“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire
Super-Duper Brief Recap
Season 5 Episode 11- “Whatever Happened, Happened”- Sawyer continues pretending he doesn’t care about Kate. Juliet pretends not to notice Jack is naked in the bathroom. Jack pretends not to care about anything at all, though at this point, he actually may NOT care about anything at all. Hard to say. Roger makes eyes at Kate. Kate’s disgusted. Kate sings, “Catch a Falling Star” to Aaron, just as Claire had wanted…
Miles and Hurls partake in an inspiring tit for tat surrounding existence and time/ space stuff, which makes me really miss Daniel.
Zombie Zoo and Kate: Over Before it Began
Kate and Roger bond over her lack of experience with a winch. She seems minorly charmed by him and his Tom Petty hair, until the van bearing a dead-ish Young-Ben comes squealing into the town square. At that point, Roger gets all, “That’s my kid!” and Kate realizes that this jive turkey contributed 23 chromosomes to the child who will one day be Big-Ben, and she suddenly looks like she might vomit. Luckily, we don’t see that part because we get a commercial break in the form of a flash-forward-back (it’s all a circle anyway, according to Miles…)
They’re Playing Our Song!
Kate listens to her go-to ‘Sawyer-on-the-brain’ song, Patsy Cline’s “She’s Got You.”
Just like in S4’s “Eggtown,” Kate is about to spit some truth involving Sawyer and a baby, only this time, the recipient is old pal, Cassidy, and the bundle of joy is an envelope.
Filled with bundles of bills. Oh joy!
John 8:32 (The Truth Will Set You Free)
Wow! Kate is like a geyser of truth when Cassidy is around…
She must’ve felt seriously weighed down by all of those fabrications and lies, because it takes surprisingly little coercion before she uncontrollably spews all of the O6’s most ‘classified’ secrets plus a bonus in the form the ‘Aaron tale’, to her new/ old friend, Cassidy.
Cassidy is surprisingly dismissive and a little mean re: Sawyer’s heroic intentions and his attempt to make it ‘right.’ She’s a hard hearted woman thanks to Sawyer…
And while that’s all super interesting, throughout the entire scene, I found myself totally fixated on the fact that Kate had a red scrunchie in her hair. Why Kate? Why?
2005 is totally a no-scrunchie zone. That shit is a basic truth a’ la Mathematics and Consciousness.
There is just no excuse.
“Yeah, well, history is gonna change.” Marty McFly
Sawyer puts Jack, Kate, and Hurley on house arrest.
Miles and Hurls engage in a witty pas de deux re: the rules of time travel according to the other Doc (Brown,) and how they apply to the current circumstances.
Kate channels Juliet as she pensively stares out the window and Jack channels Young-Ben as he makes sandwiches. Then in the least shocking turn of events ever, we learn that Juliet ‘I’m a Fertility Specialist, Not a Surgeon,’ needs Jack’s help to fix Young-Ben. But Jack’s not playin.’ He’d rather pout and eat his sandwiches than save Ben AGAIN (because, according to Miles, he already saved Ben in the past, because the future is the past, got it?)
Kate tells Jack that he is ‘different’ than he was before and she doesn’t like it. Ha.
Jack reminds Kate that she didn’t really like him before. Ha HA!
Never one to stay put in spite of terms like ‘house arrest’ and threats like ‘I’ll shoot you in the leg,’ being
brandished about, Kate has leavin’ on her mind and she does just that.
Apparently, Miles was more suited towards ghost whispering than prison guarding, cus he does very little to stop her.
That’s Gotta Sting…
Kate and Roger have some alone time after she donates blood. Uncle Rico Roger laments his crappy fathering and whines about his dead wife. He asks Kate if she has any kids, and after mentally-calculating the time-line, she says she does not. She looks super, super sad.
Then, Young-Ben crashes.
Juliet begrudgingly offers that the Others (read: Hostiles) may be able to save him.
She and Kate load Lil Ben into the Dharma Ambulance (read: van) and in a poignant hark back, Jules offers to give Kate a ‘head start’ before she tells Sawyer what’s happening.
Other Notable ‘Head Starts’ Include:
*Kate offered Sun a ‘head start,’ before she ‘had to tell Jack’ in S4’s “Ji Yeon”
*Sam Austen offered Kate ‘an hour head start’ before he alerted the authorities in S2’s “What Kate Did”
*Kate offered herself a head start after copping her convict-status to new husband (and policeman,) Kevin in S3’s “I Do.” She did this by poisoning his tea. This is illegal and also not nice. There are better ways to get a ‘head start’ in life.
