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!
Kate tells Sun that she's going to have to tell Jack where they're going, but she'll give them a head start before ratting them out. As Kate is hugging Sun goodbye, Juliet walks up and tells Sun she can't leave. Sun is kind of pissed off that this home-wrecking, Other-killing, baby-stealing woman is trying to run her life. Juliet decides to appeal to Jin, telling him that Sun is very sick and needs to leave the island. Sun pulls him away, but Juliet tells him that Sun is in danger. Jin: "Wherever Sun go, I go." All right, Ruth and Naomi -- get a room! Sun continues to walk away as Juliet pleads with her, so Juliet turns to Jin and tells him that Sun had an affair. Jin is a bit confused, so Juliet explains that Sun was doing the hokey-pokey with another man, and that Sun told her because she was concerned about the baby's paternity. Sun walks over, looks Juliet in the eye, and slaps her across the face. I bet if she asked, Charlotte would teach her how to punch Juliet for real. That slap kind of serves as a confession of guilt for Jin, and he looks upset before walking back towards the beach. Sun mutters his name, but he keeps on walking. Commercials.Jin is on the beach, assembling some...fishing gear? Yeah, that's the ticket. Sun walks up to him and begs him to forgive her, or to listen to her explanation. But he says nothing and walks away. Bernard walks up and asks Jin if he's going fishing. It takes him a few seconds before he realizes that he's interrupting a touching moment. But after he does, Jin invites him to come along fishing.
Bernard and Jin are in that outrigger canoe thing, fishing. Bernard notes that the two of them are the only married men on the island. When you consider the quality of the rest of the men, is it any surprise? Bernard shares his cranky old man wisdom about marriage -- it's great, but a pain in the ass. And then Bernard tells Jin that Rose has cancer and is dying. Or she was, until she came to the island. Because of that, he was surprised that she didn't want to go with Locke so she could avoid leaving the island. Jin asks him why they stayed with Jack, and Bernard tells him that it would have been wrong to go with Locke, since he's a murderer. And then Bernard starts to give Jin the Earl Hickey explanation of karma. Fortunately, he's cut off when Jin lands a fish. Bernard thinks that's a sign that Jin is a good person with good karma.
On the freighter, Desmond paces in sick bay.