I’m watching Lost Season 1 on DVD, I’m not all the way through, so I’m not seeking spoilers on anything I haven’t seen yet. I just want an explanation for the scene toward the end of the episode which highlighted the Korean couple.
I understand that after they got married, his (rather rough) work for her father occupied him more and more, and he became neglectful and abusive. She made plans to ditch him. That woman looking at her apartment was helping plan it…she was to make her run for it…something about a flight at 11:15.
Then at the end, we see her in the airport at 11:15. Her husband seems to be on line to board the flight on which they eventually got “Lost.” She’s looking at a car sitting just outside the airport doors. And he offers he a flower. She obviously follows him onto the plane…
What was she originally supposed to do? Was she supposed to have slipped out of the airport then, but her husband got wind of the plan and stayed at 11:15 to watch her, and catch her in the act? Or was she supposed to board the 11:15 flight and slip away after the flight landed? Was that car there to pick her up, or was it filled with associates of her father and husband to ensure she didn’t slip away? Was she won over by the flower, or was she scared into boarding the flight, or was she planning to board anyway?
Basically, I obviously missed the finer details of her escape plan. What were they?
She was supposed to slip out of the airport at 11:15. There would be a car waiting for her to take her into hiding. These people would keep her hidden for a while. At first Jin and her father would assume she had been kidnapped, but eventually they would give her up for dead.
Sun hesitated in her execution of this plan and was eventually won over by the flower - a reminder of happier times when she and Jin first fell in love.
My feeling on that is that she was supposed to walk out, get into the car, and be driven off, where she’d get transported to the U.S. and freedom. Jin, however, had found one of “their” flowers from when they were first dating, and smiled at her, and she realized she still loved him, and couldn’t bail on him.
I think that car was supposed to be her ride. She was ready to go, but had a last-minute change of heart about her husband.
Although, if that was her ride, why was it there for her in Australia? You’d think a get-away plan would be a little less convoluted (and she’d have an easier time “disappearing” back in Korea).
So he was expected to be there, and to see her leave the airport when he was boarding the flight? He just wasn’t supposed to know where she went after that?
That explains the scene, I guess. For some reason, I thought she was supposed to slip away without him seeing.
I think the plan was for her to slip away while his back was turned, or after she excused herself to use the restroom or something. Not for her to just leave while he watched. But yes, that car was for her.