De-Claire Thyself
Aaron wants milk. No, juice. Yes, a juice box. Kate seems wholly confused by the grocery store lay-out, and then seems even more confused when Goober goes M.I.A. Confusion quickly turns to panic when he’s really-gone (not like, hiding-gone) and the epiphany that ‘she was never meant to have Aaron’ is solidified when she sees a woman with Claire-hair walking hand-in-hand with her (read: Claire’s) son. They are ostensibly heading towards the customer service desk to make an announcement, but frankly, that blonde un-Claire looked kinda evil when she smiled and my gut was screaming “Amber Alert!” the moment she turned around.
Kate and Aaron then pay Aunt Cassidy a visit. Cassidy hypothesizes that Kate used Aaron to replace Sawyer. Um, awkward?
Kate now knows that she needs to give Aaron up and drops in on Carole Littleton at her hotel. Carole is a MILF. I mean that in the general sense, not the personal sense. For the second time in her life (and this episode,) Kate spits the whole truth and it sounds even more incomprehensible than it did during the first go-round.
Also, I kept waiting for some bonding or high-fiving re: how those Shephard-boys are so delicious and enticing, but neither Kate nor Carole seem interested in trading Christian /Jack ‘in the sack’ stories.
Fully de-claire-d, Kate says a tearful goodbye to Aaron, and sets off to Jack’s house surreptitiously hoping to have him help her replace Aaron straight away, while simultaneously enabling her to act as Claire’s ‘proxy’ on the flight to Guam the Island.
Dear Kate…
Dear Kate,
I get that you have a soft spot for damaged men, but why do you need to save Ben so damn badly?
Don’t be fooled by outward appearances. He IS going to try to steal that kid you are pretending is yours, put you in a cage, torture all of your boyfriends, and make you break rocks while wearing a dress…
C’mon, Kate, I know Jack is slacking these days, but you don’t HAVE to be the hero.
I Don’t Wanna Talk About It…
Juliet confronts naked Jack about potentially letting Ben die and asks him (just as Sawyer did Kate) why he came back. He says something about ‘saving them’ and I realize that it’s somewhat un-gratifying when people do communicate on this show. Kate’s answer being trumped by the flaming Dharma van was way more fun. At least we got some gratuitous nudity. Yay for that.
Sawyer (not Lafluer) comes to help Kate. I know it was Sawyer because he calls her ‘Freckles’, which totally makes my heart flutter. Then he tells Kate that he’s doing it all for Juliet, which makes my heart categorically un-flutter.
The mind-blowing part of this whole scene for me, was not all the tromping through the jungle with Lil-Ben’s half-dead body seeking the Others/ Hostiles, it was actually what didn’t happen.
Kate did not mention her previous connection with Cassidy, to Sawyer.
Say what?
Come to think of it, I could’ve used a bit more shock and awe from Kate when it was Cassidy who opened the door and turned out to be Sawyer’s baby momma. These are some of Fate’s best tricks people. Seriously.
He Will Always Be One of Us
Kate and Sawyer choose to save Ben’s body and eternally screw his soul. They turn him over to Richard who, by the way, does not answer to Ellie or Charles, in spite of his warnings that Ben will heal but will never be the same and will always be one of them. He also will not remember any of this. Oooohhhhh (the light dawns,) so that’s why he doesn’t remember Sayid shooting him, or any of the other 815-ers…
Thanks, Richard!
Welcome to the Land of the Living.
I’m sure my eyes deceive me, but Ben seems legitimately surprised to see John.
Further, thanks a bunch, LOST writers, for throwing a book title at us disguised as dialogue in the last 3 seconds of the show. Awesome. John Locke welcomes Benny to the land of the living, which just so happens to be the title of a mystery novel by Nicci French. The opening scene in the story depicts the heroine captured ‘hands and feet bound, head covered by a rough bag, a wire around her neck and a filthy gag in her mouth.’
While that wasn’t exactly the scenario here, that description sounds lots like the time Ben kidnapped, bound, gagged and covered the heads of Jack, Kate, Hurley and Sawyer on the dock in S2’s “Live Together, Die Alone.”
Just mentioning…
Final Thought: Love, love, love the resurrection (oh yes, I went there) of John Locke’s evil grin which was totally reminiscent of the ending of S1’s “Tabula Rasa.” It scared me then, but is totally intriguing now…
Lyndsey has OCD. Lucky for you, in between color-coding her closet and using anti-bacterial hand sanitizer, she channels her mania into over-analysis of “Lost”. She believes the idea that “TV rots your brain,” is bullshit. She is sure her brain is not, in fact, rotten.
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great recap! So do you think that Ben has just or will just forget Sayid and being shot or will he forget what exactly.. I mean what amnesia to what his life was before he entered the temple or just to certain things …
I want answers lol but know I will totally be hard up and missing Lost once the season is over.
I made the mistake today of thinking about what life will be like after next May. It wasn’t pretty.
