Cost of Living
November 2nd 2006 07:08
The backstory revolves around Eko.
Beach. Eko is lying unconscious in the tent. Sayid leans over him and asks Hurley how long he has been like this. Hurley says a couple of days. Sayid asks Charlie what happened to him and Charlie answers, "Before or after we saved him from the polar bear cave?" Sayid, Charlie, and Hurley leave the tent and Eko dreams.
His dreams are scenes from "23rd Psalm" (second season). Eko arrives at Yemi's church and says he has come to give his confession. He asks for Yemi's help in getting drugs out of the country by signing some papers and making him a priest. Yemi points out that a signature does not make him a priest. "You could never be a priest." Then the dream switches to the airstrip where the drugs are being loaded onto the orange Beechcraft. The army shows up shooting and Yemi gets shot. One of Eko's partners pulls Yemi onto the plane and pushes Eko onto the runway. The soldiers mistake Eko for a real priest because of his clothes. Eko wakes up at that point.
Yemi is in the tent on the island calling his name and telling him to wake up. Eko looks surprised and frightened. Yemi lights a lighter and says, "It is time to confess. To be judged, brother. I will be waiting. You know where to find me."
Sayid, Charlie, and Hurley are walking down the beach when Hurley says he smells smoke. The tent Eko is inside is on fire. Charlie and Hurley drag Eko outside while some other Losties put out the fire. Eko opens his eyes and says, "My brother, my brother." Only Charlie is still there to hear him. He reassures Eko and tells him to stay put, he'll be right back. Locke comes up to Charlie and asks where's Eko. Charlie points to where Eko was, but Eko is gone.
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Jack's cell. Jack is doing pull ups on a bar above his bed. Ben enters the cell and they exchange greetings. Ben asks him to go for a walk. Jack says, "You say that like you're not going to just throw a bag over my head and drag me out of here if I say no." Ben gives him a shirt like the one he's wearing, a white, hip-length tunic with slightly flared sleeves. He says he'll wait outside, but stops when Jack asks him if it hurts, does his neck hurt, does he have any tingling or numbness in his fingers or toes. Jack says that unless the x-rays were very recent, Ben won't be taking walks much longer.
The beach on Hydra island. Colleen's funeral. Jack is there and everyone is wearing the same shirt. The Others have white pants to go with the shirts. Colleen is getting a Viking funeral. Ben says a few words over here, then they push her out to sea. A song plays on the loudspeakers—this isn't a song I recognize (a first for me on Lost), so if someone could let me know what it is... [ETA: The song is "I Wonder", sung by Brenda Lee, recorded in 1963 for her album "By Request" as the tenth song on that album. It was written by Cecil Gant and Raymond Levine.] Ben asks Juliet why she let Jack see his x-rays. Juliet says she didn't tell him they were his, but she supposes that Ben must have.
Beach. Sayid, Desmond, and Locke sit on the beach and Locke says he knows how to find Jack, Kate, and Sawyer. Sayid asks why Desmond is being included. "Is that supposed to hurt my feelings?" Desmond looks a little amused. He tells them that the computer in the Swan station wasn't just for typing in the numbers, it could also be used to communicate with the other stations. Sayid doesn't know about the Pearl, so this information does not seem relevant to him. Locke tells him about the Pearl and Sayid guesses that Locke wants to communicate with the Others.
Hurley and Charlie walk up and say they've looked every and there's no sign of Eko, not even a trail. Hurley adds, "Not that we know what a trail looks like." Locke asks if Eko said anything when Charlie pulled him out of the tent. Charlie tells him what Eko said and Locke realizes Eko is going to the Beechcraft that fell on top of the Pearl station.
Jungle. Eko stumbles deliriously, keeping an arm against his ribs, clearly in pain and quite exhausted. He falls down.
Eko and Yemi as children
An altar boy in the jungle tells Eko to confess
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Beach Locke, Sayid, and Desmond have their packs and are getting ready to go to the Pearl. Locke announces their departure and says that anyone who wants to come is welcome. Charlie, Hurley, Nikki, and Paulo are standing around the fruit stand making some snacks. Hurley is confused and says that Jack would have taken Kate or Sayid and not invited anyone else. Locke says, "I'm not Jack." Nikki volunteers to go. Paulo is annoyed. Nikki says, "You always whine about not being included, now's our chance."
Desmond catches up with Locke by the remarkably unsanitary drinking water trough.
Desmond: Do you mind if I ask you a question, brother?
Locke: Shoot.
Desmond: Are we going off to poke at a computer? Or are we going after your man Eko?
Locke: Two birds, one stone. Eko is heading for the airplane that crashed on top of the entrance to the Pearl station.
Desmond: Well, that's quite a coincidence.
Locke: Don't mistake coincidence for fate.
Desmond gives Locke a look as he's leaving.
Jungle. Eko stumbles to a picturesque creek and kneels down to get a drink.
A very bad man
Smoke monster reflected
*commercial break*
Jack's cell. Juliet enters with a covered dish on a tray. She asks Jack if he wants to guess what's for lunch and Jack replies he doesn't much like mysteries. She reveals a cheeseburger and Jack expresses surprise. Juliet claims to have made it from scratch, all the way from catching the cow. Jack jokes that there's no ketchup. Ben enters and tells Juliet he wants to talk to Jack. Juliet says okay, talk, but Ben wants to have a private conversation. Jack tells him he's okay with Juliet being there, but Ben insists. Juliet leaves.
