Tuesday, February 23, 2010

LOST recap

Recaps are of everyone landing in LA, and the loss of Christian. Temple, blah blah.

Fake Reality: Pictures of Jack and Christian, Jack shirtless - meh. He notices his scar, the one he got from the plane crash? and seems confused. Jack's mom calls asking about Christian's body. Jack promises to come over and help her. Oh, turns out it's an appendix scar, but he doesn't really remember having his appendix out. Jack goes to a school and picks up HIS SON, DAVID!

Back on the island Jack is standing at the temple, staring at the creek when Dogan or whatever his name is comes up and tells him he can't leave the temple. Dogan asks if Kate's coming back. Jack says no and Dogan cries. Actually, he doesn't. I like him. Miles and Hurley are play giant tic-tac-toe. Hurley gets the munchies and goes to the hot tub and ask a random guy where the kitchen is. Random guy is Jacob. Jacob needs his help. He wants Hurley to help someone find the island.

David is an angsty little devil. It's probably because he's embarrassed because his dad cries all.the.time. David doesn't want to talk to his dad. He just wants to do his thing. He starts eating some Milano cookies, which rock, while Jack talks to his mom on the phone again. Jack is not loving the rift between him and his son.

Jack and Sayid are lounging by the creek. Sayid asks why everyone is staring at him and Jack says, "Because you're hotter than me." and Sayid says, "You betcha." Jack tells Sayid that the temple people want to kill him.

Rambo Claire stomps down the ridge and she's pissed. She removes Jin's very bloody foot from the trap. Claire says she's been here for the past 3 years. She tells Jin to get up and walk on his bloody leg and stop being a pansy. He faints.

Hurley has Jacobs message written on his arm and is walking through the temple looking at hieroglyphics. Dogan yells at him. Hurley tells Dogan he's a "big fan of temples." LOL! Jacob tells Hurley to say he's a candidate and he can do what he wants. Then he suggests that Dogan go back to the courtyard. Hurley's pissed because Jacob made him lie to a samurai. Jacob's pissed because Hurley didn't bring Jack. Hurley goes out to get Jack. Jack won't go with him, but Hurley says to tell him that Jack "has what it takes." Jack says to take him to Jacob now. He may have said stat. He is a doctor.

Jin wakes up in Claire's shanty. She really is Danielle. She's a crazy jungle cat lady and she has a cradle with an "arts and craft hour" Martha Stewart baby in it. She kidnapped the nice temple guard and ties him up to question him about Aaron. She goes to get some stuff to clean Jin's leg. Nice guard tells Jin that Claire will kill them both. Jin's not buying it.

Hurley and Jack are out in the jungle. Jack sees a backpack on a rock and then sees Kate getting water out of the creek. Kate tries to shoot him, then realizes that Jacks a man and she decides to flirt with him instead. Kate tells of her plan to find Claire and Jack tells her that something's wrong with Claire. Kate runs off into the jungle.

Fake reality: Jack and pessimist mom are looking for Christian's will. She pours herself a stiff drink. She looks very face-lifty. Jack is apparently not a heavy drinker in this life. Good for him. Mama Shepherd finds the will and reads it. He finds out about Claire from the will.

Out at the fire, Claire is preparing to chop off Jin's foot, it seems. Baldguard is trying to convince him to untie him. She apologizes about her trap. She starts stitching Jin up and I puke a little. She talks about the hard knock life of living in a jungle while they party in a temple with a hot tub and giant tic-tac-toe all day. She says she's spoken to her father and her friend. She asks if Jin is still her friend. She finishes stitching him up and it's G-R-O-S-S. She gets her axe and turns to question Mr. Clean.

Hurley and Jack are still trekking through the forest. Hurley asks why Jack isn't giving in to Kate's wiles. Jack steps on Shannon's inhaler and they realize they're at the caves. Hurley is being philosophical about the skeletons. Jack is having a Hallmark moment and doesn't listen to Hurley, then admits that he was chasing the ghost of his dead father when he found the caves.

Fakereality: Jack's back and brought David some pizza, but David is AWOL. Jack is angry. He calls David's cell and begs him to call back. He goes to David's mother's house to see if David's there. He's not in his room. Jack snoops around and realizes that David's into classical music and cheesy pictures of Jack. There's a message on his machine and it's some lady telling David that he has a slot that night at 7:00. Jack hears his own message and gets all teary (shocker), then jots down the info from the first call and jets.

Hurley asks Jack why he came back to the island. Jack asks him why he came back and Hurley tells him about Jacob approaching him in the cab. Jack laughs and then explains that he came back because he was broken and stupid enough to think the island could fix him. They keep walking. They find a big freaking Rapunzel lighthouse. Jack asks the obvious "WHY IN THE HADES HAVEN'T WE SEEN THIS BEFORE?" Hurley says because they weren't looking for it.

