LOST – 6×06 – "Sundown"

Welcome to this week’s LOST recap. Crit had to take the week off so I volunteered to take over for just this week. First off I don’t know how he does it. But anyway, tonight episode, “Sundown” might have been a reference to Sun, but instead we have an episode which features Sayid in what he has been doing in both timelines. Buckle your seatbelts, it’s a bumpy ride. A LOT seemed to happen in this episode

We see Sayid sitting in a cab in front of a house, presumably Nadia’s. He gets out of the cab and goes to the door with a bouquet of flowers. And sure enough, there’s Nadia on the other side of the door. She greets him and some kids meet him, but they’re not his! He’s an “Uncle Sayid.” What a twist. In the flash sideways, Sayid’s brother married the love of his life. They make small talk and discuss their lives. It turns out Sayid is a translator for an oil company, reading contracts and making sure they make sense for Iraqi’s. I giggle at that. His nephew and niece ask for presents, and he says they’re in his bag, and tells them to go get them. Nadia asks if he ever received her letters. Sayid said he had, but never responded. A palpable moment of tension passes before the children arrive, and they have boomerangs, but they also have a photo of Nadia in hand. The two brother exchange glances, further increasing the tension.

Flash to 2007. Sayid goes into the Dogen’s office to find answers about what has happened to him. First he asks about the machine, asking what it was, and why it was called a test. Dogen says there is a scale, which in every man, there is a scale, balancing good and evil. Unfortunately due to these tests, it is determined that Sayid is evil, and it would be better that he was dead. Sayid gets justifiably upset at this discovery, and says he a good man.

Dogen attacks him. There is a kung fu battle, and Japanese Man holds his own against the former military man. It’s a down and DIRTY fight. Quite exciting. During the fight, a baseball falls off the desk and lands on the floor. Dogen gets a worried look on his face and stops fighting, and simply exiles Sayid from the temple.

Cut to Claire and Fake Locke. Nemesis wants Claire to do something, and Claire wants to know if she’ll get what she wants, which is Aaron. They’re standing at the edge of some ash, which is why he needs Claire. She asks if he’s going to hurt anyone, and he replies ominously, “only those who won’t listen.”

Cut to Sayid sleeping in 2004. His brother touches him and Sayid reacts by almost attacking him. He asks what he is doing up at 2:30. He tells him that he borrowed money from the wrong people, and that the person demands interest every month, despite Omar having already paid him off. Omar mentioned that he knows what Sayid did during the war, and that he wants Sayid to do the same thing to scare these people off. Sayid says he is “not that man anymore”

Cut to 2007. Sayid is getting his things and getting ready to go when he meets up with Miles who asks where he’s going. Sayid tells him he’s banished, which was ironic, considering they saved his life. Miles said they did NOT save his life, and that he was dead for two hours. They were just as surprised as Jack and Miles and company. Miles says “whatever brought him back…wasn’t them.”

Claire bursts through the door, with her hands up, the guards raise their rifles but Lennon yells out “don’t shoot her!” Lennon also asks what she’s doing there, and she replies Fake Locke wants to speak to Dogen. Dogen starts to speak in Japanese, but Claire tells him to respond in English. Dogen tells her that if Fake Locke wants to speak to Dogen, he will have to come to Dogen. She says that Dogen will have to go to Fake Locke, to which he replies that he won’t do that, because Locke will kill him. So Claire tells him to send someone he won’t kill. Claire is then sent to “the hole” for the time being. Dogen tells Lennon to get Jack and Hurley, but Lennon replies that he can’t because they’re not able to be found. Dogen snaps “Look. Harder!” and tells Sayid to follow him. Sayid is confused and asks why, he was just banished. Dogen says…”things have changed.”

Sayid follows Dogen into a room. Dogen asks Sayid where Jack and Hurley are, to which Sayid answers that he doesn’t know. Sayid asks why Claire is there and what she was talking about. Dogen responds that she is confused and under the influence of a very angry man. He further explains that the man will not stop until every living thing on the island is dead. He is evil incarnate. He says that Sayid will have to kill him. He will appear as someone Sayid knows who has died, and that if he speaks, it is too late. He must plunge the knife Dogen gives him into his heart. Sayid asks that since he’s been there, he’s been drowned, beaten and tortured, all by Dogen’s hands. Why would he want to help him? Dogen says “you said there is good in your soul. Prove it”

Cut to 2004. Sayid is taking the kids to school, and they ask how long he is going to be with them. He says only a few more days, and that he is going to Toronto for work. The kids respond that they like it when he is there, as does Nadia. They hop on the school bus and Nadia runs out to give Sayid some bad news.

Cut to Sayid and Nadia at the hospital. We see a quick glimpse of Jack before they focus on the fact that Omar has been apparently mugged. He has a punctured lung and some internal bleeding. Sayid tries to leave to do whatever he needs to, and Nadia asks where he was going, and asks if it wasn’t’ a mugging. We all know it wasn’t.

