Uncharted Island

Wow, these scenes from “Previously on LOST…” are a real blast from the past!

There’s a motley crew. Claire, Aaron, Danielle, Karl, Alex, Kate, Ben, Hurley, Sawyer… then Sawyer parades Miles in, sans bomb in the mouth.

It’s exposition time! For everyone who hasn’t been paying attention for the past few weeks.

That alarm on the freighter sounds like the push the button alarm from the Swan. Yikes for Desmond!

Sayid to Michael: “Why are you here on this boat?”

Michael to Sayid: “I’m here to die.”

Um… what? That seems to easy to be the answer to the promo spot that said someone was going to die this week.

Ben told Alex that the people from the freighter are more dangerous than he is. Assuming he’s telling the truth, it might not be the truth we thought we heard. Maybe they’re more dangerous to him, and by extension, to Alex. Not necessarily to everyone else. I’m not sure if I buy the “they’re going to kill everyone else once they have me” bit. Although that would certainly be a reason for the Oceanic Six to have their cover story following the rescue.

SWOOSH! Flashback time.

We’re going way back. Wait, Michael’s accident was a suicide attempt? That sheds a new light on a lot of things.

Libby! I knew that sounded like her voice!

So this isn’t so far back as his accident pre-flight. Okay, verification that this is post-island. Walt is staying with his grandmother, and having nightmares. Michael was only missing for two months after the crash. No time variation there. Then again, I firmly believe that any time anomalies began after the fail-safe key was turned. And since they left the island shortly after that happened, there wouldn’t be too much of a difference.

Ramming his car into a dumpster didn’t work, so now he pawned Mr. Paik’s really expensive watch for a gun to shoot himself… and he was stopped by Tom. Whoa. How long after he left the island is this taking place? Because Tom was seen quite often on the island… telling Kate she wasn’t his type, needling Sawyer in the polar bear cage, fretting over Ben on the operating table… And he’s just there at the right moment, at just the right spot in New York City to stop Michael from shooting himself? He had an apropos greeting, too, asking Michael for the time right after he pawned the watch.

Tom’s got a mean right hook!

Oh man, Michael told Walt about Ana-Lucia and Libby. Father of the Year, I tell ya. (Sarcasm, in case you didn’t catch it.)

So the island won’t let Michael kill himself? So all on-island deaths are people who are “supposed” to die, then. And anyone who miraculously lives through something that should’ve been fatal… the island doesn’t want them to die. Yet. Because the island allowed Naomi to heal from her bail-out wounds, but not the stab wound. And Charlie got a number of reprieves before he finally died. (I should do an entry about all of the times Charlie almost died before he died.) Maybe that’s why Mikhail seems to have more lives than a cat - the island wasn’t done with him yet. But did he die his final death yet?

Ooh, timeline. Flight 815 was just “found” at the bottom of the ocean.

Arutro! That’s why Kate wasn’t his type! Some people called it when he first said it.

Tom says that Widmore planted the fake wreckage. Widmore’s freighter captain said that Ben planted it.

Eww! Graverobbing was the source of all of those dead bodies. Well, at least he didn’t kill people to come up with the bodies.

Who to believe? Did Ben plant the wreckage? Or did Widmore? I almost asked, “Or maybe they’re working together?” But then I realized how ridiculous that sounded. Widmore wouldn’t be searching for the island if he was working with Ben, because then he’d know how to get there.

So Michael is swabbing decks in order to kill everyone on board the freighter. And according to Miles, the people on the freighter arer there to get Ben and then kill everyone left on the island. This isn’t another Purge, this is a war. I’m beginning to think that the cover story the Oceanic Six are telling is covering up a horrible massacre - but will it be the castaways or Widmore’s people who die?

Fiji! Must be easier to fake Fiji when filming in Hawaii than it is to fake Manhattan.

Minkowski when he was still sane. Naomi has a crate that was delivered for “Kevin Johnson.” What has Ben shipped him? Miles knew that Michael’s name wasn’t Kevin. How? And does he suspect the truth? He can’t. Can he?

Naomi argued with Frank about who was going to go to the island first. Maybe it would’ve turned out better for Naomi if she’d let Frank go first.

Frank is a conspiracy nut, it seems. But not really, since he was totally right about the conspiracy, even if he has the details a little fuzzy about who’s responsible for it.

Michael’s hearing the whispers in the engine room of the freighter? And seeing Libby? Whoa. “NOT YET.” This is the island refusing to let him die. And there is definitely something supernatural about this.

“You going Nicholson on us?” The Shining. Hehe.

Walt called? Or is this Tom saying he’s Walt? Oh, Ben pretending he’s Walt.

Ben won’t kill innocent people? I think the members of DHARMA would disagree.

Huh. Ben wants Michael to make him a list. He’s big on lists. So Michael makes the list, and Michael is the saboteur that destroys the radio and the engine room.

Sayid blows Michael’s cover. Could this be the moment that Sayid realizes he screwed up and is later responsible for the deaths of many innocent people, and that’s why he ends up working for Ben off-island?

Oh my God. Karl’s dead. He did have a bad feeling about this. Ben was playing them. Why else would Karl and Danielle end up dead, but Alex is still alive? I would bet that Mikhail or one of Ben’s other cronies was the assassin.