Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: C | 4 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT CJ Cregg Bested By Bai Ling
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 15 | Aired on 05.11.2010
CJ's Garden: The kids run back and tell CJ about the men and the boar. CJ is worried that her boys were spotted, but they're pretty sure they weren't. Jacob wonders of the men: "Where did they come from? They looked like us." CJ: "They're not like us. They don't belong here. We are here for a reason." And so it goes, this is how you get Others, Castaways, Hostiles, Survivors and so on. We were here first. It's our island. Don't cross that line. Don't tell me what I can't do. Same as it ever was. Esau wants to know their "reason" for being there -- their reason for being. CJ: "It's not time yet." Esau, clearly the favorite, gets stompy because he can get away with it: "Mother, what reason?" She strokes his cheek, and Jacob's shoulder, then tells the boys to come with her.
As CJ leads her now blindfolded boys through the jungle, they ask her questions which she answers as vaguely as possible. She knew about the other people, but she didn't tell them because the people are dangerous and she didn't want to frighten the kids. Jacob: "What makes them dangerous?" CJ: "The same thing that makes all men dangerous. They come; they fight; they destroy; they corrupt; and it always ends the same. Esau spots her lie and calls her on it, even as he memorizes her fabulous statement of misanthropy for future use. "They come? Come from where?" CJ fronts even better than Ben Linus. "Another part of the island, and you're never to go looking for them. If they found you they would hurt you." Jacob asks why. CJ: "Because they're people, Jacob, and that's what people do." Raise your hand if you'd rather be raised by an Anthony Cooper/Christian Shephard tag-team than by this hag? Thanks, Show. Thanks a lot. Women finally matter -- they finally matter, because it's their fault the men are all screwed up. [Spike: "Well, this is just...neat." Cindy: "Shut up, Spike." Spike: "What the bleeding Hell is wrong with you bloody women?" Cindy: "I said SHUT UP, SPIKE!"] Anyhow, Esau probes further: "But we're people. Does that mean we can hurt each other?" CJ removes their blindfolds. "I've made it so you can never hurt each other..." Yeah, just everyone else. This is Mommy's game. These are Mommy's rules. She then turns them 'round because she's ready to reveal her pink secrets.