LOST Season 1: Ep.9 - "Solitary"

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SYNOPSIS - the episode begins right from where Sayid leaves along side the shores into the jungle from the last episode. we see him starring at the photo of the girl with a note in Arabic until he gets distracted by a cable that has one end coming from the jungle and the other end going into the ocean. as Sayid grabs to see where this cable is coming from he enters the jungle. (Q - why is the cable going into the ocean?) after following the cable, Sayids gets trapped which pulls him from his feat and lifts him upside down. after a while a person appears and cuts off the wire and later straps Sayid on a bed with electric shocks. the person asks "where is Alex" repeatedly but of course Sayid has no idea what this person is talking about. as Sayid explains himself, the person appears from the darkness and we find out its the french women who had sent that distress signal 16 years ago. the french women has a hard time believing Sayid so she asks him about the girl in the photo. from the flashbacks, we learn that Sayid was moving up in the ranks because of his brutal torturing techniques. one day he given a captured prisoner who might know the whereabouts of other terrorist members responsible for a series of bomb attacks. the prisoner turns out to be the girl in the photo who evidently was his childhood friend named Nadia. after a month, Sayid is given the order of killing Nadia but Sayid cant force himself to do it therefore he lets Nadia escape by shooting himself. right at that moment Nadia writes a note on the photo that says "we will meet again if not in this life". after escaping from Danielle with drawn maps of the island and a gun to get back to the camp he hears voices from the woods surround him.

after living on the island for almost a week or so, Hurley finds out that everybody is stretch to their limits and they need to have fun before they find something else to fight about. when Locke and another individual bring new found lugage, Hurley finds a set of golf clubs and get a idea. while everbody is trying to survive, Hurley creates a gulf course and invites everybody. to everybodies surprise the golf course brings the crew together and puts a smile on their face.

CHARACTERS

• when Michael leaves to play golf with Jack he forgets to invite Walt and as a result Walt leaves to find Locke so he can learn about hunting and etc. oddly enough Locke lets Walt.
• when Sawyers hears from Jack that nobody really wants anything to do with him, Sawyer comes to the see the game of golf and bets against Jack. when nobody accepts Kate takes the bet and the rest of the crew give in. is Sawyer playing another game or has he finally come to accept that he needs the rest of the crew to survive.

MYSTERY VAULT

• where is this island?
• how did the plane crash?
• what is that creature in the woods with strange noises?
• where did the polar bear come from?
• why hasn't anybody picked up the Danielle's distress signal for 16 years?
• where did Jack's father body disappear to?
• where did the male and female skeletons came from and what does the black and white pebbles attached with the bodies mean?
• who are the "others"?

MYSTERIES RESOLVED

• we finally get one mystery solved in this episode. the French women who sent the signal is actually alive and living in the woods. her name Danielle Rousseau. she was part of a research team that was lost until they landed on the island. Danielly tells Sayid of Robert someone who she feels strong about and that she had to kill him because they were sick and should couldnt let the sickness get out of the island if they ever got rescued. Danielle also talks about the danger of "others" with which Sayid responds what "others". apprently she has never seen these "others" but they whisper in the woods. Sayid concludes that Danielle has been living on the island for too long. Danielle doesnt let Sayid leave because she hasnt touched anybody for so long. after Sayid escapes from Danielle, he asks who is Alex, and the Danielle responds, she was my daughter. (Q - what happened to Alex?)