Saturday, July 31, 2010

Episode 066: December 9-10, 2004 (Days 79 to 80)


Sayid tries to approach Mikhail's outpost but is shot in the shoulder for his troubles.  Sayid and Kate attack and force him to drop his gun.  Mikhail claims to be a member of the Dharma Initiative, but as he converses with Sayid, Sayid realizes he is one of the Others.  Back at the camp, Hurley and Sawyer are engaged in an epic battle of ping pong, where Sawyer gets his stuff back if he wins, but loses the ability to use nicknames for a week if he loses.  He gets crushed.  Sayid and Kate head to the basement of the outpost while Locke keeps an eye on him.  Unfortunately Locke is too busy playing chess and ends up being taken hostage.  Sayid and Kate find another one of the Others down there, but when they take her back above, Mikhail kills her so that she can't give up any information, but is taken down before he can kill himself.  In a bit of foreshadowing, Rousseau argues that Mikhail should be killed, as he said that he would not hesitate to kill one of them, but Sayid instead chooses to keep him alive.  Before they left the outpost, however, Locke blew up the communications outpost.  Off island, Matthew Abaddon presents Naomi with her team that will accompany her to the island.  At the camp Claire tries to catch a migratory bird in the hopes of attaching a message to its leg and getting a message off the island to the outside world.  Locke & co. reach the sonic fence that borders the Dharma barracks.  Locke pushes Mikhail into the fence to see if it's on, and he starts to shake and bleed out of his ears and falls over, possibly dead.  They get a large tree branch and manage to climb over the fence instead.  Michael joins up with the freighter crew in the Pacific, and talks to Tom on the phone one last time before leaving port.  Desmond helps Claire get one of her birds, and tells her about his visions of Charlie dying.  We close out the episode with Locke, Sayid and Kate arriving at the Dharma barracks and spotting Jack, only he's busy playing football with Tom Friendly.  The episode runs 60:37 and is 497MB to download.  You can stream the episode below (via Facebook), or go here to use torrents (better quality, recommended) to download the episodes to your computer.

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6 comments:

  1. oh there's the naomi/abaddon scene! but shouldn't it come before naomi auditioned miles in ep 65?

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  2. Good catch, must have slipped my mind when I was inserting those scenes in with the present timeline.

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  3. Hi Mike, I know I'm like more than 2 years late to the party on these but I just discovered them and they are wonderful. Just finished this episode and absolutely loving everything so far. I did just notice that with this edit it looks like Tom calls Michael when he's on the freighter just a few hours before he's back on the Island playing football with Jack. Also Tom told Michael during that phone call not to blow the freighter up for a couple of days yet a few hours later they are far out to sea and it looks like Michael is contemplating opening/using the case. I think that whole bit of interaction, of Michael getting on the freighter and speaking to Tom on the phone should have been a few days earlier.

    Loving your work!!

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    1. Thanks Chris! Looking at this episode again, it probably would have been best to put Michael's phone convo with Tom a little earlier in the episode to try and give the impression of more time having passed. It would have helped with the fact that Tom really has to book it from New York after that phone call to get back to the island to play football with Jack. That was going to be a tight fit no matter what given the sequence of events that have to happen off island and match up with what's going on on island.

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  4. Tom's timing on and off the Island seems off. But more importantly, it seems impossible. Ben and Mikhail both say that after the purple light, their underwater beacon was damaged. They can't leave or return to the Island. I think one of them specifically said no coming back, so maybe leaving is fine. However, Tom seems to hop around fairly quickly

    I'm not blaming your edit. I just think there's a lot happening off Island and on Island at around the same time and they're probably not lining up properly. Michael leaving, immediately telling Walt...losing Walt, but then we don't find out that his grandma knows about stuff until when the wreckage was discovered. And then Tom pops up to send him away, and then bam Tom is back playing football and we're still waiting on Michael to set off on the freighter. It's all really confusing.

    It's interesting watching it this way because continuity questions are brought to light.

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    1. I think we should theorize that the Dharma Initiative actually was working on a teleportation device that we just never got to see, and that's how Tom was able to travel so quickly off the island. Yeah, let's go with that.

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