Easter Eggs and Things You Missed in “Not In Portland”

Just a couple of easter eggs this episode:


  • Karl was in room 23

  • Sawyer’s reference to the “Wookie” was a reference to the scene in “Star Wars” where Chewbacca is supposed to be a prisoner, but it turns out it’s just a trick

  • Juliet’s last name is Burke

  • Mittelos means “centerless” in German, and is an anagram for “Lost Time”

  • Since Alex considers Ben her father, Danielle (the French woman) might be Ben’s wife

LOST “Not in Portland” episode summary

SPOILERS – Don’t read this if you don’t want to know!

Summary of “Not in Portland”

The scene opens with Juliet holding a black bag, while looking out over the ocean. Next, we see her waking down a badly lit corridor, where she passes Ethan, who says, “Hello”. She goes into a room where a woman wearing a head scarf is sleeping, and prepares a shot. The woman wakes up, and Juliet gives her the injection in her stomach. The woman is Juliet’s sister. They’re in Miami.

Scene switches to the operating room, which is a replay of the last scene of the last episode. Jack tells Kate to run.

Kate and Sawyer beat up Danny and the other man that had guns on them. Tom wants Juliet to stitch Ben up, but Jack points out that she can’t because she isn’t a surgeon.

Tom asks what to do, and Juliet tells Tom to go after Kate and Sawyer. Jack says he’ll let Ben die if that happens. Juliet says that he won’t let Ben die, and tells Tom to go after Kate and Sawyer, and if necessary, to kill them.

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Flashback: Juliet uses an access card to enter a bio-medical research facility marked “Security Level 5”. While she’s walking down a hallway, she gets a phone call confirming an interview she has. She enters a dark lab, and takes two bottles of a drug from a refrigerator unit. She’s interrupted by a man and a woman who come into the lab, and start kissing. Juliet’s phone goes off. The man goes to investigate, and finds Juliet. He asks why she’s at the lab. She makes up and excuse, but he doesn’t believe her. He introduces her to the woman he’s with, and introduces Juliet as his ex-wife.

In the operating room, Juliet tells Jack that Kate and Sawyer aren’t going to make it because they’re on an island two miles away from the island they landed on. Juliet wants to come to a “peaceful resolution”. Jack asks if she wants a peaceful resolution, why she would ask to have Ben killed, which she denies. They argue until Tom stops them. Tom tells Juliet to leave the room since she can’t help Ben at this point. As she leaves, she tells Tom not to believe Jack because Jack wouldn’t just let a patient die.

Out in the area with the zoo cages, Danny is yelling to get someone’s attention. A man comes to let them Danny and the other man out of the cage that Sawyer and Kate put them in.

Kate and Sawyer run through the jungle, and they get to the beach. They see the island they landed on. Kate calls Jack to tell him they need a boat, just as Danny starts shooting at them. Kate and Sawyer go running, finally hiding behind a couple of trees. Sawyer shoots until the bullets run out, and just as one of the men is about to shoot them, Alex comes out of the jungle and slingshots one of them. Alex leads Kate and Sawyer to a hole in the ground that’s covered with grass and leaves. The men go past.

In the operating room, Tom asks Jack if Juliet really asked Jack to kill Ben. Jack says she did. Both men are surprised to hear Ben talking to them, despite still being on the operating table. He asks to talk to Juliet.

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Flashback: Juliet works at a computer when the woman that was with her ex-husband (Edmund) tells her that Edmund wants to see her. The woman turns out to be a new research assistant.

In his office, Edmund tells Juliet that “he wants in” to whatever Juliet is up to, despite the ethical implications. He says that with his name involved with the project, it would be viewed as “cutting edge science”. He tells her to think about it.

Outside of the operating room, Tom tells Juliet that Ben is asking for her.

Kate, Sawyer and Alex get out of the hole and Alex says she has a boat. Alex wants them to help Karl escape from wherever he’s being held. They agree.

