WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS.
This episode was pretty uneventful – I thought that we were kind of done with filler episodes, but I guess not – this episode just filled us in on what the Left-Behinders (Sawyer, Juliet, etc.) had been doing for three years. Kind of interesting, doesn’t get to the real answers and nothing really unexpected or WTF. Yet.
First off, finally an answer about the freaking four-toed statue! I mean, not really an answer but sort of – it existed a long time ago – but it was gone by the time of Dharma.
We learn that, unfortunately for Faraday, Charlotte’s body disappears – she moved on, but they stayed put (weird). The way that the Left-Behinders get involved with the DHARMA Initiative is by helping a woman, Amy, whose husband had been killed by the Others. After killing the two Others that killed the Dharma guy, the Left-Behinders (namely Sawyer) get in big trouble for violating a truce between the two groups that live on the island, getting them kicked off the island (bad – because they’d be off the Island, but in the ’70s, not home).
However, an angry Alpert shows up and Sawyer, by explaining what happened 20 years ago, negotiates the conditions for the truce to be restored, and all is lovely dumplings.
Three years later, Sawyer, or rather now, “Jim LaFleur: Head of Security,” is woken up to patch things up with Amy and her new (drunk, dynamiting) husband, Horace, when Amy starts going into labor. Sawyer calls in Juliet to deliver the baby and surprise! It works this time; neither the mom nor the baby die. It’s revealed that Sawyer and Juliet have been dating and have fallen in love (he brings her a flower – Sawyer makes me awwwbarf.)
Afterward, Horace and Sawyer have a deep conversation about, “Is three years enough time to get over someone?” Sawyer admits that he can barely remember what Kate looks like. Do we believe him? We’ll see, because a minute and a half later, she shows up and they stare into each others’ eyes. Cue the Sawyer/Juliet/Jack/Kate super-connected love quadrangle.
Quotes:
Best use of the word “Hootenanny”: “Are you kidding? I’ve been gone 10 minutes and you’re having a Hootenanny?” (Random Dharma Guy).
Most freeing: “It doesn’t matter what we do. Whatever happened, happened.” (Faraday. I think this could also be phrased as, Whatever happens, happened. As in, anything that they do is already determined to have been done. It’ll feel like free will, but… it’s not. Sort of.)
Enough with the record, already: “No. No more flash. The record is spinning again. We’re just not on the song we want to be on.” (Faraday).
Questions:
What happened to Faraday in the intervening three years?
When did the Island start killing pregnant women? Why didn’t it happen to Amy? Who is her baby?
Where did the “hostile, indigenous people” (aka The Others) come from originally?