Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Right Round Like A Record Baby
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 01.21.2009
...Back to the freighter -- and the day of the great escape. Jin runs out onto the deck of the freighter, screaming in Korean to the people in the departing helicopter. Sun yells for him, but Jack holds her back, and the chopper keeps flying. In the present, Sun reminds Kate that she's the kind of person who makes hard decisions when she has to. We flashback to Kate on the deck of the freighter -- she's handing baby Aaron over to Sun, while she promises to get Jin. In the present, Kate tries to explain what happened, but Sun cuts her off. "You did what you had to do, and if you hadn't we probably all would've died, instead of just my husband." A tearful Kate apologizes, and one moment Sun seems moved and the next, it's almost as if we see the ice form inside her, despite her warm gesture of taking Kate's hand, and her reassuring words that she doesn't blame Kate. When Kate seems nearly mollified, Sun withdraws her hand, sits back, and her smile turns almost into a parody of itself. "So," she says, "How's Jack?" That was creepy, y'all. I thought she blamed two people -- her father and Ben Linus, and I've suspected that perhaps she actually blamed her father and Widmore, but was faking that she blamed Linus, so that she could later extract her revenge. Right now, I'm thinking she blames Jack (and maybe Kate). I just don't know. From the look on her face, neither does Kate.
Cheech meets up with Jack in a parking garage, transfers a STILL unconscious Sayid to Jack's custody, and gives him what little he knows of Sayid's back-story with the darts and the people who are after him and Hurley. He also tells Jack that Hurley's still at home -- freaking out. Before departing, Cheech tells Jack that when this is over, he'd better stay away from Hugo, which is freaking laughable, isn't it? I mean, as far as Cheech knows, Sayid -- whom he's so bent on helping -- is the three-time killer, while Jack is the doctor who's just trying to help out, at great risk to his person and profession. After Cheech takes his leave, Jack drives up to the front of the hospital, but before he rushes Sayid in, he calls Ben and tells him he's got Sayid and that Hurley's at home. The camera zooms in on Ben's face as the it's-all-going-according-to-Ben's-plan music takes us to commercial.
At Hurley's, his mom wants to know who Sayid is -- she thought he was his friend. Hurley explains he is his friend, but that he's got this double life, and assures his mom that Sayid is a good guy. She's not buying on account of the fact that Sayid's killed three people, since in her book, good guys don't kill any people. Tsk. MA! You're always like that. I'm old enough to make my own decisions. (Sorry, we've got an adolescent in the house.) After some back and forth, Carmen insists that Hugo tell her the truth. And so he does, which is why I didn't include the "Previously On Lost" bits in my recap of episode 5-1.