LOST - S4.10 "Something Nice Back Home"

LOST - "Something Nice Back Home"   

Directed by: Stephen Williams
Written by: Jeffrey Lieber
J.J. Abrams
First Aired: MAY 1

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.

RECAP:
First for the good stuff. For about five  minutes "in the future" Jack and Kate reunite and are happy; he even proposes! (This is post-Kate's trial.)

Of course Jack cannot be happy for more than 5 minutes so....continuing in this time frame, Jack sees his dead dad:

...several times in fact...and as per his usual reaction Jack gets really wigged out...and after being summoned by Hurley's Dr. when Hurley stops sleeping and taking his meds., Jack goes to Hurley's mental hospital for a chat...

...with sad, "crazy" Hurley who speaks about regular visits from dead Charlie. Hurley tells Jack he stopped taking his medicine "because we're all dead." He believes that the Oceanic Six are all dead because everything that was happening was too perfect. Hurley had a message for Jack from Charlie, "You're not supposed to be raising him." Jack gets upset stating that that doesn't make any sense, but Hurley tells Jack one more thing: Charlie said someone's going to be visiting you, too -- soon.

This freaks Jack out more because he's already seeing dead Dad.

Jack's heavily in denial--maybe even more than we thought since, as Hurley says they "are all dead."

Jack was upset about what Hurley said and he asked Kate if she really thought he was "good at this." Then he asked her to marry him. Quick! What would be your first guess about her answer? You are right! Sort of... It's more like yes for now. You know how our Kate is. ;)
What? Being a Mom made her a saint?
Jack does have reason to be suspicious of her. He just doesn't have a reason or right to be surprised by it.

Jack looks especially anguished as he's asking Kate for her hand in marriage.

So, despite his impending matrimonial bliss and current domestic state, Jack is very anxious as his colleague notes at his swanky medical suites when he asks her for a script for anti-anxiety medication.

Above he is pictured after changing out a bad smoke detector alarm battery and before he see's his father 's ghost again. Enlarge the photo so you can see where Jack's name is on the practice's sign.

When he got home, Jack heard Kate talking to someone named Noreen. Kate said she was a mom from the park. Jack hadn't heard of this person and clearly wondered whether this was the visitor Hurley had mentioned. He popped a couple of pills and downed them with a beer. IMDb

Jack sabotages his relationship with Kate by getting drunk and quizzing her on her every move.
She'll only fess up to doing something Sawyer had asked her to do.
The general consensus from fans is that she is meeting with Cassidy, Sawyer's lovechild Clementine's mom.

He shouts at her after she refers to baby Aaron as "my child" that Aaron is "not even related" to her.
This is a broad hint that Jack in the future knows that he and Claire share the same father.

So it seems that Jack has done it again and there won't be any more of these kind of moments... (For the Jaters)

...until as Kate says, he "gets help."

Meanwhile...or in this episode--time is relative after all:

Having been warned by pilot Frank Lapidis just seconds earlier that Keamy and his men are on the way Sawyer, Claire and Miles, and baby Aaron had some harrowing moments whilst Lapidis begged Keamy and Co. to hurry up and get back to the 'copter because it was getting dark.

Apparently "Smokey" didn't do a very good job of dispatching with these guys.

Safe for the moment, Claire, Sawyer, Aaron and freaky Miles start their trek to the beach anew.

It doesn't take long for Miles to start freaking out.

They are literally standing on the very shallow graves of who they identify through this scene as the French woman and Karl.

This looks enough like Karl to me but in what way does the face barely peeking out above this shot resemble Rousseau? Yet, all the fan boys and girls seem to be 100% certain that Rousseau is dead and suggested that the writers are trying to quell the speculation.

I'm totally not convinced because let's face it, they are making it up as they go along. If they need her--dead or alive,they'll "resurrect" her. Day-em! She never even got a backstory!

Also, why did whomever buried them bother to close their eyes? And why bury them at all if your are going to shovel only an inch of earth atop them?

Recovering from their shock, Claire, Sawyer, Aaron and freaky Miles settle in for the night but during the night Claire awakens to a visitor:

...who she calls

...Dad!













Family reunion~

In re: Christian~ Jack and Claire's Dad. In "White Rabbit," when Jack thought he saw Christian on the island, Vincent also saw him. Dogs see ghosts as does Freaky Miles. He tells Sawyer he saw Claire talking to a "man," Was he in Jacob's cabin because he is Jacob? Charlie died on the island, and now he's appearing to Hurley and telling him things, just like Christian is appearing to Jack and Claire. Is there a direct or only tenuous connection between the two?

