Summary
Kate, Jack, Sayid and Juliet make their
way back toward the survivors' beach. They stop to make
camp for the night, and Jack and Kate go off to find firewood,
leaving Juliet with Sayid. Kate asks Jack about the week
he spent with the Others. He says he had a deal with Ben
that if he'd take care of him, Ben would send him home.
He just did what he was told and didn't ask any questions.
Kate doesn't look like she quite buys it.
Sayid asks Juliet the questions we've all
been wanting to ask. What are the Others doing on the island?
Why are they terrorizing them? What's with the lists and
with kidnapping children? He says he wants to know everything,
but first, he wants to know who Juliet is.
Flash back. Juliet and Rachel drive up to
a guard station. Juliet identifies herself as working for
Mittelos Bioscience. Rather than letting Juliet drive in,
Ethan and Richard meet them at the gate. Juliet remarks
that she didn't realize that there was an airport located
there. Richard introduces himself to Rachel and thanks
her for allowing them to borrow her sister for a few months.
Due to security reasons, they can't allow Rachel to come
any farther. Juliet and Rachel say their goodbyes. We learn
that Rachel's cancer is in remission, and Juliet promises
to be back before Rachel gives birth.
Back to the question at hand, Julie tells
Sayid that if she told him who she was and everything she
knows, he'd kill her. Sayid asks what she thinks he'll
do if she doesn't tell. Jack shows up and tells Sayid to
back off. Juliet will answer his questions when she's ready.
As of now, Juliet is under Jack's protection. As you can
imagine, this doesn't sit well with either Kate or Sayid.
On the beach, Charlie picks up Aaron and
has to wake Claire when she doesn't hear Aaron crying.
She's not feeling well, so Charlie takes Aaron so that
Claire can get some more rest.
In the jungle, Jack tries to tell Juliet
that his friends will eventually come around to her. She
points out that her people kept Sayid chained to a swing
set for three days, and she handcuffed Kate and dragged
her
into the jungle. Their coming around could take a while.
Flash back. Juliet waits in the Herarat
Aviation terminal. She, Richard and Ethan are the only
ones there besides the terminal employees. Ethan asks if
he can take her vitals. Richard pours her a glass of orange
juice, then puts a packet of powder in the juice. He
tells her the powder is a tranquilizer, and that she's
going to want to be asleep for the trip, which Ethan says
can be "kind of intense."
Juliet begins to balk at the
idea of a tranquilizer. She points out that she's put
up with a great deal of secrecy already, agreeing to not
contact anyone she knows for six months even though no
one in the medical community has ever heard of Mittelos
Bioscience.
Richard asks why she's been fine with all
of that in the first place? They aren't paying her that
much. He tells her he thinks she's been fine because she
knows that the place they're taking her is "special." He
tells her that she has a gift and asks her if she doesn't
believe that she should do something significant with it.
He tells her that where they're going, she can do just
that, even if he can't tell her where that is. She drinks
the orange juice and passes out.
Juliet wakes on board the submarine. Ethan
greets her and unstraps her, telling her that she had to
be strapped in because the last leg of the journey "gets
a little bumpy." She climbs up out of the sub to find see
her new home. Ben walks up the dock and welcomes her to
the island, saying that he's looking forward to working
with her.
On the beach, Claire wakes with a huge headache.
Sawyer (pleasantly) agrees to get her some aspirin. As
he goes to get the medicine, he sees Jack arrive a camp,
followed
by Kate, then by Sayid. Greetings are exchanged between
the returning survivors and the people of the camp. Even
Sawyer gives Jack a hug, though he saves his biggest welcome
for Kate. Sawyer's also the first to see Juliet arrive,
and he's none too thrilled.
After the greetings are all over, Hurley
comes to sit with Juliet on the beach. He's been assigned
to watch her while the rest of the castaways talk about
her. He tells her he doesn't remember her from the dock.
She says she had that day off. He tells her that he hears
she's a doctor, and she explains that she's more of a researcher.
He tells her that when Ethan came and kidnapped Claire,
Charlie got "upset." He points out where Ethan
is buried.
