Let's talk about
LOST! Not in Portland.
Juliet's back is to us as she
sits on a beach looking out over the water at dawn. She is holding a
case and crying. We see her get up.
We see her
walk the hallway and pass by a man who says "Hello." {
Ethan! And this hallway looks very familiar.}
Juliet takes the
needle off a
record that has ended; there are
candles burning. She's still holding the little
black case. Her sister
Rachel is
sleeping. There is a
Ying/Yang Bagua lamp on the nightstand; the book
Carrie by
Stephen King and lots of
prescription bottles too. Juliet opens this
case to reveal it is a
syringe and
medicine/vaccine.
Rachel
wakes up.
Juliet-"We don't have to keep doing this you know."
Rachel-"Are you saying this because you don't think it's gonna
work? Or because you're
afraid he'll find out."
No answer.
Juliet
injects her in her lower belly and tells her she doesn't like her living there
alone. But Rachel
likes living on the beach. They are in
Miami were
every thing's on the beach. {
We see out the window an Oceanic plane flies over.}
Juliet stands
staring at
focused Jack who is talking to Kate via the walki talki about their
escape to
safety.
Jack-"Kate,
listen to me, just
listen to me. Do you
remember what I told you on the beach? Do you
remember what
story I told you when you were
stitching me up? Do you
remember it?!"
Kate-" Yes, yes, I
remember."
Jack-" When you get
safe, you radio me and you tell me that
story."
Kate-"Jack, please."
Jack-"If I don't get a call from you in the next hour I'm going to know something went
wrong and he
dies!"
Kate-"
I can't leave without you!"
Jack-"Yes you are. Go."
Kate-" Jack, I can't!"
Jack-"Go! Now!"
Kate-"No, I can't!"
Jack yells- "
Kate, damn it, run!" {
lol! He actually gives her permission to run.}
Kate and Sawyer find new strength and fight off the
two Others.
Tom demands Juliet stop the bleeding and
stitch Ben up, but
she can't
fix this; she's
not a surgeon. {
How convenient!}
Sawyer punches Danny in the
nose again and rams his
head into the
RED button in the cage. The 3rd smash
shocks/zaps Danny. Kate and Sawyer lock the two men in a cage and run.
Tom asks Juliet suggestions on what to do. Juliet tells the other doctor in the room to
find Danny, "Tell him to
find Austen and Ford and
bring them back."
Jack threatens if they do that then Ben
dies; this is not a
bluff!
Juliet –"No Jack, you won't."
She instructs them to go "get them" and if they have to "
Kill them."
Juliet is walking up to an entrance to a
university research lab that requires a
key scan access
card to enter. The
sign on the door says
ACCESS INTO THE BIO-RESEARCH BUILDING THE BIO RESEARCH BUILDING IS AT SECURITY LEVEL 5. It also says
'For those without access, use the
intercom system…
Juliet enters using a card. {
Miami Central University Medical Research Lab. RESTRICTED ACCESS CARD. RESEARCH LAB A-4}
As she walks down a long hallway her
cell rings and
Dr. Burke answers it.
The call is from
Diane of
Mittelos BioScience, confirming her appointment with them at
2:00. Diane goes on to say
Dr. Alpert is very much looking forward to meeting. {
Doctor Alpert!}
Juliet enters a
lab and takes
two bottles of medicine for
injections and {They are labeled
Test Samples} she puts them in her large bag. All of a sudden the lights go on! Someone is coming in. Juliet hides. A man and a tall beautiful woman enter; he is showing her around, {
or making out…whatever they call it these days. lol}
Juliet's cell rings again and on the 2nd ring she disrupts the call.
"Hello Juliet", says the man standing near her. He asks why she here. Juliet makes up a
story about
inverting some numbers.
This is
Edmund her ex hubby. Edmund introduces Juliet to
Sherry.
Edmund says, "Juliet's
leaving."
Juliet starts to leave but Edmund stops her and asks, "
Jules. Could you please
turn off the lights?"
Juliet leaves and turns out the lights.
Back in the
O.R. Juliet tells Jack he
hasn't thought this through, "Your
plan's not gonna work…Your friends aren't going to
make it back to
your side of the island...Because we're not on
that island. We're on a
smaller island
two miles off shore."
This
shocks Jack. Juliet wants to see if they can come up with some kind of
peaceful resolution.
Jack laughs, "A peaceful
resolution? Is that what you call asking me to kill Ben while on the operating table?
Make it look like an accident."
Juliet denies Jacks accusation. Tom looks dumbfounded.
Jack insists she wants Ben to die. The two bicker and yell.
