Lost: Lighthouse
March 3rd 2010 05:41
In a Jack-themed flash sideways, Jack has a son (who he doesn’t really get along all that well with), who is secretly amazing at the piano and trying out for the same school as Dogen’s son. He doesn’t tell Jack about his tryout (in which he plays the same song we saw Daniel Faraday play when he was young) because he didn’t want Jack to be disappointed in him. Jack tells his sideways-world-son that his father told him that he would never amount to anything, that he didn’t have what it takes. Jack makes sure to let his own son know that there is nothing he could do that wouldn’t make him proud of him, that he loves him and will always be a part of his life.
Jack also spots an appendectomy scar on himself that he doesn’t remember getting. When he asks his mother about it, she tells him he had his appendix out when he was young, after he collapsed at school. He doesn’t remember that either. They both go through Jack’s mother’s home to try and find his father’s will. His mother finds it and asks if Jack knows who this Claire person listed in it is.
Back on the Island, Claire helps Jin back to her camp with an Other, who insists that he knows Claire better than Jin does. That if they don’t get out of there now? “She’d gonna kill us both.” Claire says she’s been out in the jungle by herself ever since they all left. How long has that been? Jin tells her it’s been three years and asks if she’s been out there alone the whole time. She tells him she’s not alone. Claire sews up Jin’s wound from the animal trap, picks up an ax, and turns to the Other. “Now it’s your turn.” She orders him to tell her where her son is, he insists they never had him, and in an attempt to save the man’s life, Jin interrupts with the truth: Kate has been raising Aaron these past three years off The Island. Claire rams the ax into the Other man anyway.
Meanwhile, Sayid wonders why all the other Others at the Temple are looking at him strangely, and Jack hesitantly tells him about the poison pill and the fact that they think he’s infected with something. That same “something” that has infected Claire.
Jacob shows up to give Hurley special instructions to get Jack to a lighthouse on The Island. A lighthouse that, despite all their time here, nobody has seen before. They run into Kate in the jungle, Jack invites her to come, and Hurley interrupts that she’s kind of not invited. That’s fine with Kate. She’s off to find Claire.
Jack and Hurley find the lighthouse, and as Hurley sets about moving the old wooden dial to the right heading, Jack starts to wonder where Jacob is. He only came on this trip under the impression that he would be able to talk to Jacob. Hurley tells him it doesn’t really work like that, that Jacob just kinda shows up whenever he feels like it. Unnerved by the words Jacob told Hurley to tell him to get him to come (“You have what it takes.”), and suddenly catching a glimpse of his childhood home in the lighthouse mirror while Hurley turns it past number 23, Jack gets furious and demands that Hurley ask Jacob what he wants from him. He spots everyone’s names and corresponding numbers/degrees written on the dial, and realizes Jacob has been watching all of them this whole time. When Jack continues to demand to know what Jacob wants from them and Hurley can’t tell him (Jacob never told him), Jack shatters the mirror.
Alone, Hurley is approached by Jacob. Hurley tells him that his grand plan didn’t work out so well. Jack shattered the mirror, so they won’t be getting the lighthouse to work to bring whoever it was Jacob wanted Hurley to help get to The Island there anytime soon. Jacob isn’t too worried about it. They’ll find another way. Hurley realizes that Jacob’s plan was more about Jack seeing what he saw in the mirror than getting the lighthouse to work. Hurley tells Jacob that he’s not really big on secret plans, so the next time can he just tell him upfront? Jacob tells Hurley that someone bad is coming to the Temple, and when Hurley starts to rush off to warn the people at the Temple, Jacob stops him. He says it’s already too late.
Back with Claire, Jin is starting to wonder what happened to the sweet girl he once knew. He tells her that he was lying; that he really saw Aaron at the Temple and knows a secret way to get there. Claire asks Jin if he’s still her friend, and he assures her that he is. She is relieved to find out that Jin’s lie (which was really the truth) wasn’t true, because, “If Kate was raising Aaron? I’d kill her.”
“Am I interrupting?” Locke suddenly appears.
Jin is shocked. “John?”
“That’s not John,” Claire says with a smile. “That’s my friend.”
Dogen: (In Japanese)You’re lucky I have to protect you, or I would remove your head from your body and feed it to the bears!
~*~*~
Hurley: You have what it takes.
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Hurley: I think you’d make a great dad.
Jack: I’d make a terrible dad.
~*~*~
Hurley: (about the asthma inhaler) Dude, it’s Shannon’s.
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Hurley: Wait a sec. What if we time-traveled again to like, dinosaur times and then we died and got buried in here? What if these skeletons are us?
~*~*~
Hurley: It’s cool dude, very old school.
Jack: What?
Hurley: You and me, trekking through the jungle, on our way to do something we don't quite understand. Good times.
~*~*~
Jack: I came back here because I was broken…And I was stupid enough to think this place could fix it.
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Jack: He’s been watching us. The whole time, he’s been watching us. All of us.
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Hurley: Next time how about you tell me everything up front. I’m not big on secret plans, okay?
~*~*~
Jacob: I’m sure they’ll find some other way.
~*~*~
Claire: That’s not John...that’s my friend.
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