LOST – week 6 “Sundown”
The title may be borrowed from a Gordon Lightfoot song. “Sundown, you better take care if I find you been creeping round my back stair/Sometimes I think it’s a sin when you feel like your winning when you’re losing again”
Okay, there’s no connection, I just wanted to force you to remember that bad songs existed in 1974, not just all the cool ones your Dad plays on his iTunes.
Why is it in TV shows do all the bad guys (or good guys since we really don’t know who’s on what side yet) continually show a desire to lecture or tell stories to the people they want to kill instead of just killing them. That’s why I love Sayid. When he wants to kill someone BAM they’re dead. No discussions, no second thoughts, just death!
Tonight’s show starts with Sayid back in BIZZARO ’04, where his ex-soulmate is now married to his brother, Omar. Sayid apparently is a glorified baby sitter (isn’t that the plot of an old sit-com? Ex war torturer becomes a nanny? “Charles In Charge” maybe?) who has brought gifts for his niece and nephew from Sydney.
Quickly we find out Omar is in debt with loan sharks for the cash he borrowed to expand his dry cleaning empire. He wants Sayid to get all “murdery” and kill the sharks for him.
Sayid reminds Omar that killing people isn’t something that’s done lightly, at least not until later in the show.
Back at the temple – Sayid confronts Dogen about the poison pill he wanted Sayid to swallow. Dogen responds with an ass whipping in which Sayid cheats death when Dogen sees his game used Babe Ruth autographed baseball roll off the counter, diminishing its e-bay value. This causes him to banish Sayid from the temple instead of killing him with a baseball bat.
Sayid is on the way out when Savage Claire stumbles in and announces that Mocke (fake Locke) wants an audience with Dogen or Mr. Miyagi, whichever comes first. Since Miyagi is a fictional character, Dogen sends Sayid instead, with instructions to stab Mocke with an overly ornate knife. Everything else in Camp Temple is austere, except for the cutlery.
Back in BIZARRO ’04, Sayid’s brother gets his ass kicked to within an inch of his life, and his wife Nadia finds out that Sayid had her marry his brother, because he could never give her the secure life she deserved. He never mentions that she died in his arms in another life. She then tells him not to open up a can of whoop ass on the Omar’s perps. Sayid gives her a look that says “you have no idea what the script says is coming in the last fifteen minutes, do you?”
BACK AT THE TEMPLE, Sayid confronts Mocke and stabs him immediately. Mocke mocks him (pun intended) by saying “what’d ya wanna go and do that for?” He pulls the knife out and hands it back to him and asks why he is so easily led to murder, except when the hot chick from “American Pie” asks him to. He then, without a hint of irony, asks Sayid to do him a favor and kill. Why? Because Mocke promises to bring back the only thing Sayid ever wanted “who died in my arms.” Whoa! Two people died in Sayid’s arms: the aforementioned Nadia and Shannon, who he used to bang in the tent. Who does he mean?
Kate, who along with Miles, has been wandering around the set aimlessly, goes and visits Savage Claire, who is being held in a hole by the Temple folks (The same hole from “Silence of the Lambs” it turns out). She tells Claire that she has her son back in LA, Claire glares at her as the LOST music tone rings out to emphasize it. At the point, the Temple people shoo her away.
Sayid then enters the Temple compound and announces that the Temple folk have two choices: leave with Mocke off the island or get killed at Sundown (Ya better take care, see?) Apparently the Temple people aren’t so loyal, and flee en masse. They heard of the Jim Jones thing and were in no mood to wait for the Kool Aid.
BIZARRO ’04: Sayid is approached by thugs who threaten Nadia’s kids if he doesn’t go with them. They take him to a kitchen in the back of restaurant, where the mercenary who killed Ben’s kid is making eggs and explaining loan shark principles when Sayid jumps the thugs and kills them. The loan shark attempts a conversation to stall his death but as I mentioned earlier, Sayid don’t play that. BLAM! On his way out, he hears muffled screams from the cooler: It’s JIN!!!! No stunner if you think about it, since Jin has mob ties through his father in law. Don’t all mobsters hang out together? I saw “Goodfellas”.
TEMPLE: Sayid meets with Dogen, who tells him a long story about his son, Jacob, baseball, drunk driving and a weird deal where Jacob says he’ll save his son, if Dogen comes to run the Temple and never see his family again. WTF? I think Dogen thought Sayid would be moved by the tale, but instead it enrages him and he drowns Dogen.
The smoke monster then comes and lays down justice on the Temple hangers on. Kate goes to rescue Savage Claire, who in turn saves Kate by pulling her down in the hole as the Smoke Monster flies overhead telling them to “put the fucking lotion in the basket” as he flies by.
The survivors of the second crash, Lapidus, Sun and Ben are rescued by the female friend of Jacob, Ilana, who wisks them I into a secret room that ol’ Smokey can’t get to by pushing on a block inscribed with a Shen ring, which means something in Egyptian but I don’t feel like going to Wikipedia right now, so you’re on your own on that one.
And since you’re doing home work, here’s what Tracie from Jezebel said about last night’s ep:
I'm wondering if the fact that Sayid's sideways story is more like a nightmare
than a dream indicates that he never became "enlightened" in the original timeline. It sort of supports my theory that the Losties (in the original timeline) are experiencing the death cycles of Bardo before being reincarnated into the sideways story. I think that this could perhaps be a clue that Sayid never really "saw the light" in the original timeline, and instead turned to darkness. So maybe zombie Sayid is bad. It's all about karma, which is kinda like a boomerang, you know, like the one that broke Nadia's vase.
As destructive as Dark Locke has been, Jacob may not totally be off the hook as some innocent “good half” either. Which one of them ordered the Dharma massacre? Was it Jacob though Richard, was it Man In Black pulling a stunt, or was it Richard and the Others acting on their own without divine inspiration? It’d be cool if the theme of the show ends up being “All gods murder you.”
On the sidelines this week: Sawyer (strained oblique), Richard (sprained MCL), Desmond (out indefinitely), and Hurley (healthy scratch)
Most of the islanders who’ve appeared in new positions in the alternate 2004 have been nice — Ethan the regular doctor, Ben the teacher, Dogen the supportive parent — but Keamy was still a jerk. Maybe in the old reality, he did not make good eggs.
And finally this from Tracie:
You should read up on Horus—the god of war and protection, born by immaculate conception and often compared to Jesus Christ—who is often depicted with the Shen ring. Horus' battle with Set was so homoerotic. I'm not even kidding. It literally involves battling with their semen. For real. Additionally, the goddess Nekhbet is also usually associated with the Shen ring. The most interesting thing about her? She was a white vulture, which the Egyptians believed to be an all-female species, reproducing via parthenogenesis. Also, she was big into adoption.
I can’t wait! Who’s the lucky homoerotic couple? Jack and Locke? Jin and Sayid? Stay tuned.
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