Lost Recap 1/19/06

Last night's episode of Lost dealt with Michael going out to look for his son Walt, who has been taken by The Others. He knocked out Locke and locked Jack in the vault holding all the weapons and that's pretty much the last time we see Michael the whole episode. Jack, Locke & Sawyer head out to try to find them, and Kate follows them unbeknownst to the search party. This causes trouble for them later in the episode, where The Others make themselves seen via the scraggly-bearded man who took Walt towards the end of the 1st season.

The Others give our Losties an ultimatum, don't fuck with us and we might not fuck with you. They tell the search party that Walt is a special boy and that Michael will be alright. They also make them hand over their guns when they reveal that they've taken Kate hostage. So, thanks to her, they lose 4 handguns and an assault rifle. Oh well, but Kate's cute so Jack naturally forgives her.

Other minor things happen as well during this episode. Hurley asks Charlie what his chances are to hook up with one of the chicks from the tail section (the one he helped set up camp in the previous episode) and the flashback sequences deal with Jack and the breakup of his marriage. Seems that his long work schedule led to his wife cheating on him and him finding out about it after he kissed the daughter of a patient he was operating on that did not live past the procedure. Ouch. Not really relevant to the Lost mythos, but it does help us see that Jack might have some trouble with relationships, and it shows in short flashes of jealousy he has over Sawyer & Kate's flirty friendship.

Charlie also starts feeling jealous about Locke getting close to Claire and Turnip-head (that's what he calls the baby I think) and this could set the stage for a resurgence of his drug addiction. The previews for next week's episode seems to be going in that direction. Once again, AnaL come up during the final minutes of the show, and Jack asks her how long it might take to train an army.

Good episode, although I dozed off for a minute or two during the flashback sequence. No fault to Lost though. We're starting to work-out again, and I was mighty tired.