So here I type, waiting for my wife to finish up watching an old The O.C. repeat so that we can start watching Lost. If I haven’t mentioned it before, I frakking LOVE Thursday nights.
As I sit prepping this blog, I am wondering how on earth The Other Woman can live up to last week’s amazing episode with Desmond and Penny and all the time travel and crying and whatnot.
But I think we’re in for a good one, so without further ado, let’s get into it. Oh wait, Kirsten is about to have an intervention for her drinking, and for some reason I have to watch.
Lost recap: Episode 4×06, ‘The Other Woman’
We open on a scene with Juliette in therapy with the girl from Rescue Me, gotta love that .
Her name is Harper and we’ll find out soon enough that she’s married to Goodwin, the Other than Ana Lucia killed.
They trick us a bit into thinking it was a flash forward, that she was a celebrity, but I knew that was crap because A) stupid spoiler sites and B) she wasn’t a passenger on 815 anyways.
It’s a flash BACK to when she arrives on the Island, which was to help figure out why pregnant women keep dying.
They give her a big house and when Juliette says she’s only there for 6 months, Ben replies:
“We want you to feel at home.”
I swear, I’m surprised I don’t have nightmares about this guy.
Goodwin, Juliette and Ben
I’m going to split this week up a bit different, because it might be better telling the backstory all at once.
Jina alertly remembered that Goodwin and Juliette had an affair awhile ago, something I totally forgot about. Tonight we learn how that started, and it was with a chemical burn.
Juliette is crying, likely cause she’s just lonely and unable to help these women stop dying. Goodwin walks in to find something for his huge bruise, but it’s really a burn he got from working with chemicals at the Tempest power station, which we find out about later.
They have a little moment and you realize it’s leading to something else. And it does. But it doesn’t escape Harper’s eyes (or Ben’s), who follows them. She tells this to Juliette in a therapy session, but not to warn her. She’s afraid of what Ben might do to Goodwin.
That doesn’t stop them of course, they have a nice little picnic on the beach and Goodwin wonders what Ben could possibly do, what with Goodwin the only one who knows anything about chemicals.
Well, Ben doesn’t care about that, because when the plane crashes, he sends Goodwin off to the tail section immediately, and obviously knows it’s dangerous and could end badly. As we know, it does and at the end, Ben takes Juliette to see his dead body.
With the stake still in it, flies buzzing around.
Cruel, cruel Ben…and when she asks WHY he let this happen, he responds in his frakking evil way:
“Because you’re mine!”
Goodness. Possessive much?
Daniel, Charlotte and their Hunters
So out of nowhere, Charlotte and Daniel disappear from the beach and take the satellite phone. Jack and Juliette freak out and start searching around to find them.
Juliette is alone and suddenly hears those whispery voices that the jungle is so found of speaking now and then.
We’re really starting to understand that when you hear voices, except something supernatural to happen. This time, Harper, Juliette’s therapist, appears all creepy, almost Walt-like.
(makes me wonder if Walt was really Walt, or Ben using him to get Locke to do what he wanted him to when he was shot in that pit)
She has a message to deliver from Ben. He says that Daniel and Charlotte are headed to the Tempest, to release gas on the Island to kill everyone.
Then Jack actually sees her, they hear more voices and she’s gone. Boom.
They both run off to try and catch them before they get to the Tempest.
Tricky, Tricky Lost writers
We move to Daniel and Charlotte, looking at a map, trying to find the Tempest. Daniel asks…”What if I can’t do it?” She assures him he can.
Yes, they make us THINK he’s talking about killing everyone. Nice job. Then Kate appears out of nowhere, obviously trying to get back to the beach after leaving Sawyer and Locke.
They lie to her about what they’re doing, and she calls them on it, asks to see inside their bags and finds gas masks. Charlotte knocks her out before she has time to do anything.
More trickiness.
Next we get the best line of the night. Jack asks Juliette some question that I forget now, and she responds:
“It’s very stressful being an Other, Jack…”
That’s fantastic.
