Uncharted Island

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 now is as good a time as any to apologize for using “Keamy” and “the captain” interchangeably. I didn’t realize that the guy Keamy shot was the captain. Oh, and the internet ate my first draft of this post up to the first commercial break, so I may have left some things out that I thought I said when I tried to retype it all… Rawr.

The return of the Oceanic 6 is a flash forward. Hmm. Aaron is an awfully good baby, sitting there quietly in the cargo hold of that rickety old plane.

I’m all teary-eyed. Watching them walk off the plane to their families… And no one there to greet Kate or Sayid.

So Keamy’s headed to the Orchid. I wish I’d paid more attention to that TLE orientation video for the Orchid. Daniel knows about Keamy’s secondary protocol, but Charlotte does not. And Daniel knows that they need to get off the island, or they will be torched along with everyone else. How can he torch the island from the Orchid? I have no idea, but I’m sure some of the diehard TLE people already know. But FINALLY some REAL tie-in with TLE!

Sawyer just called the barracks New Otherton. Yes!

“Hold up! You don’t get to die alone.”

Press conference. Membata, in the lesser Sunta islands. Day 108 brought them a life raft which allowed them to get to the island of Sumba. Kate’s baby, which she gave birth to on the island. Eight people left after floating on the cushions. Jin never made it off the plane. Aaron is a little over five weeks, which would’ve made her six months present at the time of the crash.

And Nadia was outside waiting for Sayid! I want the screen cap of them standing together by the police car.

Ben says that the Orchid is a greenhouse. And it’s possible to move the island from there. Moving the island is dangerous and unpredictable, a last resort.

Hurley’s happily noshing on 15 year old DHARMA Saltines. Ben’s communicating with some of the Others with a mirror.

Daniel is taking Sun, Jin, Aaron, and some Redshirts on the raft. I’m confused. I guess that’s the point. They can’t make it back to the freighter like that. But the raft can’t capsize or anything, because Sun and Aaron have to survive.

That’s an awful lot of stairs for a pregnant woman to climb at Paik Industries. Mr. Paik was berating his businessmen about a corporate takeover… and Sun was the one who bought controlling interest! Booyah! Take that, Daddy! That was awfully smart of her, using five banks to buy the shares.

Hurley’s driving his old clunker, with a bag of chicken from Mr. Cluck’s. There’s a coconut on the floor. And whispers in the mansion. It’s a surprise birthday party. Although why they thought an island theme would be appropriate, I’ll never know.

Sayid and Nadia look awfully happy together. “Interesting choice of theme.” Great minds think alike, Sayid.

Hurley’s dad fixed the car after Oceanic 815 crashed. 48151.6 on the odometer, with 234.2 on the trip odomoter. Doh.

Keamy’s team is already at the Orchid. Oh snap.

Oh this can’t be good. The raft DOES get to the freighter… which means that Jin and the Redshirts are probably going to die, along with whoever else comes back on the second raft.

Michael got the engine working. And found himself face to face with Sun and Jin. Yikes.

Frank dropped the phone so Jack could find him, but they cuffed him to the copter so he couldn’t run off the the jungle.

Jack’s finally delivering his father’s eulogy. It’s a bittersweet memorial service for his mom; her husband is still dead, but her son is not. “I’ve had a lot of practice.”

“I believe I’m the reason he was in Australia when he died.” OH MY GOD! Claire’s mom woke up out of her coma! And this is how Jack found out the truth about Claire being his half-sister. Talk about getting blindsided.

And we got a quick summary of how Michael got back to New York with Walt.

…And that’s a whole lot of C4.

Richard Alpert and his merry band of Others seem to have Kate and Sayid surrounded.

“How many times do I have to tell you, John? I always have a plan.” Plans don’t work so well when you get knocked unconscious… although I suppose Ben has a plan for that, too.

That is an evil, evil place to leave the end of the episode.

I never saw the LOST jigsaw puzzles for sale around here, but someone found them.  And the secret code has been cracked! 

The most important bits of information, on first glance, are THERE IS NO SICKNESS and QUARANTINE IS A HOAX.  I’m a bit amused by one bit - NEED MORE MAC AND CHEESE.

For the rest of the details check out the LOST jigsaw puzzle thread over at LOST-TV. 

A multitude of people are to thank for this, discovering the various video segments from the LOST Experience… See you in the next life from LOST-TV is the one who posted this compilation video and brought it to my attention:

53 fragments of the Alvar Hanso orientation video

For various personal reasons (including a death in the family and my son’s first birthday) I hadn’t been following the latest act of TLE for a while, but the webmazers have not been idle. I was suprised and excited to watch this latest compilation, which features Alvar Hanso giving instructions to DHARMA recruits… before it cuts away to show it was on a video screen, and Mittlewerk addresses a roomful of… who?

The video is not complete. There are additional fragments that have not yet been uncovered. This was put together out of those video fragments that had been found as of August 25. I’m hoping the newer video featuring newer fragments will appear under the “Explore More Videos” section once it has been compiled. If not, I will post the new link here when it becomes available.

Carencey, I checked the spelling of your name several times before posting this time. I think I got it right.

One of my favorite LOST fan contributors, Carencey, has compiled an easy to follow summary of all of the important information learned from Act II of The LOST Experience (TLE).

If you were a little “lost” when watching the Rachel Blake video I posted the YouTube link for, this should clear up any confusion as to what that was all about. I learned quite a bit, as my little 11-month old ball of energy leaves little time for me to follow any of this in real time with the rest of the web players.

Thanks, Carencey, and we shall all look forward to your summary of Act III… unless they truly do make it more “real world” and we find out through more traditional channels.