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Lost
Episode 4.09: The Shape of Things to Come
Airs: April 24, 2008
Recap
Camp Jack
Kate is sitting on the shore. Jack passes. They smile and wave at each other before Jack goes into a shelter.
Jack pops a couple of pills.
“Got a prescription for that?” Kate asks as she walks in.
“Yeah, I wrote it myself,” Jack says.
“You look terrible,” Kate says. “What are those?”
“Antibiotics. I’ve just got a stomach bug.”
“Have some crackers. Crackers always make me feel better,” Kate replies. She pauses. “Why aren’t they back from the boat yet, Jack?”
“Sayid said the engine was down. My guess is they’re trying to fix it. Wondering why the hell they can’t get in touch with us.”
“And you’re not worried…” Kate says.
“My gut says we’re getting off this island.”
“I thought your gut was sick?” Kate says.
“Help, I need some help down here,” Bernard yells. Jack and Kate run down to the shore.
Everyone works to pull a body out of the ocean.
They carry the body onto the beach. Jack turns him over. His throat is slit. Charlotte and Daniel look at each other. Jack asks if they know him.
Daniel says, “He was on our boat. He’s the doctor.”
Camp Locke
“We’re all going to die,” Hurley says.
“Calm down, Chicken Little,” Sawyer says. “The sky ain’t falling just yet.”
“This is exactly what he wants,” Hurley says. “To fight amongst ourselves. You’re making a big mistake, Dude.”
Locke tells them to get on with it.
“Right,” Sawyer says. “I’m attacking Siberia.”
The three continue their board game. Hurley holds Aaron on his lap. Hurley and Sawyer roll. Sawyer laughs and says, “Sorry.”
The Security Fence
Alex is led by a group of men through the jungle. She’s blindfolded and her hands are tied. They release her at the security fence and tell her to turn it off.
“Please,” Alex says, “there’s a baby with them. Just promise you won’t-”
A gun is pointed at her head. “Turn the fence off!”
Alex presses four buttons. “Okay, it’s off.”
Camp Locke
The phone rings and Locke, Sawyer, and Hurley turn to look at it.
Locke picks it up and here’s Code J-14 repeated.
“Who is it?” Hurley asks.
“I think it’s for Ben,” Locke says.
They find Ben playing the piano.
“What’s Code 14J?” Locke says.
“Where did you hear that?” Ben asks.
“The phone rang. I picked it up. A voice kept repeating…” Locke says
Ben whips out a gun. “We need to have to get to the other house. It’s easier to fortify and we’ll have better position on the tree lines.”
“What are you talking about?” Locke says.
“They’re here!” Ben says.
Flash Forward
Ben is on his back in the Sahara, wearing a Dharma jacket with a tear in it.
Two men ride up on horses. They yell at him in a foreign language and point guns at him. Ben puts up his hands and says, “Wait, I can explain. Do you speak English?”
One man gets down to pat him down.
Ben pulls a rod out of his pocket and hits the man behind him. He gets control of the gun and trains it on the other man.
“Surrender, surrender!”
“Oh, so you do speak English,” Ben says. He knocks the man out.
Ben tears some cloth to wrap around his arm before taking their horse.
Camp Locke
Sawyer, Locke, and Ben walk quickly to the other house.
“Let me guess,” Sawyer says. “14J is the code for the pizza boy.”
Ben says it’s a warning system.
“Warning for what?” Locke asks.
“Somebody tripped the panic switch at our security fence. That means one of my people’s been captured.”
They walk into the house.
“Hold up,” Sawyer says, “if we’re hunkering down I’ve got to grab Frenchie and the kids.”
“Don’t bother, they’re safe,” Ben says. ”I sent Rousseau, Alex, and Karl away yesterday.”
“Away where?” Sawyer says. Ben doesn’t answer and Sawyer says, “Whatever. Claire’s still sleeping. I’ll grab her.” He throws the gun to Locke.
Ben says there’s no time but Sawyer says he’ll make time and walks away.