Jack considers Ben's plan
"Do you believe in God, Jack?"
"Do you?"
"Two days after I found out I had a fatal tumor on my spine, a spinal surgeon fell out of the sky. If that's not proof of God, I don't know what is."
Ben leaves.
Don't mess with Mr. Eko
The clinic. Eko asks Amina when the vaccine arrives and asks if she agreed to give the vaccines to the militia. She tells him not to think of crossing them and that Eko reminds her of Yemi, that he's a good man, too.
Bar. Eko gets out of a taxi and enters a disco bar. A man sits at a table inside and asks what he can do for him. Eko tells him he wants to sell some vaccine quickly so that he can leave the country. The man agrees happily. (Are they drinking Black Mamba beer?)
Jungle. The group has arrived at the Beechcraft. Sayid, Desmond, Nikki, and Paulo go into the Pearl while Locke stays aboveground with Eko. Eko and Locke remove the rocks blocking the entrance to the plane. Locke asks Eko what he saw back there and tells him he saw it once; it was a very bright light, beautiful. Eko stops and looks at him. He tells him that is not what he saw. Eko enters the plane. It's empty. Yemi's body is not inside. He rushes outside and tells Locke his brother is gone.
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Jungle by the Pearl. Eko pulls out the photo of him and Yemi that he found in his brother's Bible. Locke goes into the Pearl, but before he leaves Eko alone, he gives him back the crucifix that he found while going after him at the polar bear cave.
Yemi's church. Emeka and two goons burst into the church. He has heard that Eko tried to sell the vaccine. Emeka says he is superstitious and doesn't want to take the life of a holy man, so he will just cut off Eko's hands. They tie Eko's hands and hold them on the altar. Emeka raises a machete, but Eko moves too fast. In seconds, he has killed the three men and we realize this is the scene from the jungle earlier. Eko shows no mercy to Emeka on his knees and pleading for his life. Eko says only, "You do not know who I am."
Eko leaves the church, covered in blood, and looks around outside for other goons. Only the villagers are there and they look horrified. Daniel stops playing and Amina puts a hand over her mouth.
A hatch...
...and a patch
Jack's cell. Juliet enters the viewing area. Jack asks her if she doesn't trust him any more. She says she trusts him just fine, but she thought she'd put in a movie for him. Jack says he'll pass on it and she tells him it's a classic, "To Kill a Mockingbird". Juliet apologizes to Jack for bringing him there and for what has been done to him and his friends. She goes through a lengthy spiel about how great Ben is and how important it is for Jack to operate on him, that Jack feels like he doesn't have a choice, but he does, free will is all anyone has. While she says all this, the movie plays and it has Juliet holding poster boards that say:
Unrest in Utopia?
Ben is a liar.
And he is very dangerous.
Some of us want a change.
But it has to look like an accident.
It has to look like we tried to save him.
And that's up to you, Jack
[At this point, Juliet is telling Jack that she wants him to trust her, that doing the surgery is absolutely the right thing for him to do. Back to the cards...]
It's complicated
And I would protect you
Now tell me to turn off the movie.
Jack tells her to turn off the movie. He appears torn. The camera watching Jack's cell is behind the television screen, so none of this could have been seen by Ben.
*commercial break*
Yemi's church. Eko has a suitcase in his hand. Daniel asks if he is a bad man. Eko says, "Only God knows." Eko goes outside where Amina is supervising the unloading of the vaccine. She is angry with Eko for killing the militia men. It has solved nothing. More men like them will come. Villagers board up the church and Amina says the church is no longer sacred. Eko owes Yemi another church. She tells Eko to go to London and repent, begin to make his peace now because he owes God for every life he has taken, one day he will be judged for what he has done.
Jungle outside the Pearl. Yemi appears to Eko again, but runs off into the jungle. Eko follows, much like Jack did in the first season, "White Rabbit". Eko calls out to his brother and finds him in a field of lovely red flowers. Yemi says, "Are you ready, Eko?" Eko says yes. He pulls the cross out of his pocket and Yemi looks at it. Eko says, "i ask for no forgiveness, father, for I have not sinned. I have only done what I needed to do to survive. A small boy once asked me if I was a bad man. If I could answer him now, I would tell him that when I was a young boy, I killed a man to save my brother's life. I am not sorry for this. I am proud of this. I did not ask for the life I was given, but it was given nonetheless. And with it, I did my best."
Yemi says, "You speak to me as if I were your brother." Eko is confused, asks who he is, but Yemi just walks away. Eko follows him back into the jungle. The smoke monster shows up and looms over him once again. Eko recites the twenty-third psalm. The smoke monster grabs Eko and slams him around, finally dropping him on the ground. Locke and the others inside the Pearl station hear it and rush outside, but Eko is dying. Eko whispers something to Locke, remembers him and Yemi as young boys playing together, then he dies.
Sayid asks what he said and Locke tells him, "He said, we're next."
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