"Lost" Recap: "The Constant" (2/28/08)
It's late, I know, but finally, here it is. What can I say, I've been busy.
"Lost" was already a great show. In my TV book, already one of the best shows ever. But after "The Constant," "Lost," for me, is approaching, "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" status.
Brotha, from beginning to end, this episode was spectacular.
We start in the helicopter that's winging it's way from the island to the Mystery Freighter. Sayid's looking at the island, Desmond's looking at the picture of him and Penny, and Frank is looking at Daniel's navigational "cheat sheet." There's a thundercloud in their path and Sayid asks Frank uncomfortably, why they're flying right into it. Frank basically tells Sayid to mind his own beeswax.
So Sayid turns to Desmond gesturing to the picture of Penny and asking what Desmond expects to find on the Mystery Freighter. Desmond says, "Answers."
Frank flies right into the thunderclouds and the helicopter pitches and rolls. There's thunder, there's lightening and it's pretty obvious Frank's being knocked off course. The music is blaring, the sound effects are throbbing, Des and Sayid are holding on and...
..."On your soddin' feet!"
Desmond bolts awake in a military bunk. He's in his underwear, got much shorter hair, and looks really confused.
There's no music, no sound effects...nothing but a military Sergeant straight out of central British casting yelling at the top of his lungs. Desmond jumps to attention.
This is where I'm thinkin', okay after all those flashes forward, this is our first flashback episode of the season.
Anyway the Sergeant wants to know why Desmond was so slow getting up. When Desmond tells the Sergeant he was having a dream, the Sergeant wants to know what he was dreaming about that it took him "so soddin' long to get to his mark?"
Desmond tells him he was dreaming about being in a helicopter in a storm.
The Sergeant's fabulous response? "Well, at least it was a bloody military dream." Heh. Talk about an actor (Graham McTavish) making a lot out of a small part.
Cut to the soldiers doing push-ups in an absolutely drenching rain. The Sergeant then switches them to crunches. Ick, messy.
While they're mud crunches, Desmond's fellow soldier says he hopes his dream was worth it. Desmond tells him it was the most vivid dream he'd ever had. He felt like he was really in a helicopter. The Sergeant appears and wants to know if Des has something to say to him. Desmond hesitates and the Sergeant yells, "I asked you a question..."
Cut to the helicopter, still rocking and rolling amidst the thunder and lightening. Desmond looks panicked and starts to take off his harness. When Sayid calls him by name, asking if he's all right, Desmond, in full freak out mode demands, "How do you know my name?"
Opening credits.
On the island, Jack is asking Charlotte and Daniel why they haven't heard from Sayid. Charlotte insists she doesn't know what's going on. Juliet's like, but why aren't you worried? We should have heard from them after twenty minutes and now it's a day later.
A snooty Charlotte asks Juliet, "Should I wring my hands together and whisper a prayer on their behalf?" I don't like Juliet, but I really don't like Charlotte.
Daniel seems ready to explain, but Charlotte says patronizingly, "Let's not confuse anyone." Juliet gets just as patronizing saying "Daniel, if you talk real slow maybe we'll understand."
Under Charlotte's evil eye, Daniel explains that the Losties' perception of how long Sayid and company have been gone, is not necessarily how long they've really been gone. Everything should be fine as long Frank followed the cheat sheet. Jack's like, and suppose he doesn't, Mr. Wizard?
Daniel says, well, there might be "side effects."
What, like their heads might explode? Or they might find themselves bouncing back and forth through time? Hmm??
Cut to the side effects. As the helicopter emerges from the clouds into blue sky, everyone's yelling. Frank's yelling, they'll be there in two minutes. Sayid's yelling, Desmond, what's going on? Des is yelling who are you people?
Desmond and Sayid struggle as Sayid tries to keep Des from getting them all killed. In the distance is the famous Mystery Freighter.
