(S02E20) Is it just me, or is it really
funny (in a meta-sort of way) that tonight's Ana Lucia-centric episode of Lost is called Two for the
Road? I mean, considering that Rodriguez was recently busted for drunk driving, the producers have to be busting
her chops with that setup. Maybe it was a clue of things to come in the episode...If you missed the episode, remember, ABC now offers the show for free online viewing (albeit ad-supported viewing). Watch it before you read too much further in this post, or you're sure to encounter a spoiler or two.
As you might remember from the last new episode we had, oh so many weeks ago, we left with Jack and Kate seemingly about to kiss when Michael burst forth from the jungle and passed out. This episode begins at the same point, and the Michael story line is balanced nicely against Ana Lucia's flashbacks and dealings with her anger at Henry Gale, who at the beginning of the episode attempts to strangle her to death.
For more details, continue reading after the jump...
There were a lot of crazy "OH MY GOD" moments in this episode, so let's start with the big juicy one: Ana
has sex with Sawyer in order to get a gun from him, ostensibly so that she can kill Henry Gale for attempting to
strangle her. However, as we all know from Shannon and Sayid's romance, if you are an unwed female on the island, and
you have sex with a man, you're doomed to die in that same episode. That's exactly what happens at the end of the
episode in the craziest twist I've ever seen.
But there were hints throughout the episode that she was going
to die. In her flashbacks, she's Jack's dead father's bodyguard for his trip to Sydney, while he drinks and drinks and
drinks and talks a lot about fate. Fate = we, the Producers of Lost do not
support drunk driving and so after Michelle Rodriguez (Ana Lucia) and Cynthia Watros (Libby) were arrested for drunk
driving in Hawaii, we (the producers) decided to write them out of the show in a very clever way. They named the
episode 'Two for the Road', alluding to the drunk driving, and also foreshadowing that both characters would get shot
dead at the end of the episode. Buh-bye.
What was amazing was who shot them. We see Ana Lucia sitting with
the gun she shagged off of Sawyer, staring at it on the couch, unable to kill Gale. Michael comes up and he asks her
what's going on. She tells him that she cannot kill the Other who they've captured, and then Michael makes a very
convincing and impassioned speech that he wants to kill the guy. Instead, after Ana gives him the gun, he says
"I'm sorry," and shoots her dead, then Libby walks in with laundry and exclaims "Michael!" and he
shoots her twice. He then goes into the cell with Henry Gale and shoots himself
in the right shoulder. It's clear to me that the Others released Michael and told him the only way that he'd get
Walt back is if he betrayed the castaways and helped save Henry Gale. Conveniently, the writers were able to use this
structure to nicely kill off two actresses who had become a public embarrassment for the show as a whole.
All in all, it was a great episode that I thoroughly enjoyed. I just feel badly for Sawyer and Hugo. I mean, both of
those guys finally manage to line things up right with a few ladies and they die. So Sayid, Sawyer, and Hugo have all
lost their on island romances. Who is next?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
5-03-2006 @ 11:01PM
Nagle said...
Did anyone catch the Hanso Org. commercial lumped in with the regular commercials? Anyone have any info on that, or video of it for that matter? Maybe it has to do with the new Lost game coming out?
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5-03-2006 @ 11:04PM
Fabian said...
I don't think those were the reasons why they decided to write them off the show. If you read Ausiello's new interview you would know why. Also, I don't believe Libby is dead.
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5-03-2006 @ 11:06PM
Carl Winslow said...
http://community.tvguide.com/forum.jspa?forumID=700000049
Ausiello's chat with the producers - was it really planned from the start? Hmmm....
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5-03-2006 @ 11:09PM
Landon Howell said...
1) Good point CK, I think the title was a hint, especially considering that both characters who were shot were also the individuals who've been "in trouble with the law."
2) The Others have either brainwashed MIchael or they have told him "the truth" (whatever that may be) that has won him over.
3) OR maybe they promised to give Walt back if he agreed to go get the Henry.
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5-03-2006 @ 11:09PM
Klo said...
I tried calling the 877-Hansorg number they showed. But it was an invalid number.
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5-03-2006 @ 11:12PM
Danny Cohen said...
I really don't know how many times I can write "oh my god," but more than my computer can computaterate. This was an amazing episode that just gave one turn after the other, and I am still confused.. but OH MY GOD!
