LOST Exposé

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Hi, and welcome to this episode of Sass and Tips, where every week we discuss and dissect an episode of Lost in Order while we drink, and we are your hosts. I'm Lisa.

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And I'm Agnes.

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And today's episode is Expose. What are you drinking today?

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I'm drinking nice Crips Stella Rosse Black. It's good.

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Interesting.

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I don't like red wine, but the Stella Rossi, it's it's it's not like red wine. So the tannin doesn't affect me. Yeah, it makes Agnes happy.

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Nice. I have vodka soda. Trying to, you know.

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Jersey iced tea.

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There's not even any iced tea in it, damn it.

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I know. I'm trying. I'm trying.

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No, but I did ask. There's no iced tea in a long island iced tea either. Shut up, semantic. No, but um, I asked my friend to help me. I want to be like, I want to be real bougie and have like a signature drink.

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Nice. I approve.

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So she gave me some ideas and I think I know which one mine's gonna be. Hmm. Well, I'm not gonna tell you mine because I don't want anybody to steal it until I perfect it. I'll tell I'll I can tell you off the air. So it does involve it does involve a trip to like Lowe's though. So that's gonna be fun. What the fuck? Yeah, I'm really excited about it.

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Lisa's gonna be drinking turpentine.

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Turpentine twister. Yeah. Um, that'll really get you fucked up. No, it's it's edible. It's it's not it's not anything crazy. Um, but yeah, so I'm trying to anyway, I'm trying to figure that out. So can I tell you something that happened this weekend that I was like really like proud of, like as a New Yorker? So I was in the mall with my kids, well, my older kids, we were picking up our glasses in the Staten Island Mall, and this cannot come as a surprise to anyone who's ever heard of Staten Island. That Staten Island is like the deep south of New York City. Okay, I've heard it referred to that, referred to as that, and like no truer words have been said.

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Armed of the five boroughs, they're like no one acknowledges it as a borough.

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No, but like when it comes to like diversity and racism, it's just it's just not there, you know.

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It's just right, no, and that's why we don't acknowledge that we don't acknowledge them.

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And and in today's political climate, especially with coronavirus, and you got people calling it like the Chinese flu and whatnot, like so anyway, we were in the store, and all of a sudden we hear screams, like screams. So we're like looking out the doors because it's it's like open, you know how right it's like on the corner, so whatever. And um there's the escalator right there, and there's like all these people gather around the escalator, and we're just like we didn't know what happened. I thought somebody like fell off the escalator or fell off the second floor railing, it wouldn't be the first time somebody's jumped in that mall, and so we just didn't know what happened. Like, all we could hear are screams. Turns out that there was a little boy who got his foot caught in the escalator. Oh from what I can gather, he put his foot on the side as it was coming down, and we all do it, it sucked it in. No, so the kid couldn't have been more than like four years old. Oh god, no, and so just everybody just rushed to the escalator, and it was just everybody just jumped in, you know, um, on the escalator.

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You hit the emergency button, yeah.

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They stopped it, and then people were just lining up like below the kid, like from the bottom to where they were, and then on the top, like basically using their feet to push the walls of the escalator. It was just a line of people that wasn't working. People are like, nope, we need lubrication. People are handing that his whole foot get stuck. Oh, there's a shoe.

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Okay, I'm sorry.

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I'll put it this way when the when the foot came out, there was no shoe. So I don't know what happened to the shoe. He was wearing a rain boot, but I had Vaseline in my pocket. I was like, here's the Vaseline, people were handing the Village.

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Right, because you always put the Vaseline.

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I always have the Vaseline. See, people make fun of me for it. Came in handy, but not really. That wasn't working. The people in the store went to get crowbars, like yo, they had that kid's foot out of there before the fire department even got there. And we all know that in New York City, the fire department is the first one to arrive, no matter who you call. Yeah, yo, half of those people probably went back to talking shit about Asians afterwards, unfortunately. Yeah, but I have to tell you that, like, it was just so refreshing.

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And it makes you want to cry. I'm like, I want to.

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Because like that, the the mother was in tears. Like the the kid is just screaming, like we thought his foot was gonna come out of there like mangled by the way he was screaming, but it didn't, thank God. Um, he was the ambulance. My car was parked like where the exit was, right there. So like we saw him go to the ambulance and like he was fine, thankfully. I mean, I don't I don't know like if anything was broken, but like nothing was bloody, nothing was, you know, thankfully, but like it was just so like refreshing to see like humanity come together, like fuck stereotypes, fuck everything else. Like, just somebody needed help, and we all just jump in. That's one thing that I will always be proud of as a New Yorker. Like, we'll fuck you up, we'll curse you as we're helping you, but we're gonna help you, and there's nothing you can do to stop us.

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There was like the post, there was someone that posted the difference between um East Coast and West Coast. It's that East Coast, especially New Yorkers, really. Um, right, we're I posted it. You did you posted it? We're not nice, but we're kind. And the West Coast is the opposite. And if they take offense to it, that's the reason. Like, you know how it is.