Des calms down long enough to look at the now crumpled picture of him and Penny in his hand. We get a POV of the helicopter as it lands on the freighter and a couple of burly crew members come out to greet them. They're not happy campers.
When they find out from Frank that Sayid and Des are from Oceanic 815, the burly leader demands to know why he brought them there. Des starts going freakazoid again and when Frank tells the burly leader it happened on the trip, the burly leader seems to know exactly what's going on.
The burly crewmen want to take Des to sickbay, but Sayid is like, where he goes, I go. The burly leader gets slightly patronizing as he tells Sayid, their Doc will check out Des and then Sayid can go down and see him. Sayid agrees and the burly crewmen work on corralling Desmond. As they come closer, he's freaking even more and when they grab him, he yells, "I'm not supposed to be...
...here!" And we're back at the army barracks.
One of the things that's really cool about these jumps back and forth is that when we cut from one scene to another, all the audio just stops dead. The music, the rain, everything. That, in addition to the technique of cutting Desmond off right in the middle of his sentences is very effective.
One of the clues that I missed earlier was that these couldn't be flashbacks, because they don't have that signature "Lost" whoosh sound effect that's used when we're cutting back and forth to a flashback or a flash forward. It's kind of like in the movie "Jaws." You don't realize until the movie's over, or you're watching it for the second time, that no matter what you think is about to happen, you never hear the shark music, if the real shark is not there. Every other ominous scene without the music, is a fake out.
Back to the Losties, Army Desmond is standing in the pouring rain while everyone else is still doing mud crunches. The Sergeant says since Des finished his crunches so quickly, they can all now go for a run. "Go, go, go, go, GO!"
Later, it's still raining while Des and Soldier Billy are loading gear in the back of a truck. When Soldier Billy asks what the heck is the matter with him, Desmond says when they were doing crunches, "he left." He was on a boat and then he was back in the army. Soldier Billy thinks Des is trying to "insane" his way out of army life, but Des assures him he's telling the truth.
When Soldier Billy asks who else was on the boat, Desmond remembers the photo of Penny on the helicopter. Next we see him at a phone booth. Another soldier deliberately knocks into him, because he's pissed about all those extra mud crunches, and the change in Desmond's hand falls to the ground. He leans down to pick them up and his hand touches the...
...deck of the Mystery Freighter.
The burly crewmen help him up and try to reassure him that he's among friends. Oh, I think not.
They introduce themselves on the way to sickbay as Keamy and Omar. Once there, after Keamy says he's going to get the Doc, he unexpectedly locks Desmond in. Des goes freaky again, banging on the door and yelling that he's not supposed to be there.
All of a sudden, someone calls to Desmond from the other side of the room. Des turns to see a squirrelly looking Fisher Stevens strapped to a grungy looking bunk.
He whispers to Des, "It's happening to you too, isn't it?" Cut to a closeup of Desmond's "I'm must be in the 'Twilight Zone' expression."
It's funny, every time I see Fisher Stevens I think of an old episode of Columbo. In it, he played a cocky, young film director who murders a childhood friend. His character was supposed to be a Steven Spielberg-esque like character, so every time I see him, for me, he's Steven Spielberg.
Cut to Sayid on the boat deck scouting out the territory: watching Keamy dress down Frank, we assume, for bringing Des and Sayid to the boat. When Keamy leaves, Sayid confronts Frank about what's going on with Desmond. Obviously Keamy and Omar know what it is. Frank's like, well they ain't sharing it with me.
Sayid then says maybe Frank can tell him why they took off from the island at dusk and landed on the ship in the middle of the day. Frank won't give him any info but insists he's trying to help them. Sayid 's like, you want to help us, let me call Jack. Frank's like, you give me your gun, and I'll give you the phone. Sayid agrees. Frank reminds him not to try and call Baghdad because those phones can only call each other. Hee.
Jack's relieved when he finally hears from Sayid. Sayid describes what happened to Desmond. When Jack puts them on speaker, Daniel reacts.
Jack says, "Side effects?"
