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aunt_zeldaHeh heh, sorry I'm so behind on this ... are you guys as psyched as I am for the FINAL EPISODE OF LOST HOMG SQUEE AT LAST IT SHALL BE OVER THANK THE GODS?!
Once again, double episode catch-up, double WAZT for you lot! I like to call this one 'Follow the Variable' or 'The Variable Follows the Leader.'
"The Variable"
Previously on Lost: DANIEL talked to Desmond by the Hatch in the Past. DANIEL's mommy talked to Ben, and then Ben went and shot Desmond. (Bastard.) Gee, I wonder who this episode is about?
Turns out Penny did the responsible thing and got Des to a hospital. The gunshot wound was more serious than we thought. I guess whaling on Ben takes a lot out of you. (But it was totally worth it.)
Eloise Hawking meets up with Penny as Penny is waiting at the hospital. Wow. This is gonna be EPIC. Almost as epic as a meeting between Sandra Bennet and Charity Carpenter. But I digress. We find out that Eloise isn't Ben's mommy (heh heh ...) but she admits to being Daniel Faraday's mommy. The show's music treats this like some kind of big reveal, but ... didn't we already know this? I'm pretty sure Penny didn't, but we did! MORE ANSWERS! THE CLOCK IS TICKING! I WOULD TAKE TWO HOURS OF A CLIP-SHOW WITH A Q&A CARD AFTER IT! ARRRRGH!!!
Thirty Years Ago (Past-Present) Daniel climbs out of the sub onto the
A time that is past from the plane crash, and probably around the time of the past-present in 1977. Metronome. Boy-genius. Piano playing. A woman who looks like Swoosie Kurtz and Naomi Watt's clone. Little!Daniel has braces. Naaaw. His mom basically tells him that he can't play the piano anymore, he's gotta be a scientist and a mathematician. Daniel wants to keep playing, he can do both, he insists that he can "make time." But Eloise is a motherly bitch and shuts the piano keys' cover. *wibbles*
Present-Past, Dan has Miles drive him off to the Orchid. Jack pulls on his jumpsuit and tries to follow, but gets left behind. It's early morning now. He knocks on Sawyer's door and spills about Dan. Sawyer says he's busy right now. Jack foolishly asks what he's busy with at 6:00 AM. Seeing as Juliet is visible in the background, I'd have just nodded slowly and walked away, maybe blushing a bit and snickering. Juliet says "James, tell him" and Sawyer invites Jack in. My brain jumps to the OT3 place, and seeing as Sawyer leads Jack to where Phil is tied up and gagged in his closet, perhaps I'm not that far off. (Now, Mr. Abrams, just get Phil out of there, invite Kate over, and RESOLVE THIS STUPID ROMANTIC TENSION!)
Orchid. Dan's Journal of Impossible Things. Dan heads down into the station and resolves that scene from the pilot of this season. HUZZAH!
Then he races up to Dr. Chang, says that he needs Chang to evacuate everyone on the Island because of the electromagnetic energy release, and how there's gonna be an accident at the Swan in six hours that will be catastrophic. Dr. Chang asks what would make him make such a prediction. Daniel says "Because I'm from the future." *jawdrop* Well, I certainly never expected that ... wow ...
Outside, Dr. Chang thinks that Dan overheard him talking about time-travel and is having a joke. Dan tries to hand off his journal, talking about how some of the equations won't be discovered for another twenty years. Then Miles runs up and tries to avert a paradox. Dan, in turn, outs Miles as being Chang's son. Chang wants Dan to stay away from him. *headdesk*
Aha! Turns out that Dan is trying to avert a paradox. Usually, Dan, a wild, crazy-eyed man saying he's from the future is not the way to make people do things. Now, if you'd proven the danger mathematically and avoided sounding insane, Dr. Chang might have done what you're trying to push him to do.
