The Package

I do so enjoy it when one of my theories is proven correct and this week I was vindicated regarding what was in the submarine’s locked door. Hooray for me!

Alternaverse – Feels Like…Pulp Fiction
Jin and Sun are not married in the alternaverse but they are still very into each other. It seems unlike in the original timeline where their relationship was ruined when Jin started working for Sun’s dad instead it seems to have started it. But how did Jin get a job with Paik Industries in the first place then? He got the job initially because he asked to marry Sun. In this universe he is afraid of Paik finding out about the two of them (man does LOST pile on the daddy issues).

Anyways turns out Keamy was hired by Paik to kill Jin for doing the dirty with his daughter. In a giant smack to the face he even made Jin personally pay Keamy to kill him. Nice, I’ll have to remember that move when I have a daughter. Sun tries to access her “secret” Runaway With Jin Fund only to find that her father found it and emptied it. Oh yes, everyone’s favorite indestructible Russian Mikhail shows up too. With both eyes! Lucky him.

So things are looking bad for Jin and then Sayid happens. Blam, blam, blam and Jin is free. Well partially free, Sayid won’t cut his bindings for him he just gives him a razor. Then Mikhail and Sun show up. Gun play. Karate action. And then Mikahil is dead with a bullet through the eye (ouch! The universe really doesn’t want him to have both eyes!) and Sun is shot through her pregnant stomach. Off the rush to the hospital. Who do you think is going to save them? Ethan? Jack? My guess is we’ll see Juliet for the first time in the alternaverse and she saves her. She was a fertility doc after all…

On Island – Widmore’s People Are Surprisingly Accurate
Sayid can’t feel feelings anymore. He’s basically a zombie. A murderous zombie minus the hunger for human brains. Perhaps his body was revived but his soul remained dead? Claire on the other hand is worried about Aaron not knowing her and Evil Locke basically gives her the unspoken clearance to kill Kate as soon as they get off the Island. Sawyer is seeing his plan fall apart before his eyes and Jin is totally “f$&k this, I’m outta here”.

Evil Locke explains to Jin that he needs all 6 Candidates on the plane to leave and he promises that he’ll get Sun back for him. What he really meant was he needs to kill all 6 Candidates and he doesn’t know which Kwon he needs so he’s going to kill both. He leaves to go get Sun and then Widmore’s ninjas attack and abduct Jin.

On Island – Join Me Or You Can’t Speak English!
Back on the beach everyone is eagerly waiting the return of Richard and Hurley. Sun gets fed up of their constant anti-finding Jin policies and storms away to her garden. First she is joined back Jack, who she yells away, and then Evil Locke who promises her Jin. Surprisingly Sun doesn’t fall for his siren song and bolts. Right into a tree. Never look behind you when running through the jungle! She is awoken by a concerned Ben Linus and finds she can no longer speak English. She can understand it just fine though. I haven’t figured out if this means something or if it is just a convenient plot point by the writers. If it does mean something I’m betting her inability to speak English is going to have a dire effect somewhere down the line. In the end Jack gives her a note pad and joins the list of people who’ve promised to find Jin.

Richard shows up and tells them they’ve got a date with the Hydra Island, explosives, and a plane. They’ve got to blow it up so Evil Locke can’t escape. Now one wonders…did his wife really tell Hurley that he had to stop Evil Locke? It seemed odd that all the other things she said we saw her speaking them to Hurley but that last request came directly from Hurley and he didn’t look comfortable saying it. Was it Jacob? Was it Evil Locke?? Could it just be part of his master plan to get everyone on that island so he can kill them all in one quick move?

On Island – Jins On A Plane
So Jin is swept off to Hydra Island by Zoe and crew. He’s stuck in Room 23; the same propaganda room that Karl got stuck in way back in season 3. Just in case you’ve forgotten Jin hits a switch and the pro-Jacob techno beat starts. Fun! Then Zoe shows up and asks him about electromagnetical maps he signed off on back in the 70s when he was with Dharma. Oh yes electromagnetic pockets are still important and somehow the key to whatever Widmore is trying to attempt on the Island. Is it really stopping Evil Locke or is his plan something more self serving? Immortality perhaps?

Also – Widmore throws his cap into the ring and joins Jack and Evil Locke in saying he’ll save Sun. And the what behind the locked sub door? It isn’t a what at all but a who? Gosh who could that be?!?

On Island – Charles and Locke, An Intimate Portrait
Well Evil Locke’s rep doesn’t get any help from Widmore; he basically says he’s a legendary dick. Locke quotes Widmore (to Ben in season 4), “There’s a war coming”. And it’s ON! I think the LOST endgame has finally begun. Hold on to your butts!

On Island – Mike Is Right
So Sayid has been just chillin’ in the ocean until dark. Now that it has fallen he approaches the sub only to see a highly drugged man get dragged out (drugged, dragged, ha!). This man is none other than the guy I predicted when we first saw the locked door – Desmond Hume! Holla! While drugged Desmond still seems to recognize Sayid before he’s dragged away.

Theories!
Honestly do any of you read the recaps or do you just skip to the theories? I might just stop the recaps and only do theories since the recaps take a lot of time…

- Why is Desmond here? Because of his special connection to the Island. There is no doubt that by being at ground zero when the Hatch imploded he was imbued with some sort of special powers. He could see the future. And shifted through time. My guess is he’s going to be able to shift through universes soon. Yes, my next bold Desmond related prediction is that the Desmond we saw on the plane at the beginning of the season was not a alternaverse Desmond but original universe Desmond!

- We knew things were going to be bad if Evil Locke got out but now Widmore said that everyone will die if he gets off. Like life would end or somesuch?

- I think all the alternaverse storylines are going to start merging together real fast now until all characters are linked for the big finale.

- I still don’t buy Widmore’s story. Sure he’s trying to stop Evil Locke but that’s just cause he wants what’s on the Island. The only “good” guys I think are the folks on the beach.

- Alt-Sun had a moment in the hotel where she was looking in the mirror and paused for a second. Did she have a feeling that something wasn’t right like Alt-Jake?

- What if Sun’s inability to speak English On Island is from her Alt personality bleeding over? Alt-Sun didn’t seem to know English…