This episode of Lost Again brought to you by the Dear Diary Corporation. Put pen to paper and let it flow. Lock and key sold separately.
Walt is gone and Michael is trying to find him. This is an ongoing theme for these two. It starts when Michael and Walt's mother, Susan, split up, and she takes him to Amsterdam to live when he is just an infant. Michael always wanted to be a part of Walt's life, but Susan wanted to start a new life with her fiancee overseas effectively cutting Michael out of Walt's life. Because she had a well paying job whereas Michael was always struggling, she believed Walt would have a better life with her. Her boyfriend, Brian, could serve as a father figure in Michael's place. Upon her death, Walt's stepdad begs Michael to take Walt back. He never wanted to be a father in the first place, but it was what was required in order to marry Susan. Brian also seems to feel uncomfortable around Walt because of his special abilities. Strange things happen when he is around almost like he conjures things into being. Michael has been shut out for years, but now all of a sudden he has sole custody of a child that is a virtual stranger. This is the situation they find themselves in when they board Oceanic 815.
Michael finds Walt throwing knives with Locke, and he snaps. Locke doesn't see the harm in it because Walt is a mature and special kid. He shouldn't be talked down to. Michael isn't interested in parenting tips and forbids him from contact with his son. This incident serves as extra motivation for Michael to find a way off the island. He comes up with the idea to construct a raft, and has Walt help him salvage any scrap materials that might be useful from the wreckage. "This is us taking control of our destiny," he explains to Walt. And what a destiny they have ahead of them. It might end up alright for Walt in the end, but Michael becomes a tragic figure before he is blown to smithereens saving the friends he betrayed. And there is some question of whether destiny can be controlled or merely fulfilled.
While Michael is going through wreckage, Charlie is going through Claire's bags in search of her diary. Not being able to find it, Kate suggests to him that he check with the Island Hoarder. Sawyer's admits to having it, and cannot resist mocking Charlie by inferring that Claire wrote unflattering things about him. There are some punches thrown, but despite Sawyer's act, Kate knows he hasn't read the journal. He just wants people to believe he is worse than he really is. Once Charlie has the diary, he fights an overwhelming desire to read it. He gives in to temptation, and learns that Claire had been dreaming about the Black Rock. He is also pleased to see that Claire wrote about how much she liked and felt safe with him.
When Walt approaches Locke, Locke tells him that out of respect for his father's wishes they should not spend time together. Michael happens to appear at just this moment and misinterprets the situation believing Locke has disregarded his wishes. He yells at Locke, and throws Walt's polar bear comic in the fire as punishment while demanding obedience and respect. Resenting the authority of a man he thinks never cared about him, Walt runs off with Vincent yet again, and gets himself cornered by a polar bear. Locke go off in search of him, and together they hoist him out of the polar bear's reach. Maybe they should get a leash for Walt and forget about restraining the dog! After this harrowing experience, Michael and Walt bond over the letters that Michael had been consistently sending to Walt throughout his life. Susan had kept them but never given them to Walt. Michael retrieved them when he picked up Walt in Sydney, and this was proof for Walt that he had never wanted to be absent from his life.
Locke and Boone go out in the woods with the dog whistle in hopes of finding Vincent for Walt. There is some rustling, and out of the jungle stumbles a disoriented Claire.
In other island developments:
- Walt seems to be able to make the animals he reads about materialize. Don't think I want to be sitting next to him when it's time for his class to read Moby Dick.
- Shannon's major problem with the raft idea is that she gets seasick. Jack's look says it all!
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