Locke starts to follow him and Ben grabs his arm. They go into the house.
Camp Jack
Jack covers the doctor with a blanket. “His throat was slit.” He looks at Daniel and Charlotte. “Know anything about that?”
Daniel says he was fine the last time they saw him.
“Which was when?” Jack asks.
“When?” Daniel looks down and sighs. “When is kind of a relative term.”
Charlotte says they don’t know anything.
Juliet looks at Daniel. “Any luck fixing the sat phone?”
Daniel says no, the best they can get is just sound beeps. Bernard suggests using it as a telegraph.
“If I had some strips of ferrous metal, um, a nine volt battery clip and some wiring,” Daniel replies.
Kate says that they’ve got that from the plane.
“Great,” Daniel says and Kate takes him to where it is.
Jack calls Bernard over.
Camp Locke
Locke and Ben move furniture in front of the door.
Locke says, “These people that are coming, you’re scared of them aren’t you?”
“That’s right, John, I am,” Ben replies.
Hurley walks in with Aaron. “What’s going on?”
Locke tells him to get away from the window. Ben and Locke pull a book case in front of the door.
“How’s Sawyer going to get back in?” Hurley yells.
“He’s not,” Ben says.
Sawyer runs around to the front of a house. He asks a boy carrying wood if he’s seen Claire.
“What’s going on? Why do you have that?” the boy asks, looking at the gun
Sawyer tells him to get inside but the boy is shot. Two more people come out and are shot. Sawyer yells for Claire and shoots as he runs for cover, ducking until he gets to Claire’s house. He arrives just as it explodes. “Claire,” he yells.
Flash Forward
Ben walks through Tozeur, Tunisia until he gets to a hotel. He hands the woman the desk his ID and says he is Dean Moriarty. He asks her the date. It’s October 24, 2005.
He thanks her and walks away. He sees Sayid on a TV being followed by reporters. Sayid says, “I just want to bury my wife in peace.”
Team Locke
Locke tells Ben that he needs to know what is going on. Ben says they are trying to frighten him into surrendering.
“Well why did they stop shooting?”
Hurley stares at Claire’s house. “Is that Claire’s house? Claire was there.”
“Hugo,” Locke says, “get the baby away from the window. Put him in the back room.”
Locke turns to Ben. “You said I need to survive this. Why?”
“‘Cause there’s only one person who can help us now and that’s Jacob. And we have to go to him together.”
“What makes you think I can find him? I don’t even know where the cabin is.”
Ben says that Hurley does.
Sawyer runs over to the house and digs for Claire. He finds her alive. He carries her back to the other house. He yells to them to open up. Hurley throws a foot rest out the window and Sawyer climbs in.
Locke asks if she’s alright and Sawyer says, “She got her bell rung, but she’s going to be alright.”
Sawyer says, “They just started shooting. Why? Why slaughter people without even telling us what they want?”
Ben says that they want to make them angry. “So you’d be more likely to storm in here and throw me to the wolves.”
Sawyer thinks they should do just that.
The doorbell rings and they all pull their guns. Sawyer goes to the window and Ben says, “I wouldn’t if I were you.”
“Shut up!” Sawyer says.
Sawyer opens the door and pulls Miles in.
“Miles?” Locke says.
“Who the hell let you out?” Sawyer says.
Miles hands them a walkie talkie and tells Ben that they want to talk
Flash Forward
A funeral procession for Nadia proceeds down the street. Ben runs up a building and takes pictures of Sayid and another man. Sayid spots him and later tackles him.
“You vultures!” Sayid yells. “You followed me to Turkit! You spy on me!” He is about to punch Ben when he realizes who he is. “What are you doing here?”
“I’m here to find the man who murdered your wife,” Ben says.
Sayid asks how he got here.
“I came across the Serbian border. It’s really not as difficult as-”
“How did you get off the island?”
Ben says that he used the Elizabeth and chartered a plane. Sayid wants to know why.
