Expose

So, ‘Expose’ — 1 hour of pure torture or the best friggin’ episode ever? A little bit of both, I’d say. When the episode begins, you see Nikki, running through the jungle, and my first reaction was “damn it, I knew this was coming, an episode entirely about Nikki.” I was no longer excited about seeing the episode, and was quite disappointed. I had secretly been hoping the writers would forget about Paulo and Nikki, pretend they never existed and move on. But no, they decided to make a whole episode just about them – eek!

What?

In one of the first scenes, Nikki is seen coming out from the jungle, onto the beach, where Hurley and Sawyer are. Something is wrong and she falls on the sand, whispers a few words, which at the time didn’t make any sense (but Hurley believes she said “Paulo lies”), and then…well she looks dead. A confused and shocked looking Hurley, looks up at Sawyer and says “she’s dead.” At this point I am in denial, I am smiling at the thought of Nikki’s character being written out of the show, but I am not jumping up and down because I don’t believe that she is actually dead – that would just be too good to be true. Sawyer and Hurley take off to find Paulo, only to find him lying in the jungle looking dead. WHAT? They’re both dead? No way!

Flashbacks

The flashbacks begin, and we get to see what these two new characters (who most Lost fans already hate) are all about — murder! We learn that, in Australia, Paulo and Nikki pretended to be people they’re not, in order to get close to a rich man, who they then kill. Once the man is dead, they steal a bag of diamonds, and leave the country, on the doomed flight 815, and that’s how they end up on the island. Yep, these new people, who we have to learn to love, are murderers! That doesn’t make it any easier. I now hate them even more, and can see no reason whatsoever for them to be on the show. We already have a murderer, in fact there’s a few of them.

The Diamonds

As the episode unfolds, we learn that Paulo and Nikki lost the diamonds in the crash, but eventually Paulo finds them, only, he doesn’t tell Nikki. Once Nikki finds out he has been hiding them from her, she is furious. She comes up with a screwed up way to get them back — she throws a poisonous spider at him, that bites him. More spiders then come along and Nikki gets bitten, causing her to panic and run. She hides the diamonds, and then run towards the beach where she then finds Hurley and Sawyer. At this point we realize they have both been bitten and are paralyzed, but only for a few hours. The other people on the island do not know that, and assume they are dead.

Is this really happening?

The rest of the people on the island start to dig holes, for Nikki and Paulo’s bodies. As they start to bury them, I expect Paulo and/or Nikki to wake up and stop the great thing from happening, but they don’t. More and more dirt is thrown on them, we see very little of their bodies, and then as the last little bit of dirt is about to cover Nikki’s face, she opens her eyes! She’s not dead, she is very much still alive and has heard everything people have been saying. She knows people think she is dead, but by the time she “wakes up”, it is too late. They have been buried alive, they’re gone, out of the picture – no longer part of Lost! I am now laughing and thanking the writers for listening to the fans. I’m surprised, but very appreciative! How awesome is Lost? The writers actually re-wrote the story to please us angry (and hard to please) fans.

I LOVE LOST!