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A Synopsis of Lost episode "Happily Ever After"

Lost episode "Happily Ever After" aired April 6, 2010.  My prediction was half-fulfilled... Desmond did call at least one person "brother" but it was a Hobbit, not Jin.

"Happily Ever After", I must admit, was not what I was expecting.  I'd assumed the episode would follow the narrative format of most of this season's prior episodes... jumping back and forth between what's going on on the island and in the flash-sideways.

I'd also assumed that the episode's title was meant to imply that Desmond and Penny were happily together in the flash-sideways world.

Instead, the episode more closely followed the format of "Flashes Before Your Eyes"... nearly the entire episode took place in the flash-sideways narrative.

Another shared aspect between the two episodes occurred when Desmond meets Eloise.  In both episodes, she acts like someone who a) knows what's really going on with Desmond, and b) aside from that knows much more than she's willing to tell.

I'd read elsewhere that the show's producers had promised that there was a lot more to these flash-sideways than merely depicting what people's lives would've been like had the island sunk 30 years ago. And that the flash-sideways would get tied back to the main island narrative.  "Happily Ever After" is the first episode, I think, to have revealed clues as to how the flash-sideways and the island will tie back together.  And why there even is a flash-sideways.

Well, enough analysis... time for the synopsis.

• Desmond wakes up and tries to kill Charles.
• Jin asks what's going on.
• Desmond is then dragged literally kicking and screaming into a wooden shack in which someone had just been accidentally electrocuted.
• Jin asks what's going on. Yes, again.
• Charles flips the switch to power the giant donuts Desmond is sitting in between, at least until he breaks his chair and begins kicking and screaming, because then he's no longer sitting.  But he's still between the donuts. Mmm... Donuts... Then there's a flash of light, like when Ben moved the island.
• Charlie drives Desmond into the water and shows him a note written on the palm of his hand, "Not Penny's Boat".
• I decide I'm getting tired of hearing "You All Everybody".
• Desmond later has a vision of Penny.
• Daniel tells him he's in love with a red-haired woman he's never met.
• Penny shakes Desmond's hand causing him to faint.
• And Sayid tells Charles' team to run away and tells Desmond to come with him.

Next week on Lost, "Everybody Loves Hugo".  My prediction... this episode, possibly, revolves around Hugo.  Maybe.

Jin, the Watch, the Hitman, and the Confrontation

A Synopsis of Lost episode "The Package"

Lost episode "The Package" aired March 30, 2010.  As expected, this episode revealed in its flash-sideways segments why Sayid found Jin in a restaurant walk-in refrigerator at the end of the episode "Sundown".  I did not notice whether the refrigerator contained any pepperoni, which I also had expected to be in there. At least some, anyway. (I really like pepperoni. Don't you?)

We also learned why there was a lot of cash hidden in Jin's luggage.  What's interesting to ponder... was that amount of cash also hidden in Jin's luggage in the normal timeline?  In both timelines, he is transporting a fancy watch to deliver in person. Hmm...

Meanwhile, back on the island...

Fake Locke goes on a nature hike, some of Widmore's people knock out everyone in his camp with fancy blowdarts and take Jin to the Hydra island where he's questioned about a Dharma map he made 30 years ago, and Sun looses her ability to speak English when a tree refuses to move out of her way while she's jogging/fleeing from Fake Locke.

The episode ends with Fake Locke and Sayid going on a field trip to the Hydra island.  Fake Locke whined to Widmore about him bringing war while Widmore smirked at him from the other side of the sonic fence he set up, while Sayid stayed behind and discovered that Desmond is "the package".

My guess is that Desmond being "the package" has something to do with his time jumping ability.  And may be the real reason as to why Widmore wanted to keep Desmond and Penny apart... he knew what was in store for Desmond on the island and that it would break Penny's heart if they got close.

On the next episode, "Happily Ever After", Desmond learns he's back on the island.  My prediction: he'll call someone "brother" at least once.  Probably Jin.

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