Last week was one of the best episodes of LOST maybe ever. This week was not nearly as good, but it is what I call a filler episode, and was really just getting characters up to speed. As I have gone in my previous LOST posts I'll split this up between on-island and off-island timelines.
OFF-ISLAND:
There is a bit of a shocking revelation right in the beginning. Jack has a kid named David. What is not shocking is that they have issues. We find out that Jack does not see David much, and there seems to be some resentment. Jack in this timeline is much different then the Jack we knew earlier. Basically he is not a drugged out, drunk, douchebag that can't hold his life together.
Still, he struggles with getting close to people. He couldn't get close to his father, because he was scared he'd let him down, and he can't get close to his son, because his son is afraid of the same thing.
After a couple scenes of David being a douche, Jack gets a call from his mother that he needs to come over and help find his fathers will. Jack leaves his son, and heads out. When he gets there they finally find the will. The only thing that was important here is that Jack's dad left something to Claire, so it will only be a matter of time before Jack and his mother know that Jack's dad has a daughter.
When Jack returns home his son is missing. Jack flips shit, and obviously blames himself leaving a voicemail saying "whatever I have done I am sorry", or something to that affect. Jack heads to his ex-wife's house (which we assume is the same woman he saved from being paralyzed in earlier seasons), and goes into his son's room. We find out that Jack's son has not run away, and doesn't really hate his father at all, he is actually just hiding the fact that he is playing the piano.
Jack tracks his son down, and asks why he would hide this from him (oh and Jack sees the head "Other" guy, who is also there for his son, but I don't think that means very much). He responds that Jack was so into it, and he didn't want to let him down. Finally Jack is a good father and says that no matter what he does he can never be a failure (the exact opposite of what Jack's dad said to him, which made Jack the man he is today).
ON-ISLAND:
Jack tells Sayid that they were trying to poison him, not a lot comes from this, but it will in later episodes. Hurley is visited by dead (?) Jacob, who tells him that he has a mission for him, and that he needs to bring Jack (btw Hurley was awesome in this episode) with him. Jack refuses to go, but Hurley (as Jacob told him to) says "you have what it takes", which is the opposite of what Jack's dad said to him when he was a kid. This gets Jack all riled up, and they are off. After leaving the temple they find Kate, which was a completely pointless scene, and they part after only a minute or two.
After a long walk, which included a trip back to the old caves hangout in which Jack tell Hurley he found because he was chasing his dead father around the jungle (something Hurley can relate to), they finally head to the lighthouse.
How do they not see a big lighthouse on this island is beyond me, but they make fun of it too, and whatever this is a crazy island. When they get to the top of the lighthouse there is a series of mirrors, and a compass. Jacob told Hurley to put it at 108 (which for all you math nerds is the combination of 4,8,15,16,23,42). As they begin to move the compass Jack sees images in the mirrors. He gets all fired up and makes Hurley push it to 23, which is "Jack's Number". When it settles on his number Jack sees his childhood house. Jack flips shit, and wants to know why that image is there, and where the fuck Jacob is. Hurley has no answers, so Jack picks up some kind of rod and smashes all the mirrors.
Jack then charges off for one of his patented stare off into nowhere scenes. Hurley then is visited by Jacob again. He tells him the plan went to shit, but Jacob doesn't seem to care. It seems the whole trip was just to get Jack to sit and think.
Meanwhile, Jin and that random black "Other" guy have been captured by Claire, but this isn't our normal Claire. She is a fucking nutcase now after being alone for 3 years without her baby, and her only friends are her father, and Flocke (which are most likely one in the same). She has even made a fake baby out of boar bones. Yea... that crazy.
After a quick interrogation of the black guy she axes him. Jin, trying to save the guy, blurts out that Kate has had her baby all along. This is much different then what Flocke has been telling her, which is that the "Others" have her baby at the Temple. After she kills that guy Jin finally decides that it is probably not a good idea for Claire to be going after Kate, so he says he lied and the Others have her kid. Claire says "good, because if Kate had my baby this whole time I'll kill her". Well that should be interesting later, since Kate is looking for Claire.
The episode ends with Flocke showing up, and Jin being very surprised. No sign of Sawyer, but I guess he could have been just outside.
QUESTIONS:
- What are all these characters candidates for?
- Why is Kate not one of these candidates?
- Why can Hurley only see Jacob/other dead people?
- Why does Jack have a kid? Did he always, and he just never said anything?
- Who is coming to the island (that Jacob keeps saying)?
- What is at the Temple that Flocke wants so badly?
THEORIES:
- Jack didn't have a kid in the "on-island" timeline, and we are just seeing the affects of the island/Jacob never touching these people's lives.
- Jack is going to take Jacob's place.
- All the Others at the Temple are going to die.
- Claire is already dead, and is being played by Flocke to get in the Temple (obvious...well at least the temple part).
- Kate will take Locke's place in the sequence of numbers.
- These two timelines are going to cross over at some point, and by the end of the season we will have 1 timeline.
As always leave any questions or theories in the comment section.
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