I Am DB

I don’t usually feel the need to say “spoiler alert” in these pieces since they reveal pretty much every detail of what happened. But in case some of you are a week behind and plan to skim this prior to catching up, let me say it now: crazy fucking spoiler alerts. Beginning in the next sentence.

Maybe I’m wrong about this, but I don’t think shows tend to kill off multiple main characters in a single episode; it always seems like the story is rocked at any one time by a death. But as we cross into the true homestretch of Lost, they laid out four, with two so quick and two others so emotional that I could barely focus my mourning in all directions.

There’s no way around it: this episode was brutal. Seeing these characters die is harsh enough, but to lose four series regulars in one episode? That’s right, four. Everyone’s crying over Sun, Jin and Sayid, but what about Lapidus?!? I suppose it’s possible that he made it out and we’ll see him come ashore, but the dude got knocked on his ass by a big metal door that was ejected at him like a bullet by the pressure of flooding water. That thing must have knocked him unconscious…on his back…in a hallway filling violently with water. I don’t see him coming back from that. I may be the only person who gives a damn about Lapidus, but I do. The guy rules, so his death was just as bad for me as the rest of them.

Let’s get into it….

LIKE A SURGEON
At the show’s opening, Locke wakes up from surgery to find a familiar face standing over him: that nice spinal surgeon he met in the Oceanic lost baggage office a week earlier. Jack tells Locke that the surgery was a success, and adds that he was able to see the damage from the original accident that landed him in the wheelchair. He tells Locke that he is a candidate for an experimental surgery that could restore feeling to his legs and maybe even allow him to walk again. To Jack’s surprise, Locke politely refuses.

Unable to let go of his need to fix Locke, Jack learns that three years earlier his patient had received emergency oral surgery. So he seeks out the dentist who performed it, in the hopes of learning about the accident that paralyzed him. That dentist turns out to be Bernard, who tells Jack that he too was on Oceanic 815, seated – along with his wife Rose – right across from Jack. “Pretty weird, huh?” he says. “Maybe you’re onto something here.” Bernard, who has oddly clear memories of Locke’s incident, says that he can’t break his doctor-patient confidentiality in regards to Locke’s records, but he gives Jack the name of a man who was in the accident with him: Anthony Cooper.

Jack tracks Cooper down to a nursing home, and with some help from Helen, learns that he is John’s father. Cooper is wheelchair bound, gazing vacantly at nothing and drooling. He’s hardly the wily conman who pushed Locke out a window or was violently choked to death by Sawyer. Looking at him now, I actually felt sorry for him. And why not? He wasn’t a lying con artist in this timeline. Or was he? In this season’s episode Recon, we saw Detective James Ford trying to track down an Anthony Cooper who had conned his parents years ago. Is this the same Cooper? I doubt it matters at this point, but I wonder.

Back at the hospital, Jack stands over Locke, who is talking in his sleep. “Push the button,” he says first, followed by, “I wish you had believed me.” The latter statement was the lone line in Locke’s suicide note, written to Jack before he attempted to hang himself in The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham. Jack glances up into the hall and sees Claire looking around. They sit down opposite each other in a lounge area, trying to navigate the awkward situation. Claire says she never even met their father (which answers my question from last time about whether or not this timeline echoed the original in that Christian and Claire met after her car accident). Claire opens a cardboard box which contains an elegant wooden music box, which is among the items left for her in Christian’s will. According to Ilana, there will be other things to come but Christian especially wanted her to have this. Claire asks Jack if he might know why, but he doesn’t. When she asks how their father died, Jack explains that he drank himself to death in Sydney. He says that he went down there to bring the body back and the airline lost it. When Claire comments that she just flew in from Sydney herself, he makes the connection that she was on Oceanic 815 too, which freaks them both out (though he doesn’t explicitly say that he was on that flight). Jack sits next to her and the mirror inside the music box’s lid reflects the newly introduced half-siblings. Jack says he’s sorry he can’t help her, and then asks her to stay with him while she’s in town.

C: Stay with you? I mean, we’re…we’re strangers.
J:  No, we’re not strangers, we’re …we’re family.

At some point later, Locke is wheeling himself out of the hospital when Jack approaches to say goodbye, and finally learns how he wound up in the wheelchair.

