Because You Left
So we start off the episode off with a record playing. Similar to the first episode of season 2. The record starts to skip and later in the episode Faraday says it’s like the island is like a record skipping through time. We learn that the wheel Ben used to make the island disappear had been there before DHARMA and Faraday is there when the workers tell Candle/Chang that they couldn’t drill through that rock.
Locke is talking to Richard and the other others (as I like to call them). Then there’s the flash of light and poof the other others are gone. Locke sees the drug plane coming in for a crash landing. I couldn’t find any information about when the plan left Nigeria. But what I do know is that a Beechcraft has a range of 850 miles. The original placement of the island was somewhere near Fiji, about 11,000 miles away from Nigeria. Could the island now be closer to Nigeria?
And then freaken Ethan comes out of the woods. I’m sorry William Mapother, it doesn’t matter what you play, you will always be creepy in my eyes.
Skip ahead to Sayid and Hurley getting food. Why didn’t they go to Mr. Clucks? I’m not sure if this is the first time that it’s confirmed by Sayid that Locke is/was Jeremy Bentham. Also they guy who died by dishwasher in the safe house looks similar to the second man at Kate’s door.
Back to the island when Ethan shoots look and the island jumps through time again. The plane is now down on the ground, so it’s now after Boone died. Richard Alpert appears and removes the bullet from Locke’s leg. Richard knows about the time shift and gives Locke a compass to return to him because next time he won’t know Locke. The compass needle is not moving. Not even twitching.
Now Sawyer, Juliet, Faraday and the rest are by the hatch and this time it’s not blown up. Sawyer goes to the back door because there is clothes and beer in there announcing he’s the ghost of Christmas Future. Gotta love Sawyer, especially shirtless.
Faraday convinces him to stop and the rest go back to camp. Faraday talks with Charlotte and her nose is bleeding. I feel the first semi-main character death of the season coming up. He gets Charlotte to go back to camp. Then he bangs on the door and Desmond comes out in a Hazmat suit pointing a gun. Desmond is asking if Faraday is his replacement. Before the island jumps again, Faraday tells Desmond that he has to go find his mother at Oxford. Notice that Desmond answered the door, not Kelvin. Kelvin died in Septemember 22, 2004, same day as the electromagnetic pluse that caused Oceanic 815 to crash.
The Lie
We see bottles of what looks like Jekyll Island Red Ale. I could be wrong, I couldn’t get a clear shot. But good name since there has been multiple people acting like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde during the series. PS -There is a Jekyll Island in Georgia.
I was a little confused of the timing here. This scene is after Penny found them floating in the ocean after helicopter crash and before the Oceanic 6 departed on the life raft for Sumba.
Jack and Ben are in the hotel room. Ben secretively took a wrapped up box out of the air vent. He tells Jack that he threw his pills out. Great, lets have Jack go through detox. Ben avoids the question of Locke being dead. One can interpret that he’s really not dead. Does this mean Tom, AKA Mr. Friendly is still alive? I was really sad when he died. I started to really like his character. How about Alex? Ben didn’t seem too concerned when she got killed.
Hurley’s dad is watching Expose, which has appeared multiple times throughout the series. Hurley shows up at the front door with a passed out Sayid. Hi Dad, I’m home. Don’t mind Sayid. He got shot with a dart. Hurley tells his father that they are after them. Who’s they? (What’s an aluminum falcon?)
Neil, AKA Frogurt, you really shouldn’t have asked for fire. Plus you were wearing a redish shirt. Come on. Everyone knows don’t wear red on the island.
Saywer and Juliet meet up with Jones and his troop. They look to be wearing Army uniforms. Now if you remember, the numbers were first heard by Navy officers stationed in the Pacific. Also, in The Long Con, Hurley picks up a radio broadcast of WXR, possibly an Army operated radio station from Alaska circa 1945. Sayid explains to Hurley that the radio waves could be bouncing off the stratosphere from anywhere. Hurley suggest or anytime. So we had a hint to time travel back in season 2.
Last scene is a cloaked figure (AKA Emperor Palpatine) writing on a chalk board with a computer indicating an event Window Determined and a pendulum. One can assume that this is the current location of the island. Ben meets the cloaked figure upstairs in a church. She removes her hood to reveal that it’s Ms. Hawking, the woman who sold Desmond Penny’s engagement ring. And foretold the future. Could she be Faraday’s mother?