Daniel asks if Desmond was recently exposed to high levels of radiation or electro magnetism? You mean like when he turned a key in an electromagnetic hatch and made the sky go purple?
When Jack and Juliet don't answer, Daniel says, "Going to and coming from the island, some people can get a little confused." When Juliet asks if it's amnesia, Daniel says no.
Back in the sickbay on the Mystery Freighter, Fisher's in la la land. When he comes out, he tells Desmond he was on a ferris wheel. He looks so happy, I think he wanted to stay there. Doc Ray comes in and Fisher starts babbling about how "it's" happening to Des and it's going to happen to all of them. And they're all going to die until they're dead, Dead, DEAD!
Doc Ray takes out a needle that looks like it's used for dinosaurs and gives Fisher a shot. Fisher drifts off into a drug induced stupor. As Doc Ray turns to Desmond, Des gets even more freaked out, if that's possible, and yells, "You're not gonna stick me with that thing, brotha!"
Doc Ray tries to calm him down and says he just wants to check Desmond's eyes so he can help. The Doc starts flashing a light in Desmond's eyes and asks him about the last thing he remembers...
...Desmond's about to pick up the dropped change outside the phone booth at the army barracks. Confused, Desmond glances around and sees the guy who bumped into him is just walking away. Des picks up the change and calls Penny.
When she gets on the phone, she's not real welcoming, considering how it seems he broke off with her abruptly and ran off and joined the army. Desmond tells her he's in trouble, he's confused and he needs to see her. She's like, and you're calling me, why?
She's not interested in helping. She's moving to a new apartment and she doesn't want him calling her or showing up. Desmond tries to convince her, "Penny, I need...
...ya." Doc Ray is shining the light in Desmond's eyes.
Doc Ray wants to know what Desmond just experienced. Before Des can answer Sayid and Frank burst in with Daniel on the SAT phone, wanting to talk to Desmond. Doc Ray tries to protest but Sayid restrains him while Frank gives Desmond the phone.
The doc hits an emergency button on the wall and sirens go off.
Daniel introduces himself to Des on the phone and asks him what year he thinks it is. Desmond says it's 1996.
Okay, it was here that I started to go, whoa baby!
Daniel asks Desmond where he is. Desmond starts describing the sickbay on the Mystery Freighter. Heh.
But Daniel means where is he supposed to be in 1996. Desmond tells him, Camp Miller with the Royal Scots Regiment, just outside of Glasgow.
Daniel tells Desmond when he jumps to 1996 again, he wants him to take a train to Oxford University, and go the Queens College Physics Department.
When Desmond asks why, Daniel says, "Because I need you to find me."
Dun dun Duuuuuunnnnnn!
God, I love this show.
Cut to Daniel on the island. He's rummaging through his bag for a journal. Jack wants to know why Desmond thinks it's 1996. Daniel says he doesn't know. "Sometimes the displacement's only a couple of hours, sometimes it's years."
He gets back on the phone to Desmond. Desmond having a hard time hearing, what with the sirens and the banging on the door by Keamy and Omar trying to get in. Sayid tells Des to make it fast 'cause he won't be able to hold them much longer.
Still checking his journal, Daniel '04 tells Desmond to tell Daniel '96 to "set the device to 2.342. And it must be oscillating at 11 hertz."
Desmond repeats the numbers, grabs a marker and writes them on his hand. Daniel '04 then tells him, if the numbers don't convince Daniel '96, Desmond should tell him he knows about Eloise.
Omar and Keamy bust into sickbay and try to take the phone from Desmond. The sirens are blaring, the music crescendos, everybody's yelling, including Daniel '04, "Tell me that you know about Eloise...!
...we hear a dial tone from the phone Desmond '96 is holding in the phone booth. And then we hear the rain as we get an overhead shot of the phone booth and Desmond '96 on the floor with the phone in his hand.
Desmond '96 looks at the phone, then at his hand...there's nothing written on it.
