Lost
Episode 614
The Candidate
You can tell that things are nearing the end now – our favourites are being killed, drowned and blown apart without so much as a flutter of an eyelid. Gone are the days when we had funerals and time for goodbyes – now, it’s different. There is no time for goodbyes or tears. Our Losties have always been in a battle for their lives, but it’s never been as apparent as it is now.
I have a feeling that at the end of this series, we are all going to be emotional wrecks. I fear for the remaining Losties and I have this awful feeling that they’re all going to die. Now, everyone who knows me or has read this blog knows that my Kate-hate knows no bounds, and that I have never been a fan of Jack’s... but I don’t think I could handle more deaths on Lost.
And I know I am going to have to. There is no way that we will see out the remainder of this season without more deaths.
Anyway. I know I didn’t do a recap of events last week, so a quick rundown on that is that Jack and MLocke chat; MLocke admits that the Christian he’d been seeing was Smokey. Smokey also tells Jack that Locke was a sucker.
Smokey dispatches Sayid to kill Desmond, but he doesn’t (something we find out this week). And Sun and Jin finally reunite when Sawyer and co (except Jack, Smokey and Sayid) steal Smokey’s boat to go to the Hydra Island. But they’re captured by Widmore’s men.
This week, and in the alternate reality or whatever it is, Jack tries to convince Locke to have corrective surgery. Locke refuses, and we learn that Locke became paralysed when he was in a plane crash – he was the pilot and his father his passenger. Anthony Cooper ends up brain damaged and has to be cared for in a home.
Jack and Claire attempt to know each other better when she brings him a music box left to her by Christian. Jack invites Claire to stay with him saying that they are family.
In the original timeline, Jack awakes on Hydra Island – Sayid having rowed them across. Sawyer and co are captured and forced into the cages that held Sawyer, Kate and Jack captive before. Sayid shuts off the power and Smokey attacks Widmore’s men while Jack sets them free. They all head for the plane.
MLocke gets there first and finds the plane rigged with explosives, which he removes.
So, they head to the sub but on the way there, Sawyer asks Jack not to let Smokey on the plane. At the sub, Frank, Sawyer, Jin and Sun and Hurley make it safely onboard, and Jack knocks Smokey out into the water. Kate gets shot when Widmore’s men arrive. Jack takes Kate onboard while Claire still stays on the deck, shooting Widmore’s men. Smokey gets himself out of the water he starts shooting at them.
The sub departs. When Claire tries to get to the sub, Smokey holds her back, telling her that she doesn’t want to be on the sub. In the sub, they realise that Smokey placed the explosives in Jack’s backpack with a timer on it. Jack tells them that they should do nothing when they try and figure out how to disarm the device.
He says that this is what MLocke wants – them to kill each other as he cannot kill them. Sawyer doesn’t believe it and pulls out one of the wires, but the device speeds up. They cannot make surface in time, so Sayid tells Jack that Desmond is alive and where to find him and take the device and runs off. It explodes.
As water begins to flood the sub, Frank is killed when the force of the water forces one of the doors open and it hits Frank full force. Jack urges Hurley to take Kate out of the sub and to the surface, telling him that “there is no Sayid” when Hurley enquires about Sayid.
Meanwhile, a cabinet pins Sun to the wall. Jin, Sawyer and Jack manage to move it off her only to see that she is still trapped by a bar. When Sawyer gets knocked out by a falling metal bar, Jin insists that Jack take him out and into the surface. When Jack gives him the last bottle of oxygen, he refuses. Jack leaves with Sawyer.
Sun tells Jin to go, but Jin refuses to leave Sun, saying that he will never be parted from her again. They embrace. The sub sinks.
Jack and an unconscious Sawyer make it to land where Hurley and Kate find them. When Kate asks about Sun and Jin, Jack doesn’t answer but shakes his head. Kate starts crying when she realises that they have not made it. Hurley also starts crying and Jack walks away where he also breaks down.
Somewhere, along the coast, Smokey and Claire watch. When Smokey realises that the sub has sunk, he tells Claire that they’re all not dead and that he’s going to finish what he started.
Oh, my word!!!! I can’t believe that they killed off 3 main characters in one episode... and that’s excluding Frank!!!! That’s just so... mean!!
I didn’t expect Sayid to survive the season. Ever since he went over to the “dark side” or, in Sawyer’s words ... even since he started drinking Locke’s Kool-aid, Sayid has not been the same. Sayid himself professed to be emotionless and detached. But there was still enough of the old Sayid left to see past Locke’s Kool-aid to find his redemption. And his redemption was always going to be death – as death is often the price of redemption that the island seeks.
RIP Sayid. I hope that in death, you find the peace you so desperately craved. I will miss you, Super-Sayid.
Before we even had time to comprehend Sayid’s demise, we faced the imminent deaths of Sun and Jin. This is what just broke my heart... these two just found each other again after 3 years of being apart and time travelling to find each other. Watching them embrace and knowing that there was going to be no miracle to save them was devastating. I find myself tearing up now, still, while writing this.
While their deaths were very Titanic-like, I find it somewhat comforting that they died together knowing that they were prepared to pay the ultimate price for their love. I’ve heard people say that they wonder why Sun didn’t use the “get away for our daughter” argument to get Jin to leave. I don’t find it at all strange. Jin didn’t know his daughter, he’d never met her. He had no emotional connection to her.
RIP Sun and Jin. (sniff, sniff, sniff)
My heart is broken. I really can’t take any more deaths. Please, please, please, don’t kill anymore Losties!!!
It’s easy to forget that a lot else happened in the episode in light of the deaths but quite a bit happened. And I think that the most important thing is that ole Smokey’s been manipulating them all into killing each other –as it seems that he cannot kill them himself. Just like with Jacob, he can get others to kill them though.
The miserable sod! I have no doubt now that the thing is evil!! And it cannot be let off the island. And yes, of course I am saying that because I am emotionally attached to the Losties.