Tom finally yells, "ENOUGH! Get out." {Talking to Juliet.} Tom feels she can't
stitch him up so she doesn't need to be there, "Go Julie."
Juliet walks up to Tom and says, "Don't let him fool you. He'll never let a patient just die." She exits.
Danny is yelling for someone to get them out of the
cages and they are released.
Sawyer and Kate run through the jungle and they arrive at a
beach. Kate sees
another island across the way; she is
shocked. Now they need a
boat.
Sawyer sarcastically says, "Yeah. A couple of
towels and a buffet
lunch."
Kate suggests, "We'll just keep
following the beach. There's got to be one around here somewhere.
How else do they get back and forth?"
Sawyer-"Why don't we just stop and ask for
directions?"
Kate calls Jack on the
walkie talkie and tells him they need a
boat.
In the O.R. Jack yells to Tom, "How do they get off
this island?"
Kate and Sawyer are shot at! The
walkie is shot out of Kate's hand. It's Danny and a few Others. They have a little shootout.
Kate and Sawyer run back into the jungle and
hide. Sawyer shoots
two times and runs out of ammo. Kate hears a twig snap, it's
Jason! He gets hit with something and falls. It's Alex; she is packing her
sling shot!
Alex
guides Sawyer and Kate, "This way."
They run and
hide underground in a
hidden pit. Danny and the guys
are right over head but don't find them in their hiding place.
Sawyer–"Nice to meet ya, Sheena."
Juliet in
white scrubs, is outside; She is upset and
pacing. Tom comes out to tell her Ben's
awake. Juliet is shocked and asks "How?"
Tom-"Shephard says he's a
spinal surgeon. Not an anesthesiologist. Ben's asking for you."
Kate, Sawyer and Alex exit the
underground pit.
Sawyer asks Alex, "This a hobby of yours,
under dog?
Digging holes?"
Alex-"Yep. That and
basket weaving. Want one?" {
like in the nut-house?}
Sawyer-"You happen to have a
tunnel to the mainland?"
No she doesn't, but she has a
boat. Alex says they can have it but they have to go get her boyfriend first; he is being held
prisoner. If they promise to
help her, she'll
get them back to the
other island. So they go get Karl.
{NOTE: Alex's EYE COLOR has changed FROM BLUE TO BROWN!}
Jack tells
drowsy Ben that he
stopped the surgery.
Ben-"I know, I've been able to
hear you for a minutes now. It was very cleaver of you.
I should've seen it coming.
{
Is this part of the game? Are they playing Stratego?}
Juliet comes in to talk with Ben but he wants to talk to her alone; Jack won't allow it.
Ben-"Please. I'm asking you.
One gentlemen to another. It won't
hurt you to give me
three minutes. Will it?
I've only got 27 left."
{
Like they are playing a gentleman's game! This one's on a timer!}
Jack warns Juliet about touching him or trying anything…She says she won't so Jack grants permission, "You can have
three minutes."
Jack
watches them from the
observation room above.
Juliet and Ben talk. {
We see Ben via the mirror.}
Tom joins Jack in the
observatory and officially introduces himself to Jack. We see Juliet
put her head in her hands.
Tom shares, "They've got
history."
Juliet comes out says to Jack, "I would like for you to go back in there,
put Ben under and finish the surgery….Because I'm going to go
help your friends
escape." {
Note the ring that we have been seeing Tom wear the past few episodes!}
Jack looks up at Tom.
Alpert makes his pitch of
Mittelos. Mittelos Bioscience is based in Oregon. We're just outside of Portland.
He is showing images of the "people" of Mittelos. "These shots may seem a little
cheese ball, but our people really are this
happy. We're
privately funded. Privately funded means freedom."
He goes on to show her images from their organized outings
in and
around the Portland area. Images of people hiking, biking, river running. {
Note we see his reflection in the table.}
Dr. Burke -"When you,
your company reached out to me, I was flattered. I don't really know why your company would really want me."
Richard- "
You successfully impregnated a male field mice."
Dr. Burke- "He didn't
carry to term."
Richard shows her
MRI images and asks her what she
sees.
Dr. Burke checks it out, "Well, it's a human womb
judging from the
decomposition of the endrometrium I would say that the woman was somewhere in her 70's."
Alpert- "Well, actually, she's 26."
Dr. Burke wonders, "What happened to her?"
Alpert-"What if I told you, you could have complete
freedom and money to
find out? We think you're
special Dr. Burke. And
we want you to lead a team of highly trained people, because we think you're just that
good."
Juliet says she can't; her ex husband doesn't want her to have anything.
Alpert asks if they should
reach out to him on her
behalf.
