News > TW RECAP: LOST 4-11-07

April 12, 2007

Previously on LOST: 

After an episode rife with wet and wild, girl-on-girl mud wrasslin’, Jack, Sayid and Kate leave the now deserted Camp Others.  Destination: the beach.  But they’ve brought along a new friend - resident hot Other doctor lady, Juliet. 

Episode Re-Cap: 

Sayid, Kate, Jack, and Juliet, beach-bound, set up camp for the night.  Jack and Kate retreat in to the woods for some firewood gathering and a good heart-to-heart. When asked about why The Others accepted him as one of there own, he responds “I just kept my head down and didn’t ask questions.”   

Back at the camp, Sayid and Juliet face off about what she knows. 

FLASHBACK:  Juliet and her cancer-laden sis, pull a car up to the heavily guarded gate of Metlos Science.  After a tearful goodbye with her newly preggers sister, Juliet enters the compound. 

Sayid pushes Juliet for answers, but Jack jumps in and tells him to leave her alone.  That she’s “under my protection”.  Jacky-poo has a little crushy-crush on the blonde haired bombshell.  Lots of mysterious looks are passed back and forth and then, BOOM, credit sequence. 

At the 815ers beach, Charlie hears baby Aaron (stupid baby Aaron) crying like, well, baby.  When he approaches he finds Clare passed out and the baby whining it’s eyes out.  Clare is sick and Charlie tells her he’ll take Baby Aaron and she can sleep it off.  At least the writers are still giving Charlie something to do, even if it is play babysitter to a baby that has absolutely no point on the show. 

The four walking back – Sayid is powering through the wilderness, leaving Jack and Juliet to have some pseudo-romantic buddy-buddy time (does anyone else still think there may be some credence to the whole ‘Jack is gay’ rumor?). 

FLASHBACK:  Juliet talks with Ethan and Dr. Alpert.  Alpert pours her a delicious glass of tranquilizers and OJ.  Ethan tells Juliet it’s because the “ride gets a little wicked” and Juliet gets rightfully pissed and demands an answer.  As always, Dr. Alpert completely avoids answering any questions and goes off on some huge spiel about the magical island and all it’s wonderful tricks.  Juliet, just like every person who views this show, takes the shitty answer to the mystery as a solid gold reasoning point, pounds the tranq-juice.  She awakes on The Other’s submarine, where Ethan tells her, “We’re here.”  She climbs out, lays her eyes on the island and then meets a non-crippled Ben.  Boom! 

The 815ers arguing about something stupid (probably ping-pong or who ate the last coconut) and Claire looks down-right awful.  Just as they’re about to ask Claire about her sickness, cheesy music starts and Sayid, Jack and Kate crest the hill.  Cue volume raise on cheesy music and then a montage (probably the fourth this year) of people hugging other people who are returning.  All the love shit stops though when Sawyer realizes Juliet is with them.  Uh-oh! 

Cut to Juliet sitting lonely and sad on the beach.  Resident friendly fat guy Hurley approaches her and they talk about her being “like one of them”.  Hurley tells her that Ethan’s dead and that he’s only talking to her because the group asked him to watch over her. 

FLASHBACK:  Juliet is performing surgery on a bloodied woman who is very obviously dying.  Cut to a sad Juliet sitting on the rocky beach.  Ben approaches her and drops the bombshell that her sister is going to be dead in three months from the cancer that has returned.  He tells her that if she stays to fix the pregnant girls on the island, he’ll save her sister with some sort of magic Island power that protects all the people from dying of…cancer?   

Cut to the 815ers arguing about Juliet being bad and how she’s going to kill them, even though there’s 50 of them and one of her.  Claire stumbles into the meeting and starts spitting up blood and convulsing (pretty convenient that the first real medical emergency that occurs to the 815ers happens the same day Dr. Jack and Juliet the fertility specialist stumble back in to camp eh?) Juliet tells Kate that she needs to talk to Jack alone, because she can cure Claire.  Why you ask?  Because she’s the one who did this to her!   

