Flagg Wanderer said:
I worked until about 1 AM last night and missed it.
Can someone fill me in on what happened? I've been keeping up with it up until now.
I love this show!! I actually taped it since I was out last night, so here's the story (you can skip this if you already read the synopsis on ABC, but since I already typed this novel
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To start, Sayid gives Shannon a gift for helping him translate the French documents. It seems that he is sweet on her, and Boone notices. Boone later tells Sayid to stay away from his sister, but Sayid doesn't seem threatened. At the same time, Hurley is dying for some real meat and complains that Locke and Boone's boar-hunting trips are coming up short. He wonders why they continue to hunt yet return to camp empty-handed. Jack tells Hurley to try to fish or ask Jin to help him catch more fish, but Hurley thinks Jin has been holding a grudge against him since that first day when Hurley rejected the sea urchin Jin was serving to the survivors. He reluctantly goes out to the beach to try his luck anyway.
Meanwhile, Locke and Boone embark on another boar-hunt, but the true nature of their expeditions is revealed - they are trying to open a hatch in some kind of fuselage buried on the island. Boone tells Locke he wants to tell the entire camp, including Shannon, about this important discovery. Locke appears to be ok with it but then knocks him out with a blow to the head. Boone wakes up in restraints, asking why Locke would do this to him. Locke places a knife just feet away from Boone and says if he is motivated enough, he will cut himself free. Locke then makes his exit and soon we hear the "monster". Shannon's screaming for help somewhere, and Boone cries out to her. He finally manages to get himself free and runs towards her cries. He finds her tied to a tree. He frees her and they start running for their lives from the monster. Although they are able to hide for a while, Shannon is seen being lifted by the monster and disappears. Boone keeps running and tries to find her, when he approaches a stream and notices blood on the rocks. He follows the trail of blood to find her body by the stream. She's dead.
In the next scene he runs back to camp and starts to tackle Locke in anger. Locke says Shannon can't be dead, she's been at the camp all day with Sayid. It's true, she was never in the jungle with Boone. Boone is shocked at the realization that the entire sequence was a vision. He says he felt relief when she died, and Locke says that he should let his "feelings" for his sister go.
The backstory for this episode is on Boone and Shannon's relationship. A flashback begins with a panicked Shannon calling Boone from Sydney. She tells Boone she needs him to come get her, and she can be heard over the phone screaming at someone. Boone flies to Sydney and arrives at her home to find her with her boyfriend, who has no idea Shannon called Boone. Shannon appears to have bruises on her forehead, and subtly signals to Boone that she is in trouble but that he must leave. Boone gets the idea. It turns out though, that she is scamming Boone to get money from his mother. As it turns out, Boone and Shannon are not blood relatives, only by marriage. Boone does what he normally does when she ends up with loser boyfriends - he bribes them with money so they will "go away". The boyfriend demands $50,000, but soon after Boone realizes that Shannon was just scamming him. Later on, Shannon comes to Boone's hotel informing him that the boyfriend ran off with the money and left, so the circle of irony is complete. She is drunk and tells Boone she thinks Boone is in love with her. She starts to make a move and he doesn't resist. It's a little creepy watching them get it on, even though they're not really related, the whole incest thing comes up anyway and it's a little disturbing to watch. The next morning, Shannon tells Boone they'll go back to the US and pretend that nothing happened.
Meanwhile, Hurley and Jin are "bonding" trying to catch fish. Hurley unfortunately steps on a sea urchin and the hilarity of Hurley trying to tell Jin to "pee on my foot!" is off the charts. Later, Jin tries to coax Hurley to eat some sea urchin, and although Hurley tries, it just comes back up on him. Towards the end of the episode, Jin catches and cleans a fish and presents it to an awed Hurley.
Jack is wandering around in the jungle and notices Kate is gathering some herbs and seeds. He watches her for a while, not announcing his presence, when she pipes up that she knows he's there. He asks what she's doing so she takes him to a cleared patch of land where Sun has been working on a garden. In another scene, Kate is talking to Sun even though she believes Sun can't understand English, but when Sun reacts to something Kate says, Kate demands to know "you can understand me, can't you?" to which Sun finally says yes. She pleas with Kate to not tell anyone and she agree. It would seem that in the wake of the accident, Sun has found a rekindled love towards her husband and no longer wants to leave him after all.
That is most of what I remember. There was one small part that stuck out to me - in one of the flashbacks, Boone is at the Sydney police department trying to find a way to have the "abusive" boyfriend arrested, when he sees a loudly-protesting Sawyer being led into the office in handcuffs. I think Boone remembers this and is one reason why he doesn't trust Sawyer from the get-go.