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OBS Recap & Reviews Lost: S6 Episode 8 “Recon”
Brought to you by OBS Staff member Rose
As we all know every week Lost takes a sideways glance at one of the characters and this week it is James (Sawyer) Ford.
Sawyer wakes up Jin and Jin freaks out and wants to leave before Locke and Claire come back. Sawyer tells Jin he’s with Locke, and he wants to get off the island. Jin doesn’t want to leave without finding Sun first.
Locke returns to their camp with the Others, Sayid and Kate. Kate says hello to Sawyer.
In sideways world, Sawyer is with a woman, in bed and he needs to leave to meet a guy. A suitcase falls, pops open and wads of cash fly out. The woman asks what he is doing with all that money. He tells her he’s making an investment. He turns his back for a moment and the woman draws a gun on him. She knows he’s a con man, figures the case opened on purpose and is trying to play her. He calls her stupid and tells her the whole thing is a set up to catch her husband and the hotel is surrounded by police. She doesn’t believe him, so Sawyer says a code word and the police bust inside, including Miles. Turns out, Sawyer is a cop and Miles is his partner.
Claire is looking fondly into her baby basinet when Kate approaches her. Kate asks if this is where she lived as Claire fixes the tulle, which is covering the creepy dead animal skull slash stuffed animal body baby in the basinet. Kate is slowly realizing the Claire is a little cuckoo.
Locke makes an announcement to the Others that they need to keep moving. He gets questioned about what transpired at the temple after they left. He tells them the black smoke killed anyone that stayed. Everyone is nervous and Locke promises to take care of everybody.
Kate states matter-of-fact to Sawyer that he is with Locke now. Sawyer tells Kate he is not ‘with anybody’.
Sawyer is at his desk at the LAPD. He goes to make a call to an Anthony Cooper when Miles comes over. Sawyer hangs up. Miles asks about his call to Cooper. Sawyer tells him it’s an old buddy of his who is getting him Lakers tickets. Sawyer told Miles he took a trip to Palm Springs the weekend before, so Miles thinks Sawyer saw Cooper then, but Sawyer is vague when Miles questions him about it. Miles tells Sawyer he setting him up on a blind date with a friend of his who works at the museum.
Miles wants a hook up for Lakers tickets so he questions Sawyer again about his buddy and the tickets. Again Sawyer plays vague and says he probably can’t get any for him. Miles feels he is lying and tells Sawyer he can tell him anything.
Locke tells the Others they are headed to a clearing and to fill up on water for they might be there a few days. Sawyer is not happy with this, so they go to talk in private. Locke tells Sawyer he is the smoke monster and killed the people at the temple.
Locke then send Sawyer on a mission, to take the boat to Hydra Island to check out the Ajira airplane and if anyone else survived the crash. Locke wants Sawyer to gain their trust, find out everything he can and return. He wants Sawyer to do Recon and he is not worried someone will harm him because he is the best liar he ever met.
Sawyer meets Charlotte (the blind date) at a restaurant. She asks him why he became a cop and he tries to give her his standard answer. She asks him to tell her the truth and not tell her the same story he tells everyone else. He tells her the truth and they end up sleeping together. She asks to borrow a t-shirt and he tells her to help herself in a drawer. When rummaging through she finds Sawyer’s folder with a news clipping of his childhood tragedy. Sawyer walks in and flips out that she found it and screams at her to leave.
On Hydra Island Sawyer comes upon the cages that he and Kate were previously locked in and sees the dress Kate was wearing.
Kate sits next to Sayid and realizes something is wrong with him and he admits he’s not okay. Suddenly Claire jumps Kate and tries to stab her with a knife while Sayid just sits there. Locke pulls Claire off, admonishes her as she wigs out and he must slap her to calm her down.
Sawyer gets to the Ajira plane and inspects it and sees a path in the sand leading into the jungle. Sawyer follows it and comes across a pile of dead bodies. He hears something moving and chases a woman who is running by. When he catches her, she tells him she is the only one left.
Charlie’s brother is at the police station front desk asking for his brother, who was picked up on drug charges, when Sawyer walks by and he asks for Sawyer’s assistance. It’s not Sawyer department and Sawyer continues on his way. When Sawyer sees Miles, Miles requests to speak to him. Sawyer thinks he’s mad about what happen with Charlotte, but instead, Miles found out he went to Australia, not Palm Springs. Sawyer refuses to tell Miles anything so Miles does not want to be his partner anymore.
Sawyer asks Zoe (the lone survivor) what happened to the others. She tells Sawyer she was out collecting wood and heard screaming and when she returned everyone was dead.
Kate is crying and Locke apologizes for Claire actions. Locke is responsible for Claire thinking the Others took her baby. Locke told her this so she would have something to hate so she could carry on. He explains this to Kate and promises he will protect her as well as the Others. Kate wants to know where Sawyer went and Locke tells her he will show her.
Zoe is playing the 20 question game with Sawyer, asking about the other people on the other island and if they have guns to protect themselves. Sawyer asks her why she was going to Guam and then pulls a gun on Zoe, saying the same thing the woman said to him in the hotel room in sideways world “your good but you ain’t that good”. Zoe whistles and armed men leap out of the jungle with guns pointed.