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Like, shut the fuck up, not gotta say, just let me help you.

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Right, nothing. Like, you don't have to say anything, there's no conversation. I got the stroller and woke up about the day, you know.

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It's yes, so that was my little adventure over the the weekend, and and hope the little boy is okay. So okay, episode overall. You say you liked it.

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I did.

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It was it was like the writers just hearing the fans' thoughts and being like, Alright, we'll we'll we got you. We're gonna give you one. So I'm gonna start with the flashbacks, okay? Copy that. Off island. An MC announces the arrival of Corvette, the pride of St. Paul, as Nikki takes off her coat to reveal a faux diamond bikini and dances around a pole on a club stage. She spots someone entering Mr. Lachade's office and follows him with her coat on, catching the man opening a suitcase of money on his desk. She confronts him and says that the money was meant for the orphanage, and Mr. Lashade must really be the cobra. The other man aims a gun at her, but she shouts her catchphrase, Razzle Dazzle. It kicks to the pull. I'm sorry, it's so stupid.

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It was so fucking stupid. I didn't know what was the whole point.

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I know, I couldn't even say it without laughing. I'm sorry. I that that pop's like all right. Um, she kicks it to the floor and grabs it. She aims it at Mr. Lashade, but he shoots her first. She falls to the floor, apparently dead. Two dancers, Autumn and Crystal, burst in, and Lashade tells them Corvette was working for the Cobra and that the Cobra will pay. Side note, I have the same bathing suit as Crystal. Not that I can fit in it these days, but I do. A voice says, and cut, and a television crewman closes the clapboard labeled expose. Lashad revealed to actually be the actor, Billy D. Williams, helps Nikki to her feet. It's Lando. You don't watch Star Wars.

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No, but I know Billy D, and I was very happy. I thought it was kind of cool. I mean Billy D. Williams.

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But that's Lando Calrician, dude. Come on. All right.

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I know I'm behind me, but okay.

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All right. Well, Star Wars to me is like the godfather for everyone else. The creator of the show, Howard Zuckerman, announces that it's a series rap for Cavet as the crew applauds Nikki. He walks her outside, where the Sydney Opera House can be seen in the background, and offers to bring her character back. He asks her if she's leaving Sydney to go back to Los Angeles, but she says she loves him and she isn't leaving. Howard and Nikki are eating at his house and he introduces his new chef, Paolo, to Nikki when she compliments the food. He says, Paolo came to Sydney and came to Howard's office every day until he gave him the job. Howard offers her a bread roll and she sees that he has placed a diamond bracelet there for her. He's about to explain why his wife is an obstacle to their getting married when he clutches his chest and then dies. Nikki grabs a necklace with the key off of Howard's neck as she complains about having to eat the same food as him. And thus her true colors are shown. No. They enter Howard's closet and unlock a secret safe Nikki claims no one else knows about. Paolo prepares to smoke, but Nikki stops him so that they don't leave evidence. Inside the safe, they find how do you say them like the Russian nesting dolls?

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I call them nesting dolls.

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Yeah, Mat Matryoshka.

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I don't know.

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Okay, I'm sorry if I butchered that. Nikki looks at the contents of the doll and exclaims, Razzle freaking dazzle. As they sit at the Sydney Airport restaurant, Paolo reads a newspaper article to Nikki, which reports Howard's death is heart failure. They laugh and kiss, and Nikki asks about Paolo's gum. He tells her it's nicotine gum and that he has quit smoking. They toast each other with champagne as they are interrupted by Shannon loudly complaining about a lack of seating in the waiting area, and Boone being responsible for them not getting first class tickets. Boone politely asks Paolo for the extra chair, but Shannon pulls Boone away, accusing him of flirting with random guys, which she blames for their delay. Nikki asks Paolo to promise her they will never end up like Shannon and Boone.

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I do have to admit I did like the little cameos.

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It was like the dead lossies reunion. Yeah. So on the island. The survivors, this is still a flashback, but the survivors from A15 roam around the debris of the fuselage in shock. Nikki runs past Shannon, who's screaming for Boone, and searches for her bag as Gary Troop gets sucked into the engine with it which explodes. Nikki screams for Paolo, turning over survivor, but it's Ars who asks, Are we alive? Did we survive? Look at me. Boone runs up to Nikki and asks if she has a pen. She spots Paolo staring out in shock at the ocean. She holds his face with concern and asks him where the bag is. Like this fucking bitch. Paolo was shocked that she was most concerned about the whereabouts of the diamonds rather than his and everyone else's well-being. I think Paolo it took Paolo landing on um a crashed island, surviving a plane crash to realize that he has questionable taste in women.

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Right, can I like really? You don't like, are you really surprised that this is what her main focus was? Like this, you went with this woman into the scheme. You're surprised that this is who she is?

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Day six, Nikki and Paolo search through the luggage at night while theorizing about the nature of the monster. Nikki tells Paulo to focus as they need to find the bag before they are rescued. Ethan offers them clothes if they need them and introduces himself. Did you like that Wisconsin sweatshirt?

