Jack and Sawyer find Hurley taking a leak outside the Orchid while Locke is inside trying to figure out what the F anthuriums are. Locke tries to convince Jack to stay on the Island and when he can’t, he tells him that he will have to lie about the Island, and that he was brought to the Island for a reason. "You know, Jack, you know that you're here for a reason — you know it. And if you leave this place, that knowledge is going to eat you alive from the inside out. </snip>It's not an island. It's a place where miracles happen. And if you don't believe that, Jack, if you can't believe that, just wait till you see what I'm about to do."
Back at the helicopter, Keamy and his remaining posse have Ben prisoner when Kate comes running through the jungle saying she is being chased by the Others. Posse spreads out and are picked off one by one by the Old School Others with their Kung Fu Style. Kate and Ben take off running with Keamy in hot pursuit and then there’s a crazy fight scene where Sayid almost gets pwned and then Richard shoots Keamy right in the body armour and he drops over. Then Ben thanks Richard for coming and he lets Kate and Sayid go back to the helicopter to leave the Island.
After bidding farewell to Locke and Ben at the Orchid, Jack, Hurley and Sawyer head back to the helicopter. Kate looks up from picking Lapidus’ handcuffs and when she sees Sawyer she just lights up like a candle. Then she sees Jack, her face falls and she runs to him, worried about his stitches. Jack, Sawyer, Hurley, Kate, Lapidus and Sayid get on the helicopter and take off, and for a brief moment they are elated to think that they are going to get off the Island. Halfway out to the freighter, they start to lose fuel. They need to shed some weight, so Sawyer, possibly seeing the lay of the land between Jack and Kate, leans over and whispers a secret into Kate’s ear. Then he gives her a really awesome kiss and he jumps out of the helicopter sacrificing himself so that they could all get to the boat. *swoon* What a great kiss! God I just love Kate and Sawyer onscreen together. How can she even want Jack when she has that? Right now I am guessing that the secret is about Clementine and that it is the same secret that Kate keeps from Jack during their brief and doomed engagement. I wonder if she kept the ring? This of course makes all of the terrible things Jack said to Kate in SNBH even worse. Sawyer chose to stay on the Island so that everyone else on that helicopter could make it to the freighter.
On the beach, Daniel is loading up another boatload of redshirts Miles tells Daniel and Charlotte that he is going to stay on the Island. He comments to Charlotte that he is surprised that she would want to leave after she tried so hard to get back. Eh? Get Back? Well there’s a surprise – Charlotte is from the Island. Was she born on the Island? She tells Daniel that she is staying because she is still looking for where she was born. Ben tells us that she was born in 1979 in Essex, England, But since we know that he got all of his information from the personnel files on the boat via Michael I don’t think this is very enlightening information. Personally I would love for Charlotte to end up being Ben’s daughter with his girlfriend Annie who was taken off the Island when Ben knocked her up in the 1970’s. I know that Ben is an evil sociopathic mass murdering creep, and that he already shot Charlotte once, but I still want him to have a happy ending. Poor Juliet tells Daniel she will go last after everyone else has left and she stays behind on the beach.
On the freighter, Michael, Jin and Desmond are trying to figure out how to defuse the bomb. Michael freezes the battery to slow down the reaction so that they will have a few minutes when Keamy’s dead man’s switch goes off. This led to a discussion between Pita and Pearl of whether or not this would actually work because conductivity actually would increase if the temperature of the battery were lowered. We also wondered if there was any correlation between the frozen Island Moving Mechanism and the frozen battery.
Back in the Orchid Locke and Ben get down to the hatch. Locke asks Ben if “this is the magic box” and Ben, barely suppressing his :rolleyes: settles him down with a nice video while Daddy gets some work done. As Ben begins to pile everything metal in the room into the weird elevatorish time machine, Locke watches our good friend Marvin Candle/Edward Halliwax as he explains that the Orchid station is an experiment with time travel. Halliwax says that they will send the rabbit into the future and it will seem to disappear briefly and then reappear when time catches up with it. Maybe this is what happens to the Island. Maybe it is sent into the future and so it disappears and then it will reappear when regular time catches up with it. But that doesn’t explain why the Island is so hard to find even when you are flying right over it or why the bearings need to be followed or why there is a time discrepancy or why Desmond couldn’t leave the snow globe. Just like everything Dharma, it’s strangely anticlimactic once you get right into it. Ben describes it as silly experiments and it seems like he is right. They built a time machine that could move a bunny in time for a blink of an eye using the power of a force that can physically move an entire Island and shoot a person forward in time by 9 mos. That just seems redundant. Just then Keamy starts coming down in the elevator because you can’t kill him just by shooting him. Duh. When he tells Ben and Locka about the dead man’s switch, my first thought was – what in the world would make Keamy think that Ben would care at all about blowing up the freighter? First of all Ben has already killed tons of people to protect the Island – he doesn’t care about killing innocent people. Second, as far as Keamy knows there isn’t anyone on the freighter Ben cares about personally. I don’t really think Keamy thought this through. Anyway, Locke tries to reason with him but then Ben stabs him in the beck and the freighter goes splodey. Of course this is yet another Watchmen shout-out. Watchmen really is the single text with the most Lost shout-outs and Star Wars the movie with the most Lost shout-outs.
The helicopter lands on the freighter, refuels and they throw on a bunch of items including the life raft. This is important – if they hadn’t made it to the freighter they wouldn’t have the life raft and none of them would have made it off the Island at all. There is a lot of chaos – Desmond gets on the helicopter, Sun tries to go get Jin, but Kate hands her Aaron and gets her on the helicopter while she runs to get Jin. Jack catches Kate and makes her go back to the helicopter and they all pile on and it starts to take off. Meanwhile Michael makes Jin go up to the deck and he stays below. Jin is racing for the deck and the helicopter is taking off and then Christian appears to Michael and says he can go. The helicopter is heading away from the boat as Jin comes running up and Sun starts screaming for Jin and that they have to go back… And Boom. The whole boat blows up and Sun is shrieking and it is terrible. Poor Jin! Even though he is totally not dead. I’m sure he either jumped or was blown off the boat when it went boom. And poor Michael. Harold Perrineau got a bad deal. Maybe if he had been either less annoying or vastly hotter he would have lived a bit longer.
Sawyer is a good swimmer and he swam all the way back to the beach and right out of his shirt. If it were me, I would have dumped the heavy jeans or used them as a flotation assist and kept the shirt to try to protect my back from the sun. But I am not going to quibble with results. He did make it to the beach and as he walks out of the surf, reminding us of Juliet walking out of the surf towards Goodwin, there she is knocking back a bottle of rum. He turns and sees the freighter smoking right off shore. So Sawyer and Juliet probably think that everyone on the freighter and the helicopter are dead. Good thing they have rum. Yo-ho-ho etc and I don’t mean that as a slur on Juliet. I just really hope they don’t hook her up with Sawyer. I would love to see them naked together, but I don’t think I can stand seeing Juliet as second choice yet again.
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