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By LTG | Season 4 | Episode 8 | Aired on March 20, 2008
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.It's old home week on Lost. Sayid confronts Michael and forces him to tell the story of how he came to be on the boat. It seems that after he left the island, he destroyed his relationship with his son by telling him that he killed Libby and Ana Lucia. Despondent, he tries to kill himself, "tries" being the operative word. He survives, only to be haunted by visions of Libby and visited by a not-yet-dead Tom (who claims that Widmore is actually behind the faked wreckage of Oceanic 815). Tom tells him that the only way he'll redeem himself for his murderous ways is to destroy the freighter, preventing the Boaties from killing everyone on the island. Michael signs on to the boat's crew, and his resolve is strengthened when he sees Keamy and the other tough guys gleefully planning mayhem. Michael sets a bomb he was given by Tom, but it fails to go off. Why? Because, as Ben tells him in a phone call, there are some innocent people on the boat who don't deserve to die -- Michael's mission is to allow those innocent people to get away before killing everyone else.
After hearing this story, Sayid smacks Michael around, drags him to the captain's office, and turns him in as a traitor.
Meanwhile, on the island, Ben convinces Rousseau to take Alex and Carl to the Temple to keep them safe from the Boaties' impending attack. But along the way, they are attacked by snipers. Who kill Carl. And then Rousseau. Noooooooo!!! Alex, who clearly learned a thing or two about survival from Ben, seems to save herself from being killed by shouting out that she's Ben's daughter (and therefore a nice hostage). Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Michael pleads, but she hangs tough and refuses to let him in. He tries to play the guilt card by reminding her that he's Walt's father, but she trumps him by reminding him that she thought he had died in an accident and that she can't even tell people he's alive because he won't reveal where he was or how he survived. (For those who are still working on some kind of time travel or time dilation theory, she tells us that from her perspective Michael was gone for over two months.) Anyway, she's not letting him see Walt until he can explain everything that happened. But she does agree to tell Walt that Michael loves him. As Michael walks away, he looks back and sees Walt watching him from an upstairs window. When Walt sees him, he leaves the window.Michael walks into a pawnshop and asks the guy how much he can get for his watch. The guy notices the Korean inscription and essentially accuses Michael of stealing it. But he still offers Michael $300 for the watch. Michael doesn't want cash, though -- he wants a gun. And, demonstrating his keen planning skills, he wants bullets.
Michael walks down an alley and takes the gun and bullets out of the brown paper bag he's carrying. He anxiously loads the gun and points it at his head. But before he pulls the trigger, some guy asks him if he has the time. He freaks out and tries to hide the gun, but the guy tells him, "Come on, Michael!" And then we see that it's our old friend, Tom. Commercials.
Still in the alley, Tom taunts Michael for leaving one island and going to another (Manhattan). Michael, no fool, tries to shoot Tom. But he misses, and then Tom beats him up. Michael gets in a few licks of his own (including smashing an empty wine bottle over Tom's head), but the fight ends when Tom points a gun (Michael's gun, I think) at Michael's head. Since Michael was just trying to kill himself, I'm not sure why threatening murder would stop him from fighting. But it does. There's some chatter about how Tom knew where to find Michael, and then Michael asks what Tom wants. What he wants is Michael's help. And there's some more pointless chat about how Walt won't see Michael. Tom quickly realizes it's because Michael told Walt that he killed two women and betrayed the other Lostaways in order to purchase Walt's freedom. Michael tells him to go away, but Tom tells him that the island won't let him kill himself. Michael asks what he's talking about, and Tom just repeats himself and hands the gun back to Michael.