LOST: Recap – Did You Miss Last Night’s Episode?
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The following is a Recap of Lost Season 6, Episode 14 entitled “The Candidate”, originally airing May 4, 2010. If you haven’t seen the episode, stop reading, cause this is full of mad spoilers, yo. No one says “mad” to mean “many” anymore? I guess I just mean the spoilers are angry then. What’s the new word the kids are sayin’ these days? “Asteroid”? Ok – this Recap is full of asteroid spoilers, yo.
ONE SPINE DAY
Locke awakens from getting run over by Desmond, and Happy Jack makes an important announcement:
“Congratulations, Mr. Locke, you are A CANDIDATE…
…For surgery! Not anything Jacob related. As a Lost doctor, bedside manner dictates that I pause for seven minutes in the middle of any sentence that could have symbolic double meanings before completing that sentence with the literal meaning.”
Locke respectfully declines, saying “No thanks, I wouldn’t wanna impose — it’s not that I’m punishing myself for crippling other family members, I’m just not a huge fan of having the ability to use half my limbs. Good day to you, sir!” “Hrrrm,” Jack wonders, “Most people I meet DO enjoy the ability to walk. I wonder what’s stuck in this guy’s walking craw?”
To get some answers, Jack first asks himself, “Which character hasn’t done anything in this reality yet? Daniels from The Wire? Oooh wait, how ’bout Bernard, his job’s kinda medicine related!” He approaches Bernard about the emergency oral surgery he performed on Locke after Locke’s dad peed on his teeth while he was lying unconscious, and Bernard recognizes Jack from the Oceanic flight, saying “You’re the guy who was hitting on my wife when I was in the bathroom.” Jack’s like, “I’ve done absolutely everything wrong ever, but that is one thing I was definitely not doing.” A skeptical Bernard replies “While I can’t breach doctor/patient confidentiality, I can tell you to go visit his meaningfully crippled dad Anthony in a nursing home, revealing the event which permanently scarred Locke. But that is ALL I can do for you.”
Jack arrives at the nursing home and pleads with Helen to see Anthony, and when he finally does, he realizes that Locke’s dad is completely paralyzed and unable to speak or react, and exclaims into his face “Well this was a big bust!” Looks like we got ourselves another flash-sideways Opposite Day: In this reality, Locke took his loving father on a flight with him and permanently crippled himself and his father even worse, and regrets it every day of his life. In the old reality, though, Locke’s dad very intentionally crippled Locke, then showed the opposite of remorse when he threw an “I Crippled My Son” party and used Locke’s wheelchair to cart around the keg. Moral of the story: If you don’t want to end up crippled in your reality, be a conniving a-hole and push your son out a window – The More You Lost.
Now understanding the surgery decline, Jack confronts Locke and whines “How come you still get to feel super guilty about your dad but I have to let my dad go? It’s not faiww! I want to perform cool science surgery on you!” Locke continues to refuse the surgery, say bah humbug a lot, and rejects ice cream whenever it’s given to him. Jack concludes their interaction with a barrage of Lost catchphrases, telling Locke “What happened happened” [Ding!] and “I wish you’d believed me” [Ding!] and “Makin’ copieeeees!” [Ding!] Locke ultimately leaves the conversation, but hearing his own island-words thrown back at him seems to resonate just a tad. Are you thinkin’ what I’m thinkin’? Just mayyyyybeeeeee…….
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