The Little Prince SE5 EP4

“Hooray. Everything’s back to normal.”

A good solid episode with a nice big payoff at the end. I think that the whole device of having the island “skipping” through time is a great storytelling device that allows us to learn the history of the island and it’s previous inhabitants in a way other than the tried and true flash backs.

The Little Prince
I was a bit surprised at first that this episode did not focus more on Aaron as a character, but rather as an object of love. I’ve never read the book “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, however, I can certainly link the Sparks Notes here and say that while we are meant to believe that this episode was titled for Aaron, Aaron is not the little prince. But the love Kate feels dor him is one of the main themes of the book. The Little Prince may in fact be Jacob. Kate is the rose. Jack could be the King. And there are elements of the Lamplighter in pressing the button 180 days. Look, it’s way past my bedtime. You guys look it up.

On Penny’s Boat
After the rescue, Kate and Jack are sitting on Penny’s boat. Kate, who a few short days earlier was uncomfortable even holding Aaron, now seems to know everything about him, including his sleeping habits. “What are we going to do about him?” She asks Jack. Kate pitches the idea of passing Aaron off as her son. Jack’s all, “You don’t have to do that.” And Kate says, “After everyone we lost, Jin, Michael Sawyer, I can’t lose him too.” Jack, uncomfortable with all of this Sawyer talk changes the subject to the lie. “Are you with me?” He asks Kate. He feels that the others won’t go along with just him. “I have always been with you,” Kate tells him.

Three years later in LA
Sun asks Kate, “Are you sure you want to do this?” We’re not quite certain what the “it” is that Sun’s referring to, but we can assume that it has something to do with “taking care of the lawyers” as Sun suggested last episode. Kate is wearing one of Sun’s suits, thanks her for the loan. Kate says she’s sure she wants to do “it” and leaves Aaron with Sun to complete her mission. Just as Kate leave, a delivery arrives for Sun. In the package is a dossier on Ben and a box of Godiva chocolates. Sun, who is apparently inhuman, IGNORES THE CHOCOLATE, lifts the tray to reveal a gun underneath.

Kate is at the lawyer’s office. She agrees to the blood tests on the condition that Norton reveals his client and let Kate talk to him. Norton tells her she is in no position to negotiate. The exchange of custody is inevitable. “You are going to lose the boy,” Norton tells her.

We see Sayid and Jack at the hospital where Sayid is recovering from his being shot with three doses of horse tranquilizers. Jack tells Sayid he’s working with Ben. “Ben is on our side,” Jack tells him. “The only side he’s on is his own,” Sayid replies. A hospital administrator peeks her head in Sayid’s room and asks for a word. She promptly rips into Jack for using the hospital after he’s been suspended for substance abuse. In mid rant, his phone rings, and Jack just rudely walks away from the administrator and answers the phone. It’s Hurley delivering his only line in the entire show and it’s easily the best one of the episode due to the Hurleysque nature of the lines and Jorge Garcia’s delivery: “Dude I’m totally cool. I’m in the LA county lockup. Tell Sayid I did what he said Ben’s never gonna get me now.”

While Jacks’s chatting with Hurley, Ben meets up with Jack and a bald black assassin with more tranq darts shows up to get Sayid. Sayid, as usual, disables him with his freaky ninja moves and goes through his pockets. He pulls a slip of paper from his wallet. “Do we know anyone that lives at 42 Panorama Crest?” Sayid asks, reading the paper. “That’s Kate’s address.” Jack replies.

Jack immediately calls Kate and tells her he needs to see her. Kate clearly is torn by wanting to see Jack, not wanting to see Jack and being very busy following the lawyer Mr. Norton. She finally relents and Jack’s on his way. “Meet me at Long beach Marina—slip 23. Hurry, we’re running out of time!” Ben calls after him to the creepiest Lost music evah.

Jack finds Kate and notices how distracted she is. “Tell me what’s going on.” He demands. “Somebody wants Aaron,” Kate explains. “They know we’re lying.” The lawyer comes out of the building Kate was staking out and intending to follow him, tells Jack to either get in or get out of the way. Jack, of course, gets in.

Kate follows the lawyer to a motel to see if he’s meeting client. Jack keeps pressuring her to leave because he’s only there to get her back to the island. He’s Ben’s man, now. The lawyer climbs the steps to the motel room and the client answers the door.

OMG! It’s Claire’s mom!

I smell setup.

Kate, though doesn’t smell the setup, so starts freaking out. Jack wants to talk to Claire’s mom, to explain. “I can fix this Kate. Aaron is my family too.” He goes up to meet Mrs.Littleton, tells her that he and Kate only had Aaron’s best interests at heart and Claire’s mom says, “Who’s Aaron?”

Jack returns to Kate’s car and tells her to leave. “She doesn’t know anything,” Jack tells her. “She sued Oceanic and she’s just here to pick up her settlement. She doesn’t even know Aaron exists.” Oh yeah. It’s a set up.

This is verified a couple scenes later when next we see Mr. Norton tying up some loose ends for Ben. He tells Ben that there is no case against Hurley and he can get him out the next day. “Who is that?” Sayid asks. “That’s my lawyer.” Only Michael Emerson can deliver these three innocuous words so delightfully creepily.