Cut to Oxford 1996. Desmond '96 watches as a very scruffy, long haired Daniel '96 looking very "Paper Chase," dresses down a student about his crappy paper. After the student goes off, Desmond '96 introduces himself to Daniel '96 and says, he needs his help. "I think I've... just been to the future."
Daniel '96 is just as incredulous as you might expect and asks sarcastically, why didn't he just help Desmond in the future. Why put him through the stress of time travel ?
See, I can tell Daniel "96 was a real, "I teach at Oxford, and you don't" snob. Either that or he just wants to act crazy to keep annoying students away from him. It's here I can also see exactly how Jeremy Davies played Charlie Manson quite convincingly. He says Daniel '96's lines with this weird stooped delivery that looks almost like William Shatner in full Kirk mode.
When Desmond '96 tells him what to set the device to, it stops Daniel '96 in his tracks. He demands to know who told Desmond '96 those numbers. That's when Desmond '96 says the magic words, "I know about Eloise."
Daniel '96 takes Desmond to his secret, experimental lab, where he does "the things Oxford frowns upon." Heh. Inside the large room is a huge rat's maze with a big light with wires hanging over it. Daniel '96 starts babbling about how Daniel '04 must remember his meeting with Desmond '96, but Desmond says no.
Daniel '96 rethinks it and starts to put on a lead shield apron. Desmond asks if he needs one, but Daniel '96 says no, because Daniel '96 is the one who does this "20 times a day." So that probably means, by the time he turns into Daniel '04, his sperm will all have five heads.
Desmond '96 wants to know if all the equipment in the room changes the future. Daniel '96 says, "You can't change the future." Hmmm.
He then takes a white rat out of a cage, introduces her as Eloise and plops her in the maze. He turns some dials, flips a couple of switches and then zaps her with a contraption that looks like an upside down ice cream cone light. A purple light glows and then they wait. Daniel '96 says if it what he just did works it will "unstick Eloise in time," just like Desmond.
They wait while Eloise just sits there in a daze and when Daniel thinks she's back, he lifts the maze's gate. And she's off! Eloise runs like crazy. Daniel '96 follows her excitedly as she runs flawlessly through the maze to the very end.
While Daniel '96 is ecstatic, Desmond wants to know what all the hoopla's about.
Daniel '96 says he just finished the maze that morning and wasn't going to teach Eloise how to run it until an hour from now. Her consciousness went to the future, then came back with the knowledge of how to run the maze.
Daniel's all excited and erasing the blackboard, but Des is like, that's nice and everything, but how does this all help me?
Daniel '96 is like, help you? Didn't Daniel '04 send you back to help me? A frustrated Desmond tells him he doesn't know why Daniel '04 sent him to Daniel '96. All he knows is he ends up on "some bloody island."
Daniel '96 says, "An island? Why would I go to an island..."
...the sirens are blaring in sickbay and Keamy demands Desmond '04 give him the phone. Frank plays peacemaker saying Daniel '04 wanted to talk to Desmond '04, so he gave him the phone. Keamy pissed that Frank let Daniel talk to Des. Frank's like, he said he could help.
Doc Ray chimes in, "Farraday can't even help himself!" Keamy orders Frank out of the room, telling him the captain wants to see him. Sayid says he wants to talk to the Captain as well and Keamy, right before he locks them in, says he'll tell him that.
Desmond grabs Doc Ray's light from the floor and flashes it in his own eyes, obviously trying to get back to Daniel '96. When Sayid calls Desmond by name, Fisher pipes up "You're Desmond?"
Desmond says, "Do I know you?"
Fisher introduces himself as George Minkowski. Ah Minkowski. That's the guy Frank warned Daniel in "The Economist" not to talk to when he was about to do his Mr. Wizard experiment.
Fisher says he was the communications officer before he went totally batty, and every so often, there was a specific light on his console that would light up, indicating an incoming call. He had strict orders never to answer it. Who were those calls from? They were from Penelope.
