Uncharted Island

Before that very sexy kiss, what do you think Sawyer whispered to Kate?

Because of Kate’s errand in the flash forward where she won’t tell Jack where she was, I believe he told her about his daughter Clementine. I wonder if he slipped in the name of Clementine’s mother, Cassidy, and if Kate had a small start at that when she realized it was the same woman she palled around with for a while?

Did he tell her anything else? There wasn’t much time, but was there anything else other than his daughter that he wanted her to see to for him?

Here it is! I’ve got butterflies in my stomach!

Tiny coffin in the previous scenes… do we learn who was in it?

Kate’s backing up… from the end of last season’s finale! Jeremy Bentham? “You believed him? Him, of all people?” To keep Kate and Aaron safe. Kate’s reaming Jack out pretty good… I’m not getting all of the exposition.

Three years. She’s been trying to forget all the horrible things that happened the day they left for three years. That makes it the end of 2007 or the beginning of 2008 here.

“Of course you’re fine. You’re always fine.” Sundance. LOL.

Is Hurley peeing on a tree? Ha!

Meanwhile, back on the freighter…

Desmond did six months of explosives work when he was in the army. I’ll have to grab exact wording of that quote later. It was awesome. And he does seem to know just about enough to keep from getting blown up. Jin catches on quickly about the “boom.”

Wait… this episode shares the title from last week?

Okay, so Ben gave himself up so that Keamy and his team would leave the Orchid and head back to the helicopter so that Locke could find his way into the Orchid.

Kate is leading Keamy’s team into a trap, I think. Uh oh, whispers. It’s a traaaap!

Taser darts. Nice to see them again. It’s just another lovely ambush by the Others.

Keamy just kicked the grenade at one of his own guys. Nice one, boss.

Nice tackle there, Sayid. Action Sayid is definitely a good Sayid. And Richard Alpert to the rescue, shooting Keamy in the back just before he crushed Sayid’d windpipe.

“They help us free you, and we let them off the island.”
“Fair enough.”

“That’s it?”
“That’s it.”

Huh. It can’t be as easy as that.

I’m going to have to submit this after one hour and start a new one for the second hour. It’ll be way too long, otherwise!

Flash forward to Hurley in St. Rosa’s. “Are you Hurley? Are you dangerous?” It’s Walt’s grandma. And Walt is there. Wow, he’s gotten big. He’s a man now, with a man’s voice to go with it.

He was waiting for someone to come see him, but no one did… except for Jeremy Bentham. Will we learn who that is before the end of tonight?

Hurley says that lying is the only way to protect everyone who didn’t come back. Like Michael. So Michael is definitely not the man in the coffin. My money’s on him getting blown up on the Kahana as of right now. Would Hurley know Michael’s fate? I don’t know if they’ll make it back to the freighter.

Locke wants Jack to reconsider leaving the island. He wants him to stay.

Locke is the one who tells Jack they have to lie.

“Just wait until you see what I’m about to do.”

Here’s that whole man of science, man of faith thing again.

LOL at Ben shaking the flowers that Locke couldn’t identify to get into the Orchid.

Nitrogen? Cryo-Cyl? What’s that Michael has there? Oh, it’s supposed to take care of the C4. Hmm. So they can freeze the battery for a short time, but only until the tank runs out. Then they’ll have a warning before the whole thing goes off. Who’s going to stay behind and sacrifice themselves by spraying the battery until it runs out, so that the others can escape on the raft? It’s gotta be Michael. Desmond wants to get back to Penny. That’s when the island will let him die, when he makes up for what he did on the island.

“You’re very dire. But I’m still going to stay.” That’s great, Miles.

Miles knows that Charlotte has been on the island before? “What do I mean?” Cue the mysterious music… dun dun DUN!

“How deep is this station?”
“Deep.”

“Is this the magic box?”
“No, John, it’s not.”
The look on Ben’s face was hysterical.

Orchid video… becoming canon? No way!
*happy dance*
We are witnessing history.

Negatively charged exotic matter in the Vault. Highly volatile and unpredictable. But Ben is placing a number of metallic items in the vault… that must be how the island can be moved.

