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notice [01/28/07] EDIT: An update on how vmarsrecaps is doing: All of the key points for the episodes have been added, which means I'm going to go back and finish all of the in-depth recaps. I'm about halfway through episode 105; I have to get up to 314. However, after this week, Veronica is going on hiatus until April or May, so, hopefully, I'll be able to get them done quicker. My short-term goal for the moment is to get all or most of the recaps done by my birthday (April 1), at which time I'll come back and get lostrecaps_ caught up. I come bearing bad news. Seeing as Veronica Mars is in dire need of more viewers if we hope to get a fourth season, while Lost will continue to be around until the producers and writers decide it's done, I've decided to hold off on updating lostrecaps_ for the time being. I'm going to spend all of the time that was being spent on this journal on vmarsrecaps. Once I get that journal entirely caught up with every episode that's aired at that time, I'll get back to work on this one. If I get really behind, it won't make a huge difference in the scheme of things--Lost isn't going anywhere anytime soon. I'll check back in periodically to say how far along vmarsrecaps is. ♥a Comment

304 - Every Man for Himself (A Sawyer Episode) [01/14/07] Major Plotpoints -- Desmond continues to act strange and builds a structure out of some wires and a golf club, which then gets struck by lightning. Best guess: He had a vision of Charlie, Claire, and Aaron’s tent getting struck by lightning and, when they wouldn’t leave it for the night, decided to make some taller that would attract the lightning, in order to keep them safe. -- The Others bring Colleen back from the boat and Juliet enlists Jack to help save her. He tries, but fails. Pickett, who was married to Colleen, gets very, very mad and goes to Sawyer’s cage to beat him to a bloody pulp, at least until Kate tells him to stop because she loves him. -- Sawyer tries to come up with a plan to get he and Kate out of the cages, but it fails and Ben ends up knocking him out and taking him... somewhere. He comes to just long enough for the Others to begin some time of surgery on him. When he wakes up again, Ben tells him they put a pacemaker inside of him and that if his heart rate ever gets to be 140 (his active heart rate) his heart will explode. He also tells him that if he tells Kate anything about it, they’ll put one in her, too. -- Back in... sometime, Sawyer was in prison in Florida. It turns out Cassidy pressed charges for his con of her (see episode 113). During his stay at the prison, Cassidy made a visit to tell him he had a baby daughter, who she named Clementine. Sawyer says it’s not his and refuses to have anything to do with her. -- An inmate named Munson comes to the prison while Sawyer is there. Supposedly, he stole $10 million from the government, which they never found. Sawyer “befriends” Munson, telling him the warden is going to try to con the money out of him. When Sawyer’s predictions turn out true, Munson tells him where the money is and asks him for help with moving it. However, it turns out Sawyer was working with the warden the entire time. He tells him where the money is and he gets the last six years of his sentence taken off, plus a sizeable amount of money. He tells him to put the money in an account in Albuquerque in Clementine’s name, and the make sure she can’t find out who it’s from. -- Kate discovers she can fit through the bars at the top of her cage. She gets out and tries to break the lock on Sawyer’s cage, but he tells her to just go without him. She refuses, quoting Jack again: Live together, die alone. -- When Jack is going to the operating room to operate on Colleen, he sees x-rays of someone—someone who has a tumor growing on their spine and who, he deduces, he’s going to have to save. -- Ben takes Sawyer out of his cage and leads him up a steep cliff, which causes Sawyer’s heart rate to get dangerously close to 140. Ben then explains that they lied—they never put a pacemaker in him; nothing’s going to happen to him. He then shows him that they’re actually on a different island than the island—he has nowhere to run to. ( 304 - Every Man for Himself ) Comment

