Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 5820 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2010.05.23
Hospital; Sun's room: The roses on Sun's nightstand are white, not yellow. Jin and Sun are trying to decide what to do once she's discharged and whether they can keep running from the long arm of Daddy Paik, when they're interrupted by her doctor. It's JULIET! She can see from Sun's record that they don't speak English so she gets right down to doing an ultrasound. As soon as Juliet touches the transducer to her patient's abdomen, the deja vu brings on Sun's flashbacks. The first thing she remembers is Juliet giving her an ultrasound on Craphole. When Sun gasps, Juliet asks if she's okay as Jin jumps to his feet. Sun cries tears of joy as she (in Korean) says, "I remember." When she realizes Jin's not quite there yet, she is speechless, but when Juliet points at the monitor and says, "There it is; there's your baby," Jin's head springs up. Now it's his turn. He sees: Himself freezing Sun out on the beach, and beaten and bloodied at Michael's hand. Their reunion after the fateful raft trip. Cozying up in their shelter at night and stroking her still flat pregnant belly. Their visions merge. There's newborn Ji Yeon. Jin on the freighter. Sun on the helicopter. The explosion. Their three-years-in-the-making reunion on Hydra Island. Their deaths in the bowels of the submarine.
Once the visions end, Jin flops back in his chair as the suddenly-legless are wont to do. In Korean, Sun asks, "Did you see?" Jin nods and grunts. Juliet asks, "Do you see the little flutter, right there? That's the baby's heartbeat. Perfectly perfect in every way." She tells them she has the amnio results and that all is well -- she can even tell them the baby's sex if they'd like to know. Okay, nitpick. Amniocentesis is done in conjunction with an ultrasound. Don't take my word for it. I know, I know, small thing to take me out of such a beautiful moment, but it did, just the same. You doctors need to play along with this healthcare reform thang. Sun turns to Jin and speaks in English. "It's a girl." Juliet's eyebrows go up, because it totally is. Jin tells the good doctor: "Her name is Ji Yeon." Juliet: "That's a lovely name, and for the record, you two speak English just fine." They laugh as she congratulates them and leaves the room. Once they're alone, Jin leans forward and presses his forehead against Sun's. This is the third time I cry. Commercial.