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A weekly commentary of the television showby Carlos R Savournin
4 – 3: The Economist
*This commentary contains spoilers. Do not read if you have not seen the above mentioned episode.*
Number 4 of the Oceanic six is Sayid, as we discover at the very beginning of this episode, but it’s not the heroic Sayid we know on the island. Future Sayid is darker, an assassin working for someone who has an agenda….more on that later.
On the island, Sayid decides to rescue Charlotte from the grips of Locke in order to gain the trust of the rest of her group. He is convinced that if he goes back to the freighter with them, he can find out exactly who this group is and what their intentions are. So, Sayid, Kate and Miles go off into the jungle to make their way toward the barracks on a rescue mission.
In one of the houses, Hurley is bound in a closet, begging for help. And what turned into a heart breaking twist, turns out he was their bait. The moment Sayid, Kate and Miles listen through Hurley’s story, they are ambushed by Locke and his cronies. After some negotiation, however, Miles is traded for Charlotte and Kate decides to stay behind with Sawyer to…play house. Sayid returns with Charlotte, Juliette finds Desmond, and it is decided that both men will return to the freighter along with Frank and dead Naomi.
Meanwhile, clumsy Daniel discovers a time difference of a totally different kind. In taking to his freight, he is expecting a drop from them, and when the freight expects it to land, it doesn’t. Thirty-one minutes later, the payload arrives cluing us in to another mystery that’s added to the list of questions we already have. Are they stuck in some kind of time warp? They’ve danced around the time issue before, but the confirmation we received in this episode clearly states that time is an issue…but what’s the significance of 31 minutes? Not much of a time warp, but a warp nonetheless…
Throughout the episode, we see glimpses of a future when Sayid is working on another target, a woman named Elsa who, turns out, is working for an Economist who, turns out, wants Sayid dead… After a trade of bullets, Sayid finds her donning the same bracelet as Naomi was. Only Naomi’s was inscribed with “N – I will always be with you. RG” Somehow all this is ties in together… How exactly, is yet to be seen.
Looking for a medicinal cure for his gunshot wound, Sayid goes to see his boss, and here, it is revealed to be (no real shocker) Ben. What is surprising is the conversation between them – A menacing Ben proposes a new job to Sayid, and upon hesitating, Ben asks if Sayid wants to protect his friends. However, the development with Elsa might have blown his cover, clearly indicated when Sayid responds, “They know I’m after them now,” and Ben replies, “Good”.
This comes as a shock for all who saw the confrontation between Locke and Sayid, when Sayid was explaining why he wanted to take Charlotte back to the helicopter. Locke questioned why all of a sudden Sayid trusted Ben’s word, and Sayid’s response, “The day I start trusting Ben is the day I have sold my soul.”
Well, it seems Sayid’s soul had a price after all… And once again, we can only guess as to what brought him to the point to work for Ben…
Until next time, get Lost
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