303 - Further Instructions (A Locke Episode) [11/19/06] Major Plotpoints -- Locke wakes up and finds that he’s mute after the hatch implosion. He “asks” Charlie to guard a sweat lodge while Locke goes inside and... does something. Inside the sweat lodge, Locke eats the wacky paste stuff he put in Boone’s head back in the day and has a trippy dream/vision/thing involving Boone, his wheelchair, and the airport. Afterwards, he realizes he has to safe Eko from a polar bear. He and Charlie go off to go find him immediately. -- Back in the real world (around 1995, if you want to be precise) Locke picked up a hitchhiker one day—a young man named Eddie. He brought Eddie to the commune he was living at at the time and Eddie lived there for about six months. It turns out, though, that the commune was growing heaps of marijuana and Eddie was the cop assigned to bust them. The leaders of the place fled and blamed Locke, who tried to “fix it” by killing Eddie, but he couldn’t do it. -- Hurley comes back to camp and tells Locke and Charlie about what happened to Jack, Kate, and Sawyer. As he continues going back to camp, he runs into a naked Desmond, who he also tells about what happened to the trio. Desmond tells him that Locke will go after them—he said so in his speech. Hurley tells him that all Locke said was he was going after Eko and killing bears, and Desmond apologizes and says he’s just a bit out of it. -- Charlie and Locke eventually find Eko and, while Charlie’s getting some water, Locke apologizes to an unconscious Eko about... everything. Eko in turn tells him that he’ll save Jack, Kate, and Sawyer. When Charlie comes back, Locke tells him that Eko’s awake—but it turns out he’s still completely unconscious, confusing Locke (and the rest of us). -- Once they get back to the camp, they come across two completely useless new characters (Nikki and Paulo) who bombard them with questions (and so does Claire, but whatever). Hurley tells them about Jack, Kate, and Sawyer and Locke goes into a speech about how they’re going to go after them once Eko is better. Hurley looks to Desmond, who’s throwing rocks into the ocean, and tells Charlie he just got hit with some déjà vu. Apparently, instead of turning into the Hulk, Desmond turned into that painter guy from Heroes. Spooky. ( 303 - Further Instructions ) Comment

302 - The Glass Ballerina (A Sun/Jin Episode) [10/22/06] Major Plotpoints -- Sun and Jin fight, bicker, and argue, as usual. Don’t you love the continuity on this show? -- Sayid realizes that their friends are captured, so he decides to burn the black smoke to alert the Others to their arrival, and then kill Them and keep two hostage in exchange for their friends. However, his plans are foiled when an Other named Ryan spots their sailboat and tells Colleen, who in turn tells Ben (fka Henry Gale) who tells Colleen to tell some more Others to go take the boat. While Sayid and Jin are on the beach, the Others ambush the boat. Colleen comes underneath and finds Sun, who promptly shots her in the gut and runs off into the water to reconnect with her husband. -- Pickett and a group of Others force Sawyer and Kate to work on, um, something. Kate (still in her pretty little sundress) gets to use a pickaxe and break up some rocks while Sawyer moves the rocks somewhere in a wheelbarrow. While this is going on, Sawyer marches up to Kate and kisses her, causing the Others to attack. At the time, it looked like Sawyer just professing his love to Kate, but later that night, in the cages, we realize he was trying to see which of the Others are actual threats. Sadly, Ben is watching and listening to this exchange of escape plans. -- Sun was indeed having an affair with Jae and Mr. Paik, her father, found out about it. He told Jin to kill Jae for “stealing from him” but Jin couldn’t do it. When he told Jae to leave the country, Jae responded by jumping out a window. -- Ben comes into Jack’s cell and proves to him that the Others have contact with the outside world (he tells him the date, that Bush got reelected, Christopher Reeve died, and that the Red Sox won the Series) and makes him an offer: if he cooperates and does everything they ask when they ask it, Jack can go home. ( 302 - The Glass Ballerina ) Comment

301 - A Tale of Two Cities (A Jack Episode) [10/08/06] Major Plotpoints -- The Others are very civilized and live in a community of houses on the island. They even hold book clubs. “Henry Gale’s” real name is Ben. It is implied that he and Juliet, another Other, have a colorful past together. -- While he and Sarah were going through their divorce, Jack became obsessive about finding out whom she was with. He even got the idea that Sarah and Christian were having an affair, but this wasn’t true (or was it?). -- Jack is in a small cell/room and interacts with Juliet. Juliet asks him questions about himself and gives him food and water. -- Sawyer is in a cage with a lever puzzle that ends with a reward of food and water. -- Kate is, at first, in a locker room with Tom, fka Mr. Friendly. After showering, Kate, clad in a sundress, has breakfast with Ben. After this, she is taken to a cage across from Sawyer’s cage and the two share Sawyer’s food reward. -- The Others appear to have files on everyone—and everyone that they were ever connected with. ( 301 - A Tale of Two Cities ) Read (7) Comment

