Category: Lost (Page 29 of 29)

If things don’t begin to shape up, Jack won’t be the only one who has had to take a leap of faith. For the third week in a row, we return to the site of all the excitement – the hatch – and we see, once again, the events that transpired up to the point that Desmond has taken Locke hostage. Of course, we finally get to see what happens afterwards when Kate sneaks up behind the crazy Aussie/Scot and knocks him down. Score one for the castaways! Wait, what happened? Desmond shot a hole in the almighty countdown computer.

Oh god… And while Desmond works on fixing the darned thing, and Kate runs back to camp to snag techie Sayid, Jack and Locke sit down to watch a short educational video on the purpose of the hatch. I don’t know if anybody caught this, but the copyright at the end of the film said “1980.” That’s a hell of a long time to be stuck under the ground experimenting with the electromagnetic activity on the island, and it looks as though the castaways may be stuck taking over the workload now that Desmond’s run off into the woods. It’s true that Jack is probably the craziest person on the island, and I think that he needs to take a chill pill and calm the fuck down, but for once, I agree with him. Just don’t press the stupid button. Sheesh!

Meanwhile, the raft gang (Michael, Sawyer, and Jin) find themselves locked up in some primitive jail when a girl is suddenly thrown in with them. And it’s none other than Ana-Lucia, Jack’s drinking buddy from the airport. Though after talking with the guys about why they’re on the island, she gets up and leaves the ditch like she knows these “Others” that Jin claims them to be. Anybody with half a brain knows that they’re really just the other passengers from the back of the plane, but I guess we’ll just have to wait until next week to find out for sure. And speaking of next week, what the hell is going on with Jin! He can speak English! Hmmm, the plot thickens…

When the second episode of a show ends almost exactly the same way the first one did, suspicions arise. The last few seconds of the season premiere revealed that the man living inside the hatch was someone that Jack had met in his past, but just exactly who he is remains unknown. Instead of revealing that information, we got a chance to see what happened in between the time Locke went down the hatch after Kate, and Jack arrived.

Nothing too amazing, I’m afraid, except for some more paranoid talk about people getting sick and why this guy (Desmond) is still hiding inside the hatch. Just a whole bunch more questions with no foreseeable answers. When Desmond hears another person sneaking around, he orders Locke to tie up Kate and lock her inside of a large closet, but not before Locke is able to slip her a knife. When they leave the room, Kate cuts herself free and discovers that she’s inside a food pantry, but wastes little time in escaping through an air vent. Well, maybe there’s enough time for a tasty candy bar. Mmm… chocolate. Maybe I should grab a few more for the road?

Meanwhile, Sawyer and Michael are lost at sea and there’s no sign of Jin. To make matters worse, a shark is circling the tiny remains of the raft that the two are currently sharing, Sawyer’s experienced quite the loss of blood from his gun wound, and Michael is throwing a fit about his missing son. Sawyer decides to be productive for once and promptly digs the bullet out of his shoulder, while Michael recalls the first time he lost his son in a custody battle with Walt’s mother. Again, nothing amazing, especially considering that Michael is probably the least interesting character on the island. I don’t care about his whiny mood swings, and I don’t care about Walt’s magical powers.

And getting back to the finer points of the episode, Sawyer and Michael are carried back to the island on the ocean’s current (would that be considered good luck?) only to find Jin alive and running out of the woods towards the beach. After they untie Jin from his restraints, Jin mumbles a bunch of Korean before finally muttering… the others. Lo and behold, these guys really do exist. The producers of this show must have been waiting for this moment forever: “Four seconds of the show remaining? Can we show them yet? I think it’s safe. Okay, I’m gonna do it.” Ta da!

Leave it to J.J. Abrams and Co. to conclude the season premiere with more questions than answers. But at least they weren’t lying about one thing. We did finally get to see what was inside that damn hatch. Was that Alfie? Maybe not, but it’s definitely some dude making breakfast in an ultra-chic kitchen while listening to Cass Eliot’s “Make Your Own Kind of Music.” The guy completes his daily exercises and then shoots himself with some sort of medication just before a giant explosion goes off somewhere nearby.

It’s actually the dynamite just set off by Jack, Locke, Kate and Hurley, and after further investigation, they discover that the word “QUARANTINE” has been stamped on the inside of the door. Well… that can’t be good. That barely concerns Locke, though, who runs off to grab some cable so he can shimmy down the 40-ft shaft. Jack doesn’t seem as content with the idea of actually entering the hatch – even though that was the main reason for blowing it up twenty minutes before – but Kate decides to join Locke in the adventure. This, of course, results in some more bad luck for Locke for our favorite ex-handicapper. This guy cannot be trusted alone with another castaway, but it’s hardly his fault when this kind of stuff happens. As can be expected, Kate disappears into the hatch and a bright light blasts into the sky before promptly turning off.

Meanwhile, Jack is back at camp trying to call down the red shirts, but it appears that he’s not one for making promises. Jack’s reluctance spans back to the days where he met his future fiancée, a car crash victim who miraculously recovered a broken backbone. Jack’s not one to believe in something like Faith, but her incredible recovery occurred only a day after talking to a Aussie stranger about miracles. We finally learn more about Jack’s relationship with this girl, and the reason behind shaving his head (1984 called, they want their hair back), but there’s still no explanation as to why he’s no longer married.

Finally, Jack decides to return to the site of the hatch to help, but when he arrives, no one is around. Being the hero that is, Jack enters the hatch only to discover the very setting from the beginning of the episode. And just as he’s about to press a button on the nearby computer, Locke yells at him to stop. But it’s really less about what Lock wants, and more about the guy holding the gun to his head. And who could he be? Alfie? No! We already told you that it wasn’t him, but none other than the Aussie from Jack’s past. Now how exactly that fits in to everything is a bigger question than what was inside the hatch itself. I expect that we’ll know more about this situation by next year’s season premiere.

By the way, what the hell is going on with the raft? We’d like some answers please. Please?