There’s that line again – “I wish you believed me” – only this time it’s Jack saying it to Locke. The way Locke stops when he hears it…I couldn’t decide if he was just considering the plea, or if the line touched off a memory of his Island-Timeline self (he also had a moment of pause when he passed Jin in the hall).

PRISON BREAK
In the island timeline, Jack wakes up in an outrigger canoe. It’s nighttime and Sayid kneels nearby on the beach and informs him that Locke saved him from a mortar attack and they’re now on Hydra Island. He says those that weren’t killed scattered into the jungle. “It’s just the three of us now.” (So much for Cindy the Flight Attendant and kids Zack and Emma, I guess.)

Further inland, Widmore’s people have moved the pylons from the beach and are re-aligning them around the polar bear cages, which Sawyer, Kate and the others are being forced into by Pudgy Face. Having spent more than enough time in those cages, Sawyer refuses to get in, easily disarming Pudgy and turning the tables until Widmore shows up and puts a gun to Kate’s head. Widmore says he has a list of names that includes Ford, Reyes and the Kwons…but not Austen. He doesn’t care if she dies. Sawyer relents, and they’re all corralled into the cage. “You may not believe it, but I’m doing this for your own good,” Widmore tells Sawyer through the bars. “You’re right,” Sawyer says. “I don’t believe it.” Widmore’s men tell him that the fence won’t be live for an hour, but he insists they haven’t got that much time. “He’s coming,” Widmore says.

And so he is. Back on the beach, Locke returns to Sayid and Jack to report on the predicament facing Sawyer and the rest. I couldn’t find the full clip online, but here’s the first half:

The scene continues with Locke asking for Jack’s help with the rescue, since the others obviously don’t trust him. Jack asks why he should trust him. “Because I could kill you, Jack. Right here, right now. And I could kill every single one of your friends, and there’s not a thing that you could do to stop me. But instead of killing you, I saved your life. And now I wanna save them too. So will you help me?”

In the cage, Kate tells Sawyer that Widmore wouldn’t have killed her, but he says that her name was crossed out on the wall of the cave. “He doesn’t need you, Kate,” Sawyer says. There’ll be more to say about this later…

Those who felt like Sun and Jin’s reunion got the short shrift in the previous episode probably felt better seeing the couple catch up now. They talk about Ji Yeon, and then Sun slides Jin’s wedding ring back on his finger. (I was reminded that on her trip across the island to see Jacob last season, she found Charlie’s Drive Shaft ring in Aaron’s crib. She took it, and I hoped she would have a chance to give it to Claire. Guess that ain’t gonna happen.)

Suddenly the power to nearby lights and the pylons goes down, and the high-pitched roar of a pissed-off smoke billow is heard. Smokey roars into the clearing and starts pummeling Widmore’s men, including Pudgy Face, who it rams into the cage bars right in front of Sawyer and Kate (note that Zoe is conspicuously absent from this attack). Even all of Pudgy’s…pudge…couldn’t stop that from smarting, and he comes to rest in front of the cage. Kate tries to reach for the keys but Jack shows up and takes them himself, letting them all out. “I’m with him,” he says, nodding toward the Smoke Monster.

As they head through the jungle toward the plane, Kate asks Jack if he’s changed his mind about coming. Jack says he’ll help them get to the plane, but he’s not going with them. “I’m sorry Kate. I’m…I’m not meant to go.” Sayid catches up to them, having turned off the power generator to enable to Smokey’s attack, and together they continue toward the plane. Man in Locke is there already, and after taking out Widmore’s armed guards, he climbs aboard and looks around, quickly discovering four bricks of C4 in an overhead bin, wired to the plane’s electrical system. When the others arrive outside the plane, Locke comes out and shows them the C4 he’s removed. He says this is just what Widmore wants. “He wants to get us all in the same place at the same time – a nice confined space we have no hope of getting out of – and then he wants to kill us.” Afraid to risk that the plane hides more explosives, Man in Locke says they’ll have to take the sub instead, which seems to please Sawyer. But as they head away from the plane (Lapidus looking particularly disappointed; I think he was eager to fly again), Sawyer hangs back and talks to Jack.

S: Hey Doc, listen up. You don’t wanna leave this island that’s your own damn business. But I’m gonna ask you for one last favor. I don’t trust that thing one bit, so here’s what I need you to do. Once we get to the dock, you make sure it doesn’t get on the sub.
J:  How am I supposed to do that? You saw what it did back there.
S: Just get it in the water. I’ll take care of the rest.

