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!
One nurse tells the other that they're dealing with a member of the Oceanic Six. And then Sun is in a bed; the nurse is taking her jewelry off, and Sun freaks out when she tries to take her wedding ring. The nurse explains that Sun is about to swell up like a Macy's Thanksgiving Day balloon, so they need to take her rings off while they still can. Sun, who seems delirious, resists until a doctor walks into the room. He's very young, and kind of cute. In fact, the entire staff of this hospital is pretty soap opera attractive. The doctor is Dr. Bae, and he tells Sun that he's filling in for Dr. Park, who is away at a conference. Dr. Bae conducts a preliminary exam -- he can tell the baby's in distress, but he's not certain yet what's wrong with it. He asks her if they can call anyone for her, and she tells him to just get Jin. I should mention that she's definitely delirious now, as the nurse gave her a shot for the pain a few seconds ago.Jin runs out of the toy store and hails a taxi. The taxi stops, and Jin throws the panda in the back seat. He's about to get in himself, when his phone rings. He answers it, and then a man bumps into him, knocking the phone to the ground. Jin goes to pick it up, but a motorcycle runs over it. And Jin, I don't like to make fun of your gadgets, but where'd you get that enormous phone? 2001?
That's another clue.
Jin picks up his phone, and then sees another man getting into his cab. Despite the fact that he's sharing the back seat with a panda the size of a twelve-year old. The cab driver, oblivious to the fact that he's just changed passengers, drives off. Jin chases after the cab, screaming out, "You bastard! If I find you, I'll hunt you down and rip your head off!"
Jin runs back into the toy store and heads for the aisle of stuffed animals. He can't find another panda. He walks over to the clerk and asks for another panda. The clerk tells him that was the last one, kind of forgetting that there's one sitting right behind him. Jin asks about the panda that's right in front of his eyes, but the clerk tells him it's on hold and has already been paid for. He suggests a dragon, since it's the year of the dragon.
That's another, relatively obscure clue.
Jin slams down an ungodly sum of money on the counter and angrily demands the panda. The clerk gives it to him.
At the beach, Kate is drawing a map to the Barracks for Jin and Sun. She tells them it will take at least a day and a half. Unless you really need to get there for dramatic purposes, in which case it will take about an hour.