Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 5820 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2010.05.23
Stay-Away-From-That-Well Well: Sawyer spies on Faucke and Ben as they gather their gear. Before he knows it, Ben flanks him, points his rifle at him and says: "As long as you're watching, why don't you join us?" Sawyer is pleased to see the well empty and brags that he knows Faucke wants to use Des to destroy Craphole. He wonders if Faucke plans on going down with the "ship." Faucke: "I'm not going down with anything." Not even OPP? Faucke ignores me. "But you and the rest of Jacob's little 'candidates' absolutely are." Sawyer: "We're not candidates anymore." Wait this is when these characters start sharing information? Seriously? Anyhow, as Faucke aroos at this, Sawyer elbows Ben in the face, confiscates his gun and bids the dynamic duo adieu. "I'll be seein' ya." Ben holds his bloody mouth. "You're not going to go after him?" Faucke doesn't need to. Ben: "When you said you were gonna destroy the island, I thought you were speaking figuratively." Ben, don't even tell me Faucke is sneakier than thou. Tsk. Faucke: "Because I said I'd leave you in charge once I was gone? I'm sorry if I left out the part about the island being on the bottom of the ocean. That being said, you're welcome to join me on my boat. Because once we get Desmond to do what we need him to do, I'm going to sail away from this godforsaken place and watch it sink." And I'll probably get hungry out at sea. Faucke lays off the taunting once he notices tracks near the well and crouches to inspect them. "I think there was a dog here." How does T'OQ manage to make Faucke so adorable from time to time? It's...disturbing.
Speaking of dogs, we cut to Vincent who runs over and licks a sleeping Desmond on the face. He's in Rose and Bernard's camp. After they wish him a good morning, Bernard leaves to check the traps for fish for Desmond's brekkie. Alone at last, Rose pours Desmond some tea and tells him that once he's eaten, he'll have to move on. "We broke our rule with you. [...] We don't get involved. Whatever got you tossed inside a well -- that's the kind of drama Bernard and I don't want anything to do with." Desmond feels you, sister. He wouldn't be back now, had his father-in-law not kidnapped him from the hospital at which he was recovering from a gunshot wound in the milk bottle.
Soon, they're interrupted by Vincent's bark. Bernard follows him back into camp, offering an apology that makes no sense until we see Faucke and Ben bringing up the rear. Faucke greets Rose on the fly, and walks right to Desmond, unsheathing his knife on the way. "I'll make this simple. Come with me now or I'll kill them both right in front of you." Rose's bravery surprises me. She's not getting involved, but she's not letting some damnable Smoke Monster intimidate her guest. "You don't have to go anywhere with him." Faucke ignores her and tells Desmond he'll make the couple's deaths painful. Desmond extracts a promise from Faucke: "I want your word: you won't touch them -- ever." Faucke: "Done." Desmond: "Then I'll do what you want." Faucke: "Yes, Desmond, you will." Need the last word, much?