Season 4 Episode 8
Season 4 Episode 8
Meet Kevin Johnson
Michael flashback
The show starts with Locke having a meeting in O-Town. He brings Miles with him. Sawyer thinks they should just turn Ben over but Locke says they cannot:
Ben: “Because once they have me their orders are to kill everyone else on the island.”
Miles doesn’t deny anything. Ben then officially confirms Michael is the spy on the boat. Sawyer asks Locke why he didn’t tell everyone about the 3.2 million Miles asked Ben for:
Locke: “I haven’t seen a bank on the island I didn’t think it worth mentioning.”
Miles: [laughing] “Linus will find a way to get it. He wants to survive, and considering a week ago you had a gun to his head and tonight he’s eating pound cake I’d say he’s a guy who gets what he wants.”
Ben convinces Alex, Danielle and Karl to get away from O-Town:
Alex: “These people, you say they are dangerous… more dangerous than you?”
Ben: “Yes… but your mother will protect you.”
On the freighter Sayid and Desmond awake to the Captain beating the crap out of someone trying to leave the ship. They corner Michael for an explanation to how he got on the boat…
MICAHEL FLASHBACK
We find Michael in New York writing a suicide note addressed to Walt. He pins the note to his shirt and then runs his car into ship container on the docks. He then has a dream in the hospital that Libby is his nurse. She’s carrying blankets just like she was when he shot her.
There is a person laying in the bed beside Michael that looks a lot like Alvar Hanso who we’ve seen in the Dharma videos
After leaving the hospital Michael tries to visit Walt who is staying with his mother. Walt doesn’t want to see him. The mother confirms that this takes place after Michael and Walt have left the island and that they are using aliases:
Mrs. Dawson: “So until you can explain to me where you were for over 4 months, you gave up your rights.”
Leaving the house Walt watches Michael from the window.
Mrs. Dawson: “So until you can explain to me where you were for over 4 months, you gave up your rights.”
Leaving the house Walt watches Michael from the window.
Michael then goes and pawns the watch Jin gave him for a gun. He goes down an alley to shoot himself only to be stopped by Tom. This gives us an even more specific time frame as we know Tom was killed by Sawyer. Tom figures out why Walt is upset with Michael:
Tom: “You told him didn’t you? You couldn’t carry the guilt of what you did to those two women all by yourself so you shared with a 10 year old kid… I got some bad news for you amigo, you can’t kill yourself the island won’t let you. “
Michael tries to kill himself but the gun doesn’t go off. Now before we get too excited keep in mind the gun he is using he got from Tom. He goes to see Tom in his hotel room. There it is confirmed that Tom is actually gay. We got a hint of this before when Tom told Kate “don’t worry you’re not my type.”
Tom: “… I don’t make it to the mainland often so when I do I like to indulge myself.”
Michael: “So you people can just come and go?”
Tom: “Some of us.”
Tom then adds a whole new twist to the fake wreck site of Oceanic 815. He claims it was all done by Charles Widmore and has invoices for a plane, pictures of empty grave sites, and shipping logs to back up his story. .
Tom: “…because he doesn’t want anyone else finding where the real plane ended up except for him.”
Tom then recruits Michael to become part of the freighter folks:
Tom: “Meet Kevin Johnson.”
Tom: “You told him didn’t you? You couldn’t carry the guilt of what you did to those two women all by yourself so you shared with a 10 year old kid… I got some bad news for you amigo, you can’t kill yourself the island won’t let you. “
Michael tries to kill himself but the gun doesn’t go off. Now before we get too excited keep in mind the gun he is using he got from Tom. He goes to see Tom in his hotel room. There it is confirmed that Tom is actually gay. We got a hint of this before when Tom told Kate “don’t worry you’re not my type.”
Tom: “… I don’t make it to the mainland often so when I do I like to indulge myself.”
Michael: “So you people can just come and go?”
Tom: “Some of us.”
Tom then adds a whole new twist to the fake wreck site of Oceanic 815. He claims it was all done by Charles Widmore and has invoices for a plane, pictures of empty grave sites, and shipping logs to back up his story. .
Tom: “…because he doesn’t want anyone else finding where the real plane ended up except for him.”
Tom then recruits Michael to become part of the freighter folks:
Tom: “Meet Kevin Johnson.”
He tells Michael this is the way to redeem himself.
Tom: “You’re not going on that boat so you can swab decks Michael, you are going so you can kill everyone onboard.”
Next we see Michael in Fiji boarding the boat with Naomi, Minkowski and Miles:
Miles: “your name isn’t Kevin… don’t worry 80% of the people on this boat are lying about something…”
On the ship he over hears a conversation between Naomi and Frank:
Frank: “No offense by I was flying these things when you were still in grade school, if anyone’s going to go first it should be me”
Naomi: “Yeah, I need you here to transport the science team Frank.”
Frank: “What the hell are you going to be doing?”
Naomi: “That’s need to know and you don’t.”
Frank then introduces himself to Michael:
Frank: “… you ever hear about Oceanic flight 815…what if I told you the plane they found in that trench wasn’t Oceanic 815?... you know those nuts that think the moon landing was faked? Well this is like that only real. That’s why I signed up for this trip because the owner of this boat believes me, Charles Widmore. He believes the 815 is still out there somewhere. I mean can you imagine what would happen if we found some of those people alive?”
