Episode Report Card LuluBates: B+ | 4 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Paging Dr. Freud
By LuluBates | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on May 1, 2007
Back on the Black Rock, Bad Dad is realizing that something is wrong. I mean, besides the fact that he believes he is dead, in hell, and being held captive by his angry armed son. Sawyer asks if he's ever been to Jasper, Alabama. Bad Dad admits it, but won't claim paternity. Har dee har har har! Sawyer says Bad Dad isn't his daddy; Bad Dad killed his daddy. Sawyer then pulls out his letter. So, when Sawyer leaves his tent for his midnight relief, he takes his gun and his letter, but not his shoes? Huh. Bad Dad takes the letter that Sawyer hands him. He reads the first line: "Dear Mr. Sawyer, you don't know me but I know youâ¦" He stops reading to ask what the letter is, but Sawyer tells him to shut up and read. Bad Dad reads about how he slept with Sawyer's mom, stole his dad's money, and how his dad killed his mother and then shot himself. He then blah blah blahs through the rest of the letter, and Sawyer gets pissed. Bad Dad figures out that Sawyer took his name on a revenge trip. Bad Dad claims it wasn't his fault -- he ran that con a dozen times with no problem! Sawyer says his mother's name was Mary. Bad Dad stops and thinks and remembers that Sawyer's mother begged him to take her $38,000 and save her from her miserable life. It wasn't his fault that his dad overreacted! Sawyer screams at Bad Dad to finish the letter. Bad Dad looks up at Sawyer and calmly tears the letter into pieces. Sawyer snaps, jumps on Bad Dad, and chokes the life out of him with the chains. It looks like a grandpa snuff film. Locke opens the door when Bad Dad's inert body drops to the floor. Sawyer is not happy. Locke says thank you. His daddy sure did raise a well-mannered boy! Ugh. Between this strangulation scene and Charlie getting shot in the throat with an arrow, I have to ask: can we please move the show back to nine o'clock so I don't have to watch this anymore? Pretty please? With sugar on top?
Jack and Juliet are sharing lunch and a laugh on the beach. It appears to be a gourmet meal of beef jerky and pineapple. Mmmm. Their picnic is interrupted when Kate charges up to Jack and asks to speak to him in private. Juliet gets up to leave, but Jack says that Kate can say whatever she has to say in front of Juliet. Kate is understandably annoyed, but decides that he's right. Juliet should hear what she has to say. It seems only fair, since she's the reason no one has told Jack that there's a woman in Hurley's tent who parachuted onto the Island yesterday from a boat eighty miles away. If they can contact the boat, they will all be rescued. Jack is shocked that no one told him. Kate laughs, "No one told you because they don't trust you." Um, Kate? If no one trusts him, why are you telling him now? Do you think they will trust you once they realize you are total BLABBERMOUTH? Jack and Juliet stare at each other. Juliet is still chewing her beef jerky, but she kind of looks like a cow gnawing on cud. Looking bovine must be a real challenge for an actor! Jack asks, "How?" Kate tries to explain again that all of his friends distrust him, but he doesn't care, he just wants to know how the pilot was going to contact the ship. Kate sighs and says that she has a phone/radio thing, and Sayid is trying to get it to work. Jack gets up to investigate, and Juliet says, "We should tell her." Tell her what, Kate wants to know, but Jack won't say. Juliet encourages him again to tell her, but Jack won't do it. Kate looks confused as Jack leaves for Hurley's tent.