Lost Recap 1/12/06

If you missed last night's episode of Lost, then you missed out on a couple of juicy happenings. You missed out on the backstory for Mr Eko. His past as a Nigerian drug-lord/gangster was shown and it all ties back to the plane that Locke and Boone found which ultimately led to Boone's demise and Charlie's finding of more heroin on the island. Eko sits down with Claire who casually tells him about Charlie's catholicism because he carries a Virgin Mary statue all over the place with him, which Eko asks to see and then shatters it, revealing to Claire that it's not just for worship as it is filled to the brim with baggies of dope.

Eko gets a hold of Charlie and demands he take him to the plane where he found this. Along the way, they run into the "beast" which looks unlike what you would have expected. Instead of being a lumbering-tree-knocking-over giant, it's a cloud of black, crackling smoke that Eko stares down. Eko and Charlie then make their way to the plane, where Eko says goodbye to his priest brother who ended up dying on the plane due to some terrible circumstances. He then decides that from then on he will lead a righteous path and recites Psalm 23, which is what the episode was titled.

Back at the camp, it looks like everyone is warming up to Sawyer much to his confusion and Kate's amusement. Claire kicks out Charlie from their little tent-hut-thingamabob because she doesn't want drugs around the baby. Michael keeps communicating with his lost son Walt via computer-chat (yeah, I'm just glad it's not AIM), Hurley crushes (but not literally . . . yet) on Libby as he helps her set up her refuge fom the elements, and we learn that Charlie did not just have that one statue but several of them stashed somewhere safe in the woods. He's like a little heroin-chipmunk saving his nutty-drugs for the winter. Very little AnaL was to be seen for the entirety of the episode, which must be a relief for all the people around the internet that can't stand her (including my wife).