11. Enter 77

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Lost: Season Three: 11. Enter 77
Aired March 7

Writers: Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindelof
Director: Stephen Williams

Guest Cast
Mira Furlan: Danielle Rousseau
April Grace: Ms. Klugh
Andrew Divoff: Mikhail Bakunin
Francois Chau: Dr. Marvin Candle
Shaun Toub: Sami
Anne Bedian: Amira
Taiarii Marshall: Waiter
Eyad Elbitar: Arab man

Sayid, Kate, Locke, and Rousseau come upon another Dharma station, the Flame, and encounter the Dharma Initiative's final surviving member. As usual, however, things are not as they seem. Flashbacks delve into Sayid's encounter with one of his interrogation victims which I'm sure relates to this somehow. On the beach, Sawyer challenges the other survivors to a game of ping pong to get his stash back.

Sayid backstory IV

Notes:
-The Flame is a Dharma communications systems. Its capabilities include activation of the pallet drop (See: Lockdown), communication with the mainland, and sonar. The latter two were not operational when the Lostaways discovered it.
-The station was also wired with C4 and rigged to explode if it was attacked and taken by the Others.
-Sayid discovers a Dharma map of the island which includes the location of the barracks (See: ?). Whether this map is real or not is uncertain, though Sayid assumes that it is.
-Mikhail shoots and kills Ms. Klugh. Why it is necessary for her to die but not Mikhail is uncertain, though the Russian dialogue indicates that it is a plan for such situations.
-The name of the cat, Nadia, obviously has some emotional significance to Sayid as Nadia is also the name of his childhood friend that he had hoped to find in America.
-Mikhail Bakunin is the fifth character to share a name with a philosopher.
-The cable discovered by Sayid and Hurley links the Flame with the other stations, the barracks, and an underwater beacon and is used for communication.

Unanswered Questions: Why was it necessary for Mikhail to kill Klugh? Is Mikhail being truthful about the "purge"? Has he been truthful about anything?
By LUIGI NOVI (Lnovi) on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 8:05 pm:

ROOM OF REQUIREMENT: Now we have ping pong tables (albeit that didn't have legs or paddles), and an entire farm filled with cows!


By LUIGI NOVI (Lnovi) on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 9:03 pm:

It was nice to see a tv/movie cat that didn't automatically hiss or even meow at a stranger as so many of them do.

You know, there was a time that Locke seemed to be a step or two ahead of all the other Lostaways. And since then, his characters' been essentially assassinated. Between allowing Ben (aka Henry) to get to him over his leadership struggle with Jack, the way Sawyer was able to manipulate them both, his "loss of faith" over the hatch numbers, his being put in his place by Eko, and having to apologize to him after realizing that Eko was right, etc. he seems to be a far more pathetic character. And this ep, it just gets worse. He exhibits extreme stupidity in turning his back on Mikhail because he becomes entranced by yet another computer keyboard (and I don't care if Mikhail was tied up--he was an ex Soviet soldier, and presumably resourceful enough to escape--which he did), and gets easily cold-cocked by him. What a disappointment.

Seeing Miss Klugh was nice again, as was seeing Kate punch her a couple of times, but I was disapointed that Sayid stopped her. Her death was a surprise, but in the heat of the exchange between her and Mikhail, I guessed what she was telling him to do.


By TomM on Wednesday, March 07, 2007 - 9:31 pm:

Someone has got to keep Locke away from booby-trapped computers.

(Danielle)Rousseau, John Locke, (Desmond)David Hume, and now Mikhail Bakunin. Who's next? Thomas Aquinas? Plato? Lao Tzu?

Although in retrospect it is obvious, someone on another site who speaks Russian confirms that Ms Klugh kept telling Mikhail "You know what to do." and Mikhail kept replying "There's another option." Finally Klugh said "You know the rules." and Mikhail answered "Forgive me."


By Kevin (Kevin) on Thursday, March 08, 2007 - 3:39 pm:

Last week, John told Kate the reason they didn't come is because they wanted to but had no idea where to go. In this episode, however, they are following the path written on Eko's stick, which they did have before (albeit not long before in Lost time).


By Josh M on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 12:06 pm:

Pretty good episode. Sayid seems to get quality entries.

The way Hurley was acting when he was asking Sawyer his ping pong terms, it wasn't much a suprise that he was the talented one.

After seeing the bunker lined with C4, the Flame's fate wasn't that hard to guess.

Luigi Novi: ROOM OF REQUIREMENT: Now we have ping pong tables (albeit that didn't have legs or paddles)

We have seen those before, back when the hatch was not imploded.

Kevin: Last week, John told Kate the reason they didn't come is because they wanted to but had no idea where to go. In this episode, however, they are following the path written on Eko's stick, which they did have before (albeit not long before in Lost time).

The only way I can explain it is that Locke came up with it after Kate left for Jack. That's a stretch, though.


By Green Banana on Friday, March 09, 2007 - 12:40 pm:

Last week, John told Kate the reason they didn't come is because they wanted to but had no idea where to go. In this episode, however, they are following the path written on Eko's stick, which they did have before (albeit not long before in Lost time).

In the same scene from last week in which Locke says that they didn't know where to look before, he claims that he does now (although he looks sheepish when it comes out that it was Eko's Jesus Stick that showed him the way). I didn't record it, so I'm not sure, but I think there was also an indication sometime during the episode that they had only finished burying Eko that same day.


By Kevin (Kevin) on Saturday, March 10, 2007 - 4:28 am:

It's hard to tell how much time's passed since the events of one episode focused on one group and none of the others (either Jack, Kate and Sawyer in their cells or the Beachies) so two consecutive episodes were probably concurrent in Lost time. But I suspect it has probably only been a day or since Eko died. And they mourned him by joyriding in a van.


By Douglas Nicol (Douglas_nicol) on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 - 6:54 am:

Is it just me, or did the cat at the Flame station look similiar to Amira's.

Question, was Sayid telling the truth about remembering Amira, or was he just telling her what she wanted to hear.


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