Lost recap, episode 4×06: ‘The Other Woman’
So here I type, waiting for my wife to finish up watching an old The O.C. repeat so that we can start watching Lost. If I haven’t mentioned it before, I frakking LOVE Thursday nights.
As I sit prepping this blog, I am wondering how on earth The Other Woman can live up to last week’s amazing episode with Desmond and Penny and all the time travel and crying and whatnot.
But I think we’re in for a good one, so without further ado, let’s get into it. Oh wait, Kirsten is about to have an intervention for her drinking, and for some reason I have to watch.
Lost recap: Episode 4×06, ‘The Other Woman’
We open on a scene with Juliette in therapy with the girl from Rescue Me, gotta love that .
Her name is Harper and we’ll find out soon enough that she’s married to Goodwin, the Other than Ana Lucia killed.
They trick us a bit into thinking it was a flash forward, that she was a celebrity, but I knew that was crap because A) stupid spoiler sites and B) she wasn’t a passenger on 815 anyways.
It’s a flash BACK to when she arrives on the Island, which was to help figure out why pregnant women keep dying.
They give her a big house and when Juliette says she’s only there for 6 months, Ben replies:
“We want you to feel at home.”
I swear, I’m surprised I don’t have nightmares about this guy.
Goodwin, Juliette and Ben
I’m going to split this week up a bit different, because it might be better telling the backstory all at once.
Jina alertly remembered that Goodwin and Juliette had an affair awhile ago, something I totally forgot about. Tonight we learn how that started, and it was with a chemical burn.
Juliette is crying, likely cause she’s just lonely and unable to help these women stop dying. Goodwin walks in to find something for his huge bruise, but it’s really a burn he got from working with chemicals at the Tempest power station, which we find out about later.
They have a little moment and you realize it’s leading to something else. And it does. But it doesn’t escape Harper’s eyes (or Ben’s), who follows them. She tells this to Juliette in a therapy session, but not to warn her. She’s afraid of what Ben might do to Goodwin.
That doesn’t stop them of course, they have a nice little picnic on the beach and Goodwin wonders what Ben could possibly do, what with Goodwin the only one who knows anything about chemicals.
Well, Ben doesn’t care about that, because when the plane crashes, he sends Goodwin off to the tail section immediately, and obviously knows it’s dangerous and could end badly. As we know, it does and at the end, Ben takes Juliette to see his dead body.
With the stake still in it, flies buzzing around.
Cruel, cruel Ben…and when she asks WHY he let this happen, he responds in his frakking evil way:
“Because you’re mine!”
Goodness. Possessive much?
Daniel, Charlotte and their Hunters
So out of nowhere, Charlotte and Daniel disappear from the beach and take the satellite phone. Jack and Juliette freak out and start searching around to find them.
Juliette is alone and suddenly hears those whispery voices that the jungle is so found of speaking now and then.
We’re really starting to understand that when you hear voices, except something supernatural to happen. This time, Harper, Juliette’s therapist, appears all creepy, almost Walt-like.
(makes me wonder if Walt was really Walt, or Ben using him to get Locke to do what he wanted him to when he was shot in that pit)
She has a message to deliver from Ben. He says that Daniel and Charlotte are headed to the Tempest, to release gas on the Island to kill everyone.
Then Jack actually sees her, they hear more voices and she’s gone. Boom.
They both run off to try and catch them before they get to the Tempest.
Tricky, Tricky Lost writers
We move to Daniel and Charlotte, looking at a map, trying to find the Tempest. Daniel asks…”What if I can’t do it?” She assures him he can.
Yes, they make us THINK he’s talking about killing everyone. Nice job. Then Kate appears out of nowhere, obviously trying to get back to the beach after leaving Sawyer and Locke.
They lie to her about what they’re doing, and she calls them on it, asks to see inside their bags and finds gas masks. Charlotte knocks her out before she has time to do anything.
More trickiness.
Next we get the best line of the night. Jack asks Juliette some question that I forget now, and she responds:
“It’s very stressful being an Other, Jack…”
That’s fantastic.