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I saw it. I didn't like it.

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Nikki says they're looking for Paolo's nicotine gum. Ethan suggests looking inland, and Arch runs by, shouting that Boone has taken the water. Jack comes out, tells them he has found water, and makes his live together die alone speech. Day 24. Nikki finds Dr. Ars examining his collection of 20 new species inside his shelter. The female spider, Medusa spider, emits an extremely powerful pheromone. Nikki asks for his help in figuring out where her luggage might have landed. Ars offers to draw a map showing possible trajectory of debris that fell from the plane as it crashed. Paolo asks jealously about Nikki asking Ars for help and suggests Ethan would have been more help. They follow the map and find the drug smuggler's plane. Nikki asks him to climb up there to look for a radio, but he says no because it's gonna fall.

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Like if they find the plane first, they found the pearl hatch first, they found everything. I think I find everything kind of comical.

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Then they discover the pearl hatch and open it. Paolo wants to investigate, but Nikki doesn't let him. Day 33. Shannon and Arst are yelling at Kate for not telling the group about the guns from the Marshalls case. Remember when that happened when Shannon got the gun and everybody's like, oh, but how does she know?

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Right.

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Well, this is how she knew she knew where the key was. Uh shortly after that, Nikki and Paolo arrive and question what's going on. Shannon tells him that Kate, Jack, and Sawyer, actually she says Kate and her two boyfriends, didn't tell the camp about the case of guns and leaves angrily. Nikki asks Kate where she found the case. Nikki and Paolo go to the waterfall and Paolo asks if Nikki would be with him if not for the bag. Nikki only says that it's worth eight million dollars and he should dive in since she had to seduce Howard. Paolo sees the bag but tells Nikki he only sees dead people.

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You cracked yourself up over that one.

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She leaves and he dives under again. I couldn't help it. Day 49. Paolo nervously takes the nicotine gum out of his luggage bag and starts to dig a hole on the beach when Locke discovers him. Locke suggests he find a more secure place for whatever he's hiding, stating things don't stay buried on this island. Locke clarifies the statement by saying that the beach will erode. Paolo enters the pearl where one monitor is on, showing static. He hides the nesting doll in the toilet. He hears a noise and peeks through the bathroom door. Ben and Juliet enter, thinking the door was left open by Tom. Ben tells Juliet to have Tom cover the hatch with the plane. They tune the monitor station to the Swan video feed, which displays Jack. Upon seeing him, Juliet asks, Is that is that him, Shepard? He's hot. Ben says he will recruit Jack by exploiting his emotional investments. Juliet asks if this means that they'll grab Ford and Austin too. Ben replies that they'll get Michael to bring them to the others. They leave, Ben commanding Juliet to tell Tom to cover up the station with the plane. And Paolo finds they're walkie. Day 72. Locke invites the survivors to the Pearl Station, and Nikki and Paolo tag along. While the rest are investigating the video feeds, Paolo pretends to need to use the restroom. He retrieves the doll, breaks it, revealing that there's a small pouch, and hides the pouch in his underwear. So Paolo wasn't taking a shit.

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Um, no one thought, like, how did you know that was a bathroom? But like as far as they know, this is the only this is the first time he's been there.

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Well, yeah, and even the first time that he went to hide them there, like how did he know he was gonna find a place?

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I can I can kind of get the okay, let me see what I can find, where I can find a place to hide it. I can get that. Like he came across it, but the fact that he just I don't know, kind of I feel like he went straight to the bathroom. They don't show it, but I kind of feel like that happened and no one thought about right.

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Like how does he know?

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Right.

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Like he just walks past like the fact that there's electronic equipment on a deserted island.

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Right, that not like that you don't find that amazing. You just go to this I don't know, right? It was weird.

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Like, ooh, toilet. Lumming. Um day 81. Nikki tells Paulo that she is sad that Thanksgiving passed two weeks ago without them realizing it. She's worried that they will never be rescued. But Paolo comforts her. He tells her he is glad they didn't find the bag because it might have torn them apart. He leaves to get them breakfast, and Nikki finds his nicotine gum in the sand. Nikki finds Sawyer and demands he give her a gun. He refuses, saying that she is so agitated that no good can come of it. Actually, I think he tells her to go stick her head in the ocean.

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That shit was funny. But I think by this point in the episode, Sawyer has said like two or three times, Who the fuck are like who the fuck is Nikki? Like, who are who is this? And that's not the first time because the other episode said it two other times in other episodes.

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Like, who the fuck is Nikki?

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Yeah, yeah.

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That's what everyone is thinking. Like, who the fuck are these people?

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He says he doesn't have the guns anymore and wouldn't give one to her if he did, as Desmond watches. He yells, and who the hell are you as she leaves? Nikki brings Paolo into the jungle and confronts him about having the diamonds. He feigns ignorance, but she shows him the gun. The gum. Sorry, not the gun. She takes out one of Dr. R's specimen jars, also known as a peanut butter jar, and opens it. She flings the Medusa spider at Paolo. It's like is that like assault with a deadly deadly insect insect?

