Lost recap: “Confirmed Dead”

The second episode of Lost: Season 4 was called Confirmed Dead and the title pretty much gave away what we might find out this week about Flight 815.

So let’s get onto it. Lots to talk about.

The New Others

The first parachute guy who finds Jack is called Sam in the flashback, but tells them his name is Daniel Faraday, a physicist. He sees some of the ocean wreckage on TV and starts crying. Why? He doesn’t know and neither do we.

We next meet Miles, who is some kind of ghost hunter and can talk to spirits. He finds some money left by a dead druggie in his room while trying to exorcise it. He arrives on the island and apparently talks to Naomi’s ghost to prove that Jack and Kate didn’t kill her.

The third crew member is Charlotte, a woman with an English accent who goes to a dig in Tunisia and finds the skeleton of a dead POLAR BEAR in the middle of the desert. And a Dharma belt or collar is buried right alongside the bear. She recognizes it, but we have no idea why. IS she Dharma? Is that clue a way to find the island?

Finally, a guy named Frank, whom we discover was supposed to be the pilot of Oceanic 815 that day, sees Seth Norris (the original pilot) on TV and knows it’s not him because there is no wedding ring on his finger.

All four of them have beacons on their suits to help find each others.

Locke is nuts

Sawyer, Hurley, Claire and the rest of the gang are following Locke, despite his admitting he followed orders from a taller Walt to kill Naomi. I’m surprised anyone is still listening to him after that and don’t think he’s totally bonkers.

An interesting moment occurs when Locke says they are headed to the cabin, but Hurley objects, pointing out that it’s the other way. Locke casts a glare at him saying “What cabin?”

What did that imply? Hurley shut up pretty quickly.

Ben is deadly even tied up

Locke and his gang find Charlotte and take her hostage. They attach her beacon to Vincent and send him off, where Jack and his crew find the dog.

But even though Ben is tied up, he snakes a gun from Carl and blasts Charlotte in the chest twice.

Of course, she’s wearing a bulletproof vest, which is odd for a rescue mission. Locke’s look on his face told it all. Why are you here?

Sawyer whoops up on Ben a second time this episode and it’s shocking that his face is still recognizable from the multitude of fists he’s taken to his head the last three episodes.

The helicopter

So Jack and his groupies, along with Miles and Daniel end up finding Frank from a flare he shoots up. Frank was crawling up a hill to get to a good place for his beacon to send a signal, but it was broken.

Before he gets to the top, he sees a cow with a bell around its neck. Another island vision I assume. I love that stuff.

When they are all together, Frank is having his wounds attended to by Juliette, who tells him her name.

This is where the episode got really good. Frank realizes there was no Juliette Burke on 815, and therefore she must be a native…or someone there before the crash. He yells at Miles, saying she’s a native, and Miles comes rushing over asking “Where is he? WHERE IS HE?”

He then turns to Jack and shouts, “You want to know why we’re here? To find HIM!” and he pulls out a picture of the one and only Henry Gale, or Ben as we now know him.

Ben knows all

We flash back to Ben where Sawyer is about to shoot him for trying to kill Charlotte. Locke tells Sawyer that he’ll do it instead, that it’s his mess.

But Ben pleads for his life, saying he has the answers. Of course, when Locke asks the ONE question we ALL want to know the answer to, “what is the black smoke?”, Ben says he has no idea.

And I sort of believe him.

Without giving an answer, Locke about pulls the trigger and that’s when Ben gives us no answers, but finishes the episode with a bang.

He starts spouting off Charlotte’s full name and history, and then names everyone else we’ve met who are now on the island from the freighter and finally confirms what we already know:

They are there for him.

And when Locke asks how he knows it all…Ben almost grins:

I have a man on their boat.

BAM! Wham! Wow.

So what the hay is going on?

Abaddon, or the mysterious black man who asked Hurley last week about survivors of 815 in the flash-forward, appears at the end of Confirmed Dead with Naomi. They are going over the team members we just saw on the island now, and she questions her ability to babysit them.

And then she asks about the survivors of 815 possibly being on the island and he says “there are no survivors of flight 815.” Mostly said in a way where you try to tell someone ELSE what they need to believe, not what the truth is.

At the start of this episode, I didn’t think these people were in fact Dharma, which I theorized about last week.

Yet now at the end, I am still thinking that they are like some military team that Dharma has sent to find Benjamin Linus and get their island back. Of course, there AREN’T military, but a special group of people with different abilities.

Abaddon could be the guy tasked with putting a team together to find Ben and the island.

We didn’t get many answers in this episode, but I now firmly believe that these people are out to find the man that killed off the entire Dharma team in the Purge.

Why else do they seem so angry about it? Miles went nuts when he found out Juliette was a native and might know where Ben is.

So what do you think? Am I off-base? Did you get any better clues that I missed?