Jack tells Ben that he stopped the surgery, and Ben says that he’s been listening for a while. Juliet enters, and Ben tells Jack that he wants to speak to Juliet alone. Jack doesn’t want to, but finally agrees when Ben says he only has 27 minutes left. Jack says they can talk for three minutes.

Jack and Tom go to the observation room above the operating room, while Ben talks to Juliet. We can’t hear what they’re saying. Tom introduces himself to Jack while they both watch Juliet and Ben. Tom says that “Juliet and Ben” have “history”. Juliet leaves the room, and tells Jack that she wants him to go back in and finish the surgery. Jack asks why he would do that, and Juliet says she’s going to go help Kate and Sawyer escape.

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Flashback: Juliet is getting a presentation from a man named Mr. Alpert from Mittlelos Bioscience, which he says is outside of Portland. He says that the people that work there are happy, and privately funded. He says they organize trips around Portland. She asks why she’s been recruited. He counters with the fact that she had successfully impregnated a male field mouse. He then shows her an series of MRIs. Juliet says they are MRIs of a womb, of a woman that she thinks is in her seventies. The man says that the woman is actually 26. Juliet asks what could have caused it, and he says that she would have full access to find out if she goes to work for Mittlelos. She says that she can’t, because of her ex-husband. He says that if they would be able to reach out on her behalf, or if there was something she would respond to…. She blurts out that maybe if Edmund were hit by a bus, and then says that what she just said was totally inappropriate. She tells him that whatever they think she is, she’s not, and leaves.

Juliet goes into the control room where she looks on all the screens, and finally sees Kate, Sawyer and Alex. She’s surprised to see Alex.

Outside of a set of large doors, a man named Aldo is reading a book while standing on guard. Kate, Sawyer and Alex discuss what to do. Kate says she has an idea.

Alex brings Kate and Sawyer to Aldo, telling him that they got loose and that her dad told her to bring them to where Aldo is. Aldo calls Danny, and while he’s talking on the radio, Sawyer jumps him. Sawyer threatens Aldo, but Aldo won’t say where Karl is. Kate grabs the gun and threatens to shoot Aldo in the knee, so Aldo quickly tells her where Karl is. Kate knocks Aldo out with the butt of the gun.

They race down the hallway, and find Karl in room 23. The room is dark, but very loud industrial techno music is playing and messages and pictures are being flashed on the screen. Karl is strapped into a chair with an IV, wearing glasses that magnify what he’s seeing. Karl stares straight ahead, and is non-responsive. They get him out of the room, where Sawyer asks for the boat.

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Danny slaps Aldo awake just as Juliet runs up to them. Juliet tells Danny that Ben wants Kate and Sawyer to let them go, but he doesn’t believe her, and runs off after them.

Juliet comes back after the interview, and her sister tells her that Juliet’s research has worked. Her sister is pregnant. She has a pregnancy test and blood test to prove it. Her sister says all she has to do now is get healthy.

Flashback: Outside of his office building, Juliet tells Edmund that her research worked, and that her sister is pregnant. He says that he wants to see the results, and Juliet tells him that she’s not going to make her research public. He steps out into the street, turns to ask why she’s concerned, and he’s hit by a bus.

In the operating room, Tom tells Jack that he doesn’t like blood. Jack asks why they didn’t just take Ben to have the surgery. Tom starts to says, “Ever since the sky turned purple, we…” and is interrupted by a stream of blood from Ben’s back. Jack accidentally nicked an artery.

Sawyer, Kate, Alex and Karl make it to the small sailboat, and start to push it into the water. Karl wakes up enough to say “Danny, Danny”. Danny is on the beach, pointing his gun at Sawyer. Just as he’s about to shoot, Juliet calls out, Danny turns, and she shoots him.

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Jack asks for Tom’s help in the surgery.

