Sundown

Highlights:

In the alterna-universe, Nadia is married to Sayid's brother!

Sayid still cares for her, but tells her he is a broken man, and doesn't deserve her.

Sayid's brother borrowed money from the wrong people, and asks Sayid to take care of it. He refuses, and then his brother is put in the hospital.

Sayid is taken for a car ride and watches Keamy eat some poached eggs. Sayid brings back his Bad-assness and kills Keamy and his men.

Sayid finds Jin locked up in a closet by Keamy's men!


On the island, Sayid demands answers from Dogen and gets into a Battle Royale with him. It's a stalemate, and Dogen tells him to leave.

Dogen gives Sayid a dagger to kill the smoke monster with, telling him that he will appear as a friend who is dead. He says that if he allows him to speak, then it is too late.

Sayid leaves and stabs the smoke monster in the chest, but it was after he already spoke the words "Hello, Sayid." Sayid forgets this apparently, and appears to be conned into his bidding in exchange for an un-dead Nadia?

Sayid goes back to the Temple and tells everyone that at sundown, Smokey will come and kill all in the Temple. If they follow him, they will be spared.

He kills Dogen and Lennon, and is quite happy about it.


Kate finds Claire in a hole and tells her about Aaron.

Now that Dogen is dead, Smokey wreaks havok on the Temple and its people. Miles and Kate run off, but get separated.

Ilana, Lapidus, Sun, and Ben find Miles. Miles tells Sun that her husband is still alive, and Sun is excited. Kate sticks with Claire. The rest of the people, I assume, are dead for simplicity reasons.


Special/Key Moments:

Ben walks up to Sayid in the middle of the chaos at the Temple, and seems to 'recognize' the evil inside of him. Like Richard, I have never seen Ben this scared before. He just backs away and leaves Sayid to smile over his kills. If Ben is that scared of him, then I am scared of him.



I liked seeing Keamy as the person collecting from Sayid's brother. It was also nice to see that he is a good cook.

It was nice to see Sayid kick everyone's ass in this episode; both on the island and in the real world. That's right, I said the real world.

I liked hearing how Dogen came to the island. I also liked that he died. He was kind of bland.

I miss Richard per usual.

I liked that Claire heard about Aaron from Kate's lips. I am interested in seeing what will happen to her, now that she is with Smokey.

I liked seeing Jin in Sayid's timeline!

I really enjoyed that Sayid was a big man about his feelings for Nadia, although pawning her off on his brother was a little extreme.

I liked that Miles told Kate that Claire was still hot. He must be sexually frustrated.

I like that everyone has chosen a side to follow (whether by default or choice), and the showdown between good and evil will begin.

Theories/Speculations:

Where are Jin and Sawyer? When Claire went into the Temple and did what Smokey asked her, she asked him why Jin or Sawyer couldn't do it. Does this mean that Jin is converted wholeheartedly? Are he and Sawyer planning a con together? Where are they hanging out right now?


Also, where the hell is Richard Alpert?! I mean, we could use a little help right about now!


If Sayid stabbed Smokey in the chest before he spoke to him, would he have actually died? Or was Dogen actually setting him up to be killed like he thinks? Does Smokey have a silver tongue quality about him? He seemed to be very Satanic in the way that he spoke to Sayid, promising him whatever he wanted. It seemed to be remeniscient of the tempation in the desert, where the devil offers Jesus food and water, and all of the kingdoms in the world if he followed him. But, unlike Sayid, Jesus said no. Clearly Sayid is evil, having failed this biblically-referenced test. I understand that we are not all as strong as Jesus was, but Sayid then quickly killed two men who were protecting his friends. I think it is safe to say that he has been inhabited by something bad.

That something bad being... The Whispers! Yes, this is a new theory I am trying out. Thanks to Heather influencing me to read the Whisper Transcripts on Lostpedia.com, I have come to believe that the Whispers are dead people's spirits on the island. How does that make any sense, you might ask? I will tell you. While I only read up to Season 2, the whispers have a similar theme about them. They all seem to be omniscient, and trying to influence objects or circumstances around the main characters. Sure, they only occur right before the Other show up, but they also occur in the hatch when Ben and Locke are fighting. The whispers are often afraid that the main characters will see them, and find out about their "Plans" for them. Often the main characters ruin what they had in mind, so when Ben comes along, they change their tone. The whispers all of the sudden talk about "controlling" Ben, and making him do what they want. No one else on the show has been able to be "taken over" by these whispers... whatever they are.

I also think that the Others' insistance on burning dead bodies (Season 3) in a funeral pyre immediately after they die supports my theory. If nothing happened to empty dead bodies, then there would be no need to burn them. I also think that burying them might prevent a body from being inhabited, because Juliet, Ecko, Shannon, Nikki, Paulo, Libby, etc. were not inhabited. Only Claire (who was blown up) and Sayid were infected with someone else... something evil.

The way that Ben looked at Sayid after his evil spirit had taken over also proves my theory. He tells Sayid that there is still time, and then Sayid smiles that evil, self-satisfied smile. Ben turns white and walks away backwards. Does he recognize this spirit like I mentioned before? Is the person inhabiting him truly evil, or does evilness just take over a person's soul? Is Sayid extra evil because the water wasn't clear? Or did that have anything to do with it? Miles told him that he was dead for two hours, and it was a surprise even to the Temple people when he woke up.


If Keamy was the henchman collecting money from Sayid's brother, it makes me wonder who he worked for. Could it still be Widmore? If Jin was being held captive by these people too, Widmore could very well be responsible. As far as we know, Jin is still working for Sun's father, and he could have killed one of Widmore's men in the name of Paik. Keamy could be the Widmore equivalent to Paik's Jin in this universe. Just a thought...