Lost #2.10: The 23rd Psalm
Took a month off from Lost so I could study–any spare time I had, I didn’t feel like sitting more at the laptop.
Test is over though, so now I can resume. (Though I am also contemplating re-watching all the X-Files so I may start tossing some thoughts of that up here too as I go.)
Let’s see if I can explain the extremely intertwined plot of this episode here, more linearly than the show did.
Flashbacks show Eko as a kid, who saved his brother from being taken by a group of militants in Nigeria. Eko was taken instead, and his brother became a priest. Eko became a bad-ass drug dealer, but with a noble purpose (to keep the drugs out of Nigeria, and use the money for vaccines). After lining up some heroin, he wants to package it in Jesus statues and ship it out of the country. His brother informs the military, who try to stop the plane from taking off; his brother then tells Eko and after some gunfire, the plane takes off but without Eko (and his brother gets dragged on it). The plane than crashes on an island.
Then a bunch of time happens and, this hasn’t been explained how, but Eko must end up in Sydney flying to Los Angeles on another plane. That plane crashes on the same island. Eko who was in the back of the plane ends up meeting the front of the plane, where he meets Claire. Claire is friends with Charlie, who is an ex-heroin addict, and happened to have found the Jesus statues at the first plane’s crash site. He has stored them in a tree. Eko realizes the statue Charlie carries around is from his plane, and demands Charlie take him to the crash.
On the hike to the crash, Eko and Charlie encounter Smoke, with some scary explosions. Eko has a staring contest with Smoke, who then floats away. (The music played when Smoke is around is quite weird.) They continue to the crash, where Eko discovers his brother’s corpse. He and Charlie light the plane on fire and say a prayer.
Wow, that took longer than I thought it would. The other story had Michael, trying to reconnect with Walt on IM. Not only does The Hatch have internet capability, so do the Kidnapping Pirates who took Walt. Michael took some extra Hatch shifts to try to re-contact Walt on the TRS-80, and finally does. But just as they were starting to talk, Jack comes in an interrupts; Michael can’t type with others around! Oh no! But the computer screen went blank, so Jack didn’t see anything. No further clues about where Walt is today.
The show then ended with a bunch of scenes of everyone getting along and being happy: Sawyer’s healthy and everyone seems glad and Kate is flirting with him, and Hurley helps the Psychiatrist Lady build a tent, and Jin and Sun give Ana Lucia a fish to eat. Everyone’s going well! Except Claire, who is upset at Charlie for lying about drugs, and throws him out the tent.
Geez that was a lot of plot! The Psalm 23rd was recited by Charlie and Eko. 23 is, of course, one of The Numbers. It also has the line about “Even when I walk in the valley of darkness, I will fear no evil for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff-they comfort me.” This of course sums up Eko–in his stare down of Smoke, and his carrying of his giant club.