Lost Recap - Season 3 - Episode 4 - Every Man For Himself

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I don't know what was more exciting this week - the episode or the previews for next week!

As for the episode - everyone is still in the same place as last week but we are now seeing the captured survivors (Jack, Sawyer and Kate) start breaking down to the pressure the Others are putting on them.

Sawyer is taken in by the Others and a scene from Pulp Fiction is suddenly redone on the Island. No, not the scene where they do the funky dance at the diner. I am talking about the Coke Overdose scene when they have to puncture the breast plate with a needle. Sawyer is knocked out and wakes up later to be told they put a pacemaker in him. Ben says that if Sawyer's heartrate goes too high that his heart will explode and Sawyer will die. Ben also insists that Sawyer not tell Kate or else Kate will get the same pacemaker. (we later find out Ben lied...or did he??)

Who knew Sawyer was so gullible to actually believe they put a pacemaker in him? Sawyer seems like the one to always doubt and he just bought right into it. Well it seems to drive Sawyer insane not to be able to tell Kate and Kate starts to get the feeling that something is up. She shows Sawyer that she could escape from her cage (which she does) and then ends up going back into her cage after Sawyer says he won't escape with her. She says "Live together, die alone" (I think Jack said this way early on in another season).

In a flashback we saw Sawyer in jail and tricking a fellow jailmate to help out the warden, which got Sawyer out of jail 6 years early. Sawyer also gets a sweet payoff which he puts into a secret bank account for his daughter that he just found out about. What was the connection there? Is it that Sawyer is only looking out for himself? But we know he isn't because of how he is protecting Kate (and how he helped out his daughter). I guess it is that he looks out for those he somehow cares about (no matter how much he wants to deny it).

Back at the beach, Desmond is either hitting on Claire or had another clairvoyant moment. We aren't really sure which one it is because he asked Claire if he could fix the roof of her tent (which Charlie rejected) and later on made a lightning pole which may have kept Claire and her baby from being hit by lightning. But again, that isn't entirely clear whether Desmond wanted to keep Claire away from lightning or dry from the rain. That didn't really make sense to me.

Back at the Hydra, Jack is asked to help with an emergency surgery of Colleen (who was shot by Sun in the Glass Ballerina episode). Ben runs into Jack's cell and tells Juliet "the sub is back." (do the other's have a submarine? sweeeeeet!) Colleen is at a point where she cannot be saved and she dies. This causes Pickett (Colleen's husband) to get very angry and beat up Sawyer because "they" (meaning the survivors) did this to his wife. Pickett makes Kate admit that she loves Sawyer so Pickett will stop hitting him, which Kate takes back when Sawyer says something about it later. (Thanks Sassy for reminding me). Meanwhile, Jack notices x-rays of a spinal cord with a tumor on it. Since the others know everything about the survivors, Jack assumes they know he is a spinal surgeon. Jack wants to know whose x-ray it is and if he is being kept prisoner so he can perform surgery on that person. Is it Ben?

After all the drama with Sawyer, Ben takes Sawyer out on a hike where he wants to show him something. That is where Ben reveals that the pacemaker was not real. Ben tells Sawyer that the only way to gain a conman's respect is to con him. He says Sawyer is a good conman but the other's are better. At the end of their hike Ben tells Sawyer that he is on an island about twice the size of Alcatraz and they are looking across the water at the Island where they everyone else is (the Island where they crashed). Elad has now coined the name of the new island "Isla Sorna" (from Jurassic Park). Ben tells Sawyer that there is no point to escaping because there is nowhere to go. He would have to swim across a body of water just to get back to the Island. Is Ben lying again to Sawyer just to keep him complacent?

And next week looks like we are taken back to the Pearl and there is someone with an eyepatch watching them. Thanks to Lonny's TIVO we were able to figure out that the weird person on the Pearl's tv was not an alien. Could you imagine if this whole thing suddenly turned into a show about aliens? Anyway, next week looks like an action packed episode with many of the survivors from the beach back in focus. Where is Sayid, Sun and Jin? Is Locke going to save the prisoners? Who are these new random characters on the beach? Hopefully these questions will be answered soon.