Okay, I don't know how many more revelations I'm going to be able to take in one hour.
Cut to Desmond '96 seated in a chair and Daniel '96 writing furiously on the blackboard. Daniel tells Desmond he was out for seventy five minutes. When he finds out Desmond thinks he was gone for five minutes, he starts writing more stuff on the blackboard. No need to worry about the poor man who's popping back and forth to the future. Just keep scribbling away on your blackboard there, playing with your equations.
Desmond wants to know why it keeps happening and Daniel tells him the more it happens, the harder it is to get back. "I'd be careful crossing the street if I were you."
See, I would have been perfectly fine if Desmond had popped Daniel '96 a good one in the mouth right then. Thanks a lot Mr. Wizard.
Desmond looks around and discovers a dead Eloise. Daniel keeps writing as he explains she probably died of a brain aneurysm. Des understandably asks if he's going to die like that and when Daniel continues his, "I couldn't care less about you" attitude, Desmond slams him against the wall and demands to know.
Daniel admits he doesn't know. He thinks Eloise's brain short circuited because she couldn't tell the present from the future anymore. She had no anchor. "Something familiar in both times."
He gestures toward the blackboard, "Every equation needs stability, something known. It's called a constant and Desmond, you have no constant. So if you want to stop this, then you need to find something there, something that you really, really care about, that also exist back here...in 1996."
When Desmond asks if it can be a person, Daniel says yes, but he has to make some kind of contact. "Didn't you say you were out on a boat in the middle of nowhere?"
Desmond picks up a phone and starts dialing. When Daniel asks who he's calling, Desmond says, "I'm calling my bloody constant."
Except...she's been disconnected.
Desmond slams down the phone and runs out, understandably not even saying goodbye to Daniel '96. He runs down the stairs, starts to get shaky and as he falls against the stairwell wall...
...he falls against the counter in the sickbay of the Mystery Freighter. That was the best jump so far. Very cool.
Sayid asks if he's okay and when Desmond gets a glimpse of himself in the mirror, Fisher says, "You look a lot older now, huh?" Yeah I'm sure he needed that, Fisher.
When Desmond tells Sayid he has to contact Penny, Sayid's like, brotha, calling your girlfriend is not our top priority here. Desmond says, it seems he and Sayid are friends, and if that's the case, Sayid has to help him. He must call Penny. Now.
Fisher's like, that's all nice and everything but two days ago somebody sabotaged all the communications equipment. The Mystery Freighter doesn't have anymore contact with the mainland. Fisher could have probably fixed it, but him being strapped down and all kept him from doing that.
Fisher offers to take them there if they untie him. Sayid wants to know how they're going to get out of the locked sickbay. Fisher gestures at the now open sickbay door and says, "Look like you guys have a friend on this boat."
As Fisher gets up, his nose starts to bleed. Sayid says the hallway is clear, "Let's go...
...Desmond '96 is lying in the stairwell at Oxford. It takes him a second to get up, and then he continues down the stairs.
Cut to a Sotheby's like auction house called Southfield's. The shot slowly pans from an oil painting of a grand old sailing ship to the auctioneer at a podium as he recites the following:
"The Black Rock set sail from Portsmouth England March 22,1845 on a trading mission to the kingdom of Siam, when she was tragically lost at sea. The only known artifact of this journey is the journal of the ship's first mate, which was discovered in among the artifacts of pirates on lle Saint-Marie, Madagascar seven years later. The contents of this journal have never been made public nor are known to anyone outside the family of the seller, Tovard Hanso. We open the bidding for lot 2342 at 150,000 pounds."
Oh. My. God.
It took me until he got to "...was tragically lost at sea," until I really heard the name The Black Rock. I immediately rewound the DVR to catch the whole story in it's entirety.
Sitting in the auction house, waiting to bid on the journal is Penelope's Dad, Charles Widmore.
