Lost: "A Tale of Two Cities" Airdate - October 4, 2006

...hang on...I need a tissue...my eyes are still watering... I can't believe October 4th is finally here... talk amongst yourselves... Ok, I'm ready.

I'm re-watching the season three premiere as I type. I guess I'll go in chronological order, but I really want to jump in and ask the big questions: What will happen over the next Two Weeks? How is it that Juliet has a file of Jack's life and can basically tell him anything he wants to know? And why is Kate so sad when she is brought to the cage opposite Sawyer? Did Fenry(we now know his name is Ben) tell her that he hooked up with Ana? I guess I can try to answer those in a little while. Let's start at the beginning.

I think I'm a little over excited and digging way too deep again, but as Juliet grabs the Petula Clark CD and plays "Downtown," I recognized the inside CD cover. I think it's the sleeve for the Talking Heads "Speaking In Tongues" album.

Link to Talking Heads cover art
Is that important? Probably not. Also, Petula Clark is still alive. Most of the songs that were played during season two had to do with artists who were dead or had disappeared as was the case with Glenn Miller, and we just happen to hear "Moonlight Serenade" (again) on Jack's car radio. We heard it last season on the radio that Sayid and Hurley hooked up and ol' Hugo drops a "lost in time" reference.

The book club is discussing a Stephen King novel. Adam is pretty adamant (no pun intended) that it is "religious hokum pokem science fiction without a metaphor" trash. Something that is said during this quick conversation leads me to believe that Ben and Juliet are married. There have been a lot of rumors claiming that Jack will find a new love interest this season and the most likely candidate will be Juliet. Will this be what sets Benry off?


Anyway, the book title is never mentioned, but if I had to guess, I'd say it was "The Stand." It's about the final battle of good and evil, and a plague that wipes out most of the earth is part of the story line. However, as I check some of the forums, many are saying that the Stephen King book is "Carrie." Yep. I just saw some hi-def captures and it is "Carrie." Juliet also makes a comment about free will actually existing... but we all know that Ben is the one in charge, and they all seem to fear him.



Seeing Flight 815 from the perspective of the Others was incredible. I had heard that the first five minutes would be an opening similar to that of season two. I thought we might see a mystery perspective of the Others taking Jack, Kate, and Sawyer, or another perspective of the hatch explosion. I had no idea that they would rewind it all the way back to September 22, 2004. And where was Ben coming from when they all went outside after the earthquake? Is their utopian society based on polygamy? I'm just throwing it out there folks. As I watched, it seemed Ben and Juliet may have been having some marital problems, if in fact they are married.

After the Others kidnap Kate, Jack & Sawyer, they split 'em up. Jack is in another Dharma Initiative facility, The Hydra Station. Supposedly it's an underwater hatch with a purpose of studying Sharks and Dolphins. I swear I read over the summer that Lindelof and Cuse said that there was no underwater hatch. Actually, I still have the transcript from their appearance at Comicon - 11 a.m.: Cuse and Lindelof deny the existence of an "underwater hatch." Was this meant to throw us off? Or do they want Jack to "think" he is under water? Hmmmmmmm. They also drew blood from Jack's arm.

I couldn't make out everything that was said through the "broken" intercom, but I'm sure everyone got the "Let it go Jack," which seems to be the theme of Jack's life based on what we saw in the flashback which I will get to later. I don't get the repo man story, unless he was doing the same thing Henry...er...Ben was doing when he was captured... telling lies.


Kate wakes up in a locker room with a shower running. It's here that we discover that Kate is not Mr. Friendly's "type." Who the hell is his type? Should we jump in and assume now? They also took blood from Kate.

The whole "wear this" thing was a little creepy, but she looks smokin' hot in that dress btw and the bacon and eggs are making my stomach growl. I may be making a Waffle House run tonight. On the beach Ben makes her feel comforted and civilized and then drops the Two Weeks bomb. "The next two weeks are going to be very unpleasant." Unpleasant just for Kate? Or for all of them? I smell some re-programming coming on.

The beach hut scene totally reeked of "The Silence of The Lambs." "Hello Clarice...I'm having an old friend for dinner..."

Ben even alludes to the possible Kate/Sawyer relationship that should happen this season. What do you think they did to Kate between the beach and the cage. Her wrists were really torn up from the cuffs.

They would not have gotten that way from eating a lite breakfast on the beach. And she had a very sad look on her face.

Sawyer added some great comic relief in the episode as he tried to figure out the sequence to get some food. "What? You've got more important things to do?" he ask Carl.

But I think it was Mr. Friendly who had the line of the night with, "You got yourself a fish biscuit."

I guess the big question here is, who the hell is Carl?

And why is he locked up? Another good question would be, where the hell are the bears? And do they happen to be polar bears? Sawyer gets zapped pretty good by Juliet, and I don't think they showed a close up of his arm with a cotton ball and band-aid on it. Did they not need or want Sawyers blood? Then why was he taken?

What we learned in the last few minutes:
1. Jack is in an "under water" hatch called the Hydra. (Supposedly)
2. The Others were "left over" from the Dharma Initiative which was a long time ago.
3. "It doesn't matter who we were, it only matters who we ARE." This is much bigger than just the Others. This could very well be the underlying theme of the entire show(or even life itself). Let it go Jack... just let it go.
4. They have Jack's (and probably everyone else's) entire life on file. This is very "St. Peters Gate," even though the whole purgatory theory was shot down in the first season.
5. I think we knew this, but just to reiterate, Jack is a spinal surgeon based out of St. Sebastions Hospital in Los Angeles.
6. Jack is beginning to finally "let it go" as he comes to terms with his personal demons.
7. "Look on the bright side. Now you have something to fix." (Himself)
8. Juliet seemed a little pissed at Ben. Was it because he was going to let Jack kill her...or is it just the book club thing?

I haven't even gotten to the flashbacks yet. It's getting late so let me see if I can sum it up quickly. Jack's obsessed with finding out who his wife is seeing on the side...even though she is divorcing him. So obsessed that he has forgotten who he is. He's even ignoring his job... he finished a year before everyone else at medical school, so his job should have been important to him. Jack seems sure that his dad is sleeping with Sarah. Christian has been sober for 50 days, but if I heard the dialog at the end correctly, the little incident at the AA meeting drove his dad to start drinking again. Can I assume that this is when he heads to Australia?

I am so glad that the new season is underway. I'm still a little peeved at the schedule: five more episodes, then a 13 week hiatus until it picks back up during February sweeps to finish out the season. I better get to bed. I have watched it twice already and think I touched on everything. Let me know if you saw something that I may have missed.

Oh, here's a few more pictures that I captured:


Is there a Dharma logo burned into the grilled cheese?... uh...nevermind.



I thought we might get something new from this picture, but I don't see anything out of the ordinary.