Episode Report Card LTG: B | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Ji Yeon
By LTG | Season 4 | Episode 7 | Aired on March 12, 2008
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.There are two separate and distinct stories this week. In one, Desmond and Sayid try to learn a bit more about the boat by demanding a meeting with the captain. They meet him, but not before witnessing a member of the crew throw herself to her doom in the ocean's depths. The captain is surprisingly forthcoming, telling Desmond and Sayid that Charles Widmore sent the boat, and that someone faked the wreckage of Oceanic 815, including coming up with 324 dead bodies. The captain implies that "someone" is Ben. Finally, Sayid and Desmond are given a room of their own. And they meet Ben's man on the boat. It's Michael. Which I suspect you already guessed, based on the fact that his name has been in the credits for six weeks.
In the other story, Sun decides that she doesn't trust the Boaties or Juliet, and that she wants to head to the Barracks to hide out with Locke. Jin agrees to go with her, but Juliet really wants her to get off the island so she and her baby won't die. To keep Sun from leaving, Juliet tells Jin about Sun's affair. Jin is understandably upset, and decides he'd rather stay at the beach. He storms off, but after Bernard speaks to him, he decides to forgive Sun. Meanwhile, Sun speaks with Juliet, who convinces her that she really will die if she doesn't leave the island. So they end up back together, with Jin promising that he'll never leave Sun.
Finally, the flash-forwards are all about Sun and Jin. She's in Korea, where she is massively pregnant and goes into labor. We see her at the hospital going through the normal delivery drama and crying out for Jin. Meanwhile, we see Jin rushing through the city, trying to make it to the hospital. Along the way he buys a stuffed panda, gets his cell phone run over, loses the panda, and buys another. He finally arrives at the hospital...and we learn that he's there to deliver the panda as a gift to the new grandson of the Chinese ambassador. At first you think he's neglecting Sun to focus on his crappy job. And then he tells a nurse that he's only been married two months, leading us to think he had indeed left Sun. But then Hurley shows up in Korea, and he and Sun go to visit Jin's grave. So the Jin part of the flash-forward was actually a flashback. And in the future, Jin is either dead, or perhaps still on the island. It's all very confusing. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
There's the sound of banging on pipes in the distance. Desmond thinks it must be a mechanical problem that needs fixing, but Sayid thinks it sounds like someone intentionally banging pipes. And then the doctor enters and tells them that the captain would like to see them. He leads them out onto the deck. The helicopter is gone. Sayid asks where it is, and the doctor tells him Frank took it to run an errand. They bicker about where he might have gone while Desmond looks around. He spies Regina walking along the deck with a heavy chain wrapped around herself. And then she reaches the edge and throws herself into the water. Desmond and Sayid both act like this some big emergency, yelling at the other men on deck to grab a rope and do something. Everyone else reacts like this is nothing that out of the ordinary. And then a hot Australian walks onto the deck and tells everyone to get back to their posts since Regina's already gone. He's giving orders, so I bet you can guess who he is. He's the captain, and his name is Captain Gault. Commercials.Back on the freighter, Sayid is hassling Gault about not doing anything to save Regina. Gault tells him he didn't want to risk losing any more of his people. Desmond asks him what's going on, and Gault tells him that his crew have been dealing with a heightened case of cabin fever. He thinks it's connected to the boat's location, but he can't really move the boat as someone has sabotaged their engines. Sayid asks if they'll rescue the Lostaways once the engines are fixed, but Gault tells him his orders are to move to safer waters. Sayid asks who gave him the orders -- it's was Charles Widmore, as we all know. And then Gault reveals that he knows that Desmond already knows Widmore.
Gault leads Sayid and Desmond into his...office? Quarters? Ready room? (No, wait -- that last one is Star Trek). He takes a box out of a cabinet and asks if they know what it is. Sayid does (of course); it's a flight data recorder, a.k.a. a black box. In fact, it's the black box from Oceanic 815, which was recovered from the wreck of the plane at the bottom of the ocean. Where the corpse of every passenger was also found. Gault: "The wreckage was obviously staged. Now can you imagine what kind of resources and manpower go into pulling off a fake of that magnitude. Faking the recovery of a plane crash. Putting 324 families through a grieving process based on a lie. But what's even more disturbing -- where exactly does one come across 324 dead bodies?