223&224 - Live Together, Die Alone (A Desmond Episode) [05/28/06] Major Plotpoints -- The boat belongs to Desmond, who tried to sail away from the island, but got pulled back by the currents. -- Desmond was dishonorably discharged from the Scottish military. -- Before the military and the island, Desmond was in love with Penelope Widmore. Penny's father did not want Desmond and his daughter to be together. -- Sayid comes up with a plan to scout out the Others. He will take Desmond’s boat to the camp, then use black smoke to alert Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, and Michael that he’s there. Sun and Jin also join him, because Sayid lacks sailing skills, and Sun refuses to let Jin go without her. -- Locke tries to get Eko to stop pushing the button, but he refuses to do so. -- Before the island, Desmond met none other than Libby (who gave her name as Elizabeth) in a coffee shop. She gave him her boat (her husband died before he could sail it) so that he could go on his sailing race, which was hosted by Charles Widmore, Penny’s father. -- While at the stadium he first met Jack at, Desmond and Penny met up again. They had an emotional exchange that alluded to Desmond having lost his honor in some way. -- Locke tells Desmond about The Pearl and they decide to see what happens when the button doesn’t get pushed. Desmond makes the blast doors come down and lock Eko out of the computer room, rendering him unable to push the button. -- While sailing, Sayid, Sun, and Jin come across the remnants of a statue—a calf and a four-toed foot. -- Desmond crashed his boat onto the island and was picked up by Kelvin Inman (the man who “taught” Sayid how to torture), who taught him all about the hatch and what to do, including showing him how to bring the blast doors down and draw on the invisible map, and telling him about a failsafe that will terminate the entire hatch. One day, Desmond secretly followed Kelvin out of the hatch and found him getting ready to sail away on Desmond’s old boat, which he had repaired. Kelvin told Desmond that the button was nothing but a joke and that they should leave. In his anger, Desmond accidentally killed Kelvin, took the failsafe key, and then ran back to the hatch in order to push the button. He found the hatch shaking violently, and the computer reading “System Failure” over and over. He finally got the numbers entered and everything stopped and went back to normal. -- Eko climbs out of the hatch through the “quarantine” exit, then finds Charlie and asks him to show him where the leftover dynamite is, in order to blow open the blast doors and push the button. It doesn’t work and instead leaves Charlie and Eko injured and slightly deaf. -- Jack gets Michael to confess to the others what happened with the Others. They decide to follow through with Sayid’s plan and pretend that they don’t know what Michael did, in order to keep the Others satisfied. -- Sayid finds the Others’ camp, but finds that it’s empty and that even the hatch doors the Others were guarding is a fake. -- While walking through the jungle, Kate, Sawyer, Jack, Hurley, and Michael finds a pile of canisters from the Pearl, all containing notebooks filled with observations of those in the Swan. While investigating, Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley get hit with darts that make them convulse. They are then collected by the Others. -- Locke gives Desmond the printout from the Pearl and Desmond discovers that the day he forgot to push the button was the day Flight 815 crashed, signaling that Desmond crashed the plane. After realizing this, Desmond tries to get Locke to push the button, but he won’t, so Desmond goes to the failsafe and turns the key. Charlie comes out of the hatch sometime later, but Locke, Eko, and Desmond are nowhere to be seen. -- The Others bind and gag Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sawyer and take them to a pier somewhere on the island. “Henry Gale” takes Michael aside and gives him a boat, Walt, and directions for how to get off the island. Michael and Walt leave. He then tells Hurley to go back to camp and tell everyone not to come looking for Them again. The Others then carry Jack, Kate, and Sawyer off. -- Charlie and Claire share a kiss and it’s clear that she wants them to be a couple now. -- The season ends with two Portugese men playing chess in a snowy place filled with computers and other assorted machines. They notice the computer reads “Electromagnetic Anomaly Detected” and immediately pick up the phone to call Penelope Widmore to tell her they “found it.” ( 223&224 - Live Together, Die Alone ) Comment

