Lost, episode 3x09: Stranger in a strange land
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3x09: Stranger In A Strange Land (A Jack Episode)
We open with Sawyer singing as he rows their canoe. Kate asks him to stop, saying they have to go back, because they can't leave Jack behind. Sawyer tells her that they can because that's what he asked them to do. Karl, groggily laying at the end of the canoe, says that Ben will kill him and "God loves you as he loved Jacob", Sawyer responds to him confused, and tells Kate that Jack is on his own.
Tom comes in and tells Jack they're moving him. Jack tells Tom if they're going to kill him at least show him the respect of not calling it moving, and asks what kind of people they are, Tom asks what kind of people he thinks they are, and Jack lists the list of things they've done (hanging Charlie, taking children, etc.) but Tom only knocks on the glass, and asks Jack if he wants any stones for his glass house. A couple of other Others come in, put handcuffs on Jack, and they all walk out together. On the way, Jack passes Juliet also in handcuffs, and she just says "Hey."
As they walk out the door, they pass an older woman that Tom stops to talk to, and before going out the door, Jack sees Juliet being put in the room he just left from.
[Lost]
Out on another island, Jack puts on sunglasses, puts a backpack on his back, and walks out on the sand. A young boy runs up asking if "Dr. Jack want soda" and gives it to him, and Jack pays him. "You know I can't understand a word you're saying right" Jack says as the boy goes on in another language.
At the beach, Jack is trying to put what looks like a kite together, as a woman further down the beach laughs at him and comes up to help. After they finish, it's a bird that flies wonderfully to nice violin music. Jack thanks her, and the woman says he's not from around here (obviously....), and introduces herself as Achara.
Jack is now in the cage Sawyer was in, and Tom comes out to give him food. He asks who the woman was that he was speaking to, and Tom says she's the "sheriff". After asking why Juliet was put in Jack's old room, Tom tells him that Juliet is in trouble. Tom tells Jack to stay put, and Jack tells him that he knows they're watching him from the cameras. Tom remembers Ben telling him that Jack got into the control room, and Jack sits down further back in the cage, not looking fondly back on those memories. Tom asks him why he risked his neck to get them loose, and they run away and don't ever get back, but Jack cuts him off thanking him for the sandwich.
Sawyer and Kate are getting near the shore, Kate tells him they have to go around and get to the camp to tell Locke and Sayid to go back. Sawyer tells her they're both going to shore to make a camp, they argue a bit as Sawyer acts almost like a jackass to get her to shut up and he eventually takes his way to go and land the canoe where they're at. After making a fire, Sawyer asks her if she's hungry, and she says no "James." Karl tells them not to fight because theyre glad to be alive. Karl says that island is where they work on projects, they don't live on that island, they live on this island. Kate asks what they did with people, he says give them a better life, better than theirs. He tells them of how Alex and him used to name the stars.
Jack pushes the "Warning" button Sawyer got so trained with, and paces around his cage a bit. Juilet then comes out, followed by two Others with guns. She says they let her out to examine Ben, his vitals are low and he has a fever. She shows him a picture of his stitches, and they are indeed infected. Juliet asks Jack to come looking at him, and Jack says no, Juliet asks as a personal favor for her. Juliet says it's because she's in trouble, she just killed someone, and says complicated. Jack tells her he's not going to help Ben and he's not going to help her.
Jack has a special "Thai" dish at dinner with his new friend, and after downing it the waiter, who is Achara's brother calls him "very brave." She asks why he doesn't know how to fly a kite, and he says he just never learned. He says his dad worked a lot and was never the kite flying type. The woman tells him she has no interest in his father, some things are personal. She asks if he's in Puckit to find himself, he asks why she would say that, and she says "Because you're an American." Someone else comes up and gives her a package, Jack asks what that was about, and she tells him that she has a gift. Jack comments that it must be one hell of a gift.
Jack leans against the bars of his cage as the woman Tom was speaking with comes up and reads off what Jack's tatoos say, saying she finds the Chinese a bit ironic. She asks him if he knows what it says, and he says yeah he does. She says it's fairly common for some things to get lost in translation. She introduces herself as Isabelle, and asks if Jack will come with her so she can ask him a few questions.
