Thursday, January 29. 2009
LOST: Jughead [Recap]
On this weeks LOST we completely abandon the Oceanic Six and revisit our time traveling heroes on the island, as well as go along with Desmond on his quest to find Faraday's mum....
A few interesting twists along the way, and I wonder what's in store for the newest member....
A few interesting twists along the way, and I wonder what's in store for the newest member....
Desmond and the Charlies
Our favorite Scotsman finds himself running around some Southeast Asian paradise in search of a doctor. He finally finds one, and they head out to the boat. What for?
To deliver Penny's baby, of course! Where this falls into the timeline I really don't know. But there he is.
Flash forward, presumably to our "three years later" timeframe. He's telling his now roughly three year old son about an island, where he lived a long time ago. It's called Great Britain, and the most beautiful part (of course) is Scotland. They argue a bit about whether or not to tell him about his grandfather, Charles Widmore, and about the task ahead of Desmond, and his "memory" of Faraday.
He prepares to head inland, and promises Penny that he'll find Daniel's mother and be back by dark, and be done with this forever. He promises he'll never go back.
At Oxford, he's pressing a secretary about Faraday. She can't find any record of him at all, nor can he remember the year he met Daniel there. Instead he sneaks off to find the lab (in "Clarendon 142-08" I might add), breaks down the door, and finds all of Daniel's equipment and papers still there, covered. He picks up a cracked photo of Faraday and a blonde girl.
A man walks in, who says he was one of Faraday's assistants. He tells Desmond that he's not the first one to come poking around looking for him, and to tell his friends that all he found was "rubbish left by a madman." On his way out, Desmond asks about there not being any record of Daniel. "Can you blame them? After what he did to that poor girl?" (Maybe I missed something, because I dont' think it was said who she was or where to find her?)
He goes to find this girl, Teresa Spencer, and finds instead her sister at the door. "I got her name from Faraday." "Well why didn't you say so?" She takes him to another room, where a woman is laid up, seemingly unconscious in a hospital bed. She seems to suffer from some familiar sounding symptoms, thinking she's three years old, talking to her dead father, etc. Faraday abandoned her here, and it comes out that Charles Widmore both funded Faraday's research, and is footing the bill for Teresa's medical care.
Desmond storms into Widmore's office (note the two paintings) and lays it out for him. Widmore will answer his questions, and Des will be out of his hair for good. He asks about Daniel's mother, and after a sly look, Faraday feigns ignorance, until Desmond tells him he knows about the funding. Widmore concedes, and writes down an address on a piece of paper.
"She's in Los Angeles. I suspect she won't be pleased to see you, she's a very private person." He warns Desmond to deliver his message and stay out of things, that this goes back "many, many years" and doesn't want Penny involved.
Back on the boat, the name of the new Hume sprog is revealed: "Charlie." After a bit of an argument, Penny realizes that she has to go along with Desmond on this quest, and they both realize what it might mean....
Romanes Eunt Domus!
Locke, Sawyer, and Juliet are holding their two uniformed captives at gunpoint. Locke notices the condition of the M-1 he's holding, and Sawyer decides they should shoot these two.
They start speaking to each other in Latin, which Juliet picks up on, and returns in the same. They're "Others," apparently, as Latin is a required course for them, "Others 101" she says.
They march the two through the jungle, Locke using the compass as a guide. Juliet tries (in Latin) to get "Cunningham" (It's on his uniform) to tell them where the camp is. She asks about Alpert, and he finally starts to tell them. The other one, "Jones" breaks Cunningham's neck and runs off into the jungle. Locke raises the riflel to shoot him, but stops. Sawyer grabs it, fires, and misses. "Why didn't you shoot him?" "Because he's one of my people."
They reach the camp, and Locke asks Juliet how she knew Richard would be there. "He's always been here... He's very, very old." "He was going to tell me how to save us." Sawyer notices Faraday being marched at gunpoint from the camp (read on!) and goes after him with Juliet. Locke goes toward the camp to finish his conversation with Alpert.
