I know this is against everything that I stand for, and please forgive me, and the good thing is it's changing back, but the second and third episode of lost was sorta boring. I mean, we found out some stuff, Jin knew Sun was having an affair, and Sun thinks Jin killed her ex-lover even though he didn't. Oh, and Sun can shoot a gun. Granted, the gun was only a few feet away from the Other that snuck onto the sailboat Sun was hiding on, but still, she did shoot her, didn't seem to have a problem with it either. And yeah, Desmond can see the future.
First, the second episode was all about Sun and Jin. I guess it was interesting, but nothing really stood out for me. Sayid was still waiting for Jack to show up on the beach and then finally figured out he wasn't coming. So he decided to make another fire and lure them there. Sun tried to keep the secret from Jin, as they prepared, but he knows a little English now, seeing it's been nearly 4 months! Anyway, he and Sayid sat out in the woods and tried to wait for the Others to come see who set the fire, but unbeknownst to them, the Others aren't that stupid. With guns, they snuck onto the boat where Sun was. Colleen, the Other who used to be play Trixie on Deadwood, approaches her, but Sun shoots her in the stomach. Ouch. As Trixie knows from life in Deadwood, getting shot in the gut is not fun. Sun escapes and Jin swims out to get her and she's fine.
We do get to see a bit of our peeps with the Others. They make Sawyer and Kate work. Can't really tell what they're doing, but the basics of it is they're taking rocks from one side of the area to the other. They threaten Sawyer and he eventually walks right up to Kate and lays a big wet and delicious kiss on her. The male Others beat him up and he gets the upper hand. That's until Juliet grabs Kate and threatens her with a gun. He relents but later we learn he was just doing that to see how the guys fought. He figures only one of them can really fight. Unfortunately Ben is watching this exchange from a camera (with microphones) set up outside Sawyer and Kate's cages.
Jack's irritated as usual in his little cage and Ben tells him that if he just does what he asks, he'll get the chance to go home. Jack doesn't believe Ben can do that, thinks all of this power thing is an act, that he really doesn't have contact with the outside world. Ben then tells Jack some things that happened in the past few months while they've been on the island, including the Red Sox winning the World Series. Jack, of course, doesn't believe this and laughs at him. That's until he brings in a television and plays the moment they won. Very cool.
The next episode was all about Locke. Which was cool because I was psyched that we might finally figure out what the hell happened to make him paralyzed. When he wakes up after the blast, in the woods, he's a mute. He also sees a naked Desmond run by. Oh good, he's alive. Naked, but alive. He goes back to camp and Charlie runs into him. They wonder where he's been and he can't answer. He decides to build a sweat lodge and locks himself in there while a reluctant Charlie watches.
In his flashback we learn that after the crap his father pulled, Locke joined a commune. He picked up a young kid, played nicely and handsomely by the kid who played Tom Cruise's son in War of the Worlds. The kid ended up being a cop who thought the commune was building a bomb. Come to find out, it was just marijuana. Sooo much better then a bomb. The head commune peeps were mad at Locke and he said he'd take care of it. He took the kid in the woods and threaten to kill him, but he didn't, thankfully, and the kid walked away. We DID NOT find out how he got paralyzed.
Back on the island Locke had some visions in the sweat lodge, because of the drugs he took, and Boone showed up to take him for a journey. He was basically just high and all his demons were there in the airport. Eventually some beast jumped out towards him and he fell out of the sweat lodge and it scared the hell out of me. He got his voice back and told Charlie he was going to find Eko. Yes! Eko. He said he thought the polar bear had him. Charlie reminded him that Sawyer killed the bear, and then Locke reminded him that he called "a" bear. Locke eventually tracked Eko down and they found him in the bear cave. Locke had to fight the bear off a bit, who looked really pissed. And why wouldn't he be pissed? He's hot as hell in that coat.
Locke and Charlie dragged Eko back and as they stopped for water, Eko wakes up. He tells Locke that he's going to find Sawyer, Jack and Kate, who they know, now because Hurley's back, were taken by the others. He tells Locke he'll find them because he's a hunter. When Charlie comes back a moment later, Eko's passed out again. We realize that he was never awake to begin with.
Hurley finds a naked Desmond in the woods, and luckily gives him a shirt to cover up, and it goes down to nearly his knees. Funny moment here, small skinny guy in a fat man's shirt. Hurley tells Desmond about Sawyer and the gang and Desmond tells him not to worry, something about Locke's little speech. Huh? Locke hasn't made a speech. Interesting. When Locke and Charlie do get back though, guess what? He makes a speech about how they'll find their people and blah blah blah. Oh, and they introduce two new people. I forget their names but the one is hot.
