Okay, this episode was so deep and involved so many things from the past, that I was almost afraid to try and recap it and not do the thing justice.

That feeling lasted for like 5 seconds.

I’m not going to do a complete play-by-play recap this week, because it would likely take forever. Instead, we’ll just cover the main highlights. Which is still A LOT.

But first: “He wants us to move the Island.”

OMG.

We’ll get back to that and a HUGE coincidence that I discovered in chasing down reminders on who Horace was. I’m sure I’m wrong, but I’m pointing it out.

Let’s get the side stuff out of the way.

The Freighter

The helicopter returns, bringing the injured mercenaries with it. Kemy confronts the captain, blaming him for giving his name to Benjamin Linus. But no, it’s Michael the captain points out, so they go down to see him and Kemy tries to blow him away.

Not gonna happen. The Island apparently STILL wants Michael alive. The gun jams twice, and Kemy makes the captain go fix it.

Now Kemy sort of takes over the ship in a way, yanks a key off the captain and opens up a box containing a document from Mr. Widmore. It has a Dharma logo and apparently tells them where Ben is headed.

“If Ben knows that the Island is going to get torched, there is only one place he can go.”

Underground? Hmmmmm….perhaps.

As Kemy packs up munitions in the helicopter to head back, the Captain doesn’t like it. He gives Sayid and Desmond a motor boat to get back to the Island to try and get people off before Kemy gets back. But Desmond wont go with Sayid, saying he can’t go back after being there 3 years. Sayid goes out alone.

As they get ready to leave, the time travel element enters the picture once more. Even though back on the Island, the dead doctor washed up to shore two episodes ago (while Kemy and his men were still on the Island fighting smokey) he’s totally fine on the boat. He’s still alive.

On the freighter after they return, one of the soldiers gets a morse code phone call.

No wonder they replied saying the “the doctor is fine.” He WAS fine.

Not only is the Island now operating in the future, but it’s like WAY ahead now. Earlier this season, with that missile launched from the boat, it was only 30 minutes or so.

Confusing? Yes.

But as Frank is trying to make a stand and NOT fly the soldiers back, Kemy slices the doctor’s throat and tosses him overboard. Time fulfills itself.

Interesting that the dead body floated perfectly to the Island, while others have to try hard to maintain the correct course of 305 degrees.

John’s Backstory

Emily…Emily…Emily…the poor young girl gets pregnant, hit by a car and gives birth to a miracle baby 3 months premature.

John Locke is born. And while he’s gaining enough health to be able to go home, someone is watching.

Richard Alpert. From Mittelos. Lost Time. Sort of like how Richard apparently has lost all concept of time since he never friggin’ ages.

Richard thinks baby Locke is special. After Locke grows up a bit, maybe 4-5 years old, Richard comes to test him to see if he’s ready for a school in Portland. Called Mittelos.

He lays all these objects in front of John: A knife, comic book, baseball glove, compass, a book and what appears to be a vial of sand.

Richard asks John: “Tell me John…which of these things belong to you…already.”

John chooses the knife, but it’s the wrong one. Richard grabs them all and storms out.

Maybe I missed the one that does belong to him. Did anyone catch it?

I think John knew which one it was.

Later Locke is trying to rehab from his spinal injury. As he finishes a session, a black man helps him into a wheelchair to take him back to his room.

Matthew Abaddon. The man who visited Hurley in the asylum in a flash-forward. The man who puts Naomi’s team together that are now known as the freighter people.

He tells Locke that he needs to go on a “walk about“…from season one (I believe). He says Locke falling two stories and not dying was a miracle. The walk about is a journey of self-discovery.

Abaddon went on his own walk-about. And before John leaves up the elevator, Matthew adds this tidbit:

“When you are ready Mr. Locke, you’ll listen to what I’m saying. And then…when you and me run into each other again…you’ll owe me one.”

Wow. So who is this Abaddon guy? First he assembles the team to go storm the Island, next he’s visiting Hurley later, and now it seems like he’s a good guy trying to help Locke.

How does he fit in the puzzle?

John, Ben and Hurley and…the Emilys?

As John, Ben and Hurley try to find the cabin, Locke has a dream about Horace. Apparently he was the one who built the cabin.

If you don’t remember him, I’ll remind you (because I needed a reminder as well). He was the guy who tried to help Benjamin’s parents deliver him. His mother died during the birth, but Ben lived of course. Horace told Ben’s father, Roger, about the Dharma Initiative and was the one who basically brought them to the Island.

Now, before we go any further, I have to say…in reading up on Horace, I discovered one interesting tidbit:

Ben’s mother’s name was Emily.

John’s mother’s name was Emily.

Coincidence? I highly doubt it, the Lost writers hardly ever screw up things like this. Everything is meant for a reason.

Edit: Below in the comments section, Adrian blew a hole in my “Ben and John have the same mother” story, but I still think it’s weird that they have the same name.

Okay, since this recap will never end, the search for the cabin ensues. Horace tells Locke to find “Horace” and that will point him to the cabin.

