Live-blog of tonight's Lost coming your way . . .



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Watching the end of last week's show: "See you guys at dinner." Great line.

This week looks like a Sun episode. Those are always good.

Zooming in on the boat. Frank and Thug #1 meet at night on the deck. "Don't be late, Frank". They have a secret conclave planned for later, evidently.

And here's Regina. Is she standing sitting guard over Desmond and Sayid? They are in a room on the boat. She's outside the door, reading a book, but I didn't catch what it was. And it was upside-down, so maybe she wasn't reading.

Des looks a lot more peaceful than he did last week. Sayid asks why they are being locked up. "We didn't bust out [of sick bay]. The door was left open." - Frank seems surprised at this. hopefully we'll find out who the Michael guy on the boat is. Frank brought them canned goods to eat.

Sayid: "I still want to talk to the Captain"

Frank: "No you don't" . . .

Back to the beach. Sun and Jin. I love it when they talk Korean. Jin is still trusting in rescue.

"Let's talk about baby names". Jin rocks. Although I like him a bit more when he's wailing on bad guys.

She wants a boy, while he wants a girl. Jin is confident. Her name will be "Ji Yeon" (I wonder what that means in Korean?). Sun doesn't want to talk about names. "Let's get off this island first".

Are they not the best-looking couple ever?

Flashback (maybe). Sun is packing an overnight bag. She is having contractions. So it's a flash-forward.

Something's wrong.

Commercial . . .
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Jin in Korea. Again, I'm assuming flash-forward, since Sun is pregnant, but there's only one slot left in the Oceanic six, right?

So, basically, I'm confused. Plus, no one seems to know who Jin is (at least no one's treating him like a celebrity or anything). Jin is frantically buying a panda bear. The bear costs fifty thousand won. I don't know how much that is, but it's a huge bear.

Back to the beach. Sun is waking Jin up. Kate and Jack and the Freighties are back. Kate is still grousing about how C.S. Lewis knocked her out. I find Kate completely irritating, especially since she's now slandering Juliet, who is way cooler than Kate. Kate's just jealous is my guess. She's accusing Juliet of being a compulsive liar. Pot, meet kettle.

She's also (reasonably, I guess) casting doubts on the intentions of Charlotte and Daniel, vis-a-vis a rescue. But . . . ugh, Kate! Thank you, Debbie downer.

Back to the boat. I think Sayid is tired of lima beans. And look, Desmond notices a note that has been pushed under the door.

Sayid mentions that Ben said there was a spy on the boat. The note says "Don't trust the captain" in block letters.

Beach. Sun walks over to Daniel. She's taking the direct route. About time someone did.

"So you're here to rescue us?"

"Um, it's not really my call, Sun" Sun thanks him for his honesty and leaves.

Jin is eating cereal with Jack and trying out his English. Sun and Sawyer have been teaching him. Sun is better. It would be a funny gag to have Jin drop a nickname here, to show the Sawyer influence. But I digress.

Jack continues to seem fairly passive for a guy who promised rescue to his people, what with all the "we're not really here to rescue you" signals that are being brightly flashed by his guests.

Alright. Sun is taking charge! She tells Jin to get food for two days.

"We're going to Locke's camp."

Sounds like a frying-pan/fire thing to me.


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Sun's frantically packing, as Juliet walks up and starts asking pesky questions. After making up some story about needing pre-natal vitamins, Sun finally spills the beans - they're heading to Locke's camp.

Sun: "I don't trust these people"

Juliet is emphatic, telling Sun not to go, talking about how pregnant women on the island die. But Sun just isn't buying it.

Sun: "Claire's baby's fine. I feel fine. All I have is your stories about how I'm going to get sick. . . No, I don't trust you"

Ah, to the hospital. And this is a confirmed flash-forward - they just mentioned the Oceanic six. The nurse is trying to take off Sun's wedding ring, and Sun is struggling against her.

The baby is in distress. The doctor is going to figure out what's going on. Sun wants Jin, now.

Jin hails a taxi. But he gets bumped, drops his phone and it gets run over, and someone else grabs his taxi with the panda bear in it! Maybe we'll see Jin beating on someone soon. Jin runs after the taxi, screaming threats.

He's back in the store, and not in the mood to palaver. He buys the last remaining panda, which was on hold for someone else, for a ton of money.

"I want that Panda", Jin says, murder in his eyes. I'd give it to him.

Back to the beach, Kate is giving Sun and Jin a map to Lockeville. Hugs all around.

Here's Juliet: "She's not going anywhere." Juliet looks even more beat up now than she did earlier.

To Jin: "Your wife is very sick. If she doesn't get off this island in three weeks, she will die."

Jin (in English, and because he's awesome): "Wherever Sun go, I go."

Juliet, out of the blue, tells Jin about Sun's affair! Beat her Sun!

Yeah she did! Slap! Another bruise for Juliet's already terribly marred face.

Man! Jin is leaving, going back to the beach.

Commercial . . .
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Back to the beach. Sun and Jin. Sun is trying to explain.

"It was a long time ago. I understand you're angry, let me explain"

Jin walks off with a fishing pole.

Bernard walks up. "Hey, you going fishin'?" Awkward. It doesn't take Bernard long to realize he just stepped in it.

Bernard and Jin in a boat. "You realize we're the only two married guys on the island?" That's actually a pretty good observation. I hadn't noticed that.

Bernard's doing the old married guy "can't live wid 'em, can't live widout 'em" talk for Jin.

He's telling Jin about the healing nature of the island, how Rose is not sick anymore. Bernard is surprised that Rose didn't want to stay on the island.

"Locke is a murderer". True dat.

