"Follow the Leader" episode review

Okay, so "Follow the Leader" was a great episode, and it set the stage beautifully for the finale. Honestly, this episode felt so event-packed that they probably could have easily squeezed another entire episode out of it at the very least.

Unfortunately, looking back on it, I would have to disagree with Wikipedia's pre-episode preview, labeling "Follow the Leader" as a Richard-centric episode...

Anyway, in anticipation for the two-hour LOST finale, "The Incident" -- YES!!! -- let's consider the major death which is said to occur... My initial guess after having learned of this development several weeks ago? Juliet. No questions asked...but now, well, you'll just have to read my LOST Theory/Mythology section down below. :)

Welp, on to a brief episode synopsis.

• Let's start off with 1977, first with Sawyer and the gang who were making their way to the beaches. As we saw last week, Sawyer and Juliet were caught, while Miles and Hurley and Jin escaped. Miles, Hurley, and Jin make preparations to leave, packing some food, etc. Dr. Pierre Chang notices them leaving and, after asking Hurley a few questions, gets them to admit that they are, indeed, from the future. He ascertains that Miles is, in fact, his grown-up son. Miles takes this opportunity to warn Dr. Chang that he must send everyone off of the Island, just as Daniel had said.
  
• Meanwhile, Sawyer and Juliet are being held captive and interrogated by Horace Goodspeed, Stuart Radzinsky, and Phil. Radzinsky quickly takes control of the situation, going so far as to even vocalize his position of power, saying that Horace doesn't have the "stomach for what happens next." Man...I'm really starting to feel sorry for Horace; I feel like he may have been one of the true innocent victims of the Purge... Radzinsky repeatedly beats Sawyer, demanding answers, specifically where the Hostiles are. After Phil goes so far as to punch Juliet in the face, Sawyer eventually caves in and draws a map to where the Hostiles are in exchange for the promise of Juliet and he being given safe passage off of the Island with the rest of the fleeing Dharma folks aboard the sub.
• Out in the jungle, Kate and Jack debate the validity and plausibility of Daniel's theory when he suddenly gets shot. Jack and Kate begin to retreat but are captured by two Hostiles on horseback, one of which is middle-aged Widmore, and Jack totally gets the crap owned out of his face...ouch... Jack admits that he and Kate were with Daniel, and Jack and Kate are brought into Eloise's tent. Eloise comes in to ask them some questions and, after some explanation by Jack, believes in his story; she understands that she did, in fact, just shoot her son from the future and decides that it is important that they follow through with her late son's plan and detonate the hydrogen bomb.
• Richard leaves with Eloise and Jack and Kate; they make their way to a pond where there is a secret underwater passage which leads into "The Tunnels." Before heading in, Kate decides she can't go any further. Eloise insists that Kate cannot leave, having acquired knowledge of the Tunnels, etc., but Kate starts to walk off anyway. Right before she's about to get capped by some other Hostile with them, a shot rings out from the forest, shooting said Hostile. And who else was behind this little attack other than Sayid? Richard asks Eloise privately what they're doing seeing as one of their people was just killed. Meanwhile, the other group comprised of Jack, Kate, and Sayid is having a little discussion of their own. Sayid agrees to Jack's plan, whereas Kate still maintains her position and this time leaves for good, but not before making a point to compare Jack to Locke right in Jack's face. Ouch...
• Richard, Jack, Sayid, and Eloise make their way down through the pond and up into the Tunnels. After some walking they come to Jughead, the hydrogen bomb which the Hostiles buried in obedience to Daniel, who commanded them to do so back in 1954.
• Back at the Barracks area, Sawyer and Juliet board the Dharma sub to travel back to the mainland and presumably be done with the Island forever. Sawyer reconnects with Juliet but then, suddenly, major buzzkill: Kate drops on in. Wow...fail... Apparently the Dharma Initiative didn't want to have anything to do with this troublemaker either... Yikes...
• FINALLY, let's recall what went down in present time, 2008: Locke meets up again with his people, finally after all this time... Locke informs Richard that the reason he seems different is because now he has a purpose. Sun takes an opportunity to confront Richard, inquiring of him if he has ever seen those of her friends pictured in the Dharma Initiative new recruits photo from 1974. He responds yes, he has, and that he watched them all die. Yikes...
• Locke takes Richard and Ben on a little journey that very night so that Richard can come talk to time-jumping Locke and take the bullet out of his leg, as well as tell himself from the past (err, future...) that he's going to have to die. I love how Richard was like, "Well, I'm glad that didn't have to happen," and Locke's just like, "Well, actually, Richard it did," right as he looked at Ben, as if just to say, "Douche." Richard follows Locke's instructions and relays all the information to time-jumping Locke. Meanwhile, Ben asks Locke how he could have known that it was this night in particular that Richard came out of the jungle and talked to him. Locke responds that the Island told him, and continues to rub it in Ben's face.
• The three return to the camp, where Locke informs the entire camp that they'll be taking a group trip to see Jacob, this man who they've apparently been taking orders from for some time but have never meant. Locke reassures Sun that Jacob will know what to do for them to reunite with their friends. On the way to Jacob's cabin, however, with Richard leading the way, Locke reveals to Ben his true purpose for wanting to go to the cabin: "So I can kill him." LOST
  

