LOST Recap: Recon

We are now 1/2 way through the final season of LOST. Last night's episode was about Sawyer. As always I split this up between on and off island...

OFF-ISLAND:

Sawyer's sideways life is, I would say, the most different of anyone else's that we've seen so far. It starts off with him pulling his normal con, but there is something different this time around. After opening his briefcase and money falling out (usual) the woman he is trying to con pulls out a gun. Sawyer says that he is a cop, the woman doesn't believe him and then Sawyer utters the word "Lafluer" and cops flood the room. It was all a setup to take down this woman.

We find out Sawyers partner is Miles, which is very similar to how they were on-island in the 70's. For everything that is different about Sawyer some things are still the same. Sawyer is still obsessed with finding Anthony Cooper, the original Sawyer who incited his parents' deaths. If you still believe the "incident" cause the alt timeline, then this makes sense...Sawyer's father killed himself and his mother in 1976, whereas the explosion on the island happened in '77.

Sawyer's hidden vengence plot is causing problems all over the place. His new GF (Charlotte, my 2nd least favorite character) finds a scrapbook notating what happened to his parents. Sawyer comes in to the room and sees her looking at it. He flips shit, and kicks her out. He tries to make up for it later, but she was having none of that.

It is also causing problems with this partner (Miles). Miles finds out that Sawyer has been lying about where he went on vacation, as Sawyer flew to Sidney. Finally Sawyer tells Miles the truth, and everything seems to be fine.

Kate just keeps popping up in every timeline of this Sawyer-focused episode. This time she is running from the cops after a hit and run. Sawyer tackles her, and I'm sure we will see more of this later.

ON ISLAND:

In short, shit is hitting the fan.

Flocke asks Sawyer to go on a recon for him. He wants him to go to the other island and see what's going on over there. Sawyer does as he is told, but when he gets over there it is not a pleasant sight. All the people from the Ajira plane are dead, and in a ditch, except 1 woman. Sawyer tracks her down, and she says that she is the only one remaining. We find out this is a lie, and that all these people were killed by Widmore's little army that came on the sub. Sawyer is captured for the 1,000th time, and him and Widmore finally have a face to face. Sawyer is open and honest with everything that is going on. He tell Widmore that Flocke sent him, and tells him that he will tell him the coast is clear and bring him into a trap. Widmore seems to buy it, and Saywer is free to go.

Once he gets back to the island Sawyer talks to Flocke. He tells him exactly what he tell Widmore. He says that while they are setting up their trap Flocke and take them all out. Flocke seems to buy this too, so the battle is a brewing.

Meanwhile, Kate has crazy Claire on her hands. Claire acts like they are best friends, but the second Kate turns her back Claire whips out a knife and tries to kill Kate. Flocke breaks it up slapping Claire (best part of the episode). Flocke tries to apologize to Kate, saying it is his fault since he told her the Others had her baby. Later Claire comes back and apologizes, and they hug...All I can say is Claire better not just be all better now.

Some interesting things came out when Kate and Flocke were talking. Flocke states that he had a crazy mother, and now Aaron has a crazy mother, and this apparently is bad news. I will back to this in the questions and theories.

After all this Sawyer meets up with Kate. He tells them he is going to let Flocke and Widmore fuck eachother up. While all this is going on Kate and him are going to sneak onto the sub and get off this island. We are supposed to think that Sawyer still wants Kate after seeing her old dress at the cages (a flashback to when they banged in season 3), but to be honest I couldn't care less.

Questions:

- If Anthony Cooper (the con who killed Sawyers parents) is still a bad guy, then why did it seem Locke was on good terms with him in his sideways life?

- Since Kate has been raising Aaron, are we finally seeing what the psychic warned Claire about?

- Did Charlotte find the scrapbook of Sawyers dead family by a mistake, or was she looking for it? (seemed to me see was looking for it)

- Is Claire going to try to kill Kate again? (I hope so)

- Is Widmore on Jacob's side, or is he doing this for himself?

Theories:

- I said last week that I think the flash sideways are the payoff for what people do on the island. That hasn't changed yet.

- After Flocke's little rant about Aaron having a crazy mother, and he had a crazy mother I think Aaron could be Flocke's "chosen one", and that is why the the psychic insisted that no one raise Aaron but Claire.

- I am not so sure that Christian Sheppard is the MIB. Maybe Jacob, knowing what the psychic know, sabotaged Claire's mental state by sending Christian Shepard to spirit her away... thus abandoning Aaron and plunging her into craziness. But at the same time maybe it is the MIB, because he wants his "chosen one".

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