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!
Harper tells Juliet that Daniel and Charlotte are headed to the Tempest, where there is some gas that could kill everyone on the island. Again. Juliet wonders why Harper doesn't do something to stop Daniel and Charlotte, and Harper tells her that Ben wants Juliet to take care of it. Juliet wonders how Ben can possibly know any of this when he's a prisoner. Harper: "Ben is exactly where he wants to be." I always knew the little ferret was a freak -- he's clearly got a thing for being tied up and beat. Juliet looks pained, and then asks, "How am I supposed to stop them?" Harper points out that a gunshot can be a very effective deterrent. Jack arrives, and Harper tells him that she's just an old chum of Juliet's who dropped by for a cup of sugar. And to tell them where to find Daniel and Charlotte. Jack looks skeptical. When the whispering starts up again, he and Juliet both turn away from Harper. When they turn back two seconds later, she's disappeared.Juliet is in a lab, sitting on the floor and quietly weeping. She hears the sound of something falling and gets up to investigate. She finds Goodwin rooting around in the supplies; he claims he was looking for some gauze. She sees a large burn on his arm, and he claims he got it when he touched a transformer at the power station where he works. Juliet offers to take care of the wound. They make small talk while she inspects the wound and gathers supplies. We learn that a woman died that morning of the mysterious disease that kills all pregnant women. That helps explain why Juliet was crying. Also, as she tells Goodwin, she's miserable because she has nobody to talk to except for Harper, who is a total beeyotch who hates Juliet. It turns out she's also Goodwin's wife. So he should know what Juliet's talking about. There's an awkward apology, and then Juliet tells Goodwin that his wound is tended and he can leave. Before going, he tells her that she can always talk to him if she's feeling lonely. She tells him that if he'll keep her comments about Harper a secret, she won't tell anyone that he lied about the burn on his arm -- it was clearly a chemical burn, and was not caused by touching a transformer. Oh, and it's not until the end of the scene that Goodwin introduces himself.
Jack and Juliet are still hiking in the rain. I think this would be a nice time for a big musical number. Jack wants to know where they're going. Juliet tells him, "Tempest Station," and then ignores his request for more information by telling him, "It's safer for you if I don't talk about it." Has there ever been a time on this show when that statement was true?