Jack Shephard

Jack wakes up in the jungle, like in “Pilot,” with a torn piece of paper that says, “I wish” in his hand.  Hurley is yelling for help. Jack does perhaps the worst dive in the world down the waterfall.   Kate is face down on some rocks.  Not dead. 

“We’re back.”
“What happened?”

46 hours earlier…

Eloise Hawking is leading Sun, Jack, Ben, and Desmond down a spiral straicase in into a secret chamber. Not the same people we just saw wake up in the jungle.

“What is this place?”
“The DHARMA Initiative called it the Lamp Post.  This is how they found the island.”

I’m sure a lot of people are freaking out right now.  I’m just impatient.  Where’s Aaron if Kate is there?

Energy pockets.  A “very clever fellow” created the pendulum.  Is Widmore the clever fellow?  The island is always moving. That’s why they were never rescued.  There are “windows.” 

Desmond has a crazy look in his eyes when talking about how Mrs. Hawking stole four years of his life.  Those flashes he had.  The island’s not done with him, but he says he’s done with the island.  I can’t say I blame him.  He has a wife and a kid now.  And I don’t think he’s going to convince Penny to bring little Charlie to the island.

Agira Airways, Flight 316. They have to get on that flight, from Los Angeles to Guam, and hope that it works. Except Jack has to do something.  Maybe we’ll find out what after the commercial break. Maybe it has something to do with his “I wish” list. Hmm.

A letter to Jack. Locke’s suicide note? John Locke is going to be a proxy?  For his dead father!  He has to give something of Christian’s to John.  Jack has to take a “leap of faith.”  Does this mean that we’ll see dead Locke walking around the island the way Christian did?

“We’re all convinced sooner or later, Jack.”

I want to know what Ben’s loose end is that he’s tying up for an old friend. 

Who is Ray, and why did they call Jack when he tried to run away  from the nursing home?  Oh, it’s his grandpa.  And let me guess, something in his suitcase belonged to Christian.  Oh look, shoes.

Jack’s out of booze in almost all of his hiding places.  Who’s in his house?  His dad?  Claire?  Whoa, Kate looks terrible. 

“If you want me to go with you, you have to never ask me that question again.  Never ask me about Aaron.”

Okay, I never made the promise.  Where’s Aaron?  She obviously left him with someone so she could honor Claire’s wishes and not bring him back to the island.  Cassidy?  So that Aaron can grow up with Clementine?

And as long as we’re recreating the original plane crash as much as possible, is Kate going to get pregnant by sleeping with Jack now?  I mean, if they need to have a dead guy, they should have a pregnant woman, right?

Coffee and orange juice. Sweet morning after offering, Jack.  Oh… an explanation of the white tennis shoes!  Huh.  Who’s on the phone?  Ben sounds a little hysterical.  His face is all bloody. His blood or something else’s?

It’s a little creepy in the meat locker with a coffin in there.  Leg of Locke, anyone?  And Jack’s not going to actually leave that suicide note unread in the coffin.  I bet that’s the scrap of paper he had in the jungle.  Locke’s suicide note started off “I wish…”

And just like the first time around, Jack has issues with transporting a body on the plane, although it’s not nearly as much of a hassle.

Sun is there.  If there’s any chance that Jin is still alive, she has to go.  But what about Ji Yeon?  Sayid is in handcuffs, playing the role of Kate on this flight.  Hurley managed to get there, playing the role of Charlie with a guitar case in hand. (Does he have the heroin, too?)

Good for Hurley buying out the rest of the seats in the flight to minimize the number of… casualties. Except there are other people on the plane.  Ben doesn’t care about them. (What happened to him anyways?) My husband has just referred to them as the Tailies. 

Frank J. Lapidus is the pilot!

Why is Jack confused about why everyone else is there?  Didn’t he get the memo that everyone needed to be there?

“We aren’t going to Guam, are we?” LOL, Frank!

“How can you read?”
“My mother taught me.”
Aside from being a jerk, he even lies when he’s being snarky.  His mom died giving birth to him.  Unless her jungle apparition taught him to read.  Ben’s reading Ulysses.  A man coming home after so many years away.

Just read the letter, Jack.

“Jack, I wish you had believed me. JL.”

And there’s a flash!

We’ve seen all this. Except the DHARMA van cruising through the jungle.  And… Jin?  Awesome!

Question.  If they’re back in the past now, what are the implications of that?  Is Ben going to run into his younger self?

This was a science heavy episode with loads of exposition for the geeks among us.  Is anyone going to look at the screenshots of all of Eloise’s calculations? 

I’m just trying to process everything we learned tonight.

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