I don’t know. But I don’t like it.
I want Ben to remember getting shot by Sayid when 815 crashes.
well, regardless of what happens to little ben in the temple, he still goes back to the DI for another 15 years until the Purge, right? he was still in the DI when the Purge took place….which isn’t for another 15 years…..so will he be brainwashed, the same but with no memory, etc??
Yeah. He was with DI when the Purge happened in 1992.
Should be interesting to see how DI accepts him back after the Others fixed him. Or if they are able to keep it under wraps.
At some point the awful truth that the 815′ers and Miles are time traveling will come out and my guess is that this trouble with Ben will out the truth somehow to Dr. Chang or Horace. Just a guess…
Your recaps blaze by. Very thorough and the style of writing demands to be read lightning-fast.
Being male, the scrunchie faux-pas went completely overlooked. So Kate is selfish and lacks a sense of fashion…
I’m a little disappointed that Ben will forget the shooting. I liked the idea of him knowing what Sayid had done as he sat bruised and smirking locked up in the Swan.
I believe that he’ll remember Juliet, Jack, Kate, and the others, though. It would only make Ben that much more sinister. He’s one of my favorite hero/villains of all time. The more plotting and devious, the better.
First of all, thank you… I truly appreciate your (and everyone else’s)kind words. It’s challenging to come to a new place where no-one knows your name or style this close the end of the penultimate season of a show that we are all mutually obsessed with. Thus, it’s extra cool when other fans ‘get’ your voice and POV.
Secondly, I SO agree with both of your points.
As hyperRevue also pointed out, Richard is pretty non-specific (imagine that!) regarding the memory loss/’change’ and its effects on Ben, so he may well remember the other 815-ers, but dear God, I so wanted him to remember Sayid shooting him and for the exact reason that you stated. I somehow need to believe that Ben was being truthful (just that once) when he told John Locke that he “always has a plan.” I am still hopeful that maybe in the end, Ben will vaguely remember the incident with Sayid (not to be confused with any other ‘incidents’, of course.)
It just seems like such a massive card for the producers NOT to play. I mean how many people would specifically go back to S2 and watch every single episode from “One of them” forward, simply to hyper-analyze every facial tic and utterance which falls from the mouth of Gale/Linus, knowing that he knew then what we know now…
Hot damn, I sure would.
I totally agree.
I’m not yet sure why they’d have Ben not remember any of it. It’d be SO much cooler if he recognized Sayid.
After sleeping on it…
It’s kind of good that young Ben won’t remember getting shot. It means that his change wasn’t caused by that event, but by something even deeper – whatever happened in the temple. And Sayid is still to blame for that change.
And there’s plenty of time between 1997 and 2004 for Ben to find out about the shooting. He’s not the kind of man who lets himself be kept in the dark for too long.
Yep. I was hoping, “He won’t remember this” referred to Ben not remembering the fact that Richard took him to the temple to heal him. He may very well remember being shot, but not much after that.
I also want to think that Ben always has a plan so I was surprised to see the look of shock on Ben’s face when Locke welcomed him to the land of the living.
Jesus this is an awful addition to this site, who is this shipping Lyndsey chick and when is she leaving?
Alright… who left the troll chow on the front porch again? But seriously, Frank…
That was just rude. If you don’t like it – don’t read it.
How would he know if he like it or not if he didn’t read it. hahaha
I agree Frank, read Doc Jensen or the A/V Club. Much, much better Lost talk.
Two Trolls in Love. Wasn’t that a Jackson Browne song?
funny!
he’s really Frogurt in disguise.
HAHAHA! FrankLover? What’s there to love? I agree LostinNewYork – Frogurt in disguise.
Jesus. Frank is an awful addition to the human race. Who is this dude and when will he be leaving us…
Excellent post! Very entertaining… Looking forward to more!
Give lil Franky a break! He’s only confidently pretentious because of his anonymity. Suck a ball Franky – this is great Lyndsey! Welcome aboard and I look forward to reading more from you!
Hilarious recap lyndsey.
I want to know why the bullet wound changed sides from the previous episode. Hmm…?
If you look closely it has its own donkey wheel.
I noticed that too!
Yes. Did something change and we missed it? It’s likely the bandage slipped around during filming and no one caught onto it.
But really odd to see the blood on Ben’s side and not his chest.
“Carole is a MILF”
Not anymore, Kate just promoted her to a GILF
Frank, lighten up. Lindsay’s recaps are a highlight of this site.
Love the recap … made me actually LOL.
Keep it up Lyndsey!!
Jack is now the new Locke. Juliet talks to Jack in the same tones that Jack used to talk to Locke. And just as Locke was seemingly unaffected, Jack is too. He was right…he was not supposed to help Ben. Perhaps Jack is now more “in tune” with the island. Imagine how much Jack and Locke will be able to accomplish once they are reunited as leaders.
