"Whatever Happened, Happened" (Lost Recap & Thoughts)

Recap:
So Lost last night was a Kate-centric episode and what a good one too! It started with Jin waking up after being knocked out by Sayid who shot Lil Ben and ran off. Jin gathered up Lil Ben and took him back to the town. Roger, Ben’s dad, is suddenly all concerned about the son he abuses and they rush Lil Ben off to surgery, except that Juliet is not a surgeon and can’t stop Lil Ben from bleeding out. So Sawyer rushes off to get Jack who is like uh no and Sawyer’s face is like what, you’re always jumping up and rushing around “fixing” things and Jack’s face is like nah, man I’m done with that shit. And Kate’s face is like WTF. That’s a lot of expression in about 15 seconds.

Flashback: Kate visits Sawyer’s Baby Mama, Cassidy, and her horribly named girl child, Clementine. And Cassidy is not happy that Sawyer didn’t man up and come back or never showed an interest in the child or something. So Kate tells her the actual truth and gives her money but Cassidy is unhappy that it didn’t come directly from Sawyer. Look, woman, just take the damn money. Cassidy also figures out that Aaron is not Kate’s.


Back to the Island 1977: Kate argues with Jack about saving Ben and he says that he already did that once and he is not messing around with the island anymore. Jack is doing this very passive thing right now and it is so strange. But I get where he is coming from since every time he tried to fix something, it went horribly wrong. And that is exactly what Sawyer told him the other episode so they all need to shut up. Kate says she doesn’t like the new Jack and Jack says she didn’t like the old one either. *oh snap*

Flashback: Kate loses Aaron in the supermarket and a woman who looks almost like Claire (but not as pretty) finds him and Kate is un/happy. So she goes to Cassidy who tells her she has been expecting to lose him since she stole him in the first place. Kate protests but in the end agrees she needed Aaron and realizes she has to go find Claire.
This may be out of order but Kate then visits Claire’s mother, Carole, and tells her about Claire’s disappearance and taking and needing Aaron but that the kid is hers now (which completely won’t fuck up Aaron) and he is sleeping two doors down and she is going to find Claire (who won’t be back till next season). She cries over him and leaves looking so broken-hearted, I got a few tears in my eyes. I can completely understand how hard that would be.

Island 1977: Kate takes a van and Lil Ben, with Juliet’s help, and drives to the sonic fence. Sawyer, who is sent by Juliet, comes to help and they find Richard Alpert (love him) who takes Lil Ben and says he can cure him but he won’t remember and will lose his innocence. And since Ben is an evil bastard now they are like Sure, okay, whatev and Richard takes Lil Ben to the temple and that is that.

Island 2007: Ben wakes up to John Locke creepily staring at him and uttering the “Welcome to the land of the living” in a Ben kind of way. Ben looks a little worried.

Oh and somewhere in there is the funniest conversation ever between Hurley and Miles where Miles tries to explain time travel to Hurley. Next week is a Ben-centric episode so it is bound to be awesome.

Thoughts:
I wonder if we found out what happened to Lil Ben in the temple. I was amused by that guy telling Richard that Ellie will not be happy and neither will Charles when they find out and Richard tells him that he doesn’t care and he doesn’t answer to them anyway. So my early suggestion that Charles is in charge (ha ha that was actually unintentional but I'm leaving it) and is the one that orders the Purge is still holding up. And since Ben is now one of them and always will be then he has to follow the orders of Widmore. Not that I think Ben minded killing his dad cause I don’t think he did.
Oh and Juliet walking in on purpose while Jack was showering and neither one really looked embarrassed about his nakedness. She was so mad that he didn't come help her. I guess she figures Jack was always the do-something guy and never expected him to not help. I like that Jack doesn't really know why he was there but is just going with the flow. I wonder, though, how long that will last.