Story/Narrative - I loved how the focus on this episode, as the title "Follow the Leader" would seem to suggest, is all about people following their respective leaders, even when they're completely unsure as to whether they know what the hell they're doing or not. Obviously the two main examples of this in this episode were Jack and Locke... And not to say that Locke has by any means completely switched from man of faith to man of science, but it's pretty interesting that while Jack has completely switched from man of science to man of faith as he begins to trust in the Island's will and in his own destiny, Locke has in a small way accepted a man of science sort of view in that he wants to see for himself this Jacob and validate his authority in his own mind. Interesting...

Some refuse to follow their leaders in this episode, however: Kate decides she can no longer follow Jack -- he's simply become too crazy for her to handle, and she's specifically frustrated by all the Locke she's beginning to see in him... I definitely feel like this conversation's not over, though, and I'd be willing to guess that we'll be seeing more of Jack and Kate in the finale. Will she trust him and support his decision in the end?? What do you think?

The real, underlying point of tension that's going on between Jack and Kate right now, though, is their differing viewpoints on Daniel's rationale that the future can and should, in fact, be changed. While Kate sees all the good in what's happened after the crash -- Rose's cancer being cured, Locke no longer being a paraplegic, Charlie overcoming his heroine addiction, *cough* her not having to go to jail *cough*, and finally, her and Jack meeting and their subsequent on-again-off-again relationship over the past few years -- Jack sees all the anguish that came as a result of it... And it's not just that Jack is remorseful in regards to their relationship, having been hurt time and time again by Kate. Jack is still a fix-things-up-right kind of guy -- that's simply his personality -- and if he has a chance to eliminate the hundreds of innocent deaths that came as a result of the crash and those deaths which followed it on the Island, he's gonna take it. This is where he and Kate do not see eye-to-eye.

Luckily for Jack, not everyone is against him, though. Yes, I'm referring to Sayid. I loved his logic: "Well, if this works, you might just save us all. And if it doesn't?...at least you'll put us out of our misery." haha Beautiful.

Moving on to the other spectrum of things on the Island in the present, 2008, let me start off by saying that I have no doubt that that screenshot of the ship in the bottle that Richard was constructing was important... However, rather than it simply being a reference to Richard being a direct descendant from the Black Rock (which I'm not opposed to at all...), I'm thinking it might be more of a symbolic image of Richard -- an idea which I read about somewhere -- but more on that later!...

Sticking with Richard, I thought it was pretty sweet how they connected that scene with him finding a confused, time-jumping Locke in the jungle to now. Finally that conversation makes sense!!
Locke: "How did you know there was a bullet in my leg, Richard?"
Richard: "Because you told me there was, John."
Locke: "No...no. No, I didn't."
Richard: "Well...you will."
Beautiful. :)

Ben's one line to Richard was particularly amazing, too. After Locke invites the entire group of Others to go with him to go see Jacob, Richard turns to Ben confidentially and says, "I'm starting to think John Locke is going to be trouble," to which Ben replies, "Why do you think I tried to kill him?" haha He sounded so ridiculously serious!! haha I loved it..

