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Thank god we finally find out what Sayid's plan was. Unfortunately, it turns out to be a really crappy plan that amounts to: "We'll set a signal fire to draw the Others out, and then we get 'em!" Good job proving that "military intelligence" is an oxymoron in armies around the world. Sayid's plan is based on several assumptions, including: 1) that despite his not knowing where the Others are coming from, it'll be night when they arrive (this one turns out to be true); 2) that despite not knowing how many Others are coming, he and Jin will be able to take 'em out (this turns out to be about 180 degrees and 180 miles from true); and 3) that the Others will gravitate to the fire he sets instead of the nearby sailboat tied up at the dock. This turns out to be almost fatally wrong for Sun, who was sent to the boat for safekeeping. Fortunately, Sun's been watching some old Ana-Lucia episodes, so when one of the Others discovers her aboard the boat, Sun says, "Another minor blonde woman for us to keep track of? Goddamn! Are you kidding me?" and shoots her in the gut (although we don't know if she's dead) and escapes. But the Others get away with the boat, leaving Sayid, Sun, and Jin with a hell of a long walk home.
The flashbacks feature Sun lying a lot: to her father, to Jin, in bed with Jae. Her father discovers her affair, and enlists Jin to send Jae a message -- with extreme prejudice -- but doesn't tell his reluctant son-in-law about the affair. Neither does Sun. And Jin can't bring it upon himself to kill Jae; instead, he scares the living shit out of him and warns him to leave the country. Jae's in such a hurry to leave, he doesn't take the stairs or the elevator; he just jumps out the window. Or he was pushed. I think he jumped, and it was because he lost the receipt for the pearls that he tried to give Sun.
Sawyer and Kate are enlisted to break rocks in what might be a significant Other project or could just be exhausting busywork. Kate spends some time talking to Alex, who skulks around the bushes, and Sawyer spends a lot of time checking out Kate, who's spilling all out of her dress. Sawyer risks the biggest tasering of his life by swaggering over and sticking his tongue down Kate's throat. But it's mainly to gauge what kind of fight they'd be in for with their captors. Too bad Ben, via video surveillance, is wise to him.
And Ben offers a deal to Jack. Cooperate -- although what exactly that would entail, Ben doesn't say -- and Jack goes home. But now that he knows he missed the Sox winning the Series, why bother? Want more? The full recap starts right below!
We might not have any real idea why last week's episode was called "A Tale of Two Cities," but there won't be any such confusion this week. We open with a shot of a glass ballerina, spinning, spinning, until it's apparent that it's spinning as it falls to the floor, dropped by a young Korean girl, who reacts like street hockey players do when a window gets broken: she bolts, running out the door from this opulent room into another one, where a metronome ticks solemnly away while she practices her piano. Sun's father walks in, carrying a plastic bag that he drops at the feet of Sun, who's clearly somewhat fearful of her father. He asks if she broke the ballerina, and she silently shakes her head -- and then says the maid did it. Her father clearly doesn't believe her, so he spells it right out for her: "If you tell me the maid did this, I will be forced to fire her. Do you understand?" Sun nods, and her father tries again: who broke it? Sun thinks about it a little longer, then says again: "The maid did." Her father's face gets hard, and he turns around and stomps out of the room, ready to fire a woman that I'm pretty sure he himself believes isn't guilty of anything. I might be crazy, but I think a smile is threatening to crack Li'l Sun's face.
But she's not smiling on present-day Craphole Island; she's chundering in the bathroom of Desmond's boat. She wipes her face and puts on a smile as a concerned Jin pokes his head in. She tells him it's just morning sickness, that's she's okay. Jin makes a face and heads above-deck, Sun following. He's not disgusted by her riding of the porcelain bus, but thinks that his pregnant wife should be resting instead of sailing the high seas with Sinbad on this adventure of futility.
Sayid's making notes on a map while a phony-baloney column of black smoke spirals up from the fire they lit on shore. An excited Jin yammers away to Sun, who translates for Sayid: he thinks they should leave, that Jack and the others (not the Others) aren't coming. Sayid counters that Jack's counting on them being there, but then decides that if Jack's north, the mountains would block his view of the fire -- so he wants to start another fire north of the mountains. You'd think Sayid could come up with a better lie. Of course the mountains block Jack's view of the fire. Trees block Jack's view of the fire. That's why he's looking for smoke. Anyway, Jin's all nuh-uh! No way! Sayid refuses to abandon Jack for some reason, and Sun's inclined to agree with him, but "Sayid's not your husband!" Jin snaps at her. Sun turns back to Sayid. "My husband thinks we have to do as he says, because he's the only one who knows how to sail. But he's wrong." She looks back at her husband before telling Sayid she can help him sail the boat.
Jack's sitting on the floor, slumped over in the corner of his cell. The door is opened (there's now a guard out there), as there probably ought to have been all along, and Juliet strolls in with lunch, claiming to have made the soup herself. Translation: don't swallow any toothpicks. Jack doesn't want any, though, and Juliet leaves, heading down the hall to another door. She knocks, and Ben answers. Behind him is a wall of television screens, on one of which is Jack, sitting in his cell. "You never made soup for me," he says, like OPEN A CAN AND HEAT IT UP, BEN. For god's sake, she practically killed herself making muffins. Get your own soup. They half-smile at each other until some woman comes clambering down a ladder. Apparently she's on Deadwood. ["Not anymore she ain't." -- Sars] Whoever she is, she has a major chip on her shoulder as she asks, "Am I interrupting something?" Juliet only makes it worse by asking if it would matter if she were. Please tell me they're not fighting over Ben.
The real purpose of her visit is to report that "the Iraqi" found the decoy village. "Good. That's what we wanted," says Ben. Oh, and also, he has a SAILBOAT. Ben's shocked to hear about the boat. Juliet figures it's no biggie, as Sayid and his compadres will just wind up sailing the boat all over the place, no threat to the Others, but Ben says the Lostaways could find them. He wants this Colleen to get a team together, which she says she can do in an hour. As she climbs the ladder, he calls after her: "I want that boat."
Sawyer's working his cage's levers and pedals again, because fish biscuits are part of a healthy balanced breakfast. The noise of the Sousa march wakes up Kate, who sarcastically compliments his "alarm clock" and he says he's "woken up to worse," and I think he meant to say "woken up with worse." Then he offers Kate "half a fish biscuit," like how disgusting is Sawyer, anyw-- oh, yeah; he means it literally.
Their incarceration-facilitated flirtation is interrupted by Zeke and his crew showing up, armed with rifles, to escort Kate and Sawyer from their cells. One of them gives Sawyer a bag. "Lunch. We're gonna need you to keep up your strength," he says. "Is that right," drawls Sawyer. The group heads out, but Colleen rushes up and yells for "Danny," who is the guy who just handed Sawyer his lunch. He showed up briefly towards the end of last season, in the Others' phony village, and he was called "Pickett" then. Oh, and also? He was in Kill Bill, and if you've seen that, all you need to know is that his name was Buck. Danny strolls over for a whispered conference and a peck on the cheek, while Sawyer watches. "What are you looking at?" snaps Danny to Sawyer, while motioning Zeke to come over. There's something about this guy I like...
Over on the Elizabeth, Sun watches Sayid play with his rifle while Jin watches the shore. Sun goes over to talk to Jin, who's still sulking. And keep in mind it's still 2004 here, so he hasn't even seen her Stuff magazine spread. Or her Golf for Women cover, but presumably he'd be cooler with the outfit on the latter. Of course, if she'd worn the Stuff outfit for Golf For Women, we're talking a major newsstand mover. He grouses that he has to adjust the sails. In Korean, she tells him that she's sorry, and that she shouldn't have disagreed with Jin in front of Sayid. He says that she shouldn't have disagreed with him at all, and maybe if I was as good-looking as Daniel Dae Kim is, I could get away with that bullshit once in a while with my wife instead of getting my head handed to me. Sun looks suitably chastened, and Jin asks her why she came. She puts her hand on his. "You know why I came," she says. "I don't want to be without you." They smile at each other, at least for a moment, until Sun gets her flashback frown on.
