him to the island? So are these double takes glitches in the matrix? Or was this look because the last time Jack saw her on 815 she was in handcuffs?
Claire tries to escape; Kate pulls her back in the cab and tells the driver to step on it. He runs over Arzt’s bag.
“Hey! I got your license plate!”
Little dig at fans that read something into everything there? Um… it was 4DO(Q?)S554. Sad, I know. The cabbie jumps out at a red light, and Kate steals Claire’s purse at gunpoint before she forces her out of the cab. A very pregnant Claire wants her suitcase, but Kate takes off. Welcome to the jungle, baby, you’re gonna die!
=island=
Hurley tells Sayid the Others caught them… again, but they’re protecting them this time.
The gunshot wound is almost completely healed. Sayid is thanking Jack for saving his life when they are interrupted by Lennon and Dogen. They want to ask Sayid some questions and agree to answer any questions Jack has once they’ve finished. This is not good enough for Jack who ends up getting beat down along with Miles while Hurley cowers. A gun goes off – it’s Sawyer. Lennon tells him they won’t hurt his friend.
“He ain’t my friend. You do what you want with him and anybody else. But me, I’m walking outta here.”
Season one Sawyer is back. Dogan speaks English in front of everyone.
“Please, you have to stay.”
No he doesn’t. He gives Kate a stern, “Don’t come after me.”
Again.
L O S T
The Others want Sawyer back. Kate tells them she’ll track him, bring him back and make him stay. “I can be very convincing when I want to be.”
Jin, who still needs to find Sun, offers to go along.
=flashsideways=
That guy who’s been a guest star in every TV show (best gig was on ER) snags his LOST credit just in time. He’s a mechanic. Kate pulls into his garage, gets out of the cab, and there’s a great Tarantino-like scene I loved.
Kate, pointing the gun at him. “Where’s your tire hammer?!?”
Guy stops working, lifts up his sunglasses and looks down at her cuffs. “You got a problem.”
Gun. “So do you.” Where’s your tire hammer?”
Calm. “The hammer’ll just cut off your wrist. Your problem is you need a punch press and you’re not gonna be able to use one of those and keep that gun pointed at me.”
“You volunteering?”
“I got a steady hand but I kinda feel like we got off on the wrong foot.”
“I’ll give you two hundred dollars.”
He gets the cuffs off and asks why she had them on. She tells him she’s a murderer and asks to use his restroom. She opens up Claire’s bag to find baby stuff, including the stuffed whale Aaron had when he saw Jack and Kate fighting.
=island=
Jack and Kate share a tender moment before she leaves to get Sawyer with Jin and a couple Others. In his sanctum, Dogen has a whimpering Sayid strapped down to a table. He blows ash over Sayid’s bare chest – Smokey exorcism? – and attaches wires to his skin. Shades of Rosseau torturing Sayid. Dogan hand cranks a generator and turns it on, and up. Watches Sayid write in pain and flicks it off. Sayid asks why he is doing this, and tells him he has no secrets. Dogan uses a red-hot iron to brand Sayid on the ribs. The scarlet Smokey letter? Lennon releases Sayid.
“Sorry we had to put you through that. It was a test. We had to be sure.”
He tells him its okay, he passed. After Sayid is led out, Lennon asks Dogan if he just lied to him.
“Yes.”
=flashsideways=
Kate finds Claire (hey, it’s fate…) and she very convincingly convinces her to let her drive her to Langdon Ave in Brentwood, where the adoptive parents live.
=island=
Our old friend Aldo is one of the others with Kate and Jin, and he tells her what they are protecting her from.
“You been on this island a while, right? Ever see a big pillar of black smoke, makes a tickey-tickey sound, looks pissed off? From that.”
Aldo tells Justin, the other Other, to shut up as he’s about to tell Jin what happed to flight 316. They continue through the jungle, and Justin stops Kate just before she springs a tripwire. Jin says it looks like one of Rousseau’s traps.
“The French woman? No, she’s been dead for years; this couldn’t be one of…”
“Justin, SHUT UP.”
Aldo reminds Kate that he’s the one she knocked out to escape from the Hydra just before she does it again. She trips the trap to topple Justin (why couldn’t they have named him Tim?) and she and Jin are free. Not that Jin asked for this.