And now a few odds and ends narrative-wise (I know, I know.. But this episode was just packed with good stuff!): First, let's talk about Horace and Eloise's relationship. "[Widmore] and Eloise are...well, let's just say love can be complicated." Those were Richard's exact words to Jack/Kate. I definitely think now that Widmore was the father of Eloise's son Daniel and that she is pregnant with said child right now during the timeline we're watching in 1977. If you noticed, during their conversation which we could hear very little of, Widmore subtely places his hand on Eloise's stomach and seems to want her to stay and not go with Richard and the two time-traveling intruders to the Tunnels...but she does anyway.

Another little thing: I was surprised at Sawyer. He's been so self-sacrificial for a while now, notably since the Season 4 finale, but now he suddenly seems to have completely sold out his friends, Jack and Kate. I mean, he drew a map for Radzinsky that would lead him to the Hostiles to wage his war, no doubt, knowing full well that Jack and Kate were probably with them by that point... Wow...harsh... My guess is that Kate will realize this and do something to disrupt the submarine's trip back, probably pissing off Sawyer... Or maybe Sawyer has known in his mind all along what his plan is and he hasn't really intended to abandon all his friends as it would appear... We'll see, I suppose.. What do you think about this? 5

LOST Theory/Mythology - So, we did gain some incredibly small measure of insight as to Richard's role: He's a "sort of advisor," according to Ben, a job which he has had "for a very, very long time," also according to Ben... Here's what I'm thinking: Richard has been promised and is holding down the fort, protecting the Island, until the arrival of this one, special leader -- yep, you guessed it: Locke. The reason I think Richard is so uneasy about Locke's decision to go see Jacob, bringing along freaking everyone with him, is because it is such a groundbreaking action, and one which Richard clearly did not expect. I think he's willing to go along with it, though, because he's known that this leader, once he arrived, would be so unpredictable in nature and would make some definite changes, ones that since he made them would be right... I think Richard's still just blown away at this substantial and non-customary of an action on Locke's part, though... We'll see how his faith in Locke plays out in the finale.

And in regards to the ship in the bottle image, I think Richard's simply been given the role of waiting on the Island for this person to come along and has been doing so for a veeerry long time. So then, he, in a sense, is sort of the ship trapped in the bottle. His state of existence is seemingly impossible -- he doesn't age -- just as it would seem that there is no way that a model ship could sit inside of a bottle. Plus, he's confined to this small space, and it is out of his power to leave... I think Richard is weary of his role, of his position, and of his life.

Staying on the topic of Richard, he said that he "watched them all die," Jack, Kate, Hugo... Here's what I'm thinking, and this is my theory regarding the major death: I bet Jack will finally fulfill his destiny in accordance with the Island, and, as a variable, act out, dying himself as a sacrifice for the rest of those who would have died alongside him in the Incident had he simply sat back and watched things unfold. Yes, this would be huge. Yes, it would groundbreaking.
...But you have to admit, it would be so undeniably epic... I'm willing to predict this over Juliet's death in the finale; let's see if I'm right... But tell me: Which major character do you think will die?

Moving on, I think it's important to take note that there is an extensive network of underground tunnels throughout the Island, it would seem...no doubt constructed by its original inhabitants... And it's interesting that the bomb is currently being stored under the Dharma Initiative Barracks... Is that simply coincidence?

Beyond that, I'm sure we'll find out how the bomb was brought down into the Tunnels in the finale; I can safely say that I have no idea how it happened so I won't even try to speculate...

Oh, and finally, it was cool to see Dr. Pierre Chang launching into action and taking it upon himself to issue the departure of all the non-essential members of the Dharma Initiative off of the Island. I especially loved the shot of Charlotte and her mom getting into one of the vans...good closure there... 4

BAMF moments - Sayid FINALLY came back, thank goodness, and in typical Sayid bamf style! What a win. His hidden attack and subsequent appearance alone merits this section a 3. :P

Also, not that it's "bamf," per say, but HOLY COW. Radzinsky is a freaking spaz!! I've always felt that way but he completely lost it when he was interrogating Sawyer. Wow...

Oh, and in anticipation of the finale, you can be sure that Sawyer will be true to his word: He's totally gonna kill Phil...and you know it'll be bamf...so I suppose this is more of a bamf prehash/prediction. ;) haha 3

Overall Score - (5 + 4 + 3)/(3) = 4

"The Variable" episode review

Holy crap. Daniel died.
Sad face. :(

I couldn't believe that Daniel got killed off. I have to admit, the misdirection created through Ms. Hawking's line to Penny in the hospital totally had me going, thinking Desmond was going to be the minor-but-really-more-of-a-major-death cited by EW's Michael Ausiello: "Your husband has become a casualty in a conflict that's bigger than him, that's bigger than any of us."

