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OBS RECAP & REVIEWS: LOST S6 EPISODE 5 ‘LIGHTHOUSE’
Brought to you by OBS Staff Member Rose
Last episode left us off with Sawyer and Creepy Locke (my new name for him) crunching numbers: the infamous numbers written all over Jacob’s cave, where Sawyer agrees with Mr. Creepy, to get the eff off the island. This means Sawyer is now Locke’s first recruit. Lost skips following this story line on heads back to Jack, Hurley and Jacob.
Recap
Jack is home from the airport and is in his bathroom, shirt open and sees a scar on his stomach. His mother calls him and they discuss the fact that his father’s body has not be recovered just yet and the coffin might have been checked through Berlin. He then asks his mother when he had his appendix taken out. His mother tells him when he was seven and his father wanted to do it himself but wasn’t allowed. She questions his remembrance of it and he hesitantly agrees he remembers. He hangs up and drives to St. Mary’s Academy and picks up his son, David.
Jack is sitting looking out from the temple onto the water when Dogen comes over and questions whether his friends will be coming back to the temple and Jack tells him probably not. Hurley and Miles are playing tic-tac-toe when Hurley decides to search for some food. Hurley goes inside the temple by the Spring and Hurley sees a guy leaning over by the Spring and asks him where he can find some food. The guy turns around to face him and tells him down the hall. Hurley is surprised to see it is Jacob and questions what he is doing there. Jacob tells him he needs for Hurley to do something for him. Someone is coming to the island and Hurley needs to them find it.
In David’s room, Jack finds a book ‘The Annotated Alice’ by Lewis Carroll and starts a conversation with David about how he used to read to him and David walks out. David is fed up with seeing his dad only once a month and makes it well known. Jack’s mother calls again and Jack leaves to go see her.
By the temple Sayid walks up to Jack and asks why is everyone staring at him and questions why people are saying he is poisoned. He asks Jack what is he hiding from him. Jack tells him the pill Dogen wanted him to take was poison and they wanted to kill him. Jack tells him, his ‘poisoining’ happened to someone else too. Sayid asks who.
Claire helps Jin out of the trap he caught his leg in. Jin asks how long has Claire been out in the jungle. She tells him since they all left. She asks him how long has that been, he tells her three years. Jin then passes out from the pain.
Hurley is walking through the temple halls and searches the walls while looking at the directions given to him by Jacob, scribbled on his arm. Dogen stops sees him and suggests he head back to the courtyard for he is not suppose to be there. Jacob appears (only to Hurley) and instructs him to tell Dogen that ‘he is a candidate’. When he does the leader is visable shocked by this asks him who told him that. Hurley doesn’t give an answer. Jacob tells Hurley he should be in the temple with Jack and to go back and get him. Hurley is not optimistic Jack will follow him. Outside the temple, Hurley approaches Jack and of course refuses to come with him. Hurley says the magic words Jacob instructed him to tell Jack “You have what it takes”. This snaps Jack into action and he agrees to follow Hurley and meet Jacob for himself.
Jin wakes up and calls out for Claire. He uses an oar to steady himself up and looks at his surroundings. Odds and ends are scattered everywhere and he sees a baby basinet in the make shift tent he is in. He removes the tulle covering it and finds a small animal head inside. Claire comes back with a prisoner (one of the Others) and plops him on the floor. She asks the man where he is hiding her son. Claire suddenly leaves the makeshift camp to do something and when she does, The Other tells Jin if they don’t leave, Claire will kill them both.
Hurley and Jack trek through the forest and Jack sees Kate by a river. Kate tells Jack, Jin went back to the temple and Sawyer is on his own and she wants to look for Claire. Jack warns her something happen to Claire. Kate insists regardless and heads off to find her.
Jack is at his mother’s house and they are looking for his father’s will. They discuss his son and his lack of communication skills. His mother suggests he talk to his son and she finds the will and reads it over. After reading it over she asks Jack if his father ever mention a Claire Littleton.
Claire is sharpening an ax, as the Other wants Jin to untie him before she kills them both. Claire comes back and cleans Jin’s leg and sews up it up. Claire tells Jin, ‘her friend’ told her The Others took her baby. She then poses the question ‘are you still my friend’ to Jin. Claire gets up with the ax in hand and confronts the Other.
Hurley apologizes for wrecking Jack’s game with Kate. Jack said it didn’t work out anyway, he couldn’t hack the family thing. Hurley remarks that Jack would make a great dad. Jack says he would not. They find an asthma inhaler on the jungle floor. Hurley tells him that it’s Shannon’s. They are by a cave and right outside of it, Hurley sees two skeletons lying next to one another. Hurley remarks in a question to Jack if they time traveled again, back to the time of dinosaurs and they died, then got buried here, what if these skeletons were them?
Jack tells Hurley how he found the place they are standing at. He tells Hurley his father’s ghost led him there and his coffin was there, before he smashed it. Hurley asks why he did that. Jack tells him his father wasn’t in it.
Jack returns home with pizza and calls out for David who is not in his room. Jack keeps calling David and tells him he’s going to drive over to his mother’s and he’s sorry he upset him. Jack gets to David’s mother’s house goes in, with a hidden key, looks around David’s room, sees sheet music by Copin, checks his answering machine and hears a message about David’s appoint for the Conservatory that night and of himself leaving a message calling from Sydney.
Hurley asks why Jack came back to the island. Jack asks him the same in return. Hurley tells him about Jacob in the back of his cab and Jacob’s urge to return. Jack tells him he was broken and thought the island could fix him. They walk a bit further and come across a brick lighthouse.