And Bernard is now touting karma. Dumb.

Jin just caught a fish. "See, now that's karma. We must be the good guys!"

Back to the boat. There's some knocking sound - someone's banging on pipes.

Creepy doctor walks in. "The Captain would like to see you now."

Out on the deck. The helicopter is gone. Frank's running an errand. Where? "I'm a doctor. I don't know where he's going."

Regina walks by on the upper deck. And she's doing a leap off the boat, wrapped up in big rusty chains! Desmond is freaking.

Desmond and Sayid want to save her, they call for help, for a rope, anything. But the Captain (I'm assuming) stops them. That Regina was one short-lived character.

"I'm Captain Goldman" (Gohlen? Gollum? I didn't catch it).

"I suppose you two have a few questions." Yes, along with the rest of us.

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On the boat. "So, what can I do for you."

The Captain claims that he didn't let them save Regina because he didn't want to lose any more people. He says some of the crew are experiencing a "heightened form of cabin fever."

He can't move away from the island, because there is a terrorist on board who messed up the engine.

And the boat is owned by Charles Widmore. We knew this, but still, good to get confirmation.

In a cabin. The Captain has a flight data recorder. "This black box comes from Oceanic flight 815". It was found in the wreckage of the plane along with all the passengers, and all of them dead.

The wreckage was obviously staged. The resources involved in that are enormous. "Where does one come across 324 dead bodies?"

"That is one of the many reasons we want Benjamin Linus". I'm not following that logic, frankly. Perhaps someone can explain it to me.

On the beach. Juliet is trying to apologize for ruining Sun's marriage.

"You need to get off this island. We all do"

"You want to leave?"

"More than anything."

Juliet is describing the coming descent of Sun's health, starting in three weeks. And, eventually, sometime in the second trimester, Sun will die, and so will the baby.

"And that, Sun, is why it is my business. Because you are my patient."

I think Sun is starting to believe Juliet.

Flash-forward. Labor. They have to perform a C-section. Sun is saying no, not until Jin shows up.

And there he is! [Update: Jill's watching Lost (and I'm re-watching parts of it) as she wasn't here to watch it live. I just noticed that wasn't really Jin. Just someone who looks like him. I missed it the first time because I was too busy typing this stupid post]. And as soon as he shows up, the baby starts coming out, the normal way.

I love this couple.

Sun's pushing like crazy.

And the baby's born.

The doctor: "You did it!"

It's a daughter. Beautiful. Covered with afterbirth, but still beautiful.

Back to the boat. It is night. Doctor Frankenstein is with Sayid and Desmond.

"So, what'd ya think of the Captain?" Heh. The doctor warns them not to make the Captain mad. I think the doctor's a zombie.

The doctor is putting them in a really gross cell, covered with roaches. And with a huge bloodstain on the wall.

"That's not supposed to be there."

Someone tell me, why are they not beating the snot out of this guy?

Here comes Michael, posing as a janitor or something. No big surprise, but still pretty cool. They call him "Kevin Johnson". Not the one who used to play for the Phoenix Suns, by the way.

"Nice to meet you Kevin." Sayid and Desmond are playing along. Beggars can't be choosers.

Commercial . . .
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Back to the beach. Jin brings Sun dinner. Good man.

Sun: "I thought you had left me"

Jin: "I know why you did it. I know the man I used to be. . . Whatever you did, you did to that man. His actions caused this."

"So I forgive you." God bless Jin!

Jin offers to go to Locke's camp, but Sun has been swayed by Juliet.

Jin: "I'll do all I can to protect you and the baby."

"There's just one thing. And please, the truth . . ." Now, in English: "Is the baby mine?"

Sun, crying: "Yes, Jin. I swear the baby is yours. It's yours. I love you so much. I thought I had lost you."

Jin: "I love you too. And you will never lose me."

Beautiful.

Jin, running into the hospital with the panda bear.

Wait. He's not at Sun's room. The newborn baby is a boy. And it's some ambassador's baby (or maybe the ambassador's daughter's baby). The ambassador is the ambassador to China. Jin's bringing the panda bear to the ambassador on behalf of Mr. Paik, to try to strike up a business relationship. Is this a flash-back? I'm totally confused.

He walks out. The nurse questions him: "Leaving so soon?". Jin says it's not his baby.

Nurse: "Well maybe someday"

Jin, smiling: "I've only been married two months."

Yeah, a flashback.

Now, back to flash-forward land (I think). Sun looks good, putting on her wedding ring and makeup. The wedding ring was in a ziplock hospital bag, so this must be right after she's gotten home from the hospital.

And here's Hurley, looking awesome in a suit and tie.

"So, where is she?"

Looking at little Ji Yeon. Hurley: "She's awesome." He holds her, somewhat clumsily.

"She looks just like Jin." How come Sun always looks sad whenever Jin's paternity is mentioned?

Hurley suggests they "go see him".

Oh no. No. Wait.

Oh man. Dang it.

They are in a cemetery. Jin's dead. Did she just imagine she was seeing him in the delivery room? Was he a ghost? [Update: or maybe I'm just dumb. See my note above]

I can't take this. But it explains my confusion over seven members of the Oceanic six. There are only six. Sun's the last one.

Standing before Jin's grave, Sun talks to him.

"The doctor said I was calling out for you."

"I named her just like you wanted."

Dear God. No.

"I miss you so much."

Goodbye Jin.

Crud . . .
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Next week's show:

Sayid racking on Michael. Good.

Automatic weapons. A red button. And Someone. Will. Die.


I have mixed feelings about this episode. Overall it was somewhat uninteresting. For the first 55 minutes of it.

The last 5 minutes ripped my guts out. . .