Claire's still interrogating Mr. Clean. They did the test on Claire in the temple. Claire's going to hack him up but Jin stops her and tells her that Kate took Aaron. Mr Clean promises to keep his mouth shut if she'll just let hi go. She cries and then kills him because she's a hard core jungle lady now. Man! She hacked him right in the pancreas!

At the lighthouse Hurley reveals that they have to turn on the lighthouse. Jack kicks open the door. Who needs a samurai?

Fakereality: Jack arrives at David's piano audition. David is tearing it up on the piano. Jack is awe, as am I . Boy can play. Another Hallmark moment for Jack. I think he's cried more in this episode than he has in the entire series. David looks pissed at himself and bows. A little boy tells Jack that David is really good. The little boy's dad is Dogan! I'm starting to love fakereality. Dogan's got a pretty ponytail and he is interested in David's gift. Jack admits that he doesn't know how long David's been playing piano.

Hurley and Jack reach the top of the lighthouse. Jack asks where Jacob is and Hurley says he's not here yet. He starts to light up the lighthouse by twisting it around to 108 degrees. Jack sees all kinds of buildings reflected in the mirror. Jack is freaking out. Did he eat some rotten berries or something? All of their names are on the light house along with their numbers. Jack freaks and puts the mirror on his name. He sees the reflection of his family home. Jack's having a major freak out. Jack wants Hurley to summon Jacob and tell him why Jacob's been watching them. Jack freaks and breaks the lighthouse because he's and IDIOT with PMS.

Fakereality: David is leaving the concert. He's unlocking his bike and Jack sneaks up on him to tell him he was awesome, because he was. He tells David that he scared him. David said he made his mom promise not to tell him that he was still playing because he was suffocating. David says he didn't tell Jack where he was going because he didn't want Jack to see him fail. Jack and David bond over bad parenting.

Jack is staring at the ocean and wondering about his 28 years of bad luck. Jacob shows up. Hurley yells at him that Jack broke his lighthouse. Jacob tells him that he has ink on his forehead. Jacob explains that he wanted Jack to see what was in the mirror. Jacob tells Hurley that seeing his family home in the mirror would help him find himself. Jacob says that Jack needs to stare at the ocean for awhile. Jacob says that he did it to get the away from the temple because DarthLocke is about the storm the stronghold. He did it to save them.

Claire asks Jin about Kate and Aaron. Jin says he was lying to save Mr. Clean's life. He tells Claire that Aaron is at the temple and she has to take him there. He offers to take her through the secret passage. Claire said that if Kate was raising Aaron then she'd kill her, because she's such a hussy. DarthLocke strolls up to the shanty and Claire introduces him as "her friend."

Voiceover guy promises questions will be answered next week. Sweet. Theories in the comments, people.

3 comments:

Michele said...

I so don't believe that we'll really get answers next week. They just dangle morsels to keep us hungering for more.

I am not even sure how to theorize anymore! Ummm - okay, so the first reality when 815 crashed showed evidence of Jacob manipulating people's lives before they took that fateful flight. Is the alternate reality what life would have been like had he never "touched" anyone?

Why does Jin want to take Claire back to the temple? I don't like the new Claire - she used to be so sweet, now she's all paranoid and freaky. On the other hand, I can totally see Sayid diving into that same evil paranoia state with abandon - might be kind of fun to watch.

Is someone REALLY coming to the island or was Jacob just yanking Hurley's chain?

Michele said...

Oh - and so I've been watching my way through X-Files via Netflix and began Season 7 this weekend... and, lo and behold, there is JACOB! He plays a long-haired misfit who works at a fast food joint. Tripped me out.

Sara said...

I don't think Jin wants to take her back to the temple so much as he realizes she's crazier than the people with the hot tub and wants to get away from her. He's also still looking for Sun. OH! I just realized if Darth Locke is there, then Sun is there! We're going to get a Jin/Sun reunion!

I don't think anyone's coming to the island. I think Jacob's purpose was to 1) Get Hurley and Jack to safety and 2) Have Jack see what was in the mirror and contemplate his life/purpose. I don't think he ever intended for the lighthouse to get to 108. I think he just wanted Hurley to pull the chain while Jack noticed what was going on in the mirror, saw the names, and saw his house. Why?? I don't know.

Hubs and I watched The Cutting Edge the other day. I should say tried to watch because I kept screeching for Kate to get away from her dad because "He's EEEEEEEVVVVIIIIIIIIIILLLL!" Then one of our friends walked in and said, "What's Locke doing not in his wheelchair?" Hubs finally turned it off.