Cut to 2007. Sayid is walking through the jungle and he runs into Kate. She asks if he is leaving and he says he is not sure. She asks what she missed and he says “ask Miles.”

The focus shifts to Kate as she reaches the temple. She sits down next to Miles and they talk. Miles asks if Sawyer sent her packing. He also thought about going after him, but Miles realized that Sawyer would just berate him until he went back. Miles brings up the fact that Claire is back, and Kate is understandably shaken, but relieved. He explained the earlier situation, saying she was weird but hot. Kate asks where she is.

Cut to Sayid. He’s walking through the jungle when the winds pick up. Sayid pulls out his knife and Locke appears and says “Hellos Sayid.” He should have thought instantly that the jig was up, but Sayid promptly stabs him after the greeting anyway. However, Locke simply looks at the knife and pulls it out, asking “now why’d you go and do that?”

There is more tension as Sayid and the Nemesis just eye each other. But the Fake Locke asks if Sayid wants the blade back and that he won’t bite. Sayid asks what he is, and Locke replied that he must have an idea if he plunged the knife into his chest without so much as a hello. Locke asks what “they” said he was, and Sayid says that he was evil incarnate. Locke expresses his sorrow for Sayid, explaining that Dogen sent him on a fool’s errand expecting Locke to kill Sayid for trying to kill him. This wasn’t the first time that he had tried, so it’s a shame on him, and shame on you situation. Locke requests that Sayid send a message to The Others at the temple. Sayid asks why Claire couldn’t do it, and Locke explains that it would mean more coming from Sayid rather than Claire. Locke asks what Sayid would do if Locke told him he could have anything he wanted in the world. Sayid gets a very upset expression on his face and replies in reference to that query that the only thing he wanted died in his arms and that he’d never see it again.

Locke replies “but what if you could?”

Cut to 2004. Sayid is repairing a vase. Nadia has an inquisitive look on his face. Sayid says that there was an unfortunate boomerang incident and he apologizes. She laughs but asks when the children went to bed. He says about 2 hours ago. She asks what he told the kids, to which he says he told the kids there was an accident and he is going to be fine. She asks if he knew about the loan, and Sayid says yes, but he has some money. She said “no, this is Omar’s responsibility. He brought it on himself.” She also asks why he didn’t want to be with her. He carries around her picture with him. If he cared about her, why did he push her toward his brother? He said the past 12 years that he had been washing his hands of the past, and that he is not with her because he does not deserve her.

Cut to 2007. Sayid is coming out of the jungle as Dogen is standing at a river. Dogen asks what happened. Sayid ignores Dogen and announces the message to the group in the temple. He tells them he has a message. The message is that Jacob is dead, and because he is gone, they are all free to leave. Locke is leaving the island forever and those of The Others that want to leave have until sundown to decide if they are leaving to staying. Cindy asks what happens if they stay. Sayid says they will die.

Cut to Kate. She’s walking through the temple searching for Claire and is intercepted by Lennon. He asks where she’s been and if Ford and Kwon with her. She asks where Claire is and he says she should ask first. But she forces him up against a wall and asks where Claire is. He says she’ll have to let him go, and he’ll take her to Claire.

They reach Claire and he says they have 2 minutes. Claire is singing a nursery rhyme when Kate greets her and Claire looks astonished and says “Kate?” Kate asks why Claire is down there. Claire says that they took Aaron. Kate, with her intentions fully in the right place, tells Claire that she had Aaron, contradicting what Jin said in the previous episode. Kate explains that she took him because Claire was nowhere to be found and she raised him off-island. Claire is visibly upset. Kate said she came back to rescue Claire and reunite her with Aaron. Claire says ominously that Claire isn’t the one that needs rescuing. “He’s coming Kate. He’s coming and they can’t stop him.”

Cut to Sayid in 2007. There is a ruckus in the temple (understandably) and Lennon stops him and chastises him for putting everyone in a panic. Sayid calmly says that he was just delivering a message and what everyone else does is up to them.

Dogen then stops Cindy and tells her that’s she’s perfectly safe. She responds that Jacob is dead and it probably isn’t safe in the temple. She adds that Jacob is dead and that if isn’t safe there anymore, she can’t take that risk. Lennon says it’s a bluff and that he can’t come in due to the ash surrounding the temple. Lennon goes off to stop everyone and Miles approaches Sayid and asks what happened and if they’re getting out of there. Sayid says “not yet,” and pulls out the dagger. “I have to return this.”

Cut to 2004. Sayid walks toward a black SUV and a middle aged Arabic man comes out. He gestures for Sayid to enter the car. Sayid tells him he is going to pick up the kids, but the man tells Sayid to get in, or they will get the kids together in a very threatening tone. Sayid enters the car and they go to a restaurant kitchen. We see the return of Martin Keamy, the mercenary from the invasion of the island. He is the man that beat Omar. He feigns sympathy for the injuries to Omar and asks if Sayid still wants to take care of his family.