We cut to Sun lying in bed (she's full-grown Sun now, instead of the lying little maid-blaming brat) and beside her rises Jae Lee, similarly naked, as far as we can see. He asks her what's wrong, and she says that she's married, like it's only now occurring to her, either right before or right after she lets him into her demilitarized zone. Jae considers her "I'm married" protest for all of about half a second before going in for a little tonsil hockey, which Sun breaks off, saying she can't. She sits up, scarlet (nice) bed sheet wrapped around her. But Jae's not licked yet, literally or figuratively. He reaches over to the nightstand and gives her a pearl necklace. Like, an actual pearl necklace. She digs it, but she says she can't wear it, as Jin will ask where it came from. They've been speaking Korean up until this point, but he switches into English to say that he doesn't want to share her anymore, which the poor guy doesn't realize is kind of what Sun's getting at too. "Your English is excellent now," he tells her, adding that she's ready to go to America. And I'd like to add that Jae's sensitive routine works my nerves in a major way, that soft-spoken "nobody appreciates the beauty and the mystery of Sun but I" nonsense. Fortunately, they're interrupted by a knock on the door, surprising both of them. Jae asks Sun if anyone knows she's there. "No," she says. Jae puts some pants on, and his skinny yet ripped torso heads for the door, which is opened by a bellhop even before he gets there. Jae starts berating him -- until Sun's dad stomps in. Jae bows his head, and starts to apologize, but Sun Daddy ignores him and stomps over to the bedroom, where a startled Sun can't even meet his eyes. "Get dressed," he snaps, and glares at her for a moment before stomping out.
Sawyer strolls over; he didn't see Alex. "Having fun yet, Freckles?" he says, and Kate orders him to quit staring at her ass. This would not be the best time for Sawyer to say, "Give me something else to stare at, then," yet here we are. Danny sees the two of them chatting, and yells over for them to "shut up," and I like this guy more and more with each scene he's in.
Sun strolls down the Pala Ferry dock carrying a gas can from the Elizabeth. She hands it off to Sayid, who goes to slosh it over the massive pyre he's building. It's taller than any of them. She asks him what else she can do, and he tells her to help Jin, who's gathering wood, since they need all the fuel they can get. She notes how big the fire is, and he tells her it has to be huge to make sure Jack can see the smoke. She takes a step forward and quietly says, "Why are you lying to me, Sayid?" "And what would you know about lying, Sun?" is his response. Whoa! So this is a glass-house kind of thing? Don't think so, because, as Sun points out, "You're putting our lives in danger." She goes to help Jin, but Sayid says he's "fairly certain" Kate, Jack, and Sawyer have been captured: "There are tracks all over the dock. They're fresh. As recent as yesterday." She reminds him that he said the dock was abandoned. Sayid, deadpan: "That would be part of the lying you mentioned." Hee hee! Sun correctly surmises that Sayid's building the fire for the Others, not Jack. Sayid says he figures that when the Others see the smoke, they'll send a scout party, and by then it'll be night, so he'll ambush them, take two hostage, and kill the rest. "'Two'?" says Sun. "One to make the other cooperate," he says. Sounds like a pretty crappy plan to me, but Sun's on board. She asks what he needs her to do, and he asks, apologetically, for her to keep lying to her husband for another twenty minutes or so, because by then the fire will be lit and it'll be too late to go back. Sun looks over at her husband, who gives her an enigmatic look back. Lie to her husband? Yeah, I think Sun can handle that.
