"316"

That was insane and I think (after watching the promo for next week) that we as viewers are going to have to wait two weeks before we actually know what's going on with the people on the island which is rather obnoxious, but I suppose twill be interesting to find out what sort of wonko things happened with Locke after he turned the wheel. I am really happy after watching the episode last night that Kate and Jack are not back together (the promos ade it look like they were going to get back together, but as it turns out it was just a moment of weakness on Kate's part that Jack took advantage of) so hooray for that.

My problem with Jack (this is going to be a very long post in case you were wondering):

I really liked Jack in the beginning (season one and part of season two), he seemed like a nice enough fellow and he had a sense of humor. Then when he found out that Sawyer was also in love with Kate he became WAY too over protective of her and ended up driving her away (not letting her go with them after Michael then getting angry when she tracked them and came anyway but ended up getting caught and almost killed). Then he was once again flustered when she didn't confide in him everything that she knew (i.e. finding costumes in the medical station), you know what, I'll just do an entire post on this later as it has very little to actually do with the episode. It's a big ranting point for me.

Plot:

So right away we know that at least three of the Oceanic 6 made it back to the island (stupid children, why would you ever go back you just got away) because the episode opens with Jakc waking up in the jungle (just as he did in the pilot episode) with a piece of paper in his hand that says I wish...(without the dot dot dot, it's ripped off so we can only see the I wish part). Hurley is then heard yelling for Jack because he is in grave need of assisstance. Jack follows the noise and ends up at the waterfall/pond thing featured in episode 12 (where Kate and Sawyer find the Halliburton case) where it appears that Hurley is drowning managing only to stay afloat by hanging onto a guitar case (possibly Charlie's guitar case?). Jack heroically dives in from the top of the waterfall only to discover that he and Hurley can both stand in the area of the pond where Hurley was 'drowning.' Then we see Kate looking quite dead on a rock on the edge of the pond thing. Jack rushes over to her to discover that there isn't a scratch on her, she's breathing perfectly and is therefore just unconscious. He wakes her up and it is confirmed that they are indeed back on the Island, (thank you grasp of the incredibly obvious) and that none of them has any memory of a crash...dun...Dun...DUN!!!



People at Church (Desmond, Sun, Ben, Jack, Faraday's deranged mother whose name is Eloise):

• Eloise takes her visiters downstairs (in the Church, if you don't remember what happened in the previous episode please see last post for a synopsis) to a Dharma Station known as the Lamp-post which is revealed (by Eloise) as to be the station where the location of the island was first discovered.


• Eloise also mentions that the Island is constantly on the move, not on ly through space, but through time as well which is the reason that the survivors of flight 815 were never rescued. She talks about the brilliant fellow who first discovered this, how he discovered it (pendulum swings over electromagnetic energy similar to that on the island...very complicated+not a physisist=not going to explain it in depth), and how he wrote a bunch of equations that can predict with relative accuracy where the island is going to be at any point in time.


• At this point in time Desmond becomes fluastered at the fact that the people in the room (namely Jack and Sun) are willingly going back to the Island.


• When asked why he is there he says that he is there to deliver a message from Daniel that his mother and ONLY his mother is supposed to help/save the Island not any of the Oceanic Six and what not.


• Eloise replys that she is helping and that the Island is 'done with Desmond yet.'


• Desmond then goes on to warn Jack that theses people (the Others, Ben, Locke, etc.) are using him (and the others) in some sadistic game and that he should get out while he still can/ignore anything that Eloise tells him. He also mentions that Eloise cost him 4 years of his life by telling him that his sole purpose in life was to go to the Island.


• He then yells that the Island may not be done with him, but he is done with the Island.


• Exit Desmond with the slam of a door.


• Eloise continues on to say that she believes she has found a window of opportunity for the group to return, an Ajira Airlines (yeah, I totally saw that coming) flight to Guam that is apparently going to fly directly over where the island will be at that point in time.


• She then informs the bunch that in order to increase their chances of getting back to the island they need to as best they can recreate the circumstances of the first flight.


• When Jack asks what would happen if they couldn't get everyone on the flight Eloise responds that the results would be unprediactable.


• Jack then stupidly ask if 'that's it' to which Eloise responds that that is not it, at least not for Jack.


• She takes Jack to her office where she gives him Locke's suicide note (now we know how/why he died and I cannot say that this was a huge surprise to me) and tells him that Locke's body will be a proxy for Christian's body (Jack's dad) and that in order for this to work Jack must give something of Christian's to Locke.

Jack (since the entire episode followed Jack this is going to be a very long section):

• Jack exits the office to find Ben alone in the Sanctuary, who tells him that Sun has left the building.


• Jack then asks about Locke's body to which Ben replies that he has friend watching it and will pick it up before he heads to the airport the following day.


• Ben then asks Jack what Eloise said to him.


• Jack responds by asking how Eloise knows what she knows and shy she is helping them.


• Ben responds by telling the story of Thomas the Apostle (Doubting Tom, if you don't know this story it can be found in the Bible or online).


• Ben then goes to leave and when Jack asks him where he's going he says something along the lines of that he is fulfilling a promise he made to an old friend (big red flag, Ben doesn't have any real friends, he has subordinates, people who either follow him because they admire him, have no other choice, or are scared of him...HE MEANS THAT HE IS GOING TO KILL PENNY WIDMORE...oh crap).


• Jack is next seen at a bar drinking some sort of alcohol (the Island will be good for him, after all as far as we know all of the beer is gone) when his phone rings and he answers it with a "He did what?"


• Next we see of Jack he is at a nursing home where an important looking man is telling him that this is the 4th time 'he's' left and that 'he' has got to follow the rules or 'he' will be moved to a different facility.


