UNspoiled! The Constant: LOST

We discuss Kate and the reveal that Aaron is one of the Oceanic Six in the episode with the stupidest title in the entire series. Did Kate kidnap Aaron? What happened to Claire? Is Krista right about Jack knowing that Aaron is his nephew, and that's why he doesn't want to see him?


Back on the Island, Kate uses Sawyer to enact a pretty impressive con to get Miles to tell her what the outside world knows about her. Locke is less than pleased about Kate going against his wishes, and since he's a dictator now, he tells her she has to leave the barracks. Neither of us are very pleased with Locke right now.

On the Island, Sayid makes the choice to trade one human for another in order to get into Lapidus's helicopter and see what's happening on that boat. In the Flash Forward, he makes the choice to as an assassin FOR BEN, which ends with a bullet to the gut of another pretty blonde girl he's been sleeping with.


Meanwhile, Daniel does an experiment where a rocket is sent from the boat to the Island, only it takes an extra 31 minutes to show up after the boat says it should have. Timey wimey wibbly wobbly...stuff.

And so we meet Daniel Faraday, a physicist seemingly with a good heart and good intentions; Miles Straume, a sarcastic man with the gift of talking to dead people; Charlotte Staples-Lewis, an archaeologist with some interest in the Dharma Initiative; and Frank Lapidus, a damn good pilot (when he's sober). They're here to rescue the survivors of Flight 815...but really they're here because of Ben Linus. Because OF COURSE it has to do with Ben.

Who are the Oceanic Six? Who is Matthew Abbadon? When will Jack actually listen to Kate? Why is Christian in The Cabin (aka Maggie's Cabin)? Why is Hurley seeing hot, dead Charlie? All these questions and more are asked as we cannonball into Season 4. Buckle in, guys. Things are about to set a precedent of weirdness.

It's the moment we've all been waiting for: WE HAVE TO GO BACK, KATE! WE HAVE TO GO BAAAAAAAAAAAACK!

Oh, and Charlie dies.

Charlie reflects on the five best moments of his life - his greatest hits - and they're sweet, and moving, and tears may have been shed. As Sayid and Jack come up with a plan to get the castaways rescued by Naomi's boat, and to take out some Others in the process, Charlie and Desmond head for The Looking Glass station to stop the signal jammer...and fulfill a prophesy.


I am not ok.

Frequent guest and fellow Unspoiled co-host Maggie joins us to discuss Ben. And Richard. Mostly Richard. But also that little lying liar Ben, who was NOT born on The Island, and is actually a murdering usurper. Was Krista satisfied now that she's gotten the Ben episode she's been asking for? Has Jaime gone back to not considering Kate her favorite? Will Jack ever shut the fuck up? Listen and see!

Ben tells Locke that he has to kill his father in order to really become One Of Them. Locke can't do it, but Richard gives him an alternative solution. So, Locke gets Sawyer to do his dirty work for him. No one is sad to see this piece of shit go.

On the beach, our "campers" are tending to an injured Naomi and Charlie thinks they should get Jack to help because, well, he's a doctor. Desmond speaks for all of us in suggesting that Jack isn't so trustworthy of late, but there is another option: Sayid. Always choose Sayid, people! This leads to some minor interrogation between torturer and parachutist, and ends with her handing over her satellite phone. But then Kate is let in on the secret and immediately tells Jack what's up. Dammit, Kate!

We get more evidence that if Jin and Sun just talked to each other instead of always lying, they'd be much better off. We also get evidence that their baby is theirs, was conceived on the Island, and what that means for Sun and the baby.

Desmond has a flash of a parachutist, the wire into the ocean, and Charlie being speared in the throat, so he of course takes three unsuspecting companions on a "camping trip" to put all of these pieces together. They find the wire, they make their way through the jungle, Charlie escapes death, and a woman with a picture of Desmond and Penny tucked into her Portuguese copy of Catch-22 falls from the sky after bailing out of a crashing helicopter. Who's helicopter? And why does she know who Desmond is?

Fair warning: we have spoilers in here for The Justice League, Game of Thrones seasons 6 and 7, and the most recent season of The Walking Dead. Oh, and I accidentally spoil Krista on something because I thought it happened in this episode. It's not a huge spoiler, don't worry. But also don't yell at me.