Welcome to another edition of the Get Lost Screencap Recap.  This week we recap episode 4.05 - The Constant.  I have a feeling that this episode will get mixed reactions, much like Flashes Before Your Eyes did last year.  My take...I loved it.  Although we didn't even get to see a majority of the cast, it was worth it because we got to focus on Desmond, Get Lost's favorite character.  I was glued to my seat the entire episode, with my head reeling trying to digest all of the time travel info we received.  And the final scenes with Penny were about as good as it gets.  I usually don't point out the music in episodes, but several times in this episode I found myself thinking how perfectly it fit the mood of the scene.  Kudos to Michael Giacchino and crew.  Check out our initial reactions and easter egg stuff right here.

And while your here, be sure to also check out our preview of Episode 4.06.

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Here we go...

We open on Desmond in the helicopter, once again staring at his picture of Penny.


Sayid asks Lapidus about the crude map he is using...turns out it is a "cheat sheet" that Faraday drew for him.


Sayid seems quite concerned that Lapidus is heading straight into a thunderhead.


Lapidus is supposed to stay on a bearing of 305, but it appears he veers off course a bit here.  Could it be just enough to send Desmond into a downward spiral of time traveling flashes?


The chopper starts shaking, Des grabs his seat and...

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Des is rudely awakened by his drill sergeant.  It takes him too sodding long to get to his mark.


Desmond's sluggish attempt at rousting from bed earns everyone some exercise time in the yard.


And then mid-crunch...

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Des freaks out.  He doesn't know who Sayid is.  Oh no.


Cut to island.  Charlotte's not making any friends with her standoffish remarks.
 

Is it just me, or did Juliet look hotter than usual this episode?  Nice.


Danield explains that the Losties perception of how long the hepicopter has been gone isn't exactly how long it's been gone.  As long as Frank follows the bearing, all should be fine.

Cut to helicopter.  Franks lands the helicopter on the freighter (named the Kahana).


We meet some new freighties.  They are d-bags.

Desmond explains that he is "not supposed to be here!"

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Des explains to his brutha, Billy, about his dream trip to a boat...and Penny was there in a photo.  Sodding brilliant.


After this ass knocks Desmond's change to the ground, Des bends over to pick it up and...


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...Keamie and Omar escort Desmond to sickbay.  They explain that they last ported in Fiji.


They lock him in sickbay with a new friend...who apparently shares the same affliction!


Sayid trades Frank his gun for the "satellite" phone.  Frank explains that the phones can only call each other.

Sayid calls Jack, who promptly puts him on speaker.  Sayid explains that Desmond has gone nuts.  Daniel questions whether Des has been exposed to radiation or electromagnetism.


Back in sickbay, Doc Ray comes in and gives Desmond's new friend a shot.  He then begins to check out Desmond when...

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...Desmond picks up his change and calls Penny.  She sounds none to pleased to hear from old Des.  He requests to see her and gets abrublty shot down.  Penny tells Des not to go to the flat because she has moved, but she doesn't say where...

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Frank walks in with the sat phone.  Faraday wants to talk to Des.  He asks Des what year he thinks it is.  Well 1996, of course!  Faraday then tells Des that he needs to go to Queens College to find pseudo-mullet-sporting past-Faraday back in 1996 and tell him to set the device to 2.342 with an oscillation of 11 Hz.  And if that doesn't work, mention Eloise.


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Des promptly gets to Queens College to meet past-Faraday.  After some convincing, past-Faraday takes Des to his lab. 


He then adjusts his time machine with the settings that Des gives him.  Then poor Eloise gets zapped, and magically runs through the bloody maze.  Dan explains that only her consciousness traveled through time.


(note...we posted a ton of pictures of this scene over at DarkUFO)

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Keamie grabs the phone from Des.  Sayid wants to speak with captain. 


Keamie then locks them up again in sickbay.  We find out that the creep is George Minkowski.  He says that Penny Widmore had been trying to call the boat, but they were forbidden from answering her calls.

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Des was out for 75 minutes.  Eloise is now dead. 


We don't find out whether or not Daniel taught Eloise how to navigate the maze before she died.  She died because she had no anchor, no constant.  To stop the flashing back and forth through time he needs to find a constant...something that exists now and then.

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Des tells Sayid that he needs to call Penny.  George explains that someone sabotaged all the comms equipment two days ago.  They free George, and find that someone unlocked the door.  Ben's mole?  Frank?  Who knows.

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Des heads to an auction to find Charles Widmore.  Chuck is buying a diary from the Black Rock's first mate (which happens to be lot 2342...same as Faradays time machine numbers).  Chuck agrees to give Des Penny's address (surprisingly, without putting up any fight).


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Des, George, and Sayid make there way to the comms room.  Once again, Sayid to the rescue.  He begins fixing a phone that was sitting around.

It's 2004.


George bites the dust.  Des awaits the same fate unless he can come up with Penny's number.


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Des goes to Penny's new flat.  He manages to get her new phone number: 7946-0893.  He promises not to call for 8 years...December 24, 2004.


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Des makes the call.  Go watch this scene.  Words won't do it justice.




Cut to island.  Daniel finds a message to himself in his journal.


Cut to LOST.


So my question is, will Desmond now not remember anyone?  It will be interesting to see him re-meet all of the Losties again.