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Arachnid? Assault with the deadly arachnid.

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Um I don't know. I wouldn't want anybody to throw a spider at me, even if it can't paralyze me. It lands on his neck and bites him. He kills it and it remains stuck to his hand. She tells him that it's called the Medusa spider because it paralyzes the victim for around eight hours and slows the heart. Paolo collapses and can't move. Nikki coolly begins to search him for the diamonds, at first guessing that they are hidden in his shoe. Like, who the fuck is gonna hide diamonds in their shoe?

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It's gonna be a little painful.

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Mm-hmm. She takes off his shoe and throws it into a tree. And plus, if you really think that he's hiding diamonds in his shoe, you know he's got another one. Like, oh, he didn't have him in this shoe. Guess he can't have them in the other one. Oh, okay. She opens his pants and finds the pouch in his underwear. Paolo tells her he took the diamonds because he was afraid of losing her if she found the diamonds and didn't need him anymore. That was really sad, actually.

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You're on the fucking island. Where you where you gotta go. You're gonna lose anything. She ain't going nowhere.

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But like, I think that he was telling the truth.

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I don't know. I believe him, but at the same time, like where's she gonna go?

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Well, but okay. Well, we know where she's gonna go.

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True.

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The clicking sounds of the monster are heard in the distance, and Nikki is distracted as many Medusa spiders, attracted by the scent of the smashed female spider, march toward the pair. Nikki is bitten by one and she runs away. She stops suddenly and digs a hole, burying something, then continues running. On the beach, Sawyer and Hurley are playing ping pong when Nikki staggers towards them and collapses. Hugo asks her what happened, and she says something hard to understand like pa lays. Sawyer tells Hurley to get up and peers into the jungle for possible dangers. But Hurley tells him Nikki is dead, and Sawyer asks who Nikki is. Sawyer, Hurley, Jin son, and Charlie examine the body but can't determine the cause of death. Son suggests she might have been poisoned and they should check the food. Charlie discovers dirt under her fingernails, and Sawyer thinks she said plywood, but Hurley suggests power lines and then. Then he exclaims, Paolo lies. Sawyer proposes they investigate Paolo. Sawyer, Jin, and Hurley find Paolo's still body lying on the jungle floor. His pants are undone and his shoe is in a tree. Sawyer looks into the jungle but claims not to see anything. Jin takes a water bottle out of Paulo's bag, but Sawyer takes it away and empties it in case it's poisoned. Hurley accuses Sawyer of contaminating the crime scene. I like Sawyer's like, what is there like a forensic hatch we don't know about?

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Jungle CSI.

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CSI jungle. Um suggests it was the monster. Hurley, Jin and Sawyer bring Paolo's body to the graveyard. Hurley says the monster must be responsible because Paulo and Nikki were with Echo when he said, You're next. Sawyer disputes the saying. He thinks Echo meant we're all next, and Hurley berates Sawyer for referring to Nikki and Paulo as Nina and Pablo. Sawyer searches through Nikki and Paolo's tent while Hurley tells him to be careful. He's like, but they don't live here anymore.

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Seriously.

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Charlie reports that son checked the food and no one else is sick. They see the bugs and Charlie remembers them as arts. They theorize that Nikki and Paolo were his friends. Charlie finds Nikki's expose script. Hurley professes being a big fan of the show and discovers Nikki's name on the cast listing. He is shocked to discover that Mr. Lachade was a cobra.

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That was funny.

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Sawyer discovers Milwaukee and tells him it's exactly the same one as the others carry on their belts. And he accuses of Nick and he accuses Nikki and Paulo of working with the others. The group discusses the situation at the graveyard. Hurley asks Sawyer how Nikki and Paolo could have been working with the others, and Sawyer reminds him of what Michael did. Hurley says they are too far away, but son counters that they grabbed her right in the camp. Sawyer offers to make a perimeter sweep, taking out a gun, which Hurley questions him about. Charlie and Son cover the bodies. Hurley finds Desmond and asks if he can use his psychic powers to find out what happened. But Desmond says he only sees flashes. He suggests asking Sawyer, whom he saw Nikki arguing with earlier in the day, right before she died. I like when he goes up to Desmond and he's like, um, that they died and he's like, yeah, tragic. Desmond's just so like, yeah, and you find this entire episode hysterical.

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I feel like it is like a comedy of errors.

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Isn't you just like Desmond, he's like eating his mango. He's like, Aye, tragic. Next.

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I kind of get like his eye, like, okay, another person died, okay.

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Um, Vincent uncovers the bodies. It should have been a clue. Hurley discusses his findings about Sawyer with Charlie and Son. Sun defends Sawyer and accuses the others. Hurley leaves to get Desmond, and Charlie confesses to Son that he was the one that bagged her head and dragged her into the jungle. But not before he makes sure he tells her that it was Sawyer's idea. Later, when they all regroup at the grave, that was like a tongue twister.

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Say it again three times fast.

