Season 3 Episode 14

Season 3 Episode 14 Exposé

Let’s start by going through the flashback here:

It starts with Nikki being a guest star on “Exposé”, stripping to one of my old favorite tunes “Rump Shaker” by Wreckx n’Effect. She is killed off and makes the ironic comment “I’m a guest star, and we all know what happens to guest stars.”

84 days ago: Paulo & Nikki kill director Howie Zuckerman so they can steal his Diamonds.

80 days ago: Paulo and Nikki are waiting for flight 815 when they run into Boone and Shannon. Later that day the plane crashes. Boone asks Nikki for a pen (this is because Jack sent him to find one as he was trying to save Rose). After the crash we see Paulo staring at something until Nikki snaps him out of it. (The writers have said since season 1 that fans missed a huge clue in the very first episode. Maybe that’s what Paulo is looking at??)

75 days ago: Paulo and Nikki have a weird encounter with Ethan Rom.

57 days ago: Nikki and Paulo find the plane that Eko’s brother was on. The same plane that killed Boone. They also find the Pearl station. This was the same day Jin discovered Sun could speak English.

48 days ago: Paulo finds the diamonds but doesn’t tell Nikki

32 days ago: Paulo hides the diamonds in the Pearl station. While there Juliet and Ben arrive. They discuss Ben’s plan to capture Jack so he can operate on him.
Ben: “I’ll find what he’s emotionally invested in and exploit it”.
He tells Juliet he will use Michael to get to Jack and friends. Now I’m not sure if any of you out there read other Lost message boards or not. I personally avoid them because I can’t deal with the theories, especially of people who didn’t watch the first two seasons and some how now have become experts. That being said I do skim them before writing my blog incase I missed something significant. Today the message boarders are up in arms that this timeline doesn’t make since. They make statements like “How did Paulo get into the Pearl station without moving the plane?” And “Jack wasn’t even in the hatch yet so how could they see him on camera?” As usual these people are completely wrong. That same day Paulo goes into the Pearl station two major things happen. First, Eko and Charlie go in search of the drug plane with Eko’s brother in it. When they find it they burn it. Second, Michael gets messages on the computer in the Swan station. He believes they are from Walt, but it makes sense that this would be Ben luring him in as he mentioned. It was only a few days after this that Ben gets captured by Danielle. He claimed in later episodes that this wasn’t part of the plan.

9 days ago: Nikki and Paulo return with Desmond, Locke and Sayid to the Pearl. We now understand why Paulo was in the bathroom, to get the diamonds.

8 & 12 hours ago: Nikki discovers Paulo has the diamonds. She has the spider bite him forgetting that it would attract all the male spiders and she gets bit as well.

Back in real time Nikki drops on the beach:
Hurley: “Nikki’s dead”
Sawyer: “Who the hell’s Nikki?”

Hurley finds the script from Exposé. The writers create some parallels to Lost:
Hurley: “Exposé is the most exciting hour on TV”
Hurley: “No way. The Cobra was Mr. LaShade?"
Charlie: "Is that supposed to mean something?"
Hurley: “"he was the big bad guy whose identity was shrouded in mystery for 4 seasons."
Perhaps in season 4 we’ll find out who JACOB is.

Vincent tries to tell the Losties that Paulo and Nikki aren’t dead by dragging the blanket off of them.

In a creepy (yet awesome) ending Hurley and Sawyer unknowingly bury Nikki and Paulo alive. But let’s not forget the words of John Locke, "Nothing stays buried on this island."

Next week
Season 3 Episode 15 “Left Behind” Kate flashback
All I’m going to tell you is to prepare for a little 1 on 1 chick fighting action.

In the meantime, for those who watch Lost but don’t read my blog for the clues, just keep sitting there saying “we missed it… just like we’re going to miss everything”