As much as I love Daniel, if the LOST masterminds had killed off Desmond, I would have been even MORE pissed.

That being said, I was right in my predictions about this episode that we'd learn more about Daniel's apparent memory problems. Also, we did learn a bit more about the backstory of his seemingly journal-of-great-importance, as well as a little more concerning his history with Theresa. And it would seem that we even learned who his father is! (but more on that later...)

On a separate note, let me say that I have faithfully held myself back from looking up casting for the two-hour season finale in order to spare myself from ruining ANY surprises whatsoever (which, I'm sure there'll be numerous "Oh my gosh!!!" moments in said season finale, entitled "The Incident").

Oh, and btw, POSSIBLE WIKIPEDIA SPOILER REGARDING NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE...

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Next episode, the penultimate episode of Season 5 before the season finale, entitled "Follow the Leader," is probably not a reference to Ben subverting himself to Locke's judgment and leadership, as I previously surmised. According to Wikipedia, the episode will be centered on Richard Alpert!!!
Yes, I freaked out, too... I cannot WAIT to learn more about his backstory, something we dedicated LOST fans have speculated on and wondered about since way back in Season 3.

Anywho! On to a brief episode synopsis of "The Variable" and then to breaking down some specific episode points which struck me as especially interesting. :)
Read on.

• So let's first concentrate on chronologically breaking down Daniel's growth from child to the grown-up Faraday who we know and love(d): At a young age, Eloise Hawking, Daniel's mother, asks Daniel if he knows what his destiny is and when he responds no, tells him that it's his brilliant mind; she also tells him that it's her job to keep him on this path.
• Years later, Daniel becomes the youngest doctorate to ever graduate from Oxford University. His mother, Ms. Hawking, goes to see Daniel at his graduation, who is with his girlfriend Theresa Spencer, and gives him a blank journal as a gift. She also takes the opportunity to again remind Daniel of his gift. In addition, Daniel reveals in this conversation to his mother that he's been given a $1.5 million pound research grant from some random industrialist "Charles Widmore."
  
• Again, years later, after the crash of Oceanic Flight 815, we get to see a continuation of the scene in which we saw Daniel crying as he watched the news broadcast depicting the discovered wreckage of the missing Oceanic 815 airliner. We find out that Daniel had not only done experiments on his girlfriend Theresa in his research, but also on himself, rendering him unable to remember anything over an extended period of time. This condition is considerably more fortunate in comparison to Theresa's, however, who we know to be stuck in a kind of lifeless, vegetative state. Daniel is visited by Charles Widmore, who tells him that the wreckage that's being played on the TV is fake, that it had been staged by him, and that the real plane had landed on the Island, a place Widmore invites Daniel to go to on his boat, the Kahana, where Widmore tells Daniel his ailment will be cured. Later, Daniel is again visited by his mother, Ms. Hawking, who tells him that he should take Widmore's offer and go to the Island, imploring him to consider all the work he could accomplish with a once-again sound mind. Sadly, Daniel agrees dutifully to his mother's desire for him.
• Now, jump to 2007 off the Island. Following the events of "Dead Is Dead," Desmond is rushed to the hospital after being shot by Benjamin Linus and somehow mustering the strength to beat the crap out of him before realizing the extent of his wound and succumbing to it. While waiting for an update on her husband's condition, Penny is visited by Eloise Hawking who apologizes to Penny for involving Desmond in everything that's happening around them. A very confused Penny is then allowed to go see Desmond who is recovering quite nicely. Desmond and Penny have a touching moment (which honestly felt just a little contrived, I have to say -- it didn't go over quite as smoothly as the highly emotional phone scene in "The Constant," I didn't think). Meanwhile, outside of the hospital, Charles Widmore speaks with Eloise Hawking, explaining why he cannot go in and see his daughter: "Unfortunately, Eloise, my relationship with Penelope is one of the things I had to sacrifice." Eloise retorts that he isn't the only person who's had to make sacrifices, as she begins to cite her sending her son back to the Island, knowing full well his fate. "He was my son, too, Eloise." *slap!*
  