Locke visits the dead body pit where Ben shot him, and finds Horace’s boney corpse. A map to the cabin is inside a pocket, and so they head off. Hurley spots the cabin first, thus justifying his presence.

But Ben and Hurley both stay outside while John goes in. Yikes. Scary cabin.

A man is sitting at the table, and it’s Christian Shephard of course. We’ve already seen his white sneakers earlier in the season. But we didn’t expect Claire to be SITTING IN THERE WITH HIM!

Creeeeeepy!

Christian speaks for Jacob he says, which is exactly what I have been suspecting for awhile now. I never thought Christian WAS Jacob. He’s just a vessel.

But what is Claire doing there? The baby is “away from here” says Christian, “where it should be.”

We don’t find out anything about Claire, because there is no time Christian says. The men are returning and will kill everyone. John…ask the question you need to ask.

“How do I save the ISLAND?”

My wife made an interesting point that he didn’t ask how to save the PEOPLE. No, he only cares about the ISLAND.

Hurley and Ben share a candybar outside when Locke returns. They look at him, ask him if he got an answer, and he says yes.

“He wants us to MOVE the Island.”

Woooooooooooh…move the frakking Island?!?!?!?!

I love it! No idea what it means…but it really starts to help shape the idea we have of the place. That it’s not always in one place, that perhaps it CAN be moved, thus making it so hard to find.

And is it too late? The helicopter is already back over the Island. It passed over the beach camp and Frank secretly dropped a package out the door, with a satellite phone that was tracking the chopper. Jack thinks it means they want them to follow the chopper.

Questions and Stuff

Geronimo Jackson was a band poster inside teenaged John Locke’s locker at school. There is a bit of other info about it if interested over on the Lost Wiki site.

What does Kemy have on his arm? It seems like some kind of biological sensor that could set off some bomb if Kemy were to die. But what is it connected to? The boat?

Do you think the two mom’s named Emily is just a coincidence?

Hurley dreaming about malamars was hilarious.

So what is up with Richard? Does he time travel, and thus can take an item of Locke’s from the future to test the young version of him with?

Ben mentioned that it wasn’t HIM who ordered the death of all the Dharma people. In fact, he wasn’t the leader at that time. Who was?

Locke is now apparently the leader. Ben’s time has passed.

This episode was PACKED with stuff and if you are as “lost” as I am, please raise your hand.

Lost: The Economist starts off with Sayid praying, then he walks over to Naomi to cover her up since she’s laying there out in the open. Before he finishes though, he sees a bracelet on her arm and he takes it off to look at it.

Engraved on the inside of it: “N. I’ll always be with you. R.G.”

Again…who is R.G.? Hmmmm…we’ll get back to that…

Sayid Flash Forward

Jina and I were both pumped that it was a Sayid-focused flash-forward because we just don’t see enough of him. He’s one of the best characters on the show.

Sayid is the fourth member of the Oceanic 6! We now know Jack, Kate,Hurley and Sayid.

So Sayid is out playing golf when a guy named Mr. Avelee (I have no idea what his name is) drives up in a golf cart. He comments on how no one has been out on the course, then wagers with Sayid on whether his 5-iron will be more accurate than Sayid’s 7-iron.

Before the man swings, Sayid informs him that he’s a member of the Oceanic 6. This has a big-time effect on Mr. Avelee who is suddenly scared and ready to leave. He hits a great shot, wins the bet, but says he doesn’t need the money and heads for his golf cart.

But before he can go, Sayid stops him by saying the man’s name, pulls a gun and then blows him away. He picks up his clubs and walks off the course.

Sayid is an assassin. But for who and why? The answer is unbelievable. Read on.

Back on the Island

Sayid finds out that Naomi had a picture of Penny and Desmond in her bag, so either she had some separate mission aside from the other four, or they aren’t telling all.

Locke and his gang are still trying to find the cabin. Sawyer suggest they shoot off Ben’s big toe.

Now that’s kind of funny…he’d have four toes after that I’d guess? Reminds me of a certain picture.

Locke can’t find the cabin and starts to butt heads with Hurley who wants to let Charlotte go. This is obviously a real conflict and it comes into play later.

Jack sends Kate with Sayid and Miles who are headed to find Locke and make him hand over Charlotte. And then he shoots Juliette off to find Desmond at the beach.

Future Assassin

Sayid meets a girl at a coffee shop who has a boss that she says is an “economist.” She’s obviously a mark for Sayid who for some reason is now a hired gun. He’s after the economist, but we don’t know why. We DO know he isn’t working alone because he makes a phone call to someone saying he made contact.

He makes a date with the woman for dinner.

Back on the Island

Daniel starts rushing around and sets up a contraption on a tripod. He make a phone call to the Regina on the boat asking if she has a signal and to fire the payload. Payload? What?

Regina fires it and she counts down the kilometers to the target, which is where Daniel is standing. She goes from around 60 kilometers to zero and still no payload. Daniel is perplexed and worried.

Sayid, Kate and Miles get to the barracks…find Hurley tied up. He talks about how Locke has gone a bit nuts, getting orders from Walt, taking a hostage, etc. It seemed a pretty convenient plot device to have the argument between Locke and Hurley earlier though.