After 1977, before the plane crash. Dan has graduated from University. The girl whose brain he's gonna fry is arm-in-arm with him. His mommy waves at him from the distance. She doesn't like his girlfriend. I'm betting she also doesn't like Dan's shaggy hair. She wrangles him into going out to lunch with her, sans Teresa. Bitch. Or is she trying to protect her son by keeping the timelines secure? She's still a bitch, regardless. She says a lot of mean things about how Daniel won't have time for relationships and how the women he's involved with will only get hurt. Yipes! She's right, but still: bitch! Daniel is cracking under the strain of her pushing him to succeed and overachieve. He mentions that he got a ginormous grant, from Widmore industries. Eloise's eyes flash danger signs. She says that she doesn't want to fight, gives him a wrapped present, sincerely wishes him luck, and leaves. Daniel and his shaggy head of hair open the package: it's his journal. D'oh? There's a note on the inside from his mother, saying that she hopes he knows that she'll always love him. *sniffles* Oh man ...
Present-Past. Sawyer has assembled most of the main cast in his and Juliet's living room to discuss what to do now: flee the
Dan apologizes to Jack for being rude, and then says he wants to know where the Hostiles are. Juliet speaks for everyone and asks why he needs to know that. Dan says it's because his mom is one of them, and she's the only one who can get them all back to where they belong.
Past-Future (sometime before the end of S3.) Daniel cries as he hears about the fake Oceanic A15 being found. It soon becomes clear that he's being cared for. Bet it was Teresa's death that pushed him over the edge. His Nurse (caretaker? What's the PC-term?) says that Dan has a visitor and offers said visitor some tea. "No thanks," growls Charles Witmore. (I'd recognize that voice anywhere. *shudders* He and Malcolm McDowell should get together and have distinctively-creepily-voiced children together.) Turns out that Daniel has "a condition" that "affects" his memory. Charles tells him not to be embarrassed "We've never met." I kinda want to beat the man away from poor Daniel with a stick and possibly a torch-toting mob. Dan makes the connection from Witmore to his grant and is all 'thank you, sir, please sit down, yeek' and all that jazz. Daniel was dismissed from
Past-Present. "So, your mother, is an Other?" hee hee. Sounds like a Doctor Suess book! Sawyer and Juliet are against letting Dan go anywhere until he gives them some damn answers. (A good tactic, methinks, one I wouldn't mind employing on J.J. Abrams himself ... hey, I'd feed him, and stuff, it wouldn't be that cruel!) Jack says that they don't belong in 1977, and Sawyer says that he belonged here fine until a certain Captain Stubble barged into his life. Jack asks Kate if she knows where the Others are. He adds that she made him promise not to ask about Aaron or why she came back, but he's gathered that her reason isn't here. Sawyer says that her reason isn't on a quest to get "H.G. Wells" (HEE HEE HEE!) to go "talk to his mommy" either. Juliet gives Kate the code for the fence, says she ought to take Daniel, and that's it's over "here" (Dharmaland, 1977) for "them" (her and Saywer and/or the whole gang) anyways. *wibbles* The New Crew (minus Hurley) heads out, with Miles tossing Dan the keys. Sawyer tells Jack "When you realize you've made a huge mistake, we'll be back at the beach ... right where we started." *sighs* Sawyer tells everyone to pack what they can carry and meet back at his house in 20 minutes. He and Juliet hold hands, and Juliet looks close to tears. TOO MUCH CRYING! NOT ENOUGH ANSWERS! *wibbles*
Outside, Kate says that the Others won't be happy to see them, and suggests bringing some firepower. She knows where there's some guns at the moterpool, but the case is locked. Jack says it's a good thing that he's a Janitor, then. Dan races off on yet another sidequest and promises to meet them at the moterpool. I don't think this episode can HANDLE another plotline! STOP SPLITTING UP!
Daniel has an adorable, horribly tragic scene with Little!
Moterpool. Guns. Gunfight. Dan gets shot. So do some unnamed Blue Jumpsuits (blue is apparently the new red when it comes to expendables.) Jack shoots a fuel tank, and there's a lovely explosion. The drive off in a jeep. The windshield shatters. Radinsky orders the alarm sounded.
