We return back to the Others’ camp after a quality episode last week which featured Locke, Charlie, Hurley, and an expanding role with Desmond. This week’s focus is on James “Sawyer” Ford with another flashback of him, this time in a prison. We also continue to delve into the life of an Other and the consequences of Sun shooting Colleen.
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We begin this week’s episode with Desmond offering to fix their shelter and make some improvements, but Charlie butts in to say that he was “building a church before…Eko exploded…”. Desmond also is seen golfing with that mysterious guy that’s part of the plane, but we never saw him in the first season. How come he’s showing up only now? We’ve actually been seeing a lot of both of these guys lately. Where did Rose and Bernard go off to anyway?
Since this a Sawyer-centric episode, we get our mandatory flashback section of the show. This is the first we’re seeing of “James” in prison and during the flashback we find out how he got out of prison. It turns out that he helped con a fellow inmate to give himself freedom. This prison seems even more corrupt than the one in Prison Break since the warden himself is wheeling and dealing with the inmates personally instead of the COs working behind the warden’s back. “Congratulations, you just lied and cheated your way out of prison. You’re a free man.”
Later Jack is called in to help out with Colleen’s surgery since he has the expertise as a spinal surgeon to perform the surgery. As he washes up, he spots some X-rays picturing a large tumor on someone’s spinal cord. We’ll be sure to find out who’s they are since this definitely looks like the key to what may happen in the coming few episodes. Not being able to help revive Colleen because the Others’ surgery room doesn’t have any supplies, he’s left to sit there alone for seemingly hours.
We finally find out what Desmond is up to with the golf club he took from our strange new buddy that’s been showing up. He made what looks like a huge lightning rod. Soon after he erects it, wind and rain come and lightning strikes it. What is Desmond up to? Does he know something more about the island that will prove to be a key to get away from all of this and/or have a way to fight back at the Others to save Jack and company? “Want some fruit salad?”
Getting back to Sawyer, he is taken from his cage and injected with what he thinks is a pacemaker. Supposedly if he gets too excited and his heart rate goes up, his heart will explode. The catch is that if he tells Kate, she’ll get one also. Probably the worst part about this scene is that Ben seemingly kills a bunny that has the number 8 on it. 
As the episode closes, Ben brings Sawyer up to a mountain top to show him that he didn’t actually put a pacemaker in him, but that he instilled the doubt that he could die and if he told Kate about it that she would die soon as well. However the major point that we confirm is that there are actually two separate islands in the world of Lost and that our “heroes” are on the smaller one. Now that Sawyer has been conned himself, is it part of the plan to use him against his “friends”? “It’s from Mice and Men, don’t you read?”
The episode wasn’t as good as last week’s one, but enjoyable nonetheless. Next week’s one looks to be very good since it’s an Eko-centric episode. (Yeah, I’m a week behind on these recaps and “next week” is referring to the episode that aired this week) Hopefully something really exciting will happen before Lost goes on hiatus after the November 8th episode. Will Jack, Sawyer, and Kate ever find a way to be reunited with the rest of the survivors? What is Desmond going to do now that he’s got an expanded role?
Both Sawyer and Linc need to learn how to button up their shirts.