Jack and Juliette find Kate, Juliette runs off on her own and arrives at the Tempest. Daniel is all geared up in a chemical suit, blasting away at a keyboard and she tells him to stop.
There are alarms going off and we don’t know exactly what Daniel is trying to do, but he tells her that he’s attempting to render the gas inert, which if you attended chemistry at all in high school, means something like “make it USELESS.”
She fights Charlotte, who whacks her from behind, but Juliette wins that battle and decided not to pull the trigger as both of them beg her to not do it.
They are saving everyone’s lives, not killing them. Charlotte asks Juliette if she thinks Ben wouldn’t use it again, since he’s done it before.
And so we realize that we are even more confused now than before. First we are led to believe the boat is bad and the people coming are bad for the Island. Ben even says that they’ll kill every last thing on it.
Yet here they are saving it? Who is lying? I give up!
Jack and Kate catch up, Kate goes inside with Charlotte. Jack and Juliette have a moment outside, where Juliette confesses that a war is brewing and that Ben is going to win. No matter what.
And that Jack needs to be far away from her, because just like Goodwin, she fears what Ben will do to Jack because he knows how she feels about him.
They kiss…and somehow, it just doesn’t feel right to me. Like Jina said, it really wasn’t THAT long ago that Goodwin died. This girl flip flops between men depending on what month it is!
Locke, Ben and Claire
Claire wants to know about Miles and why he’s locked up. Her little speech to Locke about how their current tactics aren’t working with these people from the boat kind of hits home. They still have no idea what or who they are.
It works well, because the next time Locke talks to Ben, he lets him out of the cell with the promise of information.
Ben has something to show him. There is a safe behind a picture that had a Red Sox tape in it. Or not…Ben taped over it.
Hilarious.
It turns out to be a videotape of Charles Widmore beating the snot out of one of Ben’s men. We find out that Widmore is behind the freighter and that he’s been trying to find the Island for awhile now.
But Ben doesn’t know how he found out about it, only that he probably wants to exploit it. If Locke can walk again, what else can happen?
There is also a big file on Widmore than he gives to Locke. Wonder what’s in that?
And finally, Locke has one more question: Who is his man on the boat? Ben says okay, but he’d better sit down for the answer.
Well frak me, I was sitting down but they never told me a darned thing! I guess we’ll find out next week. But if it’s not Michael, I’ll be shocked.
At the end, Sawyer and Hurley are playing horseshoes, Hugo makes a hilarious comment about “being lucky”, and we see Ben walking to his old house, free and with a stack of clothes.
I guess the information was good. Now that he’s free…what is going to happen?
Stuff to Ponder
So how is Ben passing messages? Is it really him, or the Island/Jacob itself? Is it Jacob and Ben knows how to communicate through him? Is Harper dead? I have no idea, but I think so.
There was also an interesting exchange between Juliette and Ben during a candlelight dinner, where she questioned the little kids they took from the tail section. Ben says:
“Who are we to question who is on the list and who isn’t?”
Again, is the list actually Ben’s? Or is it Jacob’s? More questions…no answers.
On a side note, Kate tracking people has turned into hilarity. I think she should be in the next Lord of the Rings film, running alongside Aragorn tracking Orcses (precious!) through the Dead Marshes.
“Daniel and Charlotte passed through here, and then Juliette 30 minutes later.”
Those skills might be even more impressive that communicating with a supernatural Island being.
So what did you think? Definitely a much less exciting episode than last week. We got a decent backstory, but it wasn’t anything new except to give us a little tension between Jack, Juliette and Ben, plus to solidify some love interest between J and J.
One big thing is that Ben admitted the people from the boat aren’t evil, it’s Widmore who is. Still, they had a mission to get to the Tempest to get rid of the gas, so why? Are they bad or good?
My head hurts.
The one big answer this week was Widmore, but I think most of us already figured he was behind it. He’s been popping in for awhile now and after last week, we knew his pursuit of the Black Rock logbook was something important.
So obviously we can deduce now that he was trying to find out any information he could. He WANTS to find it.
Your turn…what did I miss?
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