Locke brings Kate to the beach and shows her Hydra island, which is where he sent Sawyer. Locke tells Kate his mother was crazy and a disturbed woman. Because of this he has had problems in his life that could have been avoided. Locke tells Kate that Aaron has a crazy mother now too.
Sawyer is led to the submarine dock and is taken inside the submarine.
Sawyer returns home from work and is watching TV and sees something that makes him think about the loss of his family. He heads to Charlotte’s house to apologize but she wants nothing to do with him.
Charles Widmore introduces himself to Sawyer. Sawyer makes a deal with Widmore. He agrees to lie to Locke, so Widmore has the opportunity to kill him, if he gives him and his friends safe passage of the island. Widmore is skeptical about trusting him but they shake on it.
Claire tries to apologize to Kate and thanks her and hugs her.
Sawyer returns and tells Locke everyone else from the Ajira flight is dead. Sawyer then tells Locke about Widmore, the submarine, the act that there is something very important on the sub that they have locked away and that they are setting up pylons that keep out the smoke thing. He then tells Locke his scheme between himself and Widmore, because in essence Sawyer is keeping to his original deal with Locke.
Sawyer picks up Miles outside of work and hands him his ‘Sawyer” folder, tells Miles his childhood story and that he’s been hunting down the man who was responsible for his family’s death since he graduated from the academy. Suddenly another vehicle smashes into the back of Sawyer’s car, the driver gets out and gives chase to cops who were already in pursuit. Sawyer and Miles get out of the car and chase after the driver as well. Sawyer catches up and grabs the perp and it’s Kate. He recognizes her instantly.
Sawyer is sitting at the beach with Kate and tells her who is over at Hydra Island and that he is going to let the two of them (Widmore and Locke) fight it out and he and Kate are getting off the island. Kate asks him who will fly the plane? Sawyer calls Kate freckles once again and tells her he plans on taking the sub.
Review
Half of me thinks the writers went in the sideways direction just so they could make up totally different lives for the Losties. They got tired of who they were and decided to make Season 6 an extended version of ‘The Bizarro Jerry’ episode from Seinfeld.
What difference does it make in the show if we see this other sideways world that really did not happen? Or will the grand finale show us it does matter, because these things all really did take place but on different planes of existence. Do the writers think that the average person will even want to wrap their hand around that?
On the other hand, I find an extreme blatant message being conveyed about each character struggle “theme’ in their respective highlighted episodes. Sayid’s character struggle was not being good enough due to his past torture days, Jack’s was finding himself, this week is Sawyer’s truth telling capabilities. The reason for this? Maybe this is why each person was ‘chosen’ as a candidate.
One clue from the upcoming epsiode was Locke explaining that everything they see, isn’t what it is. This is huge. But we already knew that. Will that storyline go further in the next episode we don’t know. Another huge reveal will be Richard Alpert. I think Alpert holds the key in explaining half of what is really going on. I think the next episode will get the ball rolling down hill. What do you think will be revealed about Richard Alpert?
It seems Jin and Sun’s story is also key in some reveals as the writers are waiting a long time to have them reunite. There must be a reason for this.
Now that the temple lords and interpreters are dead, it seems Locke is in a better mood. But does he have to be so super creepy nice all of a sudden? It just rubs me the wrong way. What do you think?
Sawyer is the ultimate con man the way he is playing both sides. The only thing Sawyer really cares about is his own interests which of course if getting off the island. Seems like Sawyer snapped out of his Juliet stupor because he called Kate ‘Freckles’ again, for the first time since I don’t remember when.
I am very curious to see what happens in the next episode.
Items of interest:
-Watership Down book – Charlette touches it on Sawyer’s dresser.
Once again, another book is shown that deals with fantasy and animals that are anthropomorphized. The novel recounts the rabbits' odyssey as they escape the destruction of their warren to seek a place in which to establish a new home, encountering perils and temptations along the way.
In the Sandleford warren, Fiver, a young runt rabbit who is a seer, receives a frightening vision of his warren's imminent destruction. When he and his brother Hazel fail to convince their chief rabbit of the need to evacuate, they set out on their own with a small band of rabbits to search for a new home, barely eluding the Owsla, the warren's military caste.
The company cope with many dangers, but none so insidious as their encounter with Cowslip's Warren. Here, the company encounter an apparently prosperous rabbit colony with pampered and fastidious citizens who enjoy plenty of food and protection from predators by humans. However, Fiver is profoundly suspicious especially when he observes the local culture disdains the traditional tales of El-ahrairah in favour of maudlin fatalistic poetry. When Fiver attempts to leave, a derisive Bigwig learns firsthand the deadly secret of the warren; the whole area is a human designed rabbit farm with numerous snares placed to harvest them.
This pretty much mimics Locke and his band of new followers.
I know I didn't come up with a lot of questions this week. Instead just points to ponder. If you have anything that you noticed in this episode that is interesting, please let us know and comment.
-Little House on the Prairie dialogue with Michael Landon (Charles Ingalls) talking about not worrying about what will happen in life and that people aren’t really gone when they die to little Laura Ingals.
8:42 Time on the clock when Sawyer got up from the bed in the hotel. 8 and 42 are both part of 'the numbers'. 8 which is Hurley's number and 42 being Kwon's. Which Kwon we don't know.
Favorite Quotes:
Fake Locke: “I’m the smoke thing”
Sawyer: “Take me to your leader” when he gets ambushed on the beach with Zoe.
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