222 - Three Minutes (A Michael Episode) [05/26/06] Major Plotpoints -- 13 days before, Michael received messages from Walt (or at least an Other pretending to be Walt) telling him where to find his son. This was during “The Hunting Party” when Michael locked Locke and Jack in the armory. -- Michael wants just he, Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley to go find the Others and get Walt back. Jack wants to bring more than five, but Michael refuses to let him do so. Jack finally relents and they decide to leave after burying Ana and Libby. -- 13 days before, Michael was captured by the Others. -- Charlie gives the pneumatic injector and vaccine to Claire in order to protect her and Aaron, if they ever need a vaccine for anything. -- 13 days before, Michael met Picket, an Other, and Alex, Danielle’s daughter. Alex was clearly against the Others and asked Michael about Claire and her baby and whether or not they were safe. -- Sayid wants to come with the other five. Jack tells him no, but Sawyer hands him a gun. Later, Michael finds Sayid and tells him he’s not allowed to come. -- Eko and Charlie “break up,” so to speak, when Eko leaves the church to Charlie and instead takes over pushing the button in the hatch. -- 11 days before, the Others brought Michael to their camp. Like he said, the Others were dressed in ragged clothes, living in tents, and fishing with nets in the ocean. Pickett takes some of Michael’s blood and a woman named Ms. Klugh (that’s “clue”) asks him many questions about Walt, none of which he can answer. -- While trying to build the church alone, Charlie gets a visit from Vincent, who brings one of the Virgin Mary statues to him. Charlie follows Vincent to Sawyer’s tent, where the remaining statues are, and he takes them all. He then goes to the shoreline and throws every statue into the ocean while Locke looks on. -- While preparing their guns for “battle,” Sawyer tells Jack about he and Ana. When Jack asks him why he’s telling him this, Sawyer tells him it’s because Jack’s the closest thing he has to a friend. -- Hurley doesn’t want to go on the hunt for the Others. At the funeral, however, he changes his mind and decides to come. -- 3 days before, Ms. Klugh came to Michael with a proposal: If he went back to camp, freed “Henry,” and brought back Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Hurley, They would let Michael and Walt take the boat and go home. -- Just before the funeral, Sayid tells Jack that he thinks Michael has been “compromised” by the Others and that he freed Henry, killed Ana and Libby, and is leading the other four into a trap. Sayid doesn’t have a plan, but tells Jack he’ll come up with one before they leave. -- At the funeral, Sun spots a sailboat on the horizon. ( 222 - Three Minutes ) Read (1) Comment

221 - ? (An Eko Episode) [05/13/06] Major Plotpoints -- Eko has a dream in which both Ana and Yemi tell him to help Locke find the question mark. -- Jack, Locke, Kate, Sawyer, and Eko all get to the hatch and find Michael with a gunshot wound in his shoulder, Ana dead, Libby barely clinging to life, and “Henry” nowhere to be seen. -- Eko and Locke head out into the jungle to find Henry’s trail. Jack is wary of this setup. -- Pre-crash, Eko met a woman named Joyce Malkin, who said that her daughter, Charlotte, died and then came back to life. Eko was sent to Australia to check out the miracle before they went to the Vatican with the news. When he arrived, Charlotte’s father, Richard, aka the psychic Claire saw, told Eko that Joyce was just trying to get back at Richard for being a fake psychic, and that Charlotte merely went into hypothermia and appeared dead, then woke up. However, when Eko was in the airport, Charlotte came up to him and told him that she had a message from Yemi—that he and Eko would meet again soon and that he always believed in him. -- Instead of looking for Henry, Eko tries to get Locke to take him to the question mark. Locke doesn’t want to go, but eventually changes his mind. They eventually find the question mark at the site of the Beechcraft and find a hatch buried in the ground underneath the plane. Inside the hatch, they find a printout of what’s going on at the Swan, then watch an orientation video which says that what’s going on in the Swan is nothing more than an experiment. Locke gets angry at this and decides to stop pushing the button, but Eko decides to start. -- Jack tries to save Libby, but it’s impossible. He makes her comfortable using the heroin in the Mary statues. Just before she dies, she mutters “Michael.” ( 221 - ? ) Read (4) Comment

