Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 1374 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Live Alone; Die Together
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2009.05.13
Four-Toes Beach; Nighttime; 2007: Richard tries to encourage Locke to wait and let Jacob come to him, but Locke's tired of waiting and demands to know where Jacob is. Richard picks up a lit torch, and walks off. Locke follows him and we cut to Ben who's trying to recapture his Zen, on the beach. I think you left it alongside your innocence -- in the Temple years ago, Ben. Sun asks him what happened to the statue and when Ben says he doesn't know, "It was like that when I got here." Sun says, "Do you expect me to believe that?" Ben almost smiles. "Not really." Locke calls to Ben and tells him to follow along. Tamed, maybe even broken, Ben quietly complies until Richard stops them and wonders what they're doing. Ben says, "John wants me to join him." Richard says, "You can't bring him in." Locke says, "Why not?" Richard explains that only the leader can request an audience with Jacob and there's only one leader on the island at a time. Locke insists Ben come along and says he'll work things out with Jacob if he takes issue. Richard hands his torch to Locke, finds the right stone on the statue's base, and pushes until he gets it ajar. He tells Locke, "Tell him I said hello," and leaves him and Ben to their business. Inside the statue, Ben walks ahead of Locke and takes in the whole scene. Locke asks Ben if he'll be able to do this. "I know it won't be easy, but things will change once he's gone. I promise." He hands Ben his knife, and Ben removes it from the sheath and we cut to...Commercial.
Island; This Place Is Sayid's Death; 1977: Jin piles cloth after cloth atop Sayid's wound, and it is just me, or did the wound move? Poor Jin. Poor Sayid. Too bad there isn't a doctor any closer than THE OTHER FRICKING SIDE OF THE VAN! Yeah, the slider is open and Juliet is sitting right there on the van floor, with her legs dangling out the door. Miles walks up to her, Sawyer and Hurley and Kate, who also find the side of the van more compelling than the dying Sayid, and says, "Can I ask you something, LaFleur?" Sawyer says, "There's ain't no more LaFleur, Enos. Go ahead, shoot." Miles says the words I've been wondering the whole episode. "Has it occurred to any of you that your buddy's going to cause the thing he's trying to prevent?" Everyone sort of looks at each other, and I laugh and laugh and laugh. Miles ignores me and says, "Perhaps that little nuke is the incident, so maybe the best thing to do..." Miles employees his jazz hands for emphasis. "...Is nothing?" Sawyer looks again at Juliet. Hurley looks down. Miles realizes how far gone these people are, and says, "Well, I'm glad you all thought this through." As he starts to walk away from them, they hear a Jeep down below and Jin realizes it's speeding toward the Swan site. Kate says, "If they see Jack, they're going to kill him." Sawyer looks at Juliet and says, "What do you think, Blondie?" Juliet considers for a moment, then says, "Live together; die alone," and we cut to...