Flash back to an operating room. A woman
in on the operating table, her monitor has flat lined.
Ethan pronounces her dead and tells Juliet that he's sorry.
Goodwin
is there, too. He tells her that she tried, and that he'll
talk to Ben.
Juliet sits by the ocean. Ben comes to talk
to her. He reminds her that the woman chose to get pregnant
and knew the risks. Juliet tells Ben that she thinks "it"
happens at conception, and if that's the case there's nothing
she can do about it, at least not on the island. The only
way to test that theory is to take a woman off the island
and back to Miami. Ben won't even consider taking anyone
off the island. That being the case, Juliet says there's
nothing else she can do there. Her sister is due to give
birth in three months, and she wants to go home.
Ben tells Juliet that her sister's cancer
has returned. She won't live long enough to give birth.
He has documentation to prove it. Ben tells Juliet that
she has a choice of going home and spending time with Rachel
in her final days, or Juliet can stay and help with their
problem. If Juliet chooses to stay, Ben claims that they'll
cure Rachel's cancer. Juliet doesn't believe that they
can do that. Ben points out that in all of the medical
workups that she's done on the island, not a single person
has a trace of cancer. Juliet says that's because of the
island, and they won't let her bring Rachel to the island.
Ben assures her that "Jacob said he would take care
of it himself." That seems to cary some weight. Ben
reiterates his proposition. If Juliet stays, they'll save
Rachel's
life.
The powwow over Juliet continues. Sun asks
why they should trust her when she's one of them. Jack
insists that since they left her behind, she no longer
is one of them. Charlie asks where they went. Jack doesn't
know and says that Juliet doesn't know either. Sawyer proposes
having Sayid torture her and see what he can get out of
her. Sayid tells Sawyer he doesn't do that anymore (since
he did it to Sawyer and to Ben, of course), but he doesn't
trust her, either. If she's innocent, then why won't she
answer their questions? Jack says she's afraid, and they
should give her some time. He thinks the fact that he trusts
her should be enough. Sayid tells him it's not.
Desmond asks where Locke went. Jack says
he went with the others, right after blowing up the sub
that was going to take him off the island. The idea that
Jack made a deal with Ben to leave the island doesn't sit
well with the others, despite Jacks assurances that he
was going to come back with help.
Claire walks up during the discussion and
collapses. Jack and Charlie take her to a bed to check
her out. Juliet watches from a distance and asks Sun and
Jin what happened to Claire. Jin replies (through Sun),
"what do you care?" Juliet goes to Kate and asks her to
get Jack for her. She thinks she knows what's wrong with
Claire? How would she know? "Because I did it to her."
Juliet explains to Jack that Claire is having
a delayed immune reaction to a medication that she designed
to keep Claire alive during the late stages of her pregnancy.
Women on the island can't have babies, their bodies treat
the pregnancy as a foreign invader. She witnessed it over
and over. Every pregnant woman on the island died, except
Claire.
After the plane crash, Ethan infiltrated
their camp and began drawing blood samples. Even though
Claire didn't conceive on the island, she showed the same
symptoms, so they tried to save her life. Juliet developed
a serum that she thought would reverse the symptoms. Ethan
was administering the injections. When Hurley discovered
that Ethan wasn't on the plane, he decided, on his own,
to kidnap Claire. It wasn't supposed to happen that way.
Juliet tells Jack and Kate that Ethan kept a supply of
serum near the caves. If she leaves now, she can get the
serum and be back before it's too late. Kate doesn't seem
to buy her story, but Jack tells Juliet to go.
Flash back. Juliet is in bed with Goodwin.
She realizes that the next day will mark three years on
the island for her. He kisses her and tells her that he'd
better bake a cake. There's a knock on the door. We next
see Juliet looking over Ben's x-rays, which she had Karl
develop for her. She goes to Ben and tells him about the
tumor on his spine. He'd complained about back pain, and
she'd expected to find a fracture or herniated disc, but
found a tumor instead.
