Lost: The Economist
February 22nd 2008 02:02
In this Sayid-centered episode, we start exactly where we left off: with everyone lingering around the helicopter. Sayid goes over to Naomi’s body to close her eyes and finds a bracelet with the words, “N, I’ll always be with you. R.G.” He goes on to make a deal with Miles and Lapidus that if he brings back Charlotte, they have to take him to their boat. After a moment of considering this, they finally agree. Considering what happened the last time Jack and Locke faced off, Sayid makes Jack stay behind. Jack doesn’t trust Locke, and sends Kate to go with Sayid and Miles. When she asks him what he thinks is going to stop Locke from doing to her what he did to Naomi, Jack replies, “Sawyer won’t let him.”
FLASH FORWARD:
Sayid’s standing on a golf course considering his shot when an Italian man drives up in his cart and asks if he could play through. When he offers Sayid a ride, Sayid politely declines. They make a bet on who could get their ball closest to the hole from there using different clubs. Sayid loses, and when the man asks him if he’s seen him somewhere before, Sayid tells him he’s one of the Oceanic Six. The man suddenly gets very nervous and tells him to forget about the hundred dollar bet. Sayid insists that he pay him, calling him by his name. The man turns to stare at him. How does he—BAM!
Cut to: A café in Berlin. Sayid shows up, pretending to be lost, and asks a woman at a table for help with his map. The woman, Elsa, helps him out and they begin to talk. He finds out that she’s their for work—she’s an executive aide to a wealthy economist. Basically, she’s a slave to her pager, even though her boss only visits Berlin once or twice a year. When she asks Sayid where she knows him from, he tells her he’ll tell her exactly where she knows him from if she’ll have dinner with him that night. Elsa grins, takes the map, and circles a restaurant where he’ll be taking her. “If you can find it.” As Sayid leaves the café, he pulls out a phone and informs someone that he’s made contact.
BACK TO THE ISLAND:
Team Locke arrive at the place where the cabin Locke’s looking for is supposed to be…only it’s not there. Sawyer wants to know why they’re looking for a cabin, and Ben smirks and says that Locke is looking for his next instructions. Frustrated, Locke shakes it off and says that it doesn’t matter, they should keep moving.
Sawyer and Hurley wonder why they’re dragging Charlotte along, and Locke tells them that she’s valuable as a hostage. Everyone’s getting tired of wandering and Hurley thinks they should just let Charlotte go. Locke insists it would be a sign of weakness, not good faith, and leads everyone on to the barracks.
Sayid, Miles, and Kate show up at said barracks, but it’s deserted. Suddenly they hear a noise inside one of the house. They enter suspiciously, and find Hurley tied up in a closet. He tells them that everyone left him. He tells them about Locke holding Charlotte hostage and how he said it was because of Walt, and how Locke thinks the new people are there to kill him. He then turns to Miles and asks, “So are you?” To which Miles replies, “Not yet.”
Back at the Helicopter, Daniel asks to have the phone so he can call the boat. He sets up a scientific experiment, radios Regina, and has her lock onto his signal. She fires a payload towards his location but it doesn’t get there. Daniel mumbles that that is indeed very weird…
When the rocket finally arrives, Daniel pulls out his watch and compares it to the clock in the rocket. When they don’t match, he double-checks it with the lock on his instruments: 02:45:03 vs. 03:16:23. Not good.
Back at the barracks, Sayid, Kate, and Miles split up to search the house. Sayid finds a strange hidden room behind a bookcase…A desk full of passports and money from various countries sits in the center of clothes and suits handing along the walls. Sayid opens one of the passports to find a picture of Ben…but with the name “Dean Moriarty” on it.
Kate goes into a bedroom, and when she checks under the bed, someone steps into the room. It’s Sawyer. He signals for her to be quiet, but she yells for Sayid anyway.
Sayid turns around to find Locke with a gun pointed at him. Hurley comes in behind him with a, “Sorry, dude.” The whole thing was a setup.
Kate argues with Sawyer, asking why he’s with Locke. Sawyer says he’s not “with Locke”, then sidesteps her question with his own curt, “Why are you with Jack?” She tells him because she thinks he can get them off The Island. Sawyer tells her that that’s just it, he doesn’t want to get off. Why should he? There’s nothing good waiting for him back in the real world. When Kate asks him what The Island has that’s worth staying for, he doesn’t answer…Then he reminds her that, if he isn’t mistaken, all that’s waiting for her is jail. Kate asks him how much longer he thinks they can play house, and Sawyer just answers, why not stay and find out?