Juliet tells Kate and Sawyer to leave, but tells Alex to stay. Alex asks why, and she says that her father would never let Karl live if Alex wasn’t there when he woke up. Alex kisses Karl goodbye. Just as they’re about to leave, Juliet hands Kate a radio.

Tom brings Jack the radio, and Kate assures Jack that they’re safe. Jack asks Kate to tell him the story he told her when they first met. She tells him the story of the surgery that he nearly messed up, but how he ended up saving the girl. Jack tells her to promise him to not come back to the island after him.

Kate and Sawyer leave in the boat with Karl, leaving Alex and Juliet on the beach.

Flashback: Juliet is in a morgue where she has to sign some paperwork. She starts to cry.

Jack is in the observation room looking at Ben when Juliet enters. He asks what’s going to happen to him now. She says, “Until they figure out what to do with you”. He wants to know what she and Ben talked about. She says it doesn’t matter. Jack says it matters to him after all he’s been through.

Flashback: Someone hands Juliet a packet of tissues. It’s Ethan. She recognizes him but can’t remember where she’s seen him. Then she sees Mr. Alpert. She asks what he’s going there, and he says he saw what happened on the news, and wanted to express is condolences personally. She realizes that said in the interview that she said that if her ex-husband was hit by a bus that she would be able accept the offer, and is a little freaked out about it. Alpert says he doesn’t remember her saying that, and presses her to accept the offer. He says that she can be back within six months, before her sister gives birth. She’s surprised to hear him say this, and asks how he knows that. He says they have a very through recruitment process. She asks if her sister can go too. Alpert tells her that won’t be possible because they’re not quite in Portland.

Juliet tells Jack that she’s been on the island 3 year, 2 months and 28 days. She says that Ben made a deal with her to let her go home. Juliet leaves.

How soon will be see an “Others Rebellion”?

Just a few more hours until LOST premieres, and with all the build up from the first six shows, how long will it be until we see an “Others Rebellion”?

What the heck is that? Well, we have Ben down on the operating table. Juliet is trying to get Jack to do away with Ben, which I don’t think will work. This was going to be her big power play, until Jack turned the tables on her and decided that he wanted to try to save Kate and Sawyer.

Now Juliet is in a bit of a mess: Does she save Ben, and ruin her plans? Does she do something that might get rid of Ben and really screw up her plans when it doesn’t work? Does she do something that might get rid of Ben and actually succeeds? How would the other Others react to THAT?

From the beginning we’ve seen that Juliet doesn’t like Ben’s iron hand in deciding things, or the way some of the Others follow him. We know that Alex isn’t very happy about what’s happened to her or her friend “Karl”. (Ben does still care about Alex though, and even asked about her before his surgery). Will Juliet enlist Alex to help get rid of, or at least keep Ben from being the leader of the Others?

Trouble is definitely brewing, it’s just a matter of when things come to a head.

The real question in my mind is, what if they do “overthrow” Ben? Will Juliet be the new leader? What happens if Juliet turns around and is worse than Ben?

That’s my bet. Somehow Juliet will take over, and whatever self-control Ben had, we will not see the same from Juliet.

Then the Lost castaways will really have something to worry about.

Theory about the one-eyed man on LOST

I know it’s been a while since the first six episodes of LOST have aired, but tonight’s the night it all starts back up again: The “Others”, the smoke monster, people on the beach that we haven’t seen for two seasons becoming part of the regular cast.. Can you tell I’m getting punchy?

Anyway, I’d been thinking about the one-eyed man that Locke saw on the video monitor. He’s probably the owner of the glass eye that was hidden in the book. If you recall, there was also something else found with that glass eye. The portion of the film that was missing from the “Orientation” movie that was in the hatch.

So, let’s think about this a minute. The guy with the glass eye had the portion of the film that warned people NOT to use the computers for anything other than punching those numbers in. Why would he have taken something like that?

We know that the first “incident” caused something to happen in the hatch which prompted the Dharma Initiative to make the film warning not to communicate with anyone, which they hoped would stop another “incident”. Was this because the people in the hatch before Desmond got there nearly made everything implode too?

