Recon

I’m not going to lie to you; this episode left me feeling a little unsatisfied. I think I keep waiting for a big crazy reveal and all we are getting are little bite sized reveals. This is the last season! I need a feast of revelations not a snack. Luckily it looks like next week’s episode is going to be a Thanksgiving dinner worth of revealing with a long awaited for Richard Alpert episode!

Alternaverse – Ford & Straume Police Cops!

The alternaverse starts out just like Sawyer’s first flashback episode from way back in season 1 – he’s just banged a chick, is late for a meeting, and accidently spills a case full of cash. Same old Sawyer – but wait! What’s this? She pulls a gun on him? He says he’s a cop? Who are we to believe? One “LaFlauer” later and Ford & Straume have another bust.

It turns out that in this life when Sawyer hit the cross road of cop or criminal he took the cop route. One thing hasn’t changed though: his lust for revenge against Anthony Cooper, the man who ruined his life. But he keeps this secret hidden deep down away from everybody. Instead of a note to Mr. Sawyer he’s got a dossier. Is this Anthony Cooper the same one that Locke and Helen want to invite to their wedding? If he’s such a baddie then why would they want him there?

Like a good partner Miles sets up Sawyer with a new lady to bone. I guess sex on the job doesn’t count, how nice of Miles. Did you hear where the girl was from though? She works with Miles’ dad at the museum. MILES’ DAD! PIERRE CHANG LIVES! Another father/son duo that got off the Island before it sunk. Anyways, who does this mystery lady turn out to be? Charlotte Staples Lewis! From the freighter. Man Daniel sure isn’t going to be happy about what she does with Sawyer. After they do the dirty Charlotte digs a little bit overzealously into Sawyer’s underware drawer and finds the Sawyer files. She definitely looked like she was searching for something and it wasn’t the tshirt she asked for. What was her motive for that? Sawyer finds her and kicks her out. After being touched by an episode of Little House on the Prairie he tries to rekindle that relationship and Charlotte slams the door in his face. Side note – Charlotte was born on the Island so she’s another person who escaped before it sunk.

Miles, showing an almost creepy interest in his partner’s life, uncovers that Sawyer went to Austrailia not Palm Springs. This sends him into a jealous rage and he breaks up the band! No! I totally would have watched Ford & Straume Police Cops when it went into syndication! Sawyer eventually tells Miles what the deal is but their touching moment is ruined by worthless Kate wrecking her car into them. Was she escaping the hospital that Claire gave birth in?

Really all this flashsideways did was show us again how people would have been different if Jacob hadn’t called them to the Island. Sawyer’s seems to be fairly good. So far only Sayid and possibly Kate’s flashsideways seem to have been bad.

The Island – Crazy Is As Crazy Does

So you remember that whole thing about Claire saying she was going to kill Kate for raising Aaron? She meant it. Cat fight city. Dead Inside Sayid doesn’t do anything to stop it instead Evil Locke tosses Claire aside and reprimands her like a little kid then apologizes to Kate. After that he goes off into a weird tangent about how he once had a mother who was crazy and kids with crazy moms don’t grow up well adjusted. So is Evil Locke’s mom some sort of Egyptian deity? Anyways the point is Claire isn’t fit to raise Aaron so Kate should. Of course the whole reason she’s crazy is cause of Evil Locke in the first place…

The Island – The Re Con

So you thought the episode title Recon was just about Sawyer’s recon mission to the Hydra island? No sir! Straight off Damon Lindleoff’s Twitter feed: “Recon. Verd. To con again”. Yup it’s all about Sawyer’s conning. This time he’s conning both Widmore and Evil Locke although I don’t think piloting a submarine is that much easier than piloting a plane. That might be a flaw in his plan.

Two questions from Widmore’s submarine: what is behind the locked door and who’s side is Widmore on? Something super important is behind that door for sure. Like the hydrogen bomb that was introduced last year. Maybe it’s a Desmond Bomb! Boom brutha! Is Widmore really on Jacob’s side or is he a 3rd party just trying to take the Island for himself? Or is he on Evil Locke’s side and Sawyer just had his con pimped by Xzibit? Yo dawg I heard you liked cons so we conned your con so you can con while you con!

One thing is for sure – I can’t wait for next week’s Richard episode. I might have to take Wednesday off from work cause I’ll still be sitting on my couch with my mind blown by the time 9am rolls around.