Keamy explains that Omar borrowed money from him, and that he has to make payments. Sayid responds that according to what he knows, Omar has paid him everything he borrowed. Keamy says this is a lie. Sayid asks if Keamy put him in the hospital.

Keamy says he didn’t do that and that the world is a dangerous place. He also points out that Sayid would know that, because he is from Iraq. He further explains that you never know when someone will sneak u–and Sayid takes out the Middle Eastern man behind him and uses him as a human shield, protecting himself from the shot the other bodyguard takes on him. Sayid pulls out the Middle Eastern man’s gun and shoots the bodyguard, leaving just Sayid and Keamy. Keamy quickly tries to calm Sayid. Sayid tells him to shut up. Keamy tells him the debt is forgiven and to just forget about it. Sayid says he can’t and shoots Keamy in the chest, killing him.

Sayid hears a noise in the back and investigates. He reaches the freezer and he peers inside, and quickly opens the door. He pulls duct tape off of the man tied up and asks who he is. We see the man and it’s Jin, beaten and rambling in Korean. He also says he doesn’t know English. I guess we know who the money was for.

Cut to 2007. Dogen is sitting at the pool studying the baseball. Sayid approaches him and Dogen said “you let him talk to you.” Sayid said “I stabbed him like you told me and then I left him talk to me. He throws down the knife and sits down next to Dogen. He mentions that the second time he’s tried to have someone else kill him, while he had an opportunity of his own and didn’t take it. He asks why? Dogen explains that he was a businessman once, and he got a promotion. He celebrated too much and accidentally killed his own son in a car accident. He further explains that a man came to him and told him that he could save his son’s life, if he worked for him, and if he never saw his son again. Sayid asks who it was, and Dogen said it was Jacob. Sayid comments that Jacob drives a hard bargain. Dogen asks if the man outside offered as similar bargain. Sayid replies with a yes.

Dogen points out that it is sun down. He asks Sayid if he will stay or go. Sayid says he will stay. Dogen looks at him and that’s when Sayid drags him into the pool and drowns him. Lennon enters the room and sees that Dogen is dead. He asks what he has done, saying that Dogen was the only thing keeping Fake Locke out. Sayid finishes off the pair by taking the blade and slicing through Lennon’s throat and dropping his body into the pool. Sayid says that he knows. It’s curious that it’s not the ash that prevented the Smoke Monster from entering the temple, it’s the will of Dogen.

Cut to outside. Miles is looking around and there are clear things afoot outside of the ashes. You hear the familiar smoke monster sounds and Kate comes to him and tells him that they have to go. The Smoke monster then breaks through the door and grabs one of The Others. Kate tells him to run and Miles directs which way to go. They run as fast as they can with the monster hot on their tail. Miles wants to go left but Kate splits from him and runs right, wanting to get Claire. We keep our focus on Miles and he gets to a door to which someone is trying to but through. He briefly tries to prevent the door from opening, but he fails and Ilana comes through the door. We’ll save any commentary about him being overpowered by a girl for the He-Man Woman Hater’s Club.

She is searching for Jack, Hurley and Sawyer, but he has no idea where they are. He’s the only one left and Kate went after Claire. Lapidus follows Ilana and Miles is a little surprised that he’s there. Lapidus says they can catch up later. Ben follows behind as Ilana asks for Sayid. Miles said he saw him head for the pool room and Ben says he go get him. Ilana yells for Ben to wait, but Ben is gone. She instructs everyone to follow her.

We cut to Kate as she reaches Claire. She tries t pull Claire out of the hole but Claire says no, and that she would be much safer in the hole. The Smoke Monster follows and Kate falls into the hole, but still grasping the rope ladder she dropped down into the hole. The Smoke Monster passes over Kate and Claire like they’re not even there.

Cut to Ben reaching the pool with Sayid sitting on the steps. He tells him there’s still time and that he knows a way out of there. Sayid said that there isn’t any for him. Ben runs off like his hair is on fire.

We cut back to Ilana and the crew and Miles asks Sun where her husband is. Sun, not knowing that Jin was there or even sure he was alive, asks as such. Miles says that as far as he knows he was, yes, he’s alive.

Ilana reaches the same spot Hurley went to last week and pushes the same button, opening a door. Ilana tells everyone to run in the door and that she has a plan. The door closes right as the Smoke Monster reaches the corridor they just left, narrowly escaping with their lives.

Cut to Sayid. He is walking the courtyard of the temple with dead bodies lying about. Kate and Claire reach courtyard as well, and Kate picks up a rifle. Sayid then comes to outside of the temple and there is Locke with The Others that sided with the Man in Black. Claire nods to him and he gives a sideways glance at Kate, and then walks the other direction with Sayid and The Others following behind.

And there you have it, after a somewhat introspective episode we have a much more action packed episode with twists, turns, and plenty of death to go around. The next episode teases what might become of Ben and it looks like it might be just as action packed. I can’t wait.