Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 763 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Your Mother's An Other?!
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 14 | Aired on 2009.04.29
Late '80s/Early '90s -- Who Can Tell; Off Island: A metronome keeps time as a young boy plays Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu (right after the 1:08 mark [yeah, no, really] you'll hear the part played on the show). And before my old Music Appreciation prof. tears his rotator cuff patting himself on the back, I'll note I only knew the song because in it, I could hear the melody from "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" and then Google and Wikipedia did the rest. His mother walks in, looking disturbed. She might even be sweating, and she's English, yo. She's Eloise Hawking, and he's wee Daniel Faraday. Daniel, genius that he is, notices his mother's in a tizzy and asks if she didn't like his playing. She loved it, but she wants to quiz him on his vocabulary work instead, I guess, because she asks him the definition of destiny. Even though his teeth are already in braces, he claims he doesn't know what destiny means. She figures if he's lying, she can, too, and says, "Destiny means that if one has a special gift, then it must be nurtured." She stops the metronome and asks him how many beats it counted since he started playing. Daniel says, "864." The wee Daniel who lives on my bookshelves pops out and says, "I'm an excellent driver." His mother's face is smug as she talks about how his gift is his mind, which is meant for science and math, and there's no time for music. Did you hear him play "Fantastie-Impromptu," Mum? Those aren't his only gifts, and they're likely linked, anyhow. Young Daniel says he'll "make time" ~~doo doo doo doo~~ but his mother says, "If only you could," and we jump to...
1977; Island: Jack wants to know what Daniel meant about his mother being wrong, but he's off to the Orchid with Miles as his chauffer. So, Jack goes to see Sawyer and tells him Faraday's back. Sawyer says he's a little busy, but Jack notes that it's 6:00 AM. Juliet, who is standing there dressed -- and therefore is not what Sawyer was busy with -- says, "James, tell him." So Sawyer tells him about punching Phil's lights out after he showed up with the tape of Sawyer and Kate squirreling wee Ben Linus past the pylons and out to Camp Richard. Oh, and shows him Phil tied up in the closet.