Past-Future, before the end of Season 3. Daniel's playing the piano in his mom's house. His mom walks in and urges him to accept Mr. Witmore's proposal. Daniel says that he can't remember how to calculate space-time stuff and bearings and such-like things anymore. *sniffles* Doctor, please come and fix Daniel and take him far, far away from all of this nonsense! I have the strangest feeling that he'd latch on to Donna really fast! Eloise reminds him that the
Past-Present. Kate sets about shutting down the fence, and Jack sees to Dan's neck. It's just a graze, and yet it still provides ample time for Dan and Jack to show just how stupid they are at talking about time-travel. Any English ten-year-old could explain paradoxes and past-and-future selves more than these two morons! I don't understand why it's so damn hard for the characters to get it:
The characters were all on this timeline that was going this way >
Then they jumped BACK IN TIME < to the 1970s.
Somewhere out there, some of them are being born, but their future selves are also existing.
If the characters die, this does not mean that baby!character dies. It means that baby!character will grow up, progress to 2004, jump back to the 1970s, and die there. There is only ONE character, just different ages of them.
Writers of Lost, please pick up a fucking copy of The Time Traveler's Wife. Audrey Niffenegger explains things much better than I am, and much more eloquently too. You will cry about that book. I have, several times.
*tangent over for now* Kate and Jack hope that Dan knows what he's doing as they set out, guns at the ready, towards the Others.
Sawyer and Juliet seem to be on good-ish terms, which is pretty good seeing as the other sides of their Love Dodecagon are in town once more. The Alarm goes off. Hurley (with that guitar case) and Jin spot Rasinsky and Co. storming around with guns. Jin might swear in Korean, but my foreign-language swearing skills are limited to one word in French, a couple in Spanish, and some odd Mandarin phrases I garnered from Firefly. Radinsky (I'm really starting to DETEST this man. When does he die, again?) busts into Sawyer's house, mad that he's been shot "by a physicist" and how the "new recruits" were helping. "We've been infiltrated" he snarls. Sawyer tries to calm Rad down, but he's having none of that, particularly after he finds Bound-and-Gagged Phil in the closet. Then would have been a perfect time for Sawyer to admit that the New Recruits burst into his house with Phil captive, stuffed him in the closet, and threatened Juliet with guns to keep Sawyer quiet until they were able to escape, shakily barricading Sawyer and Juliet in their bedroom. That would explain why the house is so messed up and Sawyer hasn't been seen for a while. Look, I just concocted a nice little cover story. Perhaps I should be a con-man, instead of a recapper. *switches on my sexy-eyes* You will send generous amounts of money to Rose Gedris, and send the rest of it to me!
At the stream, Kate foolishly sits down and wisely drinks some water. Jack has the gall to needle Dan about his parental-issues. I almost burst out laughing from the sheer audacity of Jack criticizing someone about their issues with their parent.
Dan restores my love for the show by explaining that the Swan station people are gonna drill into a pocket of energy this afternoon, have to pour cement around it like Chernobyl, and build the Hatch with the button. Then Desmond will fail to push the button, and Oceanic A15 will crash, and then the freighter with Dan and Charlotte will be sent. It's great to have all of this mapped our for us, but then Dan starts saying that they can change all of this. He says that by focusing on the constants, he forgot about the variables. Apparently people are variables. Dan thinks that they can change their destiny. I think that he's gonna die. To prevent a paradox from occurring, an Other's gun is going to go off by accident and kill Dan before he can negate the energy in the Hatch, or Smokey will eat him, or something. But pressing a giant 'erase' button? I don't think so.
... J.J. Abrams, I swear to god, if you pull that ... I may have to kill you. Seriously. I would put actual time and effort into tracking you down and threatening your life. You would dare to undermine everything about this fantastical cracky show of five years by writing in a paradox to weasel your way out of giving us some DAMN ANSWERS and some DAMN RESOLUTION and some DAMN CLOSURE???!?!!?!?!??!!!! Huh, huh, would you, would you???!?!?!?!?!?!??!!!!!
*end of rant*
I apologize for that rant, actually. I wouldn't actually try to kill J.J. Abrams if he created and/or condoned a crappy ending to Lost. But I won't deny that if he did, I'd fantasize about threatening his life. I wouldn't act out said fantasy of course, but I'd still have one.
Anyhoodle, back to the show!
