'Lost' recap 5.4

Sorry this is late. I'm up in Washington state enjoying the wet. My take on Episode 4? Worth the price of admission. (Technically, it's free but you know what I'm saying.) It was sooooo good. The time-hopping is starting to make sense. The Lost boys also treated us to, not just, an excellent revelation but to several tender, pained Sawyer moments. Mmmmmm.

SPOILER ALERT: I'm not burying the lead. You're going to know important business as soon as you jump to the full post. If you haven't watched the episode and want to feel the suspense yourself, TURN BACK NOW!

Jin is alive!!!!! Woo hoo! (I KNEW IT!) Oh wait, what's that, Lassie? Sun's rage is misplaced? If Jin is alive there's no reason for her to kill Ben? However will Sun find out the truth? Hmmm ...

MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN, 3 YEARS AGO

The show opened right after the Oceanic 6 escaped the island, with Kate holding Aaron, still a baby, and Jack all on the deck of Penny's boat. In between longing glances, Kate comes up with the idea to tell the world she is Aaron's mother, that she was pregnant when they got to the island. "After all we've lost — Michael, Jin, Sawyer — I can't lose him, too," Kate says of Aaron. Jack assures her Sawyer is alive and Kate responds, "But he's gone." She looks so sad.

Dr. Cry Now Smile Later seizes the moment. He informs Kate that he's going to talk to the rest of the crew about needing to lie. He wants Kate to back him up. He says he'll turn to her first.  "Are you with me, Kate?" Jack says, suddenly looking old. Kate replies, "I've always been with you Jack." (Which seems insincere until I realize Kate will be conflicted about Sawyer and Foxy for the rest of her days. What a sad hang.)

LOS ANGELES
Flash forward three years to Kate, Sun and Aaron in the Los Angeles hotel. Sun has given Kate an idea about how to deal with that creepy lawyer. Kate leaves Aaron with Sun. Sun gets a package. It's a dossier of some sort, with photos of Jack and Ben at the funeral home, and a box of chocolates. No it's a box of chocolates with a big nasty gun inside! Yikes. Sun's getting darker by the minute.

ISLAND
Myles is getting water for bloody-faced Charlotte who has passed out. Daniel and Juliet discuss what's going on. Daniel finally admits he thinks Charlotte's sense of time is off, "like really bad jetlag." Daniel doesn't know why it's not happening to everyone.

LOS ANGELES
Kate meets with the lawyer, the one who wanted the blood samples. She tries to make a deal. Let me meet with your client and I'll comply. The lawyer gets all heavy with her saying she has no room to negotiate.  "My client insists we handle the exchange of custody quietly." Kate freaks out, of course. "I just want to know who's doing this to me," she says. "You're doing this to yourself. You have to be prepared. You're going to lose the boy." Nooooooo!!

ISLAND
Locke insists, to solve the time-jumping, they have to start by going back to the Orchid. Locke suggests they take the Zodiac around to the other side of the island. Sawyer is like, wait, wait, why? Locke says this will stop if we bring them back. Then he presses the knife deep into Sawyer's wound. "Don't you want her to come back?" Meaning Kate. (Cold, Locke.) Sawyer tries to say, "It doesn't matter what I want." And you just want to cry seeing Sawyer so wounded. Charlotte snaps out of it then Sawyer says, "Let's go to the Orchid."

LOS ANGELES
Next we see Jack and Sayid in the hospital with Sayid eager to get out of dodge. Jack assures Sayid that Ben won't hurt Hurley. "Ben is on our side." Sayid's like, yeah right. A doctor calls Jack out of the room and Jack gets busted for using the facility. (You've been suspended for your little oxycodone habit, remember, Foxy?) Saved by the bell! Jack's phone rings and it's Hurley from county lockup telling Jack he's safe there.

A male nurse goes into Sayid's room with some "meds." He looks shady. He turns to shoot Sayid with a dart but my boy Sayid smelled that guy coming last Wednesday and has already rolled out of his bed, evading the dart. Sayid proceeds to choke the guy with his OWN IV LINE. (You're my boy, Sayid!) After killing the guy, Sayid finds an address in the guy's pocket — 42 Panorama Crest. Jack comes in, correctly ID'ing the address as Kate's.

Kate, while staking out the lawyer's office, gets a call from Jack. She hesitates to take the call from her bearded, drug-addled, delusional ex-boyfriend. She does what every other woman on the planet would do; she picks up. She tries to rush Jack off the phone. He says he has to see her. She acquiesces. Jack  tells Ben and Sayid where he's going. Ben says he's off to get Hugo. Sayid tells him, not so fast, buster. Sayid takes the keys and drives. They'll meet later at the Long Beach Marina, slip No. 23. "We're running out of time," Ben said. (Remember, two episodes ago they had 70 hours. I'm guessing that's how long the nosebleeds last before they get fatal?)

ISLAND
It's night in the jungle, Sawyer asks Locke what he'd tell Kate to get her to come back but Locke doesn't know. That's when they see a beam of light, just like the one that came out of the hatch that night long ago. Locke steers the group clear of the light knowing that time it is. As they walk on, Myles' nose starts to bleed and the group hears screaming up ahead in a clearing.

Turns out it's Kate and Claire from that night months ago when Claire gave birth to Aaron. Kate is helping Claire deliver her baby. Sawyer sees Kate and his face just melts. Aaron comes out into Kate's arms and Sawyer sees her smiling. Sawyer is almost crying when another flash of light pops out and they jump to another time. Locke sees the pained look on Sawyer's face and asks what he saw. Sawyer puts his hard face back on and says, "It doesn't matter. Let's go."

