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!
She does tell him that the Tempest is an electrical station that powers the island, but won't provide any more info. Jack persists, getting in Juliet's face and telling her that this is the perfect time for her say whatever she needs to say. Juliet: "What I need is for you to help me. Will you help me?" There are two things Jack can never say no to -- a pretty woman and a request for help. So he's definitely in. Juliet thinks they can catch Daniel and Charlotte if they hike all night.It's morning, and the rain has stopped. Daniel and Charlotte are crouched over a stream. Daniel is holding a map in his hand. It looks like he's trying to find the way to Mordor. I'd tell him to look out for Gollum, but Charlie's already dead. Even frozen in hi-def, there's not much I can make out on the map. Lots of blank spots labeled, "unknown," and a couple of larger blocks of text that are illegible. There's one Dharma-station symbol along the western coast of the island. Daniel tells Charlotte which way he thinks they should go. ("That way," if you must know.) Daniel is worried that he won't be able to do it, but Charlotte tells him to buck up, because she's certain he can do it. As they're about to leave, a scary figure steps out of the jungle. Charlotte points her gun at the figure, who turns out to be Kate. Too bad she didn't use her time in the Barracks to find some scissors -- she's looking a little Clan Of The Cave Bear right now. A trim and some conditioner would do wonders. Daniel tells Charlotte to put down the gun, because he knows Kate. (It seems plausible to me that Kate and Charlotte might not have met when they were at the Barracks.) Charlotte seems resistant to the idea of not pointing a gun at Kate, and Kate looks like she's taking it personally. And at that odd point, we break for commercials.
When we return, Daniel is asking if Locke's crew has Miles as a prisoner. Wasn't he there when Sayid explained the swap? Did he forget, or is he just spacey? Or did the writers forget? Kate asks what the two of them are doing out in the jungle. Charlotte spins a lie about the satellite phone having run out of power and gone completely dead, explaining that they are looking for the spare batteries that were in the packs they discarded when the chopper was going down. This would be a fine story, except that Kate can see the phone in Daniel's pocket, complete with a big green light indicating that it still has at least some power.