Lost 2.1 "Man of Science, Man of Faith" Recap
The viewing audience suffers through a craptacular clip show before the real fireworks begin...
Lost 2.1, “Man of Science, Man of Faith”
(Season Premiere)
A green cursor light blinks on the monitor of an old Apple II/II+ and a man gets up from a bunk bed. He puts on a vinyl record [“Make Your Own Kind of Music”] as he exercises and eats breakfast. He makes himself a smoothie of sorts and then he injects himself with a yellowish fluid (that is labeled with the Numbers of Doom) from a large hypodermic needle and dresses quickly. A noise is heard and he activates a security system of mirrors.
As the camera pans from his mirrors upwards, we then realize that OMGWTFBBQ, he lives inside the hatch!! In another second or two, we realize that the hatch (or its contents, Desmond etc) is the underground lab depicted in the Hurley's comic with the polar bear.
It’s Lazlo! He’s using the hatch to rig the Frito-Lay Sweepstakes! [Anyone who gets this reference is my bestest friend.]-From the TwoP forums
Hatchville: Meanwhile, in the jungle Hurley’s reciting the Numbers of Doom as Locke, Jack, and Sayid peer down the hatch. Locke proposes rigging a harness to travel the 40-50 feet down the hatch, but Jack objects. He decides to go back to the caves.
“Why don’t you want to go down there, Jack?” Locke asks and we go into a Jackback.
Jackback: He’s in the ER, doing the doctor thing, and has a female auto accident patient. He treats a pneumothorax (?) and we then realize that his patient [Sarah] is his fiancée. Both she and the other driver are seriously injured and someone, a nurse probably, tells Jack that she wants to dance at her wedding. This is very anticlimactic, since we know from last season that she recovers fully from her injuries.
Jungle: Now Charlie and Claire are talking. Claire is afraid of the crazy French lady, but Charlie reassures her. “I lost the damn dog,” Shannon says angrily. Shannon grabs a torch and heads into the jungle, trailed by Sayid. She’s especially mad since “watching that dog is the first thing anybody’s asked me to do.”
Hatchville: Kate tells Lockey and Hurley to check the hatch door.
Jungle: Shannon searches for Vincent, one of the few totally likable characters on the show. She gets separated from Sayid, trips, and falls. She sees what looks like PetCemetary!Vincent. She hears whispering and then the creepiest scene in Lost history unfolds. Shannon looks around wildly and then sees Walt, dripping wet, standing about five feet away from her. It seems as though he’s whispering but we can’t quite make out what he says, apart from “Shh…”
So, in conclusion, Walt has learned astral projection. Sayid then finds Shannon, but apparently he doesn’t see Walt. Is Walt dead? Is Shannon hallucinating?
And this is the second OMGWTFBBQ moment of the show, and we’re not even to the halfway point. As the luminous Bette Davis once said, “Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
Oh, and Maggie Grace takes top acting honors for this episode.
Hatchville: Kate asks Locke why he wants to go down the hatch. Hurley and Jack walk back to the caves. Hurley tells Jack about the Numbers of Doom, his stint in the Psych Ward, and his lottery misfortunes.
Jackback: Sarah is told by Jack that the other driver [the suspiciously named Adam Rutherford, as in Shannon Rutherford, as in connections, people. It’s all about the connections] died in the ER. Sarah is given a serious diagnosis: a fracture/dislocation of the thoracolumbar spine. “Your back is broken. Your spleen is ruptured.” Jack tells her. She is going to be paralyzed below the waist and recovery is extremely unlikely. Then, we see Jack’s father, in a rare sober moment, and he takes Jack aside and castigates him for essentially telling Sarah the truth and not giving her any hope.
