Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 3515 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Ben, The Two Of Us Need Look No More
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 10 | Aired on 2009.03.25
Ajira Flight 316: Sayid peers through the space between his seat and Ilana's to get a look at Sun, then rights himself in his chair. Worry written all over his face. Ilana apologizes for the handcuffs, then adds, "But at least we're in business." Oh yes, he must be so relieved to be even closer to whatever awaits him in "Guam." Ben makes his last minute, breathy entry onto the flight, with his sling, and his cuts, which he SO DIDN'T GET WHILE KILLING PENNY, DO YOU HEAR ME! He and Sayid have a slo-motion stare-down as Ben passes his row. We hear Hurley freak out that Ben's on the plane, and then Sayid gets right in Ilana's face and asks her if she's working for "Benjamin Linus." Her, "What?" seems sincere enough, but Sayid's hyper-vigilant, now and growls, "Are you working for him?" She asks, "Who's Benjamin Linus," but there's no way Sayid can give an answer to that with only a minute or two left in this episode, right. Sayid snarls at her. "He's a liar. A manipulator. A man who allowed his own daughter to be murdered to save himself. A monster responsible for nothing short of genocide." Oh, I guess he did answer it, with time to spare, even. Ilana asks why she'd work for someone like that. Oh, snap! Sayid looks away from her and says, "I did." And we jump to...
The Island; Sayid's Cell; 1977: Ben lets Sayid out of his cell and they take off through the jungle while the rest of the Dharma Initiative is preoccupied with the big fire, which is just how wee Ben must have planned. What he lacks in lying, he more than makes up for in strategy. As they run through the verge, Ben falls. As Sayid stops to help him, a Dharma VW Bus comes cruising down the road. Why were they running so close to the road? I know it is night and all, but still. The bus stops and Sayid freezes and shushes Ben. It's Jin! Sayid is so relieved; he walks to the road and calls to him. Jin asks how Sayid got out of his cell and what he's doing there. Sayid says that Sawyer let him out (lie) because they were going to kill him (truth). Just then, a call comes in over Jin's radio, announcing that the prisoner/hostile has escaped. Sayid tells Jin that they don't know Sawyer released him. "Please, Jin. I have to keep moving." Jin says, "Okay, let me talk to him, first." When he calls "LaFleur" on his radio, Sayid flips Jin over and knocks him out. Ben is impressed. "Whoa! Where'd you learn to do that?" As Ben reminds Sayid that they'd better go, Sayid takes Jin's gun. Ben walks off while Sayid continues to crouch over an unconscious Jin. When Ben tries to get Sayid back on task, Sayid says, "You were right about me." Ben's all "What?" because that hasn't happened yet. Sayid adds, "I am a killer." He looks up from Jin, takes aim and fires. At Ben, who takes his sweet time falling to his knees and then flat on his face. Sayid cries into his sleeve, then rises and walks right past Ben's corpse (or you know, on this show "corpse") and the breaks off into a run, into the night, into the darkness. Chicken! DUN!