Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 746 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 3 | Aired on 2009.01.28
At Rendezvous Creek, the commandos fish the RedDeadshirts out of the water, while Daniel, Charlotte, and Miles look on -- hands bound. Ellie's still waving her weapon around. She points it at Daniel and notes that while there were 20 strand-aways at the beach, there were only five (and now three) of them at the creek. She wants to know where the rest are. When Miles suggests that maybe they got blown up by some of the commandos' landmines, Ellie is not amused. "We didn't put them here. You did." She turns back to Daniel. "Once we leave here, I will be out of control of what happens to you. But if you cooperate now, things will go much easier for you. So where are the rest of your people?" Daniel shakes his head, and gives her a two-eyed-squint + disarming head tilt and says he doesn't know. If Charlotte weren't seeing double, she'd realize Ellie got twice the squinting she did, but she's too busy with her double-vision to notice.
Elsewhere on the island, Locke, Juliet, and Sawyer have two, still-living commandos they're dealing with -- even though it's broad daylight and they were ambushed in the middle of the night. One commando is Brit Boy from the last episode. His uniform name reads Jones (Jughead's last name), so that's what we'll call him. Locke comments that the commando's gun is a 30-caliber M1 Garand rifle, and that it looks new. The rifles were in service from the mid-1930s through the early 1960s, so I suspect Locke's trying to place himself in time. He's also trying to figure out who the commandos are, but Sawyer's not in the mood to humor his musings. Our three strand-aways go through the where have we been/when have we been spiel, with Locke taking point. Sawyer then asks what happened to Locke's leg. John tells him he got shot, but before he can say by whom (Ethan), Juliet interrupts to suggest they get moving to Rendezvous Creek to catch up with the rest of the strand-aways. Since they don't have any rope to tie up the commandos, Sawyer (half) jokingly suggests they shoot them. Jones and his comrade start speaking to one another in Latin. Juliet translates that Nameless Commando asked why the strand-aways weren't in uniform and Jones told him to shut up. Locke asks why they speak Latin and Juliet says, "The same reason I do." They're doctors? Nope. Juliet continues: "They're Others." And it's all very dramatic, which I know because they played the Hey Cindy This Is Dramatic, Isn't It music.