220 - Two for the Road (An Ana-Lucia Episode) [05/13/06] Major Plotpoints -- Kate and Jack bring Michael back to the hatch. After regaining consciousness, Michael tells them that the Others are weak and barely armed and that, once he gets his strength back, they can go and get Walt back from Them. -- Before the crash, Ana and her mother had a falling out. When Jason Adler showed up dead, Teresa knew Ana did it and tried to help her daughter, but Ana refused to let her do so. She quit her job at the police station and became an airport security guard. One day, she met Christian, who hired her as a bodyguard for his trip to Australia. They went under the aliases of Sarah and Tom. For several days in Australia, Christian did nothing but drink. Finally, one night, he got into a yelling match with a woman named Lindsey about seeing his daughter. Ana tried to get him to go home with her, but he told her he couldn’t apologize to his son, so he stayed behind. Just before boarding Flight 815, Ana called her mother and they reconciled. Teresa told her she’d be there when she landed. -- Ana tries to get Henry to talk, but it backfires when he tries to kill her. Locke saves her and Ana vows revenge. -- Henry tells Locke that when Danielle caught him in her net, he was on his way to their camp to get Locke. -- Sayid tells Hurley about the beach he and Shannon had a meal on and Hurley decides to take Libby there for a surprise date. However, while he’s packing for it, Libby finds him and figures it out. He tries to keep the beach a surprise, but ends up not being able to find it. Libby then realizes that he forgot drinks and blankets, so she tells him to get some wine from Rose and Bernard and she’ll get some blankets from the hatch. -- Ana and Sawyer sleep together, although Ana merely does so to get Sawyer’s gun to kill Henry. -- Locke, Jack, and Kate leave the hatch to get the guns back from Sawyer. Ana stays behind to watch after Michael. When they reach Sawyer, he realizes that Ana stole his gun. Locke realizes that she took it to kill Henry and they all run to the hatch to stop her. -- Ana tries to kill Henry, but she can’t do it. Michael comes to her and she relates her story to him. He tells her that he’ll take the gun and kill Henry for her. She hands it to him and he instead shoots her in the chest. She dies. At the same time, Libby comes down to get the blankets and sees what happened, so Michael shoots her twice in the stomach. He then opens the armory door, turns the gun on himself, and pulls the trigger. ( 220 - Two for the Road ) Read (1) Comment

219 - S.O.S. (A Rose/Bernard Episode) [05/06/06] Major Plotpoints -- Bernard wants desperately to get off the island and organizes a group to build an SOS in the sand. One by one, however, the group deserts him. Rose tells him that she doesn’t want to get off the island, because it healed her, so he decides to stay. -- Jack decides to force a trade with the Others—Walt for Henry. Henry tells him that it won’t work because They’ll never give him Walt, but Jack ignores him and he and Kate head out into the jungle to the invisible line Mr. Friendly drew. Ana gives him her gun. -- Rose and Bernard met when Rose’s car got stuck in the snow and Bernard helped her get out of it. They had coffee afterwards and fell in love. Five months later, Bernard proposed to Rose. She told him that she was sick and had about a year to live, and she didn’t want to put him through that. He said he didn’t care and they got married anyway. Their honeymoon was in Australia. Bernard tried to get Rose to go see a faith healer, and she finally did, just for him. The healer told her he couldn’t help her, but she had him tell Bernard she was cured. Later, in the airport, Rose met Locke—wheelchair and all. After meeting him again on the island, sans wheelchair, and feeling that her sickness was gone, she realized that the island healed both of them. -- Locke tries to get Henry to tell him whether or not he pushed the button when Locke was stuck under the blast door. -- While out in the jungle, Kate and Jack get caught in one of Danielle’s nets. -- Locke gives up trying to draw the blast door map, but after having a talk with Rose, he tries again—and draws a decent copy of it. -- Once they get out of the net, Jack and Kate make their way to the line and wait for someone to come. Instead of an Other, though, Michael falls at their feet. ( 219 - S.O.S. ) Read (1) Comment

