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Season 2 Episodes
| Episode no. | Which one? | Flashback: it's all about... |
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| 1 |
Man of Science, Man of Faith
Down the hatch with Locke, Kate, and Jack. Castaways huddle in fear of the Others.
70s Pad morning routine, then BAM! Jack and Locke's dynamite blasts the hatch door off. Jack sees the lack of ladder and gives up for the evening. They return to camp. Locke gets rope and goes back. Kate tags along. Meanwhile, Shannon stomps off to find Vincent, but finds Walt, all wet, who disappears. Freaky. Locke lowers Kate down and, like all best laid plans, things go awry. He lowers himself down, takes off his shoes and sneaks about. Hero-Jack then arrives to a standoff, Locke hostage with a gun at his head, Kate nowhere to be found. |
Jack He allows Adam Rutherford to die and chooses to save Sarah (who later becomes his wife). She is engaged and pleads to dance at her wedding. Her fiance gets skeeved by her medical situation and splits. Jack meets Desmond in the stadium. They talk of the possibility of miracles, and lo, and behold, Sarah regains feeling in her legs. Death: Adam Rutherford, Shannon's father |
| 2 | Adrift Michael and Sawyer float on flotsam. Sawyer digs a bullet out of his shoulder with his dang fingers. And they nearly get eaten by a Dharma-brand shark. When they wash up on shore (sigh), they encounter Jin fleeing Bad Guys With Clubs. | Michael He comes to terms with how he became an absentee father. |
| 3 | Orientation Locke and Jack watch the Dharma Orientation film. It's weird, and also jumpy. Locke is entranced, Jack is cynical. The terminal in the Apple Lab of Doom gets shot, which clearly voids the warranty. Sayid fixes it, but only after Desmond hightails it...where? Desmond and Jack have a moment. Jack gets beklempt thinking about Sarah (why? who knows?). | Locke He meets Helen in anger management. Still mad about being duped out of his kidney, he's stalking dad, parking outside his house. Helen tries to make him choose - dad and revenge, justice or her and healing, love, companionship. |
| 4 | Everybody Hates Hugo Claire finds the bottle-o-messages and assumes dire consequences. Sun buries the bottle. Shifts march on entering the numbers in the Apple Lab of Doom. Rose and Hurley inventory the food in the hatch pantry. He wants to blow it up; Rose talks him out of it. Kate showers. Everyone feasts. | Hurley He uses the numbers to play the lottery - and wins. He faints. He keeps it secret all day to have one last day of "normal" before the money makes everyone get weird. Called on the carpet at work, he quits his job. His best buddy quits in solidarity and they take a day to enjoy life, including a trip to a record store where they disparage DriveShaft and Hurley asks out his crush. At the end of the day, they drive by the convenience store where Hurley bought the ticket...he is recognized, the jig is up. Best buddy feels betrayed. |
| 5 | ...And Found Sun loses her wedding ring and freaks out. Jack gives her useless advice: "you could get a new one and not tell him." Locke gives her useless advice: "stop looking." Kate helps her find it and is a nosey parker, reading the messages in the buried bottle. | Jin and Sun Jin faces class discrimination. Sun faces matchmaking. Jin meets Sun - it's kismet! |
| 6 | Abandoned Shannon and Sayid shack up. Walt drips, appearing to Shannon. Shannon gives chase. Charlie is being a pushy, backseat parent. Claire tells Locke about Charlie toting around Our Lady of Smack. Locke whomps Charlie at backgammon. They have a moment. Meanwhile, traipsing through the jungle, the Tail-aways and the Raft-aways, Sawyer is feeling poorly. He and Michael have a moment, then Sawyer blacks out. One of the Tail-aways disappears. Shannon and Sayid have a jungle moment, then Walt drips and Shannon gives chase. Crashing through the jungle, she encounters the Tail+Raft-aways...and Ana shoots her. Sayid...not feeling very forgiving. Death: Shannon | Shannon She teaches ballet. Her father dies at Jack's hospital (see "Man of Science, Man of Faith" 2-1) and wicked stepmother Sabrina cuts her off without a dime, making her unable to go to NYC to pursue a dance internship with Martha Graham. Boone takes a job at Mother's firm. |
| 7 |
The Other 48 Days
Or the Rehabilitation of Ana Lucia. The tail section crashes in the water. The tailaways take up residence on the beach. Others abscond with tailaways. Mistereko beats two to death, and stops talking for 40 days. The tailaways find Dharma station The Arrow where they find stuff including a Bible and a radio. Bernard talks to Boone on the radio. Ana Lucia kills Goodwin, an infiltrator. Ana and Mistereko have a moment. The tailaway and raftaway plots collide.
