>: 72 THE ECONOMIST
Obviously a Sayid-centric from the first shot. Frank’s chopper is N842M, no great surprise there with the numbers, but also kind of cool if you look at the letters, the midpoints of the alphabet. M ends the first half and N begins the second half, so we’ve got Hurley/Desmond/Locke/Valenzetti’s numbers sitting at the “bridge” of the alphabet, touching back on the bridge theme of the last season finale and stretching us from the end of the beginning to Ben’s “beginning of the end”, all on the back of a helicopter. And in reverse, of course.
Sayid closes Naomi’s eyes and checks out her bracelet inscribed with N, I’LL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU –R.G.
Every line of the Sayid flash-forward is laced with portent on the rewatch, every glance, even. As soon as Sayid says “plane crash” on the golf course, the guy is horrified. He’s clearly done something to merit execution. “I insist, Mr. Avonlea.” (sic? Couldn’t really make out the name). So, taking into account what we know by episode’s end, this is a guy that Ben has sent Sayid to kill, he’s on a list and has got something to do with Oceanic or the crash or Naomi’s corporation or the island. Or all these things.
Elsa’s employer is “an economist. He works in merging markets.” Bears repeating, given the title.
It really did not sound like Ben on the phone with Sayid after he’d made contact.
So, Jacob’s cabin moved and didn’t come back. The circle’s not essential? Or just residual and in every occurrence? Not enough information for conjecture.
Really nice to see Locke in charge, bossing people around. A couple of seasons later than I was looking for it, but nice.
Elsa’s employer is “very old-fashioned”. Insisting on the pager.
Ha, Sayid fell in love with his target and doesn’t even realize she’s playing him.
Glad to see the physicist running an experiment, never too soon for such things. 3.3 introduced Desmond as Time-Traveling Jaybird, now this for 4.3. Zoe Bell as Regina on the boat. That’s an R. to give Naomi a bracelet, great hint if that sister stuff wasn’t code. What’s with the 31:18 discrepancy on the payload’s arrival? 1878 seconds. Not divisible by 108, 42, 23, etc. Very interesting. Maybe the most serious bit about this episode, when all is said and done. Who knows?
Seemed quite serious when Double-Agent Hurley said “They left me”, his coming over to the other group is a big part of him becoming Oceanic 6 and getting off the island, present becoming future, etc, but it was just a ruse, we’re not even close yet.
Touching back on the Red Sox here is almost certainly significant. Jack can’t believe it’s been only one hundred days since he’s seen a game. That’s going to have to come into play somewhere, no way they’d squeeze it in otherwise at this point.
Can’t be 100% but looks like Sayid touches the spine of Ben’s copy of the Koran before checking out his secret room, which reveals that Ben is a serious globetrotter as well as a fan of Kerouac: the name on the passport Sayid grabs is Dean Moriarty. Yas!
Killer recursion of Kate on the far side of Ben’s bed watching boots walk in, a call back to the top of 1.16, young Jimmy Ford hiding under the bed from his daddy who just shot his momma after Tom Sawyer done conned her. No question who’s coming for Kate. Really great way to bundle that up, convey it in a quick shot.
Sawyer’s “Why don’t we find out?” to Kate’s “How long will we be able to play house?” stretches out quite a bit over the week, given that we don’t see them again and “she decided to stay.”
I would love to know what song’s playing for Sayid’s pre-homicide post-coitus, maybe chosen to place the scene chronologically. Though they could just be messing with us (a la Heart-Shaped Box [‘93] in Jack’s flash-forward [c. ’07?] in 3.22). Serious showdown between Sayid and Elsa. Symmetry with the beginning of the episode, he closes her eyes. And she has one of those bracelets. This all but confirms that the initials of her employer are R.G. and he’s a higher-up or big boss of the latest Others, this phantom corporation who brought in the “rescue” team. Daniels, perhaps? (I speak of Lance Reddick, non-WIRE fans)
(and shame on you)
(no wait, never mind, remembering he gave Hurley his name as Michael Abadon, or something)(could always have been lying, I guess)
And thank you, Desmond, for trying to get to the bottom of what your picture with Pen was doing in Naomi’s ARDIL-22. A nagging thread amidst all this nonsense, to be certain.
