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Offical recap from ABC:
Two For The Road
Air Date: 05/03/2006
Jack and Kate stumble across an unconscious Michael deep in the jungle. And while Jack is primed and ready for a confrontation with the Others, it is Kate who forces him to deal with the task at hand: Michael needs medical attention and he needs it back at the Hatch.
Speaking of the Hatch, Ana Lucia receives a nasty surprise when she goes into the armory to deliver a bowl of food to a dejected Henry. Only Locke's last-minute intervention is enough to save her life. And while Locke is desperate for answers to his questions, he knows that time with Henry is running out fast.
In FLASHBACK, we see Ana Lucia confronted by her mother -- who's also her captain -- upon returning to the station after a shift. It seems a body has been found in a parking lot. And it just happens to be the same guy who confessed to shooting Ana Lucia. But when Captain Cortez tries to offer her daughter her help, Ana Lucia quits the force and runs away… all the way to Australia.
Turns out she met a guy at the airport; a guy who was running away from his own problems and the two of them forged a dysfunctional partnership. She agreed to go to Australia to "protect him" and he agreed not to ask too many questions. Hard to believe it didn't last long…
Michael is being cared for in the Hatch. He's regained consciousness and the information he presents is startling. He knows where Walt is. And the Others have been lying about their strength. As soon as he is strong enough, Michael is going to return to their camp in force. And he is going to take his son back. The entire camp is activated, caught somewhere between hopeful and terrified at what this all means.
In light of her recent troubles, Ana Lucia is desperate to get her hands on a gun. And when she barters with Sawyer we learn just how far she is willing to go to get what she wants.
Hurley attempts to move his relationship with Libby to the next step and asks her on an honest-to-goodness date. And we can't help feeling happy to see that, even here, good things can happen.
But it's just not that simple now, is it? And this wouldn't be LOST if things ended up happy and hopeful. So, as the episode draws to a close we are taught yet another lesson about the dark side of mankind..and what we are capable of doing when there appears to be no other choice.
Observations/speculation:
* Are Ana Lucia and Libby dead or wounded? (Answers to this question are readily available in the real world, I realize, but let's try to preserve a little suspense about the show).
* Was Michael brainwashed or forced by the Others into freeing Henry Gale? Perhaps the Others promised him he'd have Walt back, or threatened to kill Walt if he didn't do what they wanted.
* Why don't the Others just kill off all the crash survivors and have done with it? They certainly have the resources, it seems, to do whatever they want. In an earlier episode Zeke says the only reason the survivors are allowed to live on the Island is that the Others "let" them.
* Did Ana Lucia put together that fact she was working for Jack's dad? We may never know for sure.
* Jack's dad, Christian, chooses to call Ana "Sarah," the name of Jack's wife. Christian adopts the name "Tom," the same as Kate's childhood boyfriend
* The woman Christian went to visit--the mother of his estranged child--looks a heckuva lot like she could be Claire's mom? Are Jack and Claire half-siblings?
* Why did Christian believe he'd be facing danger in Australia and feel he needed to hire Ana as a bodyguard?
* Are we to believe Michael's story about the Others' camp and hatch? Will he lead the crash survivors into a trap? Or will they get wise to him?
* What is the Others' definition of a "good" person? They supposedly snatched all the good ones from Ana Lucia's party and Henry (whether we can believe him or not) told Locke that Locke is a good one, too, and the Others want him.
Other stuff:
* A thread here contains many spoily details from the "Lost" tie-in novel "Bad Twin," which is available as a paperback. On the show, Sawyer is seen reading a manuscript of the book, which was supposedly written by a Oceanic 815 passenger who didn't survive the crash. There's a video "interview" with said passenter/author Gary Troup here.
* An ad for the Hanso Foundation aired during the episode, with phone number to call: 1-877-hansorg. The Hanso Foundation Website, operated by ABC, also has been significantly updated with all sorts of "clues." It's all part of the multi-media Lost Experience promotion/game now underway. There are good roundups of game clues here and here.
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