Lost (Episode 602) - LA X, Part 2

Written by six from the blog The Lost Chronicles on 28 Apr 2010
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Lost
Season 6, Episode 2
LA X, Part 2

Well. Hands up if you’re on the island and you don’t want to go home... yeah... I thought so.... Heck, Hell, Damn and sod it all. What next?!?!

Anyway, we continue from where we left off last week. In the alternate reality or timeline, the passengers of Flight 815 have disembarked and are now going through customs. Jin is questioned about the gift watch but is taken away for questioning when officials find a stash of cash on him. Sun pretends that she doesn’t understand English and allows Jin to be taken away for questioning, knowing that he will most likely be in a whole lot of trouble.

Elsewhere, Jackass is informed that the airline has misplaced his father’s coffin (and body) – they have no idea where it is. While waiting for more information, he strikes up a conversation with Locke (who’s lost his luggage). They chat; he offers Locke a free consult for his broken back.
Kate manages to escape from Marshall-man, whose name is Edgar, it seems. She finally commandeers a taxi with Marshall-Man’s gun. Claire is the passenger in the taxi and is now Kate’s “hostage”.

So anyway, back in the jungle, Sawyer prepares to bury Juliet while Hurley and co leave for the temple. Kate offers to stay and help Sawyer but he sends her off and asks Miles to stay behind instead. Once they have buried Juliet, Sawyer insists that Miles “talk” to Juliet. He needs to know what she wanted to say to him. Miles communicates with Juliet and tells Sawyer that she wanted him to know that “it worked”.

Meanwhile, the other group reach the temple and enter it via a hole in the ground. The come across Montand’s armless body. While blundering about, they are attacked and captured by the Others. They’re taken into the grounds of the temple and they meet the leader of the Others who orders their deaths. Hurley is able to convince them that Jacob sent them and that they need to ensure that Sayid does not die.

They’re taken into the temple and Sayid is submerged facedown into a pool of water. Japanese Dude (who is the Other’s leader) has a massive timer and when he finally gives the order to bring Sayid up, Sayid is dead. Our Losties are upset. Sawyer and Miles are brought in (they were captured in the jungle). Japanese Man wants to know when Jacob will arrive and Hurley tells him that Jacob is dead. The Others go into a panic and start making ash circles and shooting flares into the sky to warn the other Others.

Cut across the island to the beach to where Richard and Alana and co are waiting outside Four-Toes. They see the flare and realise that Jacob is dead.
Monster-Locke is still inside the statue with Ben. Ben asks him what he is, and he responds that he is not a “what” but a “who”. He tells Ben that he wants to go home. When they emerge from the statue, Richard looks shocked as Monster-Locke walks towards him. He clearly recognises him as he blurts out “You”. Locke responds by telling him it’s good to see him “free from the chains” and knocks him out cold.

Yikes. I feel like a stuck record. Every week I tell you I am confused. Will the confusion ever end?

Key Points for this week:

• Our Losties are in 2007, with the rest of the world, it seems. Interesting that they should end up in that specific timeline. Well, not really... I am assuming that when Juliet set off the bomb, time righted itself and that Sawyer and co ended up where they ought to have been all along.

• One of the most interesting revelations is that Monster-Locke wants to go home. Monster-Locke... Man-In-Black... Ole Smokey – someone please name the guy, I can’t keep calling him one of these things or a combination of all... anyway, Monster-Locke is homesick. Where’s home?? What’s he doing on the island?? How long has he been on the island?? Why did he have to kill Jacob? Was Jacob his keeper?? Could it be that Monster-Man was a prisoner on the island??? I. Need. Answers.

• Also very interesting is the fact that Richard recognised Monster-Man. And just what did he mean about Richard being free from his chains?? Ooh. Is he being metaphorical (as in chains that Jacob’s kept him in) or literal (as in Richard had been chained up at some stage)??

• Sayid is now Zombie-Man. Obviously, the water he was submerged in helped him ... er... breathe again. Interesting. Now we know what happened to young Ben when he was brought to the temple. Something else I found interesting (I should really increase my vocab, there are only so many times I can use the word interesting)... anyway, the other interesting point is that the water in the pool was a rust colour. Japanese Dude comments that it was meant to be clear. Am I the only one here thinking that it was all rusted up because Jacob was dead??

• Kate has now added charges of kidnapping to her list of ever-growing lawlessness. What next, Kate? Do I really even want to know??

You know, I am not the biggest Jackass fan around – in fact, I am not a fan at all... but I must admit that I felt a bit sorry for him. Sawyer’s hatred of him is totally understandable... He’s just lost the woman he loved and he blames Jackass for it. Jackass has made some questionable decisions in the past, and it seems that it’s all catching up with him. I still don’t feel any more kindly toward him though – he is still a jackass.

Juliet wanted Sawyer to know that “it worked”. One can only assume that she meant that setting off the bomb accomplished what they wanted it too. But how did she know??

I really don’t have much more for you than that. I sometimes honestly wonder why I even bother trying to figure it all out – For one, I am always wrong... and two, they always throw something else in the mix to further confused poor old bewildered me.

Questions answered this week:

• We know in which timeline our island losties are in now – 2007
• Sayid is alive!! Yay for Sayid.
• Japanese Dude is an Other.
• Monster-Man and Richard know each other.

New Questions

• Where did Japanese Dude come from (and please don’t say Japan!!)
• What happened to Christian’s body?

Interesting Trivia (from this site)

• After Jin is taken for questioning about his undeclared cash, the female airport security guard refers to Sun as "Ms. Paik", not as "Mrs. Kwon".
• The book that Hurley finds in the cave is a french version of philosopher Søren Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" - an influential philosophical work by Danish philosopher, theologian, and psychologist Søren Kierkegaard, published in 1843 under the pseudonym Johannes de Silentio (John the Silent). The title is a reference to a line from Philippians 2:12, "...continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling."

Screencaps (from this site)