“Is he talking about what I think he’s talking about?”
“You mean time traveling bunnies? Yes.”

The elevator is going back up.

“You expecting someone?”
“May I have my weapon back?”

Oh man, here they are. The rest of the Oceanic 6… and Sawyer. Sawyer looks jealous as Kate inspects Jack’s wound.

Hacksaw for the handcuffs. Ha.

The film looked odd when Hurley mentioned coming back for Claire. He looked… pixellated.

Keamy’s not dead. I guess they should’ve buried him first. He was stabbed and shot in the back. Good body armor, although he certainly is limping and leaking blood.

Ah. His dead man’s trigger is connected to his heart rate. That makes sense.

“You just killed everybody on that boat.”
“So?”

He is so cold. Good thing the battery is, too…

Yay for the Pushing Daisies promo!

Charlotte is going to stay. For now. “Nothing’s forever.” She was born here. She can’t be Annie, can she? She’s too young. Unless she’s… slowed. Or halted.

Daniel seems to know he’s not going to get back to the island again. And he’s taking a raft full of Redhsirts. They’re going down.

I wonder how the time anomaly works with Keamy’s trigger.

Gunshots are not good for helicopters. I wonder what all that stuff is that they’re tossing out.

“Just do it, Freckles.”

Sawyer bailed on the helicopter so that there would be less weight and enough fuel to get back to the freighter. He told Kate what to do about Clementine, gave her one hell of a kiss, and then dove for the ocean and swam back to the island. That was his choice. That’s the choice he made. I knew it wouldn’t be a long-thought-out decision. He wouldn’t rationally choose to leave Kate and stay on the island. He sacrificed his return so that the others could make it.

Sawyer’s a changed man. It makes it that much sadder that Kate can’t be with him.

So this is going to be a trippy episode.  Is this going to be an episode with no flashbacks? Only Desmond’s, for lack of a better word, flash forwards? Nothing like totally messing with my sense of time.

Ah, there we are. Desmond in the brig. Er… Desmond in a monastery?  There’s our weekly fake-out. He was a monk? Pardon me while I scratch my head and say WHAT?

“You want me to make you a mixtape?” Now there’s a great island pick-up line.  Smooth one, Sawyer. Real smooth.

Desmond wants to make sure his flashes come true, so he can see Penny again. Does that mean he wants to knowingly lead Charlie to his death?  It would appear so, since he just lied to Charlie when he asked point blank about him dying. Arrow to the throat.  I’m going to take a leap here and say that Desmond’s flashes might be chronologically challenged, he didn’t see what he think he saw with Penny.

Moriah Vineyards.  I wonder what Brutha Desmond did to deserve a walk-by punch in the nose.

Kate jumped Sawyer. Go Kate! That explains the “S” in the episode’s “TV-14 SV” rating.

Jin telling a Korean ghost story holding the flashlight under his chin.  Hilarious. Did Hurley actually understand him?  He had that funky dream sequence in the Swan pantry where he thought Jin was speaking English, but Jin told him he was speaking Korean.

Ruth. There’s another Biblical name.  Desmond’s former fiancee. Ouch.  At least we know where he got his cowardice complex from.  His first jilted lady love.

Was there actually a person in that helicopter?  Maybe it was an unmanned craft delivering a care package for Desmond.  Unless, of course, we find a parachuter to go with the book, the bobble-hip hula doll, and the photograph.

A Phil Collins tape. Swiped from Bernard. Can we please stop the alternate-timeline theory about Nikki and Paulo replacing Rose and Bernard?  The actors just aren’t in Hawaii right now or something for the filming.

Desmond saved Charlie in the end.  I didn’t think he could really let him die.  But every week has to have its Charlie near-death moment, I guess.

That’s not Penny hanging in the jungle.  It can’t be.

But it is a woman.  Have we seen her before?  The promo called her a survivor, so wiill she be telling us anything next week?  Hmm.

