Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 8136 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT L'chaim!
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 12 | Aired on 2009.04.08
1989; Nighttime: Ben, baby Alex, and Ethan return to camp, where Alan Dale's Charles Widmore chews Ben out for not exterminating the woman and it, meaning the baby. Ben argues that Danielle is a crazy woman and no threat and that the baby isn't an it, but a child. Widmore says that every decision he's made he has made in order to protect the island, so Ben trots out Richard's well-worn trump card. "Is killing this baby what Jacob wants?" Widmore seems to be sizing Ben up, and Richard looks on with great interest. Alex fusses as Ben makes to hand her over to Widmore. "Then here she is." Baby Alex cries that she won't go with Widmore unless she can have a Desmond of her own when she grows up. Ben ignores that and says, "You do it." Widmore scoffs and walks away. Ben and the baby seem to have a moment, then he searches Richard's face, and perhaps he finds approval there, it's hard to tell, but I don't think it would have mattered to Ben if he didn't. And we jump to...
2007; New Otherton: The sign from the processing center sways in the breeze. The place looks as beat up as the last time we saw it. Locke asks Ben if it was his idea to move the Others from the jungle to Dharmaville after they murdered all the Dharma Initiative people. "It just doesn't seem like what the island would want." Ben says, "You don't have the first idea what this island wants." He's lying to himself there as much as Locke, I think. They notice a light in Alex's room in Ben's old house. Locke sends Ben off to check it out. The cabin looks just the same as it did when the Lostaways fled it after Keamy came and killed Alex. The game of Risk lies on the table, waiting for someone to play with it. Ben slowly makes his way to Alex's room and finds...
Sun! Ben scares the heck out of her, but from the look on his face and the sound of his voice, I think her presence is as much of a surprise to him. Was he hoping for Jacob? Christian? Richard? Frank comes in and asks what he's doing there. Ben says it used to be his house and he saw the light on. When he asks what they're doing there, Lapidus hands him the picture of the new Dharma recruits from 1977, featuring Jack, Kate and Hurley. Ben is obviously shocked to see Jack and crew in the shot and wants to know where they got the photo. Frank, who is as every bit as grey as you-know-who says, "We met some crazy old man outside. He said his name was Christian. He told us to come in here and wait." Sun adds that Christian told them they were to wait for John Locke. Frank says, "But considering he's dead, we ain't holding our breath." Ben tells them to look outside. Sun and Frank cross to the window and she draws open the curtains to reveal Locke standing out by the clothesline. Locke gives a cute little wave, and Dun!