{"id":535,"date":"2009-04-13T11:30:05","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/?p=535"},"modified":"2009-04-13T13:06:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T18:06:52","slug":"lost-recap-5x12-dead-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Lost Recap 5&#215;12: Dead is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00awkp71\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The week on Lost, Widmore tells some dead baby jokes, Locke follows his newly attained internal GPS, Desmond goes SMASH, and Ben goes for a visit in the Temple of Doom.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>So first this dude rides in on a horse (The hippies are coming!  The hippies are coming!) and we&#8217;re all wondering who this rapscallion is, with his earth-tone clothes and rakish neckerchief!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00arx6af\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And Richard is like, &#8220;Charles is that you??  You&#8217;ve aged HORRIBLY!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aryr8e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you, Ageless Wonder.  Why don&#8217;t you go comb your eyelashes while I do the men&#8217;s work, hm?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00arz8z8\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So Widmore goes into the tent that Baby Benry is ~*healing*~ in after drinking his memory-erasing Roofie Colada.  We don&#8217;t know the details, but we do know that something Dementorish sucked out his soul or&#8230;something.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t make me go back there!  They make us eat bean sprouts and do trust falls and heal our chakras with crystals, please NOOOO!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00as0fqe\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately you&#8217;re going to have to be a double agent, kid.  You&#8217;ll have to be a hippie by day and a Hostile by night.  You&#8217;ll walk among them, but you won&#8217;t be one of them.  But don&#8217;t worry, we&#8217;ve got lots of neckerchiefs and smug comebacks to go around.  You&#8217;ll fit right in.  Richard will provide you with your Latin 101 book before you go. Ego vobis valedico.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00as1xpd\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in 2007, Ben wakes up to Locke&#8217;s smiling face!  He was kind of shocked that Locke was all smiley and well-dressed and UNDEAD and all.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;WTF ZOMBIE!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00as257h\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Good morning, sleepyhead!  Up and at &#8217;em!  We&#8217;ve got lots to do today!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00as3y44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ben&#8217;s Brain: <em>How are you&#8230;what in the&#8230;how did this&#8230;why aren&#8217;t you&#8230;I thought I&#8230;ALIVE??  HE IS ALIVE??  WTF!?  NO SERIOUSLY W.T.F. OMG.  OMGOMGOMG.  HE&#8217;S GOING TO KILL ME.  OMG.  MOMMY.  SAVE ME.<br \/>\n<\/eM><br \/>\nBen&#8217;s Mouth:  Well hello, John.  Fancy meeting you here.  I&#8217;d love to stay, but I must jet.  It&#8217;s Business Time.  Gotta meet my maker.  Smokey waits for no man.  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00as4fq9\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry, what?  I didn&#8217;t quite catch that.  I don&#8217;t speak Murderous Traitor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00as503q\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>So Ben and Locke go out to the beach and Ben immediately starts doing this Master of Manipulation thang.<\/p>\n<p>Caesar: Hello my friend, how are you feeling?<br \/>\nBen: Oh I&#8217;m fine, I&#8217;m fine.  Nothing a little Island magic won&#8217;t fix.  Say, it&#8217;s good to see you&#8217;re wearing purple.<br \/>\nCaesar: How do you mean?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00as6ph7\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ben: Well I&#8217;m a nice guy and <em>I&#8217;M<\/em> wearing purple and <em>YOU&#8217;RE<\/em> a nice guy and <em>YOU&#8217;RE<\/em> wearing purple.  But see that guy over there?<br \/>\nCaesar: The one who said you killed him?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00as8tp6\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Ben: Yeah that guy.  I didn&#8217;t see him on the plane.  And I doubt he was &#8220;wearing purple&#8221; before he got here, if you catch my drift.  I think he&#8217;s got the Crazies.  The Heebie Jeebies.  Insane in the Membrane.  KnowwhatImean?<br \/>\nCaesar: So you&#8217;re saying he&#8217;s mentally ill and\/or dangerous??<br \/>\nBen: Nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00as9h4d\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So Caesar&#8217;s all, &#8220;I&#8217;d better go tell that chick with all the guns and mysterious metal container about this.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asap3g\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>So it&#8217;s around 1989 and Ben is Hangin&#8217; Tough with his amazingly bad New Kids on the Block\/Hitler hair!  He&#8217;s chilling out with Ethan &#8220;Children of the Corn&#8221; Rom, who at only 12 years old is already all like, &#8220;LET ME KILL THE LADY, BEN!  I WANT TO TASTE THE BLOOD OF THE WICKED!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asbppt\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But Ben&#8217;s like &#8220;NO NO IT&#8217;S MY TURN, WEINERHEAD!&#8221; and he goes into the tent to kill Danielle but then you hear a baby crying!!  And Danielle starts freaking out and screaming something about being infected, so Ben does what any evil mastermind would do and steals her baby!!<\/p>\n<p>I mean CHRIST no wonder Danielle was such a nutball, she had to kill all her friends, and then give birth to this kid BY HERSELF in the jungle and then some dude with a rakish scarf and absolutely horrendous hair takes her her kid?  