A Spectrum

It's Recon with Sawyer or perhaps Re-con. Another con, on us? on Widmore? on Smokey? Perhaps all?

Sawyer is pulling a con. It's 8:42 (numbers) and it's time to go, but wait, the chick he's swindling gets the drop on him. Except, "LaFleur"...He's cop, James Ford.

And his partner is Miles.

Liam, Charlie's brother, is looking to bail him out. When will Charlie be back? I miss him.

Miles sets up James with Charlotte "Indian Jones" Lewis who works with Miles' Dad at the museum (Dr. Chang?). (Rebecca Mader looks great!). They easily hook up (too easily?) and she finds his secret pictures about his parents murder/suicide and his hunt for Anthony Cooper. To the curb for C. S. Lewis.

Little House is always good for a laugh right, hmm maybe not when we're talking about death. Tries to make up with Charlotte by bringing her a "sad" flower bit no dice with Charlotte, good for her.

He confesses his secret to Miles and BAM it's Kate on the run.

On the island, Claire and Kate have some interesting back and forths. One resulting in Claire trying to to stab Kate while a dumbfounded Sayid sat and did NOTHING. Fake Locke slaps Claire out of it and tries to bond with Kate over crazy mothers and such.

Locke sends Sawyer on a recon mission to Hydra Island.

He finds Ajira and a mass grave. (The front girl extra in the pile with a purple shirt and jeans is Jorge Garcia's girlfriend Beth).

He finds Zoe who claims to be the only survivor but after asking WAY too many questions, she's actually part of Widmore's new sonic fence building gang.

They take Sawyer to the sub where he notices a conspicuously locked door. Is it Desmond? Eloise Hawking? Aaron? Some secret weapon? GARGH...

Sawyer makes a deal with Widmore to bring the "Smoke Thing" to him and tells the smoke thing the same plan. Playing both sides so he can steal ... the sub to get away. What? That's the end! Really anti-climatic for me.

Oh well...Next up: Ab Aeterno which is Latin for "Since the beginning of time." So that must mean it's centered on Mr. Richard Alpert. YeeHaw! I am so excited for this episode.

Dr. Linus is a nice guy. He cares for the school, the kids, complaining colleagues, and even that odd substitute fellow. The man can't catch a break though. Evil 80's movie villains (see Real Genius and Die Hard) masquerading as principals always seem to get in his way.

I really, really enjoyed seeing alterna-Ben.



He's teaching Alex (on island daughter). (Somehow, this cameo really surprised me. Guess I was just expecting Ben and Artz :) She clues him in to villainous principal's affair and he goes for a power grab, much like his island self.



He enlists Artz who wheels and deals himself to some new equipment and a choice parking spot. But alas, he is not the power hungery island Ben and when the principal ups the ante by threatening to ruin Alex's Yale chances, this time Ben chooses her. The choice he's always been regretting.

Oh, and he really seems to have a good relationship with dear old Dad. They went to the island at some point but no clue as to what happened. And in a twist of irony (which I totally missed, Thanks internet for cluing me in), he's pumping life saving oxygen gas into him instead of the poisonous purge death gas.


Back on the island, Hurley wants "cheese curds." :) Richard confirms (mostly) that he was brought on the Black Rock. We learn that he is not a cyborg or vampire. (Jorge ad libbed the vampire line and it made it into the show, very cool). He just wants to die, but semi-god Jacob touched him and gave him a gift/curse, so he can't kill himself. Let's ask the "do no harm" doctor to do it. Sure.... The ocean gazing must have emboldened Jack and he plops down to watch the dynamite burn down. And... nothing. Not really a surprise, but perhaps Richard's faith is restored a little.

Miles rats Ben out and Ilana makes him dig his own grave. Nice. His Royal Lockey-ness uses the force and opens Ben's bindings and tells him to come join his band of merry men over on Hydra Island. Ben bolts and Ilana follows, then... The Truth. Ben explains, I think, sincerely... and Ilana FORGIVES him. Pretty amazing. Ben finally feels accepted and that's why he stays.


