Thursday, October 12, 2006

Sun with many lies on LOST

From: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6867118/from/ET/

Going overboard: In flashback a young Sun was confronted by her father and blamed the maid for breaking a glass ballerina. Later, after her marriage to Jin, she cheated on him with her friend Jae, and once again she saw the disapproving face of her father looking on. Sun knows two things really well: domineering men and lies. Back on island time, Sun realized that Sayid was up to something. He had them build a second signal fire further north on the coast, presumably to signal Jack and the gang. When she called him out for lying about it, Sayid admitted that it was really a trap to draw the Others out. He told her that he needed her to lie to Jin about it. “Why?” she asked. “Because once the fire is lit, it will be too late to go back.” To keep her safe, Sun was sent to the boat while Sayid and Jin planned to overrun the search party. But the boat was where the real action was, with Sun taking out Colleen and going over the side of the sailboat in a hail of gunfire.


Where there’s smoke: Once the fire was set, Jin let Sun in on a little secret. He understands a lot more English than she thinks he does, and he was hip to the deception about the signal all along. As Sun translated to Sayid, “He knows I betrayed him.” But back in flashbackland, he didn’t pick up on the clues as easily. Sun’s father asked Jin to eliminate Jae for “stealing” from him. When Jin refused, he told him, “You married my daughter that makes you my son.” After staking out Jae’s place, Jin beat him up but couldn’t go through with killing him. He returned to his car and seconds later Jae’s body landed on the hood.


Something shocking: Mr. Friendly and Pickett (the Other who took a blood sample from Michael last season) escorted Kate and Sawyer to a labor camp. Pickett laid down the rules. “You talk to each other, you’re going to be shocked. You touch each other, you’re going to be shocked.” And he went on to explain that most any activity that didn’t involve rock harvesting would lead to a stun gun to the chest. But when Kate refused to go on until she saw Jack, she learned that it was Sawyer who got the jolt for her disobedience. After he recovered, Sawyer took a break from wheelbarrow duty and rushed to lock lips with Kate. It wasn’t all for romance sake, as he pulled some swift moves on the Others who charged him. He took Pickett’s shotgun, but before he could make any real threats, Juliet already had a pistol to Kate. Sawyer earned a few more volts for that one.


A familiar face: While Kate was working the quarry yard, someone called out to her from the brush. It was none other than Alex, Rousseau’s offspring and reluctant Other. Alex wanted to know if Kate had seen her friend in one of the cages. The exchange was brief, and later Kate and Sawyer were back in lock-up. Sawyer recalled their kiss and told her, “You taste like strawberries.” She added that he, in fact, tasted like fish biscuits. The post-chain gang flirting continued.


Let’s make a deal: Now Jack’s the captive and Ben’s the interrogator, and as Ben pointed that’s the exact opposite of the situation they were recently in. But Ben wanted to come clean with Jack and give him a proper introduction. “Hi. My name is Benjamin Lyons, and I’ve lived on this island all my life.” Explaining to Jack that they had access to the outside world, Ben ran through a list of missed events from back home: Bush’s reelection, Christopher Reeve’s death and the Red Sox World Series victory. He lost Jack on that last one until he showed him the win on television. Then Ben made an offer. “If you listen to me, and you trust me when the time comes, I’ll take you home.”