RIGHT OUTTA HER HANDS??  <\/p>\n<p>Straw, meet the camel&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asc5gk\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And as a last warning Ben is like, &#8220;Whenever you hear whispers, you run the other way!&#8221; but by then Danielle was running around her tent in circles screaming, her arms flailing over her head like a freaking Muppet. So she didn&#8217;t catch that last part!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asdtth\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Ben is rummaging through his old desk to find the photo where him and Alex are both not looking at the camera for the coconut internet&#8217;s Facebook page&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00ase1rz\"\/><\/p>\n<p>When Locke is like, &#8220;I think we need to discuss&#8230;the elephant in the room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asfp31\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ugh, seriously?  For the last time, I&#8217;m a HETEROSEXUAL.  Who just happens to enjoy lavender shirts, adopting babies from foreign countries, and jaunty fedoras!  Is that a crime??&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asgz3q\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, that&#8217;s not a crime.  Taking those tags off mattresses is a crime.  Jaywalking is a crime.  Stealing candy and\/or babies is a crime.  And murdering me?  That&#8217;s the biggest crime of all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00ash5e3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You had to die and you had critical information.  Once I had what I needed I didn&#8217;t have time to convince you to off yourself, so I used a shortcut.  Ctrl+Alt+Noose.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00ask71b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So despite the fact that Benry is a despicable human being, Locke thinks that resurrection has left him feeling a little Jesus-y.  He tells Ben he&#8217;ll help him find the Smoke Monster!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00ash5e3\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re about to get on the boat to get to the main Island when Caesar and his posse roll up.  Caesar&#8217;s all like, &#8220;Hey mister, I don&#8217;t believe you were wearing purple earlier like all of us.  Or that you were on the plane.  You&#8217;re not going anywhere, my friend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aspyqd\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not your FRIEND, buddy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asqat0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not your BUDDY, guy!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asrdap\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m not your GUY, pal!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asskyc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And then Benry totally just blew Caesar away!!!  And he&#8217;s all, &#8220;Beware the Ides of March, bitchez!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00astdtd\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So they get to the other Island and Locke is like, &#8220;I know why you want to be judged&#8221; and Ben&#8217;s like, &#8220;I broke the rules, I left The Island!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Locke: No, it&#8217;s not that.  It&#8217;s because you let Alex get killed.<br \/>\nBen: You know it&#8217;s funny, I&#8217;ve killed LOADS of people and yet she&#8217;s the only one I feel kinda bad about. But only kinda.<br \/>\nLocke: That&#8217;s because there&#8217;s a cactus where your heart should be, Benjamin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aswhg0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>So then Ben and <strike>Malachi<\/strike> Ethan come back to Camp with bb Alex.  Ben had a little debate with old Chuck Widmore on the finer points of infanticide.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asxp9c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Benry surprised us all by actually being Pro-Life!  Charles, on the other hand, was decidedly Pro-Death  on the matter. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And plz stop laughing at my fuzzy powdered flashback wig.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asy94e\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And the Richard was all, &#8220;Ben??  Is that you??  God, you&#8217;ve aged even worse than Widmore!!!  Aren&#8217;t you supposed to be like 25!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00asz95y\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you, Richard.  You know we all can&#8217;t look like we&#8217;ve perpetually just stepped off the set of Mad Men.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00at06yf\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>So Ben and Locke are off to see the Wizard, or the Smoke Monster as WE call it, and they see a light on in Ben&#8217;s house!  It&#8217;s Sun!  And she is completely freaked out!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What happened?  Where is everyone else?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00at10e9\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;ve been framed!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00at23pc\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you mean framed, framed for what?  A murder?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00at3tx8\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, I LITERALLY mean they&#8217;ve been FRAMED!&#8221;  and she shoves the photo of Kate, Jack, and Hurley into his hands!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00at4x1z\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sun: Christian Shephard told us to wait inside this house and told us help was coming!