When Kate delivers Jack back to the marina, Kate asks, “Why did you call me?” Jack begins to explain how they all have to go back to the island. Kate is confused for a second when she sees Ben then she starts freaking. She puts it all together. “It’s him. It’s Ben who wants to take Aaron.” Jack starts to make apologies, talking about how Ben is on their side, when Ben interrupts and says, “No, Kate’s right. I did try to take Aaron.” Meanwhile, a couple cars over Sun and her new gun are sitting in a car with Aaron observing this little reunion. Sun grabs the gun and gets out of the car.

Island-go-round
We find our Lostaways right where we left them last episode, and apparently 10 island minutes have passed because that’s how long Charlotte has been passed out. Juliet wants to know what’s wrong with Charlotte and she wants Daniel to tell her. Sawyer basically spells out the entire situation and Jules, not liking Sawyer’s tone, tells him to give some space.

Daniel describes Minkowski syndrome as really bad jetlag. “Jet lag doesn’t give you nosebleeds. And why isn’t it happening to the rest of us?” If Daniel answers Juliet, we never know. We do have an idea of why it’s not happening to the others by the end of the show.

Locke decides that they have to go back to the Orchid. “Since that’s where it all started, maybe that’s how we can stop it,” He reasons. He tells Sawyer that he has to make everyone come back, but Sawyer thinks they are all dead. “They’re not dead. But I have to make them come back, even if it kills me.” Locke looks at Saywer and asks a questing we all know the answer to: “Don’t you want them to come back James? Don’t you want her to come back?”

Charlotte finally wakes up doesn’t know who Daniel is. Then she gets her bearings, she’s a little shaky, then she’s ok and they start off for the Orchid. While walking through the jungle, they pass the Swan hatch, all lit up. Locke sees the telltale beam of light and says, “We need to keep moving.” Locke knows when they are and it’s during their time on the island. He knows he will see himself sobbing on the hatch and thinking that would be creepy beyond words (not to mention a bit embarrassing) he insists on moving the group along.

Then the group hears screaming and Sawyer breaks off to investigate. He comes upon Kate delivering Claire’s baybay.

Pause while I go all mushy over how much Sawyer loves Kate. **sigh**.

Ok, I’m back.

We hear the humming and the island flashes again. Locke approaches Sawyer. “Did you see something?” “Yeah. But it doesn’t matter. It’s gone now.” But Locke won’t let it go. “Who was it you saw?” “What was that light in the sky?” Sawyer counters, uncomfortable revealing his tender feeling for Kate to Locke. Locke tells the sad story of the night that Boone died. He tells Sawyer how desperate and disheartened he was until he saw the light come on and he took it as a sign. “Was it a sign?” “No,” Locke answers. “It was just a light.” Sawyer wants to know why Locke didn’t want to go over and give his old self some new advice and save himself all that pain. Locke looks at Sawyer with that knowing smirk on his face. “I needed that pain to get to where I am now.”

The Island flashes. Miles tells Daniel on the Q.T., “Hey I just got a nose bleed. Just tell me why are only me and Charlotte getting them?” Daniel thinks it may have something to do with prolonged exposure to the island, which doesn’t make any sense to Miles since everyone else has been here for a couple of months and he’s only been here a couple of weeks. “I’ve never been here before two weeks ago.” “You sure about that?” Daniel asks. And indeed our Sig floated the theory a couple weeks ago about Miles being Dr. Candle’s/Halliwax’s son.

The Lostaways arrive back at camp is destroyed, but looks pretty much like they left it. Zodiac is gone and so are the rest of the survivors, whom we assume took the zodiac to get away from whoever came in the longboats. “Who came in these?” Sawyer asks. “Other Others?” Juliet finds an Agira water bottle in one of the boats. “Agira is an Indian Airline.” Juliet says.

So now that the zodiac is gone, they decide to take the longboats to cut across the horn or the island to get to the Orchid. The rowing doesn’t agree with Miles. “This plan sounded a lot better when we were doing it in a motor boat.” Suddenly they hear shots being fired; it’s the second longboat in pursuit. Then there’s some paddling—shooting—another flash—“Thank you God!”---and a Horrible storm---“I take it back!”

The Lostaways make it back to the beach where Juliet resumes her rudely interrupted by gunfire conversation with Sawyer. “Tell me about how you felt to see Kate.” Now is Juliet developing feeling fro Sawyer and just torturing herself watching him pine for her, or does Juliet still love Jack and want to encourage Sawyer’s love for Kate in the hopes that when (and if) Jack and Kate return to the island, Sawyer will win Kate from Jack?

So more tender feelings from Sawyer, “I was close enough to touch her. I wanted to, I could have stood right up and talked to her. What’s done is done.”

Pause while I, once again go all mushy over how much Sawyer loves Kate. **sigh**.

Ok, I’m back.

Sawyer breaks his Kate daydream and looks concerned. “Juliet. Your nose is bleeding.”

Look what washed up on shore in 1988
The Lostaways come across the wreckage of a French ship that looks like it is recent. The survivors of the shipwreck are in a life raft and they are in heavy storms. They are heading to shore when they find another survivor and pull him aboard. When they turn him over---

OMG! It’s Jin! I KNEW he was alive!

The next day, the Frenchies are questioning Jin as he regains consciousness. There is a woman who is pregnant. She speaks English and communicates with Jin. The rest of her crewmates are suspicious of him, but she is not. She offers him water and introduces herself: “I am Danielle. Danielle Rousseau.” Oh, and Jin is stuck in her time frame.

Scenes for next week
GUNS! GUNS! GUNS! Sun is going to KILL Ben. Well, probably not. But there it is.