Summary
Sun works in her garden. Jack walks up and asks her a
few questions about her pregnancy. She's fine, but she
wonders why he's asking. He puts it off as just checking
on her since he's only recently returned to camp.
Flash back. Sun has a cell phone conversation with Jin.
They're newly married and Sun is still getting used to
being called "Mrs. Kwon." Their things are still in boxes
at their apartment, but Jin says he's managed to unpack
the bed, much to Sun's delight. She hangs up and a woman
sitting next to her strikes up a conversation. It's not
a coincidental meeting, as the woman ends up mentioning
the shame involved in Sun marrying the son of a fisherman.
Sun says that Jin's parents are both dead, but she knows
about Sun's father's trade. Then the woman asks whether
Jin knows that his mother was a prostitute. The
woman knows
that Sun's father is rich, and if Sun doesn't want Jin
to find out the truth and bear that shame, Sun is to give
her $100,000 in a three days.
Back to the island. The parachutist is virtually incoherent,
but she rambles in Spanish that she's dying. A quick inspection
reveals a tree limb has perforated her side. As Charlie
and Desmond argue about how to get help, Hurley finds and
accidentally fires a flare gun that the woman had in her
pack.
Flash back. Sun unpacks a picture of herself with her
parents. She asks Jin if he has any family pictures, and
he says they didn't have a camera when he was growing up.
She asks if his father didn't leave him any pictures when
he died, and Jin says that he was away in the army when
his father died. Sun recalls Jin telling her that his father
died when he was sixteen, not when he was in the army.
He tells her she must have misunderstood and gets quite
agitated at her questioning.
On the beach, Sun tells Kate about her conversation with
Jack. She notes that Jack spent a week alone with the Others
and hasn't seemed the same since he's been back. She worries
that the Others want her baby and that Jack might be working
for them. Kate assures Sun that Jack isn't working with
the Others. Sun presses Kate on how she knows that, and
Kate relays what Juliet told her and Jack when Claire got
sick: Juliet was the Others' fertility doctors and the
Others wanted Claire's baby for research.
Sun makes a beeline for Juliet, trailed by Kate. She
wants to know about Juliet's research and what happens
to pregnant women. Juliet doesn't answer, but figures from
the questions that Sun is pregnant. Sun keeps on with the
questions. What are the Others doing on the island? Why
do they take children? The only question Juliet answers
is what happens to pregnant women on the island: they all
die. Kate finally manages to lead Sun away.
Charlie and Desmond continue to argue over the best way
to help the wounded parachutist. They're interrupted when
Mikhail stumbles into their clearing looking remarkably
not dead. Everyone ends up staring at each other for a
moment, then Mikhail takes off into the jungle. Jin chases
him down from behind. The two fight and Mikhail holds his
own, but Jin eventually gets the better of him.
Back near the downed parachutist, Desmond questions Mikhail
with the flare gun pointed at his chest. Mikhail isn't
interested
in answering
any
questions.
When Desmond threatens to shoot, Mikhail reminds him that
he already died once this week. The writhing sounds of
the wounded woman, this time she's speaking Italian, give
Mikhail an idea. He tells the lostaways that he was a Soviet
army field medic. The branch has punctured the woman's
lung, and it's filling with blood. He's willing to
save the woman in exchange for his freedom. Desmond accepts
his offer.
Flash back. Sun manages to track down Jin's father, another
character that looks remarkably good for a dead man. He
seems thrilled to meet Sun and asks about the wedding.
She asks why he wasn't there. He asks what Jin told her,
and she tells him that Jin said he was dead. The elder
Mr. Kwon looks hurt, but he understands. He tells Sun that
Jin lied to escape the shame of where he came from. Jin
asks if that's why Mr. Kwon told Jin that his mother died
when Jin was a baby.
Mr. Kwon tells Sun that Jin's mother was with many men,
and left him with Jin. He wasn't even sure
that Jin was his, but there was no one else to take care
of him. He asks Sun not to tell Jin that they met, or that
his mother is still alive, to spare him that shame. Sun
agrees.
Back to the beach. Late at night, Juliet goes to Sun and
tells her that she has answers for Sun, but only if she
goes with her right then, and only if they go alone. Juliet
tells Sun that there may yet be hope for her. Sun follows
Juliet out into the jungle, headed for the medical station.
Juliet says there's an ultrasound machine there. Sun says
that Kate and Claire told her about the station, but there
was nothing there. Kate and Claire didn't know where to
look. Juliet will use the ultrasound to determine Sun's
date of conception, or D.O.C. (hence the name of the episode).
If she got pregnant before she came to the island, she
and the baby will probably be fine. If she got pregnant
on the island, well, that's not so good.