Claire keeps asking the Other where her son is. Claire tells Jin they tortured her and shows her brand (the same branding burn they gave Sayid near his gun shot wound). Claire is about to swing the ax at the Other and Jin tells Claire that Kate has had Aaron for the past three years, and that she took him when they left the Island. Claire questions the words ‘took him’. Claire breaks down in tears and then suddenly swings the ax into the Other as Jin looks on in horror.
At the lighthouse, Hurley says he has to turn it on. Jack breaks in the locked door and they head inside.
Jack arrives at the Conservatory, and sees his son playing the piano and is overcome with joy by his son’s playing and gets teary. A young Asian boy asks if David is his son and tells him David is really good. The young Asian boy walks over to his own father, who is Dogen and hugs him. Dogen walks over to Jack and tells him his son David has a gift and asks how long has David been playing. Jack says he didn’t know.
At the lighthouse, Hurley is studying a contraption, almost like a compass. He starts turning it and tells Jack to tell him when it gets to 108 degrees. When Hurley turns the massive turning device the dial clicks past each degree and in the mirror attached to the contraption, Jack sees a reflection of different houses. Jack tells Hurley to stop turning. Jack looks at the names written byeach degree and sees all their names. He stops at his, 23, and tells Hurley to turn to it and in the reflection sees his mother’s house. He realizes Jacob has been watching them the whole time. Jack demands to see Jacob. When Hurley can’t tell him when he will appear, Jack smashes the mirrors in the machine.
After David is done with his recital and walks to his bike outside the Conservatory, Jack walks up to him and tells him he was great. David is surprised he saw him play. David tells him he didn’t tell him about his recital because he didn’t want him to see him fail. Jack confides to his son that his own father always told him he didn’t have what it takes. Jack doesn’t want David to feel like a failure. Jack tells his son, he can never fail in his eyes and wants to be a part of his life.
Back on the Island, Jack is looking out over the ocean by the Lighthouse and Jacob appears to Hurley. Hurley tells Jacob, Jack smashed the mirrors. Jacob doesn’t seem concerned. Hurley realizes it was Jacob’s plan to have Jack see his name and his house in the mirror. Jacob tells Hurley sometimes you can simply tell a person what to do, like in the back of a cab and other times you have to have them figure it out. Jacob tells Hurley that he wanted to ensure they were far away from the temple because someone bad is coming. Hurley wants to warn the others, but Jacob tells his it is too late.
Claire tells Jin she had to kill the Other. Claire questions why Jin told her Kate was raising Aaron. He tells her he lied to save the Other’s life. She tells him she is glad that he was lying because if Kate were raising Aaron she would have to kill Kate. Suddenly Fake Lock comes into the makeshift tent. Jin looks up and says Locke’s name. Claire tells Jin, that is not Locke that’s ‘her friend’.
Review
Tonight episode was quite suspenseful. Claire has turned into a B horror film psycho and finally the numbers are kind of explained, with the light-bulb-over-the-head-scene at the Lighthouse when we see the names and numbers on the dial. Jack is headed for a nervous breakdown and hopefully that calm salty sea air reflection time will do him some good.
Back to Claire. What has taken over or ‘poisoned’ Claire? Is it an offspring of evil from the Smoke Monster? Has Claire really died, just like Sayid did and was taken over by part of Fake Locke?
At first one would think when the dial on the Lighthouse device was turned, it moved things in time. Then after Jack sees his own mother’s house in the mirror, it is apparent it is a compass of sorts. The Lighthouse holds the device to ‘hone in and beam in on people’ to find the Island, in the most unconventional way. Each line on the dial represents a degree. It is representative of a circle so there much be 360 lines, which indicates 360 names. What are your thoughts about the device? Who is coming to the island and how will they get there now that the device is broken?
Why does Jack not remember his appendix being taken out? Also, why point out Shannon's inhaler? Is she returning this Season?
What questions do you have for this episode?
Items of Interest:
The book in David’s room: ‘The Annotated Alice by’ Lewis Carroll.
From Wikipedia: The Annotated Alice is a work by Martin Gardner incorporating the text of Lewis Carroll's major tales: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass as well as the original illustrations by John Tenniel. It has extensive annotations explaining the contemporary references (including the Victorian poems that Carroll parodies), mathematical concepts, wordplay, and Victorian traditions (such as the snap-dragons) featured in the two books.
We all know Alice in Wonderland deals with anthromorphic creatures. Well Wiki writes: In religion and mythology, anthropomorphism refers to the perception of a divine being or beings in human form, or the recognition of human qualities in these beings. Many mythologies are concerned with anthropomorphic deities who express human characteristics such as jealousy, hatred, or love. The Greek gods, such as Zeus and Apollo, were often depicted in human form exhibiting human traits. Anthropomorphism in this case is referred to as anthropotheism.
Gods in human form, such as Jacob, as well as Creepy Locke. Numerous sects throughout history have been called anthropomorphites attributing such things as hands and eyes to God, including a sect in Egypt in the 4th century. Egyptian symbols are used everywhere in ‘Lost’.
The hieroglyph that Hurley stopped at in the temple halls was a circle that was sitting on a ledge (line). I searched high and low online for that symbol and finally came across the Greek alphabet letter Omega which means "grow". Do you agree that this is what the symbol was? The only problem is...how could Greek letters be mixed in with Egyptian hieroglyphs in the temple?
Inside David’s room at his mothers, is sheet music for “Fantasie-Impromptu (Chopin). I looked it up to see if there was any important reference and there seems to be none.
Best Quotes from Hurley:
“I just lied to a samurai” - to Jacob about lying to Dogen.
“He turns up whenever he wants, kinda like Obi Wan Kenobi.” – to Jack in reference to Jacob.
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