The episode opens with Juliet visiting her sister. She is injecting her with an experimental drug
that they hope will allow her sister to become pregnant. Juliet is visited by Ethan and someone we haven't met before (he played a terrorist on 24 though) who want her to come work 'in Portland'. Unfortunately, she is bound to a contract with her nasty Ex-Husband. She makes the offhand comment that he would need to be hit by a bus before she could come work for them. Next day, as she is strolling to work... he gets hit by a bus. Juliet is having a bittersweet sending off at the morgue when Ethan and his cronies show up again. She decides to take the job. But the job is "Not in Portland" which reveals the purpose of the title. She only agrees to six months.They want her because she is some world-famous fertility researcher. This lends a lot of support to the theory that the Others can't reproduce.
The situation with Jack gets hairy when Ben wakes up and over-hears Jack telling Mr. Friendly that Juliet asked him to kill Ben. So much for Jack having any loyalty to Juliet! Ben converses with Juliet in private for a while. It is almost as if he sends her out to help Sawyer and Kate escape because
immediately after the conversation, that is exactly what she does.Speaking of Kate and Sawyer, yes they run through the jungle and exchange gunfire with Pickett and his cronies. Just when the chips seem down, Alex shows up and starts taking out guys with her sling shot. At this point, they have realized they can't get off the island without a boat and Alex promises to alleviate that situation, with a catch: they must help her rescue her boyfriend Karl who is being held in a building on the island. Sawyer beats the snot out of the guard at the building (played by Rob McElhenry from "Always Sunny in Philadelphia").
The scene with Karl is definitely one for the freeze framers. He is tied up and drugged and being forced to watch a movie with a lot of fast moving images and words. Very 60's style brainwashing stuff.
When they finally get to the beach, Pickett is way ahead of them. He knew exactly where they would turn up and is waiting for them. Just as he is about to execute sawyer, Juliet comes in and kills him. She tells Alex that Karl can go with Sawyer and Kate, but she will have to stay. She refers to Ben as "your father".
Jack finishes the surgery and Ben survives. He talks to Kate via Pickett's radio and tells her to never come back to try to rescue him. It is kind of an emotionally intense moment. You can see that Sawyer is uncomfortable with the amount of pain Kate is exhibiting over this.
There is an uncomfortable respect between Juliet and Jack now, but Juliet still seems to be open to him... as if the request to kill Ben was a gag maybe? Jack asks Juliet what Ben said to her and she replies that he is finally going to let her go home. She reveals that she has been on the island for 3 years, 2 months, and 23 days. According to the various LOST time-lines out there, this means she arrived on 9/11/2001.
Comments
I must say, I find it in bad taste to insinuate, even as coyly as this, some sort of 9/11 connection. Tacky. Very likely, someone knows the furor this will spark off amongst the 9/11 sensitive public.
Posted by: JoeDharma | January 19, 2007 11:53 PM
Just want to point out the 3 years 2 months and 23 days is 365+365+31+31+23 which equals 815!!!
Posted by: APOLLO | January 20, 2007 9:06 AM
WHOA! thats a great find there. cant wait 4 the show.
Posted by: lostfreak711 | January 20, 2007 1:05 PM
Sorry to burst your bubble, but if she says that she has been on the island for three-plus years, your calculations should have read: 365 + 365 + 365 + 31 + 31 + 23. That is well over 815 days. Check your math.
Posted by: BP | January 22, 2007 12:55 PM
Oh, and the 23 days works well with the number pattern.
2 months -> 31 + 31 or 3+1 = 4. or 3+1+3+1 = 8.
3 years = 365 + 365 + 365. if you add 3+6+5 = 14. 14 x 3 = 42. Again, a number from the pattern appears.
We can do this all day, folks.
Posted by: BP | January 22, 2007 12:59 PM
OMG!!!! Juliet & Jack was maded one for each other!!!
s2
byee
Posted by: Sarah | January 22, 2007 6:46 PM
Some people here are replying as if they believe this. There is no way this is the plot. If for no other reason, the writers would never throw in an silly meaningless 9/11 reference in like that, and whoever wrote this faux summery should be criticized for that. Some obvious things were lifted from "Lost Moments", but this summery still misses several points that we've already seen. Such as Juliet saying, "Bring them (Sawyer and Kate) back, even if that means killing them." (from a Lost promo Superbowl commercial). And that Ben was clearly still in surgery, with an incision in his kidney, when he "wakes up" and overhears Jack and Mr. Friendly. And in the middle of this spinal surgery with said incision in kidney, he has a long conversation with Juliet in private? And subliminal brainwashing is too hooey even for the Others, much less the Lost writers. This is pretty clearly a hoax, and the 9/11 connection was pretty sad for the writer to throw in.
Posted by: kjjrj | January 23, 2007 4:09 AM
Sorry to disappointed kjjrj... but this is the real deal. I've seen the ep and can testify... not sure about the 24 guy being with Ethan though...
Posted by: docarzt | February 3, 2007 8:18 PM
Nice summary. Thanks Stationzer0. I hope there is a better explanation for the 9/11 reference.
Posted by: Contender | February 8, 2007 1:46 AM
is there anywhere to download the real losts03e07 torrent?
TIA
Posted by: Anonymous | February 8, 2007 2:32 AM
yeah Zoog's right, 28 days. But still wierdly close to 9/11. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there's some connection (even though it would be insensitive to the 9/11 sufferers).
And kjjrj, this synopsis is dead on (aside from the 23 days instead of 28 days). I have no idea where this was leaked from but the way it was written, the author had obviously seen the ep before it came out. How the hell is this possible, and who can help me get some more eps?
Posted by: magg0t | February 8, 2007 4:14 PM
It seems that I stand corrected, and I'll eat humble pie. Well done.
Posted by: kjjrj | February 8, 2007 11:11 PM
