TV-Reviewed

After the female parachutist was saved by Mikhail in the previous episode, viewers were shocked by what she had to say to Hurley about Flight 815… “they found the plane” and “there were no survivors”.

Beach

After Sawyer and Kate have sex, Kate wants to leave and go back to her own tent. She claims it’s not personal, but just old habits of sleeping alone. Sawyer also exits the tent to go pee and finds Hurley and Charlie acting a little suspicious. He questions them and they say they’re also going to go pee. Although Sawyer doesn’t entirely buy their story, he wanders off a little bit and as he unzips his pants, he is surprised to find Locke traipsing through the jungle. Sawyer points his gun at him, thinking Locke may have turned on the group as he and others suspect of Jack. Oddly, Locke tells Sawyer that the reason he’s come back to camp was to get him to come with him. He claims that he’s kidnapped Ben and he would like Sawyer to kill him. Sawyer tells him that he’s not a killer, but Locke insists Ben has something to say that will make him change his mind. Sawyer reluctantly follows him into the jungle.

The boys, fresh off of their camping adventure, are able to get the female parachutist back to camp. They keep her in Hurley’s tent and keep the secret to themselves. They, however, do tell Sayid about her and he questions the woman. We learn her name (Naomi) and she was hired by Penny, Desmond’s ex-girlfriend. She was flying a helicopter to a location given to her and her people. They were unable to find the location until some clouds had passed and then all of a sudden the helo went down and crashed.

By the end of the episode, Kate learns of the Naomi and tells Jack and Juliet about the woman, but Jack seems more interested in how Naomi is supposed to communicate with her friends. When Kate tells him Naomi has a satellite phone, Jack acts sort of odd. He gets up and he and Juliet argue about whether or not to tell Kate something. Juliet wants to, but Jack doesn’t. Like us, Kate is eager to learn what’s going on, but they’re not willing to tell her.

Others’ Camp

Not so long ago, we learned that Locke’s father had somehow been transported to the island. This supposedly happened via the “magic box,” as Locke and Ben have called it. While Locke and the Others set up their tent, Ben calls Locke over. As Locke enters Ben’s tent, John sees that Ben was listening to a recording of something. Ben tells them that Juliet is testing the women to determine which ones are pregnant and that in a few days, the pregnant women will be taken. He insists that it’s been done and that they will not be harmed. They then talk about the magic box and Locke’s father. Ben tells John that he’s “not ready” for the island and that he needs to kill his father. Ben goes on to say that the reason John’s father is there in the magic box is because Locke wanted him to be.

Later on, Locke is humiliated by Ben in front of all of the Others when he’s unwilling to kill his father. Locke is approached by one of the Others and he suggests getting someone else to kill him. He hands John a file containing a lot of personal information on Sawyer. John remains seated and begins to read up on Sawyer, a man he has lived with for some time now.

When it’s clear that under no circumstances that John will kill his father, Ben and the Others pack up their camp and move on. Ben tells John that they will leave an easy-to-follow trail, but that he shouldn’t re-join them unless he’s carrying his father’s body.

The Black Rock

Once John and Sawyer reach the Black Rock, the old slave ship, they enter and go to the Brig. Locke says he’s got Ben tied up in there. Sawyer is against the idea of killing Ben and just wants to take him back to camp. Once Sawyer steps into the brig, Locke slams the door behind him and locks it. Furious, Sawyer yells at John and slams on the door for a few minutes. He then removes the hood from a man who is bound and gagged. Much to Sawyer’s surprise, it’s not Ben, but John’s father.

Over the course of a few scenes, Sawyer and the man talk a little bit and Sawyer realizes the man is the Sawyer that he took his name from when he was just a child. Sawyer hands Locke’s father a piece of paper. It’s the letter Sawyer wrote when he was just a kid, right after his mother was shot by his father, who then turned the gun on himself. Locke’s father reads part of the letter and dismisses much of it, as the con he pulled on Mary, Sawyer’s mother, was apparently pulled more than a dozen times on other people.

Danielle Rousseau makes a surprise entrance in the Black Rock. She wants some dynamite, so she helps herself to a box of it after John tells her it’s unstable.

As the time passes, the man from Tallahassee enrages Sawyer, to the point where Sawyer chokes him to death with a piece of chain inside the Brig. Once the commotion is over, Locke opens the door and is glad to see his father is dead.

Outside the Black Rock, Locke finds Sawyer throwing up, sick about the idea of killing someone. Locke thanks him for what he did, but reminds Sawyer that the man had it coming; he ruined both of their lives and many others. Locke then tells Sawyer what we had already known: Juliet is a mole. She’s there to collect information on pregnancies and that an attack is coming in three days. Sawyer complains to John that he’s been saying Juliet is still loyal to the Others but not everyone believes him. Locke then whips out the voice recorder Juliet recorded her message for Ben on. It contains her message about Sun being pregnant.

When Locke is asked by Sawyer about why he’s not headed back to camp, Locke tells him that he’s going to go out on his own journey. It’s not clear what that means exactly, but Locke does pick up his father’s limp body and carries him off through the jungle.

Wow, what an episode. The Brig continues to set up the inevitable showdown as to where do loyalties lie. It could certainly get very interesting as there are only a few episodes remaining in the season. Judging by the previews following tonight’s episode, we should get a lot of answers about the anthology of the island and DARMA. I really can’t wait; the series is beginning to pick up again in my opinion. The main problem I had with this episode and the previous few is the lack of details about Rousseau. Prior to this episode, the last time we saw her, she was following her daughter. We hadn’t seen or heard of her since, and now all of a sudden, she’s collecting dynamite? What’s going on with her?

Lost - The Brig
Original Air Date: May 02, 2007

Rating: 8.6