They all take position in the bushes near the dock, where the submarine appears to be unguarded. They begin their approach, and Sawyer and Lapidus make it safely onboard, where they knock out one crewman and order the captain at gunpoint to get ready to launch. Locke hands Jack his backpack and grabs his own, and the two of them follow the others down to the dock, with Locke telling Jack as they go that whoever told him he had to stay on the island doesn’t know what they were talking about. Jack stops on the dock and says, “John Locke told me I needed to stay.” Then he shoves Man in Locke into the water. Kate suddenly takes a gunshot to the shoulder and topples. They’re under attack from behind and begin exchanging fire. Jack and Sayid help Kate onboard and Sawyer climbs up to the hatch and calls for Claire, who is determinedly shooting Widmore’s people. Locke climbs out of the water looking pissed and also shoots at Widmore’s men, glancing back menacingly at Sawyer as well. Sawyer calls for Claire one last time, but when she continues shooting, he closes the hatch and the sub begins to pull away. When she realizes, she runs toward it but Locke holds her back. His expression has changed to one of satisfaction. “No, trust me. You don’t want to be on that sub.”

INTO THE DEEP
Because he has to treat Kate’s wound, Jack barely has time to be angry that Sawyer has ordered the sub away while he’s still on it. He tells Hurley to go find a first aid kit, but when Hurley comes up empty-handed, Jack goes into his backpack to find a something he can use to stop the bleeding. Instead of his own gear, he finds the block of C4 – wired with a digital wristwatch Man in Locke had removed from one of the dead Ajira guards. They have less than four minutes until detonation, and Jack realizes that they did exactly what Locke wanted. Jin gets on the phone to Lapidus, who is still holding the captain at gunpoint (and who is ironically standing in front of a first-aid kit), and tells him they have to re-surface. When Lapidus reports that it will take more time than they’ve got, Sayid tells them how they might be able to disarm the bomb. But Jack has a theory that they’ll be okay by doing nothing, which he attempts to explain.

With less than a minute to go, Sayid- whose sense of urgency and emotion has returned since his encounter with Desmond – makes a decision.

Lapidus exits the control room to find out what happened, but he lingers for a moment too long in front of a creaking door, which proceeds to fly off its hinges in a burst of water, knocking him down. The sub is rapidly filling with water, and Sun is trapped against a wall by a heavy piece of equipment. They’re enveloped in chaos, and poor Hurley can’t even comprehend what Sayid just did. Jack gives him an oxygen tank and tells him that he has to swim out with Kate through the hole from the blast. “I have to go after Sayid,” Hurley says.

“There is no Sayid!” Jack yells, sending Hurley on his way. Jack, Sawyer and Jin manage to move the wreckage that has Sun pinned, but they quickly realize that her legs are still caught behind some metal below the water. The sub shakes again and something hits Sawyer on the head, knocking him out. Jin tries to free Sun, but she is tightly wedged in. Jin insists that Jack get Sawyer out, which he finally does after sharing a meaningful look with both of them. Sun knows how this is going to end for her and she tells Jin he has to leave, but he refuses. He tries to free her, but they both know it’s hopeless. She says he can’t help her and that he has to go. “I won’t leave you,” he says in Korean. “I will never leave you again.” They hold each other and kiss while the water rises. As the sub drifts to the ocean floor, Sun and Jin’s hands separate while ours reach for a second box of Kleenex.

Dark has fallen by the time Jack pulls Sawyer onto the shore (though I’m not sure which island they’re on). Hurley and Kate stumble over, and fall to their knees over Sawyer, who’s breathing but unconscious. Kate looks remarkably okay for someone who took a bullet to the shoulder, hasn’t been treated and has had to swim out of cold, deep water – even if she was being half-carried. She asks about Sun and Jin, and Jack says they didn’t make it out. She starts to cry, Hurley sobs and Jack walks away to the edge of the water, overcome with grief.

Back on the submarine dock, Man in Locke calmly informs Claire that the sub has sunk. She jumps up, alarmed. “They…they were all on it! Everyone! What, they’re…they’re all dead?”

“Not all of them,” Locke answers, picking up his rifle and his backpack (or is it Jack’s backpack) and striding off. “Wait, wait where are you going?” Claire asks.

“To finish what I started,” he says, leaving her alone and staring after him.