He calmly but quickly walks into camp, starts yelling for Richard, and one of the uniformed guys (the same one that ran?) grabs a rifle and points it at John's back. Alpert comes out, and John tells him who he is.
"Is that supposed to mean something to me?" John looks a bit confused and disappointed. "Jacob sent me."
Alpert's attention changes considerably, and he grabs the gun from the uniformed guy, "I said put the gun down, Widmore." Locke turns around bewildered, "Charles Widmore?" "Yeah, what's it to you?" Locke grins knowingly, "Nothing, nice to meet you."
Richard and John retire to his tent, where he shows Alpert the compass, and explains the story. "Why don't I remember any of this?" "Because it hasn't happened yet." "I'm not sure what you're expecting me to say." "You were going to tell me how to get off the island."
"That's privileged information, why would I tell you that?" "You told me I had something important to do, and because I'm your leader. That's what you told me."
"I don't want to contradict myself, but there's a long process, which starts at a young age..."
Locke tells him to come visit him after he's born, which isn't for another two years (it's 1954 on the island.)
The humming starts, "You need to tell me now!" and THWAPP, the journey continues.... Locke puts his head in his hands in desperation....
Jughead
Back to Miles, Faraday, Charlotte, and the two "redshirts" they're travelling with (boy was that obvious.) They reach the creek, and Faraday is quizzing Charlotte on her symptoms, which are dead on. "You know what's happening to me?" Miles spots a tripwire connected to a claymore, and before he can stop them, the two redshirts complete their mission, and are blown into the creek.
Suddenly a group of Others appear from the jungle with bows and arrows, a young woman with a British accent a rifle approaches. "Who's in charge here?" "He is!" Miles points at Faraday. "You just couldn't stay away, could you?" The two groups accuse each other of planting the mines.
On the way back to the camp, Faraday notices one of the men has his hands bandaged. Miles gets spooked, and reveals they've just walked over the graves of four US soldiers, Three were shot, one died of radiation poisoning. Faraday asks if 'they' mentioned the year. They arrive at the camp, and are greeted by Richard Alpert. "I assume you've come back for your bomb?"
The three are thrown into a tent, and Faraday thinks they should act like they're part of the group the Others think they are. Alpert comes in, and the arguing begins. "We didn't start this, you come to our island, fire on us..." "We're scientists." "So they sent you to recover it?"
Faraday makes an educated guess (or is it?) abou tthe state of the weapon. That the housing has been compromised on the H-bomb. "If you don't let me render it inert, (remember that) we'll all die." "How do I know you're not on a suicide mission, and will just set it off." "Because I love this woman and wouldn't hurt her." Alpert seems to accept that, with the caveat that if he screws up he'll do just that.
"You didn't have to say that," says Charlotte. "Buts its true." Charlotte appears both flattered, confused, equally "in love" and somehow repulsed, all at the same time. "Ellie", the young woman with the rifle escorts Faraday from the tent (where Sawyer sees them.)
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Ellie asks Daniel, on their way to the bomb. "You look like someone I used to know." She doesn't trust him, but she lets him at the weapon anyway.
We find "Jughead," a bomb suspended in a rickety wooden test stand. (Really rickety I might add, like its been there a while.) Faraday climbs up and starts poking around. Just as he "predicted" there's something oozing from a crack in the case. He asks if they've got any lead or concrete, that he needs to patch the case and bury the whole thing. He also lets spill that he's from the future, and that the island is still there, and the bomb never went off.
Sawyer pops up, with Juliet right behind him. "Are you from the future, too?" "You told her?!"
They return to the camp, just as the "shift" happens. Faraday runs to Charlotte, and asks if she's OK. She says yes, and at first accepts Faraday's fawning, but then turns away.... Her nose starts bleeding and she collapses in a seizure. Daniel picks her up, and its clear that he knows what's happening to her.
