If she is working for a third organization that wasn't HYDRA, though, that doesn't explain the weird cut. Unless Sunil is also secretly a spy for this third organization and is actually her handler?

Either that, or an ersatz Not-Actually-A-Skrull-Because-Of-Copyright-But-Actually-Totally-A-Skrull.

"Gunn gets to be . . . smart? After the embarrassing attempt at writing "street" dialogue, this is how they reward him?"

Agent BecauseHeIsTheKwisatchHadderach

Technically, given Lindelof's raging nerdboner for Illuminatus!, it's really William S. Burroughs's gift.

I made it two episodes into B5 before it was unceremoniously yanked from Netflix. Is it back on there, by any chance?

Locke doesn't intentionally realize it, I don't think, but the way they cut from Locke telling Boone to climb up the cliff (because Locke, like Cooper, has a medical problem) right to Locke and Cooper having a moment before they go into surgery totally sells the parallelism.

One of the most brilliant things in "Deus" was how subtly they implied Locke was conning Boone in the same way his own father conned him.

I was arguing from the reference frame of the show up until this episode, though. So while yes, the "magic" is real, up until this point the only evidence is Locke regaining the use of his legs, despite that we don't know, at this point, how he lost the use of them.

Really? You didn't figure out he was a befuddled asshole back in "Deus ex Machina"?

Actually, they said from the start Henry Gale had an option to be revealed as the leader of the Others, but they wanted to see how the actor turned out first.

"no leader would ever intentionally place themselves in such an unpredictable situation"

"what kind of fucking idiot leader would send themself to get tortured by their enemies"

That would be the relapse I was talking about.

The thing that doesn't answer is who rescues the castaways at the end of season four. Clearly Penny was involved, because they shot the last scene of the season two finale before they knew Mr. Eko would not be returning. I don't see why she would rescue them if Desmond wasn't a part of it.

A lot of that is due to Akinnuoye-Agbaje always acting in a Nigerian accent. His diction sounds a lot more labored and intentionally commanding than his natural Cockney voice.

Well, they couldn't really resolve it after the actor left and never came back….

Hell, some people used a season six promo as proof the writers were making everything up as they went along because — wait for it —

I'd like to point out that that was exactly the point of VALIS, referenced by name in season four.

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