Flash back. Sun visits her father at work and asks for
$100,000, no questions asked. He isn't inclined to give
her that kind of money without knowing what it's for, but
she tells him that all her life she's pretended not to
know what kind of business he really does, and she'll keep
on pretending that if he gives her the money. He still
has a problem with the no-questions-asked. She tells him
she's trying to spare someone she loves deep shame. It
doesn't take a spinal surgeon to figure out that it's her
new husband. Mr. Paik gets the money, but tells Sun that
if the money is for her husband's sake, he'll be the one
owing the debt, and he won't simply be working as a floor
manager, but will work for him directly. Sun considers
that for a moment, then takes the money.
Mikhail asks what the others know about the woman and
whether she had anything on her. Hurley tells him she had
a book and a fancy phone before Charlie manages to shut
him up. Mikhail has Desmond hold the woman down while he
plunges and empty syringe into her lung to evacuate the
blood, then he pulls the limb from her side and has Desmond
bandage the wound. The woman says something in Portuguese,
which Mikhail translates, after hesitating, as "thank you
for helping me."
Juliet and Sun reach the medical station, which look pretty
much like it did the last time we saw it. Sun asks why
Juliet is helping her. Juliet tells her that before she
came to the island, she loved seeing the joy on her patients'
faces when she told them they were pregnant. Since coming
to the island, she's lost nine patients. She hoping that
by determining that Sun got pregnant before she came to
the island, she can give good news again.
Sun admits that she slept with another man before coming
to the island, and that she and Jin were having problems
and not sleeping together. She says it was a mistake, and
Juliet tells her that they all make mistakes.
Juliet opens a secret room. Inside is medical equipment
and the furniture from Aaron's would-be nursery. Sun asks
why the room is hidden, and Juliet reluctantly tells her
that it's where the women were taken to die.
Mikhail tells the group that the parachutist will be okay.
Give it a day, maybe a day and a half and she'll be fine.
Charlie finds that difficult to believe, but Mikhail tells
him the rules are a bit different on the island. Charlie
wants to keep Mikhail prisoner, but Desmond lets him go.
Jin checks the bags, notices that the phone is gone and
again chases Mikhail down. They get the phone back. Now
Charlie really doesn't want to let him go, but Desmond
says they have him their word and lets Mikhail walk.
Sun tells Juliet that the baby can't be Jin's because
Jin is infertile. Juliet says, "and then you came here."
Sun doesn't understand. Juliet tells Sun that the typical
sperm count on the island is five times the normal count
off the island. Juliet goes on to explain that she'll take
measurements of the fetus and that will tell her when it
was conceived, and that will tell Sun who the father is.
Sun tells Juliet that she's going to lose either way. If
she and the baby are to live, then the baby isn't Jin's.
Flash back. Jin finds the money in Sun's purse. Sun lies
and tell that she got it from her father so they could
have some furniture and a nice honeymoon. Jin tells her
that he can provide those things for her, even if it takes
a while. He asks her to give the money back so that they
aren't any further in her father's debt.
Juliet shows Sun her baby on the ultrasound, and there
are smiles all around. Juliet takes her measurements. The
crash was 90 days ago. Conception took place about 53 days
ago. The baby is Jin's. Juliet promises to do everything
she can to help Sun, who is both saddened by the idea that
she's been given a death sentence and happy that the baby
is Jin's.
Flash back. Sun hands her blackmailer the envelope with
the cash. The woman starts to count it, but Sun stops her.
She asks why the woman didn't tell her that she is Jin's
mother. She replies that she gave birth to Jin, but that
doesn't make her his mother. Sun reminds the woman how
powerful her family is and that Jin thinks she's dead.
She warns the woman not to force Sun to make that fiction
become reality.
Sun and Juliet emerge from the medical station. Sun asks
how long she has. Juliet tells her most of the women made
it halfway through their second trimester, none of them
made it to their third. Doing the math, that give Sun two
months, or roughly two seasons if the show keeps progressing
at the same pace. She tells Juliet that since the baby
is Jin's she gave her good news.
Juliet tells Sun she's going back inside to make sure
they've properly covered their tracks. Sun stays outside.
Juliet finds a tape recorder in one of the lockers. She
presses 'record,' and tapes a report for Ben. She tells
him that Sun is pregnant. The fetus is healthy. It was
conceived on the island with her husband who had previously
been sterile. She's still working on getting samples from
the other women, and expects to have Kate's soon. She'll
report back when she knows more. She stops the recorder
and gives an unrecorded postscript, "I hate you."
Jin, Charlie and Desmond work on making a stretcher for
the parachutist. Charlie tells Desmond that they should
have killed Mikhail because he can't be trusted. Desmond
points out that, by his count, the lostaways have killed
more Others than the other way around. Charlie says that
just because Juliet showed up with Jack, that doesn't mean
that the Others can be trusted now.
Away from the group, Hurley sits with the injured woman,
playing with the dead satellite phone. The woman begins
to wake up. She asks where she is. All Hurley can tell
her is that she's on an island. He also tells her that
he's one of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815. The woman
tells him that's not possible. The wreckage of 815 was
found. There were no survivors.
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