<br \/>\nBen: A christian shepherd, do you mean JESUS?  Did you see JESUS??  <em>HERE??<\/em><br \/>\nSun: No there was a <em>man <\/em>named Christian Shephard!  And he told us to wait here for John Locke but that ain&#8217;t happening because he&#8217;s dead!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00at5e2r\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So then Ben points toward the window &#8220;<em>Speeeaking<\/em> of Jesus&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And then we all understood why Damon and Carlton chose this episode to air during Easter week!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00at69y9\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So as wacky as it sounds, Sun admits that she&#8217;s been on this show long enough to know that Zombie!Locke might actually help her get to Jin somehow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00at74e1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But La Penis has had it.  No amount of taking bong hits in the Bahamas could have prepared him for this.  &#8220;So the murderer and the dead guy are going to take you to the 70&#8217;s so you can find your husband??!  And I&#8217;m a monkey&#8217;s uncle, right??  I FEEL LIKE I&#8217;M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00at8b1q\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So after La Penis asks to be let off the ride, it was time for Ben to summon monster!  He crawled through this tunnel with a torch and he&#8217;s like, &#8220;Come out to the <em>coast<\/eM>, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll get <em>together<\/em>, have a few <em>laughs<\/em>!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00at9be1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He gets to the end of the tunnel and sticks his hand into some water, which is as crystal clear as this entire season of Lost.<\/p>\n<p>So he pulls a lever or something and flushes The Island!!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00ataz41\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And somewhere in 1977, Jack&#8217;s like &#8220;OMG!  OMG!  COLD!  COLD!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00awpqb2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>So Alex is a little girl now and her and Ben are doing their best impression of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theackattack.net\/?cat=130\">Benry Knows Best<\/a> when Richard arrives to let him know it&#8217;s time to say goodbye.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atbzd7\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Widmore: You should have killed that kid the night you found her.<br \/>\nBen:  You broke the rules, you sell out!!  Living off The Island?  Making your own babies and not kidnapping them??<br \/>\nWidmore: I didn&#8217;t sell out son, I bought in.  Keep that in mind.<br \/>\nBen: Well, I&#8217;d love to stay and chat, but you&#8217;re a total dick.<br \/>\nWidmore: Kiss your mother with that mouth?  Oh wait, that&#8217;s right.  She&#8217;s DEAD.  Just like your kid should be.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atcx3g\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So with that warm and fuzzy goodbye, Widmore was tossed out the proverbial Island airlock.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Later, hater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atd466\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>So Sun&#8217;s wondering &#8211; did Ben know Locke would zombie-fy when he got to The Island?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00ateqwq\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And he tells her he had no idea because that has never happened before!  <\/p>\n<p>Ben: What&#8217;s dead is dead.<br \/>\nUs: lol episode title<\/p>\n<p>He seemed to be conveniently forgetting a certain asshole father of one of the Losties!  And no, I don&#8217;t mean Kate&#8217;s dad!  Or Locke&#8217;s dad!  Or Sun&#8217;s dad!  Or Sawyer&#8217;s dad!  Or Hurley&#8217;s dad!  <\/p>\n<p>Christian sure as hell seems like HE came back to life, amiright?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atf8qx\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey Chaz, just so ya know, to punish you for being a cruel bastard and murdering my innocent daughter for no reason, I&#8217;m going to go ahead and murder your innocent daughter for no reason.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atgewa\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that would make me feel kinda bad!  But only kinda!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00ath9zh\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing in the &#8216;verse can stop me.  Except maybe a pissed off Scotsman.  Or a sale at Barney&#8217;s.  Ta!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atk1d7\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>So after Locke and Ben decided the Smokey Express wouldn&#8217;t be making any stops in Dharmaville, they decided to go straight to the belly of the beast.  The only problem?  Locke was just following his instinct in order to find it, and Ben was not having it.<\/p>\n<p>Ben: Are we there yet?<br \/>\nLocke: No.<br \/>\nBen: Are we there yet?<br \/>\nLocke: No.<br \/>\nBen: Are we there y&#8230;<br \/>\nLocke: Don&#8217;t make me turn this mission around, young man!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atpfwk\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re not the boss of me!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atqx4y\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right, right &#8211; we&#8217;ll see what <em>Smokey<\/em> has to say about that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atrx9t\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So they finally get to the temple, but they&#8217;re not taking the beaten path.  