LOST, New Episode, Wednesday, January 11- “The 23rd Psalm”
Welcome back, Lost lovers. Tonight, we get two full hours of Lost material. The first hour, titled “Lost: Revelation” will recap everything we already know about both groups of survivors, but will put it in perspective by lining the events up chronologically so that we can see the unwitting intersection of the tailies and the survivors from the fuselage.
Before we get to the brand new episode, let’s refresh our memories on what happened on the last episode, way back in November.
In “What Kate Did,” we learn the truth about Kate’s original crime. Kate is sitting on the steps of a house when her mother’s husband, Wayne, returns from a long night of drinking. Kate helps him into bed, but not without his drunken attempts to lay his hands on her, as this scene suggests has happened in the past. Kate says goodnight and leaves the house to ride away on a motocycle, as her mother’s house explodes into flames with Wayne inside.
Still fever-ridden, Sawyer deliriously calls out for Kate and whispers to Jack that he loves her. Jack is visibly upset by the revelation, but before he can process it, Kate comes to Sawyer’s side. Jack leaves the hatch to attend Shannon’s funeral, at which Sayid says his goodbye. While alone with Sawyer, Kate has a terrifying experience. Wayne seems to speak to her through Sawyer to ask her why she killed him. Kate runs off, leaving Sawyer unattended to wrestle with the issue of her sanity. The appearance of a mysterious black horse outside the hatch doesn’t help things. Through a flashback, we learn that the horse first appeared when the Marshal (from Oceanic Flight 815) tracks her down at a bus station trying to flee. The Marshal attemps to transport Kate back to Iowa, but a brutal rainstorm makes it difficult, and the car swerves off the road and knocks the Marshal unconscious. Kate pushes him out of the car only to see the cause of the swerve, a black horse standing in the middle of the road.
Later on in the episode, Kate visits the man she had previously thought she was her dad in a U.S. Army Recruiting Office. Turns out that Wayne was her real father and that was the real reason she killed him… in her own words: “It’s because I hated that you were a part of me, that I would never be good.”. Dun dun duh!
Eko reveals a new piece to the Orientation film, tucked inside the hollowed out section of an old Bible, that he and Locke splice with the original and then watch together. The new information provided in the spliced section is this:
“This is its only function. The isolation that attends the duties associated with Station 3 may tempt you to try and utilize the computer for communication with the outside world. This is strictly forbidden. Attempting to use the computer in this manner will compromise the integrity of the project and worse, could lead to another incident. I repeat, do not use the computer for anything other than entering the code.”
Just after this information is revealed, we’re back in the computer room of the hatch with Michael. A short beep from the computer gets his attention. On the screen, followed by a blinking cursor, is the word, “Hello?” Michael looks around to see that no one is there to alert about the situation, so he just types, “Hello” and the response “Who is this?” comes back. Michael types, “This is Michael. Who is this?” And, as the stunning conclusion to the episode, one word pops up on the screen. “Dad?”
Tonight’s episode is called “The 23rd Psalm.” Here’s the info from ABC’s website:
Mr. Eko interrogates Charlie about the Virgin Mary statue, Claire begins to lose faith in Charlie when she discovers his secret, and Jack is an interested observer when Kate gives the recovering Sawyer a much-needed haircut.
Eko is at the center of tonight’s episode, and word is that we’ll hear from the monster once again, in a bigger way than ever before… and get a longer look at it, too! Eko is somehow connected to the drug plane, and he forces a trek back to the site of Boone’s death to see where exactly Charlie found his Virgin Mary statue. We’ll learn more about Eko’s 40-day vow of silence after the tailies’ initial experience with The Others, and the large stick he’s been carrying around ever since.
January 12th, 2006 at 10:08 am
Great, great, great episode.
January 12th, 2006 at 10:50 am
I agree. For once this season I didn’t at least get the momentary urge to take a nap. The coincidences on the island are really starting to pile up, however. I’m cool with that, but they had better have some decent explanations for it. I’m starting to get the feeling that they’ll use the “mystery” of the island as a way to extend the series for 10 seasons. God I hope not.