Dayum ... Dan plans to detonate the Jughead bomb to negate the Hatch energy! *very gobsmacked indeed*
Present-Future. Penny plays connect-the-dots. Eloise is there to apologize, because Desmond had "become the first casualty" in some kind of huge struggle. At the word 'casualty' Penny and I inwardly yelp in alarm and demand to know if Desmond is going to be ok. Eloise says she doesn't know, and this is the first time in a long time that she hasn't known what's going to happen. Madam, go find Angela Petrelli. I'm sure you'll have a lot to discuss.
Then two nurses run up! Demond's in the recovery room and is asking for Penny! Huzzah? Huzzah! *huggles the cat* Penny leaves the sleepy Charlie behind with another nurse and Eloise, which I think is a bad move, but if my husband had just gotten shot by a crazy bug-eyed monster who had, in turn, tried to shoot me, and now my husband was in the hospital, I'd forget to be genre savvy for a little while.
Penny and Desmond then have a scene where, despite Desmond barely moving at all, they manage to bring literal tears to my eyes. "I thought I'd lost you," Penny only half-jokes. Desmond says that he promised Penny that he'd never leave her again, and they kiss and I almost cry with joy.
Outside, Eloise runs into Charles. It's a creepy, great scene. Eloise suggests that Charles go fuck himself ... I mean, go inside and say hello to his daughter. You know she was thinking the former though.) Charles says that he's had to sacrifice his relationship with Penny, and Eloise tells him not to talk to her about sacrifice, not after she sent her son (Dan) back to the Island "knowing full well that -" Charles cuts her off by saying "He's my son too." and before I can even register that decidedly squicky fact, Eloise has slapped him and gotten into a taxi cab. I, however, cannot run far enough away from that last line. Say it with me now: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwww!
...
Still not enough.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWW! WRONG! UGH! NO! *SQUICK* BADWRONGBAD*
...
Ok, that's enough for right now.
[Sorry, I was under the mistaken impression that Eloise and Charles were brother and sister, because TWoP recapper Cindy speculated that they were because in their scenes they fought like siblings. As a result, you were all treated to an accidental rant about how icky I thought it was that Daniel was the product of brother/sister incest. As I write these recaps as I watch the episode, pausing the episode roughly once or twice per scene, I decided to leave that in, but strikethrough the text.]
Present-Past. Kate thinks that their plan is a mistake. I don't blame her. I agree with her wholeheartedly. STOP WHILE YOU STILL CAN BEFORE THE MONSTERS FROM FATHER'S DAY EAT THE WORLD!
Dan storms into camp, randomly shooting. He wants to see Eloise. Richard - holding a cute little blue coffee mug - tries to calm him down and says that Eloise isn't there right now. Dan mentions the bomb he told Richard and his people to bury, and then counts to three, but about a split second after two, ELOISE SHOOTS HIM IN THE BACK OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!1111!!!!!11!!!!!1!!!!!!111!!!!
Richard is mad at Eloise, because he thinks that Dan wouldn't have shot him. Daniel stares up at his mother and gasps "You knew ... you always knew that this was going to happen ... and you sent me here anyway ..." Eloise rather cruely demands to know who he is. Dan says "I'm your son." Richard looks up at Eloise in shock. And then ... DAN DIES.
OH. MY. GOD!
That was ... that was ...
... that was awesome.
In an awful, cruel, horrible way ... that was awesome. Completely and utterly, diabolically awesome.
Thank you, J.J. Abrams. Now I have to go cry, because YOU KILLED DANIEL YOU BASTARD! (This means that Miles is the only surviving Freighter person, excepting Frank. Both are too awesome to die. I hope. *gulps* They just killed the woobie. What will they think of next? *shudders*)
"Follow the Leader"
Previously, on Lost: Ben strangled his boyfriend, who came back from the dead and decided to not kill Ben ... yet. Locke 2.1 is creepy, yo. And possibly a zombie Jesus of some kind. Daniel wanted to negate the Hatch energy to create a paradox to let J.J. Abrams off the hook.