Michael finds Keamy and the boys doing some shooting off the boat. They chuckle at the idea that this is a rescue mission. This entices him to open the crate that Ben sent him on the boat. He assumes it’s a bomb and sets it to explode attached to the fuel line. Before he sets it a vision of Libby appears again telling him not to do it. He sets it anyway only to have a flag pop up saying “NOT YET”. So basically Michael is the Willie Coyote of Lost.
Minkowski tells Michael he has a call from Walt. This turns out to be Ben calling from his secret room in his house:
Ben: “… there are people on your boat who are innocent. They have no idea that the man they work for is a monster… when I’m at war I’ll do what I need to win but I will not kill innocent people… I want you to compile a list of names, every person on your boat. When I call again you’ll give me that list then you’ll disable the radio room you are sitting in. When the crew is disoriented by their lack of communication you’ll take out the engines too, that way the boat can never get to this island and your friends will be safe."
Michael agrees to this plan:
Ben: “Then consider yourself on of the good guys.”
Back in real time (2004) Sayid is very upset that Michael is working for Ben. Sayid then snitches him out to the captain.
THE FINAL SCENE
While walking through the woods Danielle, Karl and Alex come under attack. Both Karl and Danielle are shot. I can confirm that Karl is dead, but I don’t think Danielle is gone just yet.
Alex: “WAIT WAIT DON’T… I’M BEN’S DAUGHTER… I’M HIS DAUGHTER!”
Now we have a five week break, next episode:
Season 4 Episode 9
April 24th
The Shape of Things to Come
Not confirmed but rumored to be a Ben flash-forward including his recruitment of Sayid.
PREVIEW
This preview also confirms the Oceanic 6 to be Kate, Jake, Hurley, Sayid, Aaron and Sun.
Tom: “You’re not going on that boat so you can swab decks Michael, you are going so you can kill everyone onboard.”
Next we see Michael in Fiji boarding the boat with Naomi, Minkowski and Miles:
Miles: “your name isn’t Kevin… don’t worry 80% of the people on this boat are lying about something…”
On the ship he over hears a conversation between Naomi and Frank:
Frank: “No offense by I was flying these things when you were still in grade school, if anyone’s going to go first it should be me”
Naomi: “Yeah, I need you here to transport the science team Frank.”
Frank: “What the hell are you going to be doing?”
Naomi: “That’s need to know and you don’t.”
Frank then introduces himself to Michael:
Frank: “… you ever hear about Oceanic flight 815…what if I told you the plane they found in that trench wasn’t Oceanic 815?... you know those nuts that think the moon landing was faked? Well this is like that only real. That’s why I signed up for this trip because the owner of this boat believes me, Charles Widmore. He believes the 815 is still out there somewhere. I mean can you imagine what would happen if we found some of those people alive?”
Michael finds Keamy and the boys doing some shooting off the boat. They chuckle at the idea that this is a rescue mission. This entices him to open the crate that Ben sent him on the boat. He assumes it’s a bomb and sets it to explode attached to the fuel line. Before he sets it a vision of Libby appears again telling him not to do it. He sets it anyway only to have a flag pop up saying “NOT YET”. So basically Michael is the Willie Coyote of Lost.
Minkowski tells Michael he has a call from Walt. This turns out to be Ben calling from his secret room in his house:
Ben: “… there are people on your boat who are innocent. They have no idea that the man they work for is a monster… when I’m at war I’ll do what I need to win but I will not kill innocent people… I want you to compile a list of names, every person on your boat. When I call again you’ll give me that list then you’ll disable the radio room you are sitting in. When the crew is disoriented by their lack of communication you’ll take out the engines too, that way the boat can never get to this island and your friends will be safe."
Michael agrees to this plan:
Ben: “Then consider yourself on of the good guys.”
Back in real time (2004) Sayid is very upset that Michael is working for Ben. Sayid then snitches him out to the captain.
THE FINAL SCENE
While walking through the woods Danielle, Karl and Alex come under attack. Both Karl and Danielle are shot. I can confirm that Karl is dead, but I don’t think Danielle is gone just yet.
Alex: “WAIT WAIT DON’T… I’M BEN’S DAUGHTER… I’M HIS DAUGHTER!”
Now we have a five week break, next episode:
Season 4 Episode 9
April 24th
The Shape of Things to Come
Not confirmed but rumored to be a Ben flash-forward including his recruitment of Sayid.
PREVIEW
This preview also confirms the Oceanic 6 to be Kate, Jake, Hurley, Sayid, Aaron and Sun.
The producers did a podcast following this episode, here is the important info that came from that:
Desmond/Minkowski "side effects" may indeed be the "Sickness" that Rouseau refers to.
The Swan Hatch implosion will probably not be revisited. However, we have not seen the last of the "purple sky" this season.
If you believe what the psychic told Claire then Aaron is in danger if he is being 'Raised by Another'.
If you believe what the psychic told Claire then Aaron is in danger if he is being 'Raised by Another'.
See you in 5 weeks
“…I’m here to die…”
“…I’m here to die…”
posted by MJ @ 9:53 AM
