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!
He doesn't understand why they haven't caught up with Daniel and Charlotte, but Juliet thinks that people who could jump out of a helicopter are not to be underestimated. And then they hear some delicate feminine moaning. It's Kate, just waking up from her Charlotte-induced nap. The look on Juliet's face when she sees Jack tending to Kate is pretty reminiscent of the look she had when Harper confronted her about the affair. Juliet runs to get some water while Jack asks Kate to tell him what happened. They tell each other things we already know, and then Jack realizes that Juliet has disappeared. Based on the way he picks up his gun, he's clearly not certain if she's ditched them or been abducted.Back at the Barracks, Locke leads Ben (hands tied in front of him) into the living room of his own house. Locke tells him not to play any kind of tricks (like, say, shooting him), but Ben tells him they don't even need to leave the room. He directs Locke to a particular painting on the wall, behind which is a safe. And I just can't believe that, knowing there was a secret passage in the house, Locke hasn't already torn the place apart to find all the secret hidey-holes. Anyway, Ben gives Locke the combination (36-15-28), and Locke opens the safe. Inside is a videotape labeled "Red Sox." Ben: "I taped over the game." Again, it's a laugh riot up in here. Locke pops the tape into the VCR. On the television, we see shaky, handheld footage of some kind of interior parking area, filmed from above (there's a railing, indicating that the camera person is on a balcony or stairway). Our old pal Charles Widmore gets out of a limo. Ben tells Locke his name, and says that he's the guy who sent the boat.
As Locke and Ben chat, we see Widmore's men throw a blindfolded prisoner (who Ben says is one of his men, and who doesn't look like anyone we've met) on the ground in front of him, where Widmore starts to kick him. Locke asks what Widmore wants with the island. Ben: "John, three months ago in Gainesville, Florida, the Virgin Mary seemed to appear in a patch of mold on the side of an old housing complex." And my grandmother once found a potato that looked like Richard Nixon. What's that got to do with anything? Oh, I see -- Ben tells Locke that five thousand people showed up to see Moldy Virgin Mary. He thinks that far more than that would want to come to the island where miracles seem to occur on a regular basis. Ben thinks that Widmore wants to exploit the island...and I guess make money off all those potential visitors? So he wants to turn it into Fantasy Island?