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[Rose]

OBS RECAP & REVIEWS: LOST S6 EPISODE 14 ‘THE CANDIDATE’

Written by OBS Staff Member Rose

Lost gets down to business in Episode 14 ‘The Candidate’, killing off three main characters and channeled the Poseidon adventure on a submarine.

Locke in sideways world wakes up fixed by Dr. Jack Shepard after his unfortunate mow-down incident by Desmond at the school.  Jack wants to perform another surgery on Locke to allow him to walk again but Locke is against it. We know it’s a self-righteous act, but what we learn is this: In sideways world, Locke father is not a wretched evil man who steals his kidney and pushes him out the window, instead, Locke had a great relationship with his father.

Jack persists in finding out why Locke is in a wheelchair. He first visits Locke’s dentist…Bernard. They realize they were on the same flight from Sydney. This gives them both pause. Bernard gives Jack the name of a man (Anthony Cooper) that was in the same accident that Locke was in.

We learn this man is in a nursing home. This man is Locke’s father. We learn Locke was piloting a plane that he subsequently crashed, which turned his father into a vegetable. So yes, it’s a sore subject for Locke.

While Jack was visiting with Locke, Claire comes to the hospital to see him. She shows Jack a musical box that their father wanted her to have. She asks Jack if it holds some significance but he is clueless as to what it is.  Jack offers Claire to stay with him at his home instead of a hotel, because they are family.

When Jack confronts Locke in the hospital in the hallway after he is discharged (as Jin passes by to visit Sun mind you) about his self-loathing, they have a heart to heart that ends in Locke still refusing the surgery.

Back on the island, Jack wakes up after the bomb blasting from Widmore’s team and Sayid informs him all the Others are either dead or have fled into the jungle. Only he, Jack and Flocke remain. Flocke tells Jack that they have to rescue his friends who have been captured.

Meanwhile, the Losties are put in cages by Widmore’s crew.  But before this happens Kate was being held by Widmore at gun point, threatening Sawyer to lay donw his gun. Widmore claimed that Kate is not on the ‘list’ and he doesn’t care if she dies. Widmore locks them up and tells them it’s for their own good. But no one trusts Widemore as far as they can throw him.

Sawyer tells Kate her name was on the ‘list’ but it was crossed off, so he knows that Widemore doesn’t need her, which is why he surrendered to Widemore.

Soon enough, the smoke monster appears and kills the guards. Jack frees them (since he’s with Flocke now) and they all flee with Flocke to the Ajira airplane.

Right before we see Flocke board the airplane, he takes a watch from one of the dead guards and once on board is seen pulling some wires off the plane.

He tells the Losties he saved their lives from Widmore and shows them the bomb he took off the plane.  Since it isn’t safe to use the plane anymore, he convinces everyone that the submarine is their ticket off the island. As they trek to the sub Sawyer tells Jack of his plane to keep Flocke out of the sub. Jack agrees.

As the Losties storm the sub, Flocke Ness Monster switched knapsacks with Jack, unbeknownst to him.  Claire and Flocke fight off Widmore’s men who are shooting at them from the trees. Kate takes a bullet in the upper shoulder area and everyone but Claire and Flocke make it on the sub before Sawyer closes the hatch.

Once inside, as they are diving to supposed safety, when Jack goes for a med kit in his back to tend to Kate and finds the bomb. Sawyer wants to pull the wires out but Jack tells them everything they’ve done so far is exactly what Flocke wanted.  Flocke wants them to kill themselves for he cannot do it himself.  Flocke wanted everyone in one enclosed space and have them all die at once.  Jack states if they don’t pull the wires they will live.  Of course, Sawyer is bull headed and pulls the wires.

They think they’re in the clear when the count down on the watch stop, but then it begins to go down much faster than before. Sayid takes hold of the bomb and tells Jack that Desmond is in a well on the island and Jack needs to save him. Sayid quickly runs with the bomb through the sub and suddenly it blows and Sayid is killed.  

This is where the Poseidon adventure begins. Water is rushing into the cabins and they all must get out quickly. Hurley grabs Kate and takes her to the surface.  Lupidis is running through the cabin as one of the doors explodes open towards him in a rush of water and knocks him out. Sun is pinned by metal and cannot be saved. Jin refusing to ever leave her again, stays with her and they both drown together, as you see they’re hands held together floating underwater, and finally they break apart.

Jack, Hurley, Sawyer and Kate are the only ones to survive. When they all reflect that Jin and Sun are dead, they all break down and cry.

Meanwhile Claire is curious as to why Flocke is okay with everyone dead from the sub explosion. Flocke tells her not everyone is dead and storms into the jungle to take care of this. Claire is seen with a quizzical look. (Poor girl has no clue.)

Woah.  Well, Sayid was a goner for a while there, so his loss is not felt as much as Jin and Sun’s. Just when they were re-united, they die together. So sad. When Jack, Kate and Sawyer all start crying on the beach, I swear I shed a tear.

When it was too late, the Losties finally realize that Flocke does not have their best intentions in mind. The ball has started rolling downhill in Lost. It looks to get pretty chaotic before all is said and done.