What would be the consequences if Frank didn’t follow the same bearing they came in on? Something worse than being displaced 31 minutes and change?
And the chopper takes off. Unbelievable. Very similar feeling to the raft. And that turned out so well. Giacchino didn’t come close to hitting it as hard, though. Might never, it’s fair to say.
Ben is in a kennel? In Germany, or has Sayid traveled? Seems like a fresh wound. “Need I remind you what they did the last time you thought with your heart instead of your gun?” he tells our tortured torturer. Ominous tidings for what lies ahead on the boat, children. Sayid accuses Ben of recruiting Elsa to make him (Sayid) kill for him. Implying this was the first time. Does this mean the hit on the golf course was a different thing? (or, I guess, no reason it couldn’t have taken place after all the Elsa stuff, could have even been the hit Ben’s talking about at the end). But the motivation is protecting his friends. Which friends? Oceanic 6 friends? Still-on-the-island friends?
Ben’s presence here further validates something I’ve already been thinking. I’m doubting more and more that Kate is one of the Six. We know she got off the island, but she’s also a wanted woman, as Sawyer points out. Doesn’t seem like she’d be able to handle being famous and still be loose to meet Jack by runways. The way Ben’s acting (and wowHolyShit, he’s off the island in the future, don’t mean to sell that short for an instant), it doesn’t seem like he’s in the gang, either. The only confirmed O6 we have are Jack, Hurley, and now Sayid. The Kate/Sawyer gimme feels like it should be ruled out for the time being, and I’m inclined to think that the other three are going to be surprises, although Desmond certainly leaps ahead of the pack of contenders by episode’s end.
The best thing about these flash-forwards is, all of a sudden, we don’t know who these people are, who they’ve become. Just as in the first season, we waited week by week (or thumb depression by thumb depression, latecomers!) to have the mystery of who our castaways were explained, now everything’s reversed through the looking glass/bridge and we’re left waiting for glimpses of who they will be, why they turn out the way they do, which of course inspires an entirely new slew of questions, tacked on to the 100+ we already have.
Oh, Christian Shephard, where are you, where have you been, and what’s HAPPENING on your wacky island?
Sayid closes Naomi’s eyes and checks out her bracelet inscribed with N, I’LL ALWAYS BE WITH YOU –R.G.
Every line of the Sayid flash-forward is laced with portent on the rewatch, every glance, even. As soon as Sayid says “plane crash” on the golf course, the guy is horrified. He’s clearly done something to merit execution. “I insist, Mr. Avonlea.” (sic? Couldn’t really make out the name). So, taking into account what we know by episode’s end, this is a guy that Ben has sent Sayid to kill, he’s on a list and has got something to do with Oceanic or the crash or Naomi’s corporation or the island. Or all these things.
Elsa’s employer is “an economist. He works in merging markets.” Bears repeating, given the title.
It really did not sound like Ben on the phone with Sayid after he’d made contact.
So, Jacob’s cabin moved and didn’t come back. The circle’s not essential? Or just residual and in every occurrence? Not enough information for conjecture.
Really nice to see Locke in charge, bossing people around. A couple of seasons later than I was looking for it, but nice.
Elsa’s employer is “very old-fashioned”. Insisting on the pager.
Ha, Sayid fell in love with his target and doesn’t even realize she’s playing him.
Glad to see the physicist running an experiment, never too soon for such things. 3.3 introduced Desmond as Time-Traveling Jaybird, now this for 4.3. Zoe Bell as Regina on the boat. That’s an R. to give Naomi a bracelet, great hint if that sister stuff wasn’t code. What’s with the 31:18 discrepancy on the payload’s arrival? 1878 seconds. Not divisible by 108, 42, 23, etc. Very interesting. Maybe the most serious bit about this episode, when all is said and done. Who knows?
Seemed quite serious when Double-Agent Hurley said “They left me”, his coming over to the other group is a big part of him becoming Oceanic 6 and getting off the island, present becoming future, etc, but it was just a ruse, we’re not even close yet.
Touching back on the Red Sox here is almost certainly significant. Jack can’t believe it’s been only one hundred days since he’s seen a game. That’s going to have to come into play somewhere, no way they’d squeeze it in otherwise at this point.
