Previews: Lost 4x10 "Something Nice Back Home" (after jump)
Evangeline Lilly as "Kate"
- Written by Brian K. Vaughan & Drew Goddard
- Directed by Jack Bender Originally broadcast: Thursday, April 24, 2008.
LOCKE'S CAMP COMES UNDER ATTACK, AND JACK ATTEMPTS TO IDENTIFY A BODY THAT WASHES ASHORE, ON ABC'S "LOST" 10:00 PM EASTERN/9 p.m. Central
One of my first questions going into this episode was is Rousseau really dead? In some ways. It would be better for this character, a half-mad but sane-enough Frenchwoman, living "alone," on the Island for 17 or so years because her 16 years-lost daughter is dead after only having been reunited with her for weeks(?). In her mind, she would have nothing left to live for. The actress, Mira Furlan, did a wonderful job with the amount of screen time she was given.
So farewell, hope you come back in some way in the last two seasons, Mira Furlan.
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However, for the benefit of the audience I would love to see "the Frenchwoman" alive, if only for a chance to see her elbow Ben in the face again. One of my favourite LOST scenes ever.
Despite Ben's insistence that Widmore's thugs "changed the rules," Ben is responsible for the Frenchwoman's biological daughter, Alex's death.
Jack is sick, trying to minimize the seriousness by telling Kate he has a stomach problem. He has a problem but I think it's probably an appendix that's about to burst. It would probably put him in the front of the line to be taken off the Island--which unless you are spoiler-free you know is happening soon.
The Freighter doctor washed up onshore dead, with a slit throat. Kind of upset people. Daniel Faraday, who seems to get more lines than Charlotte Lewis, immediately looked guilty. Jack said essentially, "You know this guy," and Faraday just spilled. However, after Faraday rigged a telegraph together and contacted the Freighter, he claimed that they said nothing about the doctor. Bernie the dentist called Daniel a liar and translated the message as, "There's nothing wrong with the doctor. Why are you asking?" I think this is part of the time-rift type issues and that the doctor may have indeed been yet alive on the freighter but in the time-and-space zone of the island--a later time--he is not. Plus, Daniel and Co. have been lying since they got there.
Is Sawyer really Superman?
Despite being in a hail of bullets for an extended scene, redshirts dying all around him, Sawyer emerged without a scratch (just the blood from a guy that was shot dead 2 feet in front of him). I'm finding it hard to fathom that with their indiscriminate shooting and blowing up of Claire's house in New Othertown that they were deliberately trying to miss Sawyer.
Our cowboy dodges bullets whilst trying to save Claire~
Then Claire's house explodes.
Sawyer searches for Claire
Claire better be OK 'cos baby Aaron looks none too happy with his current baby sitter, Hurley.
That portrait of Ben's dead-when-she-birthed-him mother(?) looks like it's taken from a photograph.
Hurley seems to be trying really hard, but the kid is having none of it
See! Those are real tears!
He found her! Is she breathing? Of course she is! Psych! on all the folks including me, :p who thought she was dying in this episode.
Tension mounting...will they make it?
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee try to stop Hurley from allowing Sawyer and and the semi-conscious Claire in the barricaded house.
Hurley is tired of taking orders from those two losers...he throws a chair through the window...
...allowing Sawyer to pass Claire in to him. Sawyer is the show's new Jack.
All the heroism--none of the whining!
Now Locke decides to help.
Sawyer: Not happy with Ben
Red shirts getting killed
Cute. A "redshirt" wearing...a red shirt.
ALEX IS MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD
Keamy (Kevin Durand), an assassin for Charles Widmore, holds Alex hostage.
Alex (Tania Raymonde) begs Ben to save her from Keamy .
Keamy almost looks as if he cares...
Ben gets all smug, shouting Alex means nothing to him...she's just a pawn. Big mistake.
Bang
Bang
She's dead, Ben and it's your fault.
Ben seems very surprised that he doesn't control everything in this game, muttering in his shock, "He changed the rules," he being, we're to confirm later in the episode, Charles Widmore.
Dead Alex
A kiss after dying.
Before the kiss...
