Re: Spoilers 1 « Reply #45 on Feb 12, 2006, 9:57pm »
Didn't give the spoilers last week; sorry about that. I'll do last week's, then do this week's in the next message.
Last week started out with Christmas with Charlie and his brother. Charlie can't find any presents under the tree with his name on them. His mother comes out and says that Father Christmas couldn't fit this one under the tree. She pulls aside a blanket, and there's a piano there with his name on it. He's all extatic, and his mother says, "Please, sit down and play us a song. You're the only one who can do it." Charlie sits down, but his mother keeps saying, "Please, sit down and play us a song. You're the only one who can do it," and Charlie is starting to feel pressured. He looks over at his brother, who is playing with his new toy robot, and suddenly his brother is grown up and wearing a diaper. Then his father appears (although we never see his face). His father is a butcher, chopping up pieces of meat and going on about how the music is nothing, both the boys need to learn a trade. As he's talking, the pieces of meat he's cutting up turn into dolls, and he's chopping off the dolls' heads. Charlie, now grown up too, sits at the piano, starts playing, and suddenly he's on the island. He hears Aaron cry. He stops playing and starts looking for him, only to realize Aaron is inside the piano, which is now being washed out to sea. Charlie starts trying to swim to the piano to save Aaron, but can't, and he wakes up screaming.
Later, Charlie has another dream, where his mother and Claire are angels kneeling in adoration before the basket that's carrying Aaron. Both of them are saying that Charlie is the only one that can save Aaron. Everything has a painted sort of feel until suddenly there's a flash, and a dove appears and flies around the basket and the beach. As Charlie watches the dove, he hears Aaron cry, and now the basket holding Aaron is floating out to sea. Charlie is able to reach in and grab Aaron, and as he stands on the beach holding Aaron, Hurley appears at the edge of the jungle dressed like Moses. Hurley looks at him for a second, then says, "Dude? What are you doing?" At that point Charlie wakes up. It's night, he's standing at the water's edge with Charlie, and Hurley calls out "He's over here!" Somehow, Charlie walked in his sleep, took Aaron from next to Claire and walked to the water's edge. Everyone think's he's trying to drown Aaron, but Charlie honestly has no idea why he was carrying Aaron, what his dreams mean, or why he keeps feeling that Aaron is in danger. Claire is royally pissed and tells Charlie in no uncertain terms to stay away from them. The next day, he talks it over with Mr. Eko, who says something to the effect that maybe these dreams are trying to tell Charlie that Aaron needs to be baptised.
So the story jumps back and forth between Charlie's memories of his brother with his family (the brother missing his daughter's birth because he was shooting up, etc.), Charlie trying to talk to Claire to get her to baptise Aaron, Locke getting between Charlie and Claire/Aaron, which winds up with Charlie kidnapping Aaron and Locke slugging Charlie. At the end, Claire talks to Mr. Eko, and she decides to have Eko baptise both Aaron and herself.
Other items of note: Sawyer tries to teach Hurley how to play poker, which Hurley just can't understand. They see Libby trying to carry laundry to the hatch, and Sawyer says, "Why don't you go talk to her?" Hurley says, "I'm waiting for the right time." Sawyer grins, starts walking toward his then, then turns and shouts, "Hey, Libby!" She turns to see Hurley looking at her, smiles, and waves. Sawyer leans over and whispers, "The time is now!" There's a very nice scene with Hurley helping Libby with the laundry -- details upon request.
Re: Spoilers 1 « Reply #47 on Feb 14, 2006, 11:47pm »
Apology accepted, Captain Neader...
This week's spoilers (in two parts):
Gather 'round boys 'n girls 'n everything in between. This episode is about Sawyer, and Sawyer is a grifter, a con man, or a "con artiste." In order to understand what's happening, you need to understand the fine art of the con.
The first rule of the con: You cannot cheat an honest man. Can't be done. I'm not talking about getting the old lady to pay for cleaning her gutters and then getting out of town -- that's just plain stealing. The reason you can't cheat an honest man is that the mark (the victim) has to believe he or she is getting something for nothing. Instead, the con man gives them nothing for something.
There are two types of cons: the short con and the long con. In this episode, we see Sawyer do a short con, where he spends $10 or so getting some fake gold jewelery. He puts labels on them like you'd see in a jewelery store with $1299.00 and $1750.00 on the labels. He puts a bandage on his nose like he's been in a bar fight, comes up to some guys at a gas station and asks if they'd like to buy some jewelery. He's acting in a hurry, and when the marks ask where he got it, he says "Where do you think?!"
(Here's the second rule of the con: always give the mark a way out. This guy, who's been in a fight, comes up and asks if you want to buy something that is obviously stolen. Buying stolen property is a crime. All the mark has to do is say "no." If the mark is an honest person, that's what happens. Remember: you can't cheat an honest man.)
At first, the marks say no. Then Sawyer's partner (who has also been buying gas) comes up and asks "How much for the $1900.00 one?" Sawyer names a price, money changes hands, and then when the marks see how easy it is, they each poney up several hundred dollars to buy something worth less than ten.