Can’t be 100% but looks like Sayid touches the spine of Ben’s copy of the Koran before checking out his secret room, which reveals that Ben is a serious globetrotter as well as a fan of Kerouac: the name on the passport Sayid grabs is Dean Moriarty. Yas!
Killer recursion of Kate on the far side of Ben’s bed watching boots walk in, a call back to the top of 1.16, young Jimmy Ford hiding under the bed from his daddy who just shot his momma after Tom Sawyer done conned her. No question who’s coming for Kate. Really great way to bundle that up, convey it in a quick shot.
Sawyer’s “Why don’t we find out?” to Kate’s “How long will we be able to play house?” stretches out quite a bit over the week, given that we don’t see them again and “she decided to stay.”
I would love to know what song’s playing for Sayid’s pre-homicide post-coitus, maybe chosen to place the scene chronologically. Though they could just be messing with us (a la Heart-Shaped Box [‘93] in Jack’s flash-forward [c. ’07?] in 3.22). Serious showdown between Sayid and Elsa. Symmetry with the beginning of the episode, he closes her eyes. And she has one of those bracelets. This all but confirms that the initials of her employer are R.G. and he’s a higher-up or big boss of the latest Others, this phantom corporation who brought in the “rescue” team. Daniels, perhaps? (I speak of Lance Reddick, non-WIRE fans)
(and shame on you)
(no wait, never mind, remembering he gave Hurley his name as Michael Abadon, or something)(could always have been lying, I guess)
And thank you, Desmond, for trying to get to the bottom of what your picture with Pen was doing in Naomi’s ARDIL-22. A nagging thread amidst all this nonsense, to be certain.
What would be the consequences if Frank didn’t follow the same bearing they came in on? Something worse than being displaced 31 minutes and change?
And the chopper takes off. Unbelievable. Very similar feeling to the raft. And that turned out so well. Giacchino didn’t come close to hitting it as hard, though. Might never, it’s fair to say.
Ben is in a kennel? In Germany, or has Sayid traveled? Seems like a fresh wound. “Need I remind you what they did the last time you thought with your heart instead of your gun?” he tells our tortured torturer. Ominous tidings for what lies ahead on the boat, children. Sayid accuses Ben of recruiting Elsa to make him (Sayid) kill for him. Implying this was the first time. Does this mean the hit on the golf course was a different thing? (or, I guess, no reason it couldn’t have taken place after all the Elsa stuff, could have even been the hit Ben’s talking about at the end). But the motivation is protecting his friends. Which friends? Oceanic 6 friends? Still-on-the-island friends?
Ben’s presence here further validates something I’ve already been thinking. I’m doubting more and more that Kate is one of the Six. We know she got off the island, but she’s also a wanted woman, as Sawyer points out. Doesn’t seem like she’d be able to handle being famous and still be loose to meet Jack by runways. The way Ben’s acting (and wowHolyShit, he’s off the island in the future, don’t mean to sell that short for an instant), it doesn’t seem like he’s in the gang, either. The only confirmed O6 we have are Jack, Hurley, and now Sayid. The Kate/Sawyer gimme feels like it should be ruled out for the time being, and I’m inclined to think that the other three are going to be surprises, although Desmond certainly leaps ahead of the pack of contenders by episode’s end.
The best thing about these flash-forwards is, all of a sudden, we don’t know who these people are, who they’ve become. Just as in the first season, we waited week by week (or thumb depression by thumb depression, latecomers!) to have the mystery of who our castaways were explained, now everything’s reversed through the looking glass/bridge and we’re left waiting for glimpses of who they will be, why they turn out the way they do, which of course inspires an entirely new slew of questions, tacked on to the 100+ we already have.
Oh, Christian Shephard, where are you, where have you been, and what’s HAPPENING on your wacky island?
posted by rb at 11:34 AM
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My thought is that Kate is also working for Ben. The line in Through the looking glass "He'll wonder where I am" refers to Ben. I like the theory that Kate is not one of the Oceanic 6. Instead, she is a member of Ben's Fox Force Five. She is of course the demolitions expert.
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