• Finally, back to "present" Dharma time. Daniel Faraday has returned to the Island, having been doing research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, off-Island at the Dharma Initiative headquarters. He has apparently returned after learning that Jack and the rest of the Oceanic group came to be living with the Dharma Initiative in 1977 upon returning to the Island. After learning that Eloise Hawking had told Jack and the rest of the group that it was their "destiny" to do this, Daniel has Miles take him to the construction site of The Orchid station, where he goes to find Dr. Pierre Chang. Daniel warns Pierre Chang of a catastrophic event which will occur in six hours at The Swan station. Daniel explains that he knows these things because he is from the future. However, Dr. Chang does not believe Daniel's story, even after Daniel tells him that the grown-up Miles in front of him -- who refuses to affirm Daniel's allegations -- is his son from the future.
• Later on at the Barracks, Sawyer, Juliet, Jin, Hurley, and Miles come to the decision that they're going to flee the Dharma Initiative compound to make camp at their old beach. Daniel, Kate, and Jack, however, go to see the Hostiles because Daniel says it is imperative that he be brought to his mother because she's the only one who can get them back to where they need to be in time and space. Unfortunately, the three are confronted by Radzinsky while packing up and getting guns, and a gun fight breaks out. They are able to escape, however, sending Radzinsky to Head of Security LaFleur's house to inform him of the situation and see what the hell he's been up to. Unfortunately for Sawyer and Juliet, Radzinsky and his team discover Phil in the closet all tied up. Fortunately for Hurley and Miles, though, they were outside at the time of Radzinsky's arrival to Sawyer and Juliet's humble abode.
  
• Meanwhile, Daniel explains to Kate and Jack out in the jungle what he plans to do. Daniel intends to detonate the hydrogen bomb which he instructed the Hostiles to bury back in their 1954 time jump visit. He thinks that if he does this, he can destroy the energy residing under The Swan station, preventing it from ever being built, which, in turn, will prevent "The Incident" from ever happening in the first place, which, finally, will keep Oceanic Flight 815 from ever crashing on the Island.
• Kate expresses some measure of unsurity regarding Daniel's plan but there's no time to discuss the ramifications and plausibility of it as the three stumble upon the Hostiles' camp. Daniel strides into the camp with his gun drawn, commanding Richard to take him to see Eloise. Richard claims that Eloise is gone at the moment, and the two continue to argue, ending in Eloise shooting Daniel in the back as it seems he is about ready to shoot Richard. Daniel, very confused, begins to connect the pieces, realizing that Eloise always knew. Eloise, also confused, asks who Daniel is, to which he replies, "I...I'm your son." LOST
  

Story/Narrative - First of all, we are again confronted with this recurring theme in LOST of parent issues. Daniel has serious mommy issues. I felt hurt and deeply moved by the pain that Ms. Hawking had inflicted upon her son due to her ridiculous insensitivity when Daniel asked her, "Will...will it make you proud of me?" "Yes Daniel, it will." "Then I'll do it." Wow. What a blow to the heart. Holy crap...

On a separate note, I found it really interesting how as SOON as Sawyer ended a phrase directed to Kate with the term of endearment "Freckles," she immediately shot an icy look at Sawyer and relinquished to Daniel and the group the security code to unlock the sonic fence. Wow. Great acting and what an interesting development... Man, if Juliet does die in the finale as I am right now suspecting, I will feel terrible for her... It's like she'd seen this coming, Sawyer beginning to tap back into his past feelings for Kate, but knew that she could do nothing to stop it... How sad... :/

Moving on to something which I found to be a little odd, when Penny was told she could go in to see Desmond, she just happily left her son Charlie with the nurse. Okay...really?? There's no way that after everything that had happened that day, she would have just left her kid with some random nurse lady, especially in front of this creepy Eloise Hawking lady who she was approached by who she'd never met before in her life. I thought that was kind of lame, and I'm guessing all mothers would agree.

Finally, let's talk about Jack... Now, I've been holding throughout this season following Jack's return to the Island that he's not turned into some half-hearted wimp but that he's simply biding his time and waiting to see what the Island has for him to do, rather than freaking out and trying to take control of everything... But I can't shake the feeling that Jack launching into action regarding Daniel's plan isn't what he is, in fact, meant to do. I feel like he's jumping the gun and making an inaccurate assumption...but maybe I'm wrong... I dunno... What do you think about this?

