Every Man For Himself

I'll get to the main storyline as well as the flashbacks momentarily.

The episode opens with a very Lockeian (as an English major, it says on my diploma that I am allowed to make up new words) camera angle, yet this time, it is circling around our (newly clothed) friend, Desmond, who is carefully observing Claire and baby Aaron. After her refusal to allow Desmond to mount her (roof), the next time we see Desmond (who my husband continually refers to as Paddy-in-the-Hatch) is striking up a conversation with the new guy, Paoulo (sp?) about golf. Stealing Paoulo's 5-iron, Desmond rigs up a lightening rod just before Claire, Aaron, and Charlie would have become dinner.

OK, just a few things here: WHY? Why, Desmond, why?!! You couldn't have just sat back and enjoyed the show, could you? I mean, you could have single-handedly wiped out the two most annoying people on the island and even those (two) people who acutally liked the Hobbit and the Whiner could have been comforted by the fact that awww, they died together, bless their hearts. Desmond, you just lost 10 life points.

Secondly, who's Paoulo?! We heard that Kiele Sanchez and Rodrigo Somebody (name presently escaping me) were joining the cast this season, but I had hoped it wouldn't be in this "introduce-them-as-if-they've-been-there-all-along" avenue the writers and producers seem to have taken. Uh, yeah, whatever.

Anyway, on to the other stuff. Alright, I'm giving up on the LOST promotions. I was worried, as in really worried about this week after seeing the previews last week. Crap, I tell you, crap. And like a sucker, I was .... well, suckered. The seemingly huge moment, Kate's beleagured love confession, yeah, well, it was like 5 seconds of crap that really, in all honesty, had nothing to do with anything. Colleen died (woo hoo!) and her lovah, Danny, was a bit upset and took it out on Sawyer. (Seriously, people seem to have a thing with being the crap out of Sawyer... I think my next blog will simply be a list of people who have hit Sawyer.) Jack tried, albeit unsuccessfully, to help save Colleen, but without the aid of a crash cart (which was "broken".... uh, y'all might wanna go buy some more batteries, mmkay?) ultimately failed in doing so. Give the guy a break, fellas, you didn't ask for his help until Juliet the Non-Doctor had almost killed her anyway. It also appears that they just hand out medical degrees on this island. We learn that Juliet is a fertility doctor, something which I think will be of great importance in future episodes. Still, she attempts to go all spinal surgeon on Colleen before remembering (how convenient) that Jack actually is a real doctor. While scrubbing up (not really) Jack notices the x-rays of (supposedly) a 40something male with a tumor on his spine. Again, the reality that Jack is a spinal surgeon is not lost on anyone. According to the previews that we are supposed to believe, (never again, I tell you, never again) the x-rays we were viewing were Ben's. I don't buy into that, considering how well he beat the crap out of Sawyer, and who, with such ease, scaled a mountain that set off Sawyer's heart moniter. Maybe it will be Danny. Anyhoo....

Sawyer and Kate. There's a match made in hell. Seriously, it's taken Kate how many days now to realize that she could fit through the bars at the top of her cage? Geez.... When she finally does climb out of captivity, a beleaguered (my new favorite word) and hope-deprived Sawyer refuses to go with her, telling her "It's every man for himself!" In response, Kate climbs back into her cage and retorts, "Live together, die alone." BOO YEAH! Eat that, Sawyer. My Jater faith is renewed once again!

Via flashback, we learn that after Sawyer conned Cassidy out of her money, she pressed charges to land Sawyer in the jail where he currently resides. In order to free himself, he agrees to help the warden (frightening man, really he is) recover $10 million in stolen government funds in exchange for his freedom. So, con-man Sawyer cons Munson, the guy accused of stealing said funds, into telling him where the money is. During a seemingly unexpected prison visit from Cassidy, she reveals that James has a daughter, Clementine (oh my darlin', oh my darlin'...), who Sawyer then claims is not his. So after Sawyer recovers the money and hands it over to the government officials, he requests that his commission be set up in an anonymous account in Albequerque under the name Clementine Phillips (and don't think that Hormonal and Emotional Bree didn't tear up a bit on that one). Who knows? Maybe we'll find out that Cassidy was running her own con, knew about the $10 million, and was setting James up herself. With this show, you never know.