LostSeason 5, Episode 3JugheadA beautiful little blonde haired cutie made me want to cry. I wanted to cry for several reasons. Firstly, because he was Desmond’s and Penny’s son. A son! Des and Penny’s!! That just fills me with joy. It’s a beautiful addition to their already beautiful love story.
And of course, mostly, because his name is Charlie. Named, I am sure, not after his grand-daddy but after my favourite hobbit and rocker Charlie Pace. It’s absolutely absurd how much that makes me want to cry. I really, really miss Charlie and this was a beautiful sentiment in tribute to him.
Also, I had questioned Desmond’s motives after Charlie died. I wondered if he didn’t use Charlie to get to Penny. I guess that this answers my question. Desmond didn’t use Charlie. Thanks, Desmond. Again, absolutely ridiculous how much that makes me want to cry.
Anyway, before I flood the site with my tears, let’s move on to the recap.
Desmond and Penny are returning to England with their son, Charlie. Penny isn’t happy about it because she is genuinely worried that her father will find them. Desmond assures her that he won’t and leaves. At Oxford, there is no record of a Daniel Faraday ever having worked there. As Desmond leaves the campus, he sees the Department of Physics and enters Daniel’s old lab.
A maintenance guy finds him and Desmond gets a name and address from him. He goes in search of this woman and finds her in a vegetative state, apparently so after something Daniel had done. He learns that Widmore is taking care of all the bills, and finally, in desperation he goes to Widmore.
Widmore seems shocked to see him, but gives him Daniel’s mother’s address. But not before he tells Desmond to take Penny and disappear. Des returns to Penny and tells her that Daniel’s mother is dead, but Penny catches him out on his lie and tells him that they (she and Charlie) will go with him to Los Angeles because she knows that Desmond will never let this go.
Meanwhile, back on the island, Daniel, Miles and Charlotte and captured and taken to a camp site where Richard Alpert asks them if they came back for their bomb. Daniel professes to be able to disarm it and he’s led away to do just that.
Sawyer, Juliet and Locke interrogate the two that they have captured, but they are not talking. They do, however, speak to each other in Latin. Juliet speaks to them in Latin, telling Saywer and Locke that all Others can speak Latin. One of the captured guys kills the other Other and runs off to camp.
Locke and co follow him. Sawyer and Juliet go off to rescue Daniel while Locke boldly walks into their camp to speak to Richard. Sawyer and Juliet liberate Daniel and Locke chats to Richard. Time jumps and they are now in the future. Charlotte collapses, blood pouring from her nostrils.
Well. What a lot happened in this episode!
Where to start?!?! With Desmond, of course.
• Desmond learns that Daniel hasn’t told him everything. Naturally!!! This is Lost. When do people voluntarily give information that could possibly help?!? Even worse, he seems to have left behind an invalid Theresa Spencer. It’s not revealed what he did to her, but the janitor mentioned something about Daniel trying to send mice brains to the past.
We all know that Daniel was experimenting with time-travel. Did he get it right and use Theresa as a test subject? And it’s pretty clear that whatever happened to Theresa is now happening to Charlotte. I don’t hold much hope for Charlotte (unless the island decides to save her). Daniel didn’t or couldn’t do much to help Theresa; I doubt he can do much to help Charlotte either.
• Desmond seems shocked that Widmore funded Daniel’s lab and experiments. It shouldn’t be a surprise to us, though. Daniel was working for Widmore when he landed on the island afterall.
• Widmore seems to be afraid for Penny, telling Desmond to take Penny and go back into the oblivion that he came from. He doesn’t seem to know that he has a grandson. How sincere he is, however, I am unsure. Maybe he’ll have Desmond followed. But why would he if he knows where Daniel’s mother is anyway? Why not just question her?
• Penny and Charlie are now going to go with him to LA to find Daniel’s mother.