I’m thinking about two things as he heads off to “finish what he started.” First, how does he intend to follow through on that threat if Jack is correct that he can’t kill them himself? Now that the cat’s out of the bag and his true motives are revealed, how will he manipulate them into killing each other, if that’s indeed the only option he has? Reader David Z. was thinking the same thing, and he e-mailed me a theory: “If Kate’s name is crossed out, then I would think FLocke could kill her without any ramifications for his ability to escape the island. Therefore, of the 4 remaining Losties, that makes Kate the only one who is expendable…Since FLocke still wants/needs to kill them, but can’t do it directly, he will need some way to manipulate Sawyer, Hurley and Jack. Enter Kate. I wouldn’t be shocked to see Kate – especially with her injury – somehow fall into the hands of FLocke and see him use her to get Jack and Sawyer to fall in line.”

Second, and this speaks to something David’s comment gets at too, is why does Man in Locke leave Claire alive? Claire’s name is crossed off and he no longer has to pretend that he needs them all (again, assuming we believe Jack’s theory). So why doesn’t he kill Claire right then? Is it because he can’t? Why is he unable to kill them all himself, and does his decision to leave Claire alive mean that the rule applies to all of them, or just those still marked as candidates?

REQUIEM FOR THE FALLEN
When Lost kills off its main characters, I find myself asking whether or not it felt necessary to do so. Each one hurts, but some are easier to understand than others. Boone was the first major casualty, and his death fueled storylines for Shannon, Locke, Jack and Sayid. It was sad, but it made sense. I’d say the same for Ana Lucia and Libby, for Shannon and for Juliet. There was significant dramatic mileage to be had from those deaths. But while watching Sun and Jin’s demise, it didn’t feel like there was a good reason for them to go. It seemed unnecessary and particularly cruel coming right on the heels of their reunion. But watching it a second time, I accepted that sometimes it’s necessary to deal an emotional blow to the audience, as long as it’s not used purely to manipulate their feelings. And this article featuring interviews with Damon, Carlton, Yunjin Kim and Daniel Dae Kim, which was posted on EW.com immediately after the episode aired, shed light on the decision to deal such a blow. (Excerpts from this also made it into the current print edition of EW, which adds that there were “other reasons for killing the trio, too – reasons that will become apparent by the time Lost fades to black on May 23.”)  Oh, and if they thought that showing us Jin in the next scene – the Sideways scene with Locke leaving the hospital – would soften the blow, they were wrong. Sure, everyone is still alive and will be seen again in SidewaysLand, but the island timeline is what feels most real.

Sun and Jin’s deaths were so emotional and drawn out, yet Sayid’s happened so fast that there was barely time to process it. The explosion causes so much craziness that I didn’t even get a chance to absorb what had happened to him (I know how you feel, Hurley). Just like that, after six years, poof! He’s gone. His death was a tad easier to accept initially, only because Sayid seemed fated to meet a grim end. I’ve referred to him before as the tortured torturer because Sayid never gets the happy ending. Shannon: dead. Nadia: dead. Hell, even Sayid himself died already, and when he came back to life, he still seemed to be dead. After killing Keamy in SidewaysLand, he tells Nadia – who he loves but won’t allow himself to be with – that he would have to leave and never come back. With everything that has happened to him, and given the number of people he’s killed, he seemed like the main character most likely to die by the end of the season. Not that that makes it any easier, especially considering that from a pure logic point of view, his death might have been avoided. He didn’t have to run down the corridor with that bomb. He could have chucked it down there and closed the door to the room they were all in. But instead he took no chances, sacrificing himself in a final act of redemption. Sure, it’s a more noble way to go, especially after learning that he didn’t kill Desmond…but screw that! I just want him to live! (Note, by the way, the similarity to Michael’s death. He too died on a boat, trying to stop an explosion from killing his friends). Also note the rare dramatic presentation of an Iraqi blowing himself up to save people rather than kill them. You don’t see that too often.

This logic aspect I spoke of also brought back memories of Charlie’s death. Even more so than Sayid, Charlie’s death seemed avoidable. He could totally have gotten out of that little radio room when it started flooding. He could have escaped the underwater Looking Glass Dharma station with Desmond, but instead he locked himself inside the room and allowed himself to drown, perhaps believing that even though he had accomplished his dangerous task, he still had to die in order for Desmond’s vision of Claire and Aaron getting off the island on a helicopter to come true. (It turned out to be one of Desmond’s only visions – of those we knew about, at least – that never came to pass.) So Sayid’s death echoed both Michael’s and Charlie’s, while Sun and Jin died just as Charlie did too. Even in death, these characters share cosmic connections.

