Here you guys go.
(SPOILER ALERT)
Episode 14: One of Them.
This is centered around Sayid.
FLASHBACK:
We get started in Iraq during Desert Storm. We see Sayid and some other Iraqi soldiers destroying documents when US soldiers break into the room. Sayid and another soldier quickly drop to the ground and cover their heads while the soldiers yell at them in English to stop and get on the ground. The third Iraqi continues to destroy documents. The US soldiers argue about them understanding English and finally one decides that they can understand and then threatens to kill the Iraqi still standing. Finally Sayid jumps up and yells at the third Iraqi that if he doesn't stop they will kill him. The man stops and gets on the ground.
The American soldiers later pull Sayid out of a holding cell to ask him about his commanding officer who must know about a missing helicopter pilot. Sayid says that his commanding officer fled. They call his bluff by pushing him into a room where his commander is being held captive. They then explain to Sayid that they want him to translate their interrogations for them. He explains that he has never formally been a translator and the soldier says the fact that he even knows what formally means is good enough.
While Sayid attempts to translate the interrogation his commander just constantly insults the Americans or tells Sayid that he is being unloyal and has lost all honor. Sayid repeatedly tells the Americans that he doesn't know where the pilot is.
After time they take him to meet another man, played by Clancy Brown (Highlander, Shawshank Redemption, Starship Troopers). This man introduces himself as Joe Inman. Inman tells Sayid that he understands he is remaining loyal but that they need their helicopter pilot back. He then explains to Sayid that his commander oversaw the use of sarin gas on a small town in Northern Iraq. Inman then shows Sayid a video of the attack and Sayid recognizes it as the town that he grew up in. After he turns the video off Sayid appears visibly upset and asks what he can do. Inman hands him a tool box and tells him he wants the information.
Sayid goes back to his commander and asks him for the information again. His commander tells him that he should kill himself because of his dishonor. Sayid shows him what he has and all emotion but anger is gone from his face. In the next scene Sayid walks out and tells Inman that the pilot was killed and buried in a field four kilometers away, he can show them where. He then hands Inman the tool box back and his hands are covered in blood.
In the final scene Sayid is in a convoy with US troops. The soldier sitting across from him is staring at a picture and asks Sayid if he has a family, kids. Sayid says no and then we see the picture. It appears to be a young Kate. (Could this be Kate's stepfather, who was in the military or a coincidence?)
The convoy comes to a stop and Inman takes Sayid to the side of the road while explaining that they aren't going into Baghdad and Saddam gets to stay in power. Sayid explains to him that he will never do that again, but Inman merely explains to Sayid that he has a new skill and he may find a time comes when he needs to know something. Then Inman hands Sayid a wad of cash (looked like $800) and tells him it is for bus fare back home. Sayid stands out on the side of the road watching the convoy drive away.
(This took place before Sayid's flashback with Nadia because there he was using his new torturing skills that he had learned from the Americans. Curious twist how he learned to torture from the Americans.)
THE ISLAND: - When You Need To Know Something
In the opening we see Ana come running out of the Jungle and asking Sayid where Jack is. Sayid says he doesn't know but asks what is going on. Ana leads him into the jungle where we see Danielle walking toward the camp. Sayid tells Ana to go back to camp, he will handle this and she shouldn't tell anyone what she has seen.
Sayid, sneaky as he is, gets up on Danielle and pops up in front of her, surprising her. (After Shannon's death one would think he would know better than to surprise people with guns.) Anyway, he asks her what she is doing and she says that she is looking for him; she wants to show him something.
Danielle leads Sayid deep into the jungle and eventually they come to a man trapped in a net hanging from a tree. Danielle believes that he is an Other, but Sayid is not so sure. Sayid goes to cut the man down. Before he can cut him down the man explains that he has been in there all night and then tells Sayid to keep Danielle away, she is crazy. What has she done to him overnight?
When Sayid cuts the man down he tries to run. Danielle whips out a bow and arrows that she had strapped to her back and shoots the man through the shoulder. Sayid yells that she could have killed him and she says, "If I had wanted to kill him I would have," as if it was obvious. (I'm suspicious of Danielle, but she is definitely bad ass)
Sayid then takes the man to hatch, because if they want information Jack needs to keep him alive. Danielle stays behind. While at the hatch Sayid and Locke begin to question the man about who he is and where he came from. He says that his name is Henry Gale and he arrived on the island four months ago when he and his wife crashed in a balloon. (In the Wizard of Oz Dorothy's uncle was named Henry Gale and Dorothy went home in a balloon.) They were trying to fly across the Pacific and they were from Minnesota.
At this point Jack comes in and breaks up the interrogation. He looks at Henry and asks Sayid if he shot him with an arrow and Sayid asks if he has a bow. Jack begins to work on Henry and Sayid and Locke sneak off to the side to talk. Sayid convinces Locke to change the combination on the armory so that he can take Henry in there and Jack can't stop him.
During this conversation Jack helps Henry by removing the arrow battlefield style, without painkillers. (Jack has skills.)
Once Jack gets Henry taken care of he calms down a lot due to the shock. Sayid asks Jack about Henry and then with Locke's interference quickly grabs Henry and runs him into the armory.
Jack tries to get in to the armory but can't. Locke changed the combination. Jack starts to argue with Locke, but Locke explains to Jack that he was building an army because they were in a war. This was part of war.
Alone with Henry, Sayid begins to ask him question after question. He asks him about the type of balloon and how big it was. His questions continue on to their shelter, where they were, and how his wife died. Henry explains that she died from a sickness. (THE sickness?) Henry is even able to give details of the symptoms.