We see the last scene of the previous episode from different camera angles, and from Kate and Jack's POVs. Kate thinks Daniel is crazy. Jack Charlie Crewses "Is he?" Daniel gets shot. I flinch. Jack wants to run down to intervene or something, but Kate wisely says that they need to get the hell outta there. Unfortunately for all concerned, Charles Witmore rides up on a horse, whaps Jack in the face with a shotgun, kicks him, and points said shotgun at him and rasps "Just who the bloody hell might you be?" Uh ... *gulps* I may have to rethink my position on this character ... *fans self*
Down next to poor dead Dan's body (*cries*) Eloise flips through his journal and finds the inscription that she is someday going to write. Creepy. Charles and his cronies tromp down with Kate and Jack, who are handcuffed. After Jack confirms that they came with Dan (Kate's look of chagrin is not to be missed) Eloise orders the guys to take Kate and Jack to her tent. In the ensuing scene we can clearly see that Charles is the Id, Eloise is the Ego, and Richard is the Super-ego of this Power Trio. *considers adding this to tvtropes* Eloise somehow knows that Jack, Kate, and Dan weren't really with the Dharma Initiative. Is she a precog by any chance? Because seriously, girl needs to hook up with Angela Petrelli!
(The actress playing Mom-age Eloise reminds me so much of someone else ... can't put my finger on it, though. Help, guys?)
Thirty Years Later (Future-Present) Richard (with his sexy glasses) constructs a model of The Black Rock in a bottle. A woman of uncertain ancestry pops up to tell him that "he" is here. Richard takes off his sexy glasses to see John Locke striding into the Others' camp with a very fake dead boar on his shoulders. He sets it down on the sand and proceeds to flirt shamelessly with Richard. I'm not kidding. Watch their scene. Richard's bafflement is because for once, the other guy is propositioning him. *squees at the two* He gets jealous when Sun and Battered-Ben stagger into camp after Locke, asking "What's he doing here?" Locke diplomatically says that Ben "helped" him "get back" to the
After the Theme Song (btw, Cindy from TWoP, I love your theme song linkies! Though really, when it comes to Lost theme songs, there is only one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4AEEoX3d3E) Sun fingers Jin's wedding ring sadly, looking like she needs a hug from this more-than-curious bi-curious recapper. Locke shows up and offers her some water. She asks if he thinks it's true that the rest of the gang is dead. Locke says "I don't think we went through all this for nothing, Sun" speaking words of comfort to us fans, most of whom I'm sure are freaking out that there's only one episode left to answer all those pesky ridiculous questions and tie up all of those loose ends.
Awwwww. Richard kept Locke's compass in his pocket! Nothing says love like keeping a keepsake your love gave to you for years on your person ...
Locke says that he's "appreciate it" if Ben came along as well. Hee hee. Ben, sitting very close to the surf, asks if Locke is worried that he'll stage a coup while he's away. Hee. "I'm not afraid of anything you can do anymore, Ben," Locke replies. *shivers* The boys exchange a look. "Well in that case, I'd love to come," Ben says, addressing the ocean. Locke kindly tells Sun to stay at the camp, that he'll be back in a few hours, and that if there's a way Sun and Jin can be together again and/or a way to save their people, Locke will find it. He pats her on the shoulder and leaves her. *inches towards Sun in hopes of a huggle*
Past-Present. Kate and Jack are manhandled into Eloise's tent by an Other we've seen before. He leaves. Kate asks Jack what he meant by putting things back the way they were "supposed to be." Jack says that if they can do what Dan proposed, their plane will land in LA, and all the people they lost (heh heh ... I see what you did thar ...) will be alive again. But ... should they be? And anyways, without landing on the Island, people would have never worked through all of their past grievances and sins, Michael and Walt would have never bonded, Hurley never would have been cured of his curse, Jin and Sun would still have lingering marital issues, Locke would still have no self-confidence and be unable to walk, Charlie would still be addicted to drugs, Kate would be headed for jail and still locking horns with her truant officer guy, Rose would still be dying of cancer, Claire would give Aaron up for adoption, and all sorts of other crap that I've forgotten as the series has gone on. I don't think that it would be right to erase what these people have gone through. Yes, they suffered and yes, some of them died, but most of them have been changed for the better. Sawyer became a leader. Jack did too, though he wasn't as good of a leader IMHO.
