LOST Season 1: Ep.23 - "Exodus Pt.1"

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SYNOPSIS - up till now the goal of the crew was to get off the island and it does happen with Michael's raft finally finished and on the ocean. while Michael gets help the rest of the crew have to deal with a new problem, the "others". for the most part, Rousseau has kept her self isolated from the rest of the crew and the "others" but for some reason she decides to come in and introduce her self to everybody with a warning about the "others". apparently when a black smoke appears from the horizon the "others" will come, just like how they did when she landed on the island 16 years ago. the crew has three choices, hide, run or die. at first nobody gives her any attention until the smoke actually appears. since it is impossible to move all 40 people, and dieing ain't a option, hiding is the only choice left but where? Jack and Locke know exactly, the hatch but so far nobody knows how to open the hatch and how can they open with no handle. thanks to Rousseau, she guides them to the "Black Rock" a stranded 18th century boat in the middle of the jungle which supposedly plenty of dynamite is enclosed.

CHARACTERS (flash backs)

• the first flash occurs with Walt in a hotel with Michael. Walt isn't too cooperative with Michael since the freedom he got from Brian isn't the same and since he lost his mother, Brian abondens him and he is told he has a new father.
• we see Jack waiting in a bar in the airport waiting for his flight when a lady comes in for a talk. her name Anna Lucia is quite upfront asking if Jack is married or not and we learn that he isnt anymore. so it looks like Jack got divorced from Sara, I wonder how? also when Sawyer comes out about the man he met in the bar who was coincidentally was Jack's father. he tells Jack that Christian didn't blame him, he is proud and that he loved him very much as Jack turns away in tears.
• we get a glimpse of Jin and Sun having lunch at the airport. Sun behaves very servant like to Jin for example laying out his napkin on his lap and getting his food. we know that she was about to leave Jin but decided not to so is she doing it because she feels bad of what she was about to do. back on the island Sun approaches Jin and hands him a notebook with English translations of the commands used to sail a boat. Jin feeling bad comes out with tears and apologizes telling her that this island is a punishment for what he did to her before.
• we see Sawyer in a police station getting bad cop treatment for what he did to a very important person to the Australian government. apparently its the second time Sawyer has visited the police station and the cops decided he isn't worth the money and time to prosecute so they deport him back to American on the Oceanic flight 815.
• we Shannon waiting in the airport when Sayid comes in the picture and asks if she could watch his back for a minute and she just ignores him. its funny how their relationship on the island turned out. in the airport Shannon gets pissed at Boone and in return tells one of the security guards about a Arab guy leaving a bag in the lobby.
• finally we get to see Kate's whereabouts before the flight. for one we find out why the Marshall wants four guns in the breifcase. it turns out when Kate attaches the Marshall that we get a idea how dangerous Kate. we also find how Kate got the whereabouts of the miniature plane which she left in the car when Tom got killed. as the Marshall explains Kate had been calling him asking for the minature plane. all he discloses is a safety box in a bank and the rest Kate figures out. I wonder how? back on the island, knowing everyone has now considered a outcast, she asks Jack if she could help him and Jack fully accepts.

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"?
• what is a hatch doing in a middle of a jungle and what does it contain?
• where did Ethan come from?
• why was the radio tower repeating "4,8,15,16,23 and 42" and what does it has to do with the hatch?
• what is Nigerian plane doing on the island filled with drugs? The skeleton with a gun dressed as a priest?
• what does the light from the hatch mean, does anybody live in there?
• what is a 18th century old ship doing in the middle of the jungle?

MYSTERIES RESOLVED

• we get a small idea of the monster or the creature lurking in the woods is about. Rousseau describes it as a security system used to protect the island. as vage as that sounds, it make sense after a number of strange things that have happened on the island.