Episode Report Card Daniel: C+ | 2 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT In torture we trust
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.14.2006
Back in the hatch-hole, Jack goes all makeshift ER on Henry, snipping off the end of the arrow and pulling it out from the front. Excellent. It's quite bloody. I enjoyed it a lot.
Off to the side, Locke and Sayid are having a little head-to-head. Locke thinks Henry's quite convincing, which Sayid concedes, although he doesn't agree when Locke says there's no way to tell if Henry's telling the truth. Then he asks if Jack has the combination to the armoury. "For now he does," says Locke, clearly trying to figure out where this is going. It's kind of funny, though, that he implies to Sayid that Jack can be taken out of the loop. Sayid asks how long it would take to change it. Locke considers this a long time, and takes a step forward. "If you're angry, and looking for someone to punish..." he says, but Sayid asks why he'd need to punish anyone. That's a facetious question, right? Sayid says he just wants the truth, and they both know Jack will have "issues" with what must be done to obtain it, like how nice to qualify a moral opposition as someone's "issues." Sayid asks again about changing the combination. Locke says it'll take a couple minutes, tops. "Then I suggest you get started," says Sayid. Great. Now Sayid's in charge.
Jack's still working on Henry, who's unconscious again. Sayid strolls up, "casually" asks if Henry said anything. Jack snaps at him a little when he says no, and adds that he went into shock. Sayid and Locke tag-team Jack on the folly of leaving Henry out there just lying around where all the Lostaways who are always swarming the hatch-hole will see him and panic. Oh, hey, we could put him in the armoury! Jack agrees, "for now." So they carry him in, all three of them, and set him down. Jack doesn't think Henry should be on his back, so he steps out to grab a cot, only to have Sayid shut the door behind him. The thunking of the door locking makes Jack turn around, and then start pounding on the door, yelling, "Sayid, hey, what the hell are you doing?"
Sayid's tying his hair back, probably so's not to get blood on it. "What needs to be done," he says, but he says it really quietly, so I don't think Jack actually heard him.
Flashback! Tariq's sitting in a room, and Sayid enters, carrying the Torture Tackle Box. Did Sayid take some sort of crash torture course or something? Tariq's surprised that they're letting Sayid speak to him alone. Sayid simply says that Tariq needs to tell him where the pilot is (and we learn that Iraqi for "helicopter" is "helicopter"). Meanwhile, he opens the box and starts taking the tools out, which is probably scarier than any actual torture. There are tongs, and blades, and The Dukes of Hazzard on DVD, and maybe you're thinking that it doesn't sound too bad, but it's actually the season that Bo and Luke were replaced by Coy and Vance, like what kind of sick fuck torturer has Sayid already turned out to be?
Tariq thinks it's hilarious that the U.S. Army's new bluff is that Sayid is going to torture Tariq. He finds it high-larious, what with Sayid being a loyal soldier and the son of a "great hero," according to Tariq. He gets a little more urgent as he sees Sayid's fairly serious about it. He tells Sayid to take one of the, um, torture bags, I guess, and put it over his head and tape it up: "Kill yourself, now! That's an order! Do it and die with what little honour you have left," he says. Tariq must be a lot of fun at the office Christmas party, huh? "Since you have photocopied your ass, take your gun and kill yourself to preserve what little dignity you have left!" Sayid's finally realized that Tariq must not be such a good guy after all, what with the "ordering of his own suicide" thing. Tariq spits in Sayid's face. Bad move, because Sayid's got pliers.