There is a scene in Namaste
where Jack, wearing a Workman janitorial Dharma suit, confronts Sawyer in his
home at the barracks, wondering what the next step is. Jack was told to go back
to the island, but when he gets there he realizes that, along with Kate and
Hurley (Sayid gets sent elsewhere on the main island) they are in a different
time. 1977, three years after Sawyer, Juliet, Daniel, and Miles were “relocated”
to 1974, is where Jack, Kate, Hurley, and Sayid end up. Sawyer has had to keep
on “thinking”, the con ingenuity always turned on, rarely not working on an
angle. There has always been that rivalry between them, whether over leadership
or Kate, and Juliet seemingly as well. Sawyer had to develop a leadership role
in 1974 or else consider how in the hell to survive on the island with Dharma
and the “hostiles”. Jack, Kate, and Hurley are shuttled in by Sawyer with
Juliet adding their names to the sub manifest (the submarine arrived with “new
recruits”) so they can integrate within Dharma. Nice little suspense spot where
Kate appears to be left off (perhaps on purpose by Juliet) the manifest and is
in trouble of being discovered. Phil (Patrick Fischler), under head of
security, LaFleur (Sawyer), has the manifest when Juliet arrives with the “updated”
one, so Kate is allowed to breathe a sigh of relief.
Sawyer has that confidence. He’s definitely carrying that
confidence man swagger. He’s in his chair, with a book, Juliet as his lover,
all relaxed and cozy, with Jack arriving completely dubious as to what his
purpose on the main island is. With Sun and Frank Lapidus canoeing to the main
island after their plane lands on Hydra Island, meeting “Christian” in the dark
of night in an abandoned Dharma lodging, it turns out that their time doesn’t
appear to be 1977. It is that bit of sleight of hand that Lost’s creative team is
so deftly able to bamboozle us. We can’t always just assume that all because it
appears those in the plane land on the same island in the same time that is
always the case. Prior to taking the canoe for the main island, Sun follows Ben
to a couple of them hidden under brush. Ben is just yapping away about getting
those on the plane who didn’t “translate” to 1977 (including Locke) over to the
main island (Frank landed the plane on a dirt strip on the Hydra Island) when
Sun smacks him right upside the head with an oar. I can’t help but laugh at how
Ben rarely leaves an episode without injury. Christian tells Sun and Frank they
have a journey ahead of them. Sawyer has certainly established himself at
Dharma. But Hurley does ask a valuable question: he does remember that the
Dharma Initiative perishes by genocide (purge, whatever). Of course Sawyer
looks at what Daniel has said about time, hoping there is a solution down the
pike. How Sun will get back to Jin considering the distance in the time frames
they inhabit looks quite difficult. Frank’s role with Sun on this inexplicable
mission remains to be seen.
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