Jungle, Caves of Refuge: Jack tells the assembled extras, erm, I mean Lostaways, that Arzt the Science Guy is dead. The crowd is worried, and asks if the Others got to him, or the polar bear, or what. Shannon then asks Jack if he’s seen the Others and this provokes Charlie, who states that the Others don’t really exist. Jack tries to calm everyone down. “We’re all going to be safe as long as we stay together. The sun’s going to be up in three hours and we’re all going to see it. I promise.”
Thanks, Captain Hero Doctor Jack (Cleolinda™).
In a bravado moment, Locke takes some cable from the camp and goes back to the hatch, thus undermining Jack’s authority in front of everyone. Conflict: the writer’s friend.
Jack and Kate banter. I ignore them. Then, Kate tells Jack that she’s going to the hatch.
I fervently hope that she’s eaten by Hatch Guy.
Jackback: Jack prepares for surgery and discusses this with the patient’s fiancé. He discovers that their wedding’s in 8 months. Jack tells her fiancé that Sarah will need ongoing physical therapy. “There is a chance that Sara might well need professional care for the rest of her life.” Her fiancé is stunned. Just before she’s put under anesthesia, Sarah tells Jack that she’s accepted the fact that she won’t be dancing at her wedding.
The island, Hatchville: Locke offers Kate the chance to go down first, but she objects to being the canary in the coal mine. However, Kate descends into the hatch. A tree falls and Kate slips down very fast, dropping the flashlight in the process. Locke grabs the rope and tightens the slack. Kate’s almost at the bottom, when a bright light shoots up from the hatch, and Locke loses the rope.
Yay! Kate’s gone!
Jungle of Mystery: Jack decides to go back to the hatch and Hurley asks why. “Changed my mind,” Jack answers bluntly. When he arrives at the hatch, Locke is gone. So is Kate, and now Jack descends into the hatch.
Jackback: A stadium. Jack jogs in the stands alone. He trips and falls and is aided by a Irishman, Desmond, who states that he was almost a doctor once. It should be noted that Desmond is training for a race around the world. In a side note, the name Desmond means “man of the world.” What follows is a nice dialogue that is rife with religious and philosophical references. Desmond asks, “What’s your excuse for running like the devil’s chasing you?” Jack explains to Desmond about Sarah, his patient. Desmond asks what Jack did to deserve or cause such self-flagellation, a religious reference to penance.
“What if you did fix her?” Desmond asks.
Jack replies, “In her situation, that would be a miracle.”
Desmond then asks Jack why he doesn’t believe in miracles. The tone of the conversation makes it seem as though Jack’s going to confession. And when Desmond offers Jack some water, it has the feel of baptism. Desmond continues, with reference to Jack’s ankle: “You have to lift it up.” However, research reveals that the phrase “lift up your hearts” is the translation for the liturgical term Sursum Corda. Perhaps Desmond was referring to Jack's heart here, and was encouraging him to have faith in miracles.
Before he leaves, Desmond says cryptically, “See you in another life, brother.”
Right.
Jungle, Hatchville: Jack is now at the bottom of the hatch, in the dank area first seen at the beginning of the episode. Spooky music plays, but no sounds are heard apart from Jack’s footsteps. Jack sees pipes of all sizes and water drips relentlessly down. Jack trips the security system after the key on his neck reacts to a magnet inside one of the pipes. The record plays, the bright light flashes. Jack walks into Computer Retroville with spinning reel-to-reel tapes. Suddenly, Locke tells Jack, “I wouldn’t do that.”
Locke has a gun at his head from the side, but Jack’s standing right in front of him.
Desmond is Hatch Guy. Kate is nowhere to be seen.
Jackback: He’s telling Sara that she’s paralyzed from the waist down. She shows him that she can wiggle her toes. Jack is surprised. She has sensation below the waist and she’s crying as Jack examines her. Eventually, Jack begins crying, too.
Inside Hatchville: Locke tells Jack that Kate is okay. Jack still has his gun drawn on Locke and Desmond.
And hopefully, next week we’ll learn the fate of the rafters. I mourn the lack of Sawyer in this week’s episode. But the fact that Kate’s gone makes me happy.
