My recap is a bit shorter this week, instead of going scene by scene I’m just going to talk about some things I liked, some things I didn’t like and a few thoughts I had while watching “Recon.” Perhaps next week I’ll do a video recap!
I liked the scene with Jin and Sawyer, but I don’t believe Sawyer when he gives Jin his word: ‘if [Sun]’s here, we won’t leave without her.’ I think he’s back to lone ranger, every man for himself Sawyer, even though he and Jin grew close in their Dharma says.
I loved the scene with Sawyer posing as a con man, and finding out that he’s a cop now. I liked that the magic word was Lafleur, a little shoutout to his dharma security does…but does he remember them? I also loved that he and MIles are partners again.
I liked that Kate asks about the squirrel baby, and Claire responds “it’s all I had.” Chilling. I also liked that Kate asked Sawyer if he was with Locke and he said “I’m not with anybody,” which I think reinforces my point that even though he and Jin became close in Dharma times, he only really cares about getting himself off the island.
I liked that even though he’s on the other side of the law now, Detective James Ford is still hunting down Anthony Cooper. Is this their way of telling us that no matter what choices you make in life, your arc/destination/destiny is always going to be the same? Is everything predestined?
I liked that Miles set him up on a date with someone who worked with his father at the museum. I wonder what museum Dr Chang is working at. I loved that Miles used the classic Jack line “do you wanna die alone?”
I liked the chat Sawyer and Locke had. “I’m the smoke thing” was a great line. I liked the “it’s kill or be killed” explanation we got from Locke. He seems invincible, but maybe he can die; he seemed legitimately worried about that possibility. Locke sending Sawyer to do recon at the Ajira crash site reminded me of Ben sending Ethan to the Flight 815 crash site. When I saw that Sawyer would be taking a boat over I wondered if we might finally be finding out who shot at our friends in the boat while it was pouring as they flashed through time, but that didn’t happen and that’s fine. I liked that Locke calls him “the best liar I ever met” when we had just seen him in the flash sideways as a terrible liar. In that timeline, he just doesn’t have the smoothness needed to be a con man.
I liked the scene in the bar and I loved that Rebecca Mader was back as our old redhead friend Charlotte Lewis Staples. She looked gorgeous, and her accent is just adorable. She’s an archaelogist who travels to “far off and romantic places” often, so her story seems to be the same. Sawyer explains that he got to a point in his life where he would either become a criminal or a cop, and he chose cop. At first I thought she might have been put up going through his stuff, but she looked in the drawer he said and really didn’t find a t-shirt so I don’t suspect anything fishy.
I found Sayid’s actions very troubling, and Claire tackling Kate was very intense, but not as intense or as shocking as Locke’s slap. That was just crazy.
I was confused when Sawyer found the pile of dead bodies on Hydra Island, and confused as to why Tiny Fey was on the island…what? It wasn’t her? Oh. Her name is Zoe? Okay. Sawyer knew she was lying, yet he still was taken hostage. I liked “take me to your leader.”
I liked that our old bloody rock god friend Liam Pace was in the police station asking about his brother, Charlie. I’d love to see him again, but I don’t know if we will.
Continued belowI didn’t like that Miles was running his partners credit cards, but in the end it worked out because the truth came out. I noticed that Detective Ford saw his refection in the mirror in that scene, just as all the centric characters have seen their reflections in their episodes this season. I didn’t like that he smashed it, that’s bad luck!
I liked Locke’s explanation when he says that he needed Claire to have an enemy to keep going on, and that’s why he told her that the Others had Aaron. Kate (sarcastically) thought it was great insight from a dead man, to which he simply says “nobody’s perfect.” Terry O’Quinn, you deserve an Emmy.
I thought the Locke/Kate conversation was strange, but when he said he had a crazy mother and now Aaron does too, I had a crazy theory that’s probably untrue: if it’s a time loop, maybe he IS Aaron somehow…? Yeah, probably not.
I liked that Widmore’s cronies were setting up pylons that look like the sonic fence, and Sawyer’s question about the locked door. I wonder who’s in there.
I liked that Sawyer put Little House on the Prairie on, there was some relevant stuff in the lines from the show. The girl worried about what life would be like without her parents, just as he had to live his life without his, and her dad says that people aren’t gone when they die, which we’ve seen to be true for six years on the island.
I thought it was pretty funny that he went to apologize with a sunflower (just like he gave to Juliet) and a six pack just in case she accepted and was feeling frisky. What a guy. I was bummed that she said no because I was hoping she’d get more screen time.
I enjoyed the Widmore/Sawyer meeting, and the deal they struck made me think that Sawyer is looking at the situation like this: Locke said he can help him get home, and Widmore now made the same promise, so he figures he can let them settle their fight and then whoever’s left standing (or smoking?) will get him home.
I kinda liked and kinda hated that Claire apologized to Kate. Part of me wants them to just duke it out, but I don’t want either of them to kill each other so it’s for the better that they patched things up.
I liked that Sawyer spilled all the details about Widmore and his homies, though I still think he doesn’t care who wins their battle as long as one of them follows through on their deal.
I liked when Miles got in the car with Detective Ford, it reminded me of the times they drove around together in the Dharma van working security. I liked that the truth about Anthony Cooper came out, even though it took some very weird prodding from Miles to do so.
I’m not sure I liked the car crash and the ensuing chase where we find the law has caught up to Kate since we last saw her leaving Claire’s hospital room. When I saw someone in a hood, Charlie was my first thought, but sadly it wasn’t him. I did like the “son of a bitch” that we got from Sawyer. The fact that he’s a cop makes it curious that he saw her in handcuffs in the elevator as LAX and didn’t do anything about it.
I also wasn’t a fan of the final scene by the campfire (though it was clever that they were eating rabbit after the book Watership Down was seen on his dresser in the flash sideways) where Sawyer tells Kate that they’re taking the sub home. In what was a good episode overall with a lot of interesting plot advancements and setups, that’s a pretty weak end.
I can’t wait til next week. If you know who the episode is about (and the promo right after the episode told us who that person is) you know why, plus we get 6 extra minutes, so that’s a party in the USA! Or on the island! Or something like that!
Namaste!