Jack and Juliette find Kate, Juliette runs off on her own and arrives at the Tempest. Daniel is all geared up in a chemical suit, blasting away at a keyboard and she tells him to stop.
There are alarms going off and we don’t know exactly what Daniel is trying to do, but he tells her that he’s attempting to render the gas inert, which if you attended chemistry at all in high school, means something like “make it USELESS.”
She fights Charlotte, who whacks her from behind, but Juliette wins that battle and decided not to pull the trigger as both of them beg her to not do it.
They are saving everyone’s lives, not killing them. Charlotte asks Juliette if she thinks Ben wouldn’t use it again, since he’s done it before.
And so we realize that we are even more confused now than before. First we are led to believe the boat is bad and the people coming are bad for the Island. Ben even says that they’ll kill every last thing on it.
Yet here they are saving it? Who is lying? I give up!
Jack and Kate catch up, Kate goes inside with Charlotte. Jack and Juliette have a moment outside, where Juliette confesses that a war is brewing and that Ben is going to win. No matter what.
And that Jack needs to be far away from her, because just like Goodwin, she fears what Ben will do to Jack because he knows how she feels about him.
They kiss…and somehow, it just doesn’t feel right to me. Like Jina said, it really wasn’t THAT long ago that Goodwin died. This girl flip flops between men depending on what month it is!
Locke, Ben and Claire
Claire wants to know about Miles and why he’s locked up. Her little speech to Locke about how their current tactics aren’t working with these people from the boat kind of hits home. They still have no idea what or who they are.
It works well, because the next time Locke talks to Ben, he lets him out of the cell with the promise of information.
Ben has something to show him. There is a safe behind a picture that had a Red Sox tape in it. Or not…Ben taped over it.
Hilarious.
It turns out to be a videotape of Charles Widmore beating the snot out of one of Ben’s men. We find out that Widmore is behind the freighter and that he’s been trying to find the Island for awhile now.
But Ben doesn’t know how he found out about it, only that he probably wants to exploit it. If Locke can walk again, what else can happen?
There is also a big file on Widmore than he gives to Locke. Wonder what’s in that?
And finally, Locke has one more question: Who is his man on the boat? Ben says okay, but he’d better sit down for the answer.
Well frak me, I was sitting down but they never told me a darned thing! I guess we’ll find out next week. But if it’s not Michael, I’ll be shocked.
At the end, Sawyer and Hurley are playing horseshoes, Hugo makes a hilarious comment about “being lucky”, and we see Ben walking to his old house, free and with a stack of clothes.
I guess the information was good. Now that he’s free…what is going to happen?
Stuff to Ponder
So how is Ben passing messages? Is it really him, or the Island/Jacob itself? Is it Jacob and Ben knows how to communicate through him? Is Harper dead? I have no idea, but I think so.
There was also an interesting exchange between Juliette and Ben during a candlelight dinner, where she questioned the little kids they took from the tail section. Ben says:
“Who are we to question who is on the list and who isn’t?”
Again, is the list actually Ben’s? Or is it Jacob’s? More questions…no answers.
On a side note, Kate tracking people has turned into hilarity. I think she should be in the next Lord of the Rings film, running alongside Aragorn tracking Orcses (precious!) through the Dead Marshes.
“Daniel and Charlotte passed through here, and then Juliette 30 minutes later.”
Those skills might be even more impressive that communicating with a supernatural Island being.
So what did you think? Definitely a much less exciting episode than last week. We got a decent backstory, but it wasn’t anything new except to give us a little tension between Jack, Juliette and Ben, plus to solidify some love interest between J and J.
One big thing is that Ben admitted the people from the boat aren’t evil, it’s Widmore who is. Still, they had a mission to get to the Tempest to get rid of the gas, so why? Are they bad or good?
My head hurts.
The one big answer this week was Widmore, but I think most of us already figured he was behind it. He’s been popping in for awhile now and after last week, we knew his pursuit of the Black Rock logbook was something important.
So obviously we can deduce now that he was trying to find out any information he could. He WANTS to find it.