Death:
Others, would-be kidnappers
Nathan, suspected of other-ness Goodwin, the other |
No off-island flashback |
| 8 | Collision Ana Lucia, having killed Shannon accidentally, has to figure out how to deal with Sayid's righteous rage. Misterko subdues him. Ana Lucia orders her posse to tie Sayid to a tree. As the hostage situation drags on, her power ebbs. Mistereko picks up Sawyer and heads off for Camp Lostaway, encounters Jack and Kate playing golf. They go to the hatch where Sawyer takes his magic pill for Kate. Michael takes off for the Camp Lostaway - ostensibly to equip Ana Lucia for lone-wolf survival, encountering Sun, who takes him to the hatch. Libby, Bernard, and Jin take off for Camp Lostaway. Mistereko and Jack head out to defuse the hostage situation. Ana Lucia lets Sayid go, he carries Shannon's body back to Camp Lostaway. Michael reunites with Vincent, Bernard reunites with Rose, Sun and Jin reconcile. Jack reencounters Ana Lucia and its a world away from the drink they shared in the airport bar. Awk. Ward. Or tense? or heartbreaking? Hard to say, really. | Ana Lucia She's a cop who's been shot in the line of duty (while pregnant), gone to therapy, and returned to work under her captain-mother's supervision. Still jumpy, she nearly shoots some doofus. The cops nab the guy who shot her, he confesses, she refuses to make the ID, preferring instead to hunt him down and shoot him repeatedly. |
| 9 | What Kate Did Sun and Jin reconcile. Sawyer continues recuperating and confesses his love for Kate to Jack. Kate picks mangoes and sees a black horse in the jungle. She returns for Sawyer-watching duty. He goes a bit batty and tries to strangle her (delirium? hallucination?). She thinks she's losing it. She kisses Jack, but no sparks. Sigh. She returns to Sawyer and makes a heartfelt confession - he wakes and catches the tail end. He's disappointed that the bunk bed isn't a sign of rescue. Elsewhere in the hatch, Eko and Michael watch the orientation film. Eko hands over the Locke "the missing scene" which had been hidden in the Bible in Arrow Hatch - which is basically "really really don't use the computer." While Eko and Locke watch the Director's Cut, skeptical Michael starts poking around in the Appledome. The screen opens an IM session - Michael starts typing and his chat partner appears to be Walt. On the beach, Jack seeks solace with Ana Lucia since Kate's playing him hot and cold. | Kate She blows up her stepdad, a baddie who turns out to be her biological dad, and starts her life on the run. Marshall Mars nabs her in a bus station, but she escapes after a car accident where they narrowly miss a black horse. Kate visits her "real dad" at his recruiting job, where Sayid is on TV. Death: Wayne, Kate's biological father |
| 10 | The 23rd Psalm Claire discovers Charlie's "Our Lady of Smack" secret with Eko's help. Charlie protests that he's not using, not very convincingly. Eko nabs Charlie and drags him through the jungle to the plane o' Boone's Downfall. They find parachute-guy dead guy, who turns out to be an old pal of Eko's. Eko menaces Charlie into climbing a tree, where he looks on as Eko stares down Lostzilla. Charlie and Eko reach the plane, chock full of Our Lady of Smack figurines...and the body of Eko's brother. They burn the plane and recite the 23rd Psalm. Meanwhile, back at the hatch, Locke puts a new combination on the gun locker, Michael IM's, Jack interrupts. On the beach, Kate cuts Sawyer's hair. Everyone is glad he's not dead. Claire