So ... that's yet another rant about why I don't want things to be shaken up off of the ech-e-sketch.
Back in the scene, Jack basically says that his and Kate's relationship wasn't worth it in the end. Bastard. Kate looks ready to cry, or perhaps kick Jack between his legs. I'd huggle her either way.
Eloise comes in and explains about Dan telling her to bury the bomb when she was seventeen, and shooting him in the back a few minutes ago, and him telling her that he was her son, and the handwriting in the journal being hers, etc. Jack says that if they get the bomb, they can make it so that she never shot her son, and everything will disappear, and none of 'this' will have happened. Eloise looks at Kate and asks "Does he know what he's talking about?" and Kate, still teary-eyed, replies "He thinks he does." Eloise eventually okays the idea of taking both of them to the bomb, but adds that the Dharma Initiative built their Barracks right on top of it. D'oh! She assumes that Kate and Jack, having passed themselves off as Dharmas, will be able to infiltrate easily, and Jack says that might be a tad difficult ...
... back in Dharma-land, Rad handcuffs Sawyer to a chair in the observation place. He apparently went to the FYG-Matt-Parkman School of Interrogations, because his technique consists of punching Sawyer in the head ("Never start with the head. The victim gets all fuzzy ...") and demanding to know where Kate went. Juliet flinches and looks generally out of place. Horace tries to intervene, but Rad says that to take care of their people and the work that they're doing, Horace hasn't got "the stomach" for this. Horace seems to agree, and Rad continues to beat Sawyer up. Sawyer's pretty dang strong though. Juliet eventually yelps and tries to go the sane route, saying that they've known each other for three years, and they're not bad people. Sawyer gasps that whatever Juliet tells them, they won't believe her, and more people will get hurt. Horace and Some-Guy drag Sawyer back up (he and his chair got knocked down) and Horace says that whaling on Sawyer is pointless, and he won't talk. Phil - sporting a nasty bruise - says "I can make him talk." and cockily steps up to the plate. I knew where he was going with this the minute he said it, but he's even more horrible than I thought, because he makes as if to go for Sawyer ... and then whirls around and smacks Juliet. *jawdrop* Dayum ... I mean, Phil totally needs to die now, but good on the dumb jerk for making the connection on how to get info. Now he can die, please.
Sawyer almost tears out of his handcuffs in rage, yelling that he's going to KILL Phil. (Hee hee ... Kill Phil ... a new movie by Quentin Tarantino ...) Juliet looks very pale in this light, and the blood on her lip makes her look downright vampiric.
Another-Guy runs up with a list, saying that there were three last-minute additions to the sub manifesto, Jack and Kate - who, he notes, were shooting at Rad - and some guy they can't track down called 'Hugo Rayes.' Phil refers to Hurley as "the fat guy" and that's the second time I've wanted to kill him in as many minutes, so he should really be watching his back.
Hurley loads up some Dharma food (yay, callbacks!) and successfully gets away from the Barracks and into the bushes, where Jin and Miles are waiting. Hurley wants to save Sawyer and Juliet, saying that Sawyer would never leave them behind, and Miles is being the realistic wonderboy as usual. *huggles them all* Dr. Chang followed Hurley, and there ensues a "What am I doing here, what are you doing here?" song and dance, when Dr. Chang finally gets around to saying that he really needs to know if Dan was telling the truth about the future-talk. Hurley says "Dude, that's crazy," and Dr. Chang cleverly fires back "What year were you born?" and Hurley accidentally implies that he's forty-seven years old. Hee hee hee. I heart Dr. Chang now. "So you fought in the Korean War?" Dr. Chang persists. "There's ... no such thing ..." Hurley replies slowly. *DIEZ* Jin looks like he wants to keel over in shame at the company he's keeping, or possibly die of laughter. Probably both. Hurley caves at the "who is the President" question and admits to being from the future. Touching music plays as Dr. Chang asks if Miles really is his son, and Miles admits to that being true as well. *sniffles* Dr. Chang asks if they really should evacuate as Dan urged them to. Miles says that Dan's been right about everything up until now, so they'd better do what he told them. "Well, let's hope he knows what he's doing," Dr. Chang says ...
