The title of tonight’s post (as well as tonight’s episode) refers to the medial term for “Date of Conception,” which, for someone like Sun, holds a lot of weight in her current situation. If the baby was conceived before she arrived on the island, it’s not Jin’s (but rather bald Korean dude’s). If it was conceived after arriving, then not only is it a miracle (because Jin was diagnosed as being infertile), but it means that Sun is more or less guaranteed to die. She learns all this through Juliet who, despite clearly working for the Others, can’t help but help the distressed mother-to-be.
In order to check up on her current status, Juliet escorts Sun to a secret room in the medial complex previously discovered by Kate and Claire. It’s there that Sun realizes the lose-lose situation she’s been thrust into, but if Jin’s sperm count can be magically increases by just residing on the island, than I can’t help but think that Sun has a fighting chance. Of course, Juliet may have other plans for Sun – or at least that’s what we’re being led to believe after she returned to the medical hatch to record a message for Ben disclosing all the details about the miracle pregnancy.
We also got another glimpse into Sun’s past to discover, well, nothing very exciting. As soon as I saw the woman bribing her with the threat of revealing the true identities of Jin’s parents, I knew that it was his supposedly dead mother. It turns out she was a prostitute back in the day, and though she gave birth to Jin, it turns out she doesn’t give a damn about him. Jin’s father (who Sun also visits in the flashback) feels a little differently, and we learn that while he never knew if Jin really was his son, he still raised him like one. Boo hoo, we don’t care.
Moving on to more exciting things, the A-Team – that’s my new name for Desmond (Hannibal), Charlie (Faceman, though this should really be Sawyer), Jin (Mr. T) and Hurley (Howling Mad) – have just found the mystery woman up in the trees only to discover that she’s dying from a fatal wound in her side. And just as Desmond sets off to find help, Mikhail (AKA Eye-Patch Man) accidentally crosses their path. Wait a minute. Isn’t this guy supposed to be dead? Hurley sure thinks so, and he even mentions this fact to Mikhail, only to get no answer in return. Hmm, maybe the electric fence is just a sham, but that wouldn’t exactly explain how it stopped the smoke monster a few weeks back.
Anyway, with Mikhail in their possession, Desmond makes a deal that will allow him to go free as long as he helps with the mystery woman. He lives up to his end of the deal and the A-Team let him go, but Jin chases him down soon after to discover that Mikhail has stolen the inoperative SAT phone. You gotta love Jin. Dude always knows when things aren’t right, and he’s probably the best fighter of all the men on the island. While Desmond and Jin deal with the situation, Hurley gets a little face time with the mystery girl, and after mentioning that he’s one of many survivors from a plane crash, she looks at him in absolute disbelief. It seems that the Oceanic Flight 815 crash site has already been discovered, but everyone was dead.
We already know that the Purgatory theory has been officially rejected by the show’s writers, and it no longer makes sense now that we’ve been introduced to Juliet, so what the hell is going on? I’m sure we’ll have to wait until the season finale to find out, but that only makes the buildup that much sweeter.