throws Charlie out. Sun and Jin give a fish to Ana. Hurley helps Libby arrange her shelter. Charlie disappears to go sit with his stash. | Eko He hails from Nigeria, pulled into a life of crime as a youth. His brother goes on to become a Catholic priest. Lucking into a whole mess of heroin, Eko leans on brother Yemi to help him move it out of Nigeria under the guise of the Catholic church. Yemi resists. On departure day, Yemi turns them over to the military and gets caught in the crossfire. Yemi ends up on the plane, along with Henchman, who boots Eko in the chest to leave him on the tarmac. The military mistake Eko for their priest-informer. Eko plays along, a lie as his first step towards redemption. Death: Eko's brother |
| 11 | The Hunting Party Michael gets the crazy on, and knocks Locke out so that he can charge off to wrest Walt singlehandedly from the Others. He locks Jack and Locke into the weapons locker. When Sawyer and Kate arrive at the hatch so that Sawyer can have his dressing changed, Sawyer, Locke, and Jack set off after him - posse time! Jack tells Kate she can't go, so she gets Hurley to sub at the Hatch. Jin wants to go but Sun won't let him, which leads to a marriage epiphany and hopefully more power-sharing in the future for them. The posse track Michael, hear shots...which they run towards, shouting. Okayyy. Locke reveals that he knows Sawyer's traveling name. Meanwhile, back at the Hatch, Hurley and Charlie go through the albums, which include the apocryphal Geronimo Jackson. Sayid cameos and Hurley tells him "everybody" went after Michael. Out in the jungle, it's more tracking until nearly dark...and they're surrounded! The Others put in an appearance where they talk crazy and threateningly which Jack meets with bravado. Sawyer dubs their leader "Zeke." Zeke orders Alex (probably Danielle's babysnatched daughter, 16 years on) to bring out their hostage, Kate. The posse surrenders their guns to buy Kate's safety. Back to camp, Jack's mad and Kate puppy-dogs him begging for his approval. Jack asks Ana Lucia about training an army. | Jack Nonno Sick Guy needs spinal surgery. Signorina SexyPants explains they came for a miracle - like Jack's wife, who danced at her wedding after all (see "Do No Harm"). Jack accepts Nonno as a patient, and starts a month of tests. His marriage is foundering. He comes in at 4:30 a.m., but Sarah is still? awake. She tells him she thought she might have been pregnant. Jack, blindsided, doesn't know how to react. At the hospital, Signorina signs a consent form. Dr. Shepherd the Elder swings by Jack's office to cut through Jack and Signorina's sexual tension with a file folder. He warns Jack not to cross the line. Apparently, Dr. C. Shepherd has been known to step out, so Jack calls him on hypocrisy. Surgery is successful, but Nonno dies anyway. Jack rages, but then wants to see Signorina. Dr. C. says he already delivered the news, and she's gone. But she's in the parking lot! She and Jack talk, then mack. Then he, honorable guy, walks away from her sexy self. He comes home to Sarah, who's just cleaning up from dinner. He tells her about the sexy parking lot kiss. She's stunned and hurt, but tells him that she's been stepping out on him, and she's leaving. He cries. |
| 12 |
Fire + Water
Charlie's having visions, so he keeps swiping Claire's baby, going so far as to commit arson as a diversion so he can kidnap Aaron and baptize him. Locke socks him and Charlie becomes a pariah. Claire gets Eko to baptize herself and Aaron.
