Episode Report Card LTG: B- | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT The Other Woman
By LTG | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on March 5, 2008
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.It's a Juliet episode, which I assume means half of you didn't watch it. Juliet and Jack take off into the jungle to find Charlotte and Daniel, who have disappeared. Harper, Juliet's old shrink, shows up and tells her where to find Charlotte and Daniel. She also tells Juliet to kill them both before they release the gas that will kill everyone on the island. Juliet and Jack take off for the Tempest, another station on the island, where all the super-dangerous chemicals are stored. Along the way, they run into Kate, who is lying around unconscious because Charlotte clocked her when she found that Daniel was carrying a bag full of gas masks. Juliet dumps Jack and Kate and gets to the Tempest, where she finds Daniel fiddling with a computer (which is giving audible warnings about contamination and such). Daniel claims that he's not trying to release the gas -- he's trying to make it harmless. Juliet tries to stop him, but he gets to keep working when Charlotte arrives and starts beating on Juliet. Ignoring the catfight going on behind him, Daniel makes the gas inert at the very last second.
At the Barracks, Locke and Ben continue their male bonding. Ben convinces Locke to let him out of the basement in exchange for some information. That information consists of a videotape of the man allegedly in charge of the freighter. That man? Our very own Charles Widmore. Ben also gives Locke a file he has on Widmore. And he gives him the name of his man on the boat -- but we don't get to hear it. Since Ben gave him the info, Locke agrees to let him live in a house.
Finally, the flashbacks are all about Juliet and her earlier time on the island. She was initially miserable, and her misery was made worse by the thought that Harper hated her. Fortunately, Harper has an attractive and sympathetic husband in whose arms Juliet can find some comfort. That husband was Goodwin, by the way. Harper asks Juliet to stop sleeping with Goodwin because she's afraid that Ben will do something to hurt Goodwin in order to get him out of the way. Why would he do that? Why, because he thinks he owns Juliet. Back in the present, Juliet warns Jack that someday Ben will come after him because Ben knows how Juliet feels about Jack. Jack decides that’s the perfect time to kiss Juliet. Want more? The full recap starts right below!
As Ben continues to carve the ham, you can see that he's imagining that it's Goodwin's head. Ben tells Juliet that Goodwin is staying with the Tailies because he's trying to convince Ben that Ana Lucia should be recruited. Ben: "He feels very passionately about her. Almost inappropriately so." Ben tells her that Goodwin will stay where he is for now, especially since he has no reason to hurry back to the Barracks any time soon.Back in the Tempest, Juliet walks down a long corridor lit by trademark flickering fluorescent bulbs. There's an alarm going off, and a recorded voice giving warnings about various unauthorized activities. Juliet enters a large, two-story space filled with computers and chemical equipment. She's at a landing on the second floor; from where she's standing, she can see someone in a gas mask and biohazard suit doing something with a computer. The recorded voice is warning about potential contamination and breaches of storage tanks. Juliet makes her way down to the floor and walks up behind the bunny suit. She points her gun and says "hey," and Daniel turns around and gives her a very pained look. He asks her what she's doing there. Commercials.
At the Tempest, Juliet is ordering Daniel to step away from the computer, and he's refusing. He keeps working, and the computer starts counting down one minute to contamination. Juliet yanks his gas mask off, thereby dooming him to die along with everyone else if the gas is released. Daniel: "I'm not trying to release it. I'm trying to render it inert." The third season of Prison Break was enough to render me inert -- may be Daniel should try that. Juliet looks like she's trying to decide whether to believe him. And then Charlotte sneaks up behind her and hits her with...something. Let's just call it a field hockey stick. Daniel keeps working at the computer while Charlotte and Juliet fight. To their credit, there's no hair pulling, and an awful lot of serious punching. Daniel keeps working, the women keep waling, and the computer keeps warning. It's all very tense. Juliet finally wins the fight and regains her gun when there's twenty seconds left on the clock. She tells Charlotte to make Daniel stop, but Charlotte tells her that they're trying to disable the gas before Ben can use it as a weapon. Interestingly, Charlotte and her crew know that Ben used the gas as a weapon once before.