Lower Decks

The Lost Season Four Rewatch is winding down, with only four episodes remaining and two weeks to go before Season Five premieres on ABC. The drama ratchets up in “The Shape of Things to Come” and “Something Nice Back Home,” the ninth and tenth episodes of Season Four. Keamy’s forces assault the Barracks and Jack undergoes surgery. Join in the discussion and catch up on all the twists and turns.

4×09 – “The Shape of Things to Come”

(Originally Broadcast April 24th, 2008)

Keamy and his mercenary gang attack Locke’s camp at the Barracks and use Ben’s daughter as a bargaining chip. After Keamy kills Alex, Ben releases the smoke monster. Sawyer, Miles, Claire and Aaron head back for the beach while Hurley is forced to stay with Ben and Locke, who hope to find Jacob and some answers.

At the beach, the body of the doctor from the freighter washes up. Daniel builds a crude radio transmitter using the sat-phone and parts from the plane and contacts the freighter, asking what happened to the doctor. He isn’t told anything about the doctor but tells Jack and the others that their friends are fine and that the helicopter will return in the morning. But Bernard, who knows Morse code, says Daniel is lying: the real message was “What are you talking about? The doctor is fine.” Jack confronts Daniel who admits that they were never planning on rescuing anyone.

In the future, Ben travels to Tunisia, Iraq and London, England. He is able to recruit Sayid into joining him in his war against Charles Widmore and later confronts Widmore himself, promising to kill Penny (Widmore’s daughter) because Widmore had Alex (Ben’s daughter) murdered. Widmore changed the rules.

Did You Notice?

There is absolutely no dust anywhere to be found in any of the buildings making up the Barracks?

4×10 – “Something Nice Back Home”

(Originally Broadcast May 1st, 2008)

At the beach, Jack collapses while attempting to defuse a tense situation on the beach. He insists he’s fine but Juliet eventually learns the truth: he has appendicitis. She sends Sun, Jin, Charlotte and Daniel to get surgical tools from the Medical Station; Jack insists upon being awake during the surgery and enlists Kate to hold a mirror so he can help talk Juliet through the operation. Juliet has Bernard put Jack under against his wishes when the pain causes him to move too much. But the surgery is a success. Juliet tells Kate that Jack — who is pretending to be asleep — is in love with her.

Sawyer, Miles and Claire (with Aaron) continue to make their way back to the beach. Miles stumbles upon the bodies of Rousseau and Karl. They then encounter Lapidus, who warns them to hide because Keamy is coming. In the middle of the night, Claire awakes to find her father (Christian Shephard) holding Aaron. She disappears into the jungle with him. Sawyer finds Aaron alone in the jungle the next morning.

In the future, Jack and Kate are living together and raising Aaron. Jack is back doing his doctor thing. He gets a call from Hurley’s doctor and when he visits Hurley, he learns that Charlie has sent him a message: “You’re not supposed to raise him.” Hurley also tells Jack to expect a visitor soon. Jack later proposes to Kate but things fall apart when Jack starts drinking and forces Kate to admit that she’s fulfilling a promise she made to Sawyer but won’t tell him what. He has also been seeing his father around the hospital.

Did You Notice?

The origin of the huge lamp Juliet uses during the surgery was never explained. Was it taken from one of the stations or was it from the plane?