218 - Dave (A Hurley Episode) [05/03/06] Major Plotpoints -- Hurley has a stash of Dharma food. He shows it to Libby, who tells him that he can change, if he wants to. Together, they destroy the food, but just as they finish, they find the pallet full of food. -- While at the pallet, Hurley sees a man in a bathrobe and follows him. The man drops a slipper, which Hurley takes as a sign that the man is actually there and not a hallucination. -- Hurley was in Santa Rosa because he walked out onto a pier that collapsed and killed several people. Hurley blamed it on his weight, although the amount of people on the pier was what really caused the collapse. In the hospital, Hurley had one friend, whose name was Dave (the man from the jungle), and who, according to Hurley’s doctor, didn’t want Hurley to change. Later, Hurley’s doctor showed Hurley a picture he had taken of him and Dave—except that Dave wasn’t in the photo, because he was an imaginary friend. After this, Hurley let Dave go and shortly afterwards got out of the hospital. -- While Jack is checking out Locke’s injured leg, Locke tells him that Henry could have escaped, instead of helping Locke. Jack scoffs at this and tells him it’s because he thought his story would check out. -- Sayid tries to question Henry in the armory. Henry says that he found the real Henry Gale dead already, but changes his story when Sayid shows him a letter real!Henry had written. Sayid tries to get more answer from “Henry,” and when he doesn’t, he pulls out a gun. Ana grabs the gun as Sayid shoots, causing the bullet to miss “Henry” completely. -- Charlie gives Eko the pallet in order to help him build whatever it is he’s building. Eko later tells him it’s a church and the two of them start building it together. -- While in the jungle, Hurley spots Dave again and tries to run after him, but he disappears before Hurley can find him. Hurley later meets up with Dave again and, this time, they talk. Dave tells him that he never left Santa Rosa—that the night he “realized” Dave was imaginary, something happened and Hurley went into a little coma thing. Hurley tries to counter Dave, but Dave is persistent that nothing is real. He tells Hurley that the only way to wake up and make it end is to jump off a cliff into the ocean. Hurley is reluctant, but after Dave jumps off the cliff, Hurley looks like he might actually follow through. Libby finds him just before and makes him realize that everything really is real and not something going on in Hurley’s head. They kiss. -- Locke asks Henry if he pushed the button and Henry tells him that he never did, but nothing happened. Locke gets angry and calls Henry a liar, but Henry tells him that’s he done lying. -- The episode ends with a replay of a scene from Santa Rosa, this time from a different angle and with no Dave in sight. A woman with a glazed look and scraggly brown hair watches Hurley at her own table at Santa Rosa and the camera pans around, revealing that the woman is Libby. ( 218 - Dave ) Read (2) Comment

217 - Lockdown (A Locke Episode) [04/22/06] Mini Recap: This week is an interesting week when there's a lockdown at the hatch. While Locke's there all alone (with the exception of Henry in the armory) the blast doors come down and lock him (no pun intended) in the living quarters. Of course, since he's Locke, the only thing he thinks about is how he's going to push the button while he's trapped inside. He enlists the help of Henry to try and lift the door, but it doesn't work--instead, he ends up stuck underneath it and is forced to send Henry through the vents to push the button. The timer goes off anyway and Locke gets worried about what's going to happen. Something happens and the lights all go out before some black lights come on--revealing a map on the back of the blast door. Before he can completely memorize it, the lights come back on and the blast door lifts up. Meanwhile, Jack and Sawyer play cards while referencing mangos and guns (it's a happy day for Jawyer fans) and Sawye ends up losing all of the medicine he stole from the hatch to the doctor. Later that night, as he heads back to the hatch finally, Jack is met by Kate, who wants to come with him, but is told not to because the water is broken (but it's obviously because of Henry). They stumble across a pallet full of food in the jungle and also across Charlie, Ana, and Sayid, who were returning from their journey to find the truth. The five run to the hatch and snatch Henry away from Locke while Sayid runs through what happened--they found the balloon and the grave, just like he said they would. But Sayid didn't believe him, so he dug up the grave and found a man--not a woman--inside--a man named Henry Gale. This week's flashbacks center on good ol' mister Locke. Helen reads the paper and tells him that his father, Anthony Cooper, is dead. They attend the funeral (and are the only ones to do so) in order to get past him. Locke notices two shady looking men watching him as well as a silver car. Later, he inspects the home of Nadia (yes, that's Sayid's long lost love) and sees the car again--inside is a very much alive Cooper. He tells him that he killed himself off because he stole 700 grand from the two men at the funeral and they were going to do it for him. He asks Locke to go a safety deposit box and get the money for him. Locke goes and returns home to find the two men talking to Helen, waiting for him. They ask him about Cooper and look through the bag Locke brought home, but find it only contains work papers. Later, Locke goes to Cooper's hotel and gives him the money, but Helen shows up and slaps Cooper and leaves. Locke chases her to her car and proposes (he was planning to that night) but she doesn't say anything and drives away. ( 217 - Lockdown ) Comment