Locke puts Sayid in the rec room with Ben, who smirks and says, “Guess they’re running out of jail room.” Locke enters with tea, and Sayid tells him to give him Charlotte so that he can get to their boat and find out what’s really going on. Locke says that Sayid doesn’t need to be on the boat, seeing as how Ben has a man their. Ben of course refuses to tell Sayid a name, to which Sayid says that the day he starts trusting Ben will be the day he sells his soul. Locke tells him that he can’t possibly think he’ll give him Charlotte for nothing. Sayid agrees. He never said it would be for nothing.
FLASH FORWARD:
Sayid and Elsa lounge in bed, where she asks him why he never talks about himself. After all, isn’t that what people do when their in love? Sayid looks at her…in love? Elsa realizes what she’s said, and grins, admitting that yes it’s true. Sayid looks at her, then tells her no more secrets. “What do you want to know?”
Suddenly Elsa’s beeper goes off, and Elsa tells him she has to go to a hotel. It’s her boss. Sayid struggles with himself as Elsa gets dressed, then finally tells her she has to get out. He tells her the truth about his list, that he was meant to kill her boss. Elsa can’t believe it! As she’s babbling about Sayid using her, he gets up and—BANG! Elsa shoots Sayid!!
Shocked, Sayid falls to the bed as Elsa pulls out her phone and proceeds to have a conversation in German where it’s clear she was using Sayid for the same reason. She wants to know the name of his boss. Realizing he doesn’t have much time, Sayid breaks a nearby mirror, and when Elsa comes out to see what it was he grabs his own gun and shoots her twice in the chest.
Elsa falls to the floor, and when Sayid crawls over to sadly caress her face, he notices something. A bracelet that looks strangely familiar…it’s just like the one Naomi was wearing. Sayid is overcome with emotion as he tries to deal with yet another death he didn’t want to be a part of.
BACK TO THE ISLAND:
Juliet and Desmond return to Jack, and Desmond demands to know why Naomi was carrying a picture of him and Penny. Lapidus says he has no idea. Naomi was senior management, it’s not like they hung out together. Desmond asks him to look him in the eye and tell him he’s never heard of a woman named Penelope Widmore. Lapidus and Daniel exchange a look. Fed up with liars, Desmond says he’ll just have to go find someone who will tell him the truth. When the helicopter takes off, he plans to be on it.
Suddenly Sayid returns with Charlotte. But not Miles…or Kate. When Jack asks where Kate is, Sayid just says that she decided to stay. When Lapidus asks about Miles, Sayid simply says that the deal was to return Charlotte. Not Miles.
Frustrated, Lapidus says they have room for one more in the helicopter. He offers the seat to Charlotte and Daniel, but both say they want to stay to do some work. Sayid says that the last spot should be given to Naomi. They load her body onto the chopper. Daniel warns Lapidus to take the exact same route when coming back. The exact same.
Sayid and Desmond leave the island with Lapidus, flying out over the water…
FLASH FORWARD:
Sayid gingerly enters a veterinary hospital and sits down in an exam room. A man starts to take care of his bullet wound, asking him what happened. Sayid tells him Elsa is dead and that she was trying to play him.
Sayid stares up at the man, tears in his eyes. The camera swings to reveal…Benjamin Linus...alive and well.
Ben takes out the bullet from Sayid’s shoulder, notices his tears, and insists that these people don’t need his sympathies. Doesn’t he remember what happened the last time he thought with his heart instead of his gun? Ben tells Sayid he has another name for him, and Sayid tells him that they know he’s after them now.
Ben simply looks at Sayid and says, “Good.”
Quotes of the Week:
Jack: You should go with them, Kate.
Kate: Are you serious?
Jack: Yeah.
Kate: What, don't you trust Sayid?
Jack: I don't trust Locke.
Kate: So what's preventing him from doing to me what he did to Naomi?
Jack: Sawyer won't let him.
~*~*~
Sawyer: You ready to give us the name, Gizmo?
Locke: He's not going to tell you who the spy is on their boat, James.
Sawyer: Yeah, why not?
Locke: Because that's the only thing keeping him alive.
Sawyer: Well here's an idea: why don't we take a gun, point it to his big toe and send that little piggy to the market. ... And if he still doesn't want to tell us, move on to the roast beef. Why don't we do that?
Locke: Because then we'd have to carry him.
~*~*~
Sayid: I'm not going to hurt you Hurley.
Hurley: Yeah... I saw you snap that guy's neck with that break-dancing thing you do with your legs, so I think I’ll hang back here.
~*~*~
Miles: Where the hell did they go, Tubby?
Hurley: Oh...Awesome, the ship sent us another Sawyer.
~*~*~
Sayid: *to Locke about Ben* Forgive me, but the day I start trusting him is the day I would've sold my soul.
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