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!
She kind of is -- she wants to know if Daniel and his people are going to rescue them. If that's what she wants, she'd better put it on her registry. He hems and haws and doesn't answer, eventually telling her that it's not his call. Sun: "Then whose call is it?" He doesn't answer. She thanks him and walks away. That Sun -- always classy.Over at the makeshift kitchen, Jin haltingly asks Jack to pass some cereal. Mmmmm, Dharma Flakes. They chat about Jin's new language skills -- he understands better than he speaks, and both Sun and Sawyer have been teaching him. Sun walks up and looks oddly at Jack. She's clearly waiting for him to leave, which doesn't make much sense, as I'm pretty certain they can speak in front of him without him understanding a word. However, she does wait for him to leave before telling Jin (in Korean) to do exactly what she says and not ask questions. He breaks that rule right away by asking what's going on, and she tells him to gather enough food for two days. She wants to be ready to leave in twenty minutes. Where are they going, you ask? To join Locke at the Barracks. Commercials.
Sun is poking around in the medical supply tent (I think that's what it is) when Juliet walks in and asks her what she's looking for. Sun tells an unconvincing lie about searching for more pre-natal vitamins. Juliet goes to find them, and asks Sun what happened to all the other ones she gave her, since there should be twenty left. Juliet asks if Sun is planning a trip. Sun's non-denial is pretty much an admission, and Juliet asks her where she's going. She's not thrilled to hear that Sun and Jin are planning on going to the Barracks to join Locke. Sun tells her that she doesn't trust the Boaties, but Juliet reminds her that if she doesn't get off the island soon, she and her baby will both die. But Sun doesn't just mistrust the Boaties -- she's clearly not believing Juliet's story about all the dead baby mamas. Juliet cops to having been "less than truthful about certain things since coming here," but she promises that she's not lying about the pregnancy illness. She continues, "After everything you confided in me, I should at least have your trust." Sun tells her that Aaron came out fine, so she has no reason to think she can't also deliver a healthy baby on the island. She tells Juliet that she doesn't trust her, and then snatches the vitamins from her hand.
Flash-forward. Sun is wheeled into the hospital by a nurse.