Miles finds Nikki and Paolo's diamonds... Sweet. The talking to dead people finally rakes in the cash. And we get a classic slo mo reunion. So, Season one...I loved it!


But.... bum bum buh DA.... WIDMORE's Back! Finally... is this who Jacob was waiting for?

Up next: Recon

*** On a personal note, I really like this recap. My creative juices must have been a-flowing. But perhaps it is totally incomprehensible and the time change has addled my brain enough to convince me that it's actually good.

Random Behind the Scenes pics from my three favorite shows.

Casey (Adam Baldwin) and Chuck (Zach Levi) on a break from Chuck.

Hurley (Jorge Garcia) and the squirrel baby on the set of Lost.

Nadia is married to Sayid's brother Omer in sideways world. Bummer. Looks like Sayid wanted it that way though. He's trying to be the good guy. Doesn't really work out though. Keamy and sidekicks are extorting Omar and Sayid takes them out. (I don't think Keamy even got to eat the eggs). Hmm, everyone else has changed somewhat in sideways world. Sayid, not so much, still assassin man.


Oh, and Jin's in the frig. Did he give the watch to Keamy?


Best fight scene in Lost? Me thinks so. But no one kills. Sayid's banished, but wait, go kill MIB with my dagger. Don't let him talk.


He talked. No blood. Great faces by Terry O'Quinn here. Claire and Sayid come to the temple. Kate tells Claire she raised Aaron.


Creepy Claire smile and song. Sayid kills Dogen and Lennon.


Awesome Smokey attack.


Creepy Sayid smile. Kate ends up with Locke's group. Should be interesting.

Next up: Dr. Linus
Ben episode. Nice. I wasn't really into Sundown as you can probably tell from my short recap. It had great action, but I had a major sinus infection (still do in fact) and did not feel good at all. It was kind of Meh for me.

Quite a humorous episode. Way to go Hurley!

In the sideways world, Jack has a SON!



David. I think his mother is Juliet and she is gone having a "dutch coffee: with Sawyer. (Taken from when she was dying in Sawyer's arms). More Daddy issues. Confused about his appendectomy scar.



David is auditioning (a candidate!) and plays Fantasia Impromptu (same song Faraday played in his younger days). Dogen makes an appearance.

Back on the island, Jacob instructs Hurley to take Jack to the lighthouse. He writes the instructions on his arm. Hee hee.

He runs into Dogen in the secret passage tunnel. He's into "Indiana Jones" history and stuff. Tells Dogen he is a candidate and dismisses him. Dogen replies in Japanese "You are lucky that you are protected. Because if you were not protected, I would cut your head off." Woah.... Hurley: "I just lied to a samurai" and "[Jacob] shows up like Obi-wan."

On the way to the lighthouse, they stop by the caves they use to live at. Hurley asks about the Adam and Eve skeletons and speculates that maybe they were us. (A wink to Rose and Bernard perhaps ;) They also find Shannon's inhaler. Very old school.

Check out this link to a video at Comic Con where Jorge (Hurley) is speculating if all our questions will be answered. He wonders about.... Shannon's inhaler. They answered it!!! Too funny!

At the lighthouse, they discover more about the numbers and names. They represent degrees. Hurley is supposed to turn it to 108. Kate appears at number 51. We see some other names, Friendly, Rousseau, etc.


When the mirrors start moving however, Jack sees things in the mirrors.


The church where Saywer's parent's funerals took place.


The temple where Sun and Jin were married.


And his childhood home! Was Jacob watching them in his lighthouse surveillance mirror? Jack gets MAD and breaks the mirrors. Seven years bad luck. Apparently, Jacob was expecting this to happen. Oh, and Hurley has ink on his forehead. ;)



Number 108 is listed as "Wallace" and is crossed out. I think the person that is coming to the island is Widmore. He's been trying to get back for so long. I think he finally makes it somehow.



And then there's Claire-sseau and her creepy pig lizard baby. Wow. Man in Black and Claire are "friendly." Scary.

Up next: Sundown.