The coming attractions show what seems to be a showdown between the Man in Black and Jacob. Light and dark, good and evil and all that jazz.  Just tell us who you guys are already!

On another note...What do you think is the significance of that music box in Claire’s possession?

What did you think of this episode? Anything stand out that you would like to share?

[dawn]

I was so sad and shocked when Sayid, Sun and Jin died. I've become so attached to each character, even though Sayid wasn't himself by this point.

It was a good episode. I'm waiting for Jack to kick some ass.

And that music box, idk, but I'm dying to find out.
I just read that the finale has been extended by 30 minutes.

[ifellhard]

What do you think is the significance of that music box in Claire’s possession?
I don't have a clue! I tried to figure out what the song was and couldn't come up with anything.

What did you think of this episode? Anything stand out that you would like to share?
I thought that there was an interesting parallel to when the bomb exploded on the Kahana.  In that episode we saw Frank, Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Sayid, and Sun on the helicopter while Jin was left behind on the boat and Sawyer sacrificed his rescue for the others.  This time Sayid sacrificed himself to save the set of characters on the sub.

How does Flocke know that the candidates aren't dead?! 

[dawn]

Yeah, and how the heck is he gonna kill all of the survivors?

[ifellhard]

I don't get that...I thought that he needed all of the candidates to get off of the island. 

Oh...I forgot to note that I almost cried like a baby when Jin and Sun drowned in the sub. 

[dawn]

I was confused too because I thought he needed them. But maybe he was trying to rid Jacob of any way out. IDK.

And I cried too. They just found each other again, did they really have to kill them off?
Not fair!!

[Rose]

I don't get that...I thought that he needed all of the candidates to get off of the island.  

Yes.  He needs them to get off. But we never really knew HOW he needed them.  Maybe he needed them all together, dead, so his "bet' with Jacob could become null and void.  Supposedly Jacob brings people to the island to show MIB that people can be inherantly good, and MIB proves him wrong.  It's their game.  Until all "recruits" show they have turned (bad) per se, the game continues on.  MIB prolly realizes he cannot turn the Losties left, and succumbs to having them die instead, in order for him to be released.

Why did Kate get crossed off the list?  This is important.  Does anyone recall anything she did to have this happen?

Have we figured out which of out of Jin and Sun was a recruit?  Does it even matter now that their gone?  I think the writers never intended to let us know.

It seems too...just like with Jacob, MIB cannot force someone's hand, it has to come from within themselves.

About the music box...

Notice how both of them were looking at the box and we saw their reflections in the mirror.  That shot was held for more than a moment.  Could this be significant?  And what was the tune playing?  Usually music boxes have 'a song" that plays.

What is a music box?  You wind it up.  It plays.   It holds trinkets, or jewelry.  

Just throwing things out there for thoughts/ideas...sake.

Also...notice....how Claire got left behind....yet again.

Edit: Also...MIB is part of the island...as is Jacob.  He would sense that all the Losties weren't dead.

[ifellhard]

Here's something I found on a Lost fansite about the music box:
It plays "Catch a Falling Star" (in season one, Claire tells Aaron's prospective adoptive parents that her father sang this song to her).

Something else that I'm remembering is that before Sayid took off with the bomb, he told Jack where to find Desmond and then I could swear that he told Jack, "It's going to be you."  Did Sayid know that Jack would be Jacob's replacement?  If so, how? 

[Rose]

Great find!  So...it all fits. (Claire - music box etc).

Yea Sayid said it would be him, who would save him.  That's what I got from it.

Maybe.......the recruits are the one's who are up for the job of saving 'the candidate' which is actually Desmond. 

Desmond might be the constant for the island itself.  Im reaching I know.

[ifellhard]

Interesting theory, Rose!  It's certainly as plausible as any of the others floating around.   

[caroMR]

That was the saddest Lost ending for a Lost couple I've ever seen...I still get sad. It felt like a Titanic moment and the way their hands looked at the end...

I'm still shocked they killed three main characters in one episode and I'm still wondering if Lupidis is dead, they need a pilot.

Poor Claire, she's going to be so mad, not to mention Flock. He wont trust Jack anymore. Or maybe anyone else.

And since it is theories time, I had one while brushing my teeth today, lol. Jin and Sun are finally of off the crazy island. At first I was mad cause they killed them and wished that the last remaining survivors just gave up and start a new civilization there. They got water, light, maybe gas, internet, those house can get fixed, what else could you ask for, it doesn't want them to leave.

But then it hit me, my theory is that when you die you get off the island, you leave and end up in the other "alternative LA Lost world", maybe that is even the real world where they were going to land, i don't no. Charlie, Boone, Jin, Sun, Sayid, Juliet, Daniel, have crossed over and Desmond with his gift has knowledge of both universes. So you have to die, that's the key. and Locke is getting them all killed so he can cross over too. Having them all on the other side he can leave.

Those are my Lost two cents.

Why did Kate get crossed off the list?  This is important.  Does anyone recall anything she did to have this happen?

Maybe because she lied about Aaron being her son, she broke "the rules" and that got her to be crossed? Those "Rules" got broken by the simplest of things.


Lost will kill all my brain cells.
 

[dawn]

yeah my brain cells are dying too, this season has been such a cluster fuck.