Desmond had to break off his engagement to enter the monastery in order to meet Penny… but was Penny also just a step along the path?  Was he meant to enter the boat race to gain a sense of honor to make him worthy of her so that he would end up on the island and save the world?  Too many questions.

Without knowing whose flashback this was supposed to be, I had initially thought that the skinny kid was going to be a young Paolo.  Then Cheech Marin started talking and called him Hugo, and it hit me that this was the young Hurley.  Poor Hurley.  He started eating when his dad left and gave him a candy bar - even though his mom didn’t want him to have them.  Kinda sad.

But even sadder?  When I realized current-day Hurley was talking to Libby’s grave.  My husband said it about five seconds before Hurley did.  I actually had tears in my eyes and had to stop myself from crying.

Hurley had said that a meteor hit Mr. Cluck’s Chicken Shack.  Now we know that it hit the Chicken Shack with the reporter Tricia Tanaka inside it.  And that’s where the episode title came from, so let’s move on.

The Mystery Machine is in the middle of the jungle on the LOST island.  Or, as my husband prefers to call it, a shaggin’ wagon.  Or as Sawyer called it, a hippie car.

I know it’s horrible, but I laughed both when the meteor hit Mr. Cluck’s and when poor Roger the DHARMA work man’s skeletal head popped off when Hurley and Jin were trying to remove him from the van.

Vincent!  The dog’s had the run of the island for a while, and we hadn’t seen much of him until tonight.

Was Sawyer’s “Munchkin” nickname for Charlie an allusion to his prior status of hobbit?  I like to think so.  Of course, I’m re-reading Wicked right now, so it made me smile anyways. 

Is it just me, or does Kate seem completely different?  She was trying to make nice with Sawyer, calling him James and asking for him to apologize - she seemed about five years younger.  Even when she reverted to not forgiving Sawyer for his obnoxiousness, she still seemed younger.  Maybe I’m the only one to notice.  Evangeline Lilly is around my age, though a little bit younger - but Kate has always seemed to be older than me, in my eyes.  But not tonight.  Tonight she does seem younger.  I can’t quite put my finger on why.

Literally laughing out loud at Sawyer’s three things a woman needs to hear from Jin’s English lesson.  I’m sorry.  You were right.  Those pants don’t make you look fat. Although I don’t think Sun really has to worry about looking fat in her pants.  Aside from already having a gorgeous figure, pregnancy exempts you from worrying about looking fat.  I know I never felt better about the way my body looked than when I was pregnant.

The boys took a joyride in the van.  Way to go Hurley for breaking the curse.  Way to go Charlie for cheating death.  Although I’m sure the masses hated this episode because nothing really happened except for Hurley doing donuts in the grass, I liked it.

And I am so happy that Kate told Danielle about Alex.  Will we have a reunion in the next few weeks?  Please?  Exciting things are afoot!

Phew… is it getting hot in here? While I’ve been rooting for Kate and Sawyer to get together for quite sometime, that love scene in the cage was getting a little steamier than I thought they could get in LOST’s time slot!While this Sawyer fangirl tries to get a little less flustered by the mental image, let’s consider a few things:

Kate probably hasn’t been with anyone since she left her husband Kevin. Sawyer hooked up with Ana-Lucia a few weeks ago, island time. But either way, they both needed this… the sexual tension has been palpable between them for way too long!

They both finally honestly admitted that they love each other. Aww.

The cameras were on them the entire time. I have to wonder… Was Ben sitting in there watching the whole time? Or do you think he let them have their privacy, knowing they weren’t going anywhere? The fact that he wasn’t in the monitoring room when Jack “broke out” means nothing… a fair amount of time had passed. I think he’s just creepy enough to have watched.

In any case, Ben knew what happened, and he let it happen. Makes me wonder if Kate was right, and the only reason she and Sawyer were there was to act as bait. Maybe it wasn’t an accident that Jack saw Ben’s x-rays. Jack got the best incentive he could possibly get to make Ben make good on his promise to take him home; he saw that he had lost Kate. Or that he never really had her in the first place. A better setup couldn’t have been contrived…

…Was it contrived? Could they have really forseen everything falling into place this way?