Regarding Daniel's plan, after watching this episode, I found myself wanting more backstory regarding Daniel's change of heart. Now, I get Daniel changing his focus from always being on "the variables" rather than "the constant(s)," but what exactly happened to make him realize this and change his thinking? Was it the knowledge of Jack and the gang having returned to the Island into 1977 Dharma time?

Finally, as I've been saying throughout this entire season, we are finally getting to this pinnacle point where our Losties will actually come to a situation where they will test Daniel's past theory of "whatever happened, happened" and see if it really holds up. It's coming; I'm telling you... Look for it to specifically happen in the season finale, "The Incident." I'm guessing Jack will take up where Daniel left off, using his journal to try and see his dying mission through... We'll see how this works out... 4

LOST Theory/Mythology - So, we finally know once and for all that Widmore did, in fact, plant the fake plane wreckage in the Sunda Trench in the middle of the Indian Ocean, which is believable considering his seemingly huge amount of wealth and resources as an "industrialist" -- whatever that means... And how did he come to get all that money and be so rich?? I hope we find this out this season, just so I don't have to wait 7 months wondering why...

We also learned just exactly why Daniel's memory was so messed up: He had been conducting experiments on not only his girlfriend Theresa but also himself, and it would seem, comparitively, that she got the short end of the stick, to be honest...
Although, I'm still a bit hazy as to why Daniel was crying when he saw the fake plane wreckage being broadcasted on the news...did he start having memory problems after Oceanic Flight 815 disappeared, and is that why? But even if that's true, why would he have cried about the remains of a plane that had gone missing being found months later? That seemed odd to me... Do any of you have some insight into this? I would much appreciate it.

Moving on, though, I was interested by Eloise Hawking slapping Widmore when he responded to her, "He was my son, too, Eloise." I do believe that he was, in fact, married to her on the Island as a Hostile. I think she slapped him, though, because of his double-life off the Island with the family he had with an "outsider," one of the reasons which Ben cited in having Widmore banished from the Island forever. This family would have included Penny being born, but the question is inevitably brought up: Who is the mother? Being LOST, I'm sure it will end up being important... Either way, it's cool to think that Jack and Claire as half-siblings have been joined by Daniel and Penny. Interesting.

Finally, the most disturbing and thought-provoking part about this whole episode: Hawking's devotion to her upkeep of time, even to the point of knowingly sending her son to his death on the Island in 1977. Wow.
Now, while it's easy to simply get caught up in Eloise Hawking's ridiculous brutality and lack of any sort of apparent love, what's more interesting, I think, is to consider how amazingly dedicated she is to what seems to be her job of ensuring that everything plays out as it ought in light of past and future events. Who exactly is she responsible to? Or is this simply her "gift"? And on the same line of the whole "gifts" thing, we're learning that more and more of our beloved Losties have different gifts:

Walt = he's "special"; see the mobisode and the one Season 1 scene where he seemingly unintentionally brings about the deaths of birds.
Claire = something weird is going on with her...
Miles = can access the final thoughts of a dead person's life.
Hurley = apparently sees and has regular conversations with legitimately dead people.
Daniel = his brilliant mind.
Locke = special communion with the Island, according to Ben, and also apparent throughout the show.

Now, did I miss anything? I'm not trying to say these will end up being intrinsically important to the show's mythology, but I think they might... It's interesting anyway; something to think about... 5

BAMF moments - Wow. What an epic firefight. I thoroughly enjoyed that part. I think the best part about it was how it started. As Daniel smugly strolled up to the jeep, confident that his words would detain Radzinsky from taking action, Radzinsky let a shot fly -- Daniel didn't exactly understand what a hothead he was dealing with, I don't think. :P
The only reason this section gets a four rather than a five is because I felt a little dissatisfied with the cheap exit LOST took to resolve this situation: Really? An exploding gas drum? Really??

Beyond that, HOLY COW. Radzinsky is freaking spazzing OUT!! Just how I would expect him to react, though, considering how they've presented his temperament throughout this season.
I mean, when he stormed into Sawyer's house, he was PISSED. I was like, "Holy crap -- he is gonna freak the eff out when he finds Phil." And he did. Bad news for Sawyer and Juliet. I wouldn't be surprised if he tortures them for information regarding their infiltrator group, and, if they refuse to give him any, tries to execute them. We'll see, though. 4

Overall Score - (4 + 5 + 4)/(3) = 4.33