At long last season 3 episode 1 has been shown. Entitled “A Tale of Two Cities”, it definetly didnt dissapoint. Many things have now been answered that many people have been waiting months to find out since the season 2 finale, and below is a quick summary of the entire show.

Opening scene began with Juliet in a book club meeting in what seemed like an off the island setting back in the real world. All of a sudden there is an earthquake, after which everyone in the neighborhood ran outside to see what was happening. This is where the show immediately picks up. You see Henry Gale come out of his house, Ethan shows up as well as Goodwin (all of which are others on the island). They look up and see a plane crashing and break apart which was flight 815 with the Losties on it.

This means that they have a highly civilized setting right there on the island with houses, electricity, running water and every thing else.

Henry Gale tells Goodwin and Ethan to go to the crash site and pretend to be a survivor and collect as much information about the survivors that he can.

Cutting away from that, the next scene is a flashback for Jack which shows him watching his wife flirt with another man out in public. This then cuts back to real time with Jack being locked inside of a cell with a glass wall with no way out.

What has happened to Kate is revealed next as she is on the floor in the shower and is awaken by Zeke (the Other with the beard). He tells her to take a shower and then put a dress that he has provided. Once this is done she is taken down to the beach where Henry Gale is waiting for her with a breakfast meal set up. He tells her to put on cuffs while she asks why he is doing all of this. He tells her he wants to give her something to feel civalized and remember because the next 2 weeks were going to be very uncomfortable.

Sawyer is then shown inside a cell outside with another cell across from him with a young man inside named Carl. Who this Carl guy is is never revealed through out the show. Carl picks his lock and then lets Sawyer out and tells him to run. Juliet catches Sawyer and shoots him with a dart that electricutes him and takes him down. He is then dragged back to his cell where a bloody Carl has also been caught and made to appologize for involving Sawyer in the escape.

More flashbacks from Jack occur where the reasoning for his divorce begins to be revealed. Jack finds out that she is cheating on him with another man and is eventually led to believe it is his dad, Cristian who is the man that she is with.

Back to Jacks cell, Juliet tries to bring him food but he attacks her and tries to escape. He tries to open a hatch door which floods the place with water. Juliet is able to get him to push an emergency button which stops the flooding.

Back outside to Sawyer’s cell, Kate is led out and is now placed in the cell that Carl was formerlly being held in. He has now been dragged off somewhere else by the Others.

Switching back to Jack, he is told by Juilet that they are in an underwater facility called the Hydra. This is another hatch that was formerlly owned by Dharma. She admits that they are all what is left of the Dharma inniative but they do not have the same beliefs that originally they began with.

Juilet has a file with everything about Jack’s life in it including where he went to school, his occupation, and information about his wife, and tell him that Sarah is very happy in life without him.

The show ended with Juliet leaving Jack’s cell and she see’s Henry Gale standing there waiting. He tells her that she did good work in there and give his little half smile. Juliet replies by saying “Thanks Ben”.

So that is a quick summary of everything that happened in A Tale of Two Cities. Please leave your comments on what you think about all these events and where you think they will lead to. Next week’s episode looks even better than this one!