And then there’s Lapidus. When I kept saying in recent write-ups that I wished the writers would give him something to do, I didn’t mean die. Considering that none of the articles or interviews I’ve read in the last week mention his death, maybe it really is possible that he swam out of the sub and will be seen again. But given how hard he went down, I’m assuming the worst. I’ll say this, though: if he does come back, they really better make it payoff, because he’s totally gotten the shaft. When actor Jeff Fahey joined the show at the beginning of Season Four, he was relegated to guest star status while Jeremy Davies, Rebecca Mader and Ken Leung – Faraday, Charlotte and Miles, respectively – came on as series regulars. Finally this season, Fahey got the bump to full time cast member, yet they gave him nothing to do other than flex his awesome-line-delivery muscle. To me, making a character a regular implies that their story is going to deepen, yet Lapidus had less to do this year than in either of the previous two. He hasn’t even shown up in SidewaysLand, though that could still change. (Like Lapidus, Ilana’s death on the island came before we ever got to learn more about her background and how she was connected to Jacob. Perhaps we’ll get some answers in tonight’s big Jacob/Man in Black/Island episode.)

As we work through our grief, I know that some of us are angry at Sawyer for his stubborn refusal to listen to Jack and leave the bomb alone…but let me play devil’s advocate by suggesting that you put yourself in Sawyer’s shoes; the last time Jack proposed a seemingly crazy, suicidal course of action and convinced them all to go along with it, Juliet wound up dead. So can you really blame Sawyer for not trusting him? Now, just as Jack carries the guilt of Juliet, Sawyer will have to shoulder the burden of the deaths caused by his actions. And surely that will propel him through the final hours of the show, for better or worse.

The hardest part about processing these deaths? Knowing that more are likely to come.

LOOSE ENDS/FOOD FOR THOUGHT
-Widmore says that he has a list of names including Ford, Reyes and the Kwons, but not Austen. Sawyer then tells her that her name was crossed out in the cave. That may be true, but we the audience never actually saw her name in the cave. We did, however, see it on the dial in the lighthouse, and it was not crossed off (see #51 below). In a previous write-up, I discussed my assumption that the list of candidates Jacob gives to Ilana and the list he hides in the guitar case that Hurley gives to Dogen must have been the same list, and that Kate must have been on that list since Dogen accepted her into the Temple (along with Jack, Jin, Hurley and Sayid). So were those two lists the same, or did Dogen merely keep Kate around due to her association with the others? Is Widmore’s list the same, or is he working off something different?  Why did Widmore send his people to capture Jin? If his list includes both Jin and Sawyer, why wasn’t Sawyer targeted for capture as well?

-Watching the scene with Jack and Claire at the hospital, I wondered if SidewaysClaire will give birth in the final episode, and if that will have something to do with resolving the two timelines. As I’ve mentioned before, J.J. Abrams said back during Season One that Aaron would come to play a key role in the overall story of Lost. Of course, J.J. Abrams hasn’t had anything to do with the show creatively since that time, plus I think we can all agree that they didn’t know what the hell they were doing in Season One as far as determining the show’s eventual course. So whatever was said about Aaron may not turn out to be accurate any longer, but I’ll be interested to see if he factors into the finish.

-Some fans have argued online that Lapidus must still be alive because he’s the only one who can fly the plane. Others have even said that SidewaysLocke having his pilot’s license will somehow play into the escape from the island. It does seem that the only obvious way off the island is the plane, although it may still be wired with explosives. And even if it isn’t, let’s not forget that Richard, Ben and Miles are still out to blow it up. In fact, could they have placed the C4 on the plane, as opposed to Widmore? I’d guess no. Richard just wants to blow the plane up, period. He seems less concerned with killing the Man in Black than he does in making sure it doesn’t get off the island, so I reason that he wouldn’t hesitate to blow the plane up immediately if he had the chance. And why couldn’t Man in Locke have executed his plan with the C4 on the plane? All he would have had to do is get everyone onboard ahead of him and tell Frank to fire it up while he took a last look around outside. Then boom, it would blow up with everyone but him inside and his plan (as suggested by Jack) would have succeeded.