They walk and on the way pass Alex, Isabelle tells her to check on her father, and they continue walking down the halls. They eventually come to a room where Juliet is handcuffed to the chair. She tells him they don't live on the island, they don't even like coming here, but there was an inicident and they're clearning up questions. She asks Tom about Juliet asking Jack to kill Ben, and Jack says that he was lying, that he would have done anything to get his friends out, and turning the Others against each other was his best chance at creating chaos. Isabelle asks why he's lying for her, and Jack says he'd like to go back to his cage.
Back in Thailand, Jack is laying in his bed as his new friend comes in, and gets into the bed with him. She asks if there's anything he'd like to ask her, Jack says it'd be nice if for a month of her coming in whenever she wants, he would be able to find out something about her. She says there are things that happen here that he could never understand. "Like your gift?" "Yes, like my gift." She tells him to stop asking questions, for them to have fun.
When Jack wakes up in his cage it's morning, and there are a lot of people just...standing around watching him, and hey, it's all the Tailies that were taken by the Others! He screams some and Cindy, the flight stewardess who gave Jack all the wonderful alcohol, calls his name. He asks what she's doing here with them, he thought she was taken, she says it's not that simple. She says they're "here to watch.", a child comes up and whispers into her ear, and Cindy tells Jack the child wants to know how Ana Lucia is doing. "Are you serious?" Jack yells, and screams at her to go, she seems taken aback by this, and the girl and her walk off with the other little boy, with their teddy bear in hand.
Kate and Sawyer wake up from sleeping in the dirt and Karl is gone, they find him crying, and Sawyer goes to talk to him, stopping Kate claiming it's guy time. He walks up and hits him in the shoulder, and tells him to cowboy up, and tells him that he thought his people were tough. He makes a reference to the Brady Bunch, of which Karl has never heard about. Sawyer tells Karl he's been with a lot of girls, some of them worth the trouble and some not, and every now and again there's one that you name dumb stars with. He asks Karl if he loves Alex, and Karl replies more than anything, so Sawyer tells him to go and get her back. Karl says if he gets caught they'll kill him this time, but Sawyer says at least it will be worth it.
Back on the other island, Alex walks up to Jack's cage, asking why he saved Ben's life. She tells him they're not watching him anymore, they're all busy with Juliet. Alex is confused why Jack still fixed Ben after his friends got away, and Jack says he will answer her question if he answers his. He asks where Juliet is, and Alex tells him that they're reading the verdict. Alex says they're really strict about killing one of their own, eye for an eye, and tells Jack she murdered the guy who was going to kill one of his friends. Jack tells her that he saved Ben because he said he would. Jack asks if Ben is still in charge, will that woman Isabelle do what he says. Alex says yes, so Jack asks Alex to get him out of the cage.
Jack walks into the surgery room and stops the lame Other doctor, Jack tells Ben who is lying awake on the table that he would be much more impressed if they had a good surgeon. Ben says they had an excellent surgeon, his name was Ethan. Jack tells Ben what he needs after his surgery, and it entails Jack keeping a close watch over him. Ben tells him Jack needs to work on his bedside manner, but Jack says he's stuck with him, he needs a doctor to bring him back to good health. Ben says he's already given him a ticket off this island, what's next, and Jack says he wants him to stop the execution of Juliet. Ben tells him that Juilet doesn't care about Jack, no matter what she's done, she's one of them. Jack ignores him, asking if they have a deal, and asks if Isabelle has a "Walkie". Alex tells him they're already in a meeting, and Ben asks for somethign to write on.
This..somehow leads us into the rest of our flashback, where Jack is watching Achara and follows her behind an alley and into a building where he finds a lot of candles lit and a chair with various tattoo things around it (I'm assuming.) She's suprised that he followed her. Jack asks what this is, and she tells him it's where she works and they shouldn't be here. Jack asks if a tatoo parlor was her big secret, she tells him she is not a tattoo artist, she's able to see who people are. Her work is not decoration, it's definition, and this is her gift. She sees who people are, and she marks them. Jack asks who he is, and she shakes her head, because she's not allowed. After some coersion, she tells him he is a leader, a great man, but this makes him lonely and angry (Okay, you don't have to have a gift to tell Jack that.) Jack wants her to mark him, she tells him it's against her people, there will be consequences, and he tells her there always are. So Jack gets his tattoo.
Jack and Alex knock on the door to where their little hearing is going on in Other Court. Tom pushes Jack against the wall but Isabelle demands he be let go, and Alex gives her the letter from Ben. Ben has taken execution off the table, and the rules don't apply, but he has ordered her to be "marked."
