Lost: Some Like It Hoth
April 27th 2009 21:46
It’s Miles’s story! We find out how he learned of his ability when he was a little kid, and then used it when he grew older to make lots of money. We also learn how his father left when he was a baby, and Miles has been trying to find out more about him his entire life. Turns out, his father is none other than Dr. Chang himself. Hurley tries to get them to talk to each other, but Miles stubbornly refuses, saying that his father walked out on him and his mother and he wants nothing to do with him.
Meanwhile, Ben’s dad is wondering where Ben is, and when Kate tries to reassure him that Ben is fine, he gets suspicious of her. Jack assures Ben’s dad that Kate’s his friend and would do nothing to hurt Ben. Phil comes to Sawyer with news that he knows who took Ben. When Sawyer asks him who, he just tells him, “you”. Sawyer invites him into the house with the tape, then knocks Phil unconscious. Turning to Juliet, he tells her to go get some rope.
Back in the 70’s, Horace can’t find Sawyer, so he brings Miles into the “circle of trust”, and sends him out into Others territory with a body bag. A body with a bullet in his head is waiting for him. Miles uses his powers to find out what really happened to the man, and when Hurley finds the body (he—Hurley, not the body—climbed into Miles’s van to go deliver sandwiches to everyone Miles was delivering the body to), Hurley assures Miles that his secret is safe with him. After all, he can talk to dead people too. They watch as The Hatch (as in Desmond’s Hatch) is being built.
Frustrated with Hurley’s whole, trying-to-get-him-to-befriend -his-father thing, Miles grabs the notebook Hurley’s been carrying around with him this whole time, and finds out Hurley is rewriting Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.
Hurley’s Star Wars references finally get Miles to approach his family’s house, where he stands outside the window and watches his dad read to baby Miles. It’s an emotional moment, as Miles suddenly realizes that his father was a good dad after all. When Dr. Chang gets a phone call and comes out, Miles quickly turns away so he won’t see the tears in his eyes. Dr. Chang asks him to get his van. They’re going to meet some scientists at the submarine.
As Miles is helping the scientists unload, who should appear out of the submarine? Daniel.
For a humorous, yet efficient recap, watch the Lost: Untangled video below.
MILES’S MOM: What were you doing in here?
YOUNG MILES: He-he was all alone, and scared. His chest hurt. He kept calling out for Kimberly.
LANDLORD: Kimberly? That’s his wife. But she died last year, how would you know that?
YOUNG MILES: I heard him.
MILES’S MOM: Miles, what are you talking about?
YOUNG MILES: He’s still talking, right now.
MILES’S MOM: Honey…he’s dead.
YOUNG MILES: I told you! I can hear him! (winces, covers ears) I can hear him!
~*~*~
SAWYER: I’ll do my best to cover it up. In case you haven’t noticed, I’m head of security.
~*~*~
HORACE: Jim already knows about this, but I’m going to have to bring you into the Circle of Trust. Can I trust you, Miles?
MILES: Absolutely, Horace.
~*~*~
MILES: Uh, we’re not supposed to be in 334, isn’t that Hostile territory?
HORACE: Welcome to the Circle of Trust.
~*~*~
MILES: I’m in the Circle of Trust.
~*~*~
MILES: (looking at body) What happened to him?
RADZINSKY: He had an accident.
MILES: What kind of accident?
RADZINSKY: He fell into a ditch.
MILES: With a bullet hole in his head? The ditch had a gun…
~*~*~
MILES: (unzips body bag, to corpse) Okay, so what really happened?
~*~*~
(flashback)
MILES’S MOM: Why did you come, Miles?
MILES: (close to tears) I need you to tell me…why I’m this way. How I do the things I do. And, I need to know why you won’t tell me about my father.
MILES’S MOM: Because he never cared about us. He never cared about you.
MILES: I need to know where he is, ma.
MILES’S MOM: It doesn’t matter where he—
MILES: It does matter--
MILES’S MOM: Miles, please—
MILES: I have a right to know!
MILES’S MOM: He’s dead.
~*~*~
MILES’S MOM: Your dad has been dead for a long time.
MILES: Where’s his body?
MILES’S MOM: Somewhere you can never go.
~*~*~
MILES: You’re takin’ the next van.
HURLEY[b]: Why? We’re going to the same place. Why don’t we carpool? It’ll help the Global Warming, which, hasn’t happened yet, so maybe we can help prevent it. (stops loading the van) Wait a second. Are you on some kind of secret mission?
[b]MILES: Just get in.
~*~*~
ROGER: Where’s Ben?
~*~*~
JULIET: Well, here we go.
~*~*~
HURLEY[b]: (writing) How do you spell Bounty hunter?
[b]MILES:What are you doing, writing your memoirs?
HURLEY[b]: (shuts notebook) It’s personal.