Widmore is played by Alan Dale who seems to show up anytime a show needs an older, very rich, very powerful man of mystery. His last significant role, that I know of, was on "Ugly Betty" as Daniel and Alexis's dear departed, older, very rich, very powerful man of mystery Daddy, Bradford Meade.
Anyway, Desmond arrives at the back of the room and tries to see Widmore but a security guard stops him. The auction continues and lot 2342 is sold to Widmore, bidder 755, for 380,000 pounds.
Widmore is about to leave the room when Desmond asks for "a word." The security guard apologizes to Widmore, but Widmore says it's fine. He looks at Desmond a moment before saying, "Walk with me."
Now, have you ever said that? "Walk with me?" You notice how only rich people in TV shows say that to other characters? It's usually to someone they see as a minion, and it's a way of saying, "I'll see you, but don't ever forget I'm far better than you and can crush you like a bug whenever I want."
Anyway, where does Widmore walk Desmond to? The bathroom so he can talk while he pees. See what I mean?
Widmore says, "Your word. Let's have it."
Desmond says he needs to know how to get in touch with Penny. Widmore reminisces, there was a time when if Desmond had asked Penny to marry her, she would have said yes. "Unfortunately, your cowardice won out instead."
Widmore must have had a lot of martinis at lunch because this whole conversation takes place while he pees.
Finally finished, he washes his hands. Widmore assumes Des wants to get a second chance with Penny.
Desmond asks why Widmore hates him so much. Widmore says it's not him that hates Desmond. Leaving the water running, he writes something on a piece of paper. "Here's her address. I'll let her tell you herself."
Widmore leaves, leaving Desmond to turn the water off for him. Desmond reaches over to do just that...
...we're back with Desmond '04. Fisher notices he was gone, "I know. It's getting harder. It starts happening faster too."
As Fisher, Sayid and Desmond creep through the hall, Desmond asks how the time travel crazies started with Fisher.
Fisher explains he and another crew member, Brandon were bored so they took out a tender to go see the island. When Brandon started acting crazy they turned around. So where's Brandon? Fisher says, "In a body bag."
They get to the communications room and it's a mess. All the wires are cut and damaged. Sayid asks who did it. Fisher says he doesn't know, but "when the captain finds out, I feel sorr..."
His head falls to the table with a loud clunk. He's out again.
Sayid looks at Fisher and says, "After your call, someone has to tell me precisely what is going on." See, I think Sayid has wonderfully patient through all of this. He's going with the flow. Operating on faith. Sticking with the program. Very funny.
Just then Fisher starts thrashing around and ends up on the floor with Desmond trying to help him.
Sayid starts pulling out wires and equipment trying to see what he can do. Sayid asks Desmond if he knows the number he's calling. Desmond hesitates and says, no. Sayid's like, well you better remember it soon.
Desmond glances up and sees a calendar that says December 2004 with "X's" marking off the days. "It's 2004," Desmond says incredulously.
Sayid glances at the calendar also, saying he didn't realize it was almost Christmas. And then he gestures toward his nose. Desmond touches his own nose and it's bleeding. Uh oh.
Fisher goes into full blown convulsions, bleeding from every orifice in his face and choking out, "Can't get back," right before he's toast.
A worried Sayid asks what happened.
Desmond says, "The same things that's going to happen to me."
Cut to the water spilling over the sink and onto the floor in the bathroom. Desmond '96 slowly gets up and splashes some water on his face. He grabs Penny's address from the floor and goes to Penny's apartment.
Desmond knocks on her door and she opens it, surprised and dismayed to see him. She thought she made it plain she wants a clean break and doesn't want to see him. Desmond says all he needs is her new phone number. He knows now, he should have never broken up with her, and he knows he can't change it, but he needs her to listen to him.
Penny lets him in the foyer and says to say what he wants and then go. Desmond tells her eight years from now, he's going to need to call her. Precisely on December 24, 2004, Christmas Eve, he's goin to need to call her and he can't do it if he doesn't have her phone number.
