"This Place is Death"

Another terrific episode of Lost last night, more cliffhangers, spectacular. I've realized that just about every question on the show can be answered with: "It's Ben's fault." For instance: Why is the island jumping through time? It's Ben's fault. Why is Kate once again pissed at Jack? It's Ben's fault. Why do the Oceanic Six have to go back to the island? It's Ben's fault. Other such questions that cannot be answered with: "It's Ben's fault," can generally be answered with "It's Locke's/Jack's fault."

Okay then, so last night's episode mainly centered around those on the island, namely Jin who was thought to be dead, so here is the plot:

Jin:

• Jin starts off with Rousseau and the other French people who stand around and argue for a while until Jin starts talking about needing to find his camp and the helicopter which makes him sound crazy.
• The French people have a radio with them, but there is a signal blocking them from sending a transmission, this signal is repeating 4 8 15 16 23 42.
• They ask Jin about a radio tower and he tells them that there is one on the island. They then ask him if he can get to his camp from their current location. He answers no, so they ask him if he can find it from the radio tower and he answers yes so off they go.
• Along their trek they lose one of their people and hear the familiar mechanical creeking of the smoke monster. When they ask him what it is he replys monster and insists that they keep moving. They stupidly decide to go look for their friend (which I suppose I would have too).
• They find their friend when a tree is uprooted and her dead body falls from the sky, then they decide to take Jin's advice and run which at this point does them little good.
• Another Frenchman from the group is grabbed by the monster and dragged (drug?) down a hole beneath a brick wall (not before there is a tug of war between the monster and everyone else which results in the guy's arm being pulled off).
• Everyone except for Jin and Rousseau follows the monster down the hole after they hear their friend yelling for help.
• There is a flash and Jin finds himself alone at the wall with the guy's rotting arm (from the state of decay of the arm we can tell that not much time has passed in this falsh). He sets off in search of his camp or the beach (I'm not 100% sure if he knew where he was going or not) after seeing black smoke on the horizon.
• He ends up on the beach where he finds wreckage from something and somebody's personal belongings (ie. music box, clothing, etc.). There he discovers two of the Frenchmen have been shot to death.
• He sees Rousseau pointing a gun at Robert (the father of her child) and claiming that he is sick, that the monster made him sick. Robert is pleading with Rousseau that he loves her and doesn't want anything to happen to her or their baby.
• When Rousseau lowers her gun Robert cocks his and shoots her, or at least he would have shot her had there been any bullets in his gun.
• Rousseau kills him then sees Jin and starts shooting at him claiming that he is a carrier.
• Jin is running away from her through the jungle when there is another flash.
• After this flash he hears a gun cock and a man (Sawyer) tell him to turn around slowly, which he does.
• After recognizing each other they have a happy excited reunion and Jin asks where the helicopter (and therefore Sun) is.
• The others try to explain that Sun and the other people on the helicopter got off the island and that they are heading to the Orchid station to find a way to bring them back, but it's a bit much to comprehend for someone just learning English, so Jin asks Charlotte to translate, which much to the chagrin of everyone else she does.
• Jin is not happy when he finds out that the plan is to bring Sun back.

Sawyer, Jin, and Company:

• The flashes are continuosly becoming more violent and closer together.
• Eventually they prove to be too much for poor Charlotte (who I never really liked for multiple reasons) who goes wonko because her brain can no longer distinguish between present and past. Sawyer, Juliet, and Miles all end up with bloody noses after this flash.
• John informs the group that they must press on in order to stop the flashes and keep themselves alive and therefore they must leave Charlotte. This brings about much protest from Dan who is 'in love' with Charlotte and therefore REALLY does not wan to leave her even though she tells him too.
• Before Locke and friends set off to find the Orchid Charlotte bursts out (much like Claire in Kate's dream) to Jin (in English and Korean): "Don't let him bring her back!etc. This place is death!"
• So Charlotte and Dan get left behind (they both annoy me, much too secretive the lot of them) and the rest of the group presses on to the Orchid station. Before they leave someone presents the question "What happens if we get there in a time before the Orchid station was built?" and Charlotte answers that they will find it at the well.
• When they first arrive at the station it exists causing Juliet to saysomething along the lines of: "What are the odds that we got here the same time this thing existed," then there is a flash and Sawyer responds: "You just had to say something." (I just realized that no one in the group really calls him Sawyer, the ones who talk to him all call him James.)
• They then look for and find a well which has a rope going down into it and is seemingly bottomless.
• Jin grabs the rope and threatens to cut it if Locke is going to bring Sun back, arguments ensue.
• The resolution is that if Locke sees Sun he will give her Jin's ring and tell her that his body washed up on shore, Locke agrees and begins to shimmy down the rope when low and behold another flash occurs.
• Sawyer grabs the rope (seriously, what good was that going to do) and when the flash is over the rope is sticking out of solid earth which deeply upsets Sawyer who must have thought that Locke (and therefore his only chance of ever seeing Kate again) was dead.