With Sayid and Sawyer watching from the bushes (pretty fretfully if you ask me) Jack and Juliet and Kate discuss the problem and how Juliet is going to fix it.  Juliet explains, and this is important so listen up, that women on the island can’t give birth.  Everyone of them has died and Juliet has been brought to the island to fix it.  For the two weeks Ethan was an imposter in the camp he’d been injecting Claire with some sort of Juliet-invented serum that was keeping her alive.  She tells them that Ethan’s kidnapping of Charlie and Claire was his own idea that he carried out when he was found to be an imposter.  Luckily for them, Ethan stashed a briefcase full of serum drugs underneath a tree and she has to go get it or Claire will die!   

FLASHBACK:  Cut to a hot, naked Juliet spooning food into her mouth while she lies in bed with the unknown doctor-guy.  She mentions she’s been on the island for three years and then theirs a knock on the door.  Cut to Juliet looking at x-rays of a back (quite obviously Bens).  She rushes into Ben’s room and they fight about him lying about curing her sister and how he’s “not scared” and “not a liar.”  Juliet looks all hot and disheveled and yells a lot about wanting to go home. 

Cut to Juliet running to the tree to find the baby-serum.  She finds a briefcase and starts to open it, when Sayid and Sawyer (armed to the teeth) appear out of the jungle.  They threaten her, but when she throws their moral outrages (Sayid and the torture, Sawyer and the killin’) right back in their face, their like, “Ohhhhhhhhhhh” and she runs back to the camp. 

FLASHBACK:  “Downtown” plays as Juliet stares into a mirror (my girlfriend asked me at this point “are those real?”  I said, “Who cares!”).  All of a sudden it’s a super quick montage of the book-club meeting, the crashing of the plane, Ben ordering Ethan to infiltrate and then Ben asking Juliet if he can talk to her for a minute.  They walk to Mickael’s (the vaguely eastern European guy who Locke killed two episodes back) shack and he leads them to a wall of televisions.  Ben contacts Dr. Alpert and Juliet sees a live feed of her sis (now with more hair!) playing with her two year old son.  Much crying occurs, and Juliet begs to go home…again.   

Cut to Juliet about to inject dying Claire with the baby-serum.  Jack and her have a fretful convo about what’ll happen if Claire dies.  There’s a shot of the needle being injected and then boom, absolutely obnoxious commercial break. 

Cut to Claire waking up, she’s okay, everything’s okay, Juliet has saved the day!  Jack and Juliet talk on the beach.  Everyone loves her for her heroics and they even want her to join their nifty gang of survivors.   

A montage begins that intersperses creepy music with a voice-over of Juliet talking to Ben.  Turns out the whooooooooooooooole thing’s been a set-up so Juliet can infiltrate the camp.  EVERYTHING!  The Kate/Juliet handcuff thing – A LIE!  Claire got sick so coincidentally because of an implant they put in her and the serum had been planted only recently so Juliet could gain acceptance from the 815ers.  Ben passes her a gas mask and she says “I’m fine.”  Cut to her tying the knot on her tent.  Cue escalating scary music, boom the goes the dynamite, CREDITS. 

Reactions: 

A good show when this series really needed one.  It’s sad to me that when Claire started getting sick I didn’t say, “wow, maybe this is some sort of elaborate set-up.”  Nope, I thought to myself, “man, the writing on this show is so fucking bad.”  But, finally they’re starting to answer some questions.  Sure, they’re not very good answers (Juliet is there to save the island from some sort of crazy baby curse? What?) but at least it’s something. 

Predictions: 

I think Jack’s going to turn.  Something’s off about him and there’s been rumors that some serious “Lord of the Flies” shit is going to go down soon.  I’m hoping that the others gas-bomb the shit out of the camp and the war I thought was going to happen in Season 2 actually comes to fruition. 

What’s Next? 

From the teaser at the end, - seemingly a lot.  Something is coming to the island, something that could be good or bad.  Lots of quick cuts of Locke and Desmond, even one of Kate getting her swerve on with someone (she’s really becoming the island whore isn’t she?).  Sadly because the next episode isn’t Jack, Juliet, Ben or Desmond’s, I’m pretty sure it’ll be a heart warming flashback that reveals absolutely nothing, but somehow keeps me coming back like a ninety pound meth addict. 

 

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