216 - The Whole Truth (A Sun Episode) [04/10/06] Mini Cap: Sun has an internal conflict with herself when she finds out new information—she’s pregnant. She wrestles with telling Jin about it, and, after the pushing of Jack, she tells him. He is overjoyed and they reconcile their problems to share in the joy of having a new baby. Meanwhile, Locke gets Ana to have a chat with Henry to try and find out new information. She convinces him to draw a map to his balloon and she, Charlie, and Sayid head off to find out if he’s telling the truth. They end up in the clearing Henry sent them to, with no smiley-face balloon in sight. Sayid insists he’s lying, but Ana convinces him to search the whole clearing to make sure. In the hatch, Henry accidentally lets slip about his map to Locke and Jack. When he sees their shocked faces, he says that, if he was one of Them—the people they seem to think are their enemies—there wouldn’t be a balloon. He’d lead them to a really secluded place for an ambush by his people. Then They’d use Ana and crew to trade for him. And Locke and Jack share frightful glances when Henry smiles. This week’s flashbacks center on Sun. She and Jin were trying to conceive for a year or so—and nothing was working. They went to a fertility doctor, who told them that Sun could not have children. Jin became furious at her. Sun then went to Jae’s hotel room, but not for the obvious reason—he was the one who taught her English so she could move to America. Later, the doctor found Sun and told her that she wasn’t the one couldn’t have children—Jin was. ( 216 - The Whole Truth ) Comment

215 - Maternity Leave (A Claire Episode) [04/10/06] Mini Recap: Baby Aaron comes up with a mysterious illness one night, causing Claire to frantically wonder what’s wrong with him. Danielle stumbles into camp and sees the two of them. She tells Claire that Aaron is sick. Claire tells her to get away and Kate comes by and shoos the woman. Jack checks the baby out and tells Claire he’s probably got a common illness in children his age. Claire, still spooked over what Danielle said, goes to Libby to see if she can trigger her memory—she knows that wherever They took her way back when, there’s something that will help cure Aaron. So Libby helps and it does trigger some memories, which send Kate, Claire, and Danielle on a journey to find where Claire was taken to. Using her memory as a guide, she leads the other two to a strange hatch-like place—except, it’s empty. Not even the vaccine she thought would be there is inside. They leave and Claire makes amends with Danielle, even telling her about a girl who helped her—a girl just like Danielle. When she and Kate return to camp, Claire finds that Aaron is all better and she gives him a booty she knitted while she was kidnapped, telling him she’s sorry she ever wanted to give him away. They belong together. This week is different than all other weeks—the flashbacks are from when Claire was kidnapped by Ethan. And, indeed, Ethan is present in them. The first flashback reveals that Ethan injected something into Claire’s pregnant belly, saying that they needed to protect the baby. Another flashback shows Ethan injecting her again, but then he takes her to a nursery all set up for her baby, even down to the eerie-ness of the crib—the mobile is of Oceanic planes and plays Catch a Falling Star. He leaves Claire in the nursery when a beardless Mr. Friendly calls him out, telling him that ‘He’ is angry. In another memory, Ethan sneaks Claire out of the medical hatch and they sit on a log, where he tells her he wishes she didn’t have to go, but they don’t have enough of the vaccine for her and the baby. He asks her if she’s okay with letting them have the baby and she tells him that she’s sure. Another flash shows a young woman (presumably Danielle’s Alex) taking Claire to safety after showing her that They’re going to cut the baby out of her—and kill her in the process. Danielle then found the unconscious Claire in the jungle and took her to safety. ( 215 - Maternity Leave ) Read (3) Comment

