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Lost Recap: Did The Package Deliver?

Posted Mar 31, 2010 by Courtney Cairns Pastor

Updated Mar 31, 2010 at 11:58 AM

We finally got to see Sun and Jin so happy together last night on “The Package,” but only in a flash-sideways, as “Lost” continued to keep them separate on the island (did enjoy Sun’s Korean rant!).

The war between Team Smokey and Team Everyone Else continued to approach. Slowly. I’m ready for some actual warring instead of the characters continuing to talk about it. But we did learn some interesting things:

Jin and Sun weren’t married in the flash-sideways, and Sun wanted to run away with him, not run away from him.

Sun seemed to get pregnant just fine off the island.

UnLocke needs all the candidates to join him to leave the island.

Claire and Kate are not written as candidates on the cave wall.

Zoe and Widmore want Jin’s help to pinpoint electromagnetism on the island.

Widmore claims if Smokey escapes the island, Jin and Sun’s reunion would be short-lived because bad stuff is going to go down.

Desmond’s bad luck with his father in law continues.

If you get hit on the head, you might wake up only able to speak Korean.

Here’s a recap:

Flash-Sideways: Sun and Jin get released from the airport, $25,000 poorer thanks to customs. They check into their hotel, separately, because they’re not married. But that doesn’t mean they stay in their separate rooms (wink wink).

Sun tells Jin they should elope, and she has the money to do it in a secret account. A knock at the door disturbs them. Jin hides. It’s Keamy. He barges in, saying she has something for him. Keamy tries to shake down Jin for the $25K. Sun tries to save the day by offering up her money, and Keamy, being a reasonable gangster, says he’ll take Jin to the restaurant (um, not for drinks) while Sun and Mikhail (Patchy!!) head to the bank.

But at the bank, things go bad when Sun learns that her account has been closed … by her dad. Mr. Paik obviously is not amused that his daughter is fooling around with one of his employees.

At the restaurant, Keamy binds and gags Jin and returns to the kitchen, where Sayid (hey, we’ve seen this before) shows up and wreaks havoc. Jin, meanwhile, escapes about the same time Patchy and Sun arrive at the restaurant. There’s a struggle, Jin shoots Patchy IN THE EYE (which I totally missed the first time) but, uh oh, Sun gets shot in the process. As she’s bleeding, she tells Jin ... she’s preggers.

On the island, there’s unrest at Smokey’s Camp and over at Ilana’s, as everyone is trying to figure out what to do next. Ilana wants to hang out til Richard comes back. Sun is fed up and stomps away, basically telling Jack where he can stick his Wheel of Fate, because she doesn’t care about destiny or candidates.

UnLocke appears to Sun, trying to convince her to come with him because “Jin is waiting.” Sun does the smartest thing anyone’s done in a while on “Lost” – she bolts. UnLocke chases her down. Next thing we see, Sun is passed out with a head wound and an inability to speak English. She says, “Locke.”

Ilana is thrilled to see Richard return, and Richard is a new man. He’s all fired up and wants to go to the Hydra and destroy the plane so Smokey can’t use it. Sun hits the roof and says (in Korean) that she came to the island to save Jin, not save the world. She’s not destroying the only thing that can get them off the island.

After she calms down that night, Jack brings her a notepad, hoping she can at least write in English. She can (although she wastes a ton of paper, considering they don’t exactly have a Staples nearby).  Jack holds up a tomato as a metaphor for thriving amid chaos or something, and Sun softens. She says/writes she trusts Jack, and Jack promises to reunite her with Jin and get them off the island.

Things are a mess at Camp Smokey, which has been ambushed by Widmore’s people. They kidnap Jin and leave everyone else tranquilized. UnLocke is ticked and says he’s taking a boat to the Hydra – he has to have all the candidates before he can leave. Sawyer asks why unLocke can’t smokeify himself and fly over to the other island. Smokey is not amused.

UnLocke and Sayid head to the Hydra. We see unLocke on the beach, but he can’t go very far because Widmore’s people have put up their special fence. Widmore comes out and stands on one side. He denies they took Jin. UnLocke says this means war.

Widmore, though, is actually steaming. He’s mad at Zoe, a geophysicist, for kidnapping Jin too early. Jin has been locked in the creepy Dharma room that was conducting subliminal message experiments on poor Carl back in the day. Zoe wanted him to ID electromagnetic spots on the island. Jin just wants to talk to Widmore.

Widmore meets with Jin and softens him up by sharing Sun’s camera with cute kid photos galore. He tries to bond with Jin over their mutual daughters. But he says any Sun-Jin reunion would be shortlived if Smokey gets off the island and they have to prevent that from happening.

How, you ask? The package. And it’s not a “what,” Widmore says. It’s a who.

There’s a commercial and several other scenes before we FINALLY see the package, and it’s Widmore’s favorite son-in-law, looking pretty rough. Desmond is getting thrown around the dock of the sub, and as he falls, he makes eye contact with Sayid, who has been spying on the group from the water. Then Desmond is carted away.