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Hurley asks Sawyer for the gum and tells him he knows about the argument with Nikki. He asks if Sawyer killed her, but Sawyer insists he didn't. He tells them he kept it a secret because he deduced from the dirt under Nikki's nails that she must have been hiding something important. He shows them the pouch and throws it to Sun. She opens it to reveal the diamonds. Sawyer tells her to keep them, says he had nothing to do with the deaths, and walks away. Sun finds Sawyer and confronts him about what Charlie revealed. She returns the diamonds to him, pointing out that they have no value here, and slaps him. Well, actually, he asks if she's gonna tell Jen, and she's like, no, because then he's gonna have to dig into the grave. Fucking son, she's so badass.

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Isn't she? She's like a subtle badass. Mm-hmm. The best kind.

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Later, the group gathers around the grave for a funeral, and Hurley delivers a eulogy. He says, although it appears they killed each other over diamonds, they were nice to him, and he liked Expose and they were part of the camp. Sawyer scatters the diamonds in their grave. The group starts to bury Nikki and Paolo. Just as the sand covers their faces, the poison starts to wear off and Nikki's eyes open suddenly. But Sawyer and Hurley do not see. Nikki and Paolo are both buried alive. It is then clear that Nikki actually said paralyzed before she collapsed on the beach. And thus Hurley and Sawyer are actually indeed murderers.

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Murderers.

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I I I I just really appreciate this episode.

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Like it was this really was kind of dog twisting and funny of the show. I appreciate it completely.

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So one kind of a way to get rid of them.

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When she was talking to him about the spider, she threw it on him. That's what the like I was like, damn.

SPEAKER_05 27:21

And did you think that she was dead from the beginning?

SPEAKER_01 27:25

Okay, so when she first kind of like passed out, I'm like, doesn't seem real. Like I thought she was a scam, I thought it was like a scam. And I felt like it was like a something was not right with her her death. It seemed anyway. And then you get to her flashback. I'm like, okay. And then Paulo's there. I'm like, okay, they're working a they're working a con. And I'm like, oh wait, they are. Um so wait, they are what? Working a con. Yeah, because soon she's having dinner or lunch, and then it's some follow up. I'm like, okay. But then I'm like, oh well, damn, maybe they really are dead. I'm like, damn, that's kind of fucked up. But the thing is, but something was still like nagging at me because the way she kind of I was like, something doesn't feel like they they kept showing them. Right. Yeah, that's I think that's what it was. Something subconscious, they're like, this doesn't feel right.

SPEAKER_05 28:17

Right. Like when somebody dies, they don't keep showing them.

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Them. They're like weird, like uncovered, they kept being uncovered. It was just really I think that's what it was. That's what was nagging at me. And then when she told him about how he could be paralyzed, I was like, oh well now, that's unfortunate.

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Let's do trivia. When Nikki throws a spider on Paolo, the chitter noises of the monster can be heard as a large group of spiders appear and bite Nikki. After much speculation, these noises and the subsequent spiders were confirmed to have been the work of the monster, according to the official Lost Podcast.

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Oh.

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So the monster did it. It was the monster. It was the monster. Even though they are the featured characters of the episode, the only dialogue that Nikki and Paolo have is in their flashbacks. Accepting Nikki.

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Nikki said saying paralyzed.

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Expose is French for exposed. In colloquial English, it means a revelation or exposure, often revealed in the print or news media. The slateboard shown at the beginning of the episode informs viewers that the fictional season finale episode of Expose was directed by Stephen Williams, who was actually who actually directed this episode of Lost as well. Billy D. Williams plays Mr. Lachade, who turns out to be the show's main villain, the Cobra, in the fictional expose, and also appears as himself as oh my god, as himself in this episode. This is the first episode to feature flashbacks of events already show within already shown within the episode itself. Carlton and Damon, who are the creators of the show, said that this episode, along with Across the Sea, is one of the most polarizing episodes throughout the series. Before the main title screen, Sawyer says, Who the hell is Nikki? And later asks, Who the hell is Paolo? Perhaps a reference to fan dis to fan discussion surrounding the introduction of these characters.

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And that's the second time you said that.

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I'm telling you, the whole episode was like a troll.

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It was no, I it the really it truly was.

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And I think I know you said that last week, but it was I was like, oh yeah, this is wait, the plane, wait, the hatch, wait, what while leaving the set for her last episode of Expose, the director offers to retcon Nikki's character back into the plot. Nikki foreshadows her own fate on the island by replying, thanks, but I'm only a guest star. And we all know what happens to guest stars. Yeah, that's true. When Nikki sees Boone and Shannon fighting at the airport, she says to Paolo, Promise me we won't end up like them.

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And they do.

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Both couples end up dead and buried side by side on the island.

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That's so funny. That is hysterical.

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Curly reading the expose script and his shock at finding out Mr. Lachad is the Copra after four seasons, is an example of uh Miss and Abim. Uh I don't know French, so I'm uh again, I'm sorry if I butcher that. It's a this it's a depiction of the slow-moving but shocking nature of the show within the show itself.