Meanwhile, back at the subplot, Hurley wonders if he should pursue a closer relationship with Libby. They do laundry together and he wonders if he knows her. She lies to him and says he stepped on her foot on the plane (but she was in the tail and he was in the midsection...). |
Charlie Charlie deals with brother Liam's worsening drug habit. He covers for Liam not being there when daughter Megan was born. Liam, high, can't manage the dance steps for a humiliating commercial so the band loses the endorsement deal. Eventually, Liam sells Charlie's piano to finance Liam and family's decamping for Australia. Charlie is deserted and forlorn. |
| 13 | The Long Con Or "Heart o' Gold = 0." Jack and Locke spar over power via control of the gun locker. Sun, working in the garden, almost gets kidnapped. Jin demands decisive (gun-totin') action. Ana is thrilled to have an incident tighten the island defcon. Sawyer casts suspicion on Ana to Kate...who goes to Jack. Kate, alarmed, asks Sawyer to warn Locke that Jack's a-formin' a posse. He reluctantly agrees, admitting that he wants to irritate Jack. Locke hides the guns so Jack arrives to an empty gun locker. Power-sparring recommences, interrupted by Sawyer exiting the jungle with a big ole gun. He proclaims himself the New Sheriff in Town. The denoument outs Charlie as the faux kidnapper - his motive to humiliate Locke - in league with Sawyer. Why? He never did a good thing in his life. | Sawyer Sawyer's mark, Cassidy, turns out to be onto his usual scheme, and asks to take his new class: You Con Too: Scams for Fun and Profit. He shows her the manipulative ropes, and demands her own final exam, "the long con," a big score where the mark hoists their own petard. Annnd, turns out she's the mark and not the student. Sawyer meets his real partner-in-crime, Gordy, at a restaurant, where their waitress is Diane, Kate's mom. (By the way, it's not the same restaurant featured in "What Kate Did.") |
| 14 |
One of Them
Ana confronts Sayid, looking for Jack - she saw a stranger in the jungle. Sayid sends Ana back to camp and tells her to keep her find to herself. The stranger? Danielle Rousseau, who wants Sayid to join her on a little hike. Danielle has a guy treed, who claims he's Henry Gale from Minnesota. (Note - Dorothy's uncle in The Wizard of Oz was Henry Gale.) Sayid cuts him down and Danielle shoots his fleeing form with her crossbow. Sayid takes him back to the Hatch for medical attention. Jack pulls the arrow out of "Henry." Sayid gets Locke to change the combination on the weapons locker so that he and his new pal can get acquainted. Henry claims to be a balloonist from Minnesota who used to run a mining company. He relates that he and his wife, Jennifer, crashed on the island, and he was on the move following her recent death from a fever-inducing illness. However, he can't provide details of her burial, which Sayid finds difficult to believe. Jack is bothered by Sayid's tactics and badgers Locke for the combination. Locke capitulates when the counter nears 0:00. He opens the locker and dashes to the Apple ][ of Doom. The counter bottoms out and flips to red and black hieroglyphs. He enters the numbers and it's back to normal. Afterward, Sayid hangs out with Charlie, where he claims that Henry is an Other because Sayid doesn't feel guilty for beating the living snot out of him. He ticks off the Others' crimes and asks Charlie if he's forgotten being hung in a tree and left for dead.
Sawyer can't sleep because of the darn coquis. Hurley, caught snacking on his secret food cache, agrees to help Sawyer find the coqui driving Sawyer nutty. Sawyer mocks Hurley until Hurley snaps. Sawyer apologizes and they find the frog. Sawyer and Hurley have a touching moment over the cute little coqui...which Sawyer crushes. Yep, not a heart of gold. Any puppies to kick? |
Sayid Sayid follows orders, shredding and burning files while the Americans advance in the Gulf War (Desert Storm). Sayid, who knows English, gets tapped by the Americans to translate. The Americans want Sayid's help interrogating his commanding officer, Tariq. The Americans out Tariq as gassing Sayid's village. Sayid capitulates, torturing Tariq to find the missing American pilot. Sayid is released from service. Soldiers, including Kate's "real-dad" give him a ride to the middle of nowhere, pay him off, and the guy in charge says to Sayid in Arabic that one day he'll be glad he acquired the torturer skillset. |
| 15 |
Maternity Leave
On the beach, Claire tries to comfort feverish Aaron. Seems like they're always sickest at night. Spooky Rousseau pops up and Kate rushes to Claire-Aaron's defense. Claire gets jumbled flashbacks of her time with Ethan. In the light of day, Claire seeks out shrink Libby's help to deal with returning memories. She decides she has to seek out the place where she was held to get the medicine for Aaron. Leaving Aaron with Sun, she and Kate set off (with Sawyer-provided gun), and are joined by Rousseau: voila, the Angels are on the case. They find the hatch where Claire was held, deserted. Kate finds Zeke's fake beard, but they find no medicine. Claire finds the booty she crocheted while in Ethan's thrall. Enough of Claire's memories return to allow her to trust Rousseau, who had been trying to help her escape Ethan's Evil Clutches. Claire puts two and two together and realizes that the girl who aided in her escape was probably Alex, Rousseau's abducted daughter. Back at the beach, the baby's recovered. Aaron and Claire bond.
