Now why'd you go and do that?

Wow!  Last night’s episode left me speechless.  Poor Sayid, he has always been torn between what he had to do as a torturer in the Republican Guard and the good man he wanted to be. He’s always been a tortured soul with a broken heart over Nadia.

So let’s see, we found out from Dogen that the test’s that were conducted on Sayid were to show the balance of good and evil.  Unfortunately for Sayid, Dogen said the scales tipped toward evil.  After Sayid says he’s a good man and still has a good soul Dogen offers Sayid a chance at redemption.  Dogen gives Sayid a dagger that he had hidden and tells Sayid what’s waiting outside is evil incarnate that’s been trapped for years, but now that Jacob is gone he’s free and he won’t stop until everything on the island is dead.  Dogen then said, “plunge this dagger deep into his chest, if he speaks it’s too late”.  Sayid stopping for a drink encounters Flocke/Smokey, being caught a little off guard Flocke/Smokey says, “Hello Sayid” just before Sayid plunges the dagger into his chest.  I believe he didn’t die because he was able to speak before Sayid plunged the dagger into his chest.

It’s odd that a knife was able to kill Jacob but not Flocke/Smokey.  At first I thought it was because Sayid had been placed in the Temple pool,  but so had Ben, yet Jacob still died. If it wasn’t because he was able to speak first maybe Flocke/Smokey has to be killed by someone innocence or pure in heart, say like Hurley?  Another thing I noticed is Flocke/Smokey never comes right out and says, I’ll give you what ever you want.  In talking to Sayid, Flocke/Smokey says “what if I told you, you could have anything you wanted – anything in the entire world”, but he doesn’t say I’ll give you anything in the entire world.  Sayid said “all I ever wanted died in my arms and I’ll never see it again.”   Flocke/Smokey says “what if you could?”  He doesn’t say you will, I’ll make it happen.  Flocke/Smokey isn’t really promising anything, he’s just misleading everyone.

So back at the temple Sayid delivers Flocke/Smokey’s message, for everyone to be out of the temple by sundown or he’s going to kill them.  Moments later Sayid drowns Dogen  in the Temple pool, and when Lennon asks, “what have you done?  Dogen was the only thing keeping it out!”  Sayid says, “I know”, and cuts Lennon’s throat and shovels him into the pool.  Now do you think darkness won within Sayid and that he did all of that to have Nadia again?  I wonder if it’s all part of a plan. Sayid has never been selfish. Could he just be trying to gain Flocke/Smokey’s trust?  Could Dogen and Lennon come back to life from the temple pool?  Maybe he killed them in the pool with the hope that they might come back verses the way Flocke/Smokey would have tortured them, like a mercy killing. The look on Sayid’s face when Dogen was telling his story about his son and Jacob – it looked like he was touched and felt sorry for him.  Maybe I’m digging too deep, but I thought it strange that he killed them in the pool.

In the meantime – Ilana, Ben, Lapidus, and Sun meet up with Miles and Ilana takes them to the same place Jacob had Hurley take Jack.  The symbol on the stone that Ilana pushes on is called a Shin Ring, which means  “eternity and protected”, we already know it’s a secret exit.  Ilana keeps asking about Sayid, so Ben goes to the pool to find him.  Ben tells Sayid, “come on, I  know a way out of here there’s still time”, Sayid says “not for me there’s not”.  Ben meets up with Ilana and the rest of them in the jungle, Ilana asks about Sayid, when Ben tells her he killed Dogen and Lennon she says are you sure?  Ben says he was standing over them with a bloody dagger.  See again why does Ilana keep asking about Sayid?  I will really be shocked if sayid turns out to be dark and is part of Flocke/Smokey’s gang.

Sayid said Flocke/Smokey is leaving the island for ever which is what he told Sawyer.  How is he leaving? Jacob said someone was coming to the island, is that Flocke/Smokey’s transportation off the island?

What about Claire?  She told Jin if Kate took Aaron off the Island she’d kill her.  Do you think she’s going to kill Kate the first chance she has or maybe Claire thinks Flocke/Smokey will take care of her?  What about the way Flocke/Smokey looked at Kate, if looks could kill was that scary or what?  Kate saw something in the smoke as the smoke monster passed over her in the hole, I thought it was a body or maybe trapped souls.  What do you think it was? I really like Dogen and I hope he’s not really dead, I thought he was a good addition to the Island.

Well I’m going to leave you with another clue to last week’s puzzle, the four letter word has an “O” in it.

Can ya dig it?