SPEAKER_01 32:41

I just took it as I mean, you're a deserted on the island, and I fear I find that that's some kind of like closure for a show for you. Like, whatever happened with so-and-so, and like, oh shit, it's a script. Oh wow, okay. Like, I feel like I'd be some kind of like you guys crash on a weird ass planet on a weird ass island. So, you know what? Here's a little something. Here's how here's what happened with the show.

SPEAKER_05 33:06

I I read somewhere that like there was another scene where they wanted to have Nikki find Shannon's asthma inhaler and then like just throw it away.

SPEAKER_01 33:17

That would have been kind of kind of yeah, because what what happened to him?

SPEAKER_05 33:21

Well, kind more fucked up, you mean they found a hatch, you don't tell anybody. They Paolo overhears a kidnapping plot, doesn't say anything, anything.

SPEAKER_01 33:32

They really are assholes. There's a reason that no one knows them, like and the one that didn't know their name died in the first season. I feel like that you really are pieces of shit. Like they're like the they were probably the biggest pieces of shit.

SPEAKER_05 33:47

Uh-huh. The characters, and that's why I say, like, the you know, the writers are like, here, this is this is for the fans. Like, we're just gonna get rid of them and have fun and just yeah, and you're not gonna feel bad about it.

SPEAKER_00 33:59

Not at all.

SPEAKER_05 34:01

No, and Mr. Lashad, after four seasons finding out that he was the cobra all along, it's kind of like a hint to season four.

SPEAKER_01 34:12

So we're gonna find out in season four that Jack was the cobra of this island all along.

SPEAKER_04 34:17

Absolutely, yes. You got it, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:22

And I I feel like for some reason, I I still feel like what you call it's girlfriend's father, the rich guy, the whole head of the interest. What's my oh uh Woodmore, Charles Woodmore? Yes, Woodmore. I feel he's this that he is the head of the cobra. I feel like this is all his, I feel like this is his his little what's just this thing called the experiment that Ben and his peeps are on. I feel like he hasn't the fact that we know that we don't know, but we know that Penny was looking for this island. He's looking for uh so like we don't know no, but we know. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 35:01

I don't know, right? We know because we saw um we saw the guys in the Arctic saying we saw the anomaly after the hatch.

SPEAKER_01 35:09

So we know, but like I said, we know, we don't know, no, but you know, but we know, but they don't know that we know that they know that we know exactly. I got that. That's so weird. Um, so I feel like for her to even be looking for this island or an anonymous, I feel like her her father is the cobra.

unknown 35:27

Shh.

SPEAKER_05 35:28

On day 49 is when Paolo overheard Ben say that he would use Michael to lure Jack K and Sawyer to him, and that's the same date that Michael first made contact with Walt on the computer. I don't want to say like side note, but like side note. We don't really like move the plot forward except for like getting rid of them.

SPEAKER_01 35:49

Right, which is fine. I'm okay with it.

SPEAKER_05 35:51

But Sun now knows that it was Charlie and Sawyer behind her kidnapping. So that's the only little like you know, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:00

And I'm okay with like I said, I think this episode was one of my favorites because it had nothing to do with the show, you know what I mean? It had nothing to do with what you know. Yes, I was like, yeah, I like you.

SPEAKER_05 36:11

Let's talk about no can we talk about the giant overall theme?

SPEAKER_01 36:22

They weren't dead the whole time, I know I think that was the funniest part.

SPEAKER_05 36:28

Like interesting, Nikki, Nikki and Paolo each dug a hole throughout the episode, and then they ended up in one. Okay, and maybe I'm reaching here, but you know, I have session with Prince. So they say the pride of St. Paul when they're introducing Nikki, right? Now, Prince is from Minneapolis, but like it's like you could throw a rock from from Minneapolis to St. Paul. Her name is Corvette in the her name is Nikki, like his song Darling Nikki.

SPEAKER_01 37:03

So do you think this was intentional?

SPEAKER_05 37:06

And Billy D. Williams is wearing a purple hat.

SPEAKER_01 37:10

Okay, that is a lot of I'm just saying.

SPEAKER_05 37:13

I mean, I know sometimes, like, what it what's the expression when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

SPEAKER_01 37:19

Right.

SPEAKER_05 37:20

So, but I don't care, I'll be a hammer time a time. I was like, I just felt like I got a very, you know, prince vibe.

SPEAKER_01 37:34

You've been blessed and you have you been baptized and late minataka. How did you pronounce it?

SPEAKER_05 37:39

Wow, hold on, you just screwed me up. What mina minatonka?

SPEAKER_00 37:45

Minutonka.

SPEAKER_05 37:46

I was I couldn't I couldn't hear anything but you. It you know when that happens, like when you can say it but then you can't because somebody else said something. Yes, yeah, yes, minutonka.

SPEAKER_01 37:55

Yes, you've been baptized in Lake Minatonka.

SPEAKER_05 37:58

I wish I was. You wanna go? We could go. Yeah, come over.

