It is really about time that someone renamed Lost The Badass Sayid Jarrah Show. Our friendly neighbourhood Iraqi soldier exploded leapt forth from the background of the last few episodes, turning this into one of Lost’s more exciting episodes.

Straight away he realised that Samurai Dogen had been frustratingly ambiguous for far too long, taking him to point – that would be the point of Sayid’s boot to his face – in a fight that threatened to tear through the polystyrene walls of the Temple. Dogen soon realised that Sayid was a weapon of mass destruction, sending him sword in hand to deal with Cocke and prove that he’s still a good little torturer inside.

Kate came back to have a chat with Claire – of whom Miles got his one line of the week to express his impeccable taste, declaring she was ‘still hot’ – and the crusty-haired wonder looked like she was preparing to kick the crap out of Kate for looking after her precious baby.

While we know Claire is firmly on Cocke’s side, the bald supremo had recruiting in mind and, nonplussed after Sayid plunged a sword into his chest, he won Sayid over with little more than a cheeky grin. Returning to the temple with a warning of smoke being bad for everybody’s health and advising people to get on their running shoes, Sayid was now a man on a mission.

Not much intrigue was displayed in this episode, and not a lot of teasing nuggets for us fans to get to over-analyse for the coming week. Not that it really mattered because this was a Sayid episode, guaranteeing two things: a shaky accent and death. There was no better example of the latter this week as Sayid had a little one-to-one with Dogen – who spoke of why he came to the island – and then  swiftly drowned him and left him to float about like a rotten turd in the temple’s giant chemical toilet. He also turned John Lennon into a Pez dispenser for being a shit character. With Jacob offering to save Dogen’s son’s life in exchange for helping out on the Island, and Cocke offering a similar deal for Sayid, these two omnipotent manipulators are clearly ruthless business men.

Cocke offered Sayid the chance to be with the one he loved again (we are assuming Nadia as – like the rest of us – Sayid has forgotten all about Shannon). This did leave the big question mark over his flash-sideways – could it possibly be the life that Cocke promised him if he helped kill everybody?

The trip into this alt-verse did little more than show him as the tortured torturer again, while revealing encounters with the trigger-happy freighter folk from season 4, Omar and Keamy (he makes good eggs apparently, as if it’s bloody hard). After delivering bullets into the now double-dead freighter blokes, Sayid finds a bound and gag Jin in a fridge. Jin is clearly up to some dodgy dealings in his alt-life, or into some weird larder-based sexual perversions.

Back on the Island, Smokey tore through the temple, destroying everyone in his path. Ben, Sun, Illana and Frank then turned up and quickly left again with Miles, leaving Sayid, Kate and Claire to go off with Cocke on another mission to kill every background extra working in Hawaii. Still, Sayid proved to be the most loveable masochistic, blood-thirsty, Iraqi on television – we can’t wait until we can have him in cuddly toy form.

(Side Note: Yes, our theory was wrong about the flash-sideways order – no Charlie next week then)

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