If Ben will not remember anything before the “change” as Richard states why does he remember his father and mother and all the terrible things his dad did to him and the lack of birthday gifts, etc….i.e. during the purge episode.
He didn’t really say he’d not remember “anything before the change.” It was more vague, obviously. I think it just refers to being shot and fixed.
Yeah probably just this one traumatic experience.
Hey Doc! Kate doesn’t HAVE to be the hero, she IS the hero!
There’s a character named Ben in that book “Land of the Living”, too!
Nice post.
Ben will only forget that he was brought into the Temple. Yes, he was surprised to see Locke, but that was also added with the realization that he now remembers that the Losties were in the DI when he was a child. Just like Desmond remembered Faraday when he woke up. We seem to forget that all of this DI stuff has been happening, we can assume, at the same time that Ben has been knocked out by Sun. He wakes up and now all of these Dharma shenanigans have been placed into his memory.
skate for the win, and more bits of jacket is fine with me!
…Wait a minute… “Goober”!?
I’m onto you, Goober Conspiracy!
“Roger gets all, “That’s my kid!” and Kate realizes that this jive turkey contributed 23 chromosomes to the child who will one day be Big-Ben, and she suddenly looks like she might vomit.” – Kate knew Roger was Ben’s father when he introduced himself as Roger LINUS.
“I found myself totally fixated on the fact that Kate had a red scrunchie in her hair. Why Kate? Why?” – You’re so Diablo Cody funny! Don’t try so hard, “cus” you are NOT funny.
Lyndsey. Go back to whatever lame blog you came from…not that Doc Arzt is much better.
swas – go read a different blog. seriously – why do people really waste their time writing negative comments to blogs? if you don’t like it go read a different blog.
swas is a bit of a douche, but he’s right about Kate and Roger. You could see the instant recognition on her face when he heard Roger’s last name during their introduction.
Damn! Take it easy on the new girl!
Maybe a different site would be best for you.
I’d be interested to see if maybe present day Ben will wake up and remember all this, now that he’s made a full-loop back to the island…kinda like how Desmond remembers Faraday randomly.
I still think that Ben would have gone to the temple, just on his own accord and not because Sawyer & Kate brought him. Whatever Happened, Happened, right?
Whatever Happened, Happened, to me, means that Sawyer and KAte always took Ben to the others to get fixed.
Therefore, the memory wouldn’t just suddenly appear a la Desmond. It would have always been there. Except for that convenient “he won’t remember” thing Alpert said.
“He won’t remember” likely refers specifically to the shooting. Ben still has many years with the Dharma Initiative, and will probably see all of the future-ites again. And will likely remember everything up until the shooting.
I think Pat is absolutely right. Ben won’t remember any of THIS. Going into the temple etc. Of course he remembers his childhood, his lousy father, meeting sayid, etc. It was already established in “He’s our you” in an indirect way that Ben KNOWS Sayid is a killer. If he is to forget that Sayid shot him, that nearly invalidates that whole episode’s impact, no?
Great post! Yes, the SCRUNCHIE! That had to be addressed. Although, it was not long after she got off the boat and her days of tom boyish beach/jungle living were over for the time being (since in that scene, she pulled a still baby Aaron out of his carseat.) At least later on we know she used some of that settlement money to buy heels, skirts and an overall nicer wardrobe.
For those who care, psychology was my minor, and here’s what I think may happen: Ben gets healed, much like our French team, and while they do have the same memories prior to their meeting in the temple, the event changes them. The trauma involved in the shooting/healing make Ben’s memory falter. He will have vague memories of the shooting, maybe even the his whole childhood around that time. Because of this Ben has an attachment to “her”, who is Juilet. The person who works so hard to save him. His memories of the others (our new O6) go by the wayside because they have no impact on his life (Do you remember who cooked your food, or the school security you might have had in elementary school?).
Sayid is forgotten during this period as well. Ben knows he was shot, but he can’t remember the whole circumstance. His brain takes what it can and creates a new reality of the situation. It’s possible Ben transfers his feelings about Sayid on to his father or some one else.
The Others do not spend too much time on Sayid, let Smokey get him is their deal. Does he have the code to get past the fence? Or does he make his way around the island in the old way?
I think Lyndsey must be an awesome gal, probably enough so a couple of jilted boyfriends feel compelled to slither by and attack her.
Probably a good choice to dump such losers!
Hey, just wanted to say I really enjoyed your blog entry. Didn’t feel compelled to say anything until I saw some of the negative jerks on here. Don’t think I’d want to meet any of them in person!
Your entry was breezy and funny and nicely tied threads in from other shows. Keep up the good work!