I don't know if the last episode was good because it was all Sawyer, or if it was just good. We do get a lovely glimpse into his past, and not what has been a sorta boring, yeah, we already kinda knew this, stuff. He's in jail, for what we find out later, is the Long Con from last season with that chick. He runs into a new inmate who he realizes has hidden $10 million. He convinces the guy to trust him because the warden will eventually find out where the money is and take it for himself. Look, he's conning him. Conning is sexy.
Speaking of conning, Cassidy, his Long Con shows up. She tells him that he has a daughter, who he denies is his. She tells him they live in Albuquerque or somewhere like that and she named her Clementine. Poor kid. Father denies her and her name is Clementine. Double whammy. Sawyer finally talks the guy into telling him where the money in and he in turn tells the warden who's worked out a plea. He gets set free and he has some money coming to him for finding the stolen money. He wants them to set up an account in Clementine's name, but to not let her know who it's from. Sweet, although, I would think it'd be somewhat obvious, seeing there's no one else in the world who would give her money and her father just found out about her.
Back on the island he and Kate are hanging out in the cages. She's looking mighty dirty. They don't know yet that they're being watched and Sawyer tells Kate that he's figured out what to do. Since the food dispenser gives out an electric shock he creates a puddle of water and when someone stands in it, he's going to hold onto them and push the food button, causing them to get shocked.
Ben comes out and he tests it but nothing happens. Ben then beats Sawyer up pretty bad. Sawyer then finds himself on a table as some of the Others stand over him with a big ass needle. Wait, that didn't come out right, it's not an "ass" needle, it's just one of those Pulp Fiction, I hope that thing is never near me because I would puke, kinda needles. Two losers are trying to figure out the right spot to plunge the needle. While this is going on, Jack is in his cell and over the "broken" intercom, hears Sawyer screaming.
Before they can plunge the needle in we cut to him waking up later. He's still strapped down and Ben brings in a rabbit in a cage. He shakes it to demonstrate that the rabbit has been given a pace maker, just like he has, that if his heart rate goes above a certain point, you know, if he tries to escape, it'll administer a devastating shock that will explode his heart. Yikes, that's not cool. Ben also says that if he tells Kate when they get back, they'll put one in her chest too.
When he gets back to the cage Kate tries to get out of him what happened but he won't say. She wonders about the watch and he tells her to back off. Zeek gives her a change of clothes (I think he's sorta sweet on her) and as she's changing Sawyer peeks and his heart rate goes up. Luckily he pours some water on himself.
The Others then bring Trixie back and she's not looking too good. Juliet eventually goes to get Jack who she traipse through past Sawyer and Kate who try and yell for him, but they have blaring sirens to drown them out. Couldn't they have taken him around back? Anyway, as he goes into the operating room he sees an X-ray on the board. I'm thinking it's Sawyer's. He works on Trixie for about two minutes and then she dies.
Later, when he's cleaning his wounds, Kate says she just said that so he would stop beating him. Then she shimmies her way out of the cage, through the top and starts trying to break Sawyer out. He convinces her though that he's going to stay, get the lay of the land, and he wants her to run. Instead, she gets back in her cage and says, "Live together, die alone". Oh wow, she's a poet all of the sudden.
In with Trixie's dead body, Juliet admits that she tried her best, but she's just a fertility doctor. Jack says some encouraging words about how Trixie would have died anyway. He then wonders about that X-Ray, that it's a man who has a tumor on his spine. Oh, and isn't it convenient he's a spine surgeon. He wants her to just tell him what they want him to do.
Over on the other side of the island things are getting weird. Desmond comes to Claire and tells her that he wants to fix her roof. She's a little freaked out by him and doesn't want to do it. He then goes on a mission and starts building something, using a golf club from the new hot guy whose name I still don't know. Rodrigo maybe. Something sexy and Latin. Anyway, he builds something into the sand that stands real tall with the golf club at the end. It starts thundering and lighting and raining real hard. Suddenly, the gold club turns into a lightening rod and lighting strikes it. It just happens to be right next to Claire's tent. Claire seems to figure out that if he hadn't made that rod, because she hadn't moved, she'd be dead from the lightening. Maybe they should start listening to Desmond.
Finally, Ben takes Sawyer for a walk. Up the mountain and threw the woods, things like that. When Sawyer's heart monitor starts going off he gets concerned. Finally Ben turns around and tells him that it was all a lie, that they never put anything into his heart. He then shows him what's at the top of the mountain. A gorgeous view. It's of another island, which Ben tells Sawyer is the island all his friends are on. The island they're currently on is the size of Alcatraz, and like Alcatraz, they're no escaping. Damn. He then says that the only way to get a con man's respect is to con him, that Sawyer's good, but the Others are better. I'm sorry, the only con they told him was that they put a pace maker in his heart. It's not like they made him believe they were conning him and then turned around and stole the money you got from your husband and ran away. Sawyer's much better.
Okay, as I just wrote that I realized that all the shows were good, it was just that last one with Sawyer was better. Maybe it was because of this:
