Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 1366 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Live Alone; Die Together
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2009.05.13
A chain is drawn to the hatch, but on its way, it snags itself a Juliet -- right around her slender waist. Kate rushes from Jack to Juliet's rescue and pulls on the chain with all her might, but the magnetism is too strong. Sawyer calls out Juliet's name and runs over to her, snagging her hand right as she loses her grip on whatever she grabbed to stop herself from plummeting down the hatch. "Where do you think you're going, Blondie?" He yells for Kate to get Juliet's chains off, and reassures Juliet that he's got her. Kate can't reach Juliet's chains. Whatever she and Sawyer are leaning on then starts to fall. Juliet's crying and frightened to death. It's heartbreaking and I hate it and I hate her stupid red shirt. The struggle continues for quite some time with Sawyer sternly telling Juliet, "I got you. Don't you leave me. Don't you leave me!" She tells him, "It's okay." Sawyer cries, "No. You don't let go." Juliet says, "I love you, James." He yells, "No." She says, "I love you so much." Sawyer screams, "No, no," and Juliet's hand slips from his. We watch her fall until she's out of our sight and then Sawyer cries as he seems to will her to come back to him. When he realizes she's gone, he gasps and sobs like a baby. I immediately restore all love points and hand out some bonus points, but it can't help him, not right now.
Four-Toes Beach; 2007: Richard joins Sun on a rock and offers her some water. She says, "Do you have any alcohol." Richard says, "No. I sure wish I did," and swigs from the canteen. From the distance, Ilana, Bram, Sayid, and the what's-in-the-box-box approach. Their torchlight gives them away and Locke's people grab their weapons and train them on the interlopers. Ilana raises her hands and says, "Don't shoot." She and her crew lay their weapons on the beach and she asks, "Which one of you is Ricardus?" Richard approaches her and says, "It's Richard, actually." Ilana's got a one-track mind, so she doesn't even seem to take in the pretty and gets right to her now well-worn point. "What lies in the shadow of the statue?" Richard pauses then says, "Ille qui nos omnes servabit," which means He who will protect/save us all. Ilana and Bram let out a big breath; she introduces herself, and says she has something Richard needs to see. When she tells her crew to, "Open it up," Locke's people all cock their weapons, but Richard talks them down. Frank just stands there, when you think he'd give Sun a heads up, or something. The crew takes the lid off the what's-in-the-box-box, and they tip it on its side. The camera takes its sweet time panning over the side of the crate to reveal the lifeless form of a man, but THEY DON'T SHOW US HIS FACE. I mean, I think we've all figured it out now, but still. SHOW US HIS FACE, DAMMIT. Richard stammers. "Wh-where did you find him?" Ilana says, "In the cargo hold of the plane we came here on." The music spins up and out and we cut from Richard and Sun looking down at the body, and just as we FINALLLY see that it's John Locke, Ilana adds, "In a coffin." We stare at dead Locke for a moment, and then Sun says, "I don't understand. If this is Locke, who's in there?" The camera pans to Four-Toes and Ilana's eyes widen. Richard looks back down at Locke as do we, at least until we cut to...