"Maybe if you ate more comfort food, you wouldn’t have to go around shooting people."
Holy crap, Lost is back with a vengeance. All I can say is that it was worth the wait. This season is going to be fun.
Dharma Initiates
The show opens in what looks like the Swan Hatch. A baby is crying and a mother tells father it’s his turn to get the baby. He treks out to warm the bottle, but not before dropping a record on the turntable. It isn’t long before the record starts skipping. We soon learn the identity of the Hatch inhabitant: It’s Dr. Candle/Haliliwax! You may know him from such hits as the Dharma Orientation film for the Swan Station, or the Dharma Orientation film for the Orchid Station, among his more memorable performances. His real name is Dr. Chang, however, and he’s kind of a miserable guy. The time of the flash back is some years ago, as the Dharmam people are currently building their stations and Dr. Chang is cutting his videos when they hit a sng at the Orchid. The drill melts, and there is a burst of energy, and the drill operator is unconscious (dead?). The workmen want to blast through the wall that melted the drill, but Chang tells them no—behind the rock wall is an unlimited energy source and it would be dangerous for them to unleash it. We get a better look at the injured drill operator and discover it’s **gasp!** Daniel! Then we see Daniel pass by as they take injured Daniel out past him. Holy crap, WTF just happened????
Let’s see what the Oceanic Six have been up to
For the first time ever, we are treated with an actual time reference rather than having to try and keep events chronologically in order in our minds. Thank you, producers. That saves us a lot of work! It is three years after they left the island: Jack’s with Ben, presumably right after they pull a Little Miss Sunshine’s Grampa act on Locke (he’s out in the carpet van). In a symbolic, I’m-getting-my-sh*t-together move, Jack shaves the angst beard. They are going to get the rest of the Oceanic Six
Kate gets a visit from some creepy lawyers from the lawfirm of Agostini and Norton who have come to take blood samples from Kate and Aaron. They have a court order. Kate does what she does best and takes off with Aaron in tow.
Sun gets detained at the airport by Widmore. Widmore is miffed at Sun’s “audacity” to approach him in front of his business. He demands respect. Sun the ice queen, however, isn’t easily ruffled. “Fair enough” she says, taking a seat. Widmore wants to know what their common interests are. Sun says she wants to kill Ben.
Sayid tells Hurley that he’s paranoid because he’s spent the last two years working for Ben. “If you ever run into him, Hurley,” Sayid says, “Do the opposite of what Ben tells you” Sayid is taking Hurley to a safe house that turns out to be, wellll….not so safe. Three guys are waiting for them, but they are no match for Sayid who kicked Keamy’s ass last season. Sayid kills them all, but not before the second guy hits him with a dart and some bystander photographs Hurley standing over the first guy with a gun.
The Island is Skipping
We rejoin our island, already in progress. We see the white light then our disoriented survivors. The first piece of bad news is that camp has disappeared. “ehhhh.. the camp is not gone,” Daniel explains, “It hasn’t been built yet.” Daniel asks the survivors to take him to something manmade on the island, so Juliet suggests the Swan Hatch. Sawyer, freaked out because he thinks Kate is dead, is taking his anger out on Daniel and demands answers as to what is going on. Daniel says he would have trouble explaining it to a physicist, but he’ll try explaining it to Sawyer. “The island is like a record on a turntable, except now it’s skipping. Either the island has been dislodged from time—or we have.”
Daniel, Sawyer and the crew from the beach finally make it to the hatch after the second time shift and the hatch has been blown. Then there is another time shift and the hatch is back. Sawyer wants to go see if Desmond is home and get some Dharma beer, so he goes to the back door. “It won’t work! You can’t change the past!” Daniel warns. “This would all be fascinating if I was listening to you. Open up, it’s the ghost of Christmas future!” Sawyer yells as he bangs on the door. Danile finally gets him to stop, explining how it just won’t work, that everything that has happened has already happened and cannot be undone—that’s why they can’t stop the helicopter from taking off. “Everyone I care about just blew up on your damn boat.” Sawyer growls. “I know what I can’t change.”
They head back to the beach and Daniel notices Charlotte nose is bleeding. This is the first sign of Minkowski syndrome.
Daniel runs back to his pack and frantically flips through his notebook. Could he have come across the passage that reads, “If anything happens, Desmond will be my constant”? I think so, because Daniel decides it will work if he knocks on the door. D Sure enough, there’s our Des, all suited up for the quarantine and holding a nasty looking gun. Daniel tells Des that not only is he special, but he is uniquely special and tells him to go back to Oxford and find him and find his mother, but the white light comes before Daniel can give Des his mother’s name.
Flash to Des waking up next to Penny on Penny’s boat. “I was on the island.” He tells her. “It was just a dream. You haven’t been on the island for three years.” “it wasn’t a dream, it was a memory.” He goes topside and begins to prepare to sail back to Oxford.
I’ve lost my Others
After the first flash, Locke, in the middle of the jungle, finds the Others have disappeared and he is alone. He begins trekking through the jungle to look for them, when a twin engine plane crashes on the island. We suspect it’s Yemmi’s plane, and we’re right, because there’s the heroin filled Virgin Mother statue.
As Locke climbs up the cliff to see if there are survivors, he is shot by Ethan. Locke tells Ethan he knows who he is, and that Ben has appointed him, John Locke, to be their leader. Ethan tells him that is the silliest thing he’s ever heard, and can you blame hime? It does sound pretty farfetched. As Ethan prepares to shoot Locke for good, the white light appears again. Now it’s dark and Yemmi’s plane is now on the ground.
Richard Eyeliner, who seems strangely unaffected or unbothered by this time shifting, finds Locke. He knows without being told that Locke has been shot, and removes the bullet. Locke starts asking questions, but Richard shushes him, telling him to listen carefully, you need to know this to save the island and he doesn’t know when the next time shift will be, but he knows that he won’t recognize Locke after it happens and that Locke should give him this compass. “What does it do?” Locke asks. “It points north, John.” “Thank you Captain Obvious.” Locke replies.
Richard tells him to save the island, he must bring the Oceanic Six back and that he, Locke, must die.
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