PART 1:
Pentultimate episode of the season. We open on the Oceanic Six being rescued. Jack’s still the leader. Telling them how to deal with the media that awaits.
FLASHCURRENT: The chopper is overheard to be landing over the Orchid, which none of the Losties know is another Dharma station. Jack is trying to be a hero (a-gain) even though he just had surgery.
Turns out Dan Faraday knows what the Orchid station is all about and tells Charlotte, “We have to get off this island tight now!”
FUTURE: Oceanic has a press conference with The 6; offering a lot of crazy manufactured details. The press is pretty harsh with them. (’You guys look pretty healthy for being on an island’) It should be a fluff piece! Sayid and Nadia are re-united.
One group if off to the freighter with Jin and Sun and Aaron and some random people. So we know the fate of them is not certain.
FLASHFORWARD: Sun shows up at her father’s company, pregnant and gaining control of her life and her father’s company. She got her money and bought controlling interest in dad’s biz. And she blames dad for Jin’s death.
Hurley, Locke, and Ben are off to the Orchid. But they realize that Widmore’s guys (Freighties) are already there.
Jack presides over a wake for his father. And Claire’s mom attends. And tells Jack that Claire was his sister.
Sayid and Kate have gone after Jack (for a rescue) but meet up with Richard Alpert and a host of other armed people who capture them.
Ben gives some instructions to Locke about getting into the Orchid station while Ben’s going to surrender for a diversion.
THOUGHTS & QUESTIONS:
Who put the crapload of explosives on board the freighter?
Why did they feel the need to create such an elaborate backstory about the Losties? Why is Jack so happy to go along with this plan?
Why does Kate need to claim Claire’s baby as her own?
What was with Michael’s claim about landing on an island filled with people?
When do they 6 get together? And how are they (and just them) going to get away. That boat brought Jin and a few other random people who don’t make it. So, is the freighter gonna explode or is there gonna be a war waged on the freighter once the mercenary types return? Will they return?
Thinking: Sun and baby get off the boat and the helicopter goes down with Sayid, Jack, Hurley and Kate; then they could re-unite. And maybe the pilot could be one of the faked 8 (one of the two that “make it off the plane but die later”).
So Ben “has a plan” but we know that plan cannot be surrender (he hasn’t even told Locke what to do once he gets to the Orchid station) so how is Ben gonna get out of Keamy’s control?
You can assume that Ben signaled to the Others to help him; but if he did, why did Richard Alpert and the Others show up at Sayid’s locale and not report directly to the Orchid. Is there gonna be a hostage negotiation? Because no one cares about the Losties. That’s out.
What kind of horrible things can/will go wrong with an attempt to move the island? (Thank god for Hurley bringing one ounce of logic into the equation – ‘Won’t the bad guys move right along with the island?’).
When Sun names her father as one of the two responsible for her husband’s death – who was the other?
When Keamy left with that weird thing tied to his arm – is that connected to the ridiculous amount of explosives? Would he want to take the freighter out with him, or on his command?
So Sun is poised to take control of her father’s company, but in the back of my mind I still think her father is somehow connected behind the scenes, does she know, will she find out, what’s she gonna do?
I am so pumped to see where The Others are taking Sayid and Kate! I want to get to know them a little bit better.
PS – Is it possible to love Sun more than after this eppy?
Heres a link to the full episode
http://www.iluvtv.com/watch-lost-season-4-episode-12-theres-no-place-like-home-1/
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