Your turn…what did I miss?
Just a small thing–Juliet was crying when she first met Goodwin because one of the pregnant women died that same morning–Goodwin mentioned it when he met her.
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Yeah, I kind of said that, but in a more general sense:
“Juliette is crying, likely cause she’s just lonely and unable to help these women stop dying.”
I think she was obviously crying over the woman who died, but she may have been lonely because of it all too, which made the thing with Goodwin seem so easy to walk into.
What if the person on the boat wasn’t Michael? What if it were somehow Libby? She’s supposed to be back this season… Just an “out-of-the-box” thought.
Good recap. I think the way you outlined it was a much easier way to follow the story.
Sometimes the story lends itself to being a back and forth thing, cause it’s important to the flow…but last night, the Juliette/Goodwin thing was sort of a story that could have been told all on it’s own.
Man…if Libby is the one…that would be wild.
Wait, I don’t think it can be Libby…she’s the one who sold Desmond the boat, who we assume was working for Widmore…
So she can’t really be a spy, could she?
Hey, we got to see Mr. Tom Friendly again! And the long lamented Picket also got a mention but no screen time.
Kate is getting a bad case of getting her butt kicked. Juliet kung-fu’ed her last season and Charlotte “Scooby-do’ed” and pistol whipped her in this episode.
I think Harper wasn’t Harper but a manifestation of Smokey/Jacob/Island. Look at how quickly she disappeared.
I think the point of what Daniel and Charlotte did was to remove Ben’s MAD (mutually assured destruction) option.
Juliet still is a bit of an enigma. Did Goodwin give her kungfu lessons between “wine tastings”. Where exactly does she stand? How big a hold does Ben really have over her?
Ben is just plain creepy, and powerful, and dangerous, and crazy. But, so is Widmore for than matter. Maybe the Island wants a new chief honcho, Locke?
I agree, Micheal is most likely the insider on the freighter.
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I believe I called Michael as the inside guy on the ship a long time ago and everyone thought I was crazy. Now everyone is like, “hey, it might be Michael”…but I’m not bitter.
I don’t think that this episode was nearly as good as last weeks. Nothing super surprising happened. Don’t get me wrong, it was still good, just not in a Desmond/Penny kind of way. Those tend to be the strongest episodes.
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It was definitely an average episode in comparison to last weeks, but not bad none the less, I mean this is Lost. I really think the writers are thoroughly enjoying themselves. There was a lot of trickery in this episode, like Mike said it started with The Julliete therapy session of being a celebrity, which any true lost fan is either wondering a.) she’s on the island, or b.) she somehow sneaked her name on the manifest and is one of the Ocaenic 6 which would be a disappointment.
Also when Fahrety is typing on the computer to render the gas inert, if you can pause the screen, you’ll notice it is all babel, and even includes some cuss words. I think that might be there message to the lost fans who give away spoilers to screw off. P.S. There is a guy who does a YouTube Recap of every Lost episode at least for season 4, and he finds some ridiculous hidden clues when he does it. Almost every episode there has been what appears ro be someone mumbling, but when played backwards it is actually a message to the fans from the writers. Frikkin Crazy.
Any way, I have a couple of theories, I know next episode focuses on Jin and Cho, and because of that I have a strange feeling that the writers are trying to trick us into believing that they are the final 2 of the Oceanic 6. I predict Cho doesn’t make it, thus leading to more guilt on Jack. I have a funny feeling that Sawyer will find a way to leave, even though he said he wants to stay. I just don’t see Sawyer having a very good time on the island without Hugo or Kate. Who knows, maybe its Michael and Walt.
@ Zach – Probably need to re-check your math. There is only one spot left for the Oceanic 6 – so both Jin and Sun cannot be part of the group.
Oceanic 6:
1. Jack
2. Kate
3. Hurley
4. Sayid
5. Aaron
6. ???