Back in Thailand, Jack has on his sunglasses and backpack on the beach, and the young boy is there again, but this time he runs away. Achara's brother and a load of his friends show up, take a look at Jack's tatooo, and beat the hell out of him, screaming for him to get out of the beach and leave the country, Achara watches all teary eyed, and please don't ever give her a close up again.
Juliet now goes to see Jack in his cage, and she hands him a grilled sandwich with toothpicks, of which Jack missed. He wants to see her "markings" and Juliet lifts up the back of her shirt to reveal what looks like an astrick with a line coming from it. He tells her to break a branch of the aloe plant behind her, she gives it to him, and he places it on her back where the scar is. She asks why he helped her, and he tells her that Ben promised them both they could go home and together they are going to make sure he keeps his word. Juliet tells him they'll be coming for him, all of them. Jack's friends know where they are so they're going to leave the island to go back to where they live.
Back on the other island, Kate asks where Karl is, and Sawyer says he let him go, that he is only a target, Ben isn't going to stop looking for him. Kate says Ben only wanted Karl as far away from his kid as possible. Sawyer asks her if she's coming, and Kate yells if he wants her to walk beside her or ten steps behind because Sawyer has managed to be a controlling asshole all episode long. Sawyer asks if she feels guilty about what they did, Kate says she doesn't feel guilty for leaving Jack behind, they had to, but Sawyer says he's not talking about Jack, he's talkign about them. He says he knows she did it because hse thought that he was a dead man. He tells her to not beat herself up because the docs left behind. She says she's not beting herself up, and Sawyer tells her now that they've got that out of the way, let's go.
Isabelle walks Jack to where various Others are taking a canoe, and Tom (hillariously, in my opinion) holds a little umbrella over Ben in a stretcher....
Isabelle says "He walks amongst us but he is not one of us" Apparantly, that's what Jack's tattoos say, but I'm sure that's not what Foxy's say...
Jack says that is what his tatoos say, but not what they mean. They all get on the canoes to go back to the Other's "home"
After this, we get a montage of people to nice music, Sawyer and Kate are lighting torches to go back to camp, Karl is watching the stars, and Jack and Juliet are smiling at each other all on a ship with the Others.
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3x09: Stranger In A Strange Land (A Jack Episode)
We open with Sawyer singing as he rows their canoe. Kate asks him to stop, saying they have to go back, because they can't leave Jack behind. Sawyer tells her that they can because that's what he asked them to do. Karl, groggily laying at the end of the canoe, says that Ben will kill him and "God loves you as he loved Jacob", Sawyer responds to him confused, and tells Kate that Jack is on his own.
Tom comes in and tells Jack they're moving him. Jack tells Tom if they're going to kill him at least show him the respect of not calling it moving, and asks what kind of people they are, Tom asks what kind of people he thinks they are, and Jack lists the list of things they've done (hanging Charlie, taking children, etc.) but Tom only knocks on the glass, and asks Jack if he wants any stones for his glass house. A couple of other Others come in, put handcuffs on Jack, and they all walk out together. On the way, Jack passes Juliet also in handcuffs, and she just says "Hey."
As they walk out the door, they pass an older woman that Tom stops to talk to, and before going out the door, Jack sees Juliet being put in the room he just left from.
[Lost]
Out on another island, Jack puts on sunglasses, puts a backpack on his back, and walks out on the sand. A young boy runs up asking if "Dr. Jack want soda" and gives it to him, and Jack pays him. "You know I can't understand a word you're saying right" Jack says as the boy goes on in another language.
At the beach, Jack is trying to put what looks like a kite together, as a woman further down the beach laughs at him and comes up to help. After they finish, it's a bird that flies wonderfully to nice violin music. Jack thanks her, and the woman says he's not from around here (obviously....), and introduces herself as Achara.
Jack is now in the cage Sawyer was in, and Tom comes out to give him food. He asks who the woman was that he was speaking to, and Tom says she's the "sheriff". After asking why Juliet was put in Jack's old room, Tom tells him that Juliet is in trouble. Tom tells Jack to stay put, and Jack tells him that he knows they're watching him from the cameras. Tom remembers Ben telling him that Jack got into the control room, and Jack sits down further back in the cage, not looking fondly back on those memories. Tom asks him why he risked his neck to get them loose, and they run away and don't ever get back, but Jack cuts him off thanking him for the sandwich.
