okay… in keeping with my routine, below is a rundown of this week’s episode of Lost, but first, a promise to come back sometime soon and talk about my thoughts on the episode and the season and the series so far… i promise to come back and type up those thoughts…
THE DOCTOR IS IN…
Now Watching: EPISODE 6.07 – Dr. Linus
previously on Lost… Ben kills Jacob, Jacob takes Jack and Hurley away from the temple, SmokeLocke takes out the temple, Sayid freaks out Ben…
Ben is running terrified through the jungle… runs into the new good guys (Frank, Ilana, Sun, and Miles)… tells them Sayid killed Dogun and Lennon…
Linus teaching… didn’t quite catch that… Prinicpal tells him of budget cuts… Dr. Linus actually… Ben and Artz griping… newLocke says Ben should be the principal…
Ben and gang are trying to figure out what to do next… Ben explains the smoke monster… Ilana asks Miles to listen to Jacob’s ashes… he does… Linus killed him… “whaaaat?” i so love the Ben Linus character… Ilana is not happy… Miles is hilarious… Ben is left out in the cold…
L-O-S-T
Gang and Ben reach the beach… Ilana takes charge and says she’s looking to build shelter… someone start a fire… “Yeah, a fire will fix everything” (Miles)… Ben is trying to convince Ilana that Miles is lying… why?
Dr. Linus making a TV dinner… for his dad, who is on oxygen, but, oh, it’s actually his dad… Ben starts whining about school… his dad says that he wanted so much more for Ben… that’s why he signed up for Dharma… if only they’d stayed… who knows what Ben would’ve become? i know… i know what he would’ve become… doorbell… it’s Alex… Ben cancelled tutoring because he’s in detention all week… reschedules for early tutoring over coffee… he’s the best…
back at the beach… Sun wants to find Jin… no, Ilana wants to find him… she’s supposed to protect the candidates… there are only six left…
Hurley dreaming about cheese carrots… Jack wakes him up and tells him to hurry up so they can get back to the temple… Hurley is stalling… they argue over which is the right way… *POOF* Richard appears and tells them they’re both wrong… Hurley asks Jack if he trusts Richard… “at least he’s not stalling”…
Ben is foraging the old tents… finds an oceanic water bottle… Frank and Ben share a moment wondering what would be different if Frank was flying 815… gun to the neck… Ilana marches Ben up the hill… chains his foot and tells him to dig his own grave…
Tutoring… is that the Black Rock?… quizzing about history… Alex has financial problems and she’s freaking out about the wrong answers… lets slip that the principal is a pervert… she promises to tell him a secret… the principal and the school nurse were, you know, doing it… Ben has a plan, you can see it formulating in his head…
digging… he doesn’t seem too motivated… Miles appears with some jokes, beans, and banana something… Ben offers him 3.2 million dollars… Miles says that Jacob hoped up to the last second that he was wrong about Ben, but i guess he wasn’t… GUNSHOT… DIG!…
Richard, Jack, and Hurley… Hurley brings the cyborg, zombie, etc talk trying to figure out why Richard doesn’t age… Richard says it was a gift and then reveals that he’s taking them to the Black Rock… tells them that the temple is not the place to go, finds out that Hurley talked to Jacob, tells him not to believe anything that Jacob says… then Richard goes off to die because that’s what he has to do…
Ben trying to get Artz in on the plan that’s continuing to form in his head… “can you hack into the nurse’s email account?”… Artz sees through him, that he’s trying to take over the principal’s job… he’ll help, if he gets a good parking spot out of the deal…
Ben is digging…
Richard is in the Black Rock… looking at the chains… his chains? is there a skeleton missing?… Richard heads over to the dynomite… Hurley warns him… it’s time to go… Richard can’t kill himself… he wants Jack to kill him… Richard is ranting about Jacob cursing him… apparently smokeLocke’s words have festered long enough… Richard is the new Locke… he’s doubting that his life has purpose… Jack lights the fuse and decides that it’s a good time to chat…
Richard’s eyes are wide open… Hurley is freaking out… “We gotta go!”… Hurley promises not to leave Jack, then runs off… Jack wants answers… he explains the Lighthouse to Richard, expecting answers… Richard is really anxious… Jack is convinced that he’s invincible… the fuse is almost done… Jack was right!… Richard is incredulous… now what?… “Go back to where we started”…
Ben is digging… here comes the smoke monster… oh it’s smokeLocke… Ben explains why he’s digging his own grave… smokeLocke is trying to recruit Ben to be in charge of the island once the other team leaves the island… smokeLocke unlocks Ben and tells him where to get a rifle… meet up at the Hydra… Ben makes a break for it…
Ben goes to the principal’s office… that’s an OLD laptop… he’s got some printed emails from the nurse… he’s making a power play… counter play… Alex just emailed the principal asking for a recommendation… oooh… check… Ben will have to sacrifice Alex again…
Ben runs and gets his rifle… he’s got Ilana in his crosshairs… he wants to chat… explain his betrayal of Alex… he’s trying to convince her that Jacob cares not… he’s explaining the fear and anguish that led him to kill Jacob… he just wants to leave and join Locke… “because he’s the only one who will have me”… Ilana invites him to stay and then walks away… he kind of follows her…
Dr. Ben enters the principal office turns over the name plaque… he chose to save Alex’s future… but he manipulated enough to get his tutoring session back on…
he’s returning with Ilana… he’s hesitant, but perhaps, fully redeemed?… pauses… puts the gun down and helps Sun with her shelter… that’s a powerful scene right there… Miles digs up the diamonds, Ilana mourns over Jacob’s ashes… Jack, Hurley and Richard come around the bend… happy reunion… but Richard stays away… Ben looks so out of place again…
a submarine… there are people on the beach… WIDMORE!
LOST
nine more episodes until the season finale… that was a wow episode… now it’s time to wrap this up…
peace… love… bdg…