Hurley and Jack realized in Lost Season 6 Episode 5 that Jacob’s been watching them all along, while Claire introduced us to her new black smoky friend.
Sayid pays a visit to Nadia, who’s married to his brother Omar.
Island Sayid goes to see Dogan. He’d like some answers. Who wouldn’t? The machine is a scale that shows whether someone is good or evil. Sayid’s test tipped the wrong way. In the middle of a seemingly casual conversation, Dogan flips out and attacks Sayid. He stops just short of killing him, but tells him to leave and never come back.
Claire agrees to go with the black smoke. He’ll only hurt those who won’t listen.
Omar’s in trouble. He borrowed money from a loan shark instead of a bank. Loan shark’s probably got better interest rates. Sayid’s not particularly willing to bail him out, though.
Sayid has decided to leave, seeing as how he’s been banished and all. Miles tells him that whatever brought him back wasn’t these others. They were as surprised as anyone to find out he was no longer dead.
Claire goes on behalf of the black smoke to request a meeting with Dogan. If he’s too afraid to meet with him, perhaps he should send someone who won’t end up dead.
Never mind that now. Dogan’s over the whole banishment deal. Now he wants Sayid’s help to kill the evil incarnate smoke, who will come to him as someone he knows who has died. This is how he proves he’s still good.
Back on the mainland, Omar’s been hospitalized by some thugs. Nadia begs Sayid to not do whatever he’s thinking of doing.
Kate’s returned to the temple, and she finds out that Australian chick’s back.
Sayid stabs the first dead guy he sees. He’s going to have to try harder than that if he intends to kill him. Locke offers the dagger back to him. He can have anything he wants if he delivers a message, even Nadia.
Per Nadia’s request, Sayid just went home and watched the kids. No vengeance to be had. So anyway, why did he push her toward his brother? Because he doesn’t deserve her. Oh really?
Sayid returns to camp with a message: Jacob is dead, and nobody has to stay there any longer. Whoever wishes to leave the island can. Or they can stay and die.
Kate goes to see Claire to tell her she was the one who took Aaron. Oh, now you’re just asking for her to be pissed off. Kate’s dragged off as Claire leaves her with a warning. He’s coming, and they can’t stop him.
The thugs who hospitalized his brother would like to chat. So now they’re dead. As he’s leaving, Sayid meets a man locked in the freezer, Jin.
Before he can flee the island with everybody else, Sayid has to return a dagger. Why does this Dogan guy keep trying to have him killed anyway? Whatever the long drawn out reason about his son being in danger and him coming to the island at Jacob’s invitation, Sayid has decided to kill Dogan. He’s warned that he was the only thing keeping it out. He just let it in. Then the guy who warns him gets his throat slashed.
With that, if the temple was safe before, it’s apparently not any more. The black smoke arrives to create chaos, leaving bodies and destruction in its wake. And then there’s a bunch of creepy walking in slow motion.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Lost Season 6 Episode 7 Dr. Linus, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on ABC.