... and we cut to Dan, dead on the ground. God, at least put a sheet over him or something, Others.
Ah, Eloise enters from out of her tent and covers Dan with a sheet and closes his eyes. *sniffles some more* She tells Richard to untie Kate and Jack, and tells Charles that she's taking the two to the bomb. He's shocked and possibly aghast. They argue in undertones as Jack asks and is told by Richard that Charles is Charles, and that Charles and Eloise ... "Let's just say that love can be complicated." Sounding rather like the jaded ex-lover there, Richard ... *offers some hugs*
Eloise gives the orders to move out ...
... and we cut to the Future-Present, where Richard, Locke, and Ben are trekking through the jungle in the night with torches. Richard wants to know where Locke has been for the past three years. Locke is surprised that Richard doesn't know. Richard says that he knows that when Ben turned the Wheel, he and Locke were sitting on a log, and there was a bright light, and then Locke had disappeared ... but that's it. Hee hee. It's nice to know that he isn't omniscient. I makes the prospect of Lost fanfic so much more comfortable to think about writing. Locke says that he's going to show Richard where he, Locke, disappeared to, and then he'd like Richard to take him to see Jacob. Richard stops dead in his tracks. It'd have been cute if Ben bumped into him, but he does not. Ben says "That's ... not how it works, John ..." and Richard says that Locke just got back and there's no reason to rush into things, but Locke reaffirms that he is indeed the Leader, asks politely if Richard can take him to Jacob, Richard says he can, and Locke says "Fantastic." HEE! Hee hee! Locke brings them to the Crashed Nigerian plane, and instructs Richard to go fix the man's leg and tell him to bring everyone back to the
Richard enacts the scene with Locke, and this time Richard doesn't seem scary, he seems confuzzled. Ben and Locke 2.1 watch from the bushes. "This must be quiet the out-of-body experience," Ben remarks. "Something like that," Locke says. Ben asks how Locke knew to be there right on time, and Locke says that the
Past-Present! Dr. Chang rushes down into Command Central, yelling that they need to evacuate immediately ... and stops dead when he sees bloodied Sawyer and Juliet. "What the hell is going on here?" Rad orders the drilling in the Swan station to continue. Dr. Chang tries to appeal to Horace, but Rad says that Horace isn't in charge anymore. Dude, bad karma points for you! Sawyer tells Rad that there will be an accident, to get all the women and children on the sub ... and that if he puts Sawyer and Juliet on the sub too, Sawyer will tell him everything he wants to know. Ooooo! Didn't expect that one! Juliet smiles at her man. He asks if that's ok with her and calls her 'sweetheart' and she says it is. Rad says that if Sawyer wants on the sub, he'll need to draw a map of where the Hostiles are. Dude, they tend to move around ...
Eloise, That-Guy, Richard, Kate, and Jack are on the banks of a river. They needs to swim under it to get into the tunnels. Kate balks. She says that she can't go any further with Jack, she wants to go back and find their people. Jack says that she can't go back, "they know about us now. They tried to kill us." Kate asks "And what are you trying to do, Jack?" Oooooo, burn! Good point, Katie! *punches the air and huggles her* Kate makes as if to leave. That-Guy cocks his gun at her. Eloise says that they're not in the habit of telling their secrets to strangers, "and they letting them saunter off." There's a big argument with lots of yelling, and then a shot rings out. Kate looks down in horror at herself, and then SAYID POPS UP FROM THE UNDERBRUSH WOOHOO! (That was awesome!) Eloise tries to go for her gun, but eventually she and Richard put their hands up. Badass.
Richard checks That-Guy's pulse and it appears that That-Guy is dead. Eloise says that it won't matter if the other people succeed in what they're trying to do.