At least that is how I have it counted. If there is eight like Jack mentioned, then I include:
7. Michael
8. Walt
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I know what your saying, but the lost writers have openly commented that the Oceanic 6 is more like 6 + 1. Also if you geta chance to watch the eggtown episode. There is a clue at the very end. When Kate walks into Aaron’s bedroom, there is a picture to the right of her. On the bottom of the picture there is a guy holding up a playing card. It is a 7 of diamonds or hearts not sure. Anyway, there is a thumb covering up the 7th diamond on the card. I think this indicates that there are 7 and Aaron is the 7th. Remember he is not on the manifest, because Claire gave birth to him on the island.
Ape, get over yourself, it’s probably not even Michael!
I don’t think Aaron is part of the 6…makes no sense that he’d be a celebrity or anything.
There are two spots left.
@ Zach – true, that explanation has possibilities
@ Mike – wait and see. I mean, look at the other things I have been write about, such as Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD…lol
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In real life the media would never refer to the survivors as The Oceanic Six +1. They would be referring to everyone who came off the island whether they were from the plane or were born there. Whether that means there is one spot left or two I do not know, but it really doesn’t make sense that they would be known as the Oceanic 6, but there’s really seven of them.
Two things that I think are interesting are…
1. Ben’s freakout when he told Juliette that she was his. That is the only time we really have seen him rattled. Interesting. Maybe there is a chink in his armor.
2. Harper said to Juliette in the therapy session that she looked just like “her”, in reference to why of course Ben liked her. Who is this HER?
Could the “HER” be the little girl we saw in the first flashback we ever saw for Ben way back in Season 2? I can’t remember whatever happened to that girl, but she was around a lot when Ben was a kid, but I don’t remember seeing her at all when he became an adult and led the purge.
That’s who I thought it was Chap.
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Man, you guys have a better memory than I do! I barely remember that girl. Can’t remember much at all about her.
I think her name was Susan or Sarah or something along those lines.
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Yeah, I don’t remember any of that stuff
Just think of how brilliant I am when I’m not hopped up on Percocet!
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I think Annie was name of Ben’s girlfriend when he was a wee lad. She gave him some wooden dolls for his birthday, which it later showed him looking at as an adult, so he still has some infatuation. Then kid Ben leaked the gas and killed everyone, but it never showed what happened to her.
Does anyone else feel like this whole season aside from being awesome, needs a little breather. Maybe a show where it shows everyone partying on the beach celebrating drinking Sweet Dharma wine, waiting for their rescue. Maybe even some random sex. We probably have a couple of episodes to go for that.
I’m probably over doing my posts, but now that I think about it, I bet this Annie girl is still alive, maybe even off the island, is a relative of someone, maybe even Widmore(sister?) She may be the basis for all of Ben’s lunacy and could verywell explain the beginning of the whole Dharma project.
One thing that does seem clear to me, is that Widmore probably had everything to do with sending Desmond to that island away from his daughter, Penny. I’m done.
“Sweet Dharma wine” hahahahaha, keep it coming Zach, you aren’t overdoing anything
Okay, so Widmore sends Desmond to the island, which I think we pretty much think is the case. Does he do it because he doesn’t like him (to get him away from Penny) or to use Desmond in some way (if so, why Desmond and why not someone else?).
And we know that Penny knows about the island and is looking for Desmond. If her father is the one behind the whole thing…are they working together to find the island or is he allowing Penny to look on her own…do they even know each other is looking for the island?
I’ve probably missed some information that tells me all of this somewhere.
How about Penny and Annie being the same person? LOL
Widmore is former Dharma and wants revenge on Ben for gassing the place during the purge. Or perhaps Annie was another daughter he had. Gives him a motive to want Ben dead, doesn’t it?
Did you notice the Philip K. Dick book that Ben was reading – Valis? I’m wondering if one of that book’s major premises is being hinted at (or mis-hinted at?!) by the show’s writers – earth/people’s relationship to an alien race?
Yep – noticed it right away. That book is about a variety of philosophies and spiritualities, particularly the ancient philosophical/religious view of Gnosticism.
Philosophical and Spiritual overtones run rampant all throughout LOST.
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