Flashback to Sun... staring at a plate? Admiring herself in its reflection? A sullen Jin enters. She greets him, helps him off with his jacket, and he's silent the entire time. They sit down at the dinner table, and he finally asks her how her day was. As she strikes a match to light the candles, her hands are shaking so badly that she's lucky she doesn't set her sleeve on fire. She says it was fine. Jin says he saw her father today. "Oh?" says Sun, instead of, "Don't you work for my father?" Jin says Sun Daddy called him "son" for the first time today. Since this doesn't appear to have been such a Hallmark moment, Sun asks why he did that. "He wants me to deliver a message," says Jin. Sun seems to understand right away what that means, unlike Jin, and asks if he's going to do it. "I have to," he says, and she says he doesn't, and he asks her if she thinks it's really that simple. She suggests they go away, start a new life, but he argues that her father will never let that happen. "I do this for you, Sun!" he shouts, slapping the table and standing up. "I do this because your father expects it! I do this because... that's what it takes to be married to you." "And what does it take to be married to you?" she snaps. Well... tawdry affairs in fancy hotels, apparently. But she does have a point about going somewhere to start over. Jin's had enough, though; he heads for the door. Sun asks where he's going. "To deliver the message," he says.
Back on the beach, Jin watches Sayid build the fire. After a moment, he walks purposefully over to Sayid, and holds his hand out. "Gun," he says. Sayid's not sure he understands. What part of "gun" are you having trouble with? Jin calls for Sun to come over so she can translate what he says, as he babbles on excitedly, pointing into the bushes. "He knows what we're doing. He knows it's a trap," she says, stunned. Jin calms down, and speaks a lot more quietly. "He says he understands English better than I think he does." A little more from Jin, who's looking somewhat sadly at Sun. "He knows I betrayed him," he says. Jin holds out his hand again, and says, "Gun." Sayid hands one over, and starts explaining how to use it, but Jin swiftly checks the clip and the chamber with the familiarity of a... well, a hit man. Then he speaks to Sun again, and points to the boat. Sayid doesn't need a translation for that, and tells Sun he thinks she'll be safer on the boat. A still stunned Sun meekly starts to leave, but Sayid stops her to tell her that if "by chance" the Others get past him and Jin, there's another gun on the boat, under the blue tarp. "If they get past you, that means my husband is dead. And I won't care anymore," she says. Or that means they've captured your husband. Or -- and this is just a possibility, mind you -- it means that they went straight for the boat. What I'm saying is, don't use that gun to commit suicide or anything, Sun.
Back at the work camp, Cool Hand Sawyer sees Juliet standing there, and they lock eyes for a moment, and somebody forgot to write some dialogue for this scene or something. Sawyer stands there glaring, and then Juliet tosses him a canteen, and stands there making faces at him. Sawyer unscrews the canteen... and then dumps the water out onto the ground. Yeah, get dehydration, Sawyer. That'll show 'em. Sawyer swaggers back to work, only to notice that Kate's practically dying of exhaustion. Too bad YOU DON'T HAVE ANY WATER TO GIVE HER.
But what's better than water? How about some Sawyer spit? He drops the wheelbarrow, and strolls over and plants a big greasy one right on her lips. Kate's surprised, but not exactly repulsed, and kisses him back. Danny might not have laid down any rules specifically against kissing, but touching is verboten, and he stomps over and delivers a rifle butt to the back of Sawyer's head just as he's coming up for air. Sawyer drops, and Danny keeps going at him, but Sawyer manages to grab the rifle and get in a couple shots of his own. More Others join the fray, and Sawyer holds his own, except for when he tries to taser this hefty guy and realizes that he doesn't know how to use a taser. Still, he finally manages to get enough room to point the rifle at his captors, but before he can do anything with it, Juliet calls out, "James!" He looks over, and Juliet's holding Kate's arm. She's also pointing a gun at her. "Put the gun down. Right now," she says. He doesn't do it right away, so she repeats the command. He tosses the rifle aside, and a bloodied Danny takes out his taser for a little payback. He zaps Sawyer, who writhes around on the ground as a distraught Kate looks on. Way to help him out back there, Kate.
