S6E9 - The Package

Has anyone ever watched the movie "Lost in Translation"? It was a big deal a few years back, but I found it kind of... meh. At any rate, that theme seems to work for this episode on a number of levels. So may I present...

LOST (in translation)*
*sponsored by Google Translate (http://translate.google.com.au)

The following represents useful phrases (presented phonetically) for any Korean travelers planning a trip to their local mysterious island or alternate timeline.

jebal nal gakkaun byeong-won-e jigjeob.
Please direct me to the nearest hospital.

Flocke advises Jin to let his leg wound "air out" while revealing that he needs all of the remaining candidates to leave the island with him. It's evident he can't just outright kill them (like he couldn't outright kill Jacob) so I guess this yet another aspect to the mysterious "rules" that govern them.

naega nae don dollyeodo doelkkayo?
May I have my money back?

So, was Jin not aware of the money cap or is he just a bad smuggler? I smuggled souvenirs made from alpaca wool through customs once. Granted, not the same as twenty-five grand, but I'm just sayin'...

i yeojaga nae anaegadoeji anhseubnida.
This woman is not my wife.

I'm not sure if this was something revealed in the brief clip we saw of them being held up at customs in the season premiere, but this episode confirms alternate Jin and Sun are unmarried and under the covers undercover.

naega dateue uihae salhaedanghaessseubnida.
I have been shot by a dart.

Jin gets fed up with playing wait-and-see and decides to take matters into his own hands and--OOPS!... kidnapped by the others... uh, that is... Widmore's others.

nae tomato sigmul-i jug-eoss-eoyo.
My tomato plants are dead.

For some reason I like it when Sun gets all fired-up. Like her hubby, she's also tired of waiting around and stabbed that table in frustration before fleeing to the sanctuary of her old garden. Jack tries to cheer her up (I guess) with his story about the lighthouse, but she ain't havin' it.

chicka hwal wau wau.
Bow chicka wow wow.

So instead of making good on his missed restaurant meeting, Jin decides to stay behind for a little sump'n sump'n. You know it's love when you can take a borderline male chauvinist comments and turn it into a strip tease.

josimhae teuli!
Watch out for that tree!

Flocke offers to reunite Sun with her husband, but she doesn't trust him and high tails it outta there and knocks herself unconscious. Yeah, good call trying to outrun the super-fast evil smoke monster.

banghaehaji masibsio.
Do not disturb.

I know Keamy's a pushy bad guy and Sun is nice (when she's not stabbing innocent tables), but she could have at least offered a token "Don't come in."

anio yeong-eo.
No English.

So, Sun bumps her head and can't speak English anymore, oh wait... but conveniently understands it? Jack can call it aphasia or diaper rash for all I care... I'm just wondering what the point is. I don't think Sun speaks English in the flashsideways so could it be another example of the two realities "merging" just like Jack's appendectomy that he had on the island, but couldn't remember in the alternate timeline? Interesting.

dodaeche naega eodiibnikka?
Where the hell am I?

Jin wakes up in that weird video room that they stuck Alex's boyfriend in a few seasons back. Remember that? That was messed up. Zoe (the intrepid Geophysicist) calls it Room 23 and says it's where Dharma was doing some subliminal experimentation. So I guess Ben's group of others just recycled it as a good old-fashioned torture room? Doesn't sound very Jacob-sanctioned, now does it?

dangsin-i moglog-e eobs-eo.
You're not on the list.

Claire asks Flocke if she's on the list. He says no, but assures her he'll still get her off the island. When she asks about Kate he says he needs her too, but after she's done helping him convince the other three candidates to join them, "Whatever happens, happens." To me, this is the first Evil red flag the Man In Black has raised... well, if you don't count mass murder. But if you think about it, so far he's been (seemingly) straight forward with everyone, which is more than I can say for Jacob. The truth can be very seductive. I think that's what makes him such a compelling bad guy. He just tells you everything... minus the part where if you follow him you'll release hell on earth.

dambae goemul chinhwajeog-inga?
Is the smoke monster friendly?

Sawyer: "Why are you taking the boat? Can't you just turn into smoke and fly over there?"
Flocke: "If I could, why would I still be on the island?"
Sawyer: "You're right. That would just be ridiculous."

Ha! Priceless Sawyer comment. And nice to know the writers aren't above poking fun at themselves, because seriously... it is a little ridiculous.

hyeongeum jigeubgi
ATM

Sun tells Keamy (via their translator) that she can pay him the money with funds from her personal bank account. While I was watching I kept thinking the translator was someone we knew and I just realized who it was... Mikhail (aka Eye Patch Guy!)

meolli cheoltab-eseo tteol-eojyeo.
Step away from the pylon.

Flocke pays Widmore a visit and Widmore says besides not being John Locke, the only thing he knows about him is from myth. I'm too lazy and not quite geeky enough to pour through ancient mythologies, but I'm guessing he's supposed to be somebody from back when Hercules was in high school.

bihaeng-gie pogtan-iya.
There's a bomb on the plane.

Richard suggests blowing up the plane to prevent Flocke from leaving the island (that's the brilliant plan?), but Sun gives him a Korean tongue-lashing that he won't soon forget.

jeoldaelo boseuui ttal jago.
Never sleep with the boss's daughter.

Sun discovers her bank account has been closed while Keamy reveals that the money Jin was to deliver was the bounty on his own head. What? Not enough hit men in Korea? Not to question Mr. Paik's brilliant criminal mind, but doesn't this plan seem a little complicated?

gwihaui paekijileul boyeo jwoyo.
Show me your package.

Widmore shows Jin a few digital photos of little Ji Yeon and says that she along with everyone else will "cease to be" if Flocke is allowed to escape. Then he offers to show Jin the package claiming it's not a what, but a who. Anyway, I thought the term "cease to be" was an interesting one. It sounds less like hell and more like this time line will end if he's allowed to escape. And this leads me to an interesting revelation. After Jacob told Richard that the island was a "cork" keeping evil in a bottle, then the alternate timeline is theoretically evil uncorked! Since the island is essentially gone in the flashsideways, that must mean we're looking at evil "unleashed" on the world. I must say, minus Sun's unfortunate gunshot wound at the end, everyone is having a pretty awesome time in "hell" so far.

naega deogteu teipeuui mas-eul silh-eo.
I hate the taste of duct tape.

Sayid gives Jin a utility knife and he frees himself in time to take out Mikhail, but unfortunately Sun (and mayhap alternate Ji Yeon) is caught in the crossfire.

nal mid-eo, nan uisa yeyo.
Trust me, I'm a doctor.

Sun appologizes to Jack and he promises her that he'll do everything he can to reunite her with Jin and get them off the island. Interesting note, he specially said, "get you off the island," not "us." He seemed to purposefully leave himself out of that sentence as if he's already planning on staying behind.

nan bimil-eul joh-ahaji anh-a.
I don't like secrets.

This is what Flocke said to Sawyer about what was on the sub and in the end it is revealed. Desmond! $5 to everyone that called that. Is this number 108 (Wallace) that Jacob was referring to? And how/why is he Widmore's "secret weapon"? He's been told by a few folks that he's special and "the rules" don't apply to him. I've always assumed that was the time travelling rules, but who knows? Maybe he can also nosebleed his way between the alternate realities. A "loophole" for the good guys just like smokie's "loophole" to kill Jacob?

Anyway, that's all she wrote. What did you think?