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!
And that, Mr. Jarrah, Mr. Hume, is just one of the many reasons we want Benjamin Linus." You know, the revelation of all these shocking facts to the Lostaways would be more interesting if we didn't already know them.Sun is sitting on the beach when Juliet walks up to her. I think Juliet is starting to enjoy the beatings. Juliet apologizes and tells Sun that she had to stop her from leaving, any way she could. So this is all kind of a rehash -- Juliet tells Sun that she has to leave before the next three weeks to save herself and the baby. Juliet describes all the gruesome symptoms Sun will go through, and tells her that it's Juliet's business because Sun is her patient. This time Sun seems to believe her.
Flash-forward. Sun is still in labor, screaming and pushing. Dr. Bae tells her he has to perform a c-section. Sun tells him not to don anything until Jin arrives. Sun keeps calling for Jin, and thinks she sees him in the hallway. She's in labor -- shouldn't they shut the door? Dr. Bae tells her there's no time to wait for Jin. And then the baby crowns, eliminating the need for a c-section. More pushing and screaming, and then there's a baby in the room. Dr. Bae puts the very realistic baby in Sun's arms. She cries with joy.
On the boat, the doctor leads Sayid and Desmond out of the captain's quarters and down towards the sick bay. Except that they're not going there -- instead, Doc is taking them to a room of their own. He asks them what they thought of the captain. Sayid: "He was surprisingly forthcoming." Which is surprising. I'm starting to think that since everyone is telling us that Widmore sent the boat, it must have been sent by someone else. Because there's no way the show would be this up front with us. They arrive at the room that Desmond and Sayid will be sharing. Doc opens the door, and roaches scatter. That was some good roach wrangling. There's also a big blood stain on the wall. Doc tells them that the stain should have been cleaned up already. He turns around and sees a mysterious figure wielding a mop in the hallway. Doc calls him "Johnson" and tells him to come clean up the stain. Johnson is resistant, and starts to walk away. It's all so mysterious, I bet it will be a big shock... I'm sorry, I can't even pretend that I don't know who this is. I'm thrilled that they brought Harold Perrineau back, but it was completely moronic to keep his name in the credits all these weeks, because it made his return a total non-event. Way to go, show.