Meanwhile, Eko chops down a tree. Meanwhile, back at the Hatch, Jack and Locke unsuccessfully try to conceal Henry Gale's incarceration, but Eko's on to them. Eko promises to keep their secret if he can talk to Henry alone. Eko confesses to Henry, then pulls out his machete to snip off his beard, which he hands to befuddled and terrified Henry. Henry sows seeds of discord and gets under Locke's skin. |
Claire (Not all the way back to Australia, but back to her "lost weekend" - the time she spent kidnapped.) At Other Medical Center, a hippy-dippy drugged Claire bonds with Ethan as he does prenatal exams. He shows her a nursery they've created for the baby, complete with mobile featuring Oceanic planes and the tune "Catch a Falling Star," which Claire had requested potential adoptive parents sing in "Raised by Another." (The mobile itself also appears in Claire's vision-dream in that episode.) Zeke berates Ethan for his conduct with Claire. The Dharma med staff prepares for a scheduled C-section, but young girl wakes Claire to help her escape a presumably dire fate. Strong young girl gets Claire out into the jungle and ditches her. Rousseau finds Claire who wants to be "rescued" by Ethan and his posse. Rousseau knocks her out and the two avoid detection. |
| 16 |
The Whole Truth
Sun finds out she's pregnant.
Meanwhile, Ana, Charlie, and Sayid trek into the jungle/a trap to check out Henry Gale's story. Meanwhile, Jack and Locke jockey for position. Idiots. Henry Gale seeks to take advantage of their mutual paranoia and, while munching on Dharma-O's, floats the idea that if he were an Other, the balloon story would be a ruse, a trap to set up a prisoner exchange. |
Sun Jin wants to have a baby to fix everything that's wrong with their lifestyle as cogs in the Korean mob; a fertility doc tells them it's not possible for Sun to get pregnant. Of course, he's a big liar and was just a scaredy about Jin's fly-off-the-handle temper - apparently the fisherman's son's fish ain't strong swimmers. Sun, feeling trapped, has been learning English with matchmade hotel scion Jae Lee from "...And Found." Was he teaching her more than just grammar? Who knows? |
| 17 |
Lockdown
Hatch:
Henry Gale, with Jack and Locke finally realizing how well they've been played, seeks to pass off his comments about Project Balloon Trap as an ill-conceived joke. Jack takes off for the beach to see if he can go after Ana. While he's gone, the PA starts a countdown, and the blast doors shut, trapping Henry and Locke inside. Locke, never having learned patience, feels he needs Henry's help to pry open the big honkin' blast door. Henry extracts a rash promise from Locke - that Locke will protect Henry, no matter what. They pry the doors, and Locke tries to pull an Indiana Jones and slide under - nothin' doing; it turns out to be more of a Flat Stanley routine as the door slams down on him (geddit? Locke-down? hee). Henry props it up with weights but not enough to slide Locke out. The timer starts to go into "hurry up" mode, so Henry has to climb through the ventilation shaft to get to the Apple Lab of Doom to punch in the numbers (spending some time knocked out, of course, since what fun is accomplishing a task with plenty of time left?). The hatch lights go to "emergency party" setting (black light) which reveals a wiggedy octagonal pattern on one of the blast doors. And then the blast doors go up, Henry comes back to help Locke, who's not reparalyzed (yet). And then the field-trippers and Jack and Kate come back and are all over Henry like wet on rain. Locke defends Henry...and they pull out the incriminating evidence: a driver's license for Henry Gale, black guy. Busted! Beach: Jack seeks information on the field-trippers from Hurley, who whines about being left out of the loop. On the beach he gets sucked into a poker game with Sawyer...which after several winning hands prompts Kate to say, "Should I just get a ruler?" He wins Sawyer's stash of fruit, plus some medicine, and never gets around to tracking down the field-trippers, and so at nightfall heads back for the hatch. Kate follows him, 'cuz it's just killin' her that she doesn't know what's going on. They encounter strobe-lit pallets of Dharma-chow - an airdrop. And the field-trippers. Field trip: (Sayid, Ana, Charlie) Charlie finds a grave...underneath a smiley balloon. They return, and debrief Jack (and Kate, who I'm sure is relieved to finally be "in the loop"). |
Locke Locke's plans to propose to Helen derail when she reads of his father's death in the newspaper. They trade "romantic picnic" for "pathetic funeral," attended by them and a couple of wise guys. Locke, a home inspector, gives Nadia's (yep, Sayid's Nadia) house a clean bill of health. He goes to confront the tinted window luxury sedan that's been following him and lo, and behold, it's "fake your own death" Anthony Cooper, his father. They share a drink, Cooper wants to cut Locke in on a con - to pick up a bagful of ill-gotten gains (thus the wise guys at the funeral) from a safe deposit box (#1516)...which they let Locke into without any fuss about the signature card, but whatever. Locke arrives home to a visit from the wise guys who have been shaking down Helen. Locke lies to Helen and to the wise guys about seeing Cooper. But the jig is up when Helen follows him to the motel where Cooper's laying low...near the airport - see the Oceanic jet? Locke tries to wriggle out, but wedding's off. Not clear whether he goes back for the cut of Cooper's take, but I'm guessing not. |
| 18 |
Dave
Hurley confides in Libby about his guilt eating and together they destroy his stash...only to come upon the air dropped pallets of Dharma Chow. Hurley starts to lose it and sees a face from his past in the jungle. He gives chase but finds only his white rabbit's slipper. Later, gorging on DharmaChow goldfish, his quarry reappears to hit him in the gut with a coconut. And then vanishes.