~*~*~
[b]HURLEY[b]: Naw man, there’s something fowl in here. It’s coming from back there.
[b]MILES: Maybe it’s your famous garlic mayo.
HURLEY[b]: Nuh, uh, that’s not possible…okay maybe it is possible. Pull over, I gotta check.
~*~*~
[b]HURLEY[b]: Dude, there’s a body bag in here. With a body in it.
[b]MILES: That’s traditionally what you put in a body bag.
~*~*~
HURLEY[b]: You can talk to dead people.
[b]MILES: Can we please just go?
HURLEY[b]: Don’t worry, dude, your secret’s safe with me. You wanna know why?
[b]MILES: No.
HURLEY[b]: I can talk to them too.
~*~*~
[b]NAOMI: (to Miles) My employer’s been following your work for some time now, and is interested in obtaining your rather unique services.
~*~*~
KATE: Are you okay?
ROGER: Well let’s see, my son got shot and now he’s disappeared, so I’m pretty far from okay.
~*~*~
ROGER: (to Kate) Wait a minute, why’re you so interested in my kid?
~*~*~
HURLEY[b]: I don’t know why you won’t just admit it. You can trust me, I talk to lots of dead people.
[b]MILES: So, you have conversations with them? Like they’re you’re pals?
HURLEY[b]: Sure, all the time. Sometimes we even play chess.
[b]MILES: You actually see them?
HURLEY[b]: Why wouldn’t I?
[b]MILES: Because that’s not how it works.
HURLEY[b]: Ah-ha! You wouldn’t know how it works unless you can do it!
[b]MILES: What I can do has nothing to do with chatting with ghosts, you nitwit. It’s a…feeling, a sense. When somebody’s dead? Their brain stops functioning, which means there’s no more talking. There’s just who they were and whatever they knew before they died.
HURLEY[b]: (shrugs) That’s how it works for me.
[b]MILES: Great, I’m happy for you.
HURLEY[b]: Your just jealous my power is better than yours.
~*~*~
[b]DR. CHANG: Lunch? Your instructions were to come alone.
HURLEY[b]: Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone about the body.
[b]DR. CHANG: He knows?
MILES: I’m sorry, Sir. He was rooting around in the back and he saw it.
HURLEY[b]: Dude, I can keep a secret.
[b]DR. CHANG: You better—(looks at nametag) Hurley. Because if you think working in the kitchen is bad—
HURLEY[b]: I like the kitchen.
[b]DR. CHANG: Well how do you feel about polar bear feces? Because if you breathe one word of this, I’ll have you shipped to Hydra Island so you can weigh turds for their ridiculous experiments.
HURLEY[b]: Gross.
~*~*~
[b]HURLEY[b]: Dude, that guy’s a total douche.
[b]MILES: That douche is my dad.
~*~*~
MILES: You want to tell me what’s back here, sweetheart?
NAOMI: You’re audition.
~*~*~
MILES: (watches Naomi unzip body bag) Look, whatever you’ve got goin’ on here? This isn’t really my thing.
NAOMI: From what I understand, Miles, if the price is right, this is exactly your thing. (tosses him a wad of cash) What can you tell me about this man?
MILES: (steps up to body, closes eyes) His name’s Felix…he was on his way to deliver something to a…guy named Widmore.
NAOMI: Deliver what?
MILES: A bunch of papers, photos, pictures…of…empty graves. A purchase order for an old airplane.
(he covers his face with his hands, shaking it off as Naomi zips the body bag back up.
MILES: So, did I pass?
~*~*~
MILES: As much as hunting down a mass-murderer sounds really safe, uh, I’m gonna pass. Thanks for the audition.
(he starts to leave)
NAOMI: My employer is willing to pay you $1.6 million.
MILES: (turns around) When do we leave?
~*~*~
HURLEY[b]: So, anyway…
[b]MILES: I don’t want to talk about it.
HURLEY[b]: Are you kidding me? How weird is it that your dad is the dude from all those movies?
~*~*~
[b]HURLEY[b]: How long have you known he was your dad?
[b]MILES: Third day we were here I was in line at the cafeteria and my mother got in line behind me. That was my first clue.
HURLEY[b]: But all these Dharma dudes end up dead. Don’t you wanna save ‘em?
[b]MILES: I can’t save them. They’re gonna get killed no matter what I do, so, why bother?
~*~*~
DR. CHANG: (to Miles) I need you to take me to Radzinsky. You, Hurley—
HURLEY[b]: Polar bear poop, got it.
~*~*~
(driving in the van)
[b]HURLEY[b]: So I’m new here, Dr. Chang, what is it you do here at The Orchid?
[b]DR. CHANG: It’s classified.
HURLEY[b]: Oh really? You can’t tell anyone, not even your wife?