Back at the spring, Hurley is getting some inspiration for his script. Someone needs to remix this scene on YouTube and put in the plaintive wookie cry when the limp Sayid gets tossed into Hugo’s arms. He tells Jack they tortured him, but “…they didn’t ask me any questions.” They didn’t ask Han any, either. Jack heads to Dogen’s sanctum. Do is in there reading from a cookbook and mortaring and pestleing away, while Lennon is reading a plain white book. Maybe it says the beatles somewhere on it. He tells Jack Sayid is sick with something that has no literal translation.
An “infection.”
Like Montand and the French team. Smokey takes over the dead people, you were dead, now you’re infected. RIP Sayid. If Sayid wasn’t dead before he was in the temple, then how did Smokey get in to possess him? The water? Or did Sayid die next to the van? Could Smokey have been Jacob talking to Hurley, even though there was no body? He was already infected but wanted to get this body healed so got it to the temple, and now he’s infiltrated it? He was in before they spread the ash. What is the difference between a corpse that is reanimated with the ‘infection’ and the corpses that Smokey replicates? Big question there.
Dogen hands Jack a green pill, telling him only someone Sayid trusts can give it to him. Jack wants to know what’s in it, and Dogen deflects to play Jack like a fiddle. He asks how Sayid died.
“He was helping me.”
“So it was your fault. And there have been others who were hurt or died helping you?”
“Yes.”
He tells Jack this pill is his chance to redeem himself.
“It’s medicine. And your friend needs it.”
If Jack doesn’t give it to him the infection will spread.
Miles is quizzing Sayid about the afterlife at the spring.
“So nothing, there wasn’t anything? No white light? Angels singing? No dead relatives?”
But leave it to Hurley to ask the best question of the season so far:
“You’re not a zombie, are you?”
“No, I am not a zombie.”
That’s right; you’re infected, 28 Days Later style. Not a real zombie. (At least not til next season.)
Jack comes back and sends Miles and Hurley away. He tells Sayid about the medicine and confesses that he didn’t save his life.
“I didn’t fix you, they did.”
“I don’t care who fixed me, I only care about who I trust. So if you want me to take that pill Jack, I’ll do it.”
In the jungle Jin and Kate go their separate ways with no love lost between them. Remember, Jin has been Sawyer and Juliet’s friend for the past three years. He only knew Kate for a few months before she left the island.
=flashsideways=
The house in Brentwood looks like a fancy Dharmaville cabin. The prospective mom is a mess; turns out her husband left her and her life is falling apart. Ok, JJ Abrams has got to have some pull with Jennifer Garner. Why not just call her up? “Jen, can you do me a solid? The role is a piece of cake; you’ve already done it once.” Juno shit aside, Claire goes into labor. Pretty sure that the first time we saw this story, she wasn’t in touch with the adopters at all, it was set up though the psychic. This time she’s been in contact before leaving Sydney.
=island=
Speaking of Dharmaville, Kate has tracked Sawyer down to his old place. Old as in he lived there thirty years ago yesterday. She watches him as he tears up and tears up some floorboards to pull out a shoebox. Kind of like a time capsule, no? No airplane or baseball in this one, though. He catches Kate watching.
“The hell are you doing here?”
“I was worried about you.”
He storms out past her.
Ok, during this commercial break there was a Hawaiian Air spot that looked just like LOST and had me stopping the TiVo skip early. Well played, advertising agency, well played.
=flashsideways=
Kate brings Claire to the hospital in the cab and goes in with her. The nurse is the same woman that was Aaron’s nanny in the Oceanic 6 episodes. The doctor is Ethan Goodspeed! Ethan, who was evacuated from the island as a baby along with his mom, and never returned, you know, due to it getting all blown up and shit. I wonder if they ended up in LA because his mom got a job at CTU? He tells Claire that Mother Nature has gotten a little ahead of herself. She can have the baby now, if she wants to.
To stop the delivery, it “would require a number of drugs…They’re perfectly safe, I just don’t want to have to stick you with needles if I don’t have to. So it’s up to you.”
Said by the guy that was sneaking and sticking needles in her every night on the island. Awesome.
Claire decides she’s not ready yet, and the monitors start freaking out. So does Claire. She blurts out, “Is Aaron okay?!?”, and it looks like Kate recognizes both the name AND Ethan for a split-second – glitch in the matrix. The baby is fine, and Claire and Kate’s hands have been clasped together through the ordeal. Awww… tugs at the heartstrings like Locke and Jack’s handshake last episode.
