I’ve got to start off by saying that this was not my favorite episode of the season. (I have been spoiled by a frenetic pace of non-stop knowledge bombs).
PLOT REVIEW:
So Lapidus was not the one who left the door open for Sayid and Desmond. They also are warned that they shouldn’t want to meet the captain of the Freighter.
Jin and Sun have decided to go to Locke’s camp. This seems to raise the ire of Juliet, so she proceeds to tell Jin that Sun had an affair.
Ooooh, so Sun and Jin are the final pair of the Oceanic Six. Good news. Bad news, there seems to be some complications with Sun’s pregnancy after all.
Jin and Bernard take some time for some male bonding, catch a few fish and hypothesize over the existential meaning of life and karmic retribution.
Back on the freighter, a woman drapes herself in heavy chains and walks an invisible plank. The captain orders that nothing be done. The captain confesses he’s under strict orders from his boss, Charles Widmore. This seems to surprise Desmond a bit. And the captain knows that Desmond and Widmore have a relationship.
Captain G has the blackbox from Oceanic 815. He fills Des and Sayid in on the fakery that was the “discovery” of the remains of 815 and claims Ben was behind the staged plane crash and 324 dead bodies found within.
Juliet apologizes to Sun for spilling the beans to Jin but assures her that it was only to protect Sun and the baby.
Dude! We were right! It is Micheal (now going by the name Kevin Johnson) that Ben has on the Freighter. Yay us.
Wait. What-the-what? Jin was running around trying to buy a panda for a baby but it wasn’t Sun’s? And he remarks, “I’ve only been married for 2 months.” Huh? FlashBackForward, You’re muddling my poor little mind. That was supposed to be in the past then, Lost? Sheesh.
Cause now you’re telling me that Jin is…dead? (I called this one wrong. I thought they’d be the final two Sixers but that Sun was going to die off the island). I guess, the small uptick in karma got Jin a fish but his years of being an assassin led him to an early grave.
Well, at least we will have PresentJin for a while longer.
Next week: Someone. Will. Die. (Umm, I’m voting for Jin, just because I suspect he’s gonna die soon).
THOUGHTS & QUESTIONS:
What is going on on this freighter that would compel a woman to suicide? Was it really suicide?
So the captain knew Des was on board his boat and presumably knew a bit about Desmond and C. Widmore’s relationship but wasn’t the first to greet the 2 noobs when they showed up?
How many people have killed themselves so far on this freighter (big blood splatter on the wall, was that self-inflicted)?
Is Micheal the one who destroyed the communications system and the engines? We’re supposed to think that, right?
Do we know all the Oceanic Sixers? We’re counting Aaron but not counting Jin, right?
Who’s gonna die next week?
The previews made it look like Sawyer and the island gang know about Micheal but, that’s just bcause Ben told Locke who his inside man was, right? Not because they have some communication set up.
I really thought the producers said they would never do FlashBack and FlashForwards in the same episode. Mmmm.
How exactly did Ben orchestrate the fake plane and the 324 bodies? It’s expensive and creepy. But did he really, specifically cause/want the plane to go down in the first place? What is his agenda? (At first we thought getting Jack there could have been important to Ben and his tumor but, Ben seems to be able to come and go from the island fairly freely). Where is all his money coming from?
Why is Charles Widmore using all his money to track Ben down? What does he care if Ben wants to keep his little island secret?
So, Micheal was telling Sayid and Desmond not to trust anything the captain says. Is he really siding with Ben now? Not just being blackmailed into his spying gig?
Where is Walt? Did he get back home safely or is he being held somewhere for “safe keeping” by Ben until Micheal is finished with his penance?
Since we know Micheal went out on a different bearing than the helicopter, has he suffered from the “sickness?” Is he confused and time-jumpy?
What was that noise that Sayid claimed was “not mechanical?” Was it some sort of code? Or distress signal? Or…???
Where the heck did Frank Lapidus go in the helicopter???
I think Clare and Jin get off the island, but die in transit. Remmeber Jack saying at Kate’s trial that 8 survived?
Good recap. I think the crew on the freighter has the same sickness that Danielle’s crew had.