Penny's like, what cloud cuckoo land are you on? Desmond says he knows it doesn't make sense, it's not making a whole lot of sense to him either, but he has to have that number. If she ever cared anything about him at all, she needs to give it to him.
Penny finally asks if she gives him the number, will he leave? He says, yes. She pauses and then says, "7946-0893." Desmond starts memorizing it and she says sarcastically, "All that and you're not going to write it down?"
Desmond says, "It wouldn't do any good."
He warns her not to change the number. At that, Penny's fed up and starts pushing him out the door. Desmond keeps saying over and over that he'll call December 24, 2004 and she has to answer the phone. As she shuts the door on him, he bangs on it saying he's not crazy, "You have to...
...trust me," Desmond '04 says.
Sayid says, "I do trust you. But you have to remember that number." Poor Sayid. Totally in the dark.
Desmond recites the number and tells Sayid it's in London. It's just in time because Sayid's phone rig is working but Desmond won't have a lot of time.
Sayid hands the phone to Desmond and it starts to ring. One ringy, dingy. Two ringy, dingy...Sorry, couldn't help myself.
As we hear the phone ring and plaintive piano chords play, we see Desmond '96 slowly crossing the street outside Penny's flat. He looks up to see her slowly close the curtains. As he walks away, we cut back to Desmond '04. The piano is still playing. The phone is still ringing.
It rings a total of fourteen times and I'm ready to rip my hair out.
And then..."Hello?"
"Penny?"
"Desmond?"
Cut to Desmond '96 smiling on the street in front of Penny's flat.
Cut to Demond '04, "Penny you answered. You answered Penny."
Cut to Penny in front of a pretty Christmas tree looking like she's seeing a ghost.
She asks Desmond where he is.
Desmond's dumbfounded but babbles out that he's on a boat...he's been on an island..."my God, Penny, is that really you?"
"Yes."
"You believed me? You still care about me?" Desmond asks.
"Des, I've been looking for you the past three years. I know about the island. I've been researching...."
There's static on the line and then it clears.
"...and then when I spoke to your friend Charlie, that's when I knew you were still alive. That's when I knew I wasn't crazy."
There's more intermittent static on the line.
He's crying, she's crying, I'm crying.
"I love you Penny. I've always loved you. I'm so sorry. I love you."
"I love you too."
The conversation is rapid fire now.
"I don't know where I am but..."
"I'll find you Des..."
"I promise..."
"No matter what..."
"I'll come back to you..." "I won't give up..." "I promise..." "I promise..." "I love you..." "I love you..."
The line goes dead.
Sayid apologizes the battery for the phone didn't last longer.
Desmond thanks him. And calls him by name. "It was enough."
"Are you all right now?" Sayid asks.
"Aye. I'm perfect."
Cut to an overhead shot of the Mystery Freighter all by itself in the water, then dissolve to Daniel '04 on the island sitting under a tree looking through his journal. He flips pages, one after the other and comes to what turns out to be a message from Daniel '96:
"If anything goes wrong, Desmond Hume will be my constant."
Daniel's amazed.
Boom....LOST!
Where do I start? An amazing, wonderful, well written, well acted, well edited, exciting, thrilling episode.
I'm too worn out to say much more except to point out that the lot number of the Black Rock journal was 2342, and the numbers Daniel '04 told Desmond to give to Daniel '96 were 2.342. And as the enhanced version of the episode pointed out, those were part of the numbers (4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42) that had to be punched in on the computer in Desmond's original Swan hatch on the island.
Also courtesy of the enhanced version of this episode which aired a week later, "Tovard Hanso is a distant relative of both Magnus Hanso, the presumed owner of the Black Rock, and Alvar Hanso, CEO of the Hanso Group and founder of the Hanso Foundation." The Hanso Foundation financed the Dharma Initiative.
Have I mentioned lately that I love this show?
I'm going to get some more Kleenex now. See ya'.
Photo Courtesy ABC and thanks to Lostpedia for additional info.