Back at the beach, Jin and Sayid hang out in the trees around the fire, waiting. Nothing could possibly go wrong! Out on the boat, Sun's using a butane lighter to ignite one of the stove's burners, and puts a pot over the flame. She looks like she's about thirty seconds away from kicking back with a good book in one hand and a rye and Coke in the other. She hears something thumping, and we cut to a shot of many people's legs and feet boarding the boat. Sun gasps, and goes for the gun, which is indeed wrapped in the tarp like Sayid said it was. Tarps. Is there anything they can't do?
Jin's sitting in his car, with his gun and a picture of Jae on the dashboard. He sees Jae speak to the doorman and head into the hotel. Jin gets out of the car and follows him. There's a taxi behind Jin's car. A taxi? In front of a hotel? Now I've seen everything!
Inside the hotel, Jin catches up with Jae just as he's entering his room. Jae's all "wait!" but Jin throws him into the room, through some kind of lattice wall and into a coffee table. Jin throws Jae down on the bed, Jae already as bloodied as Drago at the end of Rocky IV. What a creampuff. "Do you know who I am? Do you know why I'm here?" yells Jin, and Jae apologizes, and the entire scene is Jin making threats that work both for "stop stealing from my gangster boss!" and "stop sleeping with my wife!" while Jae's apologies and pleas also work equally well for both. It's just a shade contrived, but I thought it worked -- it added the tension of wondering if Jae would blurt something out to reveal the affair. "Then you know what I have to do," says Jin, and he holds a pillow over Jae's head and puts a gun to it. Jae's completely blubbering by now. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he wails. Jin pulls the gun away. "You will leave this country. Do you understand me? You will leave and never come back. Start a new life. And if I hear you've returned, if you have any contact at all, I will finish this. Am I clear? You don't exist." Jin gets up and leaves, Jae lying there sobbing, covered in blood and tears and snot.
Outside, Jin walks to his car. That taxi is suspiciously still there. Jin gets in his car and grips the steering wheel, thinking. If he weren't quite so conflicted about what he's doing, perhaps he would have pulled away in time to save his windshield from being smashed by the body of Jae Lee, which has come falling from the sky. Shocked, Jin gets out of his car. Jae's dead. Dead from the fall or already dead, it's impossible to tell. But he's got a string of pearls clutched in his right hand. This, plus the strange fact that there's a taxi in front of the hotel, has plenty of people speculating that Sun helped Jae take the express route to the ground. And... seriously? Sun pushed Jae? She had a hard enough time breaking up with the guy. I'm not saying that's not going to be an upcoming plot twist. I'm just saying it would be ridiculous. We saw a young Sun lying to get out of trouble, even though it cost a maid her job. But it's a pretty big friggin' leap to go from that to murder. I lied to get out of trouble all the time when I was a kid. But I have not yet committed murder, at least not any that I've been convicted of. More likely: Mr. Paik wasn't convinced of Jin's willingness to deliver the message, and had somebody batting cleanup. But given the pearls in Jae's hand, I'm convinced that between the possibility of losing Sun and the possibility of another Jin-whipping, he called it quits himself.
Back on the island, Sayid and Jin are still waiting for people to show up at their party. "I don't think they're coming," says Sayid.
Or maybe, just maybe, they saw no one around the roaring fire, figured out that it was a trap, and made for the boat. Yep, that's what they're doing. There's a whole load of people climbing onto the Elizabeth.
Colleen makes her way into the galley, and she snaps her head around when she hears the cock of a gun. A nervous Sun steps from the shadows, aiming her gun at Colleen. "I want you to let me off this boat," she says. Colleen says she can't do that: "It's not my decision to make." They both listen as they hear creaks and steps above-board. "Do you realize there are five of my friends up there?" asks Colleen, and Sun orders her to lower her voice. Colleen agrees, and starts to move towards Sun. But Colleen says she won't: "I know you, Sun-Hwa Kwon. And I know you're not a killer. But despite what you may think, I'm not the enemy. We are not the enemy. But if you shoot me, that's exactly what we'll become." "Not the enemy," huh? Yeah, my friends are the ones with rifles sneaking aboard my boat under cover of darkness. Well, I don't have a boat. But you know what I mean.