In the famous line from Star Wars: “It’s a trap!”

The best line of the night though came when Miles was trying to grill Hurley and called him “tubby.”

“Oh awesome, the ship sent us another Sawyer.” Classic.

Sayid, Kate and Miles go to Ben’s house because Hurley said that Locke’s gangs were stopping by there first before heading out. From the earlier discussion with Locke about Charlotte, we totally fall for the Hurley’s story.

Sayid finds a hidden door behind a dresser in Ben’s room. Behind it is another tiny room full of passports from places like New Zealand and Brazil, plus clothes and money in various currencies.

One of the passports had the name Dean Moriarty from Zurich on it. It took me awhile but that’s the infamous character from Jack Kerouac’s American Classic, On the Road.

Dean is a free spirit, who wanders the United States doing whatever it takes to have fun and make enough money to get to the next destination. What does it have to do with Ben?

Then the trap is sprung. Sawyer pops in on Kate, Locke holds a gun to Sayid. Hurley says “Sorry dude.”
Sayid gets locked in with Ben, and ends up making a deal with Locke for Charlotte by trading Miles.

Kate and Sawyer

I swear, if I were Jack, I’d give up on Kate. She gets locked in a room with Sawyer one time and is suddenly thinking about staying. She asks Sawyer why he doesn’t want to leave, and he responds that he isn’t looking to leave…he doesn’t have anything back there for him.

And then he puts the same idea in her mind. Wasn’t she headed to jail when when the plane landed? Why would she want to go back?

The next thing you know…Sayid gets back with Charlotte without Miles…or Kate. He tells Jack that she decided to stay.

Holy Time Travel Batman??

The payload that Daniel had Regina shoot over suddenly arrives and it’s 31 minutes ahead. The payload is like some rocket fired with a sharp pointer to stick in the ground. A big dang dart.

WHAT? 31 minutes ahead?

Daniel grabbed a clock out of the payload and it says 3:16. He checked out the time on the contraption he set up and it reads 2:45.

What the heck!

Okay, theory time: It’s obvious really hard to get to the island, there is only one bearing to get there and somehow coming any other way takes you through time and brings you to the island 31 minutes later.

At least, that’s all I can think of. The bearing matters and I don’t know for sure if the rocket took the same one to get there?

Back in the Future

There was an amazing amount of stuff happening in this episode, holy crap.

We go back to Sayid who has fallen in love with the girl, who says she’s done the same. He gets ready to be honest with her when the pager for her boss goes off. It means she needs to go to him.

Sayid tells her she needs to leave town, and as he explains why, she freaks out as she discovers that he intends to kill the economist.

But she’s a good actor. As she’s crying, she pulls a gun out and shoots Sayid in the shoulder. Wow! Saw it coming, but still wow!

She gets on the phone with her boss, or someone, tells him he was supposed to call earlier and that Sayid is still alive. It becomes totally obvious that SHE has been setting HIM up.

Too bad she didn’t take Sayid’s gun away, because when she comes out of the bathroom, he puts two bullets in her chest. And cries.

She tricks him, he kills her…but as Sayid takes one last look at her, we see her wrist and she’s wearing a bracelet….BOOM!

Naomi is connected to this R.G. guy who is who Sayid is now trying to get to.

Back to the Island

Desmond shows up with Juliette and is going to join Frank and Sayid, along with Naomi’s dead body, on the chopper back to the boat.

Daniel brings Frank close to him and tells him to follow the same bearing back to the boat. Not to waver from it at all.

That brings back into the play the idea of other bearings being problematic and have something to do with time travel or delay. Delay on the way in, go into the future on the way out?

Is it BAD to travel through to time?

OMG, it’s Ben!

Sayid, bleeding and shot, walks into some animal clinic with a bunch of dogs in kennels.

He stumbles into a medical area and starts to get patched up by someone with an all-too familiar voice.

Ben. Sayid is working for Ben. Holy crap. First off Ben is off the Island, and second, Sayid is doing his bidding.

But I don’t think it’s exactly that way. Ben implies that something horrible happens on the island, maybe on the boat, maybe the actual island, we don’t know. But we do know it was something bad enough to make Sayid desire revenge and to protect his friends. He seems to be working WITH Ben.

I can see Ben’s mutual reasons for wanting this R.G. guy dead as well, because obviously he was coming for him on the island via the boat.

Ben says he has another target for him, but Sayid points out that they know he’s after them now.

Creepily…Ben replies. “Goooood.”

Is R.G. the Matthew Abaddon character? Or someone much higher?
Does anyone out there KNOW who he might be, cause I have no clue. Who is R.G.?

Your Turn

Time for you guys to chime in with your thoughts. This episode had so much going on from Kate and Sawyer, to time travel, to Ben and Sayid in the future, to some dude named R.G., to hidden closets and missing cabins.

My head is spinning, yet I can’t help but think that this season of Lost is simply BRILLIANT so far and some of the best episodes I’ve seen in so long. It’s like the 48-episode timeline has focused these guys on some awesome stories.