Lost Season Six, Episode 14 The Candidate

Lost Season Six - Episode 14, "The Candidate"
Okay peeps, I have to admit, I'm wiggin' out, here. We're only a few episodes away from the friggin' finale, and I have so many dratted questions that I'm afraid that won't get answered in the end.

And what was the DEAL with torturing us for another week by running an unannounced rerun? (Was I the only one who was clueless to this?) I was all psyched last week, after a long, hard day, and was looking SO forward to viewing the latest episode. But nooooo...they HAD to run a darn rerun. I love me some Richard Alpert, but geez...not again?!

First off, would someone - anyone - puh-leez give Kate a different shirt to wear? The same Dharma-blah-generic-brownish thing is getting on my last nerves, especially since she apparently chose the smallest, tightest sized shirt available from Dharma to maximize boob emphasis. Don't get me wrong - I admire her athletic physique, but sheesh.

Claire and her wig is another contender for me to be flippant about - I swear I saw a bird fly outta there. I wish there was a scene where Kate or Sun would have sat gently down with her and helped her brush her hair out...or perhaps tackled her down and made her wash it or rinse it...just once.

Okay...'nuff of that.

In the flash-sideways/alt reality, Dr. Jack Shephard repairs Locke's dural sac (hmmm...kinda similar to the story he tells to Kate on Season 1 - note to self: If you have an issue that involves your dural sac, do NOT go looking for Dr. Jacko, as he has a thing for puncturing and then patting himself on the back for repairing the darn things) and alt reality Locke is recovering in the hospital. They recognize each other from the baggage claim area on Oceanic 815. Jack informs him that he is a "candidate" (coinkidink? NOT) for new procedure that will probably "fix" his spinal cord issues/paralysis. Lockity-Locke tells him, "Nuh-uh," and Jack gets all up in his business, trying to figure out why on earth he would turn down the chance to walk again and have feeling in his legs. To me, however, it seemed Jack was more horrified at the prospect that Locke wasn't ALLOWING him to be the hero in it all. How DARE he keep Jack from "saving" him? The horror.

So Jack, being the pompous, nosey, control-freak bloke that he is, decides to take it upon himself to "investigate" why Mr. Locke wouldn't want to have this procedure done. His "investigation" (involving alt Bernard and alt Helen) leads him to Locke's father, Anthony Cooper, in which we find out that Mr. Cooper is paralyzed and in a rather vegetative state - unable to talk, walk, or do much of nuttin' except drool.

We find out that Locke was responsible for his father's condition, via a plane crash in which Locke was at the helm and Mr. Cooper being the passenger at Locke's insistence. Although it was an apparent accident and he claims that he doesn't remember much of what happened, Locke feels guilty and apparently "unworthy" of walking again. OK. Or something. He wheels away from Jack in the Locke 'tude he generally has in the alt timeline.

Throughout this, there's a scene in which Locke mutters during his sleep about, "I wish you had believed me," LOCKED (bwah ha...okay, don't mind my cheesy puns) in an apparent unconscious memory of la isle, no doubt. Hmm.

The island Jack wakes up on a boat on Hydra Island. Sayid is there, saying hullo in an almost normal way. Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Claire, Jin, Sun, and Lapidus are captured by Widmore's crew and they're locked into the lovely cages that Kate and Sawyer were in on Season 3. On the beach, Sayid tells Jack that Fake Locke saved him from the attack, and that all of Fake Locke's people are in the jungle, willy nilly, leaving just the three of them - Jack, Locke, and Sayid.

Fake Locke hatches a nifty plan to bust the other guys out of the cages, and suddenly the power clicks off. Smokey comes along, rushing (or clicking and squeaking) around the cages, slaying Widmore's people who are guarding our captured Lostie friends.

As Kate can't quite reach the keys on the fallen dead guard in front of their cage, Jack walks up and grabs the keys, releasing his friends - but not without informing her, "I'm with HIM," (aka, Fake Locke). Well, neener for you, Jack.

Fake Locke stomps over to the Ajira plane, which conveniently has a handy staircase (eh?) that he can march his Fake Locke butt on to and into the plane. He sees with great agitation that the plane has been rigged with a type of bomb, and comes back out to tell everyone else that they'll have to take the sub home. Aw, bummer!

Jack states heroically (blech) that he'll help get everyone on the sub, but that he's not leaving the island. Just 'cause he's special. Sawyer makes Jack pinky-swear (well, not quite....) that he'll make sure that Fake Locke doesn't make it on the sub, no matter what it takes.

They all get to the dock where the submarine is located (complete with the "chick-CHICK" noises of loading their weapons as they approach it - Side Note: Why do they never have their weapons loaded, and they all have to load them at the same time?) and gun fire ensues between them and Widmore's crew. Jack suddenly turns and pushes Fake Locke into the water. (Remember: Fake Locke has stated before that he can't go in the water. Hmm.)

Kate gets shot in all the gunfire, and Jack hauls her (moaning and screaming - "Auuuuuggggh!") into the sub. Everyone makes it just in time (Jack, Sawyer, Kate, Hurley, Sun, Jin, Sayid, and Lapidus), except for Crusty Claire and Fake Locke. Crusty Claire is howling about them leaving without her, and is REALLY ticked off, but Fake Locke holds her back and informs her that it's actually good that she isn't on that sub - she wouldn't want to be.

The sub pulls away from the dock and goes underwater - yay, just in time. Or IS it?

Once inside, Jack reaches for his backpack to look for stuff to help out wounded, bleeding Kate, and finds a bomb planted there by Fake Locke. Oops. Jack states that Fake Locke can't kill the candidates, and by attempting to disarm the bomb, they'll actually make it go BOOM. He tells them, don't do it - just leave it alone, and we'll all be hunky dory! Sawyer, who is as hard-headed as ever, practically gives Jack the finger and yanks the wires out of the bomb anyhoo, which causes the timer to go even faster towards detonation. Whoopsie daisy.

Sayid grabs the bomb and quickly tells Jack that Desmond is in a well on the island and that Fake Locke wants him deader than a doornail. Jack asks why Sayid is giving him this info, and he replies, "Because it's going to be you, Jack." Sayid then grabs the bomb like a football star and hauls his butt away from everyone else to a corner of the sub. KaBOOM...it explodes. Buh-bye, Sayid.

The sub begins to fill with water and Sun is trapped against the sub wall by some chunky, immobile debris (her wrist seems caught or something?). Hurley takes injured Kate and escapes the sub, and Jack grabs a hold of Sawyer, who is hurt. Jin says he is not leaving Sun; Jack and Hurley successfully swim off with their injured friends, and we get to watch Sun and Jin hang on to each other, declaring their love, hand in hand, until they both drown. The last shot of them is a sad scene where you see their hands go limp with each other, and as their dead bodies drift away, their hands slowly pull apart. To do a Sawyer-ish impression, I was like, "SON of a B!TCH!!" I could handle Sayid dying, but both Sun and Jin getting knocked off was a tear-jerker.

Kate, Hurley, Jack, and an injured Sawyer surface on the shoreline. Sawyer coughs, however, giving us reason to believe he's still alive. Jack hangs his head and cries. Yeah, that's right, Jack. Wah.

I'm wondering if Kate and Sawyer are going to make it in the next epi?

Fake Locke and Crusty Claire are still hanging out on the dock, and Fake Locke tells her the sub has sunk, but not everyone is dead. He grabs a gun and informs Claire that he's off to "...finish what he started." Hmm.

And then...credits. Aiiiieeee.

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