Colleen advances on Sun, smiling confidently, until a frightened Sun busts a cap in her gut. The boat engine has started up, and a shocked Colleen clutches her stomach and falls over. An Other, who presumably heard the gunshot, opens the door, sees Sun, and starts firing, as Sun runs into another room.
On the island, Sayid and Jin hear the gunfire and hightail it down the dock, only to be met by gunfire. They take cover as best they can, and Sayid starts firing back with his rifle. On the boat, Sun's found a hatch in the room she's in and opens it, while the boat starts pulling away. Jin, seeing the boat leaving, runs for the water, ignoring Sayid shouting at him not to, and dives in. Sun gets the hatch open and crawls out, but Zeke spots her, and starts firing. It doesn't look like he hits her, but she tumbles off the boat. Jin doesn't seem to have seen that, because as the boat recedes, he treads water and shouts after it, in Korean. Finally, she calls back to him, and they meet up in the water and coo at each other in unsubtitled Korean. If Sun's smart, she'll make sure Jin's on kitchen duty for the foreseeable future.
We're at Jae's funeral, and Sun's standing apart from it, in a beautiful shot with a majestic pagoda behind her. Her father strolls up and tells her she shouldn't be here. She asks what he's doing there, and he explains that he does business with Jae's father. "I'm told he jumped from a balcony. He must have felt great shame." Yeah, and how are you feeling right about now, Sun? Mr. Paik tells her to go home to her husband. He turns to leave, but she stops him. I thought she was going to say, "Look, after all these years, I've been meaning to ask... your lazy eye... which eye should I look at when I'm talking to you?" Instead, she just asks if he's ever going to tell Jin. He says it's not his place, and walks away. Rather disingenuous of him, given that in all likelihood his sending Jin to kill Jae probably ought to have resulted in Jin finding out about the affair. But you can't spell "passive-aggressive" without "Paik." Not correctly, anyway.
On the beach, Sun's sitting, cold and wet. Jin wraps a blanket around her and kisses her on the cheek. "I don't know what I'd do without you," he says. He puts a hand on her stomach. "Both of you." They gaze at each other a moment. Sayid interrupts their moment to say that he's sorry he dragged them into this. "And please communicate to your husband that time I will listen to him." He says they should go, as they have a long walk ahead of them.
We're back at The Others' Prison for Southern Bad Boys with Hearts of Gold and Fugitive Femme Fatales. Sawyer's coughing up a lung into his water trough. Kate asks if he's okay, and Sawyer says he's never been better. "What the hell were you thinking?" she asks. Sawyer says he couldn't help himself: "You looked so damn cute swinging that pickaxe. Chain gang looks good on you, Freckles." Kate rolls her eyes, so Sawyer struggles to his feet and gets as close as he can to the bars of his cage. "Two of those guards got some real fight in 'em. The rest of 'em, I ain't that much worried about. That heavyset guy, he packs a hell of a punch. The shaggy-haired kid's got some kind of martial-arts training, but I think I could take him if I had to. Oh, FYI: those zapper things got a safety on 'em." All this brawling talk has got Kate hot: "Did you see the look on their faces when you got hold of that rifle?" Kate's scale is tipping towards Reggie, folks. Sawyer says he figures most of them have never seen any real action. "But that blonde who had a gun pointed at you? She would have shot you. No problem." But never mind their current situation; Kate focuses on a real problem. "Why'd she call you James?" she says. Of course, she already knows Sawyer isn't his real name. Sawyer confirms that James is indeed his real name. "I noticed something else, too. You taste like strawberries," he says. Oh, gag. As if. "You taste like fish biscuits," is her response. Then she asks what they do now. "Well, Shortcake, now we wait for these bastards to make a mistake." You mean a mistake like discussing your strategy without making sure you're not being eavesdropped on? Because that's what's happening: Ben's keeping eye on things via a bunch of monitors, not unlike the ones in Pearl Station. Sawyer continues: "Sooner or later, they're going to let their guard down. And when they do, we're going to be there to put them in their place."