“You remember the name Charles Widmore, don’t you? The man who tried to convince the world that your plane was on the bottom of the ocean?”
“What does it have to do with me? With Nadia?” Sayid asks.
“There was a man at her processional. He goes by the name of Ishmael Bakir. He’s one of Widmore’s men.” Ben pulls a picture from his pocket. “Bakir was last seen five days ago in Los Angeles.” He shows Sayid the picture of Bakir behind the wheel of a car. “Caught by a traffic camera, speeding away from the corner of La Brea and Santa Monica.”
Sayid looks at the picture. “That’s three blocks from where Nadia was killed.”
Sayid teras up. “Why would these people want to murder her?”
“I don’t know, but they did.”
Sayid crumples the picture.
Camp Locke
Sawyer pats Miles down and ask how many men there were. Miles says he doesn’t know.
“They told me they were just security.”
“Security for what?” Locke asks.
“For him.” He points to Ben. “Once they got him, to escort him back to the mainland.”
Miles hands Ben the walkie-talkie and tells him that they have a hostage.
“Well then they badly miscalculated, ’cause every single one of my people is prepared to die as a service to this island.”
“It’s your daughter!”
Ben grabs the walkie-talkie. “Hello,” he says.
Over the walkie, the man says, “Am I speaking with Benjamin Linus?”
“That’s right.”
“My name is Martin Keamy. I’m an employee of Charles Widmore.”
He tells him to look out the window. Ben goes over and sees Keamy standing there.
Keamy tells him to put his hands over his head and walk out of the house. “Once I have you in my custody, then I promise you that no one else in that house will be harmed.”
“You and I both know that once you have me, there’s nothing to stop you from killing everybody else on this island,” Ben says.
“What kind of guy do you think I am?” Keamy replies.
“Martin Christopher Keamy, former first sergeant United States Marine Corp. Served with distinction from 1996 to 2001, but since then, you’ve worked with a number of mercenary organizations, specifically in Yuganda. So I know exactly what kind of man you are, Mr. Keamy, and we can dispense with the formalities.”
He whistles for a guy to bring Alex over. He then says to Ben to get his ass out or he’s going to kill his daughter.
Ben pauses and presents a counter proposal. “You and your friends turn around, walk back to your helicopters, you fly away and forget you ever heard of this island.”
“Tell your daughter goodbye.” Keamy hands the phone to Alex.
Alex cries and says they are serious, that they killed Karl and Rousseau. Ben tells her that he has everything under control. Keamy takes the walkie talkie back and tells Ben that he has 10 seconds. He begins to count down.
“She’s not my daughter,” Ben says.
“Eight.”
“I stole her as a baby from an insane woman. She’s a pawn, nothing more. She means nothing to me.”
Alex cries as Ben shakes. He says that he’s not going to come out of the house “So if you want to kill her, go ahead and do-”
Keamy shoots Alex and walks away. Ben stands in shock.
Sawyer and Locke debate what to do.
“Let’s just hand him over,” Sawyer says.
“I don’t think these people have any intention of letting us walk out of here alive, James, no matter what we do.”
“He changed the rules,” Ben says to himself.
“What? Who?” Locke asks. “What rules?”
Ben moves the bookshelf and goes into his secret room. Sawyer chases after him, but a metal door slides down to block his path. Sawyer beats on the door.
Inside the room, Ben moves his clothes aside and opens another wall. He enters a tunnel.
Flash Forward
Ben follows Bakir through the streets. Eventually Bakir gets behind him and grabs him. With a gun to Ben’s head he asks why he’s following him.
“My name is Benjamin Linus. And I need you to take a message to Mr. Widmore for me.”
“And what message is that?”
Bakir is shot. Sayid is standing behind him with a gun. He shoots him six more times.
“That should do it,” Ben says and walks away.
Sayid asks him to wait. Ben tells him that they are finished. He tells Sayid to mourn his loss and get on with his wife.
Sayid grabs him and says, “I spent the last eight years of my life searching for the woman I love. I finally found her and I married her. Then I buried her yesterday, so don’t tell me this is not my war. Benjamin, who’s next?”
“I’ll be in touch.” Ben turns away with a smile on his face.
Camp Locke
Sawyer is still banging on the door. The door opens and Ben walks out.
“What were you doing in there?” Sawyer wants to know.
Ben says that they need to run from the house as fast as they can. Straight for the tree line.
“You mean towards the guys with guns?” Hurley says.
“No, we want to be as far away from them as possible,” Ben says.
The room begins to shake like an earthquake. They look outside and see the smoke monster, like a serpent. It rushes to the tree line. Ben yells for them to go outside. The smoke swirls around in the trees and the men scream.
Locke asks what Ben did.
“You just call that thing?” Hurley yells.
A man runs out of the trees but the smoke monster drags him back.
Everyone runs but Ben holds back to say goodbye to Alex. He closes her eyes and begins to cry. He leans down and gives her a kiss on her forehead.
Camp Jack
Daniel works on the sat phone. He gets a signal and sends a message via Morse code.
Jack asks what he is sending.
Daniel says, “What happened to the doctor?”
A message is returned and Daniel says that they didn’t say what happened to the doc, but their friends are fine and the helicopter is returning in the morning.
Bernard says that he is lying. “What the message said was, ‘What are you talking about? The doctor is fine.’”
“What does that mean. The doctor is fine?” Jack wants to know.
“I don’t know,” Daniel says.
Jack asks Daniel why he is lying. He grabs Daniel and says, “Were you ever going to take us off this island?”
“No,” Daniel says, looking sorry.
Camp Locke
Sawyer and Locke walk with Miles. Ben walks up to them. Locke says he is sorry and then says, “You lied to me. You told me you didn’t know what the smoke monster was.”
“You can ask Jacob all about it when we go to the cabin,” Ben says.
Sawyer asks who Jacob is.
“He’s the man that’s going to tell us what to do next, James,” Ben replies.
Sawyer says he’s done with this. “I’m going back to the beach and Claire and the kid are coming with me.”
Claire agrees.
“I’m coming with you,” Miles says.
“You too, Hurley,” Sawyer says.
They begin to walk away but Locke pulls out a gun. “Hugo stays with us,” Locke says.
Sawyer pulls out a gun. “Not a chance.”
Hurley wants out of it. He tells them to put the guns down and says he’ll go with Locke. “It’s okay, Sawyer. Please, put the gun down. You guys go back to the beach. I’ll catch up sooner or later.”
Flash Forward
Ben gets out of a taxi in London and walks into a hotel. He says he’s going to see Mr. and Mrs. Kendrick in room 4E.
Instead he uses his key to get into the penthouse. He walks into the bedroom and says “Wake up, Charles.”
Charles Widmore sits up and turns on the lamp. “I wondered when you were going to show up. I see you’ve been getting more sun.”
He then asks if Ben came to kill him.
“We both know I can’t do that.”
“Then why are you here?”
“I’m here, Charles, because you murdered my daughter.”
“Don’t stand there and look at me with those horrible eyes of yours and lay the blame for the death of that poor girl on me, when we both know very well, I didn’t murder her at all, Benjamin. You did.”
Ben says that’s not true.
“Yes, Benjamin, it is. You creep into my bedroom in the dead of night, like a rat, and have the audacity to pretend that you’re the victim. I know who you are, boy, what you are. I know that everything you have, you took from me. So, once again I ask you, why are you here?”
“I’m here, Charles, to tell you that I’m going to kill your daughter. Penelope is it? And once she’s gone, once she’s dead, then you’ll understand how I feel and you’ll wish you hadn’t changed the rules.”
Charles says he’ll never find her.
Ben turns to walk away and Charles says, “That island’s mine, Benjamin, it always was. It will be again.”
“But you’ll never find it.”
“Then I suppose the hunt is on for both of us.”
“I suppose it is. Sleep tight, Charles.” Ben walks out and shuts the door.
