Smallville Reunion

Well, this episode has a little of Lex's back story. Bascially lex's high school years. Lex went to a very high profile private school called Excelsior. they wore little hats and jackets, generally what you would expect of a proper boarding school. Lex wasn't the playboy you might think he was. He was a dork, and had exactly one friend named Duncan, a fellow dork. The upperclassmen, Name Oliver Queen and his cohorts made life miserable for Lex. So, we flash back to the present, and Lana and Lex are at his reunion. One of Olivers cohorts dies, in a very final destination way. Then another cohort dies in an implausible car explosion. After an attempt on Lex lana is injured. SO Chloe, and Clarke start investigating. Lois is also throwing her new found reporter skills at the problem. We find out that Lex's best friend had seen Ollie and his minions stealing the answers to the test. Lex sees this as an opportunity to blackmail the much more popular Queen into pretending to be his friend and getting them some respect in the school. Duncan doesn't want anything to do with it, he's happy being a dork, and feels Lex betrayed him. Lex loses it, and starts wailing on Duncan, really beats the snot out of him. Duncan starts backing away from Lex, and accidentally backs into traffic and gets run over. That moment has apparently haunted Lex, and Oliver since that moment. In the future we learn that Lionel covered the whole thing up, and more mysteriously had the most advanced neurosurgeons working on it. We further learn that Duncans mother signed her son over for a hefty sum, and that Duncan is alive in one of Lionels labs! Clarke and Chloe go searching and find Duncan in his hospital room. They have been injecting him with a serum derived from Meteor rocks. There are readouts showing insane amounts of brain activity at the exact times of the attacks. Also, he just had an injection. Back at Ollies office, Lex is confronting him, when suddenly the window blows in. Lex is knocked out, and Ollie sees his display of arrows start to vibrate of their own accord. Ollie gets impaled against the wall with one of his arrows, and just as another arrow goes to kill him, Clarke bursts into the room and takes the hit for him. The arrow is a localized EMP arrow that Ollie made instead of a boxing glove arrow, and it disrupts Duncans ghost form and kills him.

At the end of the episode Lex confronts Lionel about what happened to Duncan. Claiming that Duncan used the accident to find an experimental subject. He wants the paperwork on Duncon on his desk by the morning.

Then we have Chloe and Clake looking over the satellite images that she got from the Queen satellites that were up on Black Thursday. They see several craters like the one he landed in, and in one of them we see a form. Rya escaped!

Lost: Every man for himself.

Well, we start with Desmond staring at Claire and the baby. He walks up and offers to fix her roof. Tells her to move up the beach for the night and he’ll fix it. Charlie tells him that he can fix it. Charlie Makes the comment that “we’ll have to get that guy another button to push”.

Next we have jack in his cell. Watching cartoons of swans. Jill er I mean Juliet comes in and does some psychobabble stuff. Jack tells her that he should talk with Benjamin because it seems she’s just the one who brings the food. She tries to justify herself, telling him they make the decisions together. Just then Benjamin comes in and tells her she has to come, the Sub is back…

Sawyer wakes up to people at the cell, back to work time, but the walkie talkies chime in an emergency. The woman that Sun shot last episode is taken through bleeding on a stretcher. Sawyer tells Kate that “we happened.” That the survivors shot the woman, and that this is their ticket out of there. Sawyer has a plan to use the bear stimulation machine to electrocute their captors and escape. He plans on leaving Jack behind. Then we start a nice Sawyer prison boxing match. Leaving the match they see a guy get his ass kicked, he apparently stole millions of dollars that no one ever found. Sawyer comes to him, and tells him that the warden is buttering him up to make a play for the hidden millions. The warden shows up and looks threatening and makes some general threats against Sawyer.

Back in the present… Benjamin shows up, and asks Sawyer some questions, Benjamin goes to open Sawyers cage, and Sawyer makes his play, but it doesn’t work, Benjamin shut it off. When Sawyer wakes up he’s strapped to a table, and he’s told to bite down, to deal with the pain. We overhear that since the sky turned purple they are cut off, and they have lost all comms…. They are going to be pushing some giant needle through Sawyers sternum.. “just like the movie” I’m betting pulp fiction… jack overhears through his non working comm.

Sawyer wakes up with a bandage over his heart… they bring in a white rabbit with the number 8 stenciled on its back. Benjamin shakes its cage, and hollers at it. It keels over. Sawyer asks if he killed it. Then he asks Sawyer if he knows what a pacemaker is. He explains that the rabbit had one installed and set to go off if he gets too excited. He tells Sawyer that they have a pacemaker in him that will explode when he gets excited. He has a watch on that monitors his pulse, and if it gets within 15 beats of his target he better start relaxing. They also tell him if he tells Kate they will put one in her too.