=island=
Broken Sawyer is sitting on the dock of the sub. Kate sits next to him and tells him she came back to the island to find Claire, and she wants his help.
“I’m sorry, I never should have followed you.”
“Which time?” Sawyer growls.
He tells Kate that he’s responsible for Juliet’s death. He convinced her (he’s very good at it) on this very dock to stick around for two weeks back in 1974, and they stayed for three years.
“I made her stay on this island ‘cause I didn’t want to be alone. You understand that, right? But I think some of us were meant to be alone.”
It was a ring stashed in the shoebox; he was going to propose. He tosses it into the sea, ala Desmond, and leaves Kate crying on the deck. She is NOT an attractive crier, by the way.
Jack enters Dogen’s room and finds him spinning the baseball – is he practicing the gyroball? Jack asks what it is.
“It’s a baseball.”
Just like Locke, Alpert and the compass. “It’s a compass.” “What does it do?” “It points north, John.”
He explains to Jack that he pretends not to understand English because it keeps him separate from the people he’s in charge of. It makes it easier when they don’t like the decisions he makes for them. He’s the decider. Shit, Dubya shoulda spoken Japanese. Jack asks if he was born here, and Dogen tells him he was brought here like everyone else.
“What do you mean, brought here?”
“You know exactly what I mean.”
Jack refuses to give Sayid the pill until he knows what’s in it.
“You just have to trust me.”
“I don’t trust myself, how can I trust you?”
Jack swallows the pill and Dogan jumps into fucking hyper-Heimlich kung-fu mode and forces jack to eject the pill.
“Now are you gonna tell me what’s in it?”
“Poison.”
=flashsideways=
Claire is looking at her ultrasound - dated October 22, 2004 at 9:29:42 am, one month after the crash of Flight 815 in the first time line, and one day before the Red Sox start their World Series run. I hope Jack didn’t fuck that up. But maybe Bush doesn’t get reelected (something else Ben refers to when showing Jack the end of game 4)? I hope he DID fuck that up. Anyway, this is huge, it moves around everything we think we knew. Detective Rasmussen and her partner come in looking for “Joan Hart”. Claire tells them she was just the cab driver and they believe her. The teenage witch comes out from a back room to thank Claire once the cops leave. Claire asks what Kate did. Would Claire believe her if she said she was innocent? Yeah, she would. After all, Kate can very convincing when she wants to be. But hey, it could be the truth in this universe, right? She told the other guy she was a murderer sure, but maybe just to keep him wary. Claire offers Kate her credit card. Kate, about to leave, stops for a second.
“Aaron’s a great name.”
“I don’t know why I said it. It’s like, I dunno, I knew it or something.”
Kate tells Claire she should keep the baby, they wish each other luck and share a long lingering look. Déjà vu… just a glitch in the matrix.
=island=
Kate fills a canteen before heading out to find Claire, leaving mopey Sawyer alone at his house in Dharmaville.
Back at the temple, a flabbergasted Lennon asks Dogen, “He swallowed it?”
Dogen hands Jack a cup of tea to wash away the taste of deathly poison, and drinks his own cup first. Jack wants to know why they are trying to kill Sayid. They believe he is “claimed”.
“There is a darkness growing in him. Once it reaches his heart, everything your friend once was, will be gone.”
“How can you be sure?”
“Because it happened to your sister.”
Back in the jungle the Others have caught up with Jin. Aldo wants to kill him, but Justin stops him, saying he’s “one of them.” (the 1977-2007 group - 7707ers?). Jin makes a break for it but doesn’t get far before stepping on a bear trap. Fucking ow. Aldo is about to kill Jin when he is shot and killed instead. Another shot rings out and Justin goes down. Jin looks up to see Claire with a rifle, looking like a young blonde Rousseau. His poison angel.
L O S T
dug these quotes:
“’Course he’s fine. He’s an Iraqi torturer, he shoots kids. He definitely deserves another go around.”
“As you can see, Hugo here has assumed the leadership position so… that’s pretty great.”
“Yeah, see private talks kinda freak me out cause they usually lead to me having to do something I don’t quite understand.”
“Right there with ya.”
posted by karmacomedian at 3:05 PM
