Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 5870 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
Islandways; Jungle: The storm is in high-gear now. The earthquakes come fast and furious. Ben, bless him, saves Hurley from a falling tree, only to be pinned under it, himself.
Glow Cave Exterior: Jack wakes and runs back in the still red cave, hollering down into the Tubeyhole for Desmond, but when he pulls on the rope, he realizes Desmond's no longer tethered to it. He exits, and takes off in the pouring rain.
Jungle: Sawyer, Hurley and Kate struggle to free Ben. When there's yet another earthquake, Kate asks what's happening. Sawyer: "I'll tell you what's happening. Locke was right. This island's going down." Just then, Miles makes contact with them on the walkie. Kate asks if he's with Claire. Over on Hydra, which is also being rocked with the quake, Miles says, "She's here, but she doesn't want to come with us." He then explains that Frank is trying to repair the plane so they can take off. When Miles asks how long he needs, Frank says five or six hours. Richard looks around at the crumbling island. "You've got maybe...one." Miles yells into the walkie: "Get your asses over here. We're leaving in an hour." Back in the main island jungle, Sawyer says his penultimate "Son of a bitch." And then: "How the hell are we supposed to get over there?" Ben: "I know how we can get there." I think he's going to bargain for his own rescue before telling them, but he comes right out with it. "Locke has a boat." Saving Hurley at your own expense and then speaking the truth without a beating? Bravo, Ben. Bravo.
Jacob's Cliff: Faucke stands on the cliff in the downpour. He's just about to descend Jacob's ladder and swim for the waiting Elizabeth, when Jack appears screaming, "LOCKE!" Instead of diving into the water and swimming for the boat, he draws his knife, again, and charges at Jack who has the high-ground advantage. Jack runs toward his assailant and does a Matrix-y leap right into...COMMERCIAL.
After the break, we get to see the leap from a different angle. It's far less Matrix-y and less cool, this time, but it sends both Jack and Faucke a-tumbling. I am not your action recapper, but Jack gets in a good punch, crotch-kick, and headlock, before Faucke dishes out any real punishment. The men end up on the ground. Poor John Locke, even when his corpse has been taken over by a Smoke Monster, he's a perpetual bottom. The knife goes flying somewhere in there. A wide shot during another earthquake reveals a chunk of the cliff crumbling into the ocean. As Jack chokes him, Faucke grabs his knife and stabs Jack right in the appendectomy scar, knocks him off, and straddles him. The wee Faucke who has been lurking under my couch for two seasons pops out. Who's a 'bottom' now? Since he's currently mortal, I pick him up, snap his wee neck and flush him down the toilet. Buh bye.