When they put Sawyer back in his cage they tell them to get washed, of course when Kate strips off Sawyers watch starts beeping and he gets near his goal.

Flashback! Sawyer is in prison, and his con shows up, and tells him that she had a baby, and that its his daughter. He freaks out and denies its his.

Back in the cages Kate tells Sawyer that if she climbs up the top she can squeeze through. He tells her not to do it, they should get the lay of the land.

Juliet rushes to jack, who is listening to Sawyer through the intercom again. She needs his help to save someone. They take him through the camp, with a bag over his head. Sawyer and Kate try to yell to him, but he can’t hear them because an alarm is being sound through the public address system. They take Jack to an operating room, and he seems someone else’s chest x-rays. Everyone but Juliet wants jack there. The woman flat lines and Juliet sort of crying tells him the paddles are broken; they haven’t ever had anything happen. Jack starts chest compressions, but they don’t help. Jack calls time of death, but there is no clock. One of the others, the one with the broken nose whose name I didn’t catch rushes to Sawyers cage. He beats him brutally, his watch ticking quite alarmingly asking Kate if she loves him. She eventually says yes and he storms off leaving Sawyer in a bloody pool.

Back in prison the thief comes to Sawyer and asks him to move the money. Sawyer tells him, no, that would make him a target…

Back in the cages…

Kate escapes her cage, squeezing out through the bars. Sawyer tells her to stop, but she refuses, and tells him that she knows he is lying. Kate tries to beat Sawyers lock open. He tells her to leave without him. “If you really love me, go” she responds with “I only said that so he would stop hitting you.” Kate crawls back in her cage.

We cut to the video room, Benjamin is watching what happened with Kate, and Danny wants to kill Sawyer

Juliet admits that she is a fertility doctor, and that the dead womans name was Cole, short for colleen. Jack tells Juliet that Cole was dead before she put her on the table. Jack tells her that he doesn’t care about making her feel better. He tells her that the x-rays outside are of a man in his 40s with a rather large tumor on his spine, and he just happens to be a spinal surgeon. He wants to know just who he is there to save.

Back at the camp. ..

Desmond gets a golf club… Then he goes and starts making something, some sort of pole with the golf club at the top and a wire wrapped around it. Hurley is cutting vegetables, and Desmond sits on his table. Hurley asks if its art, he responds that its just an experiment. Just then we get a loud clap of thunder, and it starts to rain. The baby cries, and a bolt of electricity zaps the golf club. Charlie looks at Desmond who smiles back at him.

Back in Sawyers cage Benjamin wakes Sawyer up.

Flashback to the prison. Sawyer is being led to a meeting with the warden in the gymnasium. The warden tells him that he is a dumb hick who knows how to steal. A treasury department agent is there, and Sawyer tells them where the ten million dollars is. For this service, the last six years of Sawyers prison sentence is commuted. There is also a monetary reward. They set up a bank account in Albuquerque under the name Clementine Philips.

Benjamin is taking Sawyer on a walk through the hills, to show him something… Sawyers heart monitor starts going off. Sawyer asks if they took him up there to kill him. Benjamin tells him that they never put a pacemaker in him. He even pulls the rabbit out of his bag. He nails Benjamin across the face with a pretty good left hook. When the get to the top of the mountain Benjamin shows Sawyer that they are on a small island, and that they aren’t even on the actual island anymore. Sawyers own private Alcatraz. Benjamin tells him that the only way to gain a con mans confidence is to con him… He’s really good, but they are better.

Interesting episode. Although if the facility is on another island, why were the spies able to run from the others town to the two crash sites? Are they lying to Sawyer, or is the facility on the small island, and the town on the big island? Why would they need a fertility doctor? The two islands idea might explain why the Frenchwoman was having trouble. Was there some sort of fouled up comm. System in the jungle that Sayid heard? Why do they want Sawyers respect? This show got me turned all round. The answers it delivers makes me think up more questions. Goddam them!

Jericho 9:02

9:02
First aired: 10/25/2006Writer: Nancy Won Director: J. Miller Tobin Guest star: Jazz Raycole (Allison), April D. Parker (Darcy Hawkins), Candace Bailey (Skylar Stevens), Beth Grant (Gracie Leigh), Clare Carey (Mary Bailey), Richard Speight, Jr. (Bill), Bob Stephenson (Jimmy), Alicia Coppola (Mimi Clark), Darby Stanchfield (April Green) , Musashi Alexander (Townsperson #2), Reid Godshaw (Kid), Cari Zoch (Townsperson #1), Shiloh Fernandez (Sean Henthorn), Clayne Crawford (Mitchell Cafferty), Sterling D. Ardrey (Samuel Hawkins)

That was an EMP!