Sawyer and Kate are getting near the shore, Kate tells him they have to go around and get to the camp to tell Locke and Sayid to go back. Sawyer tells her they're both going to shore to make a camp, they argue a bit as Sawyer acts almost like a jackass to get her to shut up and he eventually takes his way to go and land the canoe where they're at. After making a fire, Sawyer asks her if she's hungry, and she says no "James." Karl tells them not to fight because theyre glad to be alive. Karl says that island is where they work on projects, they don't live on that island, they live on this island. Kate asks what they did with people, he says give them a better life, better than theirs. He tells them of how Alex and him used to name the stars.
Jack pushes the "Warning" button Sawyer got so trained with, and paces around his cage a bit. Juilet then comes out, followed by two Others with guns. She says they let her out to examine Ben, his vitals are low and he has a fever. She shows him a picture of his stitches, and they are indeed infected. Juliet asks Jack to come looking at him, and Jack says no, Juliet asks as a personal favor for her. Juliet says it's because she's in trouble, she just killed someone, and says complicated. Jack tells her he's not going to help Ben and he's not going to help her.
Jack has a special "Thai" dish at dinner with his new friend, and after downing it the waiter, who is Achara's brother calls him "very brave." She asks why he doesn't know how to fly a kite, and he says he just never learned. He says his dad worked a lot and was never the kite flying type. The woman tells him she has no interest in his father, some things are personal. She asks if he's in Puckit to find himself, he asks why she would say that, and she says "Because you're an American." Someone else comes up and gives her a package, Jack asks what that was about, and she tells him that she has a gift. Jack comments that it must be one hell of a gift.
Jack leans against the bars of his cage as the woman Tom was speaking with comes up and reads off what Jack's tatoos say, saying she finds the Chinese a bit ironic. She asks him if he knows what it says, and he says yeah he does. She says it's fairly common for some things to get lost in translation. She introduces herself as Isabelle, and asks if Jack will come with her so she can ask him a few questions.
They walk and on the way pass Alex, Isabelle tells her to check on her father, and they continue walking down the halls. They eventually come to a room where Juliet is handcuffed to the chair. She tells him they don't live on the island, they don't even like coming here, but there was an inicident and they're clearning up questions. She asks Tom about Juliet asking Jack to kill Ben, and Jack says that he was lying, that he would have done anything to get his friends out, and turning the Others against each other was his best chance at creating chaos. Isabelle asks why he's lying for her, and Jack says he'd like to go back to his cage.
Back in Thailand, Jack is laying in his bed as his new friend comes in, and gets into the bed with him. She asks if there's anything he'd like to ask her, Jack says it'd be nice if for a month of her coming in whenever she wants, he would be able to find out something about her. She says there are things that happen here that he could never understand. "Like your gift?" "Yes, like my gift." She tells him to stop asking questions, for them to have fun.
When Jack wakes up in his cage it's morning, and there are a lot of people just...standing around watching him, and hey, it's all the Tailies that were taken by the Others! He screams some and Cindy, the flight stewardess who gave Jack all the wonderful alcohol, calls his name. He asks what she's doing here with them, he thought she was taken, she says it's not that simple. She says they're "here to watch.", a child comes up and whispers into her ear, and Cindy tells Jack the child wants to know how Ana Lucia is doing. "Are you serious?" Jack yells, and screams at her to go, she seems taken aback by this, and the girl and her walk off with the other little boy, with their teddy bear in hand.
Kate and Sawyer wake up from sleeping in the dirt and Karl is gone, they find him crying, and Sawyer goes to talk to him, stopping Kate claiming it's guy time. He walks up and hits him in the shoulder, and tells him to cowboy up, and tells him that he thought his people were tough. He makes a reference to the Brady Bunch, of which Karl has never heard about. Sawyer tells Karl he's been with a lot of girls, some of them worth the trouble and some not, and every now and again there's one that you name dumb stars with. He asks Karl if he loves Alex, and Karl replies more than anything, so Sawyer tells him to go and get her back. Karl says if he gets caught they'll kill him this time, but Sawyer says at least it will be worth it.
