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5x11 Whatever Happened, Happened: Recap
In last night’s episode:
1977, on the island
Jin wakes up from his Sayid-induced stupor to find Ben lying on the road, bleeding, asking for help. Meanwhile Horace is preparing the camp for an all-out Hostile invasion, and makes it known that the person who set the bus on fire had to have come from inside the camp. Kate ends up helping Roger Linus remove the burnt bus from the house it ran into, and they have a bit of a bonding moment.
Ben is brought to the infirmary, where Juliet is working on him, but needs a surgeon’s help to stop the bleeding. Sawyer goes to the house where Jack, Kate, and Hurley are being held captive by Miles (“You can leave, but I’ll have to shoot you in the leg”). Hurley and Miles are trying to figure out the time paradox. Hurley keeps wondering if he’s disappearing (see: Back to the Future) and Miles is trying to explain the “whatever happened, happened” theory. Miles is dumbfounded, however, when asked why adult Ben wouldn’t remember being shot by Sayid, if he’d lived this childhood before. Sawyer tries to enlist Jack’s help, but Jack refuses. Jack and Kate have a moment in the kitchen. She is trying to convince him to help Ben, he remembers doing this before (remember way back when? or…way forward when?) and says last time, he saved Ben for HER, and he won’t do it again. She says she misses the old him, to which he replies, “You didn’t like the old me.”
Kate decides to donate blood, as she is a universal donor. While she is in the infirmary, she has another moment with Roger Linus, where we see his softer side. He knows that Ben stole his keys (prompted by Sawyer asking for his keys, “That guy never asks a question he doesn’t already know the answer to”). He admits to not doing a good job with Ben, but trying to do what Ben’s mother would have wanted. Ben goes into shock, and Roger is removed from the room. Kate and Juliet decided to bring Ben to the Hostiles/Others as they may be the only ones that can save him. They load Ben into the van and Kate drives off, Juliet promises to give Kate a head start, but cannot lie to Sawyer. Juliet initially wants to join Kate on the bus, but Kate, protective of the life Juliet has built there, asks her to stay behind. After Kate leaves, Juliet visits Jack (who happens to be in the shower), disappointed in him for not helping Ben. Jack expresses how he’s changed, and he’s not going to try to fix everything anymore.
When Kate reaches the sonic fence, Sawyer drives up. She thinks he is there to stop her, but he is there to help. He tells her he’s doing it for Juliet, because she doesn’t want the little boy to die. He disables the sonic fence, and carries Ben to the line that marks Hostile territory. They are held at gunpoint by the Hostiles, and ask to see Richard Alpert. They speak with Richard, who says he can help Ben, but he will have no memory of this occurance, and he will have lost his innocence forever. Kate agrees to these terms, and Sawyer and Kate leave. Richard carries Ben into Smokey’s Egyptian temple.
2007ish, on mainland
With Aaron still a baby, Kate goes to visit Cassidy. Cassidy recognizes Kate, but is slightly distraut when Kate tells her Sawyer sent her. Kate reveals (almost) the whole story, and Cassidy recognizes the look in Kate’s eyes as the broken heart she received from Sawyer. Kate asks about Clementine, Sawyer’s daughter, and tries to give Cassidy money. Cassidy realizes Aaron is not Kate’s son. She also tells Kate that Sawyer jumped from the plane not to be heroic, but for fear of what would happen if he’d stayed.
With Aaron as a toddler, Kate is back on the docks, listening to Jack and Ben talk about going back to the island. She leaves with Aaron. They stop at a supermarket, where Kate loses track of Aaron when Jack calls her. she finds him being escorted by a woman who (from behind) looks like Claire. She goes to Cassidy’s house (who she has, apparently, been seeing a lot of over the last three years) and tells her about going back to the island, and losing Aaron. Cassidy tells her she kept Aaron because she needed him, to deal with her broken heart from Sawyer. Kate returns to the motel where Claire’s mother had been staying (who Jack had visited the day before, while Kate sat in the car). She checks in two doors down, and visits with Claire’s mother. She tells her about Aaron, explains where he is, and that he’s there for her when she’s ready. Kate says she is going back to the island to find Aaron’s mother, Claire. Then she says goodbye to Aaron.
2007, island
Ben wakes up to find Locke sitting at his bedside. “Welcome to the world of the living.”
Written by Susan
Pictures courtesy of: Lost-Media.com
Written by Susan
Pictures courtesy of: Lost-Media.com
