Episode Report Card LTG: A- | 10 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Can't Keep A Dead Hobbit Down
By LTG | Season 4 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2008.01.31
Sayid's band of happy warriors is trekking through the jungle. It's night, but they planned ahead and brought torches with them. Hurley is falling behind a bit, and Sawyer drops back to ask him if he's okay. It turns out that Sawyer's offering to talk to Hurley about the death of his closest friend on the island, but Hurley would rather not. His uncharacteristic empathy rejected, Sawyer rejoins the others at the front of the pack. And then Hurley stops for a second and completely loses sight of everyone. He starts hollering for the others, but nobody responds. A wind picks up, and we get lots of confusing cuts that are intended to tell us that Hurley is well and truly lost. And then he sees a cabin in a clearing ahead of him. Although the "Welcome to Jacob's Cabin" sign seems to have gone missing, you can tell that's what it is from the ominous whispering and the creepy glow coming from the window. Commercials.
In the jungle, Rousseau tells Jack (who has Ben trailing behind him on a leash) that Naomi's trail of blood has ended. Jack thinks this might mean Naomi just stopped bleeding. Since she apparently recovered from death and walked away with a knife in her back, that's not such a bad suggestion. But what it really means is that this was a false trail all along, just like Kate suggested. Ben: "Better call the boat and tell them she's getting a really big bundle of firewood." His continuing ability to be a bitch in the face of adversity is awe-inspiring. Jack reaches for the phone and discovers that he doesn't actually have it. He pretty quickly realizes that Ben knows something; what he knows is that Kate palmed the phone when she hugged Jack. Ben: "But look on the bright side. At least somebody around here knows what the hell they're doing." He shuts up before Rousseau clocks him again.
And now we cut to Kate, tracking Naomi's blood splatters. And then the phone rings. The call is coming from inside your pants! She answers the phone, but when the person on the other end asks where Naomi is, she hangs up too. Three months on this island and everybody has forgotten their phone etiquette. I hate to think what their emails are going to look like when they get back to civilization. And then some blood drips on Kate. She realizes that Naomi must be in the tree above her, just as Naomi decides this would be a good time to drop in on Kate. She holds a knife to Kate's throat and demands the phone. At least Locke left Naomi with a weapon she could use; she'd better not say he never did anything for her. Kate tries to explain that the person who threw the knife in Naomi's back was a total lunatic who they all hate, and then the phone rings again. Kate gives her the phone, and she answers it. And then she proceeds to cover for the Lostaways, claiming that she was injured in the original parachute jump onto the island and that the Lostaways were just lying about her whereabouts until she had a chance to explain her injuries herself. And she fixes the phone so the boat people can get a fix on their location. Kate notices that the massive wound on Naomi's back is still bleeding. Naomi asks George (the boat man on the phone) to tell her sister that she loved her. Who's her sister, I wonder? And then she drops the phone. And drops dead, I think.