That's an example of a short con. It works because the mark is greedy, and because when they find out they've been conned, they're usually not likely to go to the police. After all, they'd have to admit that they not only were stupid, but that they were being stupid while doing something they knew was illegal. (I'm sure we've all heard stories of the guy going to the police because he found out the cocaine he just bought wasn't the quality he paid for, and he wanted them to arrest the dealer, which they did -- along with the buyer.)
The long con gets its name because it takes a long time and lots of money to set up fake offices, fake papers, etc. If you remember in the first season where Sawyer seduces the wife and uses her to get the husband to invest in a fake oil scam, that's a long con.
When the episode opens, we see Jack returning some guns, while Locke is changing the safe combination again. After some discussion, Jack convinces Locke to give him the combo. There's still not a lot of trust there, but Locke recognizes that it's a good idea to have at least two people know the combo, but the do agree that one isn't to get guns from the safe without the other one agreeing to it.
Re: Spoilers 1 « Reply #48 on Feb 14, 2006, 11:52pm »
(Continued from previous message)
Next, we see Charlie setting up a tent as Sawyer comes out of the water. Sawyer starts giving Charlie a hard time, about "Never thought I'd see you moving out to the suburbs," and "You made Locke hit you! That's like getting Gandhi to beat you up!" Charlie retaliates by pointing out how people went through Sawyer's stuff while he was on the raft.
We flash back to where Sawyer is trying to pull a long con on a woman, the same long con we saw him pull last season. The difference is that this woman is no fool. She's not impressed at seeing the money fall from the briefcase "accidentally", and when she picks up the money, she finds what she expects: bundles of paper with money on the outside so it looks real. She says that despite what he thinks, she didn't get anything in her divorce. She then asks Sawyer to teach her to be a grifter, a con, like he is. She wants some excitement.
Back on the island, Sun is busy working on the garden. It starts to rain, she looks up at the sky, and suddenly she has a black bag put over her head and she's dragged off into the jungle. Kate and Sawyer hear her scream, go into the jungle, and find her next to a log, unconsious and without a bag.
Immediately, there's a debate among the people. The Others had said that they would leave them alone if they kept to their place. Why would the Others be attacking them, and if this isn't the others, who did it? Sawyer says some words that makes Kate suspect this is a plot by Anna-Lucia to get people to join her army, but they have no proof. Sawyer and Kate go into the jungle where they found Sun, go a little farther down the path and find the black bag. Kate says it looks like the kind the Others used when they captured her, but Sawyer says no. "it's a different weave, a different cloth. It's all in the details, Freckles."
Kate tells Jack she thinks Anna-Lucia set up the assult on Sun, and this leads to an argument, where more and more people want to get the guns and go after the Others. Sawyer goes to the hatch to give Locke, who's pulling duty there, that a mob may be coming to get the guns. There's not enough time for Locke to change the combination, and if Jack is in the group, then there's no way Locke can keep people from getting the guns. Sawyer agrees to enter the numbers while Locke takes the guns and hides them. When Jack shows up, he is royally p*ssed to find that Locke moved the guns and hid them.
In the end, there's a showdown at the beach between Jack and Locke over the guns, when suddenly, there's the sound of automatic gunfire. Everyone turns to the sound, and there's Sawyer holding a big freeking gun. He lets everyone know that he's not happy that everyone went through his stuff while he was gone. He doesn't want all his stuff back, he just wants everyone to know that now, HE is the one with the guns.
Later that evening, he meets secretly with Charlie. It turns out Charlie is the one who put the hood over Sun and dragged her through the jungle. He's also the one that followed Locke to see where Locke hid the guns, so Sawyer could get them. Sawyer offers Charlie on of the heroin statues, but Charlie just gives Sawyer a disgusted look. "I didn't help you for that!" "Then why did you help me?" Sawyer asks. "I did it to wipe that smug look off of Locke's face. He wasn't there when Aaron was born! He was off with is precious hatch!" Simply put, Charlie wanted to humiliate Locke, to knock him down a few pegs.
In this week's episode (tomorrow night in America), two things happen: the group rescuses one of the Others who had been tied up in a tree (why, we don't know), and second, Jack and Locke are fighting in the hatch, and Jack keeps Locke from entering the numbers, so the timer reaches 0. My guess is that at the end of the show, we see the timer reach 0, and then break for a commercial and scenes from the next episode. I'll also wager that after tomorrow, it will be at least one week and maybe two weeks before they air a new episode. I may be wrong, but then I've grown up the all the cons the networks pull on us to get us to tune in next week.
"I used to think the brain was the most fascinating organ in the body. Then I realized who was telling me that." Emo Phillips
Re: Spoilers 1 « Reply #49 on Feb 15, 2006, 9:02pm »
Thank you! Either the timer will be a dream, or we will have to wait until next episode. <crosses fingers> It's on in 10 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll post more tomorrow!!!!
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