In flash forwards, Sun goes into labor. She's in Korea and she's recognized in the hospital as one of the "Oceanic 6."
Back in island time, we see Sun getting suspicious about the newcomers Daniel and Charlotte and of Juliet. She thinks Jack can't be trusted either. Worried that the freighter isn't there to rescue the survivors, she decides she and her baby would be better off in Locke's camp and she convinces Jin to go with her.
Juliet is emphatic, though, that unless Sun gets off the island, she will die--as have all women who have gotten pregnant there. To stop her from going, Juliet reveals to Jin that Sun has had an affair. Jin, saddened and angry, turns back and the couple ends up staying on the beach.
Eventually, Jin finds it in his heart to forgive Sun--back in civilization he was a cold and troubled man, he really can't blame her. They reconcile, and they decide to stay on the beach in hopes of rescue.
In other "out-of-time" scenes, we see Jin scurrying around Seoul trying to buy a giant stuffed panda bear because a baby is on the way. We're led to believe the baby is his and Jin's, but it turns out these scenes are flashbacks, which take place before the crash. The panda is for a Chinese ambassador Sun's father Mr. Paik, who Jin works for, hopes to impress.
In the flashforwards, Sun has her baby and afterwards, when she is at home, we see Hurley arrive at her apartment to see the new arrival, a girl name Ji Yeon as Jin had wished back on the island. But Jin isn't there. We're led to believe he's dead, as Hurley and Sun go to a cemetery and stand before a tombstone bearing his name.
Sun, holding her new baby, looks at the stone and says "I miss you so much..."
Meanwhile, on the freighter, Sayid and Desmond meet the ship's captain, who says he's working for Charles Widmore. The Captain shows them a flight date recorder--the "black box" from Oceanic 815 and reveals that a fake crash, complete with 300-plus dead passengers and crew--was staged. The Captain talks about the tremendous resources necessary to pull off a hoax and adds, "and that's why it's so important that Ben Linus dies."
But the Cap's phrasing is nebulous. Does he mean Widmore staged the crash and is so powerful that everybody better do what he wants, or does he mean that Ben staged the crash?
Afterwards, as the ship's doctor brings Sayid and Desmond to their new quarters below decks, they encounter the ship's janitor who turns out to be--you guessed it!--Michael.
Sayid and Desmond pretend they don't know him, as this is obviously Ben's shipboard spy.
Questions/clues/observations:
* Is Jin really dead or is he still alive, but on the island? I kinda think he's still alive.
* The date of death on Jin's tombstone is 9/22/2004, the same date as the Oceanic crash. So, the Oceanic 6 is covering up whatever really happened to him.
* Why is Michael working for Ben and to what end? And where's Walt?
* Are we to believe Widmore or Ben staged the Oceanic crash? I think it was Widmore. Naomi and her crew knew there were crash survivors so, by extension, must Widmore. He wants the island and staged the crash so it wouldn't be discovered.
* Sayid and Desmond were slipped a note, presumably from Michael, telling them not to trust the captain. Should they or shouldn't they?
* The captain's last name is Gault. According to Wikipedia:
Captain Gault is a fictional sea captain created by English writer William Hope Hodgson. Many of the Captain Gault stories were collected in the book Captain Gault, Being the Exceedingly Private Log of a Sea-Captain, published in 1917.
Captain Gault seems to be a captain for hire, and operates a different ship in each of the stories. Some take place in England, some in the United States, some in Havanna, and some in Europe. Gault himself is a morally ambiguous character who follows the pattern of many famous fictional criminals: although a law-breaker (he seems primarily interested in making money), he proves also to have a strict moral code. As the series progresses, we learn tantalizing bits of information about Captain Gault: he seems to be highly placed in a secret society; he has occult knowledge about arcane religious artifacts; he seems to be very knowledgeable about gemstones; he is a skilled amateur painter. In general, he reveals himself to have surprising resevoirs of specialized knowledge. Where he got all this knowledge is generally not revealed; we get only these tantalizing hints at the character's past.
* Before Hurley arrives at her apartment, Sun has her television on. The channel is running the late Nikki's appearance on "Expose."
* The woman guarding Desmond and Sayid is shown reading (or trying to read as she's gone loopy from "cabin fever," i.e. time displacement, and is holding it upside down) is "The Survivors of the Chancellor" by Jules Verne. Wikipedia says:
...an 1875 novel about the final voyage of a British sailing vessel, the Chancellor, told from the perspective of one of its passengers (in the form of a diary).
Verne's novels have been a huge influence on the show, particularly "The Mysterious Island."
* So the Oceanic 6 is Jack, Kate, Hurley, Sayid, Sun and...? Are we counting Aaron? Is number 6 whoever we saw in the coffin at the end of season 3?
* What mission did Frank leave on in the helicopter?
Also see:
Lost Season 4 Episode Guide
The Best Lost Sites on the Web
Lost: What we STILL don't know
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