Does Sawyer realize he was partly to blame? well that sucks. except perhaps he can be more empathetic with Jack now.
Sawyer was pretty much totally to blame. If he hadn’t cut the wires, the bomb wouldn’t have exploded, Jin/Sun/Lapidus (maybe)/Sayid would still be alive, the sub wouldn’t have sunk, etc.
I doubt that Locke’s pilot license would cover flying a jumbo jet. Seeing as how he’d JUST gotten it and you start off flying things like little single prop planes and such. Just sayin’. I am also still confused as to how they were thinking they could get a jet off the ground with no runway.
I’ve always wondered this myself. Can anyone clarify?
Just as they were showing the hands I imagined Lapidus drifting by with a “Weekend at Bernie’s” look on his face. Made me giggle inappropriately. My wife may think I’m a sociopath…
I’m trying to remember now - when did he take the watch? It was before he got on the plane, right? So why did he take the watch prior to finding the bomb? Did he know that the bomb would be there?
Yeah, I’ve been thinking all along that this whole “fly the jet off the island” thing is a red herring. If Frank Lapidus couldn’t get that thing off the ground again, I doubt anyone else could.
It kind of reminds me of the initial dynamic between Jack and Locke; ie, Jack was the skeptical one, Locke had faith. Now Jack has faith and Sawyer is the skeptical one…
I’m confused at this as well - why are Flocke and Widmore on (presumably) opposite sides, if they both want the losties dead?
I was kind of wondering why Smokey didn’t go and wipe out the whole Widmore group while the sonic fence was down.
On the other hand, it would seem like if they were working together to off the Losties it could have been accomplished in a less complicated fashion. It also would make it unnecessary for Sayid to sneak in and capture Desmond. Not that they couldn’t just hope that viewers not notice those details.
Widmore said specifically in this episode he was trying to protect the candidates. He didn’t care if Kate died because she wasn’t one, but the rest of them he wanted to keep safe.
Frank didn’t seem that daunted with the idea of getting the plane off the ground, did he? When they found the plane he seemed more excited than anything.
I would think the sub would be pressurized at or near sea level. If you haven’t been breathing air pressurized at a lower depth, nitrogen bubbles wouldn’t precipitate out when you surfaced. ergo, no bends.
There have to be more rules. Ben didn’t kill Widmore, he just exiled him. Ben didn’t have Sayid kill Widmore once Alex was dead.
The tripod-mounted sonic fence was something that could been destroyed by a well-thrown tree trunk.
I don’t think Smokey is allowed to kill Widmore.
-Joe
But there is a runway. They’d mentioned having to turn the plane around first. They also said they’d have to repair it, since the windshield was broken. Not sure how they were going to do that, especially if the plan was for them to sneak on and take off without Widmore noticing.
Still curious who ordered the runway built…
So then why was the plane set with explosives?
If Widmore was going to just destroy it, it seems a little odd that he hadn’t gotten around to it yet…
I wanted it to be “La Mer” (“Beyond the Sea”). Remember that little mystery from Season 1?
Did anyone catch Sayid’s last line?
Sayid: <Stuff about Desmond>
Jack: Why are you telling me this?
Sayid: Because it’s gonna be you, Jack.
Maybe I got it wrong, but it seems like non-zombie-Sayid may have some insight here.
I think he might have because he seems to know what everyone on the island is up to whether he witnesses their activities or not. Therefore, he’s probably pretty much tuned in to Richard & Co., who went off to rig the plane.
Richard and Miles (and a couple others?) went to rig the plane because Richard told everyone that Smokey must never be able to leave the island. So they went to go set the plane to blow up. IIRC, they were trying to convince the Losties that they didn’t want to leave the island with Smokey because everyone we know and love will be dead if we let Smokey off the island…
I thought they went back to the barracks for grenades, because they didn’t have any real demolitions explosives - which is why they needed to tote around unstable dynamite.
We haven’t seen Frank in the ATL yet, have we?
-Joe