Charlie brings a pallet from the airdrop to Eko the Builder and he pests him like an annoying little brother. On the beach, Sawyer struggles to master the Dharma-eo twist when Hurley asks for him to put on his pharmacist hat and cough up some Clinozepam. Sawyer mocks his crazy and Hurley attacks, to much onlooker amusement. Hurley resolves to become a hermit. While guilt-eating on his way to hermit-dom, Dave reappears. Dave tells Hurley that all this improbable island living is a product of Hurley's comatose imagination, and that what he needs to do is jump off a cliff. So Dave jumps: "See you in another life." Libby arrives just in time to talk him off the ledge. Libby reiterates her faith in his ability to change, and in her own reality. They walk back to camp, a happy couple...though the look on Libby's face suggests otherwise. Meanwhile, back at the Hatch: Locke can wiggle his toes, probably has a hairline fracture. Jack suggests the wheelchair which Locke is vehemently against. Kate suggests crutches. NotHenry gets interrogated again, with Sayid as bad cop, and Ana as good cop. NotHenry keeps shifting his story as Sayid keeps coming up with new facts to accommodate. NotHenry even claims that Sayid can't shoot him, "I'm not a bad person!" This doesn't seem to bother Sayid much. Which is why you have a good cop. We do learn that OtherLeader is a he. And is scary. Maybe he can turn into a snake or something. Later, Locke gets a crack at NotHenry, who tells him he never entered the number and the timer reset anyhow. |
Hurley Hurley's in Santa Rosa Mental Hospital, committed by his mother after the accident - a deck collapsed, killing two (built for 8, there were 23 people on it, including Hurley). Hurley calls Dave the most sane guy in the psych ward; the therapist calls Dave a bad influence who wants Hurley to remain in his self-destructive behavior patterns. After session, Hurley heads for the basketball court where a free-form game is in progress and a guy in a bathrobe (Dave) harangues the players. Later, in the day room, Hurley plays Connect-4 with Leonard, who chants our own numbers. Dave harangues. Therapist takes a polaroid of Hurley and Dave, the dynamic duo. Which in a later session turns out to be a picture of just Hurley - Dave is a projection of Hurley's wounded psyche. Dave tries to convince Hurley to jump out the window, a la Cuckoo's Nest, and Hurley tells him he's a figment and closes the window on him. The final flashback shot is of the day room med distribution, where Libby knocks back her meds dry. The island has been really good for her hair. |
| 19 |
S.O.S.
On the Beach: Rose and Bernard bicker. Bernard decides to build an S.O.S. He recruits help. Rose doesn’t support his plan, but he’s more sabotaged by his lack of management skill. His workers quit, one by one. Rose confesses that she lied to Bernard about being cured at Uluru…but that she felt cured after they crashed. Bernard understands that she fears the cure will disappear if they leave the island and he gives up his hope of rescue.
