Post #29 LOST Revelation Thursday

Since you may now realize that I am a huge fan of LOST, I am going to write a post on Thursdays, summarizing and speculating about the previous night’s episode.


Last night’s episode: “Jughead”
Primary Focus Character: Desmond Hume
Secondary Focus Character: Daniel Faraday

On Island:
The LOSTIES have been traveling back and forth through time since Ben Linus “did whatever he did in the Orchid Station.” The group has been split into two smaller groups: Sawyer, Juliet, and John Locke have just taken two attackers hostage. On another part of the island, Miles, Charlotte, and Daniel are ambushed and then taken captive. They are then taken to a military camp.

Eventually they all make it to the camp where it is revealed that the seemingly Richard Alpert is the leader of this camp. Locke confronts Alpert and explains that they had been having a conversation 50 years in the future about John’s mission.

Faraday takes a guess that there was a US military bomb on the island. He explains that he can disarm the bomb. One of Alpert’s soldiers (Ellie) takes him to the bomb-site where he realizes that the bomb (tagged as “Jughead”) has been compromised and needs to be patched and buried.

Meanwhile, Charlotte is suffering obvious effects of the time-jumps: bloody noses, confusion, memory loss.

In a great revelation, we discover that Charles Widmore is one of the hothead soldiers in Alpert’s group.

Off Island:
A flashback reveals that Penny Widmore and Desmond have a child together. In a jump to current off island time, we find out that Desmond has made it to Oxford. He is on a mission to find Daniel’s mother. However, on contacting an Oxford receptionist, we learn that Oxford has no “Faradays” in its files.

Desmond finds the lab where he once met Daniel. It has been closed up and abandoned. A janitor reveals that Daniel and his experimentation on humans shamed the school.

He ends up finding the girl used in the experiments. She is in an apparent coma, but her sister reveals that she is jumping through time (much like Minkowski on the freighter).

It is then revealed that Charles Widmore was paying for the medical treatment of this woman and that he had been the financial contributor to Daniel’s research. Desmond decides to visit his estranged father-in-law. Widmore reveals that Faraday’s mother is in Los Angeles.

In a final interesting revelation, we discover that Penny and Desmond’s son is named Charlie. This is interesting because Penny’s father is Charles Widmore, and Charlie Pace died in order to help everyone get off the island.


Big Questions:

Why was the U.S. army on the Island in the 1950s? Why did they set up a hydrogen bomb?
Who was in charge of the Others (above Richard) in the 1950s?
Why and how did Widmore get off the Island and establish his wealth? Why can't he return? How does this knowledge impact the struggle with Ben?
Why does Daniel seem to recognize Ellie?
What does Ellie mean when she says "You just couldn't stay away could you." when she first sees Daniel?