LOS ANGELES
Kate sees Jack get out of his car across the street. He waves. He looks nervous. (He should after all the crap he's put that girl through.) They smile at each other. She comments on his recent shave. He says he needed a change. (Foxy's face is lined with angst. Don't look at her that way, Jack. It's too too much.) Kate gathers herself and tells Jack she can't deal with him right now; other things are going on. She won't tell him what and he insists she does. She tells him to get lost as gentlyas she can, instead. (There's still love there, I think.) She tells him that a lawyer is after Aaron, that Lawyer Dan knows she is not Aaron's mom. The lawyer drives out of his building and Kate says, "Get in or leave." And Jack jumps in and they're off tailing the lawyer.

ISLAND
Locke won't let up on Sawyer about what he saw. Locke tells Sawyer how he knew when they were because of the beam of light.  It was the night Boone had died. Locke had been pounding on the hatch, railing at the island's mysterious ways. Sawyer asks Locke whether he felt like going back to correct his mistakes. Locke says, no, he needed to feel the pain of that mistake. Sawyer ponders that in his heart. Myles tells Daniel about his nosebleed. He asks Daniel why nosebleeds. Daniel tells him it has something to do with how long people have been on the island. Myles says that doesn't make sense since he's only been there two weeks. "Are you sure?" Daniel asks.

The group arrives back at their camp, which has been trashed but at least still exists at this point in time. Sawyer seems miffed that the beer is all gone. (Can you blame him?) They find Vincent's leash and a longboat and bottled water with a label belonging to a foreign airline but no Zodiac. Not wanting more trouble, they take the longboat and start rowing to the other side of the island. Sawyer finally tells Juliet he saw Kate and Claire back in the clearing before the last time jump. Then another boat full of people starts shooting at the Losties. Thankfully, there's another flash of light and Sawyer says, "Thank you, Lord!" When they flash to nighttime in a driving rainstorm in the middle of the ocean, Sawyer says, "I take that back."

LOS ANGELES
Kate and Jack follow the lawyer to a motel. Jack tries to reassure Kate but then they see who he's going to meet. In the open door of the hotel, we see none other than Claire's mother!!!  It's raining hard when the lawyer finally leaves. Kate wants to bolt. If Claire's mom knows about Aaron, they have to leave. Jack convinces Kate to let him talk to Mrs. Littleton. Then Foxy says the worst thing that Foxy can ever say, something he always believes at the core of his being  but something that shows how flawed he is at the same time. "I can fix this, Kate." (Don't do it, Jack! Nooooo!) And he continues, telling Kate what she has waited three years to hear. "Aaron is my family, too." That's enough for Kate. (Weak, Kate, weak.)

Jack goes up to the room but it doesn't take him long to figure out that Claire's mother doesn't know anything. He tries to explain about Aaron and Claire's mom says, "Who's Aaron?" Oh, the cat's out of the bag now. Jack finds out that Mrs. Littleton had come to L.A. because she had sued Oceanic and was there to retrieve her settlement. She still thinks Claire is dead. Jack tells Kate all of this back in the car.  "Whoever is trying to take Aaron is not here!" They dash off.

Sayid and Ben are in a parking garage waiting when Sayid tells Ben he saved Hugo to make sure he was safe. Lo and behold, they've been waiting for Lawyer Dan who tells them the police have no case on Hurley, that he'll be out in the morning. Sayid is like, who is that guy? Ben says, "That's my lawyer." (Lord, help us.)

ISLAND
The island crew finally rows ashore. While they rest, Juliet pushes Sawyer to talk about what he saw. Sawyer tries to keep his hard face on but finally says, "I was close enough to touch her. I wanted to. I could have talked to her." Juliet asks why he didn't. Sawyer says, "What's done is done." Juliet picks that moment to start bleeding from the nose. (Oh for all that is good and holy! That's how everyone pays for it back on the island. Bloody noses! Then dropping into comas? Brutal.) Charlotte then notices wreckage on the beach. Seeing a box with writing on it, Locke asks, "Does anyone know French?"

Then we see a raft of people in the water, during a storm, who happen on a body floating in the water. They're all speaking French. They turn the body over and, my hand to God, it's Jin!

LOS ANGELES
Jack and Kate are waiting at the marina and Kate wants to know why Jack called. Jack tries to tell her he was worried. (You lying sack of peanut butter, Foxy!) He shows Kate the piece of paper Sayid found with her address on it. "What is Sayid doing here?" Kate asks and Jack dismisses the question, saying it's not important. (Tsk, tsk, tsk. For shame.)

Jack tries to say it's more important to get Sun and Aaron. Ben and Sayid shows up and Kate is like, whoa. Jack assures Kate it's OK because "Ben is with us. We all need to be together again." Kate puts two and two together and gets 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 and says, "He's the one trying to take Aaron." Ben admits as much. (How else to make sure Kate goes back to the island. Ben, the master arm-twister.)

Someone is watching from the shadows. It's Sun, with Aaron in the backseat, holding her gun and looking dastardly.

ISLAND
Jin wakes up, dehydrated, on the beach. It's daytime. The people on the raft are all jabbering at him in French. He says in English that he doesn't understand. One woman speaks to him in English asking where he came from. He explains. The woman removes her poncho and we see she's pregnant. They ask each other their names. "My name is Jin." And knock me over with a 2-by-4, she says, "My name is Danielle."

Time warp! It's 16 years ago and that's Rousseau! And Jin has no idea that he's jumping time pockets. He looks confused. Man, he just learned English, then nearly got killed, and now this? That's a rough couple of hours for Jin.