I think it’s clear that by taking out that portion of the film, the person that did it wanted whatever happened before to happen again. The question is, is that a good thing, or a bad thing? Is the one-eyed man trying to help or not?

I’m not really sure we can tell at this point. On the one hand, he does seem to be operating outside of the influence of the “Others”. I can’t think of another reason he would have been hanging around the bunker where the Tailies found the glass eye and film; he was hiding. He seems to be sabotaging their plans, which may be a good thing.

On the other hand, what if what The Others are trying to do is really important? What if the one-eyed man is creeping around the island trying to stop them from what every good work they’re trying to do?

Just something to think about before the last part of the season starts.

Heroes – Star Trek connection

You probably already watch Heroes, and if you don’t, you should be watching it.

Anyway, George Takei has been guest staring as Hiro’s father. I don’t know if you caught it, but when Hiro’s father and sister left, the car they got into had a license plate number of NCC 1701: the number of the Enterprise. You do remember that George Takei was Sulu, don’t you?

24 Season 6 – Episode 7 – 12 pm to 1 pm Synopsis

Previously on 24: We found out that: Lennox keeps skeletons in his closet; Jack can yell at Gray so much that he can make him cry; people that can arm nuclear devices can be found in less than an hour in southern California; if you pick pocket a phone from someone, it’s probably a good idea to just toss it on the ground after you use it; Jack and his father are about to sing “Unchained Melody” in the back of a van.

The following summary occurs between 12 pm and 1 pm:

12:00 pm – It looks like hazmat ice cream trucks take longer to get to scenes of tragedy than perky news crews. Perky news crews also don’t understand the concept of being down wind of nuclear explosions.

12:01 pm – Lennox puts on his sad eyes and goes to tell President Wayne that he’s really sorry that Haig resigned, and comes up with a lame excuse to try to get Wayne to sign his autograph on some authorizations to declare everyone in the United States as illegal. Lennox seems to think that getting Wayne to sign a piece of paper is going to get Fayed to stop exploding things. Wayne tells Lennox to pass out copies to the cabinet, and Lennox is REALLY excited about it.

12:02 pm – Haig gets a phone call from Bill, and tells him that she resigned. Bill says that this is a really bad day to resign, because if she takes a plane back to LA, she’ll be off camera for at least a few hours, hampering her chances to get an Emmy for “Most Overly Dramatic Actress In a Nuclear Crisis”. Bill tries to call her back, but she can’t afford the air-time minutes, and doesn’t answer the call. A door slides open, and she enters a little green elevator with a very bored looking CIA guy inside who looks like he wants to say “I joined the CIA for this?”

12:03 pm – At CTU, Chloe tells Bill that she can’t reach Jack by satellite, phone, or smoke signal. She says she’ll keep trying.

12:03 pm – In the van, a thug is on the phone with Gray, who is dumping hard drives… probably on Ebay. Jack’s father starts to tell Jack that everything he’s worked for has been for Jack, but Jack looks unconvinced since he still has a government job. A government job that lets him shoot people, sure, but still….

12:07 pm – The van stops at a junk hard, and the thugs make the mistake of 1) unchaining Jack, and 2) carrying guns. They move to a hole in the ground right next to a cement truck, and a struggle ensues! There’s shooting! YEAH! It’s been WAY too long, and Jack, while relieved he finally got to shoot someone, forgot to tell his Dad not to join the fun because now they have no one to question.

12:10 pm – Jack, with his hands still handcuffed calls Bill, and tells him that Gray has been a naughty nuclear collaborating monkey.

12:11 pm – McCarthy calls to tell Fayed that he found a guy to do the nuclear arming, and actually sends his resume to Fayed! They have very strict hiring laws in California.

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12:15 pm – Nadia plays a recording for Bill of a podcast she downloaded featuring Fayed’s and McCarthy’s phone call. Morris has a weird screen saver that he hopes can reconstruct the resume, in about 10 minutes, so we’ll check back then.

