Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 868 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Right Round Like A Record Baby
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2009.01.21
While Aaron snoozes on the couch, Kate and Sun catch up over tea. Sun's only in L.A. for a few days to attend to some "business." She shows Kate a baby picture of Ji-Yeon, which seems weird, because the kid's only 9 months younger than Aaron, but whatever (Ji-Yeon is at home in Seoul with Nana Paik, by the by). Sun would someday like to see the two island babies play together. Kate tells Sun all about the court order for a blood test, and that her maternity of Aaron is being challenged. She says "they" know we're lying. After listening to Kate's story, Sun wisely says that whoever it is, they're not interested in exposing the big lie. If they were, they would just do it. She's sure that whoever "they" are, they just want Aaron, and she tells Kate she needs to take care of them -- to do anything she has to, to keep Aaron. Kate gets all huffy. "What kind of a person do you think I am?" Oh Kate, don't front, particularly not with Sun. She knows what kind of person you are -- she knows your capabilities. Of course Sun says all that with a look, rather than words, and we flash...
...Back to the freighter -- and the day of the great escape. Jin runs out onto the deck of the freighter, screaming in Korean to the people in the departing helicopter. Sun yells for him, but Jack holds her back, and the chopper keeps flying. In the present, Sun reminds Kate that she's the kind of person who makes hard decisions when she has to. We flashback to Kate on the deck of the freighter -- she's handing baby Aaron over to Sun, while she promises to get Jin. In the present, Kate tries to explain what happened, but Sun cuts her off. "You did what you had to do, and if you hadn't we probably all would've died, instead of just my husband." A tearful Kate apologizes, and one moment Sun seems moved and the next, it's almost as if we see the ice form inside her, despite her warm gesture of taking Kate's hand, and her reassuring words that she doesn't blame Kate. When Kate seems nearly mollified, Sun withdraws her hand, sits back, and her smile turns almost into a parody of itself. "So," she says, "How's Jack?" That was creepy, y'all. I thought she blamed two people -- her father and Ben Linus, and I've suspected that perhaps she actually blamed her father and Widmore, but was faking that she blamed Linus, so that she could later extract her revenge. Right now, I'm thinking she blames Jack (and maybe Kate). I just don't know. From the look on her face, neither does Kate.