Following everybody making their trek toward the beach in Lost Season 6 Episode 7, Charles Widmore discovered them, telling his crew to proceed as planned, despite the fact that there were people there.
Sawyer’s looking to work with Locke, or whoever he is, in order to make his way off the island. Jin’s not willing to leave because Sun might be there. With that, Sawyer promises not to leave until they find her.
Back on the mainland, Sawyer’s got a meeting with some guy. Suitcase full of money in hand. The chick he’s with is married to a conman, so she knows when she’s being conned. He suggests she do the right thing, or otherwise the cops surrounding the building will be busting her. She doesn’t buy what she considers his bluff, so officer Miles has to bust in with his men and make the arrest. Strangely enough, James, too, is a cop.
Without Aaron, Claire had to make her own son out of a skull and other random oddness.
Locke informs those who are still alive that the black smoke killed everybody who stayed behind at the temple. Kate asks Sawyer if he’s with Locke now. Nope, he ain’t with anybody.
Locke wants to talk to James to tell him he’s the smoke thing. He didn’t rescue anybody. Those who died were convinced they were protecting the island from him, so it’s either kill or be killed. Now he has a recon mission for Sawyer. He’s going to Hydra Island, where there’s a plane. Some of the other passengers may mean to do them harm. If he does this, they get on that plane, fly off that island, and never look back. Pretty convincing argument.
Detective Ford meets Charlotte, the redhead who died on the island. He tells her it got to the point where he was either going to be a criminal or a cop, so he chose cop. Well, that pretty much leads to her jumping his bones. When she goes rifling through his drawer and inadvertently finds a story about the local man who killed himself and his wife, leaving his 9 year old son behind, James throws her out.
While Kate’s chatting with Sayid, Claire pulls out a knife and jumps her. Sayid sits there and watches until Locke breaks up the fight. He warns Claire that trying to kill people like that is completely inappropriate.
Sawyer arrives at the island, where he’s promptly greeted by a bunch of dead rotting bodies. There is someone alive, though. She says she’s the only one left.
Miles would like to know what Sawyer was doing in Australia when he was supposed to be in Palm Springs. None of his damn business.
The remaining survivor on Hydra Island is Zoe, who was out collecting wood when she heard screaming. When she came back, they were dead.
Locke accepts responsibility for Claire’s behavior, since he told her that the others had her baby. He wanted to give her something to keep going, something to hate.
Zoe’s sure full of questions. So now Sawyer would like some answers. When he pulls out his gun to try to get the truth, a bunch of people with weapons jump out and point them at him. Is her name even Zoe? Probably about as much as his is Sawyer’s.
Kate referred to Locke as a dead man. He objects to that. Oh, and like his mother was crazy, Aaron, too, has a crazy mother.
Sawyer’s hauled off to a submarine and told to get in. He’s waiting for him.
After learning a lesson about life from (where else?) an episode of Little House on the Prairie, Sawyer returns to Charlotte, who doesn’t care.
Once inside the sub, Sawyer meets up with Charles Widmore, the fellow who sent a freighter to the island loaded with guys to kill them all. He denies having murdered those people. Sawyer has a deal that makes Charles smile. He’ll go back, say the coast is clear, bring Locke back, and then Widmore can go ahead and kill him. In exchange, his people don’t get touched, and they get safe passage off the island.
Claire has decided she no longer wants Kate dead.
Contrary to his deal with Widmore, James tells Locke the whole story. They’re trying to keep out that smoke thing, and there’s a locked room where they’re hiding.
Sawyer has decided to tell his partner Miles what he’s up to. He’s looking for Anthony Cooper, who he’s been chasing since he left the academy. When he finds the right one, he’s going to kill him. During this chat, they get run into by a fleeing suspect. That would be Kate.
The plan is to just let Locke and Widmore’s crew fight it out. While they’re busy, Sawyer and Kate will be to get off the island. They’re taking the sub.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another recap of Lost Season 6 Episode 9 Ab Aeterno, which airs Tuesday at 9/8c on ABC.