'Lost' recap: Reunited and It Feels So KABOOM!

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JACK'S LEAP OF FAITHFUL LOGIC
Watching Sawyer at the wheel of the Elizabeth, I couldn't help but think of Cannonball Run. I also thought it served as a metaphor for the state of ignorance in both the Island and Sideways world. The boat was named after one of their fallen comrades, but they didn't know that, not even Hurley. Desmond could have briefed them, of course. Oh, well.

On the boat, Sawyer tried to engage Jack in conversation, maybe try to work out some kind of peaceful coexistence in the wake of Jack's Juliet-killing Jughead gambit. Yet Sawyer couldn't resist taking a sly shot at Jack's crappy track record as a follower. The insult bounced off of Jack. But then Shephard shared his crisis of conscience, and it only played to Sawyer like a confirmation of Jack's Alpha Male arrogance. ''This doesn't feel right,'' Jack said of leaving The Island. It sounded like superstition, but it wasn't. It was intuition informed by reason — the Locke in him bolstered by the Jack. ''I remember how I felt the last time I left. Like a part of me was missing. We were brought here because we were supposed to do something, James. And if Locke — of that 'thing' — wants us to leave, then maybe it's afraid of what happens if we stay?'' In that line, it seemed to me that Jack was applying several lessons of his Island experience, including all the hard lessons Ben had taught him over the years about Island bad guys. Island bad guys figure out what you want most in life, then exploit it. Island bad guys always motivate you with fear and urgency and want you to act before you've taken the time to think things through. Island bad guys make it sound like you share common interests, but in most cases, whatever it is they want you to do is actually the exact opposite of what you should be doing.

Sawyer didn't want to hear any of this. And alas, his resistance to Jack's warnings was a textbook example of fear clouding judgment. Sawyer desperately wanted off The Island. He'd been put (manipulated) into a situation where he had to move ASAP to get what he wanted. And he didn't have time to consider all the ways he could have been bumbling into disaster. He got played by an Island bad guy. And it made me wonder if Sawyer is about to add his own Jughead to his hero/leader resume. Sawyer forced Jack to make a choice. Stay or go. Jack chose to trust his fully integrated faith/reason self — the ''different person'' he spoke of being to Kate — and jumped off Sawyer's ship of fools.

It was a succession of bitter pills for Sawyer from that point forward. On Hydra Island, Zoe and the Widmore science police greeted Sawyer, Kate, Sun, Hurley, Claire, and Lapidus at gunpoint. At first, the security measures seemed like a precautionary formality. As everyone relaxed, Jin stepped out from behind a tree. Sun spotted him. The reunion was on. Sun spoke of her unflagging journey to find Jin — and she did so in English. There was much hugging, touching, squeezing. Their friends beamed, except for Sawyer. The sight of the Jin/Sun restoration only reminded him of what he would never have with Juliet, and it tore him apart. And then Lapidus got corny. Maybe the show wanted me to laugh. Maybe someone somewhere at ABC was worried that the Lost audience doesn't watch the show close enough and would have forgotten what happened to Sun in ''The Package.'' Anyway, I groaned and was bummed to be taken out of a moment I had been looking forward to for a very long time. Then, more monkey wrenches. Zoe and co. raised their guns. There was no truce. Widmore's sub escape pact with Sawyer was a con. The castaways were made to eat sand. The rockets launched, and Jack found himself in the fearsome hands of the Man-Thing. What a burn.

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