Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 641 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Double Your Pleasure
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2010.02.02
Up above, Jack, Miles, Hurley and Jin come over to the edge of the hatch-pit. Kate must be rinsing her face so her freckles will sparkle at Sawyer, or something. The guys look down at Sawyer and he carries Juliet out of the ur-pit, far below. It's the typical TV pieta pose which becomes less effective every time I see it. The mournful music plays. Kate, who wasn't off freshening her freckles after all, is right down at ground zero, next to Sawyer. Jack looks down on him with a mixture of pity, regret and possibly guilt. Sawyer glares at him and growls. "You did this." Jack swallows, hard. The music spins up and out and carries us to the...
Plane Reality: A couple of men bind Charlie's hands with zip cuffs. When they march him past Jack, Charlie says, "You should have let that happen, man. I was supposed to die." Jack is disturbed; he looks off, and lost in thought, when Cindy tells him not to take Charlie's lack of gratitude personally. "Some people just don't know how to say thanks." Jack nods and chuckles, but fails to say thanks. When he returns to his seat, Desmond is nowhere to be seen. When he asks Rose about him, she says she and Bernard were asleep. Just then the pilot, Captain Norris, breaks in over the P.A. system to announce they're approaching Los Angeles, where it's a beautiful day -- sunny and 72 degrees. "Six miles visibility and winds out of the southwest at five miles an hour." Rose looks over at Jack with a smile. "Buckle up. We're almost home." Just then, the Captain says he'll be putting the "fasten seatbelts" sign on, so Jack chuckles at Rose. When the Captain signs off with, "Thank you so much for flying Oceanic Air," it's...
Musical Montage Time: The usual sweet, slightly sad melody plays as Cindy walks down the aisle and wakes Sawyer with a gentle tap on the shoulder. Next, she wakes Hurley. Both guys raise their seats to the upright position and buckle up. Sayid pulls out his passport and looks at the picture of Nadia inside. He then turns his eyes toward the window with a quiet, hopeful look. Jin inspects the watch he's to deliver for Mr. Paik. Both he and Sun look so unhappy. Boone raises his tray and fastens his seatbelt. Frogurt takes off his sleeping mask. Locke yawns and shakes his head as if trying to wake up. Cindy happily takes her seat next to another flight attendant. Kate looks out the window in resignation. And we circle back round to Jack, who watches as the plane makes a picture perfect landing. Once it touches down, Sawyer nods. Jin and Sun look as though they're a million miles away. Kate watches as an attendant points two police officers in her general direction, but they're just there to get Charlie, who gives Jack a look more hateful than Sawyer was wearing during his Juliet-Pieta scene. One of the cops grabs Charlie's guitar case from the crew on their way off the plane. If I recall correctly, his guitar wasn't allowed on the plane, in the original flight. The rest of our people leave their seats thusly: Kate and Mars; Sayid; Frogurt (who steps over a still seated Locke); Damon Salvatore Boone (who shakes Locke's hand); Hurley; and Sawyer. We watch as random people and our beloved and be-hated regulars and recurrings deplane: Asian lady; Sayid; Tall blonde lady; Rose and Bernard; (Jack and Locke are still seated); Hurley; Asian lady, Sawyer; Asian man; Euro man; and blurry lady. Jack finally rises and puts on his jacket as two crew members bring a wheel chair down to Locke. Jack looks back, as he walks off the plane and he and Locke share an awkward, friendly smile. Locke's condition hits home with me as the crew loads him into the wheelchair. Jack walks off the plane, with Locke and his escort not too far behind. Fade to black.