[b]DR. CHANG: No.
HURLEY[b]: What about your kids?
[b]DR. CHANG: I have a three-month-old son, so no, I haven’t told him.
HURLEY[b]: Three months? Wow, congrats! What’s his name?
[b]DR. CHANG: Miles.
HURLEY[b]: Small world! That’s your name too, right Miles?
[b]MILES: Yeah.
HURLEY[b]: So, you a fan of jazz, Dr. Chang, like Miles Davis?
[b]DR. CHANG: My wife is. I like country.
(Miles glances at him sideways)
HURLEY[b]: So, you two have been here for…three years now, you must be pretty tight, huh?
[b]MILES: Dr. Chang and I don’t exactly travel in the same circles.
DR. CHANG: I wasn’t aware there were circles.
HURLEY[b]: Great! We should all get together for a beer sometime. How awesome would that be?
~*~*~
[b]HURLEY[b]: Dude, what is this place? And what’s up with all the secrecy?
[b]MILES: Don’t know, don’t care.
WORKER: Hey, Glen, what’s the serial number that goes on the hatch lid?
GLEN: (reading) 4, 8…15…16…23…Hold on a minute, it’s smudged.
HURLEY[b]: 42.
[b]GLEN: 42.
MILES: How the hell’d you know that?
HURLEY[b]: Because, they’re building our hatch.
[b]MILES: What hatch?
HURLEY[b]: The one that crashed our plane.
~*~*~
[b]MILES: You owe me a fish taco.
~*~*~
BRAM: Do you know what lies in the shadow of the statue?
MILES: No, can’t say that I do.
BRAM: Then you’re not ready to go to that island.
~*~*~
MILES: You’re playin’ for the wrong team.
MILES: Yeah? What team are you on?
MILES: The one that’s gonna win.
~*~*~
HURLEY[b]: So your dad, is he…around? You know, when we came from, the future?
[b]MILES: No.
HURLEY[b]: Well then this is kinda awesome for you, huh?
[b]MILES: HOW IS IT AWESOME?
HURLEY[b]: Because you get to hang out with him, you know? Get to know him better and stuff. And don’t bother thanking me, but he was totally down for that beer, dude. You know, maybe he’ll let you hold baby you, or you can change your own diaper, or—(Miles slams on the breaks) Whoa!
~*~*~
[b]HURLEY[b]: It’s “furry”. Furry fist. I need a spellcheck.
~*~*~
[b]HURLEY[b]: It’s 1977, right? Star Wars just came out, and pretty soon George Lucas is gonna be looking for a sequel. I’ve seen Empire like 200 times, so I figured…make life easier and send him the script. With a couple of improvements.
[b]MILES: That has gotta be the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
HURLEY[b]: Oh yeah? Well, at least I’m not scared to talk to my own dad.
~*~*~
[b]JACK: Her heart was in the right place.
SAWYER: Yeah, well where was her head?
~*~*~
PHIL: I know who took the kid.
SAWYER: Yeah, who’s that?
PHIL: (holds up tape) You.
~*~*~
SAWYER: Get some rope.
~*~*~
MILES: I lied to you, Mr. Gray. I wasn’t able to talk to your son.
Mr. Gray: Why’re you telling me this? You could have just let me go on believin’ what you said.
MILES: That wouldn’t have been fair to your son.
Mr. Gray: I’m sorry?
MILES: If you needed your son to know that you loved him, you should have told him when he was still alive.
~*~*~
HURLEY[b]: Sorry I said you were afraid to talk to your dad, dude.
[b]MILES: Don’t worry about it.
HURLEY[b]: I used to hate my dad too.
[b]MILES: Yeah?
HURLEY[b]: He left when I was 10. But the best thing I ever did? Was give him a second chance. We got to be the best of friends, and although I may never see him again? I miss him. And I know he feels the same.
[b]MILES: My dad didn’t leave when I was 10, I was a baby. I never knew him. And I don’t want to. It’s not happening.
HURLEY[b]: That was Luke’s attitude too.
[b]MILES: What?
HURLEY[b]: In “Empire”? Luke found out Vader was his father, but instead of putting away his light saber and talking about it, he overreacted and got his hand cut off. I mean, they worked it out eventually, but at what cost? Another Death Star was destroyed, Boba Fett got eaten by the Sarlacc, and we got the Ewoks. And it all could have been avoided if they’d just, you know, communicated. (grabs notebook out of van) And let’s face it. The Ewoks suck, dude.
~*~*~
[b]MILES: Dan?
[b]DANIEL]/b]: Hey, Miles. Long time no see.
I knew it!
Loved Hurley and Miles in this episode, and I'm glad Miles got to see that his dad really did love him. Yay for Daniel being back! Can't wait to hear where/when he's been.| 36 |
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