SPEAKER_01 38:03

Meet me and we'll just drive the rust.

SPEAKER_05 38:05

Sure. We'll just we'll have to go in like that one day in September when it's not frozen, right?

SPEAKER_01 38:10

But you know that but you I've got to tell you, I don't know. This is not really black people friendly, as we can tell lately. Well, I'm going to hell.

SPEAKER_05 38:19

This is the United States, isn't it?

SPEAKER_01 38:21

No words black friendly.

SPEAKER_05 38:23

I'm sorry. Okay. Anyway. So that's the end of this episode. But that was fun, and I'm I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

SPEAKER_01 38:39

Can we have all of them like that, please?

SPEAKER_05 38:42

Well, no, because then there's no like story going forward. Fine. The next episode is called Left Behind. And I'm pretty sure it's a Kate episode. Any hopes for next episode? Any thoughts on Kate?

SPEAKER_01 39:01

Nope. I I I I am going to this with no hopes, no dreams, no aspirations. So I'm not disappointed when they don't tell me shit.

SPEAKER_05 39:09

Okay, Toki. Yeah, we got only a few more for the third season. So we're almost done with that. And then, you know, season four, we find out that uh who the cobra is, or maybe I'm just fucking with you, but whatever. Too late. I know you're not fucking with me.

SPEAKER_01 39:31

Yeah, I could tell you're I know your tail.

SPEAKER_05 39:34

Maybe it's Hurley.

SPEAKER_01 39:38

I can't even dignify that with a response. You're gonna eyebrow.

SPEAKER_04 39:42

It's it's um, hold on. It's Vincent. It's definitely Vincent.

SPEAKER_01 39:48

Listen, not the dog. Listen, you cannot disparage a dog, like unacceptable, Lisa. I gotta re-evaluate that.

SPEAKER_05 39:54

Disparage, it's badass. It's like it's like if Dr. Dr. Claw had a cat, fucking Vince is Dr. Claw.

SPEAKER_01 40:01

Like what is wait, what is the dog's name on Bush's baked beans? Oh, I don't know. He has a name. Oh, Duke. Duke, Duke. So Duke and Vincent.

SPEAKER_05 40:12

I didn't know he had a name, and then I knew the name.

SPEAKER_01 40:15

Idiots of fun over here. Or just the idiot part. I don't know. But um, yes, we never know. Vincent and Duke, maybe cahoots know each other? I think so.

SPEAKER_05 40:27

Maybe they set this whole thing up.

SPEAKER_01 40:29

Maybe it's Penny's dog, like Spencer Gadget. Penny's little girl.

SPEAKER_05 40:35

Brain. Yeah, see, brain. Okay, but it's a cartoon. Of course I remembered that.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

But I think we should need to find correlation between expensive gadget and lost.

SPEAKER_05 40:47

We're on to something here. I think we are. I need to I think I think we gotta explore this more.

SPEAKER_01 40:53

Well, I the only thing we're on is some drugs, I think.

SPEAKER_05 40:56

It's called alcohol, and I love it.

SPEAKER_01 40:59

Tons and tons and tons of it. We drink responsibly at home in bed.

SPEAKER_05 41:05

We do, or in my case, in my daughter's room.

SPEAKER_00 41:13

You know why that sounds, right?

SPEAKER_05 41:16

Well, she's not in it. Okay, then put that down a disclaimer. No, I'm just using her room, she's not in it.

SPEAKER_00 41:25

You go back to the edits, like, oh, okay, that didn't sound so good. That didn't sound so good.

SPEAKER_05 41:31

Please join us next time for Left Behind. And in the meantime, we ask that you consider supporting our show. One of the easiest ways you can do that is by giving us a five-star review. If you'd like to support us financially, you can also do that in many different ways. PayPal, buy me a coffee, Patreon. Every link is available on our website, assassinsips.com. And if every one of you would donate even as little as one dollar, we would cover our expenses for the next month. So please, we ask humbly that you consider helping us out. And please drink responsibly. Please do not ever drink and drive. And please join us back here for the next episode when Agnes remembers that she hates this show again.

SPEAKER_01 42:24

Don't worry, I didn't forget.

SPEAKER_05 42:28

She forgot this week, but she'll remember again next week.

SPEAKER_01 42:32

No, I didn't forget. I was just giving it. It was it was nice to me, so I was nice to it. Are we in season six yet?

SPEAKER_05 42:41

Almost. We're so close.

SPEAKER_01 42:42

Well, you I know she was saying that since the first episode.

SPEAKER_05 42:46

I'm like, shut up. I really thought you were actually gonna like it like a normal human being.

SPEAKER_01 42:52

I realized I won't be able to. The woman who's says the woman who's never seen the godfather says the woman who's never seen the good fellas, says the woman who's never seen any classic movie.

SPEAKER_05 43:00

Says the woman who's never seen Star Wars. I saw I think I have the people on my side here.

SPEAKER_01 43:08

You've never seen a few good men. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 43:12

Actually, no. I I saw one of those. Wait a minute. It wasn't The Godfather. I saw Good Fellas.

