Taxi cab in L.A. Sayid… coming to see Nadia. Kids calling him “Uncle Sayid.” His brother is married to Nadia in this reality. He was in Sydney translating contracts for an oil company. His brother does laundromat business.
Sayid got Nadia’s letter but never wrote back.
Sayid’s brother is shooting a look of death at him. Wonder what happened in that phone call he got.
On the island.
Sayid wants answers from Dogen. He wants to know about the machine and the other tests they did on him. Dogen explains about the scale between good and evil. Sayid’s scale tipped the wrong way toward evil. Dogen thinks it best if Sayid were dead.
“I’m a good man,” Sayid says. We’ve heard that before. Some sweet hand to hand combat going on. Wow!
The baseball dropped on the floor, and instead of jabbing something into Sayid’s throat, Dogen tells him to leave and never come back. What? Is the baseball some sort of mystic symbol?
Smokey Locke is telling Claire she has to go in and “do it.” Standing outside the Temple. He’s going to hurt them. “Only the ones who don’t listen.”
In L.A.
Sayid nearly karate chopped his brother at 2:30 in the morning. His brother borrowed money to open his second laundromat from the mob. He wants Sayid to convince the mob to leave him alone. They have no savings left. They could lose their house. He knows that Sayid cares for Nadia. Sayid says he’s sorry, he’s not that man anymore.
The island.
Sayid grabs his backpack to leave. He tells Miles he’s been banished. “Apparently, I’m evil.” Miles tells him he was dead for two hours.
Here’s Claire at the door with her hands in the air. “He wants to see you. Speak English.”
Dogen won’t meet Smokey outside the Temple because he’ll kill him. Claire tells him to send someone he won’t kill. Dogen wants her thrown into the hole. Since Jack and Hurley are gone, Dogen has changed his mind and wants to use Sayid.
Claire is a confused girl under the influence of an angry man, according to Dogen.
Dogen gives Sayid a ceremonial dagger to plunge into the chest of a man he knows who is dead. If he speaks, it is already too late. Sayid, understandably, wants to know why he should do anything he asks, considering how he’s been tortured and abused at the Temple. Dogen tells him that it’s a way to prove that he still has good in him.
L.A.
“How long are you staying, Uncle Sayid?”
His niece and nephew like it when he’s here. “And Mommy likes it, too.”
His brother was rushed to the hospital. He was “mugged.” Nadia begs Sayid not to do whatever it is he’s thinking of doing. (Jack sighting.)
The island.
Sayid finds Kate in the jungle. Kate’s back in the Temple. Miles is playing cards.
“Wow.”
“Good to see you, too, Miles.”
“Sawyer sent you packing, huh?”
Miles knows the truth of things. “That Australian chick’s back.” Oh dear. I’m afraid that Kate is going to go spill her guts now. LOL. Miles says she was “acting all weird… still hot though.”
Sayid drinks some water. Smokey turns back into Smokey for the intimidation factor. Sayid stabbed Smokey Locke… but it was after he spoke.
“Now what’d you go and do that for?” Pulled the dagger right out of his torso. He didn’t quite stab him in the heart.
Let me take this opportunity to say… The title of the episode is “Sundown,” and we haven’t seen Sun even once? That’s crap.
Smokey Locke: “You want it back? Take it. I won’t bite.”
“What are you?”
He doesn’t deny being evil incarnate. But he’s definitely trying to manipulate Sayid, and Sayid knows it. He wants Sayid to deliver a message. “What if I told you you could have anything you wanted? What if I told you you could have anything in the world?”
Oh snap. Smokey Locke is offering to give him Nadia back from the dead.
L.A.
An unfortunate incident involving a boomerang. Sayid is gluing a vase back together. Nadia said his brother is recovering from surgery, but awake. This is the brother’s responsibility, she says.
“If you care about me, why did you push me toward your brother?”
He’s been trying to wash his hands of all the horrible things he’s done. He can’t be with her because he doesn’t deserve her. (Umm, why don’t you let her decide that, buddy?)
The island.
Sayid is delivering the message. “Jacob is dead. Because he is gone, none of you have to stay anymore. You are free. The man who I met is leaving the island for good.” Anyone who wants can go with him. Anyone who doesn’t leave by sundown will die.
Kate is shaking down Lennon to find where Claire is.
Claire is really in a hole. She’s singing to herself. They seem happy to see each other… for now. Oh dear, there it is. Kate confessed to taking Aaron off the island. She said she came back to rescue Claire so she can be together with Aaron again.
Creepy Claire smiled and said that she isn’t the one who needs to be rescued. “He’s coming, Kate… And no one can stop him.” CREEPY.
People are panicking to make a mass exodus from the Temple. Lennon is trying to tell people it’s safe as long as they stay inside the Temple. Cindy is leaving because she won’t take the risk now that Jacob is dead.
Sayid want to return the dagger. Uh oh.
L.A.
Sayid is getting picked up in a black van. Why do I recognize that guy? Oh! Is he the one who locked Sayid up for torturing his wife? And Keamy’s here, offering Sayid eggs. Asks how his brother is doing.
“You do want to take care of his family, don’t you?”
So Keamy is the mob boss. Sayid used a human shield and grabbed a gun. Keamy offers to settle the debt and forget about it. Sayid says, “I can’t” and shoots him.
Jin is tied up in cold storage! “No English!” Ooh, there’s a twist!
The island.
Sayid wants answers from Dogen. Dogen was a businessman once who worked at a bank. One Friday, he was promoted. They took him out to celebrate. He had too much to drink. Every Friday, he picked his son up from baseball. He was 12. The accident was very bad. He survived, but his son did not. A man came to him in the hospital and told him he could save his son’s life, but he had to come to the island to have a new job… but he could never see his boy again. The man was Jacob.
“The man outside. I take it he offered you a similar bargain. It is sundown.” He gives him the choice to stay or go.
Sayid chooses to stay, then leaps on Dogen and drowns him in the pool. The baseball floated up to the top. Lennon is running in after him.
Dogen was the only thing keeping Smokey out. Sayid slashes Lennon’s throat and says, “I know.”
Oh dear.
Kate to Miles. “We gotta go now!” Running. Kate is going back for Claire. Miles shuts himself in behind a door, but Ilana kicks it in. Frank, Ilana, Sun, and Ben show up. Claire tells Kate she’ll be safer in the hole… Kate barely jumps in before train engine Smokey plows through. Ben goes after Sayid, but runs off when Sayid says, “It’s too late for me.”
Absolute carnage at the Temple. Sayid and Claire have creepy smiles on their faces. Kate stoops to pick up a gun. Of all of Smokey Locke’s new-found followers, Kate is definitely the most reluctant. I think she’s only there because of Claire, and I think she’s starting to rethink that angle, too.
Creepy “Catch a Falling Star” music in the background. *shudder*
