Coffee Break with Liz and Kate

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LOST 6.5 – The Lighthouse…recap and commentary  by Evie.

• Jack noticed his appendectomy scar and asked his mom about it. Mom told him that he had it removed when he was seven. Jack doesn’t seem convinced. Is Momma Shephard in on this crazy island deception? (BTW, the wound on his neck that he noticed on the flight appears to have healed)
• Jack has a son named David. He appears to be about 14 years old. Is Jack’s cute blonde wife the mom? Jack has been an absent father by the looks of it. Why are 14 year olds so annoying? I’m not sure if David is going to have a purpose other than showing us that everyone’s lives are completely different even before the time they would have crashed on the island. Jack and Dogan (is that his name) have a conversation where they actually seem to be honest with each other. What?!

• Hurley and Miles are playing tic-tac-toe. Life in the temple must be completely boring; at least in the courtyard.Jacob shows up at the healing pool and tells Hurley he needs his help. Jacob tells him that someone is coming to the island and Hurley needs to help him find it. I reeeeaaalllly hope it’s going to be Desmond. I miss that hunk!

• Mom Shephard finds Christian’s Last Will and Testament and asks Jack if he knows who Claire Littleton is; her name is in the will.

• Claire has become the new Danielle Rousseau. She lives in the jungle, has wild looking hair, keeps an assorted array of weapons and camping supplies, and hunts the Others to find out what they did with her baby. She gets Jin’s leg out of the trap she set and takes him back to her camp. Inside a store-bought-looking cradle Jin discovers a weird looking animal skull dressed up like a baby. Claire tells Jin that she’s been out in the jungle since the rest of the castaways left back in Season Four, but she didn’t know it had been three years. Jin is beginning to realize that Claire is definitely not herself. Claire finds one of the Others who had gone out looking for Sawyer with Jin and Kate. Claire ties him up and asks the dude what he did with her baby. He denies any involvement and when Jin asks her how she can be so sure the Others took Aaron she tells him it’s because her father and her friend told her. Score! It looks like I may have been right about Claire and Christian since last time we saw them in Jacob’s cabin together. Claire tells Jin that the Others took her to their temple and stuck her with needles and branded her, probably like they did to Sawyer, to see if she had the darkness in her. Somehow she escaped. I wonder if her special friend helped her. Jin understands exactly how whacked out Claire becomes when she goes all Lizzie Borden on the Other she has tied up.

• Hurley is caught by Dogan in the temple; a place Hurley should not be. Hurley tells him he just likes temples and Indiana Jones and stuff. What would we do without Hurley? He’s the character most fans identify with most, I believe. He asks all the obvious questions and is always playing it cool in a very innocent and genuine way. Jacob appears behind Dogan and walks Hurley through the conversation so Dogan will leave him be. Hurley does a pretty sweet job improvising as well. He lied to a samarai! My favorite line this episode followed by Hurley describing Jacob’s sudden appearances – he shows up whenever he wants like Obi-Wan Kenobi. Once they’re alone, Jacob kinda scolds Hurley for not having Jack coming with him. Jacob insists that Jack come along and he tells Hurley to tell Jack that “he has what it takes”. Jack freaks out when he hears that, because his father, Christian, always used to tell him that he doesn’t have what it takes. Yep, that worked. Jack follows Hurley through the jungle, to the caves from Season One, where they stumble across Shannon’s inhaler. In the cave they see the Adam and Eve skeletons (I’m still thinking they belong to the Naylors – Bernard and Rose, but time will tell) and Christian’s coffin. I think the cave and its contents are going to play an important part in the big picture story. Jack and Hurley have some “old school” chatting time in the jungle and Hurley tells Jack that he came back to the island because Jacob got into the back of his cab in L.A. and told him to do so. Follow up questions would have been appropriate, but of course Jack doesn’t bother to think about that. Jack admits that off the island Jack was broken and he was stupid enough to believe that if we returned the island would fix him.

• Next scene with Jack and David is at a piano concerto audition where Jack meets another father and son. It’s Dogan! What the heck? Who do you think the son is? I haven’t decided yet. I had the feeling that Dogan knew exactly who Jack was and seemed to take particular interest in David and his gift for music. Jack tells David that his dad never wanted to see him fail and that he told Jack he didn’t have what it takes. Maybe Jacob is doing things to make relationships better in the alternate reality in some unrealistic way.  I remember Jack playing the piano in one episode, and Charlie and Daniel play the piano too. Yeah. That’s all I can come with about the piano.

• Next scene with Hurley and Jack is at a lighthouse on the island that they have never seen before. Jack asks out loud what we were thinking. Why haven’t they seen this before? It’s still daylight when they arrive so it can’t be that far from the cave. Inside the lighthouse there is a huge gear wheel thingy and Hurley follows the instructions written on his arm from Jacob – to turn the wheel to 108 degrees. As the wheel turns Jack sees buildings flash by in the mirrors as it passes certain names. One building looks like a Korean temple another looks like the steeple of a church. Maybe for the Kwons and Sawyer? A few of the names I could make out were 125 – Owens, 124 – Dawson, 122 – Freed, 121 – Nielson, 120 – Rodriquez, 118 – Chavez, 117 – Linus, 42 – Kwon, 20 – Rousseau, 17 – Barnes, 16 – Jarrah, 15 – Ford, etc. I was sure I saw Austen on there the first time I watched the episode but I couldn’t find the number it corresponded with when I watched it again. Jack sees 23 – Shephard, and tells Hurley to turn the wheel to 23 degrees but Hurley is worried about what Jacob will think so Jack takes over and pulls the chain until it’s set at 23 degrees and Jack sees the house he grew up in when he looks into the mirror. My first thought was that it was a Mirror of Erised, like Harry Potter found at Hogwarts. Jack freaks out again and wants to know how long and why Jacob has been watching him his would life. Hurley can’t answer Jack’s questions so Jack does the sensible thing and takes a piece of metal to the mirrors destroying them. Outside the lighthouse Jack is sitting a way off on the edge of a cliff staring out at the ocean. Hurley is near the lighthouse and finally gets another visit from Jacob. Hurley is a little perturbed and tells him if he would have shown up earlier Jack wouldn’t have broken his mirrors into millions of pieces. (BTW, I like Jacob with his soft demeanor and sad eyes. He’s kinda cute.) Hurley continues his hilarious tirade. “Thanks for the seven years of bad luck by the way!” Jacob’s replies, “You have ink on your forehead.” “I have ink on my forehead?! Is that all you have to say?” By this time I was hoping that Jack would have noticed Hurley was in an argument with an invisible person. Hurley: “Jack broke your lighthouse, Dude! Mission UNaccomplished! Whoever you said needed help getting to the island is totally screwed.” Jacob was unconcerned. They’ll find another way. Is it Desmond? Please let it be Desmond! Jack’s deal is he needs to find out for himself what important thing he needs to do. And Jacob needed to get Jack and Hurley as far away from the temple as possible because “someone” is coming there. Hmmm….Evil-Locke? Who else would it be? So Sawyer, Jin, Kate, Jack, Hurley and so far Sun, are all away from the temple. Jin however is with wacko Claire, who promised to kill Kate if she was indeed raising Aaron, and Claire’s friend, Evil-Locke. I think Claire and Christian have always been manifestations of Smokey.

The next  episode is titled Sundown. It looks like Claire is going to send a warning to the temple inhabitants and Sayid is faced with a difficult decision.

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