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Season 3: Episode 1 - 'A Tale of Two
Cities'
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The new season opens
just as the past 2 seasons have: with the opening of an eye. A blonde
woman wakes up from her slumber and gets dressed and ready in her
house. She seems to be living in surburbia. A group of people gather
at her house for a book club meeting. However this is disrupted by an
earthquake. When this subsides, the group runs outside, where several
others coming out of their homes as well, one including fake Henry
Gale. The look up towards the sky and see Oceanic Flight 815 crashing.
Fake Henry sends Goodwin and Ethan off to check things out. The camera
backs out to reveal the this tiny piece of surburbia is deep in the
island.
This is where the Others live.
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We come to learn that Jack, Kate
and Sawyer are all held in respective different places at the Others
home:
Sawyer is placed in a large cage (Skinner-like box) outside in the
jungle. There is another cage opposite him, where a young man is locked up in.
The young man asks him questions about the other plan survivors and eventually
picks the lock and escapes. However as soon as he does an alarm sounds. He
rushes over and unlocks Sawyer's cage. They both run and split up. Sawyer runs
into Juliette the same blonde woman we met at the start and he's shot with a
sedative.
He wakes up back in the cage where the Others drag the young man from
the other cage, bloodied up. We learn his name is Carl and they force him to
apologize to Sawyer for involving him. They drag him off not returning him to
the other cage.
Kate, our heroine wakes up in a locker shower type area. Our Mr.
Friendly (Tom) is there when she wakes up and insists that she shower. She
obeys.
When returning from her shower, her clothes have been taken away and she's
forced to wear a dress that they've left for her. Tom leads her out onto the
beach where fake Henry Gale is waiting for her in a little hut with breakfast.
She is forced to wear handcuffs and wants to know why they're doing this. Fake
Henry's only chilling response is that he's being nice as the next 2 weeks are
going to be very unpleasant.
Sawyer eventually figures out a way to get food delivered to him in his cage,
by pressing and holding down buttons, exactly like a 'Skinner Box'. Tom is
amused by this and he brings Kate and puts her in the opposite cage. There he
removes her cuffs and leaves. Both Sawyer and Kate are extremely relieved to
see one another.
This is a Jack centric episode, where through flashbacks we learn that Jack
was thoroughly obsessed with finding about the man who had swept his wife,
Sara away from him. He just won't let go. He explodes to the point he accuses
his sober father of sleeping with her, landing himself in jail and driving his
father back to the bottle. He never learns about the man.
Jack himself is found to be in a small room with a glass window in what
appears to be another hatch. The glass window looks into another room that has
a door opened.
Jack screams and hollers and tries to find a way out. He constantly pulls on
some chains above him. He won't give up trying.
Juliette the woman the show opened with visits Jack and tries to get him to
eat. To do this she wants him to stand at the back of his cell while she opens
the door and places the food before him.
Eventually Jack caves and says okay. However as we've come to learn Jack is
not a person that let's things go easily and he's not going to try to stop
escaping. He attacks Juliette as she enters and takes her as a hostage and
they move into the hallway.
Jack leads to a door that is sealed shut and demands the she opens it. She
refuses insisting that if she does, they'll die.
All of sudden, fake Henry appears on the other side of the hallway. It is
obvious that is the actual exit. Jack threatens to kill Juliette but Henry
just says have her open the door anyway and she'll die. We all do. Jack throws
Juliette to the side and moves to open the door. Juliette sprints down the
hall but Henry leaves quickly shutting the door on her.
Jack opens the door and large volume of water gushes in knocking them both of
their feet. Juliette is able to knock out Jack and she brings him up out of
the water so her does not drown.
Jack awakens in his cell again and finds Juliette in the room across from him
again. Jack comments that the hatch is an aquarium. Juliette confirms this and
says that the hatch is called the Hydra station where they used to keep
dolphins and sharks.
Jack wonders if they're what is left over from the Dharma Initative.
Juliette responds that was a long time ago and that who we were does not
matter but more importantly who we are.
She then proceeds to inform him that they know exactly who he is. She reads
from a file, revealing that they know he's a spinal surgeon, what university
he attended, that he was married and contested the divorce and that his father
died in Sydney and she has a copy of the autopsy report with her. She relays
that "This is you, Jack."
She dismisses him on how they got the information, but just that they did. All
Jack can wonder then is what else is in there. Is there information about his
family, more particularly his ex-wife? Juliette conceeds that there is and
asks what would he like to know.
Jack finally is able to let go of his obsession of finding out the other man
in Sara's life and only asks if Sara is happy. Juliette confirms that she is.
She is very happy. Jack himself is learning not to be so controlling and
obsessive.
He moves to the back of the cell and crouches down so that Juliette can bring
him some food.
Juliette heads out into the hallway where fake Henry comments,"Good work
Juliette"
She responds in kind, "Thank you, Ben." and walks away.
Not many questions are answered here in this episode, aside from where the
Others actually live and our fake Henry Gale is actually named Ben. What they
want and what they're planning to do with Jack, Kate & Sawyer remains to
be seen. But most importantly who these Others really are as theme of
this Season takes hold. Who Jack, Kate, Sawyer and the rest of the survivors
really are and how will they rise to the situation they find themselves in.
Only time will tell. |
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