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!
Anyway, Doc insists that Johnson come clean up the stain. Johnson pulls his bucket towards them, and introduces himself (as "Kevin Johnson") when he gets closer. Oh my God! It's Michael! See, even that sounds fake. Sayid pretends not to know Michael. Desmond also has a conspiratorial look on his face, but I'm not sure he ever even met Michael. So it might be a conspiratorial look, or it might be gas. Commercials.
Sun is in their tend on the beach. It's nighttime. Jin enters, bearing plates, and tells her that he made dinner. Sun is overjoyed to see him, and asks if she can explain the affair. He tells her it doesn't matter; he knows that she had the affair because he used to be a cold, withholding man before he landed on the island. When she had the affair, she was being unfaithful to the man he used to be, not to the man he has become. He tells her that she's forgiven, and he offers to go to the Barracks with her. But she's changed her mind about going away, because Juliet has convinced her that the danger to her and the baby is real if she stays on the island. He tells her that he'll do whatever it takes to get her off the island. And then he asks her if the baby is his. With tears in her eyes, she swears that it is. They embrace, and he tells her that she will never lose him.
Flash-forward. We see Jin enter the hospital bearing the panda. A nurse gives him directions, and he runs down the hall. He arrives at a hospital room, where there is a guard stationed outside. Jin bows to him, introduces himself, and tells the guard, "I represent Paik Automotive." Whaaaa? Jin tells the guard that he's heard the Ambassador just became a grandfather, and he's there with a gift for the baby. As the guard enters the hospital room, Jin asks him the sex of the baby. It's a boy. Jin quickly wraps a blue ribbon around the neck of the panda. A distinguished looking older man exits the room, and Jin tells him that the panda is a symbol of Mr. Paik's desire to do business in China. The Ambassador enters the room, and Jin sneaks a look behind him. Just in case you were wondering whether Sun somehow got adopted by the Chinese ambassador, the mother holding a baby in the room is not Sun.
Jin walks down the hospital corridor, looking relieved at having successfully completed his task. The same nurse who gave him directions earlier asks him why he's leaving so quickly. He tells her it wasn't his baby, and she tells him she's sure he'll be there soon enough. He tells her not to rush him: "I've only been married two months." Again, I say "whaaaa?"
And now we see Sun at home, getting dressed.