At the Hatch: Locke struggles to redraw the black-light map, so deep in fugue he nearly forgets to press the button. NotHenry is on a hungerstrike. Ana Lucia tinkers. Locke pests NotHenry, NotHenry enjoys having Locke at a disadvantage. On the Field Trip: Jack and Kate set off into the jungle, seeking to make contact with the Others and do a prisoner swap – NotHenry for Walt. (NotHenry says “They’ll never give you Walt.”) Kate gets them caught in a hanging net trap and Jack shoots the rope to get them down. They arrive to the place where the last summit was (2-11), and Jack shouts their demands. And lurching through the jungle is Michael, worse for wear. |
Rose and Bernard Rose is stuck in the snow and Bernard helps her out – which leads to a first date. (Which argues with continuity a bit – it’s always been the implication that theirs is a longstanding relationship.) At Niagara Falls, Bernard proposes and Rose comes clean about her terminal diagnosis. They honeymoon to Australia, with Ayers Rock prominent in the background, where Bernard takes Rose to a faith healer, Isaac of Uluru (the indigenous name for Ayers Rock). He lays on hands, starts, and says he can’t help her. She decides to tell Bernard she’s cured so he’ll stop doing and just be. |
| 20 |
Two for the Road
Michael claims that the Others are armed with pointy sticks and look like big weenies. Jack and company buy this hook, line, and sinker. NotHenry tries to kill Ana. Though saved by Locke and a well-placed crutch, she doesn't intend to suffer attempted murder lying down (unless absolutely necessary) and seeks a gun to kill NotHenry. Sawyer denies her request, but turns out he's put his little brain in charge. Sawyer and Ana totally do it, which Sawyer doesn't find suspicious at all, until he notices his gun missing hours and hours later. Idiot. NotHenry manipulates Locke like a classic cult-leader exploiting esteem/abandonment issues. Ana Lucia goes to shoot NotHenry, but can't follow through. She confides in Crazy Michael, who volunteers to step up and shoot NotHenry for her. She foolishly gives Michael the gun, he apologizes and shoots Ana Lucia. Surprised by Libby, he shoots her too. Crazy Michael opens NotHenry's holding cell, where he appears to shoot his own durn self.
In the B-plot: Hurley and Libby try to pull off a "picnic date." Hurley's a poor navigator and they end up bushwhacking their way back to their own beach. Libby goes to the hatch for a picnic blanket, where she collides with the A-plot. |
Ana Lucia Ana Lucia leaves her job as a police officer to become an airport screener after her high caliber hijinks come to her captain-mother's attention. She meets Jack's disgraced father at the aiport and agrees to accompany him to Australia. He drinks, she drives. He dubs her Sarah, the name of Jack's ex-wife. They visit a woman's house, where Jack's father demands to see his daughter. The woman denies him, and he drives off with Ana Lucia to the bar where he meets Sawyer. |
| 21 |
?
Eko dreams of Yemi who bestows on him a quest – take Locke to the question mark and be head button pusher. And to make sure to bring the axe. Eko and Locke have a smackdown and Eko demands to help Locke find the question mark. They go on a field trip, find a salted circle in the earth hard upon Boone’s Downfall. The axe comes in handy when they find another hatch which the handy orientation video dubs The Pearl, an observation station monitoring Hatch Sweet Hatch. Locke sends a message up the pneumatic tube, just like at the bank only no lollipop comes back. Crestfallen Locke, feels robbed of his Hatch-related sense of mission. But Eko takes up the mantle.
In the B-plot: Michael jibbers to Kate, Sawyer, and Jack (newly arrived) that there’s been a shooting and NotHenry has escaped. Ana Lucia is dead and Libby nearly so. Jack demands the smack from Sawyer. He reveals to Kate his stash is in his “basement.” The drugs ease Libby’s passage. Her dying breath is, “Michael!” which Jack (idiot) interprets as concern for Michael’s safety. Michael is a bit twitchy. As well he should be. Deaths: Ana Lucia, Libby |
Eko Eko is acting as a priest in Australia. He makes plans to go to L.A. His monsignor asks him to investigate a miracle claim – a drowned girl resurrected. He meets with the coroner who corroborates her miraculous recovery and exits stage left to get the jibblies. Visiting “Ophelia”s house, her father, who happens to be Claire’s psychic, refuses to admit Eko, or to admit anything miraculous happened. At the airport, Ophelia finds Eko to tell him what Yemi, his dead brother, thinks of him – that he’s a good man. Libby spots their tete-a-tete and inquires if everything’s okay. |