Summary: Flashsideways reveal that Sawyer has become a cop. His partner, Miles, sets him up on a date with Charlotte, but when she finds his folder for hunting down Mr. Sawyer, he forces her out. Miles discovers Sawyer has been lying and Sawyer comes clean with him. Kate suddenly smashes into Sawyer's car and he chases her down. On the island, MIB sends Sawyer to Hydra Island for recon, revealing that he wants to use the plane to escape. Meanwhile, Claire attempts to kill Claire, shaking her up. MIB talks to her and reveals a bit about his own past. Claire eventually apologizes to Kate. On Hydra island, Sawyer finds the Ajira survivors all dead and meets Zoe. He unearths that Zoe is working for Widmore and he meets with Widmore. Sawyer makes a deal to bring MIB unsuspecting to Widmore. Upon returning, Sawyer tells MIB about Widmore and helps MIB prepare a plan. After, Sawyer reveals to Kate that he's playign both sides and plans to escape with Kate on Widmore's sub.
The Good: This episode is based on a fun idea. Sawyer's recon mission i enjoyable to watch, and it's nice to see Sawyer using his conman skills to play a Sayid role, extracting information from Zoe, attempting to unearth who she is and why she is there. The flashsideways are similarly fun as we see Sawyer in a surprising role as a cop. It's a nice alternate reality for Sawyer, and I liked seeing this version of Sawyer also struggle to deal with the baggage of the letter. Again there were lots of nice throwbacks in this episode. The return of the pigeon drop was welcome, and it nicely set up the twist that Sawyer is a cop. It was nice to see brief appearances of Liam and Charlotte in the flashsideways as well. However, the best reference was easily Sawyer's return to the cages and him picking up Kate's dress. It makes perfect sense for him to pause for a moment and feel nostalgic for such an emotionally intense period of his life. The moment has a lot of emotional resonance. The Claire storyline is pretty solid and it features some of Evangeline Lilly's best acting on the series as she tries to process that Claire is not what she expected and just tried to murder her for no reason. Seeing Kate so shellshocked is disheartening, and her final hug with Claire was really good. You can tell that Kate wants to comfort her but is unsure if it's another trap and if Claire still wants to kill her. There's also a chilling moment as we see Sayid leave Kate to her fate at Claire's hands. It's evident that the infection inside of him is spreading and it's changing who he is. The Bad: Looking back to "What Kate Did", I was skeptical of the flashsideways initially. But those feelings were put on the backburner with the last four episodes being so creative with their storytelling. They made the most of the limited flashsideways story, doing something really powerful and interesting in each episode. But this episode doesn't have that same emotion, and my skepticism over the flashsideways has returned to the forefront. Even though they have provided good episodic stories, I don't think that the flashsideways are interesting as a cohesive story yet, and I don't know that they ever will be. The reason that the weaknesses of the flashsideways are exposed in this episode are because of the weakness of Sawyer's arc. Unlike Jack, Locke, Sayid and Ben, Sawyer is a character who already found fulfillment in his new life with Juliet. He already got over his past and found a happy existence for himself. Thus, seeing Sawyer try to find fulfillment in the flashsideways feels like a meaningless story; a weaker version of what we have already seen on the island. And with there not being anything else going on in the flashsideways, the story falls flat. No amount of buddy cop storylines, character cameos, and references can salvage a weak story. This episode suffers from being a lot of set-up. Considering how compelling Sawyer was early in the episode, I was looking forward to his episode. However, his storyline in this episode was far weaker than what we saw from him earlier in the season. It's disappointing to see what is likely Sawyer's final centric episode become a mostly uninspired and simplistic set-up episode. The others remain as frustrating as ever in this episode. Even with Sayid being clear that the people who stayed behind would die, Cindy still asks what happened to these people. Additionally, I was confused that they did not know that MIB is the smoke monster. Did Dogen not share any information with his own people? Why would he ever expect them to remain loyal if they don't know that MIB is the enemy? It's all as frustrating as ever. The cop reveal is fun, but it is shocking to me that the cops would be listening in on Sawyer having sex with this lady. There's no way that cops would ever operate like this. The Unknown: Who was MIB's mother? Why was she crazy? How did this impact MIB? Did she also live on the island? What is Widmore hiding in the sub? Who killed the Ajira people? Was it Widmore? MIB? Someone else? I suspect that it was Widmore. How is Widmore aware of MIB? Ben didn't know about him, so how does Widmore? How did he get back to the island, and how did he know to prepare to fight MIB? What are his motives? Is he choosing a side or is he a sort of wild card? Will Sawyer's intentions be discovered by MIB or Widmore? What will happen? Will he be able to escape on the sub? What will become of Sawyer arresting Kate in the flashsideways? Best Moment: Not much stands out. I'll go with the fascination of MIB's story about his mother. Character of the Episode: Sawyer. Conclusion: This was entertaining and solid television, but it was severely lacking in emotion and memorable moments. One of the flattest episodes of "Lost" you can find, and a very disappointing Sawyer-centric story. Score: 59
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