Lost… Glass Ballerina

Spoilers aplenty, as usual.

Lost sort of jumps around, so I’m going to clump things according to their subjects.

Well, we have a Sun oriented episode this week. Starting out with Sun as a child breaking a glass ballerina, she blames the maid, the maid gets fired… Some people question what this has to do with anything, why it is so important, to even rate the name of the episode. I think that quite frankly it has to do with Sun’s personality. She would rather have the innocent maid fired than face her father’s wrath, and more importantly she is not above letting other suffer in her stead. Her father walks in on her and Jae in bed, and commands her to leave. He also assigns Jin the task of killing Jae, but doesn’t tell him about his daughter’s infidelity. He simply tells Jin that Jae stole from him, and that he needs to restore the family’s honour. After threatening to quit, and much soul searching from Jin, Jin goes to Jaes house and assaults him,, but at the last minute tells the sniveling wretch to leave the country and never come back. When he leaves Jaes body flies out the window and crashes into the hood of a car, dead. He is clutching the pearls he gave to Sun… Later Sun is at Jaes funeral, and her father tells her that she shouldn’t be there. She confirms that her father won’t tell Jim about her infidelity.

Sayid, Jin, and Sun are on the boat waiting for Jack to respond to the signal fire, and Jin says they should go back, Sun reveals she can pilot the boat, and that they should follow Sayid up the coast to try and find jack. The others aren’t happy about them having a boat, even though they can’t use it to escape the will just sail in circles for some reason, but they might find the others base. Kind of Ironic, two Koreans and an Iraqi, The axis of evil rides to the rescue! J They find the dock from the season finale last season, they light a fire to supposedly attract jack, but Sayid admits that the fire is to attract the others, he plans on keeping two, and killing the rest. Two hostages to make the other captive cooperate. Of course Sun figures out what is going on and demands a gun, he also knows that Sun has betrayed him. Sayid is somewhat surprised at how well Jin handles the gun. Later that night Sayid and Jin are on the shore hidden waiting for the others; Sun is on the boat making a cup of tea, when she hears noises. The others have boarded the boat with guns. Sun grabs a hidden gun. Sun confronts a blond female other, the other tells her that she knows her; she knows Suns full name, and tells her that she is not a killer, and that the others aren’t their enemies, but if she shoots that is what they will become. Sun shoots her in the stomach. Apparently she didn’t know her that well after all. The others are alerted and they start shooting at sun. All the gunfire alerts jin and Sayid to the Others on the boat, and they come running, the others shoot at them and keep them away from the boat long enough to get the engines going and sail away. Sun manages to jump off the boat, Sun and Jin find each other in the water. Later on the beach sun and Jin are talking, he tells her that he couldn’t live without her or the baby, Sayid admits he was wrong and tells Jin that next time he will listen to him. Then they star the long walk back to camp.

Kate and Sawyer on the other hand are taken out of their cages and put to work in some sort of archeological dig. In the meantime Alex, Danielle’s daughter makes contact with Kate from the bushes trying to find out about Carl, she admits that Kate is wearing her dress but it looks better on her so she can keep it. Sawyer rebels, kisses Kate, then starts a fight, and almost has the upper hand. Apparently the tasers only work for the others, and not for Sawyer. He manages to get a rifle but Juliet takes Kate and gunpoint, and he has to submit. They beat Sawyer up pretty badly. Later in the cage Sawyer and Kate talk, Sawyer knew he was going to lose, he was just feeling out their captors, seeing what they were capable of. He thinks they haven’t had any real taste of violence, the shaggy blonde one has some sort of martial arts, but he can take them, but the blonde chick would have shot Kate with no second thought. He tells her that when they drop their guard they are going to escape. All this is being watched by Benjamin on closed circuit TV, he hears everything.

Lastly we have Jack… Mr Gale comes in, unfolds a chair and starts talking, he tells Jack how just a week ago they were in the exact opposite position, that Jack was the one making visits, and asks Jack if he could blame him for lying. Gale introduces himself by apparently his proper name, Benjamin Linus, and he has lived on that island for his entire life. He only wants one thing of jack, for jack to change his point of view, and if he does it the others will take Jack home. Jack doesn’t believe him he says the toehrs are stuck on the island too. To prove that they have contact with the outside world Benjamin tells him that they have been on the island for 69 days, and that Christopher Reed has died, bush was re elected, and that the redsox won the world series. Jack laughs at him and basically tells him that the redsox could never do that. Benjamin clicks the remote on the TV and the final game on the World Series comes up, Jack runs to the glass and watches. Benjamin tells him if he cooperates he will be sent home…

Now to sum up.. I think that Sun killed Jae, I think she is way more hard core than they think. I also think that maybe the others are the good guys. All the people on the plane, in their histories have done some pretty horrible things. The precedent of giving one of the others a flashback was pretty telling, even if it was only a small one. I hope we get to see more Other flashbacks.