Lost Recap: Enter 77
On the beach, the survivors have managed to find a ping-pong table, and the decide that they should have the chance to play some serious Pong. At least, Hurley, that Master of Disaster, who showed us his wild side last week, has done so.
Where he suddenly found the energy to be the Cruise Director I don't know, but he has done it. Maybe he just felt that the island needed a good old kick-in-the-seat. But whatever. He's trying to get everyone up off the beach and living again, and between the van-in-the-meadow trick and the ping-pong tournament, he's on a roll. Except they don't have a ball.
While all this high drama unfolds, Kate, Locke, Sayid and Rousseau (Rousseau?) are running around looking for something more interesting to do. They find it, in the form of a previously unknown station sitting on a hill with a massive satellite dish on top.
I still don't get why Rousseau, after some 16 years on the island, manages to miss as much as she does. What has she been doing other than setting traps and sitting in her cave? She must have one heck of a needlepoint collection.
Anyway, in the Island Sports Bar and Grill, the away team meets up with this guy named Mikhail, who supposedly likes being alone and playing chess with himself, but says that he can't beat the machine. After like two minutes, Locke is beating it.
Oh, and did I mention that Mikhail wears an eye patch? You might remember seeing him on a monitor in The Cost of Living, a few episodes back. Well, he shoots Sayid, then comes out and tells everyone that he is the last surviving member of the Dharma Initiative, and helps get Sayid cleaned up while Locke is beating the chess game.
Sayid, of course, thinks he is lying, because he thinks everyone is lying. But we do get to find out more about Sayid by seeing some of his back-story. Specifically how he went to work at a restaurant for a man whose wife he tortured. After several days of this torture, and refusing to admit that he tortured the woman, he finally breaks down, and the woman forgives him. How about that.
Anyway, Kate gets beat up by another person who is hanging with Mr. Mikhail, who doesn't seem to be like to be alone as much as he likes. And when Locke figures out that beating the chess game is the way to communicate with folks off-island, he starts entering codes. When he enters "77", to indicate that hostiles have breached the station, the station goes boom. That is a bad thing.
Back on the beach, who does have the ball? Sawyer. So the rest of the beachies challenge Sawyer to a game, winner take all. Or at least, loser can't call the other people names anymore. And that's how Sawyer loses, and loses badly, to Hurley. Now he can't call anyone names for a week.