Lost 2.1, “Man of Science, Man of Faith”
(Season Premiere)
A green cursor light blinks on the monitor of an old Apple II/II+ and a man gets up from a bunk bed. He puts on a vinyl record [“Make Your Own Kind of Music”] as he exercises and eats breakfast. He makes himself a smoothie of sorts and then he injects himself with a yellowish fluid (that is labeled with the Numbers of Doom) from a large hypodermic needle and dresses quickly. A noise is heard and he activates a security system of mirrors.
As the camera pans from his mirrors upwards, we then realize that OMGWTFBBQ, he lives inside the hatch!! In another second or two, we realize that the hatch (or its contents, Desmond etc) is the underground lab depicted in the Hurley's comic with the polar bear.
It’s Lazlo! He’s using the hatch to rig the Frito-Lay Sweepstakes! [Anyone who gets this reference is my bestest friend.]-From the TwoP forums
Hatchville: Meanwhile, in the jungle Hurley’s reciting the Numbers of Doom as Locke, Jack, and Sayid peer down the hatch. Locke proposes rigging a harness to travel the 40-50 feet down the hatch, but Jack objects. He decides to go back to the caves.
“Why don’t you want to go down there, Jack?” Locke asks and we go into a Jackback.
Jackback: He’s in the ER, doing the doctor thing, and has a female auto accident patient. He treats a pneumothorax (?) and we then realize that his patient [Sarah] is his fiancée. Both she and the other driver are seriously injured and someone, a nurse probably, tells Jack that she wants to dance at her wedding. This is very anticlimactic, since we know from last season that she recovers fully from her injuries.
Jungle: Now Charlie and Claire are talking. Claire is afraid of the crazy French lady, but Charlie reassures her. “I lost the damn dog,” Shannon says angrily. Shannon grabs a torch and heads into the jungle, trailed by Sayid. She’s especially mad since “watching that dog is the first thing anybody’s asked me to do.”
Hatchville: Kate tells Lockey and Hurley to check the hatch door.
Jungle: Shannon searches for Vincent, one of the few totally likable characters on the show. She gets separated from Sayid, trips, and falls. She sees what looks like PetCemetary!Vincent. She hears whispering and then the creepiest scene in Lost history unfolds. Shannon looks around wildly and then sees Walt, dripping wet, standing about five feet away from her. It seems as though he’s whispering but we can’t quite make out what he says, apart from “Shh…”
So, in conclusion, Walt has learned astral projection. Sayid then finds Shannon, but apparently he doesn’t see Walt. Is Walt dead? Is Shannon hallucinating?
And this is the second OMGWTFBBQ moment of the show, and we’re not even to the halfway point. As the luminous Bette Davis once said, “Fasten your seat belts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.”
Oh, and Maggie Grace takes top acting honors for this episode.
Hatchville: Kate asks Locke why he wants to go down the hatch. Hurley and Jack walk back to the caves. Hurley tells Jack about the Numbers of Doom, his stint in the Psych Ward, and his lottery misfortunes.
Jackback: Sarah is told by Jack that the other driver [the suspiciously named Adam Rutherford, as in Shannon Rutherford, as in connections, people. It’s all about the connections] died in the ER. Sarah is given a serious diagnosis: a fracture/dislocation of the thoracolumbar spine. “Your back is broken. Your spleen is ruptured.” Jack tells her. She is going to be paralyzed below the waist and recovery is extremely unlikely. Then, we see Jack’s father, in a rare sober moment, and he takes Jack aside and castigates him for essentially telling Sarah the truth and not giving her any hope.
Jungle, Caves of Refuge: Jack tells the assembled extras, erm, I mean Lostaways, that Arzt the Science Guy is dead. The crowd is worried, and asks if the Others got to him, or the polar bear, or what. Shannon then asks Jack if he’s seen the Others and this provokes Charlie, who states that the Others don’t really exist. Jack tries to calm everyone down. “We’re all going to be safe as long as we stay together. The sun’s going to be up in three hours and we’re all going to see it. I promise.”
