Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 5820 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2010.05.23
Sideways; Flightline Motel: Hugo Reyes and Sayid Jarrah cruise up in the yellow Hummer. About that: wasn't it just last season that Island-Hurley used an environmentalist guilt-trip on Miles to get him to carpool up to the Swan site? Sayid still has no recollection of Hugo, and begins to go on at length about that fact, but Hugo Whatevers him as he removes a tranq gun from the glove compartment. "None of this is ringing a bell, is it? You, me -- tranquilizer gun?" Sayid's eyes light up. "You are insane." Oh pot, you should have seen yourself over on the other burner. Hugo's fine with that, he just wants Sayid to wait in the car. Sayid: "What if I don't?" Hugo: Then...that's your choice, but if you stick with me, you'll be happy you did." Have a cluckity-cluck-cluck day.
Hugo knocks on a motel room door (either 702 or 102, the top of the number is cut off -- why am I still bothering with numbers?). It's answered by CHARLIE! Okay, right now, he's just Charlie, because he's not only trashed, but also extra-surly, like he was back in the days when I was actively praying for his death. His eyeliner, though, is guaranteed to make the tinhats squeal with delight. It doesn't matter how grumpy Charlie is, Hugo is so gleeful he can barely speak without laughing. This is the first time I cry.
Hugo tells Charlie he's there to pick him up for the concert, but Charlie compares him to Widmore's "other monkey" and insists he's not going. When he turns away, Hugo shoots him in the back with the tranq gun and an "Okay dude, sorry about this." He then slings Charlie over his shoulder and drops him unceremoniously in the back of the gas guzzler. Sayid: "What was that?" Hugo: "That was Charlie."
Islandways: As Kate, Jack and Hurley trek across the island, Kate asks why Jack took the job. Jack says he's supposed to. "The island's all I've got left. It's the only thing in my life I haven't managed to ruin." Kate stops in front of him. "You haven't ruined anything. Nothing is irreversible." Oh man, Jack carries that memory with him to...er...the Sideways. This is the second time I cry, but then Hurley saves me. "This would be so sweet, if we weren't all about to die." Hee! Jack can't help but grin at that, but Kate's unamused by the possibility that her gentleman caller list may soon be halved. They move onward and upward.