My goodness, what have they gone and done now? Last night we were privileged to have the writers of LOST send us forward with Michael after he had left the island with his son Walt in tow, only to realize that it was the past as far as where the "actual" timeline of the series had reached. That is, the flashforward/flashback begins after Michael has come back to New York, but it is before he goes on board the freighter owned by Charles Widmore. Got it? Good.
The show is basically set around Michael, who we find out has "lost" his son again, because Michael couldn't keep his guilt inside and has told Walt that he murdered two people (Ana Lucia and Libby). Walt cannot be with such an inhuman dad and goes off to live with his grandmama. Most of this we find out through Tom, who has been sent by Ben to get Michael to do more dirty work for him. This is fake-beard Tom, who is alive and well, and, well . . . gay. Yeah, Tom, that big lug, always knew he had it in him. I shoulda known by the beard.
So, how many more questions do we have now? Here's an easy one, "When and where did Mike and Walt land with the boat?" How about, "Now that Walt is living with his grandmother (who will not let Michael see his son), do we think that this is where Miles was when he was first introduced as a 'medium'?" We'll move on. Michael gets onto the freighter disguised by Ben as Kevin Johnson, general maintenance help dude. So, as we learn, he's Ben's inside man, and he's there to kill all the people on the boat. But Ben didn't have to use Walt to get Michael to go for this, finally. Ben simply said that if Mike wanted to redeem himself for his two murders, and truly show his allegiance to the 815 bunch still stranded, he could "save" them by killing the people on Charles Widmore's boat.
You see, Charles Widmore staged a fake Flight 815 crash; and he had it done where the waters were sooooo deep that it would be difficult -- if not impossible -- to get to the plane and check the bodies or look for the black box. Bad man, or at least that's what we think; just look how he treated Desmond. And he's out to exploit the island's wonders, and kill the islanders. He has certainly hired the right bunch from what we saw. We see a group of muscle-bound Rambo-types skeet shooting on the boat using M-16s and Uzis (those wonderful submachine guns designed by Uziel Gal in the late 1940s). And they're just plain mean to Kevin, "Don't you have something to mop up?"
So, Ben's a good guy for wanting to get rid of those bad men and save the islanders. Well, wait a minute, let's see. Last night Ben sends his daughter Alex, along with Rousseau and Karl, out to a destination in the woods. He fears that there is an impending attack by the bad boat guys and he doesn't want his daughter to be hurt. Sort of like when he "imprisoned" Karl because he did not want Alex to be hurt. Alex and Karl were getting into heavy petting, and if by some chance Alex were to be inseminated, she'd be a goner. Anyway, off the three go into the woods. Bang, you're dead. Bang, you're dead. Actually, it was pretty quiet, no loud bangs. Ben is supposed to know everything, well almost everything. Either he didn't know that "they" were waiting in the woods, or he wanted to get rid of Rousseau and Karl, because they got shot. I don't think anyone in Vegas was picking Rousseau, and certainly not Karl. Then Alex tries to save herself, "Don't shoot; I'm Ben's daughter." I do feel bad for Rousseau, all those years on the island by herself . . . unfair! And who was waiting in the woods anyhow?
But let's not even enter into a discussion on how Ben is really a decent sort. Of course Ben's a bad guy. He's a manipulative scum and Jack never should have stopped using him as a punching bag. I mean, c'mon, Ben killed his own father. At least John Locke had the graciousness and dignity to have Sawyer do that dirty deed for him.
Well, back on the boat Sayid and Desmond confront Kevin Johnson, but Michael doesn't get the whole story out. He does tell enough so that Desmond and Sayid know he's working for Ben. That's enough for Sayid, he doesn't want to hear anymore. He marches Kevin to the captain and reports that Kevin is an impostor working for Ben Linus. Unfortunately for Michael, I am unsympathetic to his dilemma. After murdering Ana Lucia and Libby (which totally blew Hurley out of the water, as it were), he deserves nothing short of death.
Yet, the island won't let him die yet. It won't even let him kill himself, and he tried a few times last night. He has work to do.
The wrap: Michael is working for Ben, but his cover has been blown. Frank is still missing with his helicopter on a mission we'll have to wait to find out about. Rousseau and Karl have been shot. Ben is bad. Charles Widmore is very, very rich (and bad). Time is moving slower on the island than off. When will someone finally mention this?
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