At this point Jack and Locke are still arguing when Jack looks down and sees that the pliers are missing. He asks Locke if Sayid has them and then begins to bang on the armory door.
Sayid finally makes Henry stumble when he asks him about where his wife was buried, how he dug the hole, and how deep it was. Did he use his hands? Henry says where she was buried but stumbles on details of the hole. He says that he doesn't know. Sayid asks to see his hands and then puts the pliers on one of his fingers. (The camera angle prevents us from seeing if he actually tries crushing, but Henry's lack of screams makes me think that he didn't.) Sayid snaps and begins yelling that if he had to bury the woman he loved he would remember where, how deep the hole was, and all the other details of her burial.
At this point Henry asks if Sayid had lost someone on the island, if he had to bury someone he loved and then asks for details. (This seems very counter-interrogation style to me. Insult your interrogator and break their concentration before they can break your will.) Sayid begins punching Henry and he is begging for Sayid to stop, he will tell him whatever he wants to hear. Sayid doesn't stop.
Outside Jack hears the screaming and the struggles and pushes Locke against the wall demanding that he open the armory. Locke says no, but then the alarm sounds. Locke tries to go push the button but Jack holds him against the wall. Jack tells Locke that he got him to push the button once but it is Locke's button now because he doesn't believe anything happens when it counts down to zero.
At 30 seconds Locke starts to give Jack the code but Jack tells him to open it so that there are no tricks. Locke gets the armory door open and runs for the button as Jack pulls Sayid off of Henry. Locke sits down at the computer and starts to type the code in but makes mistakes and has to correct them.
The clock hits zero. (Yes, our clock. Not the one in the promo) After it hits zero a sound like an engine starting up, or maybe a door sliding (blast doors?). The numbers turn to symbols that look like hieroglyphics. (I could make out a bird, a flame, and an arrow/missile I missed the fourth visible one.) Before the final digit turned to a symbol Locke gets the button pushed and the timer resets as the sound winds back down.
Jack drags Sayid out of the armory and then shuts the door, but not before Henry gives Sayid an odd look. (It wasn't hate or anger. More like a taunt)
Later Sayid is on the beach telling Charlie about what happened. Sayid explains that he doesn't believe Henry because he felt no guilt in what he did. Charlie asks why he is telling him all this and Sayid says because Locke and Jack have forgotten that they took Claire and left Charlie strung up for dead. We close on Sayid asking Charlie if he still remembers. (Charlie knows where the guns are.)
SIDE STORY: - Sawyer vs. Nature part 2
We see Sawyer trying to sleep but there is a tree frog that won't shut up. Sawyer must think that all nature hates his guts. He gets up and stomps out of his tent. He sees Jin walk by and he tries to ask Jin to help him find the frog. Jin gives him a not-nice look and walks off. (He does seem connected to the attack on Sun, plus he stole all the guns)
Sawyer decides to go find the frog on his own. While walking through the jungle he wanders into an opening where he finds Hurley reading and dipping chips into a HUGE (3-5 gallons) jug of ranch dressing. (WTF!) Sawyer checks it out and finds Hurley has a huge supply of food stashed away from the hatch. He points out that ranch dip really should be refrigerated but Hurley points out that the label says it is good for seven months.
Hurley begs Sawyer not to tell and Sawyer makes a deal; Hurley helps him find the tree frog and Sawyer keeps his secret. Hurley agrees. While they are wandering Sawyer calls Hurley Babar (a children's book elephant) and Hurley corrects his pronunciation and gets mad, threatening to stomp off. He tells Sawyer that he can tell because no one will be surprised that the fat guy is hiding food, besides everyone likes Hurley.
Sawyer apologizes and then goes off to keep looking for the frog. Eventually they run across the frog and Sawyer picks it up. He thinks it is actually kind of cute and seems happy. Hurley offers to take the frog two beaches away where it will find a lady frog and everyone is happy. Sawyer's response is to crush the frog in his hand. He then gives it to Hurley saying that he hears they taste like chicken when dipped in ranch.
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Okay, so we got a good episode and probably the most suspenseful Lost moment of all time in the countdown sequence.
I think Henry is an Other. The name and balloon connection is suspicious and he was too clean shaven to have been stuck for 4 months on the island. At most I will believe that he came to the island the way he says but he has been absorbed into the Others since then. Besides, when Sayid was interrogating Locke about the hatch and the plane he told Locke that he knows when someone is lying. I trust his instinct.
Is Sayid trying to build his own army with Charlie? Will he create one out of those who have felt the Others effects personally (tailies)? Or does Sayid just sort of know that Charlie knows where Sawyer has the guns?
Questions:
1) Who is Henry?
2) What is Danielle up to?
3) Will Sayid get to torture Henry more?
4) Does Jack trust Henry?
5) Does Locke trust Henry?
6) What the hell was up with the timer when the time ran out?
7) What was that sound?
8) What was it going to do, if anything?
9) Is Charlie on Sayid's side and looking for revenge?
10) Will Charlie take Sayid to the guns?
11) WTF is going on!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
What do you guys think?
mentalabc123 thanks for the pic. The woman that runs Lost-Media.com is out of town until the 19th and so there are no screen captures up yet. It looks like hieroglyphs.
The ABC thing just looks like a plot summary rather than a writeup.
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Do you mean Henry Gale? It is the same name as Dorothy's uncle in Wizard of Oz, which is why the balloon story seems suspicious. Dorothy went home in a balloon.
