9:01: Sawyer still holding onto the rope that was once going down the well but is now in the ground. Miles looks up and spots — the giant stone statue! Complete and uncut. Wait, wait … it’s going away …
9:03: A last and final time flip (from Locke fixing the wheel) leaves Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and Jin wondering which time zone they are in now.
9:05: Black screen says three years later. We see two Dharma Initiative guys in a station, partying it up. Then they spot some guy from their monitors, a very drunk Horace, at the camp perimeter, who is throwing dynamite and blowing up trees. Oh crap, they’ve got to go wake up LaFleur to let him know.
9:07: They run into the very familiar Dharma housing compound and knock on a door — it’s LaFleur. But it’s not really LaFleur, it’s Sawyer, who grabs his jump suit that says “Head of Security.” Yep, just as I thought; they are stuck in Dharma time, circa 1970-something.
9:10: Sawyer, aka LaFleur, grabs Miles, and they go get the passed-out Horace, whom they call their fearless leader. Sawyer takes Horace to his house and is greeted by Horace’s pregnant wife, Amy. Suddenly, she goes into labor.
9:12: Jump back to three years earlier — Sawyer, Juliet, Miles and Jin, coming back from the Orchid station, find a distraught Daniel. He tells them Charlotte died and that her body disappeared after the last time jump. They are there for good.
9:16: The gang decide to go back to the beach and take their chances that their stuff will be there. But they come across two men assaulting a woman, putting a bag over her head. Miles asks if they are supposed to get involved. A shell-shocked Daniel says, “Whatever happened, happened.” “Thanks for that, Plato,” Sawyer quips.
9:18: Sawyer has to go help. He and Juliet both end up killing the two men, and when they pull off the hood — it’s Amy, Horace’s future wife. She asks, “Who are you?”
9:21: Apparently, it was a Dharma vs. Hostiles (aka Others) conflict. The two Hostile guys killed Amy’s husband, Paul, who is wearing a Dharma suit. Amy says they have to bury the two Hostiles, because of the truce, and carry her husband back to the compound.
9:23: But when Amy takes them to the perimeter fence, she only pretends to turn it off, and let’s them walk right into the sonic fence, where they all promptly pass out.
9:25: Three years later, Amy is having her baby, but it’s breach. Juliet is the only one who can do it. But Juliet is supposed to be someone else — and she’s afraid to do anything because of her past experience with pregnant women. Sawyer tells her she’s the only one who can do it.
9:29: Jin shows up as Sawyer paces outside the clinic. He’s been looking for the past three years for Locke and the rest of them. “How long are we supposed to keep looking?” “As long as it takes,” Sawyer answers. Juliet comes out, crying. Amy is OK — and so is her new baby boy.
9:31: Three years earlier, Sawyer wakes up in a room. Horace is there, and asking questions. Sawyer says he is James LaFleur, but you can call him Jim, and that he and his friends were in a shipwreck, the Black Rock and there are others they are still looking for. Nice, Sawyer, nice touch. Horace plans to put them on a sub the next day because only the Dharma Initiative are allowed on the compound, and “Jim, you are not Dharma material.” Ha, that’s a laugh.
9:35: Juliet, Daniel and Miles are waiting outside. Daniel is a wreck from Charlotte’s death. Of course, he then spots her as a little girl, running with her mom. He’ll be the crazy man who scares that little girl.
9:36: Suddenly, the alarm goes off and everyone scatters. The Hostiles are coming, but it’s only Richard, who casually walks into the compound. Sawyer looks over at Juliet, as they watch this happen from inside a house. “Uh-oh.”
9:42: The truce has been broken, and Richard is none too happy about it. “Your buddy out there with the eyeliner, let me talk to him,” Sawyer says to Horace. Basically, Sawyer explains what’s been happening the last few days, how he saw Richard 20 years ago, about the bomb, Locke, the whole shebang. Richard doesn’t look too surprised.
9:48: Sawyer convinces Horace to let them stay for two weeks to “keep looking for the other crew members,” but Juliet wants to leave on the sub now. She’s been waiting too long to get off this island and now is her chance, even if it is 1974. But Sawyer asks her to stay “You can’t leave me with a mad scientist, a guy who talks to dead people — and Jin, who is a great guy but not quite the conversationalist.”
9:49: Three years later, Sawyer walks by some flowers, picks one. Brings it into a house, where Juliet is cooking dinner. He hands her the flower, congratulates her for a job well done. They start to kiss, professing love for one another. Hmmm, what a tangle web will be weaved once Kate, Jack and Hurley show up.
9:58: “Is three years really long enough to get over someone?,” Horace asks Sawyer. He and Amy had had a fight over the dead Paul. But it makes Sawyer ponder the idea. He tells Horace he loved someone once, thought about her constantly, but now he can’t even remember her face. So, yes, absolutely, three years is long enough.
9:59: Sawyer, in bed with Juliet, when the call comes. It’s Jin — and guess who he found? Yeah, Sawyer is full of shit once he takes one look at Kate.
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