After all, one does not simply walk into Mordor &#8211; they have to go UNDER it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ewww is that a French guy&#8217;s arm down there?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00ats0gw\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Back at the marina, Benry shows up with guns blazing!  And this time he doesn&#8217;t have a creepy little kid trying to horn in on his Killin&#8217; Time.<\/p>\n<p>Right away he shoots Desmond, who goes &#8220;OCH BROTHAH&#8221;-ING through the air!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00attr39\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So Penny runs out and Ben is telling her that her father is a despicable man that killed his daughter, so he&#8217;s going to kill <em>her<\/em> father&#8217;s daughter, which is unfortunately her, sry2say!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atw7yq\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But then Baby Chah-lee comes out of the boat and is ridiculously adorable, but even his cuteness is not enough to divert Benry&#8217;s bullets!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atxc3q\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Move out of the way, kid!  Or else you&#8217;re going to have Penny&#8217;s brain in your ears&#8230;and in your eyes&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atyhft\"\/><\/p>\n<p>But right then Desmond, The Scottish Scrapper, comes hurtling into the shot and goes NUTS and just pulverizes Benry&#8217;s face until it resembles something not unlike rhubarb pie.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00atzq2b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And just as an affectionate afterthought, he tosses him into the water, giving us a fantastically creepy shot of Ben while reminding us that it&#8217;s just not Wednesday unless Henry Gale is in need of a blood transfusion!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aw0e9b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, back on the other beach&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That chick with the weird accent has a gun!  Also, I&#8217;m kind of cute, but don&#8217;t get attached.&#8221;   *points at color of shirt*<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aw1hz2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sweet Jemima Crankshaft, what the hell is going on over here?  I leave for a few hours and it&#8217;s like flipping Lord of the Flies all the sudden?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aw2sst\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And AnNOT-Lucia is all &#8220;What lies in the shadow of the statue?&#8221; and we&#8217;re all like, &#8220;Exsqueeze me, wot??&#8221;  And she&#8217;s all like, &#8220;Tell them it&#8217;s time, tie him up, he&#8217;s coming with us&#8221; and we&#8217;re like, &#8220;Again, <em>WOT<\/em>!?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aw3b6w\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And poor Frank is all, &#8220;Fuckin&#8217; A, man!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aw4cda\"\/><\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wanted to say thank you for helping me.  You&#8217;re right, I need to be judged for letting Alex die.  I don&#8217;t know what I would have done without you, John.  Thank y&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aw5pck\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hey, Dr. Jones, no time for love. We&#8217;ve got company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aw635k\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So Benry falls into the Temple of Doom!!  And there are WingDings all over the walls!  <\/p>\n<p>And then it finally appeared!!  ALL RISE, THE HONORABLE JUDGE SMOKE MONSTER IS PRESIDING!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aw749x\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And then we got a nice little recap of all the flashbacks from this episode and not one second that we&#8217;ve never seen!  How convenient!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aw8tw2\"\/><\/p>\n<p>We even had to watch Alex getting killed again, which was really sad ;_;   We loved Alex!  Alex was a punk rocker!  She was a punk punk, a punk rocker!  The poor kid didn&#8217;t need to die, ya know??<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00aw906b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Even Ben got all farklempt!  Which was crazy considering: <\/p>\n<p>Ben:Not Crying :: Jack:Crying!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00awa0xb\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So then the Smoke Monster sinks back down into the bowels of The Island and out of nowhere ALEX IS THERE!!!!  And Ben&#8217;s like, &#8220;OMG THIS IS SO WEIRD I WAS <EM>JUST<\/EM> THINKING ABOUT YOU!!! CRAZY!!!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00awbxfg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Alex reminds Ben that it&#8217;s ALL HIS FAULT that she&#8217;s dead, and that she knows he&#8217;s already planning to kill Locke YET AGAIN! 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It <em>reallly<\/em> likes me!  I&#8217;d like to thank so many people right now.  First, thank you Jacob for your eternal grace, thanks to my dad for molding me into a super villain at such an early age, thanks to Dick Alpert and Chuck Widmore for teaching me how to be a snazzy dresser, thanks to Horace Goodspeed for helping me harness my Chi, thanks to John Locke&#8217;s manboobs for their lack of support, and most of all, thanks to Damon and Carlton for making this THE BEST DAMN SHOW ON TELEVISION!!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>*end of speech music*<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/ack_attack\/pic\/00awf78c\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Love Ben?  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