The sun rises as does Sawyer and he realizes Claire is gone.

He searches for Claire but soon finds Aaron squalling, snug as a bug.

He seems very worried...and so ends his story for this episode.

Back at the beach: Jack told Juliet that he thought he might have food poisoning, but she figured out it was his appendix. The constant passing out kind of clued her in.They'd have to take it out.

Sun, Jin, Daniel and Charlotte are dispatched to the medical hatch for medical supplies and Sun told Jin in Korean that she doesn't think the boat people are going to help him. Charlotte kept looking at the couple as they talked. Does she know Korean? (Yes she does, as we find out later in a kinda cool but silly exchange between her and Jin.)

Juliette informs Kate that Jack wants her to be there for his surgery as he going to be awake and wants to "guide" Juliet through it  with Kate holding a mirror for him to see.

Juliette preps Jack for surgery. While we wait some scenes around camp.
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Jack's surgery: Jack's kind of losing it because he wanted to guide Juliet through it, though she said she's done a bunch of them. He insisted on no anesthetic. Now he's freaking out.

Juliet orders Bernard to knock Jack out with the chloroform; Jack was yelling 'till they knocked him out. What a doofus.

Way to almost eff up your own appendectomy, Mr. Triple-Type A!

Jin confronted Charlotte about the fact that he knew she understood Korean.
He said he wanted her to make sure that Sun is on the helicopter when it came to get her.

So they wedged Rebecca Mader into a scene with Sun and Jin.
I have a feeling in  "LOST"  seasons to come when Mader is not with the show that showrunners Cuse and Lindelof will refer to her as one of their hiring "mistakes" like they do of Paulo and Nikki, the couple that poisoned one another, became paralyzed, and both were buried alive. I'm kinda appalled at the candor on behalf of the actor and actress whom I'd not seen in anything before but understood they were popular "somewhere"-- daytime teevee, a small country?

It's too bad but I think the lack of enthusiasm for Mader, plus the reassurances that we'll be seeing "a lot more of" the guy that plays Lapidis, is telling us that she's not long for LOST.

Little stuff crammed into the episode that makes you go huh?

Jack walks into the kitchen and steps on Aaron's Millennium Falcon toy. Nod to Star Wars.

When Juliet was trying to rouse Jack after he passed out she sounded just like Kate but when Kate is first talking from the shower, she sounds just like Juliet.

Jack is reading from Alice in Wonderland to Aaron. Christian Shephard (Jack's "dead" dad) is always paired with the Lewis Carroll books. The first time Jack sees Christian after his dad's death is in the first full-on Jackback, "White Rabbit." "Through the Looking Glass" was also a Jackback.
Jack reads the part from the book where Alice is wondering if she'™s somehow woken up a different person. I know that feeling! lol.

Hurley says to Jack that Charlie told him Jack "is not supposed to raise him." This brings back what Claire was told in "Raised by Another," by the Australian psychic, that Aaron must be raised by her, and not another. It would be logical that Kate would be given the same message but so far in the series, Kate hasn't seen dead people, just a white horse.

When Christian is sitting in the lobby, he's wearing the same suit, tie, and white tennis shoes that he was wearing when Jack spotted him in the jungle in "White Rabbit."  It's also the same suit he's wearing when he's sitting in Jacob's cabin.

Jack tells Kate that he saved her, so he perjured himself at her trial by concocting the story that she was he(a hero).

Why does Charlotte know Korean? Is she somehow involved in Paik Industries as well?

Are they going to go get that cow that Lapidis found when he first "landed" so they can feed baby Aaron?

Featuring Emilie de Ravin (Claire), Matthew Fox (Jack), Josh Holloway (Sawyer) Jorge Garcia (Hurley), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin) Yunjin Kim (Sun), Evangeline Lilly (Kate), Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet), Terry O'Quinn (Locke), and Harold Perrineau (Michael),Naveen Andrews (Sayid) Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond),Michael Emerson (Ben) 

Guest starring: Ken Leung  (Miles), Jeremy Davies  (Daniel Faraday) Rebecca Mader (Charlotte S. Lewis) Sam Anderson (Bernard) Jeff Fahey (Frank Lapidis) Below: An  amusing video I found today...I forget where.