I think we should entertain the possibility that if they transport 2 bodies [8 original survivors, but on six made it off the Island ALIVE], that somebody like Juliette or Ben is snaeking off in the body bags.
–Sirius Knott
Ohhhh, Sirius, I love that idea.
one more Question? not related to this episode…But how did Kate make everyone believe that Aaron is her child…coz she had no time to pretend that she was pregnant…etc etc…u get the point….
or did she adopt him publically…her mother calls the child her grandson..???
welll i think maybe that maybe jin is alive and wasn’t dead and that both were flashforwards but it’s only that jin suffered amnesia or something or there is A THING that is absatining him from contacting Sun and that Sun thiinks he’s dead but he is not maybe Ben is after all that who knows ?!!!!!!!!!!
There is something that called my attention on the Grave Stone on Jin’s grave, but I’ve searched the internet and found no comment about it. The thing is the dates on the Grave; there are 3:
March, 20th 1980, November, 27th 1974 and September, 22nd 2004. What does that mean? My first reading is that the first date is Sun’s birth date, the second and third are Jin’s birth and death date. If that is correct, the grave stone is telling us everybody thinks Jin is dead since the date of the plane crash, which means he cannot be one of the Ocianic Six or one of the people who survived then died on the island or on transport.
Anyone has any idea about what this means?
Yes, Mr. War, you’re right, Sun’s birth date on the left, Jin’s birth and death dates on the right. And yes, he’s ostensibly killed in the plane crash. I just can’t decide whether or not he’s realy dead (alot of people seem to believe he’s just back on the island with the others who couldn’t leave).
And, duinb, the Kate pregnancy baffles me too. We know she wasn’t too close to anyone before the crash so maybe she could tell people she had been pregnant? Remember that she hadn’t talked to her mother in months before the crash. And with time moving differently on the island, etc?
So oceanic six we are thinking kate, jack, hurley, sun, Aaron and jin? yet sayid is off the island working for ben too so that’s seven right?
One of us (not me) still doesn’t want to count Aaron and holds out hope for one more Oceanic 6.
But, I’m counting Kate, Jack, Hurley, Sun, Aaron and Sayid and thinking that Jin doesn’t make it off the island. That his scenes were indeed a flashback to when they were first married and Jin was still working for Paik Industries.
Tom and Mr. War,
No, Jinn isn’t one of them. His tombstone, bearing the date of the crash of Oceanic Flight 815 as his date of death, precludes him from being one of the Oceanic Six. At any rate, I’m not sure if we can count Aaron. His name wouldn’t be on the passenger manifest [having been born on the Island] and the media tends to overlook children in these things. I’ve explored this a bit further here:
Steph,
I think you’re right about the “cabin fever” sickness, which caused the woman to jump off the freighter with chains wrapped around her and apparently caused the bloody mess in Sayid and Desmond’s new quarters [ew!], is probably the same sickness that Danielle’s crew was afflicted with. It seems to unhinge its victims a bit. The jumper was clearly suicidal. She was also so distracted that she didn’t realize she was reading a book upside-down. We still don’t know if the blood on the wall was the after-effects of homicide or suicide. I’ve wondered when we’d get back to Danielle’s sickness. I also wonder what if any connection or commonalities is has with Desmond’s mental temporal dislocation.
— Sirius Knott
I dont think aaron or sayid or jin should be counted. If Sayid came off the island to become a hitman I’m sure ben would have organised it that nobody knew he was alive. And if Jin is alive and everyone thinks he’s dead he surely wouldn’t be counted either. Aaron wouldn’t be a “survivor” really as Sirius said, just as Desmond wouldn’t be either if he made it back to civilisation. So i think we have Kate, Jack, Hurley and Sun and probably room for two more. Could be any from Michael, Walt, Locke or Sawyer.
My vote is for Rose and one of the extras they brought in last season rounding out the Oceanic 6.
Just kidding. I think it’s Michael and Walt.
I wouldn’t count Aaron. He was not on the passenger list. I also would not count Jin for the dates on the grave stone. But I would definitely count Said as he introduced himself as one of the Oceanic 6 when he kills the guy on the golf court on one of the previous episodes.