Alpert wonders, "There must be something he would
respond to."
Dr. Burke-"
If he were hit by a bus. How bout that?
That would work."
She realizes that was a totally inappropriate outburst and turns to say she's sorry, "
Whatever you think I am. I'm not. I'm not a leader, Mr. Alpert. I'm a mess."
She leaves crying. {
Love the fact that the image of the MRI/womb is on Juliet.}
Juliet walks down a hall and opens the door to the
monitor room. She sees where Kate and Sawyer are and also sees that Alex is with them.
A
guard/Aldo is outside another building. He's reading a Brief History in Time.
Alex is hoping Karl is in there.
Kate has an idea how they're going to get by
with one gun and no bullets.
Aldo is making notes in his book.
Alex, with Kate and Sawyer at gunpoint, marches them up and tells Aldo to open the door. Alex tells Aldo they must have gotten out of their
cages; she
found them in the jungle. So Aldo tries call Ben, via Danny, to
verify that her prisoners were to be taken there; Alex is
not supposed to be there.
{
Aldo doesn't know Ben was in surgery today?}
Aldo tells Danny that Alex, Austen and Ford are there. Before he can say much more Sawyer tackles Aldo.
You can hear Danny saying "Don't
believe what she says".
Alex breaks the walkie!
Sawyer holds the rifle over Aldo and says, "Don't get
mad at me just cause you were dumb enough to fall for the ol Wookie prisoner gag."
Alex wants to know where Karl is but Aldo isn't telling. Kate tells Sawyer to shoot him in the knee because they don't have time for this! She takes the rifle from Sawyer and knocks out Aldo.
{Not shoot him in the knee.}
Karl is down the hall in
room 23.
Sawyer-"Damn good
con Freckles. I almost
believed you were gonna shoot that boy."
Kate says it wasn't a
con.
They find
room 23. There is
loud Techno beat/music coming from the room.
Sawyer says to the girls,
"I ain't feeling this."
Once inside they see it's a brain washing room.
Karl is there with
Funky eye wear, and I.V., the music is pumping and the
video imagery is playing. All of them stop for a minute to look, but Sawyer is
hypnotized. He's watching the images. {I
s this familiar to him? Or memory of a bad rave?}
Here' only a few images…eyes, Plant a good seed and you will joyfully gather fruit, Asian dolls, Ancient coins- one is dated 1921, "e
verything changes", CD/DVDs, sailboat, compass, a keyboard, flower, moon, (gun chamber Or clock parts? I can't tell),
bugs, "We are the causes of our own suffering",
fish, nest, speedometer,
"God loves you as he loved Jacob", building with Alvar Hanso, Think about- with tribal masks, fireworks at night, Gerald Degroot?… {
And a few very interesting and important flashes!} Sawyer
carries Karl out.
Danny slaps
awake knocked out Aldo. Juliet informs Danny they are "
letting them go."
Danny's shocked, "Ben's in surgery. I was just there!" {
He was? Hmmm}
Juliet says that Ben
woke up.
Danny-"
Woke up? Huh?"
Juliet explains that
Shephard won't finish the surgery unless he knows his friends are
off the island.
Danny- "I know Ben would
rather die than let them go!"
Dr. Burke is at Rachel's apartment. She shares with her sister the job "isn't for me." She also feels it's to far away; it's in Portland. Rachel wants to know if she said no because of her.
Dr. Burke wonders, "Why would I want to go all the way to Portland for
research that doesn't even work?"
Rachel-
"Because it does work.
Rachel is pregnant; she took a
blood test too. {
Note on her table is 'Glass Patterns quarterly' Widmore pregnancy test.}
It worked!
All Rachel's life she's wanted to have a baby and now because of her sister she is.
Rachel-"Now I just need to
get healthy so I can see the little
bugger get into an
Ivy League school."
Rachel tells her to tell her ex husband of hers what he can do with his ethics.
Edmund is walking outside and talking on his
cell with his mother; "Because you're insufferable. And you're mean. Well, you asked me for the truth, Mom."
Dr. Juliet Burke tells him that Rachel's pregnant. Edmund needs to see her
labs to verify the
data. Juliet's not interested in
publishing because it's her sister. Edmund steps off the curb and gets
hit by a bus {
with an Apollo Bar ad on the side}right there in front of Dr. Juliet Burke.
{
And a whole bunch of school kids with backpacks on! WTF is that about?!}
Jack is working on Ben. Tom
doesn't like blood.
Jack taunts him with a lovely piece of tumor {I guess}. Jack asks if they really
can get on and off the island why didn't they just take him to a
facility.
