2007

Our castaways are back on the island, but not all of them are in 1977. Sun, Lapidus, and Ben have landed, with the rest of the Ajira Airways passengers, in 2007. Cesar sees they landed on a runway (!) and there are animal cages nearby. Hearing this, Ben realizes they are on the smaller adjoining island, and takes off quietly to to a place on the beach where he knows there are boats. Sun sees Ben leaving and follows, Lapidus sees Sun leaving and follows. In a clearing, Ben stops and asks Sun why she is following him, Lapidus catches up, and a typical “You shouldn’t trust this guy, he’s a liar” conversation ensues. Sun pushes to follow Ben, and Lapidus comes along. At the boats, Lapidus is still trying to figure out why Sun trusts Ben, when, with a wonderful little whack, Sun slams Ben in the head with an oar. Sun and Lapidus take off in the boat, leaving the unconcious Ben behind. They arrive at the dock (submarine) at night, and see the trees bend in an odd way, the way we’ve seen them move with Smokey. Sun says “Must have been an animal”. The pair continue on to the Dharma/Others camp, which now, after all of the damage, is falling apart. There seem to be no signs of life, until a light comes on in one of the houses. The doorway opens and Christian greets them. Sun asks about Jin, and Christian takes them inside where there are pictures of the Dharma team from each year they were there. Christian holds out the one from 1977, which shows the rest of the Oceanic Six, and tells Sun and Lapidus they have a long journey ahead of them.

1977

After meeting Hurley, Jack, and Kate on the beach, Sawyer returns to his home to get them clothing, and try to figure out how to get them onto the island. In comes Juliet, obviously a bit distraught by these new arrivals, but to help she tells Sawyer a new batch of recruits is coming to the island that day in the sub. Sawyer returns to get the three and get them changed, and tells Jack, Faraday “was” here, but not anymore(!). Juliet goes to Amy to get the sub manifest. While there she plays with Amy’s baby, who she and Horace have decided to name Ethan (!). Sawyer gets the three set up at orientation, where none other than our favorite Dharma movie star Pierre sets Jack up with his new job, as a workman, on janitorial duty. Kate’s name isn’t on the list, and she is nearly found out by Phil the security guy, but Juliet shows up just in time, with a new manifest. Thy then exchange one of the most awkward greetings ever seen on Lost. “Hi, I’m Juliet (and now I’m living with the guy you were so in love last season)” “Hi, I’m Kate (and I had a tumultuous relationship with the guy YOU were so in love with last season, but even though we slept together only last night, I’m not really sure how we feel about each other)”. Phil seems to pick up on something being not quite right. We don’t learn Hurley and Kate’s assignments, but Kate is wearing a blue jumpsuit, similar to the one we’ve seen Juliet wear. That night Jack is looking for Sawyer’s house, and asks Phil where James LaFleur lives. Phil directs him to the house, but advises Jack not to call him James. Then we get another look from Phil that says he’s sure something isn’t quite right. After knocking on the door, Jack is greeted by Juliet. Yet another awkward moment ensues. At first Jack thinks he has the wrong house, but Juliet lets him in to talk to Sawyer, and exits, probably having filled her quota of awkward moments for the day. Jack gets a little moody (“Hey Sawyer, you’re sitting here reading instead of figuring out what’s going on here? And hey, why are you living with my old psuedo-girlfriend?”) and Sawyer returns the moodiness with a little show of bravado. He tells Jack not to worry, he’s got everything covered, and he should be relieved. Jack, as it turns out, says he is relieved. Sawyer follows Jack out, and sees Kate pacing on her porch. He goes all googly-eyed and gives a little wave.

Jin and Sayid

When he hears Sun was on the plane as well, Jin is on a mission to find her. He takes off to a security building where Radzinsky (!) is building a model of the Pearl (which, as it turns out, looks a heck of a lot like a famous design by Buckminster Fuller, genius architect). Radzinsky says he hasn’t heard anything about a plane, but Jin threatens him so he calls the Looking Glass station. In the meantime, an alert sounds that a hostile has tripped a motion sensor on Dharma turf. Jin immeditely takes off in that direction, and comes upon Sayid, still bound in handcuffs. Before he and Jin can exchange more than a couple words, Radzinsky shows up with his gun. Jin pretends not to know Sayid and treats him as a hostile. They hold Sayid captive in the security station and call Sawyer. When Sawyer arrives, Radzinsky pushes him to kill Sayid, because he has seen the model for the Pearl. He tells Sawyer its all and act, and he could end it now. Sawyer is intent on sticking to the truce, and forces Sayid to declare himself as a hostile, so they cannot kill him. Sayid is locked in the barracks until Sawyer can figure out what to do with him. Sayid gets a visitor in the barracks. A young boy with glasses and creepy look, who brings him a sandwich, and calls himself Ben (!).

Written by Susan
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