12:16 pm – Jack stops off to meet one of the CTU guys in the field, Hal Turner, outside of Gray’s house. Jack tells Hal that he wants Gray taken alive, but it’s OK to shoot just about anything else. Jack’s dad wants to know “What are you going to do to him?” and Jack answers, “His hair and nails”, and leaves before his father remembers that Gray is bald.

12:17 pm – Gray, his wife Marilyn, and his son Josh, all start arguing with each other when Jack bursts into the room with some CTU guys. Gray pulls a gun, which really surprises his wife and son. It seems that Gray hasn’t quite told the truth about his real job.

12:18 pm – Jack tells Marilyn that Gray is involved with the nuclear blast, and she doesn’t seem all that surprised that Gray is a weasel. Marilyn stops Jack cold when she tells him, “I’ve seen what happens when you try and protect people”. Ouch.

12:19 pm – The tactical commando guys at CTU must have gone through the Chloe Computer Training Course because they know how to upload whole hard drives up to CTU. Jack tells the commando to take Marilyn and Josh to CTU for safe keeping, because we all know NOTHING can go wrong there. Except Tony. And Edgar. And a Hobbit.

12:20 pm – Josh and Marilyn see Jack’s dad, and Marilyn tells him to tell Jack to “Keep Josh out of this”… She seems to be under the impression that Josh might be the mastermind behind this whole thing.

12:21 pm – Gray tries the “penguin on top of the television” defense and tells Jack that he panicked. Jack yells at Gray, and when that doesn’t work, Jack yells louder, which doesn’t work either. Then Jack tells the interrogation guy, “Set up the Interrogation Package”, which is an upgrade from the “Yelling At” package”. The Interrogation Package comes in a silver suitcase.

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12:27 pm – Milo gets Chloe and shows her information about Morris’ brother, who either stood way to close to a microwave oven, or got hit with the nuclear blast. He’s in critical condition. Milo takes a page from Management 101 and says he wants to keep Morris from knowing about this because he’s still got several hours of work to do. Chloe ignores this and tells Morris, who can’t understand why his brother was in Valencia. Morris tries to leave, but Chloe convinces him to stay and help.

12:29 pm – Back at the Bauer House of Impending Torture, Jack is on the phone with Bill, who tells Jack about the nuclear engineer and the resume. Gray is having the finishing touches of duct tape applied when Jack walks in and tells Gray about McCarthy’s plan to find an engineer. Gray tells him that since nearly every engineer in California works for Google now, he doesn’t believe it. Meanwhile, Jack’s father just wanders into Gray’s house, despite the large number of CTU commandos all over the place. One of the commandos is video taping the talk Jack and Gray are having for a DVD called “Bauers Gone Wild”, while Jack’s father watches.

12:30 pm – Jack wants to inject Gray with some rather nasty stuff that will cause pain and induce overacting in Gray, and it really works. Gray starts overacting all over the place, but won’t tell Jack anything. They really crank up the CCs of the stuff, and Gray finally starts to confess that it’s not McCarthy but it’s really about everything from LAST season, including David Palmer, Tony, Michelle, but he SWEARS he has nothing to do with Manilow. He tells Jack that he also set Jack up to be killed before, not just what’s happened today. Gray says he’s doing all this “because he loves his country”. Why killing Jack would help the country, I have no idea. I can only think that Gray hasn’t been watching Jack’s fine handiwork for the last few seasons. Gray makes the mistake of telling Jack the cliché “We’re just the same”, which must be a trigger word for Jack because it makes him REALLY mad, and he does the unthinkable. He pushes Gray’s chair over backwards and starts yelling at everyone that he wants to Gray dead right now. The only thing that stops his rampage is when Jack sees his father, who has a VERY disappointed look on his face. Gray looks angry. I mean really angry. I mean, if he were near the nuclear blast earlier, he’d be Bruce Banner angry.