Tom tries to explains that since the sky turned
purple…Oops! Jack has nicked an artery.
Tom-"Isn't that what you already did?"
Jack says yeah, "That was on purpose." {HA!}
Tom wants to know if he can
fix it.
At the {outrigger} boat, Sawyer, Alex, Kate and Karl are about to get away.
Sawyer asks Alex, "So, you're the bosses daughter, huh? I never saw that coming."
As they/Sawyer get
loopy Karl into the boat Karl says, "Danny."
Sawyer-"No, Sawyer."
Karl was warning him that Danny is behind him. Danny points the gun at Sawyer and Juliet shows up shoots Danny with three shots.
Jack needs Tom's help with Ben's bleeding situation.
Juliet tells Kate, Sawyer and Karl they can
leave but Alex
cannot leave.
Juliet tells the girl, "
We both know your father. And the only way he'll let Karl
live is if you're here when he
wakes up."
Alex and Karl share a moment; they've missed each other. {
How long have they been kept apart?}
Jack is working on Ben with Tom's help. {
They are helping each other. Ben's monitor shows 239.}
Kate's voice comes over the walkie. Jack wants Tom to hold the walkie up for him.
Tom asks, "What about the suction?"
Jack- "Just do it!"
Kate tells them they have a boat and their
letting them go. Kate calls Juliet 'The blond woman' {
no name}.
Kate goes on to retell the story Jack shared with her the day of the "crash".
"You were doing surgery on a girl and you messed up. You made a
mistake. You tore something on her back and all the nerves came loose. And you said you were so
afraid. And you said the
fear was so real. And you didn't know what to do, so you
counted to five. And then you
weren't afraid anymore. And then it was just gone. And you
fixed her. You
saved her."{
Go back and listen to Kate tell the story.}
Jack tells Kate to promise
never to come back for him.
Kate-"
Jack, where are you?"
Jack just tells Tom to turn of the walkie. {
Kate never makes the promise.}
Ben is
fixed. Kate gets away. {Jack "saves" Kate…Maybe.
}
Sawyer mentions "The
trades are coming" so they shove the boat off and sail away.
ALEX'S EYES BLUE!
In the
morgue we see dead Edmund
covered in a
white sheet,
not in a
black body bag. Juliet is there because she needs to sign some paperwork. She
puts her head in her hands and cries.
Back in the
O.R. we see
sleeping Ben. Jack watches over him from the
observatory. Juliet shows up. Jack informs her he was able to remove the tumor and they have to
biopsy it. Jack wants to know what happens now, "I just go back to my
cell?"
Juliet-"Until they
figure out what to do with you."
Jack feels he is
owed an answer; he wants know what she and Ben spoke about in the O.R., what did Ben say to make her
want to save his life. {
She wanted to want to save his life!}
Richard and Ethan show up in the
morgue as Juliet is crying. {
That's convenient.}
There are a lot of bagged bodies in there.
Richard saw what happened on the
news so he's there to express
condolences and offer her the
job before he goes
back up to Portland. Juliet realizes that in her interview she said she
wanted him to get hit by a bus, and he was.
Richard realizes she's shook up, but this is just a
tragic accident, "I don't even
remember you saying that."
The timing is horrible but they really want her to go to work with them, "Just give us
six months. If you need to, you can be back before your sister gives birth….
We are very thorough in our recruitment process." {Of course they are!}
Juliet wants her sister to come.
Richard tells her that
won't work, "We're pretty
remote. She wouldn't have access to the
treatment that she needs."
Richard admits at that point they're actually
not quite in Portland.
In the
observation room Juliet tells Jack, "I've been on
this island for
three years, Jack. 3 years, 2 months and
28 days. He said that if I
let him live and I
helped you, that he would finally let me
go home."
She cries and leaves. {
But we all know Ben's version of what home is, isn't what we think it is.}
NOT IN PORTLAND IS A GREAT EPISODE! FRIGGIN' AMAZING EPISODE!
It's time for me to bring two very important things out to you…
As I have researched all my clue words and notes throughout these many blogs, I have talked about the Lostie's being in sleep states/altered consciousness,
Flashes not being in linear in time or "off", game, and maybe a couple of
Flashes could be a look at life 'after/off' this "Island" and blurring of things. I've also made mention that there is a possibility some things aren't real.
With that said, this episode added a whole other dimension for me.
When the MRI image came up in this episode I thought back to 'The Hunting Party'; Jack's MRI episode. Although there are many aspects of that episode that show me it could be 'life after/off this Island' for Jack, i.e. the beginning of Jack's marriage falling apart after a long absence, etc… Couldn't it be possible that all
Flashes we see are really taking place on the "Island".