Juliet wonders, if they can cure cancer,
then why does Ben look frightened by his tumor? She calls
him a liar for telling her that they can cure cancer, since
Ben seems to have it. Ben insists that he's he hasn't lied.
The have a bit of a screaming match. Juliet just wants
to go home. She pleads with Ben to let her go home, but
he refuses.
Back to the present. Juliet finds a marked
tree and, underneath, a case. Sayid and Sawyer have followed
her with guns. They tell her to get away from the case.
She does, and she tells them that it contains medical supplies
for Claire. Sawyer opens the case, and it seems to have
what she said it would.
Sayid reminds her of her earlier claim that
if she told him everything she knew, he'd kill her. He
says that now's the time to see if she was right. Juliet
tells them that they don't have time for this, but Sawyer
insists that they've got all the time in the world. Juliet
goes on the offensive. She finds it interesting that Sawyer
and Sayid now consider themselves the morality police.
She asks Sayid how long it took before he told everyone
on the beach exactly how many people he had tortured. She
asks if he's ever told them about Basra. She tells Sawyer
that she's sure the first thing he did after the crash
was tell everyone about the man he'd shot the night before
he got on the plane. She tells them that she's going to
take the case to Claire, and they're going to let her,
because the last thing either of them needs is more blood
on their hands.
Flash back. We get a sequence from the beginning
of the season, with Juliet preparing for, then holding
the book club meeting, and the Others witnessing
the breakup of Flight 815. After Ben sends Ethan and Goodwin
off to infiltrate any groups of survivors, we get new footage.
Ben takes Juliet to the communications station. Mikhail
is viewing news feeds about the missing Oceanic Flight
815. Ben tells him he wants detailed files on every single
passenger. Mikhail is already working on that.
Mikhail
has also rigged a satellite uplink to Richard in Acadia
park. Richard uses a camera to show Juliet a newspaper
with that
day's
date
on it (Sept. 22, 2004). He then shows her a playground
where Rachel plays with her son, Julian. After a few
moments, Ben tells Richard that he should get back to the
island as soon as possible because they may have new visitors.
The transmission cuts off, and Ben tells Juliet that he's
not a liar.
Juliet still wants to go home. Ben tells
her that wasn't their agreement. She has to stay until
she completes her work. Juliet tells Ben that what he's
asking her to do is impossible. She says the mothers keep
dying. Then, he says, they'll find more mothers. Maybe
there were even some on the plane.
Juliet shows up at Claire's tent with the
case. Charlie doesn't want to let Juliet anywhere near
Claire. Juliet did this to Claire, so why should he trust
her. Jack says that he trusts her and asks if Charlie trusts
him. He does. Jack asks Charlie to give them a few minutes
with Claire to administer the serum. Before Juliet injects
Claire, he tells her that if the serum doesn't work, or
if something happens to Claire, he won't be able to protect
her anymore. She'll be on her own. She tells Jack that
she's already on her own and gives Claire the injection.
When Claire wakes up, she's back to normal.
Jack brings Juliet a tarp, blankets and airline pillows.
He gives her the good news about Claire, and tells her
that the group is okay with her setting up camp with them,
at least for now. He tells her that they're willing to
give her the benefit of a doubt, but eventually they'll
want some answers. She asks Jack why he doesn't seem to
need answers and why she never has to explain herself to
him. He tells her that when the sub exploded he could see
in her eyes that there was nothing in the world she wanted
more than to get off the island, and that makes her "one
of us."
As Juliet sets up her shelter, we get one
final flashback. Juliet discusses a plan with Ben. She's
to take Kate out into the jungle, handcuff herself to her,
and tell her she was gassed, too. If Kate catches her in
the lie, she'll admit to it and tell her it was the only
way to earn her trust. Then she'll go with the castaways
to their beach. She tells Ben that after everything they've
done to the castaways, it's going to be a problem. Ben
explains that Claire's implant has been activated, so by
the time they get back to the beach, there'll be a crisis
situation. They've planted medicine at Ethan old drop point
that will allow Juliet to save Claire. Ben hands Juliet
a gas mask, then tells her he'll see her in a week and
rolls off in his wheelchair.
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