Enter 77

Infobox Television episode | Title = Enter 77
Series = Lost


Caption = Mikhail Bakunin holds Locke hostage
Season = 3
Episode = 11
Airdate = March 7, 2007
Production = 3011
Writer = Carlton Cuse & Damon Lindelof
Director = Stephen Williams
Guests = Anne Bedian
Andrew Divoff
Mira Furlan
April Grace
Shaun Toub
Eyad Elbitar
Taiarii Marshall
Episode list = "Lost" (season 3)
List of "Lost" episodes
Prev = Tricia Tanaka Is Dead
Next = Par Avion

"Enter 77" (pronounced seven, seven) is the eleventh episode of the third season of "Lost". It was aired on March 7, 2007, making it the 58th episode of the series. The episode was written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and directed by Stephen Williams. The character of Sayid Jarrah was featured in the episode's flashbacks.

Plot

Flashbacks

In his flashback, Sayid is a chef in a restaurant in Paris, France. He is summoned onto the portico by a man named Sami (an Iraqi), who compliments the meal Sayid cooked for him, and offers him a job as a chef in his new restaurant. Sayid later arrives at the restaurant, and meets Sami's wife. She has strange scars on her arm, but their introduction is cut short when the woman confirms that Sayid is “him.” Sayid is suddenly attacked and knocked unconscious. He is chained up in the basement of the restaurant. Sami explains that his wife was tortured by the Republican Guard, and she recognized her torturer to be Sayid. Sayid denies this passionately. Sami’s wife is brought before Sayid as Sami begins to brutally beat him, trying to get him to admit that he tortured his wife. Sami reaches for an iron bar, but his wife stops him. The following day, Sayid is visited by Sami’s wife. She explains that she rescued a cat from torture by street kids (which bears a striking resemblance to the cat at the Flame station), and while it sleeps with her and loves her, it also sometimes attacks her, because it sometimes forgets that it is safe. She forgives him for this, because she also knows what it is like to never be safe, because of Sayid. Sayid admits that he remembers her, that her face has haunted him since he left Iraq. He breaks down in tears and emotionally apologizes, over and over. Sami’s wife forgives him. Moreover, she will tell Sami that she has made a terrible mistake, that they have found the wrong person, so that Sami will let him go.

At the Flame Station

Elsewhere in the jungle, Locke, Sayid, Kate and Rousseau stumble across a farmhouse with a satellite dish on its roof. Its inhabitant is revealed to be the mysterious one-eyed man whom Sayid, Locke and company saw on The Pearl’s monitoring video in the episode "The Cost of Living". Sayid approaches the house unarmed. Danielle decides not to get involved. Sayid approaches (noticing a mysterious cat whose name is later revealed to be Nadia after Nadia Comăneci), but as he nears, the one-eyed man appears with a Mosin-Nagant rifle in his hands and shoots Sayid in the shoulder, screaming that he didn't cross the line, and that they had a truce. After Sayid tells him about the plane crash, the one-eyed man emerges. Kate and Locke rush out from hiding to disarm him. The one-eyed man reveals his name to be Mikhail Bakunin, and claims he is the last living member of the DHARMA Initiative.

While treating Sayid's gunshot wound, Mikhail tells the survivors about how he came to the island, after responding to a newspaper advertisement for the DHARMA Initiative. He has been on the island for eleven years, staying in the station called The Flame, where he communicates with the outside world. Mikhail tells Sayid that several years ago, the DHARMA Initiative launched a purge against "the hostiles," but Mikhail did not participate in it. As a result, the hostiles let him live, provided he did not cross the line around his house. He also states that the dish on the roof has not worked for years, and that the hostiles were on the island long before the DHARMA Initiative. Meanwhile, Locke finds a monitored computer which asks him to play chess. He does, and begins a losing streak [One of the positions shown is actually the final position of Vasily Ivanchuk v Artur Yusupov 1991, where Yusupov won spectacularly, but the final position where Ivanchuk resigned is erroneously called checkmate). [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1060180] ] Sayid realizes Mikhail is an Other, not a member of the DHARMA Initiative, and almost certainly is not alone.

At The Flame Mikhail explains that the station is connected to an underwater beacon to guide submarines to the island. When Sayid taunts Mikhail about killing one of the hostiles, Mikhail attacks him and Kate, but is overpowered. They tie him up. Sayid reveals a hatch hidden under a rug. Kate and Sayid descend into the hatch while Locke keeps watch over the unconscious Mikhail. The basement is wired with explosives. Sayid finds several DHARMA manuals. Upstairs, Locke is distracted by the prompting of the chess game. He finally manages to beat the chess computer, [The final moves are actually those of Anatoly Karpov v Gary Kasparov, World Championship Match 1985, game 16. Here again, the final position where Karpov resigned is erroneously called checkmate). [http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1067175] .] after which the screen changes to a video of "Dr. Marvin Candle" / "Dr. Mark Wickmund", which tells him to enter number codes for communication. Since the satellite and sonar have been rendered inoperable, Dr. Candle says, "Has there been an incursion of the station by the hostiles? If so, enter 7-7." Locke is about to enter the code when Mikhail appears behind him and holds a knife before his throat. In the basement, Kate is attacked by Ms. Klugh, but Sayid comes to her defense. Kate retaliates, punching Ms. Klugh in the face after recognizing her as one of the Others from the Pala Ferry dock when they were kidnapped, and tells Sayid that she will know where Jack is. They take her upstairs. Locke is outside, being held at gunpoint by Mikhail. There is a lot of arguing in Russian between Klugh and Mikhail, [Translation from Russian. Klugh: "Mikhail, You know what to do." Mikhail: "We still have a chance!". "We cannot risk. You know a condition." "There is other exit!". "Let's, Mikhail" "Forgive me (shot)." ] and then Mikhail shoots Klugh. Locke struggles for the gun, and Sayid manages to knock Mikhail to the ground. Mikhail begs to be killed, but Sayid lets him live.

Locke watches Dr. Candle’s video again, pausing at the “Enter 7-7" part. Sayid shows Mikhail a map that shows a cable running from The Flame to a place called “The Barracks.” Mikhail doesn’t tell him about this place on the map, but warns that the moment Sayid’s guard is down, he will attack. Danielle agrees with this. “You have a map,” she says, “why keep him alive?” Sayid will not kill him. Locke emerges and says that he beat the chess game and found out why Mikhail hadn’t wanted him to beat it. The farmhouse blows up. Once again, one of Sayid’s hopes of being able to communicate with the outside world has been taken away by Locke. As the group turns to leave, Sayid’s flashlight catches sight of the gray cat.

On the beach

The episode starts off with Sawyer noticing Paulo with one of his magazines, who explains that "they share things now". After seeing that the castaways have set up a ping-pong table, Sawyer decides to challenge someone to a game to retrieve his "stash". Sun decides that if he loses, he has to give up using colorful nicknames for a week.

Back at the beach the ping-pong match begins between Hurley and Sawyer. Sawyer loses, but Hurley takes pity on him and returns some of his magazines. At this point, Hurley reassures Sawyer that Kate will be safe while with Sayid and Locke.

Awards

Naveen Andrews submitted this episode for consideration on his behalf in the category of "Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series" at the 2007 Emmy Awards.cite web|title = 2007 Emmys CONFIRMED Episode Submissions|url = http://goldderbyforums.latimes.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1106078764/m/53610293|publisher = The Envelope Forum, Los Angeles Times|accessdate = 2007-06-18]

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