…AND FOUND
In Jin’s flashback his views of himself, love, and what a man and a husband is supposed to be and what they are supposed to do are brought to the forefront. He is embarrassed to be the son of a fisherman and he could never allow himself to be taken care of a woman with money. Oh, irony, thou art cruel.
Libby tells Michael she knows about being scared and having trust issues. That foreshadows and even further past than we have seen from her.
Eko tells Jin that the others don’t leave tracks. They later find Goodwin’s dead body. When the Others walk by in procession a child follows dragging a teddy bear. This is also seen in Peter Pan when the Lost Boys are captured by Native Americans.
Outside of the hotel, Jin is told by the man with the child that needed to go to the bathroom that Jin is a “good man”.
Locke tells Sun that he found what he was searching for by not looking. This is similar to a Zen Buddhist koan that states "To find something, stop looking for it."
Kate shows that she does have some feelings for Sawyer as she frantically searches through the letters in the bottle that washed ashore from the raft. She tells Sun that “they” never got to say goodbye.
In the beginning of the episode, Jin’s roommate tells him the color of love is orange. At the end of the flashback Jin sees a woman in an orange dress. His distraction from where he is going leads him to bump into Sun. For the second time the title of the episode is a popular phrase beginning with the word “Lost”. Both times the episodes were Sun and Jin flashbacks.
In the past, both Jin and Sun were figuratively "lost", in the sense that they were both searching for something important (love and a better life, respectively). When they both walked away from the thing that may have given it to them (Jae Lee and the job at the hotel), they ended up meeting each other. In much the same way, both became particularly "lost" in this episode. Sun believes Jin to be dead, and has lost her only "remaining" connection to him in the form of her ring; Jin is in the company of strangers, and goes to search for Michael. Jin perseveres in his search and ends up finding Michael, and advises him to search for Walt later; Sun gives up on Jin and digs up the message bottle, but finds her ring again. Naturally, Sun's wedding ring represents her relationship with Jin and the hope that he lived, which is directly opposed to the hopelessness inherent to the "message bottle". When she loses her ring and buries the bottle, she believes Jin to be dead, but finds it again and unearths the bottle, just as she will find Jin.
ABANDONED
Shannon sees Walt again and Sayid thinks it was a dream.
Charlie becomes a little bossy towards Claire as to how she should take care of the baby.
Jack appears in the emergency room that connects Jack to the death of Shannon’s father. Therefore Jack is also responsible for her situation after his death.
When Shannon tells Vincent to find Walt, he takes her to Boone’s grave. Even Vincent knew Shannon was going to die.
Locke swaddled Aaron, and told Claire that "babies like the feeling of being constricted. It's not until we are older that we develop the desire to be free." Interesting comment. Later, Locke finds out Charlie has a Virgin Mary statue stashed away. Locke also knows what is inside the statue.
Boone shows up at Shannon father’s funeral and he tells her that death sucks.
Speaking of Shannon, Rose told Hurley: "Poor thing, it can't be easy losing the one person you love on the Island." She said this even though her husband was missing and Hurley presumed him to be dead further proof that Rose did indeed know Bernard was alive. The same exchange between Rose and Hurley can be seen as foreshadowing the death of Libby, the one person on the island that Hurley loves.
Ana Lucia tells Michael the taillies story, one that we will see more in depth later.
So, yeah, Shannon’s stepmother (Boone’s mother) was a hardcore bitch.
Cindy, the airline stewardess, mysteriously disappears while they are carrying Sawyer up a hill. It is suggested that Cindy was also working for the others ( possibly she wasn’t so much as taken by the others as she returned to them on her own) and was on the plane as a plant knowing the plane was supposed to crash and the others knew it. What is more important to ask is during Charlie’s flashbacks we see Cindy follow Charlie to the front of the plane right before it crashes. How did she end up in the back of the plane with the taillies? Not sure if I buy all of that but it does explain how quickly and quietly Cindy seems to disappear.
On the flight, she gives a highly potent rum to Jack, which Jack mixes in with his yellow drink. She smiles at him and notes that it is highly illegal. At the time of consumption, Jack begins to feel the turbulence. In many ways, this is reminiscent of the time Richard Alpert told Juliet that the highly potent drink is necessary. He says that the ride would be "very rough" or bumpy, if she wasn't strapped into the sub as well. Kate is also seen to be drinking some orange 'juice' on the flight as seen in the early flashbacks. Kate left her Handcuffs in the jungle and was not seen in the opening wreckage scene. This indicates that she, like Jack, woke up in the jungle. Apart from Bernard of the tail-section group, they are the only two we can deduce regained consciousness in the jungle. They were also the only two seen drinking before the crash. In The Other Woman, Juliet mentions to Ben they 'have everybody from the list'. Cindy was still with the tailies then. All of that ran on way longer than it should.
When the whispers return an entire group of survivors hears them this time.
Shannon and Sayid share a brief and bittersweet moment before the whispers kick in and ghost Walt shows up one more time. He finally believed her …
… Right before she is shot dead by Ana Lucia. But before Ana Lucia shoots Shannon, the whispers say "dying sucks." Also notice that it started to rain when Shannon was about to be killed.
Shannon, in both her past and present, is very needy, but determined to succeed on her own. While Boone and Sabrina's lack of belief in her was more metaphorical (they didn't think she could live on her own), Sayid's was quite literal (he did not believe she had seen Walt). While her family's lack of faith brought nothing but abandonment and more neediness to Shannon, Sayid ends up in love with her, promising never to leave her. Sayid built a hut to share with Shannon. He told her he carried a gun because "he has someone to protect", referring to her.
Around the 35 minute mark of the episode, can you hear Michael whisper "F@#k Me!" as they carry Sawyer up the hill like I do?
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