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6.8 Recon Man in Black: "You are the best liar I've ever met." I am loving these karmic flash sideways so, so much. It was lovely to see Sawyer "graduate" from con man, to reluctant hero, to head of security for the Dharma Initiative, to an L.A. cop. Yes, he wasn't a strict law and order type -- he let Kate get away at the airport, after all -- but he was still Sawyer, and that made sense. And he was still haunted by the same childhood tragedy, but in much better control of his ghosts. I was confused about his search for Anthony Cooper, though. In "The Substitute," Locke's father was invited to Locke's wedding, and there was a photo of Locke and Cooper in Locke's cubicle at work. Did Cooper repent in the L.A. timeline and go straight? Maybe his kidney hasn't failed yet, and he's keeping Locke on his string in case he needs it. Of course, we still don't know how L.A. Locke ended up in a wheelchair. Still soooooo many plotlines to resolve. The attention to detail was impressive. L.A. Sawyer was still a reader; Watership Down was on the top of the pile of books on his dresser. (I believe that was the first book we ever saw him read. Was that his copy that went down with 815, then?) Sawyer took Charlotte a single flower, like he did for Juliet. We even saw a lonely, introspective Sawyer watching Little House on the Prairie, which was specifically mentioned as his favorite childhood show many moons ago. The late Michael Landon was talking about people not really being gone when they die, which of course fit right in with the alternate timeline. As an extra added bonus, there was lots of sex, and lots of Josh Holloway shirtless or in a towel. And on the Island, there was cage visiting and dress-fondling. Imprisonment, torture, hot sex... ah, memories. Sawyer still seems to love Kate; he even wound up with her at the end of the episode -- twice. And yet, while he was canoodling with the woman in the opening scene and with Charlotte, I kept feeling like Sawyer was cheating on Juliet. I still want the two of them together in the series finale. The L.A. timeline included big changes for Miles, who had been something of a con man, too. His friendship with Sawyer was a lot deeper, and Miles was a lot more serious. His father was still alive and Miles knew him; was that what made the difference for him? Did Miles still have his "gift"? If he was raised by Pierre Chang, why did his name plate say "Straume"? Miles said he had a girlfriend, but we didn't see her. Anybody we know? The Island plot was a nice complement to the L.A. story. I don't know why I was wondering which side Sawyer was really on, when past experience should have told me he always looks out for number one. (And Kate, apparently.) Widmore versus the Man in Black should be interesting. And if Sawyer isn't really an MIB recruit, then he's still a possible candidate for Jacob's job. Right? At least we now know for sure why Kate went with the Man in Black; she did it for Claire. It was odd to see Kate crying; she never cries. And she even had to hug Claire, getting uncomfortably close to The Hair. Please tell me why absolutely no one has even asked where Aaron is right now? As the Man in Black was working on recruiting Kate, we finally got an intriguing tidbit about him: his mother was crazy, and he still has "issues." Okay. Maybe that was why he slapped Claire in the face. Coincidentally, the real Locke's mother was crazy, too. They couldn't both be Swoosie Kurtz, could they? What I missed last week: -- L.A. Ben gave his father life-saving oxygen. In the Island reality, he gassed him to death. Really cool parallel. -- Cheese curds. Really? What have we learned? -- I was laboring under the mistaken impression that Widmore and Smokey were on the same side. Guess not. -- Being "infected" makes you crazy. I think. -- By now, the fact that Sawyer and Charlotte are in Los Angeles too strains the boundaries of coincidence. The alternate timeline can't be "real." We'd better find out what it is by the end of the series. My list of things I absolutely need them to answer seems to be getting longer instead of shorter. Character bits: -- L.A. Sawyer told Charlotte that the Steve McQueen movie, Bullitt, was the reason he became a cop. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullitt) I think that was a joke. And then he said he just reached the point where he had to decide between becoming a criminal or a cop. That's believable. -- No one in L.A. called him Sawyer. Did he never take the name? -- Charlotte was much the same (well, except that she wasn't dead), and worked with Miles' father at "the museum." -- Sayid, looking confused and possibly sick, would have let Claire kill Kate without lifting a finger to stop it. I hate this. -- Cindy and the kids were with the MIB, after all. -- Charlie's brother Liam showed up at the front desk to ask about his brother, who was arrested. Will we ever get more about Charlie? Time is running out. -- I was sort of hoping we'd see Ana Lucia. It wouldn't be a stretch, since she's an L.A. cop. Of course, L.A. is a big place. -- We didn't get our usual quota of nicknames, considering that this was a Sawyer episode, but there were a few. Sawyer called Widmore "Chief" and the Man in Black "the old man." Kate was, as always, "Freckles." Alt-Sawyer called Miles "Sunshine." The code name for the other cops to come in was "LaFleur," which was just adorable. And the woman he had sex with and arrested in the opener called him "Dimples." Bits and pieces: -- Yet another car crash. Blue car this time. And Kate was driving. -- Alcatraz' official name seems to be "Hydra Island." I think Kate called it "the Island where they had us in cages." I like Alcatraz better. Short and to the point. -- Ajira 316 is already getting overgrown with vines, like the Black Rock. Was all that stuff about 316 a set-up for the candidate rejects to leave in that plane in the series finale? Of course, there's the sub, too. But it would be a lot more poetic if they left the Island in a plane. Maybe that's why Frank is in the cast. -- Who killed the passengers of 316? There's been so much mayhem that I've lost track. Do we know? -- L.A. Sawyer deliberately broke a mirror. It's starting to become a Lost fad. And it's probably this week's Most Obvious Symbolism. -- The alarm clock in the opener was at 8:42. I thought I saw eight beers in Sawyer's fridge, and four frozen dinners in the freezer. -- What's locked up in the sub? If it's not Desmond and/or Penny, I'm not sure I care. Maybe it's Eloise Hawking in suspended animation. Quotes: Sawyer: "LaFleur." About to be arrested woman: "La What?" Charlotte: "Yes, I'm exactly like Indiana Jones." Sawyer: "You got a whip?" Charlotte: "Maybe." Sawyer: "Is your name even Zoe?" Zoe: "Is yours Sawyer?" Sawyer: "Take me to your leader." Another truly satisfying, character-driven episode. Everything we knew about Sawyer, everything he was capable of becoming -- it was all there. Four polar bears, Billie View all comments or post a comment. |
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