4.07 - Ji Yeon

Title’s significance: Ji Yeon is the name Jin wants to give to the baby.

Recap: Flashbacks cover Jin’s work trying to get a stuffed panda for a pregnant colleague of Mr. Paik’s. On the freighter, Sayid and Desmond are prisoners for breaking into the radio room. Sun interrogates Daniel about whether the freighter is going to rescue them, and when she returns she tells Jin that they’re going to go find Locke. To prevent Sun from leaving, Juliet tells Jin about Sun’s affair with Jae Lee. Bernard and Jin go fishing and share belief in karma – “we must be the good guys, huh?” On the freighter, Regina commits suicide, but Desmond and Sayid meet Captain Gault, who says that his crew is suffering from cabin fever and that his ship is being sabotaged; Gault also confirms that it’s Widmore’s boat and reveals that he’s trying to figure out who faked the crash of Flight 815, suggesting Ben manipulated the staged crash. Desmond and Sayid meet “Kevin Johnson” on the freighter – it’s Michael! Sun reveals that she doesn’t want to go with Locke anymore; instead, she wants to find any way she can to leave the island. In the flashforwards, Sun gives birth to her daughter Ji Yeon and visits Jin’s grave with Hurley.

Thoughts: This episode is so dastardly in that it really screwed with our heads about the whole flashback/forward thing. In that respect, it was a delightful little twist, but as for the rest of the episode, it’s fairly unremarkable with the brakes firmly on and with little to move the plot forward other than the reveal that Michael is aboard the freighter, making him another potential candidate for being Ben’s man on the freighter.

Favorite moment: Bernard and Jin fishing.

Characters introduced (in order):

• CAPTAIN GAULT, menacing freighter captain
• JI YEON, Jin & Sun’s daughter

What we learned:

• Sun is one of the Oceanic Six.
• Michael is on the freighter.

Questions:

• What’s the source of the banging pipes noise?
• Is Jin really dead?
• What the deuce is Michael doing on the freighter?

Things that are going to be important in Season Six:

• Nothing really of mythological significance that hasn’t already been harped on before on this blog.