SPEAKER_01 43:17

You saw Good Fellas, okay. But you didn't see The Godfather or a few good men. I'm like, who does not one classic, but the I saw one classic.

SPEAKER_03 43:26

I didn't see all the classics.

SPEAKER_01 43:28

1001 billion. All right. We could go through the list of like classic movies that everyone has seen, and then I'm gonna see if you've seen them. Weird window. Okay, birds.

SPEAKER_05 43:40

Yes, I've seen that. Okay, because I'm about to say click. All right, come on, give me another.

SPEAKER_01 43:49

Okay, I think we should I think we could do a whole fucking episode. I think we could people have to call in. Everyone needs to call in and give us a list of movies to see if we've seen them. I think that'd be good. Like, give us a list of movies, yes, and how many weeks actually seen each of us.

SPEAKER_04 44:04

That would be fun.

SPEAKER_01 44:06

To be fair, Lisa probably has a life.

SPEAKER_05 44:09

Probably not. I mean I mean, I'm I'm home. But you know what? We put it on for my mom, she had never seen it, also, and she sat there worrying that we were gonna make her watch a horror movie. And we were like, the seven-year-old is watching it too. Chill.

SPEAKER_01 44:30

You'd be all right. I mean, you guys put it on and I was still like, yeah, can't, yeah, sorry, not yeah, not doing it for me. I sang you the songs. Oh my god, that entire car ride.

SPEAKER_05 44:39

I was like, I'm so good.

SPEAKER_00 44:44

Earn those bagels. I just you do.

SPEAKER_05 44:47

I know you put up with me for all these years. You definitely do.

SPEAKER_01 44:57

Okay.

SPEAKER_05 44:58

I try. But yeah, if you have movie recommendations that we should probably see, or probably should be embarrassed if we haven't send them because I'll probably be the one that's embarrassed that I haven't.

SPEAKER_01 45:11

But I have a feeling there'll be like one movie like that the whole world has seen, and I haven't.

SPEAKER_05 45:17

That one movie that you mean like the show Lost, like the whole world has seen it and loved it except you. I guess that doesn't count.

SPEAKER_01 45:24

That doesn't count. Okay, okay, okay. I'm watching it now.

SPEAKER_05 45:28

You're watching it now. That's all that matters. And you're doing a great job. Keep it up. I'm sorry, I love you.

SPEAKER_01 45:38

I so appreciate your your sarcasm. I love you.

SPEAKER_05 45:41

I would give you a ribbon if I could.

SPEAKER_01 45:48

Reluctant lost watch. And as we say, she's Lisa.

SPEAKER_05 45:59

Yes, and she's Agnes. And we are out of here. We got our name right again.

unknown 46:08

You help.

SPEAKER_00 46:10

It's shake it baby.

SPEAKER_01 46:17

Let me see if I can go through a list. The words are like classic. What's the word I'm looking for? Like movies, like no, classic is a good word. Like iconic. Iconic. Okay. I feel like sometimes like if I put classic, they just give me like old black and white movies, which are pretty awesome. You've seen Classablanca, right?

SPEAKER_05 46:39

No, I have not.

SPEAKER_01 46:44

I wanna cry. Okay, let's see. What else can I think of?

SPEAKER_05 46:49

Before we move on to our next show, maybe we should just have me watch like a movie that I've never seen, so you can just stop making me feel so bad about it. Pulp fiction? Yes, I've seen Pulp Fiction. I love Pulp Fiction.

SPEAKER_01 47:03

Bonnie and Clyde.

SPEAKER_05 47:04

No, but it's Tarantino. I like Tarantino. You know, in real life, the bad motherfucker wallet, that's the wallet that he uses.

SPEAKER_01 47:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:14

Yeah, because he used to come into my Starbucks.

SPEAKER_01 47:16

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_05 47:18

Yeah. He was okay. He was he was like drunk one night and there was um ATM because we shared a wall with the bank, so they had the right the ATM, and he was so drunk trying to get out his money he thought he won.

SPEAKER_01 47:36

Alright, Braveheart.

SPEAKER_05 47:38

Yeah, I've seen it. It it it's not my thing though.

SPEAKER_01 47:41

Oh, that was really good. I love that. Seven?

SPEAKER_05 47:45

Yes. Okay. But like, but like when it came out, so I don't really like remember it very well.

SPEAKER_01 47:51

Okay, okay. Let me see if I get some old something a little bit older. Let's see. You see Avatar? No. Oh, but I know we see West Side Story. Next. I really thought you saw that one.

SPEAKER_05 48:11

I I it's the Jets and the Sharks. Don't I know enough. They dance with knives and they solve their problems by dancing. That's that's the movie, right? Um The Professional. Never even heard of it.

SPEAKER_01 48:26

When Natalie Port me is your little girl and uh Jean Ru okay.

SPEAKER_05 48:31

Never even heard of it.

SPEAKER_01 48:33

The French connection.

SPEAKER_05 48:34

Nope.