A couple yards away, Sayid, Kate, and Jack discuss things. Jack confirms that they want to erase the last three years. Sayid thinks that he's changed things already by killing Ben. Kate says that he didn't kill him, she and Sawyer took Ben to the Others to heal him. Sayid asks why she did that. "Since when did shooting kids and blowing up hydrogen bombs become ok?" Kate snaps. Good points! Jack says that it's their destiny. Kate asks "Do you know who you sound like? Because he was crazy too, Jack. You said so yourself." Jack says that he (Jack) was wrong. "No, you were right." Kate says. She also says that if she can't stop Jack, she's going back to find their other people, because maybe they can stop him. She stomps off. Jack tries to look upset.
Miles, Jin, and Hurley watch as women and children line up to get on the sub.
Cut to the docks. Sawyer says "Well buy Microsoft." and adds about betting on the underdogs in the '78 superbowl. "We'll be rich." Naaaw. He says he's sorry, and that they should have gotten on the sub three years ago. Juliet thanks him for convincing her not to. The guards tell them to get in. Sawyer says "Ladies first," and I get this awful feeling that he was going to jump off the dock or something, but no, he gets in too. Well, he glances up at the
Richard swims. Yummy. On the surface, Jack shakes Sayid's hand and says he won't blame him if he doesn't follow. Eloise tells him where to go, and Jack dives as well. They end up in somewhere that looks an awful lot like a section of the
Past-Future. Others' Camp on the beach. Locke wants to get going to Jacob right now. Richard wants some sexy time. No, really! Watch the scene! Locke wants to make a speech to everyone here (there are more Others at the
Past-Present. Sub evacuees. Sawyer and Juliet share a very touching scene that I am not worthy to transcribe. Then Kate is added in to the mix! DANGIT!
And then the sub actually leaves! WOW!
Tunnels. Sayid doesn't think it's right to be trusting Eloise. Jack thinks it is.
Oooo! The place where they keep the bomb is really quite pretty!
Eloise uncovers it and asks "Well ... now what?" the camera focuses on Jack and ... scene!
Future-Present. The Otheres move out in the morning to dramatic music. Ben tells truthful tales to Locke and appears to be on his side for now. Locke says that he has no interest in being reunited with 'his people,' and that he LIED to Sun. (Dude, you're goin' DOWN!) He says that he's going to kill Jacob. Ben stops dead in his tracks and stares after Locke with an expression similiar to mine ... except my eyes were about ten times that size.
NEXT WEEK: OMG THE LAST EPISODE EVER OMG OMG! I HAVE NO FRIGGIN' CLUE HOW THEY'RE GOING TO RESOLVE THE FIVE MAIN PLOT ARCS, BUT HERE'S HOPING THAT THEY WILL! (Also, J.J. Abrams, if you took the lame 'erase everything via a parodox' way out, you'd better start running now.)
In the trailer we see Jack going crazy, Sawyer and Juliet back on the Island, Juliet bringing more drama to the love dodecagon, Frank asking "what's in the box?" and Richard saying that there can only be one ... leader on the Island, that is.
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Date: 2009-05-14 09:11 pm (UTC)I like the "Follow the Variable" best.
Daniel. Daniel. DANIELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
GodDAMNIT IT ALL. First Nathan, and then Daniel and so much stuff. FUCK. I don't like swearing much on here if I can help it, but SHIT. DAMN. FUCK. DAMNIT. >_________< *proceeds to cry*
(And the season finale was like OMFGWTFWOAH, I can't wait to see the final season now! ...but also hesitant, because then Lost will be OVER. ;_;)
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Date: 2009-05-15 10:43 pm (UTC)Wow, Nathan AND Daniel. That's just CRUEL. *huggles you*
GAH, I've gotta WATCH the finale! (And I still thought THIS was the final season, so now that I know there's ANOTHER season left, I am so goddamn frumious.)
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Date: 2009-05-17 02:39 pm (UTC)Yup! It actually makes me think of a title for a DW ep or something. xD
Wow, Nathan AND Daniel. That's just CRUEL. *huggles you*)
AND Morgan! *huggles back* Ty. <333
GAH, I've gotta WATCH the finale! (And I still thought THIS was the final season, so now that I know there's ANOTHER season left, I am so goddamn frumious.)
It's okay! Plus, since the way the finale went...there may be some old faces returning...(with the way it went, it BETTER. I mean, they all but said...and then with LOCKE...and then...*rambles on purpose*)