"Lost" Whatever Happened, Happened (2009)

Director:

Bobby Roth

Writers:

Jeffrey Lieber (creator) and
J.J. Abrams (creator) ...

TV Series:

"Lost" (2004)

Original Air Date:

1 April 2009 (Season 5, Episode 11)

Genre:

Adventure | Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance | Thriller

Plot:

Jack refuses to help save young Ben after Sayid shoots him, so Sawyer and Kate turn to Richard Alpert for help. Meanwhile, what Sawyer said to Kate on the chopper is revealed, as well as what Kate did with Aaron before the flight. |

Plot Keywords:

Plane Crash | Doctor | Survival | Flashback | South Pacific

Cast

Naveen Andrews	...	Sayid Jarrah (credit only) (also archive footage)
Henry Ian Cusick	...	Desmond Hume (credit only)
Jeremy Davies	...	Daniel Faraday (credit only)
Michael Emerson	...	Benjamin Linus
Matthew Fox	...	Jack Shephard
Jorge Garcia	...	Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes
Josh Holloway	...	James 'Sawyer' Ford
Daniel Dae Kim	...	Jin Kwon
Yunjin Kim	...	Sun Kwon (credit only) (also archive footage)
Ken Leung	...	Miles Straume
Evangeline Lilly	...	Kate Austen
Elizabeth Mitchell	...	Juliet Burke
Terry O'Quinn	...	John Locke
Sterling Beaumon	...	Young Ben
Nestor Carbonell	...	Richard Alpert

Runtime:

Germany:41 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14 | Australia:M | Germany:16 | Netherlands:12

Filming Locations:

O'ahu, Hawaii, USA

Company:

Bad Robot

Goofs:

Errors in geography: When Kate takes Aaron into the grocery store to get him a drink, you can see a logo for Times Supermarket on the wall. Times Supermarket is found only in Hawaii, but they're supposed to be in Los Angeles.

Quotes:

Kate Austen: What happened?
James 'Sawyer' Ford: What the hell are you doing here?
Kate Austen: That was Ben. That kid who was shot was Ben. Who was it? Sayid? Did he shoot him?
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Here's what you need to do, Kate. Keep your mouth shut and stop asking questions. Gaining attention on yourself is the last thing I need right now. Now scram, I don't want you around here.
Kate Austen: I just want to know what's going on.
Horace Goodspeed: LaFleur... What uh? What uh? What's she doing here?
James 'Sawyer' Ford: This is uh...
Kate Austen: Kate.
James 'Sawyer' Ford: Kate. She's new over at the Motor Hall. Just seeing if she saw anything suspicious, but she didn't. So you can run along, thanks.
Horace Goodspeed: Have you checked out the hostile's cell yet?
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Back to the Future (1985)

Soundtrack:

She's Got You

Whatever Happened, Happened

A very slightly better entry than "He's Our You" in my humble estimation, but again extremely annoying at times and almost totally pointless. These past two episodes have seen the writers clearly stalling which is appalling considering where we are in the show right now (and surprisingly they were both written by writers who usually write the more 'important' episodes). The Ben being shot storyline is absolutely horrible, and I was amazed at the 'OMG' reaction everyone had last week. They've been hammering 'whatever happened, happened' into our heads for weeks now, they're not going to create an alternate timeline all of a sudden. Obviously Ben was going to survive and (oh how convenient) he would somehow forget about it (and hey look it's the magic immortal memory-wiping Richard to the rescue!), and this whole episode was basically about getting to that point and more repetitive, plain character drama with Jack, Kate, Sawyer, and Juliet. Horrible exposition in the conversation between Miles and Hurley to explain what's going on to the inattentive viewers who can't understand even simplified science fiction. Interesting writing for Roger Linus, though he's been such a dick every time we've seen him that it seems odd that he never started being nicer to Ben, even after nearly losing him (though he could have, but it struck me more as a last ditch effort to make the character sympathetic). In any case the last three or so minutes were interesting (sans the memory wipe, which, and there's no better word for it, sucks), and promise an exciting final few episodes of the season.