Charlotte and Dan:

• As Charlotte's mind is jumping through time (and therefore causing her to constantly hemorage from her mouth and nose) she reveals to Dan that she grew up on the Island with the Dharma folks and then was forced to leave with her mother.
• She states that a crazy man told her that she had to leave the island and that if she ever came back she would die, and that she thinks that man was Dan.
• She also reveals that she became an anthropologist in hopes of one day find and returning to the Island.
• Then she dies.

Locke and Christian:

• After the flash Locke falls a short ways and hurts himself in the landing finding himself in the wheel chamber thing, or near to it anyway.
• Here he sees Christian Shepherd (Jack and Claire's dead father which Locke does not know) who tells him that he (Locke) was supposed to turn the wheel and that Ben royally screwed things when he turned the wheel (he knocked it off of its axis allowing it to freely spin resulting in the temporal shifts).
• Locke is informed that he must put the wheel back on its axis and then give it a little push which will then move the island and send Locke home so that he can begin his mission of bring the Oceanic 6 back.
• He is told to find a woman in Los Angeles who will know how to return (Daniel's mum no doubt). He is also told that he will have to sacfrifice his life in order to get them to return.
• He turns the resets the wheel on its axis and gives it a little push.
• End episode. (Which poses the question, what time did those on the island get stuck in?)

Oceanic Six:

• The episode opens with Sun receiving a call from Korea from her mother and daughter asking when she is coming home, after a short conversation she replys that she will be home soon, goodbye, etc. then grabs her gun and gets out of her car just in time to see Ben and Kate arguing about Aaron.
• Sun points the gun at Ben and tells Kate to get out of the way who responds with a) "What are you doing?" (wait you've got a gun pointed at Ben, never mind, proceed) and then b) "Where's Aaron?" Sun tells Kate that Aaron is in her car.
• Kate goes to get Aaron, and puts him in her car, then yells at Jack and Ben (who most definately deserved it although she was a tad bit harsh to Jack, but I can see where she's coming from) and leaves.
• Sayid also leaves, warning Jack and Ben that if sees either of them ever again it will not go well (which I think was pretty much the consensus of all those not 'friends' with Ben after the little rondevous). (Off topic tangent, but did Sayid walk away? Because if he didn't then the only car he could have taken would have been Sun's car as he came with Ben in the van and Jack came with Kate who had already left in her car soooo....)
• Anywho Sun tells Ben that he is responsible for Jin's death who rebuts that no one is responsible for Jin's death because he is not dead and if she comes with him he can take her to someone who can offer her proof.
• Sun, Ben, and Jack take the van and head to the mysterious person's (Dan's mum's) place.
• Whilst in the van Jack tells Sun that he is deep ly sorry for leaving Jin and that they should have waited for him.
• She asks him why he is telling her this now and assumes that it is because he doesn't want her to shoot Ben if he is lying. He tells her that after what Ben just did to Kate, if she doesn't shoot him he will.
• Ben angrily and violently pulls the van over to the shoulder of the road and shouts at Sun and Jack that if they knew how hard he'd been working to help and protect them and their friends they would never stop thanking him so if they want to shoot him then they should get it over with otherwise they should let it go and let him drive on.
• Sun tells him to drive and they end up at a church.
• After they get out of the van Ben gives Sun Jin's wedding ring as proof that he is alive telling her that Locke gave it to him, she believes him. He tells her that the people on the island, Jin included really need their help and that there is a woman in the church who can help them get back, but they don't have much time so he needs her to decided right then and there. She agrees to help.
  
• Desmond shows up and asks the group what they're all doing there to which Ben replys probably the same thing as Desmond to which Desmond replys: "You're looking for Faraday's mother too?" To which Ben replies with a puzzled look as he walks off to the church.
• When they enter the church the British woman from Desmond's flashbacks in season three (the same one that Ben visited in episode two of this season) greets Ben (we find out that her name is Eloise) and curtly tells him that she thought she told him to bring 'all of them.' He replies that this was all he could get on short notice and she replies that it will do for now, then tells the group that they have work to do.
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I CANNOT WAIT FOR NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE!!!!
However, I'm really sort of rooting for Kate and Sawyer and the commercial made it look like Jack and Kate are going to make up (and out) which is kind of not promising.