Episode Report Card Daniel: A- | 4 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT First Do Not That Much Harm
By Daniel | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2006.11.08
Up in the observation room, Danny starts to head out, despite Zeke pointing out that Ben's in surgery. "Ben just put his life in the hands of one of them," snaps Danny, who heads out to the bear cages. Naturally, it's raining. Lost is only happy when it rains.
Kate sees him coming, with another Other, and frantically tries to wake up Sawyer. "Well, well, look who got out of her cage," says Danny, and I guess the guard duty roster needs to be updated if no one's done anything about this. Pickett says they should have run when they had the chance. "Come with me, James," says Danny, and Kate throws herself between the two of them, saying he doesn't have to do this. "He's coming with me and there's nothing you can do about it!" yells Danny.
In the operating room, Jack works away on Ben, now with a big hole in his back, while Juliet assists. Everything seems to be going swimmingly. Then, with Juliet's back turned, Jack picks up the scalpel, hesitates a moment, and then quickly makes an incision. Ben's heart-rate monitor immediately starts beeping twice as quickly. Juliet turns around, asks what happened. "His blood pressure's dropping," says one of the other nameless assistants. "Should he be bleeding like that?" "Nope," says Jack, almost cheerfully, and then slugs the guy in the face. He goes down, and doesn't get up. Jack orders Juliet to step back from the table. She stares at him, and looks over at a stunned Zeke, who is now the only one in the observation room. Juliet stands back. Jack tells Zeke that he's just made a small incision in Ben's kidney sac. "Now, if I don't stitch that back up in the next hour, he's dead. Now get in here, and bring that walkie-talkie!"
Thank god Sawyer has finally decided to fight back, only the struggle against the Others is really brief, what with them having guns and everything; Sawyer winds up pinning Pickett, who still has his gun, up against the bars, but the other Other has Kate covered. "You let go, or I do her too," says Pickett. Kate yells for Sawyer not to let go, but he does. Kate screams. And screams and screams and screams. Pickett marches Sawyer out of the cage, and makes him kneel on the ground. "Please! I'll do anything you want!" screams Kate "I want you to watch!" yells Pickett. Kinda kinky, but okay. "Close your eyes, Freckles," says Sawyer, and Kate yells at him to stand up. Sawyer defiantly holds his head up while Kate yells for him not to give up. "This is for Colleen, you son of a bitch," says Danny. This show could have impressed me and made up for a lot by killing Sawyer here. Not because I don't like him, because I do, but because there was not a moment I believed they actually would. Instead, I spent the whole time waiting for Pickett's walkie-talkie to go off, which it does, with Zeke asking if Danny's anywhere near the cages. "Yeah, you could say that," says Pickett. Zeke tells him to give his walkie to Kate, and Pickett wants to know why the hell he'd do that. "Because if you don't, the doctor's going to let Ben die." Despite the friggin' monsoon pouring down, Pickett can hear the beeping over the walkie-talkie. "Just hand her the damn walkie, Danny!"