214 - One of Them (A Sayid Episode) [04/10/06] [ mood | my feet are chilly ] [ music | we've got nothing but love to prove _ faith hill ] Mini Recap: Ana comes to Sayid when she spots Danielle walking in the jungle. The French woman leads him to a man she captured in the jungle—the man says his name is Henry Gale and he is from Minnesota. She thinks he’s an Other. Sayid takes him to the hatch when Danielle shoots him with an arrow. While they’re waiting for Jack, Henry tells Sayid that he and his wife crashed on the island four months prior in their hot air balloon. His wife got sick two weeks ago and died. Jack removes the arrow and, with the encouragement of Locke and Sayid, moves him to the armory, but Sayid has other plans—he has Locke change the combination and locks himself inside with the prisoner. Inside, Sayid asks for his story and tortures and beats the man when he continues to tell him he’s not an Other. Locke refuses to give Jack the combination, until Jack pins him to a wall and the timer starts to go off. He unlocks the door and runs to the computer to input the numbers—but he makes a mistake and, while he backspaces, the timer flips, revealing red hieroglyphs in place of the numbers. He quickly inputs the sequence and pushes the button, causing the four out of five glyphs to flip back into 108. Meanwhile, Jack pulls Sayid off of Henry and locks the door on the man. Later, Sayid finds Charlie on the beach and asks him a simple question—has he forgotten? The flashbacks in this episode take us back to the Gulf War. Sayid is picked up in Iraq by Sgt. Buccelli, Sgt. Austen (yes, that’s Kate’s dad), and Inman, a CIA operative. They lost a helicopter pilot and want to know where he is, so they enlist Sayid to interrogate his own commanding officer, Tariq, to help them. Tariq refuses to speak, so Inman hands Sayid a single box—a box with torture items. Sayid gets the information the hard way and tells them their pilot is dead and he can take them to where he is buried. Once they retrieve their dead pilot’s body, Buccelli tells Sayid that, one day, there will be something he needs to know, and now he knows how to get it before he hands him bus fare and sets off again. ( 214 - One of Them ) Read (3) Comment

213 - The Long Con (A Sawyer Episode) [04/08/06] Mini Recap: Sawyer gets pissed when Jack “steals” the medicine out of Sawyer’s tent, saying that Sawyer stole it from the hatch in the first place. Later, the castaways are shocked and scared when Sun becomes victim to an attempted kidnap--apparently by the Others. While Jack decides to go fight the Others using the guns, Sawyer and Kate head to the scene of the crime and Sawyer points out that the details are wrong, meaning that the Others didn’t do it. Then who? Kate comes to the conclusion that Ana did--she just wants her hands on the guns. She has Sawyer go warn Locke that Jack and Ana are coming. He does and Locke heads off into the jungle to hide the guns while Sawyer stays in the hatch to push the button. On the beach later, Locke and Jack have a fight about the guns--that is, until shots ring out through the camp. Sawyer holds the weapon. He gives a speech while the others look on, some shocked, some scared, and some just disgusted. Later, Kate comes into his tent and asks him how he got the guns. He refuses to tell her. Did he have anything to do with Sun? Sawyer gives a non-answer. Kate leaves, disappointed. Sawyer heads into the jungle late that night and finds Charlie--who tells him that Sun can never know what he did to her. Flashbacks this week show us another con of Sawyer’s--Cassidy. He attempts to go the same thing he did with Jessica (the briefcase and the husband) but she calls him out on it--then says she wants him to teach her how to con people. They do this for several months. One day, Sawyer meets up with Gordy, another con man, who tells him to quit playing house with Cassidy and get her money. Sawyer has fallen in love, however, and won’t do it. Gordy threatens him and Sawyer goes to his and Cassidy’s house to tell her that she was the long con, but he doesn’t want to take her money anymore. He forces her to head to a motel and wait for him, telling her that Gordy is out front, waiting for the cash. He heads outside to reveal that Gordy is nowhere to be found before heading off again, Cassidy out of his life. ( 213 - The Long Con ) Read (1) Comment

212 - Fire + Water (A Charlie Episode) [04/08/06] [ mood | giggly ] [ music | where it is _ carrie underwood ] Mini Recap: Coming soon. ( 212 - Fire + Water ) Read (1) Comment

211 - The Hunting Party (A Jack Episode) [03/16/06] [ mood | dirty ] [ music | i will carry you _ clay aiken ] Mini Recap: Coming soon. ( 211 - The Hunting Party ) Read (5) Comment

210 - The 23rd Psalm (An Eko Episode) [03/10/06] Mini Recap: Coming soon. ( 210 - The 23rd Psalm ) Read (1) Comment

209 - What Kate Did (A Kate Episode) [03/07/06] [ mood | dirty ] [ music | the amazing race _ cbs ] Mini Recap: Coming soon. ( 209 - What Kate Did ) Read (1) Comment

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