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!
She takes her wedding ring out of the plastic bag the hospital stored it in, and it slides onto her non-swollen finger. The doorbell rings. It's Hurley, looking pretty pimp in a nice suit. They hug, and Sun tells him that she can't believe he came. He's there for Ashley. Actually, he asks her if anyone else is coming, and is relieved that the answer is no. She shows him the baby. She's gorgeous, notwithstanding the fact that it looks like someone injected her lips with collagen in the hospital nursery. There's some chat about Hurley holding the baby, and then he tells Sun that the baby looks just like Jin. Sun doesn't seem too happy to hear that. Hurley passes the baby back to Sun, and tells her, "So, I guess we should, like, go see him." Yeah, and give him a stern lecture for leaving his wife and remarrying all before she gave birth to his daughter. 'Cause that's what happened, right?No, it is not. We see Sun and Hurley at a beautiful cemetery, approaching an imposing gravestone. Sun kneels down, and starts address the gravestone in Korean. She tells Jin that he was right (the baby's a girl) and that she was deliriously calling out his name during the delivery. We see the gravestone -- Jin's date of death is listed as September 22, 2004, the date of the plane crash. (We also see that Sun was born in 1980, making her a rather unbelievable 24 at the time of the crash). Sun tells Jin that she wishes he could see the baby, who she named Ji Yeon. With tears in her eyes, she tells him how much she misses him. Daniel Dae Kim and Yunjin Kim did fantastic work this episode.
Just to clear up any confusion, Jin's flash-forward scenes were actually a flashback to the early days of his marriage. Jin may or may not actually be dead at the time of the flash-forward, but we do know that Sun is keeping up the pretense that he died in the plane crash. If he is dead, it could happen any time between the "present day" scenes of this episode and some time before the baby's birth (in six to seven months). If he's not dead, it means he's probably still on the island. So feel free to cry over the amazing acting in this episode, but don't cry over Jin. (Crying over gin is completely optional.)