As a fan of Sayid who was disappointed by how small of a part he played in last season’s events, it’s nice to see him actually factoring in to this year’s main storyline. Every member of Team Smokey is there for a reason, but while it may look like Sayid has gone over to the dark side, I’m not entirely convinced that he’s given up on being good. That would be just like Sayid to sacrifice the lives of Dogen and Lennon in order to ensure his cover isn’t blown, but then again, that evil smirk on his face seems to indicate otherwise. Whatever the case may be, you can’t say that Dogen didn’t have it coming. After trying to kill Sayid twice (first with the poison pill and then with his bare hands), Dogen decides it’s better to just let Smokey do it himself. What Dogen wasn’t expecting, however, was for Smokey to give Sayid an offer he couldn’t refuse.
The allure of bringing back Nadia was always going to win Sayid over, but who would have thought that he still wouldn’t get the girl in his mirror reality? Sayid claims that it’s because he isn’t good enough for her, but I found it a bit weird that he allowed his brother to start a family with her instead. There’s obviously still a spark between him and Nadia, and after his brother was put in the hospital by some loan sharks that he owed money to, I was secretly hoping they would just run away together. Unfortunately, there’s no such thing as a happy ending in “Lost,” so instead, Sayid went after the men responsible for the attack. It was nice to see Keamy back doing his usual sleazeball shtick, but I’m more interested in how Jin ended up trapped in his walk-in fridge. The last time we saw Jin, he was taken by customs for failing to report that giant wad of money in his luggage, so is Keamy involved somehow?
It’s going to be awfully hard to find out now that Keamy’s dead, but at least we got to see Sayid kick a little ass. It was a nice parallel to the events on Earth-1, as Sayid has become a cold-hearted killer, seemingly because of the “darkness” inside him. I still don’t buy it one bit, but regardless of what may or may not be true, Sayid is working for Smokey now. And his first order of business is to deliver a message to the Others that Jacob is dead. They can leave the island if they want, but if they decide to stay, the outlook isn’t going to be very sunny. In fact, the moment Sayid drowns Dogen in the rejuvenation pool, whatever barrier that was keeping Smokey from entering the Temple is lifted, allowing him to wreak havoc throughout the entire camp. Amazingly, Miles manages to stay alive thanks to the well-timed arrival of Ilana and Co., but Kate is left behind when she tries to rescue Claire.
That probably wasn’t a very smart idea on the part of Kate, because not only does Claire seem furious to discover that Aaron was taken off the island and raised by a stranger, but Smokey seems a little perplexed she even stuck around. Is it possible that Kate may still have a part to play in this battle, or will Crazy Claire just slit her throat the first chance she gets? Anyone that knows me well enough already knows how I’d vote, but there’s no way the writers are going to ditch the Jack-Kate-Sawyer love triangle any time soon. Ugh. At least this time around, there’s a good story to balance out the silly romance.