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12:40 pm – Sandra’s in the hospital with Walid. Walid must be one tough guy, because all he has is a band-aid on his face after that beating he took in the courtyard. Sandra tries to comfort him by telling him that there’s a BIG lawsuit in this for him.

12:41 pm – President Wayne calls Sandra to ask about Walid, and she starts telling him that the men in the courtyard were “innocent bystanders” who just happened to pull down information from the Internet about the additional nuclear weapons, forgetting that the police might have been a bit interested in that.

12:42 pm – Morris downloads an open source application to try to help descramble what he’s working on, but it nearly doesn’t work because he just installed Vista.

12:42 pm – Jack is on the phone with Bill. Jack tells Bill all about Gray’s activities last season, going to Enron-like lengths to protect the company. Gray’s going to CTU, and CTU is setting up at a middle school for what I can only guess will be a gruesome show and tell later.

12:43 pm – Back inside the house, Jack tries to tell his Dad that Gray made “bad choices”, and that’s why he’s in the time out chair. Jack’s father says Jack deserved a “better family”. Jacks wants his father to go to CTU, which will just be about at maximum Bauer capacity by the time he gets there with Gray, Marilyn and Josh.

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12:50 pm – Morris’ Eclipse plug-in is working, so they should have the picture soon.

12:51 pm – A very scary looking vice president, even scarier looking than last year’s, is on Air Force 2 and confers with Lennox about “the plan”. The cabinet convenes, and Wayne wants to know if everyone’s read “Executive Order 1066”. Everyone looks as though they’re already sick of the other 1065 Executive orders, so one more is just more of the same. They all pretend they’ve read it.

12:52 pm – Wayne drops his own bomb that he’s NOT going to use Lennox’s plan, and launches into a political speech. He and Tom argue back and forth in the same format that Sandra uses to monologue. We also find out that the vice president’s name is “Noah”.

12:53 pm – At CTU everyone is running around urgently. They’re really dragging out the picture Morris is trying to reconstruct. The picture finally reassembles, and TA DA! It’s Morris! They’re going to try and get Morris to set the nuclear weapons! Morris, of course, has left the building, and is now in extreme danger of becoming the focus of the next several hours of the show. The whole thing with Morris’ brother at the hospital was a set up just to get Morris outside of CTU.

12:55 pm – CTU gets Morris on the phone, and just as he’s talking to Jack, McCarthy shows up, gets angry at the passenger seat of Morris’ car, shoots it, and steals Morris, all with everyone listening in on the phone. Bet that makes the Christmas blooper reel.

12:56 pm – Back at Gray’s house, Gray is still tied up, and Jack’s father asks to talk to Gray alone, which no one considers even the slightest bit suspicious.

12:57 pm – Well, well, well… Jack’s father and Gray are still in on the whole thing together. They’ve planned everything! They really, really want the company to survive, and Gray says he’s going to be a tough monkey to protect the company.

12:59 pm – Jack’s dad doesn’t believe him, shoots chemicals into Gray’s IV drip, and kills him! They just left a syringe lying around?? Wonder if that video tape was still going in the other room?

1:00 pm – Time’s up!

NEXT TIME: TWO HOUR SHOW! A SUPER FAST PLANE HAS GOTTEN ASSAD TO WASHINGTON ALREADY! SHOOTING! EXPLOSIONS! JACK HAS TO DISARM A TICKING BRIEFCASE!

Be sure and catch all of Steve’s summaries of Season 6 of “24”!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Arrives July 21, 2007

Get your pre-orders in, because Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be arriving on July 21st, 2007.

Last time Amazon sent Harry Potter books out (and the World of Warcraft upgrade, for that matter), they delivered it the date it was released in stores. So, if you want to be sure you get it on the day it’s released, order it from Amazon now.

Update: Thanks to reader Glen who pointed out that it’s JULY 21st, not June 21st. I updated it in the posting. Thanks Glen!