NOTE: A lot of “foilers” have been released by legit sources like producers and crew of the show. Some of the below may not happen, so be aware…
Episode 3.07: Not in Portland
Airdate: February 7, 2007
Juliet makes a shocking decision that could endanger her standing with her people. This could actual mean she ends up shooting someone, since someone does die during this episode, but it’s not someone you will cry over.
On the operating table, Ben’s life is in Jack’s hands, but the doc’s gambit to free Kate and Sawyer hits a geographical snag. Still, the runaways elude Danny and the other guards, with the help of unlikely allies including one of “The Others”, Sheera.
You see that Kate does have very strong feelings for Jack. And they are sorta kinda displayed in front of Sawyer.
Charlie and Hurley go through Sawyer’s personal belonging and food stash back at the beach and Charlie finds himself under attack by Desmond.
This episode is Juliet-centric. Flashbacks follow Juliet’s medical career, which has a very personal component to it. This episode will help explain Juliet’s motivations for joining “The Others”, as well as actions in the previous six episodes. Co-executive producers Edward Kitsis and Adam Horowitz reveal: “It was exciting to show Juliet’s backstory. What you see on this island is a very strong woman, and in her backstory she was a little timid and was getting bullied — so you see the evolution of her character from that.”
Elizabeth Mitchel, who plays Juliet, say this: “I think they’re giving you an insight into what’s happening, and they further develop what happens at the end of the episode, which is something we’ve kind of been waiting to happen. So that’s how they kind of mix it in there. I can’t really say anything more than that because I don’t want to give anything away if you haven’t seen it, … but I do believe they further it. What happens to Juliet and what her experience is then kind of feeds into what she’s doing and why she’s doing it. Juliet did what she set out to do, which is break Jack. So yes, she’s nice, but look what she did to him. I mean, she kept at him. So that’s not particularly nice. Nor is it friendly to take a friendship and twist it so the other person cries. That’s not, to me, very nice. However, there was obviously a reason behind it. If you take any good person and give them an ultimate objective that they have to fulfill, they’re willing to do almost anything. What we might do for our children, what we might do to save a parent or save our loved one, we’re willing to do almost anything. So that, to me, is Juliet.”
Lost turned the John A. Burns School of Medicine into the Miami Central University’s Medical Research Laboratory. And it seems like a flashback for Juliet, the new character played by Elizabeth Mitchell. She meets an older gentleman, Edmund Burke. They talk in front of the building, he steps into the street… and is hit by a bus. Edmund is smug and in his 50s who has a laboratory in a university, who is the type to divorce his wife to date a young woman in her early 20s. He likes to take credit for other people’s work.
Also in the episode is Albert Hofmann, a highly selective recruiter for a bio-tech company. Sherry, an intelligent and formidable woman in her 40s or 50s. She is smart, analytical, well-rounded, and charming.
Juliet is romantically linked to someone we already know, and could be romantically linked to a second someone we know. Ethan apparently appears in her flashbacks, which could be one of the characters she is linked too.
Guest Stars include: Robin Weigert as Rachel, M.C. Gainey as Mr. Friendly/Tom, William Mapother as Ethan, Blake Bashoff as Karl, Tania Raymonde as Alex, Michael Bowen as Pickett, Ariston Green as Jason, Teddy Wells as Ivan, Nestor Carbonell as Richard Alpert, Steve Labrash as morgue employee, Kimberly Estrada as Sherry, Rob McElhenney as Aldo and Zeljko Ivanek as Edmund.
Credit: SpoilerFix.com, ABC, Sci Fi Wire, Kristin on E!Online, Entertainment Weekly, The Transmission, The Official Lost Magazine, Issue #9, March/April 2007