I think it is safe to assume Michael made a deal for Walt.
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5-03-2006 @ 11:15PM
Darnell said...
let's hope libby survives for an episode or two so we can get a flashback of her and get to find why she was is the mental hospital with hurley.
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5-03-2006 @ 11:15PM
Jake said...
ow could Sawyer not realize 2 seconds after Anna-Lucia
left that he was missing his gun?!?!?! This stupidity is coming from the same guy that pulled that clever long con to get control of the guns in the first place? This inconsistency with the characters is killing me. Other than that this episode was better than recent duds. Is Michael brainwashed or sick? I find it hard to believe he'd kill those two ladies and feed everyone else misinformation just to get his son back without some sort of treatment the others performed on him. Unless that is another character inconsistency by the writers.
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5-03-2006 @ 11:15PM
Noah said...
I've tried calling the number 1(877)HANSORG
but it won't go through and now it is busy
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5-03-2006 @ 11:17PM
Cyberphin said...
I didn't realize it was Jack's dad. Thanks for the tip, It's hard to be a non-die-hard lost fan. There's much I miss when I get sick of the long breaks and subpar episodes. But this one was great. Loved when Hurly says that the wine might make him remember where he knows libby from.
I also didn't realize Cynthia Watros was also apart of the real life stuff. But great left turn for the end. As soon as he did it and shot himself you know why, but you don't see it coming.
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5-03-2006 @ 11:17PM
JB said...
Kids, this is what happens when you drink and drive!
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5-03-2006 @ 11:21PM
Keith McDuffee said...
Well, we knew it weeks ago, but nobody wanted to listen ;-)
http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/04/26/spoilers-anonymous/
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5-03-2006 @ 11:27PM
Tim Dorr said...
Libby isn't dead. At least, that's the sense I'm getting. I mean, we *know* that AnaL is dead, but they're being soft on Libby's situation. They won't specifically say if she is.
And to support that, if you looked at the previous, Hurley didn't seem super-upset when he said "Glad you're OK, dude". If the only nookie you had a chance of getting on this island (and possibly in many years for him off it) was killed off, I don't think I'd just brush it off with a ho-hum attitude. Plus, Libby has a backstory we haven't even touched on.
Of course, that begs the question: If Libby doesn't die, what was that picture with two graves about?
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5-03-2006 @ 11:28PM
Tim Dorr said...
Err, that was "previews", not "previous" :S
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5-03-2006 @ 11:34PM
Todd said...
Who else thinks that the woman Jack's father was arguing with in Australia may be Claire's mom?
Are Jack and Claire half siblings? Is this Lost's version of Luke and Leia? Aren't there enough Star Wars sub-themes already?
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5-03-2006 @ 11:41PM
Ian said...
Did Michael then shoot himself in order to make it look like the "other" attacked him and shot the 2 women. Then Michael manages to kill the "other".....
Pretty heartless stuff. Like what would make Michael say "I'm sorry, then kill a defenceless person?
Rather gratuitous violence IMHO. I think the plot just got "lost".
So will the producers now kill off any actor who has a previous missdemeanor in real life?
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5-03-2006 @ 11:44PM
son-v-one said...
Of course Libby dies, Ana Lucia only got shot once, and shes a tough chick. Libby got shot twice, therefore... she's dead. Also, Hurley pobally isn't that upset because, that scene was probally near the end of next weeks episode. You never know with the previews, because remember last week's previews, when it showed Ana Lucia getting choked by Henry. I bet everyone that it was gonna be at the end.
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5-03-2006 @ 11:47PM
Jeremy Lacey said...
to #1, go back to www.thehansofoundation.org, the game has started and now that website is very much a part of the game, check some lost message boards for the clues and secerts they have uncovered so far
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5-03-2006 @ 11:52PM
Keith McDuffee said...
Here you go, those who are going mad trying to get through to that phone number:
http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/05/03/hanso-foundations-877-hansorg-whats-it-say/
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5-03-2006 @ 11:53PM
son-v-one said...
Either Michael did make a deal with the others, so he could get Walt back, or he shot Ana Lucia to prove how dangerous the others are, and put the blame on Henry. I dont think Michael was planning on killing Libby, she was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. She would have never been there if Hurley remember the blankents and wine for the picnic.
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