And on the island
• “Jughead” refers to the bomb supposedly left behind by the American government. Daniel says that they should fill it with lead and bury it. Is it the same bomb they disarm when they first land on the island?
Furthermore, how true is it that the US Army left the bomb there? If the island is unfindable, how did they find the island? Has it always been ‘invisible’ or did the incident that the Dharma people refer to make it ‘invisible’?
• Locke’s conversation with Richard was pretty brilliant. It was filled with little nuances that made me smile. You have to admire Locke’s audacity, though. He just strolls up into the Others’ camp, proclaiming to be their messiah, and does it without even flinching.
Well, we know that Richard at least tests out the theory that Locke may be right. We know that he visits baby Locke and presents him with the compass. At least now we know why Richard seemed to have been stalking younger Locke. But does Richard really consider Locke as their leader, or is he just a means to an end?
• The young whipper-snapper who claims that “that sodding old fool (Locke) couldn’t possibly know the island better than me” is Charles Widmore! Charles Widmore was an Other!! Awesome. I knew that Widmore must have been on the island at some stage of his life. He claims that the island is his and I have always believed that there was some sort of power struggle between him and Ben.
Ben either had him ousted from the island; or Widmore turned the FDW and moved the island back in time – hence the fact that he has been searching for the island for 20 years. Twenty years would also nicely coincide with roughly the number of years that Ben has been the Others’ leader.
• We also learn that this jump took them to 1954, prior to Dharma, it seems. Prior even to Locke’s birth. Obviously 1954 is important. Why?
• Something small was Juliet and the Others knowing Latin. “Other101” she tells Sawyer. What else did learn in Other101?
• What happened to Bernard and Rose and the others? Are they dead???
• I’d like to mention this. I’m not sure if I even heard correctly, but Daniel tells than woman Other that she looks remarkably like someone he knows. And Richard calls her Ellie. Is this Ellie the elusive Eloise Hawkings??
• Just how old is Richard? Why doesn’t he age? And if he’s always there, why isn’t he the leader? He seems to be the man behind the leader. I don’t think he’s Jacob though. When he tells Locke that they had to kill the soldiers, it seems to have been an order.
Daniel insists that they cannot change what happened. But how much of what happened in the past are because of events in the future? Did the Losties bring about their own fate? Did events during their time jumping create the circumstances that lead to the plane crash and the events that follow? I really think that as this season goes on, we’re going to see more and more proof of this.
I am really looking forward to next week’s episode. I wish that they could just air the episodes all at once!
What we learnt this week
• Jughead is the name of a bomb
• Penny and Desmond have a son named Charlie
• They are going to LA to find Daniel’s mother
• Richard seems to be ageless
• The Others know how to speak in Latin
• Charles Widmore was once an Other
• Daniel’s time travelling experimentations had a weird effect on a woman named Theresa
New Questions
• Why did Widmore get off the island? How did he get onto the island in the first place?
• How does Widmore know where Daniel’s mother is?
• Is 1954 too early for Dharma?
• What did Daniel do to Theresa?
Trivia from
this site
• Desmond and Penny's child is named Charlie, sharing a name with the man who kept them apart (Charles Widmore) and the man whose actions helped them reunite (Charlie Pace)
• "Jughead" appears to be a Mark 16 nuclear bomb. The Mark 16 is more properly designated TX-16/EC-16 as it only existed in Experimental/Emergency Capability versions. Design yield was 6-8 megatons. Only five units ever manufactured, in January 1954, and deployed in an interim "emergency capability" role with the designation EC-16. By April 1954 they were all retired.
• In Charles Widmore's office, there's a painting on the wall with "Namaste" written on it. "Namaste" being the Hindi salutation often used by Dharma Initiave people, including Dr. Pierre Chang.
• Jughead was the code name for a bomb in the real-life Operation Castle nuclear test on Bikini Atoll. This test took place in March/April 1954. The bomb named Jughead was not detonated.
Screencaps from
this site
Ellie the Other
Otherville before bricks
Sawyer