Back on the other island, Alex walks up to Jack's cage, asking why he saved Ben's life. She tells him they're not watching him anymore, they're all busy with Juliet. Alex is confused why Jack still fixed Ben after his friends got away, and Jack says he will answer her question if he answers his. He asks where Juliet is, and Alex tells him that they're reading the verdict. Alex says they're really strict about killing one of their own, eye for an eye, and tells Jack she murdered the guy who was going to kill one of his friends. Jack tells her that he saved Ben because he said he would. Jack asks if Ben is still in charge, will that woman Isabelle do what he says. Alex says yes, so Jack asks Alex to get him out of the cage.
Jack walks into the surgery room and stops the lame Other doctor, Jack tells Ben who is lying awake on the table that he would be much more impressed if they had a good surgeon. Ben says they had an excellent surgeon, his name was Ethan. Jack tells Ben what he needs after his surgery, and it entails Jack keeping a close watch over him. Ben tells him Jack needs to work on his bedside manner, but Jack says he's stuck with him, he needs a doctor to bring him back to good health. Ben says he's already given him a ticket off this island, what's next, and Jack says he wants him to stop the execution of Juliet. Ben tells him that Juilet doesn't care about Jack, no matter what she's done, she's one of them. Jack ignores him, asking if they have a deal, and asks if Isabelle has a "Walkie". Alex tells him they're already in a meeting, and Ben asks for somethign to write on.
This..somehow leads us into the rest of our flashback, where Jack is watching Achara and follows her behind an alley and into a building where he finds a lot of candles lit and a chair with various tattoo things around it (I'm assuming.) She's suprised that he followed her. Jack asks what this is, and she tells him it's where she works and they shouldn't be here. Jack asks if a tatoo parlor was her big secret, she tells him she is not a tattoo artist, she's able to see who people are. Her work is not decoration, it's definition, and this is her gift. She sees who people are, and she marks them. Jack asks who he is, and she shakes her head, because she's not allowed. After some coersion, she tells him he is a leader, a great man, but this makes him lonely and angry (Okay, you don't have to have a gift to tell Jack that.) Jack wants her to mark him, she tells him it's against her people, there will be consequences, and he tells her there always are. So Jack gets his tattoo.
Jack and Alex knock on the door to where their little hearing is going on in Other Court. Tom pushes Jack against the wall but Isabelle demands he be let go, and Alex gives her the letter from Ben. Ben has taken execution off the table, and the rules don't apply, but he has ordered her to be "marked."
Back in Thailand, Jack has on his sunglasses and backpack on the beach, and the young boy is there again, but this time he runs away. Achara's brother and a load of his friends show up, take a look at Jack's tatooo, and beat the hell out of him, screaming for him to get out of the beach and leave the country, Achara watches all teary eyed, and please don't ever give her a close up again.
Juliet now goes to see Jack in his cage, and she hands him a grilled sandwich with toothpicks, of which Jack missed. He wants to see her "markings" and Juliet lifts up the back of her shirt to reveal what looks like an astrick with a line coming from it. He tells her to break a branch of the aloe plant behind her, she gives it to him, and he places it on her back where the scar is. She asks why he helped her, and he tells her that Ben promised them both they could go home and together they are going to make sure he keeps his word. Juliet tells him they'll be coming for him, all of them. Jack's friends know where they are so they're going to leave the island to go back to where they live.
Back on the other island, Kate asks where Karl is, and Sawyer says he let him go, that he is only a target, Ben isn't going to stop looking for him. Kate says Ben only wanted Karl as far away from his kid as possible. Sawyer asks her if she's coming, and Kate yells if he wants her to walk beside her or ten steps behind because Sawyer has managed to be a controlling asshole all episode long. Sawyer asks if she feels guilty about what they did, Kate says she doesn't feel guilty for leaving Jack behind, they had to, but Sawyer says he's not talking about Jack, he's talkign about them. He says he knows she did it because hse thought that he was a dead man. He tells her to not beat herself up because the docs left behind. She says she's not beting herself up, and Sawyer tells her now that they've got that out of the way, let's go.
Isabelle walks Jack to where various Others are taking a canoe, and Tom (hillariously, in my opinion) holds a little umbrella over Ben in a stretcher....
Isabelle says "He walks amongst us but he is not one of us" Apparantly, that's what Jack's tattoos say, but I'm sure that's not what Foxy's say...
Jack says that is what his tatoos say, but not what they mean. They all get on the canoes to go back to the Other's "home"
After this, we get a montage of people to nice music, Sawyer and Kate are lighting torches to go back to camp, Karl is watching the stars, and Jack and Juliet are smiling at each other all on a ship with the Others.
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