Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B | 1953 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT I Will Be Your Father Issues
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2009.04.15
Bram apologizes for all the kidnapping, like you do, and explains it by saying Miles' apartment is being watched. "And we had to try our best to talk you out of working for Charles Widmore." When Miles says he doesn't know who that is (which is at least a little bit of a lie, assuming he remembers his "conversation" with Felix's corpse). "He's the man who chartered the boat you'll be getting on next week. And, my friend, you do not want to get on that boat." Huh. Interesting choice of words there, my friend. Who are you working for, Meathead -- Ben? Ellie? Dharma? Ellie and Dharma? Do Caesar and Bram and/or Ilana know one another? Was Caesar's whole, "Lady, wake up," thing just an act? Do Ben and Ilana know each other? Was their scene a big misdirect? Only (that which lies in) the Shadow (of the statue) knows for sure.
Miles just stares at Bram and shakes his head, so Bram asks, "Do you know what lies in the shadow of the statue?" Once again, I answer "Ben Linus's mouth," but only because I'm a hack like that, and can't resist. It doesn't matter, because Miles is clueless, because Mommy Dearest wouldn't tell him anything, even though it seems like all he'd have to do is wait 'til she's dead and then read her dead mind. "No. Can't say that I do." So Bram tells him that since he doesn't know, he's not ready to go to that island. "But if you come with us, all those things you've spent your life trying to find out? You'll know. You'll know who you are, Miles; why it is you have a gift; and most of all, you'll know about your father."