• Jack then goes up to a resident named Ray and the two go back to Ray's room where we find out that Ray is Jack's Grandad who packed a suitcase and tried to escape the nursing home and go somewhere on a bus.


• While Jack is unpacking the suitcase he finds a pair of his father's shoes which he takes with him back to his appartment.


• When Jack gets back to his appartment he immediately heads for the booze which he is about to drink when he hears footsteps somewhere in the appartment.


• He goes to investigate (which reminded me of a bad horror movie: he progresses through his dark house alone, with nothing to defend himself, and no lights on) and finds Kate lying on his bed looking utterly defeated (no Aaron).


• He gently asks her why she is there. To which she resonds with the question: "Are you still going back to the Island?"


• He answers affirmatively and she tells him that she is going with him.


• Then Jack starts asking questions (i.e. what happened, where's Aaron? I wonder how she got in) to which Kate answers that if he wants her to go with him he will never ask her about Aaron again.


• He agrees and she (in a moment of weakness which he takes advantage of) kisses him and . . .(Mamma Mia reference again).


• The next morning Jack makes Kate coffee and the two chat for a bit about Jack's father's shoes (Kate spots them and thinking they are Jack's suggest that he should consider hiking boots instead which leads into a whole schpeel about what shoes Jack put on his father's feet for the funeral...touching moment...etc.) and are interrupted when the phone rings.


• Kate tells Jack that she will see him at the airport and then leaves so he can answer the phone.


• The caller is Ben (who we see on the other end of the line looking beat up and muddy at the marina possibly meaning that he definately did go after Penny but ran into a few problems) who tells Jack that he has gotten sidetracked and needs Jack to pick up Locke's body at the butchershop where he left it.


• Jack agrees and is next seen at said carnicería where he meets Ben's lady 'friend' (Jill) who agreed to take care of Locke's body in the one of the premiere episodes this season.


• She take him to the body and after asking a question about a bag that Jack is holding and receiving no answer tells Jack that she has been instructed to lend him the van and leaves to pull it around.


• Jack proceeds to put his father's shoes on Locke's feet (my question is why did he even bother tying them?) telling Locke that the whole situation is 'even crazier than Locke was,' then he gives the un-opened suicide note back to Locke.


• Then we see Jack at the airport answering questions about why he's traveling to Guam with ''Bentham's'' body, meanwhile he spots Kate (who looks kind of like Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider) walking throught the airport.


• A man in the line behind Jack gives him his condolences for losing his friend (so this guy will most likely be an important character this season).


• Jack is then approached by Sun who (when he is surprised to see her) tells him that if there is any chance that Jin is still alive she is going back.


• Sayid is seen being escorted by a marshall (I assume she was a marshall) to the plane (interesante).


• We then see Hurley with a guitar case waiting for the plane with a bunch of other people when a lady comes over the P.A. saying that there are plenty of empty seats for flight 316 still open. Hurley jumps up and tells the lady that those seats are not open, that they are his, he bought all t 78 seats. They argue but Hurley refuses to back down, so the lady has no choice but to admit that the flight is full.


• Jack approaches Hurley, happy that they are on the same flight yadda, yadda, yadda.


• Next scene Jack boards the plane walking past Sayid and the marshall pasing slightly at Kate's seat before taking his own.


• Just before the flight attendants are about to close the doors Ben (with an arm in a sling, still looking rather rough) enters the plane with a ticket which causes Hurley to freak out.


• Overdominearing Jack gets control of the situation and everyone is 'calm' when he is approached by a flight attendant (who looks like Cindy from the first flight) who says that they found something of his (Locke's suicide note) in his cargo.


• Jack takes his seat and the flight commences (with the same music as was playing when Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Hurley, Sayid, and Frank were in the helicopter leaving the Island).


• When the fasten seat belt sign is turned off he goes to sit next to Kate and goes into some cheesy bit about how amazing it is that they are all on the same plane (which is responded to with sarcasm on Kate's part).


• He then makes some retort along the lines of 'it's almost lke we're all back together again' to which Kate remarks "We're on the same plane, that doesn't make us back together." (Hooray there is still hope for Sawyer, just so long as he hasn't fallen for Juliet, but knowing what she did to him when he was a prisoner I kind've doubt that's happened.)


• The pilot then comes over the P.A. introducing himself as Frank Lapidus (gasp).


• Jack asks the Cindy-looking flight attendant if he can speak to Frank being as they are old friends, she agrees to ask if he will take his seat (he can't be up while the cockpit is open).


• Frank comes out to talk with Jack and is surprised to see Sayid, Hurley, Kate and Sun also on the plane: "We're not going to Guam are we?" is his remark.


• Later in the trip Jack and Ben are sitting next to each other and Ben asks Jack about the note, blah, blah, blah, Ben convinces Jack to read the note and gets up to 'give him some privacy' (go crash the plane).


• The note says: I wish you had believed [in] me - JL.


• Then they hit turbulance and the noise/purple light we viewers know as meaning a flash is happening on the island occurs and POOF Jack wakes up on the Island.

The episode ends with a Dharma bus driving up to the lake thing and a man getting out and pointing a gun at the 3 in the water (in case you forgot who those three are since it has indeed been a long time since the beginning of the post they are: Jack, Kate, and Hurley). Hurley then says "Jin." and thus Jin lowers his gun and smiles slightly in bewilderment...L O S T.

The promos have revealed that next week's episode is all about what happened to John off the Island and therefore we must wait two weeks to get back to the present and find out what is to become of those on the island. How very irksom this is to me. Oh well, I 'll manage.