LOST Recap: “Lighthouse”

Sorry this week’s recap is late folks. When I first tried to watch it, the channel was dead, as if the smoke monster had ate the feed.  So I had to catch it later.  Damn smoke monster.

• Jack still can’t find his father’s body
• He notices he has an appendix removal scar, apparently it was taken out when he was kid, so the ‘alternate-ness’ of the timeline is pretty thorough.  Jack has hazy memories of it getting removed.
• Enter Jack’s son David, who is kinda pissed at him for some reason.
• Awkward relationship going on there.
• “We see each other like once a month, can’t we just get through it?” David to Jack.
• Jack has to go help his mother try to find his father’s will at the old house.
• They are going through tons of boxes. and find the will. In the will Jack’s father mentions Claire Littleton (Jack’s half sister)
• Jack returns home with pizza, David is gone and calls are going to voicemail.  Jack is worried. “Whatever I did, I’m sorry” he says to his son’s voicemail.
• Jack goes to David’s mother’s house.  Finds a message on the answering machine mentioning a recital at the conservatory.  Jack rushes there and finds his son playing beautiful music on the piano.
• “Is that your son?  He’s really good.”  says a young boy who is the son of… the leader of the Other Others (or ‘Samurai’ as Hurley calls him)
• Jack and son bond outside.  Jack’s father always used to tell him “You don’t have what it takes.” That message is important in the more interesting timeline.  They head home for more bonding over pizza.

The good timeline:

• In a random spot in the the jungle on the island.
  • Claire springs Jin from the trap, he’s injured pretty bad
  • Jin makes it to Claire’s makeshift camp, complete with piles of explosives, and a crib with an animal skull in it.  Sketchy.
  • She captured also one of the Other Others
  • The Other Other is terrified of her, and wants Jin to help them escape
  • We learn Claire’s been on the run from the Other Others for 3 years. She thinks the OO’s have her child, Aaron and is royally pissed at them.
  • She has ‘a friend’ who she won’t name “You’re still my friend, aren’t you Jin?”  She seems a little ‘off’.
  • Claire was tortured by the temple Others, much in the same way Sayid was.
  • Jin almost convinces Claire to not kill her OtherOther hostage, but she butchers the him anyway.
  • Jin lies and says Aaron is in the temple.  He’s going to help Claire get in.
  • Nemesis/Flocke (fake Locke) shows up.  ”That’s not John, this is my Friend.” says Claire.
  • So I guess we can officially put her on the dark side of this coming battle.

• It’s raining, again water seems to be a very important symbol on the island.
• Hurley is wondering around and sees a ghost of Jacob in the temple.  ”Someone is coming to the island.  I need you to help them find it.” Jacob tells Hurley
• Everyone in the camp is scared of Sayid
  • He knows people think he’s infected.  And Jack lets loose that the OtherOthers wanted to kill him.
• Deep in the Temple
  • Hurley, with a full set of notes from Jacob, goes looking through the temple for specific Egyptian hieroglyphics on the walls.  He gets stopped by the Samurai leader of the OtherOthers.  Jacob appears to Hurley and says, “You can do what you want, tell him you’re a candidate”.  Samurai buggers off.
  • Jacob wants Hurley to make Jack go with Hurley deep into the temple.
  • “You have what it takes” is the message he uses to get Jack moving. Jack freaks out at that statement.  We learn later it’s because his father always said “You don’t have what it takes.
  • They take off through a secret passage to see Jacob

In the Jungle

• Jack runs into Kate by the river.  She’s in maybe 20 seconds of the whole episode.
• “Jacob said just you and me, she’s kinda not invited.” says Hurley  Furthering the theory that Kate is not one of Jacob’s candidates.
• They reach ‘The Caves’ they used to live in.  Find Shannon(from Oceanic flight)’s inhaler.
• they also find the skeleton in the caves from previous seasons. Hurley suggests the skeletons in the cave (known as Adam and Eve) are “us”.  Clearly these are going to be an important topic in this final season.
• They also find the coffin of Jack’s father he was flying with from Sydney to LA. “That was his coffin, before I smashed it to pieces”  ”Why did you do that?” asks Hurley. “Because he wasn’t in it.” So do we have more possessed bodies running around?
• They move on and come across a massive ancient lighthouse on the shore.
• “How is it we’ve never seen this before”  ”I guess we weren’t looking for it.”

At the lighthouse

• Door won’t open, so Jack kicks it open.
• They make it upstairs to a fire-lit lighthouse station.  The dial around the edge points to degrees and names (almost all crossed off).  The crossed names are the candidates in Jacobs cave.
• As the mirror unit turns, Jack sees the reflection of Japanese Buddhist temple (which looks suspiciously like the one actually in Hawaii that I visited once)
• Jack turns the dial to his own name.  The reflection in the mirror shows Jack’s House.
• “He’s been watching us.” Jack says about Jacob.  He then flips out a bit.
• Jack demands to know what Jacob wants with everyone he’s been spying on (The candidates).  Hurley doesn’t know, so Jack freaks out and starts smashing the mirror unit.  It’s not clear yet if this breaks ‘the rules’
• Jacob shows up again to talk to Hurley.  He’s not that worried
• “It was only way for him to understand how important he is.  Jack is here because he has to do something. He can’t be told what that is, he’s got to find that himself.” Jacob about Jack.
• Jacob also wanted Jack and Hurley away from the temple, because something bad is coming.
• “You can’t warn them Hugo, it’s too late.”

Posted by Adam Wright on February 25, 2010. Filed under Features, Reviews. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry