Lost recap, episode 4×11: “Cabin Fever”
Wow.
Okay, this episode was so deep and involved so many things from the past, that I was almost afraid to try and recap it and not do the thing justice.
That feeling lasted for like 5 seconds.
I’m not going to do a complete play-by-play recap this week, because it would likely take forever. Instead, we’ll just cover the main highlights. Which is still A LOT.
But first: “He wants us to move the Island.”
OMG.
We’ll get back to that and a HUGE coincidence that I discovered in chasing down reminders on who Horace was. I’m sure I’m wrong, but I’m pointing it out.
Let’s get the side stuff out of the way.
The Freighter
The helicopter returns, bringing the injured mercenaries with it. Kemy confronts the captain, blaming him for giving his name to Benjamin Linus. But no, it’s Michael the captain points out, so they go down to see him and Kemy tries to blow him away.
Not gonna happen. The Island apparently STILL wants Michael alive. The gun jams twice, and Kemy makes the captain go fix it.
Now Kemy sort of takes over the ship in a way, yanks a key off the captain and opens up a box containing a document from Mr. Widmore. It has a Dharma logo and apparently tells them where Ben is headed.
“If Ben knows that the Island is going to get torched, there is only one place he can go.”
Underground? Hmmmmm….perhaps.
As Kemy packs up munitions in the helicopter to head back, the Captain doesn’t like it. He gives Sayid and Desmond a motor boat to get back to the Island to try and get people off before Kemy gets back. But Desmond wont go with Sayid, saying he can’t go back after being there 3 years. Sayid goes out alone.
As they get ready to leave, the time travel element enters the picture once more. Even though back on the Island, the dead doctor washed up to shore two episodes ago (while Kemy and his men were still on the Island fighting smokey) he’s totally fine on the boat. He’s still alive.
On the freighter after they return, one of the soldiers gets a morse code phone call.
No wonder they replied saying the “the doctor is fine.” He WAS fine.
Not only is the Island now operating in the future, but it’s like WAY ahead now. Earlier this season, with that missile launched from the boat, it was only 30 minutes or so.
Confusing? Yes.
But as Frank is trying to make a stand and NOT fly the soldiers back, Kemy slices the doctor’s throat and tosses him overboard. Time fulfills itself.
Interesting that the dead body floated perfectly to the Island, while others have to try hard to maintain the correct course of 305 degrees.
John’s Backstory
Emily…Emily…Emily…the poor young girl gets pregnant, hit by a car and gives birth to a miracle baby 3 months premature.
John Locke is born. And while he’s gaining enough health to be able to go home, someone is watching.
Richard Alpert. From Mittelos. Lost Time. Sort of like how Richard apparently has lost all concept of time since he never friggin’ ages.
Richard thinks baby Locke is special. After Locke grows up a bit, maybe 4-5 years old, Richard comes to test him to see if he’s ready for a school in Portland. Called Mittelos.
He lays all these objects in front of John: A knife, comic book, baseball glove, compass, a book and what appears to be a vial of sand.
Richard asks John: “Tell me John…which of these things belong to you…already.”
John chooses the knife, but it’s the wrong one. Richard grabs them all and storms out.
Maybe I missed the one that does belong to him. Did anyone catch it?
I think John knew which one it was.
Later Locke is trying to rehab from his spinal injury. As he finishes a session, a black man helps him into a wheelchair to take him back to his room.
Matthew Abaddon. The man who visited Hurley in the asylum in a flash-forward. The man who puts Naomi’s team together that are now known as the freighter people.
He tells Locke that he needs to go on a “walk about“…from season one (I believe). He says Locke falling two stories and not dying was a miracle. The walk about is a journey of self-discovery.
Abaddon went on his own walk-about. And before John leaves up the elevator, Matthew adds this tidbit:
“When you are ready Mr. Locke, you’ll listen to what I’m saying. And then…when you and me run into each other again…you’ll owe me one.”
Wow. So who is this Abaddon guy? First he assembles the team to go storm the Island, next he’s visiting Hurley later, and now it seems like he’s a good guy trying to help Locke.
How does he fit in the puzzle?
John, Ben and Hurley and…the Emilys?
As John, Ben and Hurley try to find the cabin, Locke has a dream about Horace. Apparently he was the one who built the cabin.
If you don’t remember him, I’ll remind you (because I needed a reminder as well). He was the guy who tried to help Benjamin’s parents deliver him. His mother died during the birth, but Ben lived of course. Horace told Ben’s father, Roger, about the Dharma Initiative and was the one who basically brought them to the Island.
Now, before we go any further, I have to say…in reading up on Horace, I discovered one interesting tidbit:
Ben’s mother’s name was Emily.
John’s mother’s name was Emily.
Coincidence? I highly doubt it, the Lost writers hardly ever screw up things like this. Everything is meant for a reason.
Edit: Below in the comments section, Adrian blew a hole in my “Ben and John have the same mother” story, but I still think it’s weird that they have the same name.
Okay, since this recap will never end, the search for the cabin ensues. Horace tells Locke to find “Horace” and that will point him to the cabin.
Locke visits the dead body pit where Ben shot him, and finds Horace’s boney corpse. A map to the cabin is inside a pocket, and so they head off. Hurley spots the cabin first, thus justifying his presence.
But Ben and Hurley both stay outside while John goes in. Yikes. Scary cabin.
A man is sitting at the table, and it’s Christian Shephard of course. We’ve already seen his white sneakers earlier in the season. But we didn’t expect Claire to be SITTING IN THERE WITH HIM!
Creeeeeepy!
Christian speaks for Jacob he says, which is exactly what I have been suspecting for awhile now. I never thought Christian WAS Jacob. He’s just a vessel.
But what is Claire doing there? The baby is “away from here” says Christian, “where it should be.”
We don’t find out anything about Claire, because there is no time Christian says. The men are returning and will kill everyone. John…ask the question you need to ask.
“How do I save the ISLAND?”
My wife made an interesting point that he didn’t ask how to save the PEOPLE. No, he only cares about the ISLAND.
Hurley and Ben share a candybar outside when Locke returns. They look at him, ask him if he got an answer, and he says yes.
“He wants us to MOVE the Island.”
Woooooooooooh…move the frakking Island?!?!?!?!
I love it! No idea what it means…but it really starts to help shape the idea we have of the place. That it’s not always in one place, that perhaps it CAN be moved, thus making it so hard to find.
And is it too late? The helicopter is already back over the Island. It passed over the beach camp and Frank secretly dropped a package out the door, with a satellite phone that was tracking the chopper. Jack thinks it means they want them to follow the chopper.
Questions and Stuff
Geronimo Jackson was a band poster inside teenaged John Locke’s locker at school. There is a bit of other info about it if interested over on the Lost Wiki site.
What does Kemy have on his arm? It seems like some kind of biological sensor that could set off some bomb if Kemy were to die. But what is it connected to? The boat?
Do you think the two mom’s named Emily is just a coincidence?
Hurley dreaming about malamars was hilarious.
So what is up with Richard? Does he time travel, and thus can take an item of Locke’s from the future to test the young version of him with?
Ben mentioned that it wasn’t HIM who ordered the death of all the Dharma people. In fact, he wasn’t the leader at that time. Who was?
Locke is now apparently the leader. Ben’s time has passed.
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