Let's go now to Jack's cell, where's he's lying morosely in the corner. As the camera pulls back, we can see Ben standing there. "Hello, Jack," he says, unfolding a small canvas camping chair he's holding, and sits down. "You know what's crazy, Jack? A week ago, you and I were in exactly the opposite situation," he says. And then, in case Jack forgets what was going on, Ben elaborates: "I was the one locked up and you were the one coming in for visits." He says he knows that Jack was angry that Ben lied to him about who he was, but seriously? If he'd been honest? It probably would have been a whole lot more of Sayid and his fists, right? Jack asks what Ben wants from him. "I want for you to change your at-- perspective." The first step, says Ben, is for him to introduce himself honestly. He extends his hand to Jack. "Hi. My name is Benjamin Linus, and I've lived on this island all my life." Not all that surprisingly, Jack refuses to shake. Look, just because you've been attacked, kidnapped, drugged, and almost killed is no excuse to be rude, Jack. "You're not going to shake?" says Ben. He gives up, and gets up and walks to the door, where he says, "Bring it in, please." Some flunky rolls in a cart with a television on it, as Jack asks, "Where are Kate and Sawyer?" Mercifully, Ben doesn't subject him to an interrogation re: why he said Kate's name first. Instead, he says, "They're fine, and they're close. That's all I'm able to tell you right now." Jack points out that Ben can tell him anything he wants. "Fair enough; it's all I want to tell you." He says he's going to make things really simple for Jack: "If you cooperate, we send you home." Jack's skeptical, and asks what he'd be cooperating with. "When the time is right, I'll tell you," says Ben, which isn't exactly good enough for Jack. "'Home' -- is that where you sent Walt and Michael?" asks Jack, and Ben says it is. Jack laughs. "If you could leave this island, why would you still be here?" he says. Ben turns the question around on him. "Yes, Jack, why would be here?" Jack thinks he's lying, and says they're stuck here just like he is. Henry interrupts Jack to tell him that his flight crashed Sept. 22, 2004. "Today is November 29th," he says. "That means you've been our island for 69 days." Just for anybody keeping track. Ben says they do indeed have contact with the outside world, which is how they know that, in the time that Jack and the other Lostaways have been here, "your fellow Americans re-elected George W. Bush, Christopher Reeve has passed away, the Boston Red Sox won the World Series."
Jack starts to laugh. Clearly, Ben's not a baseball fan, because he doesn't understand why Jack thinks this is so funny. "If you wanted me to believe this, you probably should have picked somebody else beside the Red Sox," says Jack, and Ben makes things worse by saying that the Red Sox came back from being down three games to none -- a comeback from that point is absolutely unprecedented -- against the Red Sox's traditional rivals, the Yankees, no less. Jack does not believe Ben at all. But Ben's got all the evidence right there, on the television -- the final out of the World Series. Jack stands up and moves to the glass in disbelief, that even on this godforsaken island, he cannot get away from Joe Buck. "That's home, Jack," says Ben. "Right there, on the other side of that glass. And if you listen me, if you trust me, if you do what I tell you when the time comes, I'll take you there. I will take you home." That's awesome, because his ex-wife sure isn't going to stalk herself!
Jack starts to laugh. Clearly, Ben's not a baseball fan, because he doesn't understand why Jack thinks this is so funny. "If you wanted me to believe this, you probably should have picked somebody else beside the Red Sox," says Jack, and Ben makes things worse by saying that the Red Sox came back from being down three games to none -- a comeback from that point is absolutely unprecedented -- against the Red Sox's traditional rivals, the Yankees, no less. Jack does not believe Ben at all. But Ben's got all the evidence right there, on the television -- the final out of the World Series. Jack stands up and moves to the glass in disbelief, that even on this godforsaken island, he cannot get away from Joe Buck. "That's home, Jack," says Ben. "Right there, on the other side of that glass. And if you listen me, if you trust me, if you do what I tell you when the time comes, I'll take you there. I will take you home." That's awesome, because his ex-wife sure isn't going to stalk herself!