Thanks, Captain Hero Doctor Jack (Cleolinda™).
In a bravado moment, Locke takes some cable from the camp and goes back to the hatch, thus undermining Jack’s authority in front of everyone. Conflict: the writer’s friend.
Jack and Kate banter. I ignore them. Then, Kate tells Jack that she’s going to the hatch.
I fervently hope that she’s eaten by Hatch Guy.
Jackback: Jack prepares for surgery and discusses this with the patient’s fiancé. He discovers that their wedding’s in 8 months. Jack tells her fiancé that Sarah will need ongoing physical therapy. “There is a chance that Sara might well need professional care for the rest of her life.” Her fiancé is stunned. Just before she’s put under anesthesia, Sarah tells Jack that she’s accepted the fact that she won’t be dancing at her wedding.
The island, Hatchville: Locke offers Kate the chance to go down first, but she objects to being the canary in the coal mine. However, Kate descends into the hatch. A tree falls and Kate slips down very fast, dropping the flashlight in the process. Locke grabs the rope and tightens the slack. Kate’s almost at the bottom, when a bright light shoots up from the hatch, and Locke loses the rope.
Yay! Kate’s gone!
Jungle of Mystery: Jack decides to go back to the hatch and Hurley asks why. “Changed my mind,” Jack answers bluntly. When he arrives at the hatch, Locke is gone. So is Kate, and now Jack descends into the hatch.
Jackback: A stadium. Jack jogs in the stands alone. He trips and falls and is aided by a Irishman, Desmond, who states that he was almost a doctor once. It should be noted that Desmond is training for a race around the world. In a side note, the name Desmond means “man of the world.” What follows is a nice dialogue that is rife with religious and philosophical references. Desmond asks, “What’s your excuse for running like the devil’s chasing you?” Jack explains to Desmond about Sarah, his patient. Desmond asks what Jack did to deserve or cause such self-flagellation, a religious reference to penance.
“What if you did fix her?” Desmond asks.
Jack replies, “In her situation, that would be a miracle.”
Desmond then asks Jack why he doesn’t believe in miracles. The tone of the conversation makes it seem as though Jack’s going to confession. And when Desmond offers Jack some water, it has the feel of baptism. Desmond continues, with reference to Jack’s ankle: “You have to lift it up.” However, research reveals that the phrase “lift up your hearts” is the translation for the liturgical term Sursum Corda. Perhaps Desmond was referring to Jack's heart here, and was encouraging him to have faith in miracles.
Before he leaves, Desmond says cryptically, “See you in another life, brother.”
Right.
Jungle, Hatchville: Jack is now at the bottom of the hatch, in the dank area first seen at the beginning of the episode. Spooky music plays, but no sounds are heard apart from Jack’s footsteps. Jack sees pipes of all sizes and water drips relentlessly down. Jack trips the security system after the key on his neck reacts to a magnet inside one of the pipes. The record plays, the bright light flashes. Jack walks into Computer Retroville with spinning reel-to-reel tapes. Suddenly, Locke tells Jack, “I wouldn’t do that.”
Locke has a gun at his head from the side, but Jack’s standing right in front of him.
Desmond is Hatch Guy. Kate is nowhere to be seen.
Jackback: He’s telling Sara that she’s paralyzed from the waist down. She shows him that she can wiggle her toes. Jack is surprised. She has sensation below the waist and she’s crying as Jack examines her. Eventually, Jack begins crying, too.
Inside Hatchville: Locke tells Jack that Kate is okay. Jack still has his gun drawn on Locke and Desmond.
And hopefully, next week we’ll learn the fate of the rafters. I mourn the lack of Sawyer in this week’s episode. But the fact that Kate’s gone makes me happy.