Well, so much for the answers, hey C&D? More questions, questions, questions from this one. Now we've got an entire new situation on the island to contend with, which may or may not explain a lot about the island... Check the analysis for all the gory details....
Our favorite Scotsman finds himself running around some Southeast Asian paradise in search of a doctor. He finally finds one, and they head out to the boat. What for?
To deliver Penny's baby, of course! Where this falls into the timeline I really don't know. But there he is.
Flash forward, presumably to our "three years later" timeframe. He's telling his now roughly three year old son about an island, where he lived a long time ago. It's called Great Britain, and the most beautiful part (of course) is Scotland. They argue a bit about whether or not to tell him about his grandfather, Charles Widmore, and about the task ahead of Desmond, and his "memory" of Faraday.
He prepares to head inland, and promises Penny that he'll find Daniel's mother and be back by dark, and be done with this forever. He promises he'll never go back.
At Oxford, he's pressing a secretary about Faraday. She can't find any record of him at all, nor can he remember the year he met Daniel there. Instead he sneaks off to find the lab (in "Clarendon 142-08" I might add), breaks down the door, and finds all of Daniel's equipment and papers still there, covered. He picks up a cracked photo of Faraday and a blonde girl.
A man walks in, who says he was one of Faraday's assistants. He tells Desmond that he's not the first one to come poking around looking for him, and to tell his friends that all he found was "rubbish left by a madman." On his way out, Desmond asks about there not being any record of Daniel. "Can you blame them? After what he did to that poor girl?" (Maybe I missed something, because I dont' think it was said who she was or where to find her?)
He goes to find this girl, Teresa Spencer, and finds instead her sister at the door. "I got her name from Faraday." "Well why didn't you say so?" She takes him to another room, where a woman is laid up, seemingly unconscious in a hospital bed. She seems to suffer from some familiar sounding symptoms, thinking she's three years old, talking to her dead father, etc. Faraday abandoned her here, and it comes out that Charles Widmore both funded Faraday's research, and is footing the bill for Teresa's medical care.
Desmond storms into Widmore's office (note the two paintings) and lays it out for him. Widmore will answer his questions, and Des will be out of his hair for good. He asks about Daniel's mother, and after a sly look, Faraday feigns ignorance, until Desmond tells him he knows about the funding. Widmore concedes, and writes down an address on a piece of paper.
"She's in Los Angeles. I suspect she won't be pleased to see you, she's a very private person." He warns Desmond to deliver his message and stay out of things, that this goes back "many, many years" and doesn't want Penny involved.
Back on the boat, the name of the new Hume sprog is revealed: "Charlie." After a bit of an argument, Penny realizes that she has to go along with Desmond on this quest, and they both realize what it might mean....
Romanes Eunt Domus!
Locke, Sawyer, and Juliet are holding their two uniformed captives at gunpoint. Locke notices the condition of the M-1 he's holding, and Sawyer decides they should shoot these two.
They start speaking to each other in Latin, which Juliet picks up on, and returns in the same. They're "Others," apparently, as Latin is a required course for them, "Others 101" she says.
They march the two through the jungle, Locke using the compass as a guide. Juliet tries (in Latin) to get "Cunningham" (It's on his uniform) to tell them where the camp is. She asks about Alpert, and he finally starts to tell them. The other one, "Jones" breaks Cunningham's neck and runs off into the jungle. Locke raises the riflel to shoot him, but stops. Sawyer grabs it, fires, and misses. "Why didn't you shoot him?" "Because he's one of my people."
They reach the camp, and Locke asks Juliet how she knew Richard would be there. "He's always been here... He's very, very old." "He was going to tell me how to save us." Sawyer notices Faraday being marched at gunpoint from the camp (read on!) and goes after him with Juliet. Locke goes toward the camp to finish his conversation with Alpert.
He calmly but quickly walks into camp, starts yelling for Richard, and one of the uniformed guys (the same one that ran?) grabs a rifle and points it at John's back. Alpert comes out, and John tells him who he is.
"Is that supposed to mean something to me?" John looks a bit confused and disappointed. "Jacob sent me."
Alpert's attention changes considerably, and he grabs the gun from the uniformed guy, "I said put the gun down, Widmore." Locke turns around bewildered, "Charles Widmore?" "Yeah, what's it to you?" Locke grins knowingly, "Nothing, nice to meet you."
Richard and John retire to his tent, where he shows Alpert the compass, and explains the story. "Why don't I remember any of this?" "Because it hasn't happened yet." "I'm not sure what you're expecting me to say." "You were going to tell me how to get off the island."
"That's privileged information, why would I tell you that?" "You told me I had something important to do, and because I'm your leader. That's what you told me."
"I don't want to contradict myself, but there's a long process, which starts at a young age..."
Locke tells him to come visit him after he's born, which isn't for another two years (it's 1954 on the island.)
The humming starts, "You need to tell me now!" and THWAPP, the journey continues.... Locke puts his head in his hands in desperation....
Jughead
Back to Miles, Faraday, Charlotte, and the two "redshirts" they're travelling with (boy was that obvious.) They reach the creek, and Faraday is quizzing Charlotte on her symptoms, which are dead on. "You know what's happening to me?" Miles spots a tripwire connected to a claymore, and before he can stop them, the two redshirts complete their mission, and are blown into the creek.
Suddenly a group of Others appear from the jungle with bows and arrows, a young woman with a British accent a rifle approaches. "Who's in charge here?" "He is!" Miles points at Faraday. "You just couldn't stay away, could you?" The two groups accuse each other of planting the mines.
On the way back to the camp, Faraday notices one of the men has his hands bandaged. Miles gets spooked, and reveals they've just walked over the graves of four US soldiers, Three were shot, one died of radiation poisoning. Faraday asks if 'they' mentioned the year. They arrive at the camp, and are greeted by Richard Alpert. "I assume you've come back for your bomb?"
The three are thrown into a tent, and Faraday thinks they should act like they're part of the group the Others think they are. Alpert comes in, and the arguing begins. "We didn't start this, you come to our island, fire on us..." "We're scientists." "So they sent you to recover it?"
Faraday makes an educated guess (or is it?) abou tthe state of the weapon. That the housing has been compromised on the H-bomb. "If you don't let me render it inert, (remember that) we'll all die." "How do I know you're not on a suicide mission, and will just set it off." "Because I love this woman and wouldn't hurt her." Alpert seems to accept that, with the caveat that if he screws up he'll do just that.
"You didn't have to say that," says Charlotte. "Buts its true." Charlotte appears both flattered, confused, equally "in love" and somehow repulsed, all at the same time. "Ellie", the young woman with the rifle escorts Faraday from the tent (where Sawyer sees them.)
"Why are you looking at me like that?" Ellie asks Daniel, on their way to the bomb. "You look like someone I used to know." She doesn't trust him, but she lets him at the weapon anyway.
We find "Jughead," a bomb suspended in a rickety wooden test stand. (Really rickety I might add, like its been there a while.) Faraday climbs up and starts poking around. Just as he "predicted" there's something oozing from a crack in the case. He asks if they've got any lead or concrete, that he needs to patch the case and bury the whole thing. He also lets spill that he's from the future, and that the island is still there, and the bomb never went off.
Sawyer pops up, with Juliet right behind him. "Are you from the future, too?" "You told her?!"
They return to the camp, just as the "shift" happens. Faraday runs to Charlotte, and asks if she's OK. She says yes, and at first accepts Faraday's fawning, but then turns away.... Her nose starts bleeding and she collapses in a seizure. Daniel picks her up, and its clear that he knows what's happening to her.
Well, so much for the answers, hey C&D? More questions, questions, questions from this one. Now we've got an entire new situation on the island to contend with, which may or may not explain a lot about the island... Check the analysis for all the gory details....
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