Matt and Justin's Lost Rewatch

Whatever Happened, Happened

JUSTIN SAYS:

In many ways, “Whatever Happened, Happened” is one of the key episodes in understanding the time travel aspects of the show. The writers’ ideas of the rules of time travel are actually laid out in the very title. It is further explained in two very funny scenes with Hurley and Miles. Here are some other things I noticed.

Sayid, the trained assassin, would have shot Ben more than once. Just sayin’.

This episode shows the beginning of Kate’s odd, creepy relationship with Roger Linus. In the words of Dr. Evil, “It got weird, mama.”

There’s more Patsy Cline in Kate’s flashback as her and Aaron are listening to the titular classic, “She’s Got You”. Fitting seeing as how Kate had Aaron and not Claire.

After getting out of the car at Cassidy’s, Kate sings “Catch a Falling Star” to a young Aaron per Claire’s instruction. Kate and Cassidy are reunited after their meeting in Season Three. This time Kate breaks it to Cassidy that she knew Sawyer and we find out what he whispered to her in the chopper: Take care of Clementine. This is the errand she was running and the major reason behind the problems between her and Jack.

Cassidy reads Kate like a book and realizes that Kate is lying about Aaron. She learned a lot from Sawyer in a short amount of time.

Hurley is staring at his hand to see if he’s disappearing. Ha! We get the first of two great scenes where Miles and Hurley are trying to explain the time travel thing. A nice nod to the audience as Hurley says, “That was really confusing” and Miles answers,”Yeah, well, get used to it.”

Jack is again faced with the choice of saving Ben’s life by operating on him or not. The first time he was persuaded by Kate. This time, he’s not having it, “Then he dies.”

Jack is starting to get wise to the ways of the Island. He says, “When I was here before I spent all of my time trying to fix things. Did you ever stop to think that maybe the Island just wants to fix things itself? Maybe I was just getting in the way.” Jack is starting to learn the lesson that the Island was trying to teach him.

Kate says she doesn’t like the new Jack, she likes the old one. I disagree. New Jack, especially Season Six Jack, rocks.

Kate engages Roger in some more conversation while giving Ben some blood. He begins to tell Kate about his trials as a single parent. “I guess a boy just needs his mother.” Those words hit Kate like a brick.

Roger Linus really is a pretty sympathetic character. I feel bad for him. Definitely a product of his circumstances.

Hurley and Miles have awesome time travel discussion round 2. Hurley appears to have found a loop hole in Miles’ theory. However we will find out that Ben doesn’t remember Sayid shooting him because of his healing at the Temple. This is actually one of, if not the most important discussion in the whole show on time travel. All the basics are laid out and it actually all makes much more sense after seeing the entire show play out.

Interesting that it was Juliette’s decision/idea to send Ben to the Others for help. This would play a tremendous role in her future and everyone else’s after Ben “loses his innocence” at the Temple.

Kate almost loses Aaron in the grocery store. The woman who finds him looks just like Claire from the back. Says he was “LOST” (continuing our word count). This is the pivotal event that makes Kate realize she can’t take care of Aaron anymore.

Kate goes back to see Cassidy and tells her, “I LOST him”. Kate wonders why she would expect him to be taken. “Because you took him Kate.” Kate’s excuse was that Aaron needed her. Cassidy correctly tells Kate, “You needed him.”

I don’t really buy the “Sawyer broke your heart” that’s why she stole Aaron thing. Doesn’t feel right. I know Kate had feelings for Sawyer, but I don’t think that had anything to do with her taking Aaron.

Sawyer comes to help Kate with Ben but makes it very clear to her that he is with Juliette now.

It certainly looks to me like Sawyer and Kate are walking right in the stream that flows down to the heart of the Island.

Kate tells Sawyer about meeting Clementine. That had to be surreal for him. Sawyer admits that jumping off the chopper was partly because he wanted to stay on the Island because he couldn’t be Clementine’s father or Kate’s boyfriend.

That looks like Justin the Other in the background when the Others come upon Kate and Sawyer. We’ll see more of him in Season Six when he meets feral Claire.

Kate tells Ms. Littleton about Aaron and Claire being alive and Kate’s motivation for going back is revealed: She’s going back to find Claire. Evangeline Lilly has one of her best scenes of the series when she’s telling Aaron goodbye and telling Ms. Littleton about him. The “Home” theme swells. Awesome.

Alpert comes out of the jungle and collects Ben from Kate and Sawyer. He gives them an ominous message that will forever change the fate of Benjamin Linus: “If I take him, he’s not going to ever be the same again. He’ll forget this ever happened. His innocence will be gone. He will always be one of us.”

In an awesome show of time travel goodness, we find out that Sayid actually created Ben Linus instead of destroying him. Whatever happened, happened. He always shot Ben which led to his becoming an other. You can’t change the past.

Aldo tells Alpert he should ask Ellie and Charles before taking Ben to the Temple. But like everyone does with Aldo, Richard tells him to scram and takes Ben to the Temple.

Cut to the present. Ben awakes to Locke sitting by his bedside.

“Hello Ben, welcome back to the land of the living.”

Ben looks like he’s just seen a ghost. Which he sort of has. Or more truthfully, a monster.