That brings me to room 23.
Could that be the very room these contrived memories/images are given to the Castaways/Tailies/Others/whoever. What if there are five other rooms that do just that. 4 8 15 16 (23) 42. That would make those numbers bad. If this is the case, how many people have been in those rooms? How often?
We see Sawyer in room 23 and he is mesmerized-hypnotized! Are we seeing that he/they have been in that/those rooms?!! Have we finally seen proof of drugged induced brain washing.? This would make the idea of manipulated memory and/or imagery on the "Island" fact.
Here it was an IV that drugged Karl with funky glasses. Other ways to induce this state could be, hypnosis, mediation, mind control, drugs, drugs in food or water, injections or even an implant. Are images from room 23, or any other rooms/reasons related to any of the Castaway's
Flashes?!
AND…EYE COLOR CHANGES! EYE COLOR CHANGES ARE ALL OVER THIS EPISODE! If you are a veteran reader of my notes you know I've been talking about EYE COLOR differences since season 1! Changes from one color to another, also the intensity of the blue eye color. Could it mean eye color changes when they are in state of some sort of hypnosis or altered state of consciousness? Or are we seeing a 'twin'? Or different…. What??
Things to note...Questions to ask...
* Juliet can't stitch up Ben. She's not a surgeon.
* Every-thing's on the beach!
* Jack and Juliet have performed medical "miracles" of sorts.
* Juliet feels she's not a leader. Jack feels he's not a leader.
* Everyone is making deals. Trades.
* Recruitment.
*
Events in Flashes are reflected/blurred on the "Island".
* 2 sets of Losties??? More than one set of Others??? Imagery. Or...
*
Trying to impregnate a woman who's actively going through cancer treatments…WHAT?! Is this reality? NO!
* Clues to "creating life" where there shouldn't be/isn't.
* Clues to bugs. What kind? Insects or electronic? A bug in the system?
* DIANE
* Juliet is called
Juliet,
Jules and
Julie in this episode.
* We're on a smaller island two miles off shore….
* "We are the cause to our own suffering"…
* Black and White Bagua lamp.
* "He'll never let a patient just die."… Jack did let Boone go.
* Sawyer asks about a tunnel to the mainland.
* Ethan being in the same place as Juliet.
* Edmund getting hit by a bus. Was that the product of a wish?
* "Make it look like an accident." Jack cutting Ben or Edmund getting hit by a bus?
* I wonder how many other things are made to look like an accident? Hmmm?!
* Alex hides Sawyer and Kate out in a pit. Ana Lucia kept prisoners in a pit.
* 3 Minutes. The episode '3 minutes' was the episode we went back and forth between different days. This was when Michael was out looking for Waaaaalaaaalt. That episode ends when Sun sees Desmond's boat out in the water. 3 minutes is also associated with Chess.
* Juliet and Ben have history. How long is Juliet really on the island? How old is Juliet? I'm just curious!
* Lab-Research lab-Labrador retriever. Is this "Island" a "lab"?
* Are the Others/Islanders keeping a long line of secrets for the Island, just like the Knights Templar and the Freemasons do? {Knights Templar or the Order of the Temple French- Ordre du Temple or Templiers.}
Vocabulary AND Research...
* DNA-a nucleic acid that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. The main role of DNA molecules is the long-term storage of information. DNA is often compared to a set of blueprints, since it contains the instructions needed to construct other components of cells
.
* Richard Aplert-aka Baba Ram Dass.
Born April 6, 1931. A contemporary spiritual teacher and author. He is very into Buddhism. Along with his friends Timothy Leary and Ralph Metzner, the
three men took a lead from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, authored and participated in experiments
investigating the
therapeutic and
religious possibilities of drugs such as mescaline, psilocybin and LSD. That project became
The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on The Tibetan Book of the Dead (commonly referred to as The Psychedelic Experience) is an instruction manual intended for use during sessions involving
psychedelic drugs.
NOT IN PORTLAND MEANS…THE "ISLAND". {Or one of their "Islands"}
Love to all who are "LOST"™
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Disclaimer: I never claim to know everything about the show and my thoughts by no means make me right! The things I share here are my views and/or opinions. I don’t claim to catch every single detail either! You all know I hate spoilers! And I stand clear of reading certain sites as to not take me off my own course of research. The one thing I don’t need to do here is rehash all of the obvious clues from an episode, we all know what they are. Understood? Good! Let the fun begin! I’ll only note things that I know come up as clues later, but need to be noted when they first show up and things I find that will be of importance! It will get very exciting as we progress into the story.