I gasped. Within the first few minutes one of the nukes that were streaming overhead exploded in a bright corona and an EMP hit Jericho. OMFG! That was, that was amazing.

Then we have two weeks later with kids playing baseball with cell phones…

People are starting to get nasty; people are starting to realize that things are gone to hell. People are starting to get nasty; there is no technology, no help, and some sort of pestilence hitting the crops. We also have some survivalists causing trouble.

The survivalists (Mitch Cafferdy) steal the Green’s horses, and in the process she gets trampled. Stanley goes to Gracie’s store to get the pesticides to save his corn crop from the bugs, but she wants half his crop. Mimi tells her that the farm belongs to the US treasury, and that Gracie is lucky they don’t take what they want. Gracie tells them to try it. Stanley leaves in frustration. Eric goes to Mary and asks her about the whereabouts of Mitch, and she tells him they are out at the airfield. They talk about their relationship, and what happened two weeks ago. He thinks about her every minute, but he is married and has responsibilities. Jake goes to the airfield and finds the horse tracks.

Stanley goes to the Greens to ask if they have any pesticide. The mayor tells him they have to get some men together and find a way to ration it… Stanley gets mad, telling them that its his corn, and why is he being singled out for attention. Why does everyone have a claim on his corn? Meanwhile back at the ranch... well the airfield. Jake is tending the horses when Dale comes around the corner, Jake asks why he’s there, but gets knocked out before he can get an answer. When he wakes up Mitch has Jake tied and a shotgun on him. Jake tells him that if anyone goes near his family again he will kill him. He starts a fight, Dale helps keep any help. Eric and the sheriffs show up in the nick of time and Mitch runs off on a horse.

Robert tells Jake what is going on, and they start to interrogate. Jake interrogates Dale about why he was with Mitch, Skylar shows up and bails him out but before he leaves he tells Jake where he thinks Mitch is.

Gracie finds the pesticide missing, and of course accuses Stanley of stealing it.

Allison goes looking for her father in the basement, but finds a map with pins all over it, she has an idea what all that stuff is in his secret room, she finds his guns, and his laptop. Robert finds her, and they have a heart to heart about what’s going on. He admits to her that he knows what cities are gone, by the satellite and the shortwave. He tells her that his laptop is ruggardized (sp?)... Built to withstand an EMP, he was given it by the government. She accuses him of being some kind of spy. He tells her she needs to learn how to shoot. They keep it from her mother.

Bill doesn’t find any pesticides in Stanley’s barn, and have harsh words. Mimi tries to calm him down, and Stanley goes to burn the infested parts of the field. Mimi admits that she had the pesticides stolen by some crooked kids; she tells him she had no choice, its every man for himself…

Dale admits that he was helping Gracie and that he had Mitch hiding the stuff from the train in the barn, and that was how he was keeping Gracie stocked. When they get there the barn is empty. Mitch is captured, and Jake starts beating him trying to find out where the food is. We cut to the jailhouse and the debate on what to do with Mitch and Shaun… they haven’t got enough cells, and they can’t let them go. Gail suggests rehabilitation.

Stanley goes to Gracie with the pesticide, and tells her it was a misunderstanding.

As the episode closes just as he is about to burn his crop Gail shows up with all the people she can muster to help Stanly harvest his corn. Gracie shows up with the pesticide and apologizes for losing her head.

Jake and Robert have a talk in the stalks, Jake thanking Robert for his help.

April tries to reconcile and be romantic with Eric, but Eric doesn’t want any part of it. She’s telling him that things have changed, she doesn’t want a divorce. Eric is hostile at first, but wants to talk on the walk home. Then we have Robert photo shopping himself into a family photo to seem like he was always in his families life. The last of the episode has Jake going to Mitch’s cell, and Mitch telling him that “he” is coming for him, and he’s coming for Jake, and he can’t run this time..

Cool quotes:

Is help on its way or not? I don’t think so…

We had no choice; it’s every man for himself.

You’re not that guy anymore!

Ok, summing up. Pretty wicked episode. Things fell apart really fast. Makes sense, and cooler heads eventually prevailed. The ICBMS were pretty awesome, and the halo caused by the explosion almost an afterthought, like it probably would be in real life. Not something dramatic, people were all distracted by the lights going out to notice the really horrific site. Wonder whats up with that survivalist cult thingy? Jake was apparently a member, and a badass at one point. Hmmm…