But I digress. The point I started out wanting to make was that with the submarine gone, the plane seems like the only way off the island. Yet I propose that if something happens to the plane – or maybe even if nothing happens to the plane – there’s one other way that they can leave the island:

Twice this season we’ve been subtly reminded about this. When Jin first wakes up after being captured, Zoe shows him a map of the island and asks him to confirm that certain marked spots represent pockets of electromagnetism. Later, just before Man in Locke throws Desmond into the well, he tells him that this isn’t the only well on the island. So while I have no concrete reason to say so, I’d keep this wheel in mind.

-In last week’s write-up I talked about how we’ve been told that the Man in Black is stuck with the form of John Locke, and how that should mean that when we saw Christian Shephard talk to Sun and Lapidus last season, Christian could not have been the MIB. It occurred to me since then that there was another transformation that seems to defy the stuck-as-Locke logic: Alex. Last season, Man in Locke led Ben to the tunnels near The Temple. Ben fell through the floor into a lower chamber and Locke said he would go find something to help him climb out. But while Locke was gone, the smoke monster emerged from the tunnel floor and enveloped Ben. Then his daughter Alex showed up and told him to do everything John Locke told him to do, or else die. It was pretty clear that Alex was a manifestation of Smokey. But that should not have been possible, since Man in Black had already taken on Locke’s form. Maybe Man in Black did something specific after assuming Locke’s form that made him unable to transform again. If that’s the case, then it’s possible he could have become Christian and Alex before doing whatever that thing is. But I’m guessing this is just another unfortunate plot inconsistency.

-As Sun and Jin shared their last moments, there was no mention of little orphan Ji Yeon, who they did say earlier in the episode is back in Korea with Sun’s mother. Which would be sort of okay if that didn’t also mean that she was back in Korea with Sun’s father. Man, that poor girl is in for a seriously fucked up life.

-If you still feel in need of a Sun/Jin fix, here’s an interview with Yunjin Kim from TV Guide to supplement the one earlier from Entertainment Weekly.

-Alright, so here we are getting down to what Gandalf might call the end of all things, and it’s been a long time since I’ve spat out an ill-formed, half-baked, hole-riddled theory. But I’ve got one now – not fully developed, as usual, but I’ll give to you best I can. Reader Nick P. recently asked me if he had missed a scene where the light-haired boy in the jungle and the dark-haired boy in the jungle were seen walking together, because he thought one of my recent write-ups had included a picture showing that. I said no, the picture I included was a side-by-side comparison of the two boys, who were played by the same actor. Here it is again:

But that doesn’t mean they aren’t supposed to be two different boys in the story. After all, one is light and one is dark. And then I saw a still photo that I assume is from tonight’s episode, of two boys peering through bushes in the jungle (I couldn’t tell if either of them was the same kid as the one above). And then I got to thinking, is it possible that Jacob and the Man in Black are two halves of one whole? That they aren’t just a metaphysical yin and yang, but that they were literally one entity centuries ago and at some point in time, perhaps by a powerful hand, split into two? And that’s why they can’t kill each other? Obviously the light vs. dark theme is central to Lost, but the show has always explored the co-mingling of those forces – the idea that both light and dark exists in us all (not a unique premise, as everyone from George Lucas to J.K. Rowling can attest, but there it is nonetheless). I don’t really know where to go with this…really unformed ideas crowded my head involving Greek and Roman mythology, Adam’s Rib, the castaways being additional physical off-shoots of Jacob and the Man in Black…yeah, I dunno either. But rest assured that if something even remotely like any of this comes to pass, I’ll be trumpeting it like I knew all along and am a total genius.

-I dug that the title of the episode had nothing (overtly, at least) to do with what we expected it to.

-Although I was less able to see the humor after such a dark episode, here is the latest installment of Lost Untangled with Muppet Dr. Chang.

And if he’s just too much of a spaz for you, this Muppet-Lost mash-up might be easier to digest: Damon and Carlton getting sabotaged by a group of fans led by Rizzo the Rat.

-If you haven’t heard, the final episode has been expanded to 2.5 hours. An extra half-hour – or 22 minutes, technically – to wrap it all up. I still don’t think it’s enough, but I’m not complaining.

LINE OF THE NIGHT
If there was one, I couldn’t hear it over the sounds of my gasps and tears.

Tonight’s Episode: Across the Sea