Ben goes into a secret room, pulls back a curtain and goes behind these doors.
Then he explains that they are all going to have to go now...
Because Ben has unleashed the smoke monster in hopes of it eating the bad guys who lurk on the fringe on the jungle.
Locke and Ben want to head to Jacob's shack but Hurley is the "only one" who knows how to find it. This is how Locke invites him to come along.
This is James' response...
Hurley tells both men to peace the spork out and to lower their guns and he agrees to go with Locke and John.
Sawyer threatens to kill Locke if "one curly hair on Hurley's head" gets harmed. Aww.
First he rescues Claire and calls her "sweetheart." Now this.
Locke says "Deal."
'Copter Pilot Frank Lapidis emerges In the jungle warning that Keamy is on his way and he'll kill them all (Sawyer, Claire, baby Aaron, and Miles). Hide!
It's impossible to keep fussy Aaron quiet.
Keamy hears the baby...
Will there be more carnage? Of course there will! Stay tuned!
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A parallel storyline that given how much we know or suspect, was pretty uninteresting to me.
Ben wakes up in Tunisia.
More after the jump, including Previews for the May 1st Episode:
(above) A scene in which Ben wakes up disoriented and shaking and puking, and as the camera pulls back we see that he is in a desert-like place. It turns out to be Tunisia.
More evidence for time travel. Also in this sequence, an extended explanation of how future Sajid comes to be an assassin working for Ben.
"And how did Ben suddenly wake up in Tunisia, and has he figured out how to move through wormholes of space and time?" was a question I saw posed by a viewer.
Then Ben travels to Iraq to find Sayid.
In Iraq, Sayid's wife is being buried after having been murdered. Neither Sayid nor the audience knows why but Ben who "encounters" him there, probably does. Perhaps as some LOST fans have have suggested, Ben is behind it all, killing Nadia to make Sayid his hitman.
Ben has often been referred to as the man behind the curtain.
Perhaps a since the man behind the curtain turned
out to be rather powerless, a more apt description of Ben would be "the
man who pulls all the strings."
And finally...Widmore says that Ben killed Alex, and
that he knows who and what Ben is. He says he took everything from
Widmore. Widmore asks Ben if Ben has come to kill him. Ben says that they both know Ben can’t kill him. (I'm assuming
that like Michael, Widmore cannot be killed do to some Island
voodoo-hoodoo.)
WIDMORE: That island’s mine,
Benjamin. It always was, it will be again.
BEN: But you’ll never find
it.
WIDMORE: Then I suppose the hunt is on for both of us.
This was most interesting to me however:
For the first time the audience gets an exact date on a flash FORWARD:
October 24, 2005. That’s ten months after the events we’re watching now, though as Daniel Faraday says... "when" is relative.
ETC.
The Numbers in this episode:
The code on the sonic fence is 1623.
Sayid says he searched for Nadia for 8 years. Ben tells the concierge that he’s
here to see Mr. And Mrs. Kendrick in 4E. The date in Ben’s flashforward is
October 24 (reverse 42).
Featuring Naveen Andrews (Sayid) Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Emilie de Ravin (Claire), Michael Emerson (Ben), Matthew Fox (Jack), Jorge Garcia (Hurley) Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin) Yunjin Kim (Sun), Evangeline Lilly (Kate), Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet), Terry O'Quinn (Locke), and Harold Perrineau (Michael).
Guest starring: Ken Leung (Miles), Jeremy Davies (Daniel Faraday) Rebecca Mader (Charlotte S. Lewis) Sam Anderson (Bernard) Tania Raymonde (Alex) Alan Dale (Charles Widmore). Also: Marc Vann as doctor, Kevin Durand as Keamy, Yetide Badaki as desk clerk, Kaveh Kardan as merchant, Faran Tahir as Ishmael Bakir and Sean Douglas Hoban as Doug.
Preview videos: When Jack's health is seriously compromised, Kate and Juliet must learn to work together in order to save him; and something goes wrong as Sawyer, Claire, Aaron and Miles continue their trek away from Locke's camp and back to the beach, on "Lost," THURSDAY, MAY 1 (10:02-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
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