Uncharted Island

Now we know. Before we knew who Juliet was, we saw her burn muffins in the oven and have a little crying jag before the book club started. Many people were wondering why she cried, though it didn’t seem the most important part of that episode. Ben spelled it out for us last night.

Juliet was crying because she knew Ben was dying.

Ben said he found out he was dying from his tumor two days before a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky. The book club scene was the day of the crash. Two days sounds about right for letting news like that get to you before breaking down crying.

I think Juliet and Ben were romantically involved. Not at the time of the crash, but sometime prior to that. She still cared for him, though, which is why the news upset her. But she didn’t want anyone else to know how upset she was, either. The news kinda reframes the whole book club sequence now.

Things have obviously changed now. Ben’s inhumane treatment of the plane crash survivors has altered Juliet’s feelings about his impending death. Perhaps there was some minor resentment over his apparent leadership before the crash, but the way he’s chosen to handle things with secrecy and torture has made it a much more palpable aura of mutiny now.

And now it’s all up to Jack, who must find it a little odd that Ben’s plan to make him not view them as the enemy was to imprison and torture him until he broke.