The Last Recruit

Highlights:

Sun and Locke are brought to the same hospital. She sees him and freaks out, saying "Oh no! It's him!"Ben rides in the ambulance with John Locke and finds out to call Helen Norwood.

Claire goes to an adoption agency, and Desmond convinces her to go to his lawyer before making a huge decision. He tells her it will be free of charge. His lawyer is Ilana!

Ilana says she has been looking for her, and it seems confusing until Jack and David show up to read Christian's will.

Jack and Claire meet for the first time and she tells him they are half-siblings.

Jack has to reschedule to do a surgery.

He goes in and sees the dural sac is obliterated on this patient. He sees it is John Locke and says that he knows this man.

Jin, Sun, and their baby are fine.

Sawyer arrests Kate and captures Sayid outside of his house.

On the Island, Jack has a chat with Smokey. Smokey tells him he pretended to be Christian so he could lead him to water. He tells him John had to be dead to look like him.

The Smoking club gets a visit from Tina Fey, and she has her people drop a bomb near their camp so he will give her Desmond back.

Smokey makes Sayid go kill him instead. Desmond appeals to Sayid's (morale character?), and it looks like he doesn't go through with it.

Smokey makes everyone go to the end of the island, and makes James get a boat with Kate to only take a select few.

James lets our friends in on a secret plan, and they all hijack the boat to Hydra Island. Claire, always being the one left out, follows them to the boat and tells them she will tell Locke.

Kate emotes and tells her she wants to bring her to Aaron. Everybody makes up, and they get on the boat.

Jack and James have am emotional discussion, Jack believes he is there for a reason. He jumps off the boat to stop Smokey.

The boat lands on Hydra Island, and Tina Fey and friends hold them at gunpoint. She said the plan has changed.

But Jin and Sun reuinite, and make a bad situation tolerable.

Back on the other island, jack reaches Smokey, and Widmore's people bomb them. Jack gets hurt bad, Smokey carries him to safety and says "Don't worry, you're with me now."


Special/Key Moments:

I really liked how Jack and his son walked the same way and were dressed the same way. The casting for David is impeccable.

Ben riding in the ambulance with Locke was classic. He was so consoling and sweet. The fact that he didn't even know his first name was such a 180 from his character on the island. He had files on everyone, including the Freighter Folk, and now he doesn't even know Locke's first name? Nice touch.

I wished they would have showed Jack's Baby's Momma. They toyed with me on that phone call for so long. I was hoping they would cut to Juliet already, but they didn't. Maybe they will reveal her at the end. Or maybe Elizabeth Mitchell is just too busy with the show V. Either way, it's a thorn in my damned side.

I liked how Smokey just stood there with a smug look on his face as Tina Fey dropped the bomb near his camp. He gave her a look like "That's all you got? I'm the fucking Man In Black, bitch." Well played, Terry O'Quinn.

I liked seeing James and Miles arrest Sayid and Kate.

I liked seeing Ilana as Desmond and Jack's lawyer, but I have to admit that I was still holding out for Juliet to be SOMEWHERE in this episode. I guess not....... :(

Jack's conversation with James on the boat was wonderful to see. His John Locke-ness is beautiful to me, and makes me believe that he could indeed be the next Jacob. He talks about how there was a part of him that was missing when he was away from the island. I think he truly belongs there. I like him so much this season.

Seeing Jin and Sun finally get to reuinite and kiss and cry all over each other was awesome!

I liked Kate and James flirting with each other again. Even though I really don't approve.

When Jack looked at John Locke's x-ray, he said that the dural sac was obliterated. The nurse said that his spine was already shattered before the accident. She said that the wheelchair probably saved his life. What I like about this situation is two things:
-Return of the dural sac
-Return of the Ben surgery situation

Seeing Jack get blown up was almost as awesome. Who knew something that crazy could happen to our main protagonist?



Theories/Questions/Speculations:

Desmond seemed to talk Sayid out of killing him. When Sayid took "longer that Smokey thought" to kill Desmond, he said Smokey could check it he wanted to. Smokey trusted him and went on his way. I am going to go on a limb here and say that Desmond is still alive. I am going to say that Sayid and Desmond are the most In-The-Know out of all of the people on the island. Desmond because of his flashes, and Sayid because of reading Faraday's journal. Faraday is really the key to all of this, and these two are his instruments. I think they both recognize that in each other, and Desmond brought it out in Sayid. Desmond is fearless and acting very Jacobian as of late. he is calm and collected, and unafraid of what will happen to him. When he stopped Sayid from shooting him, he was more concerned about Sayid'd well-being than his own.


I think the next Jacob is either going to be Desmond of Jack.

As far as that goes, I can't think of anything else to theorize about. It is almost over, and everything is pulling itself together. I am so excited!