Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 2997 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Namaste Or Nama-Go Now?
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 9 | Aired on 2009.03.18
The North Point: Kate wants to know if the woman who told them how to get back explained that they'd be going back in time 30 years. Jack's all, "Um, no, she forgot to mention that." Kate asks what they should do, now. Jack's not sure yet, and he's saved from improvising by Hurley's announcement that Sawyer has returned. Sawyer gives them all some period garb and tells them they are going to pose as new recruits who just came in on the sub. Jack wants to find the other Returnees from the plane, but Sawyer says there's no time, because there isn't another new batch of recruits due for six months, which is a long time to sleep out in the jungle. Jack asks Kate and Hurley what they think. They vote for listening to Sawyer (and Hurley votes for not camping), so Sawyer tells them to just do what he says and everything will be fine. I wouldn't respond well to that. I'm just saying. Anyhow, we cut to...
The Flame: Radzinsky says he just heard back from the last station to report -- The Looking Glass -- and they've got nothing but an incoming sub. He tries to shoo Jin back to the barracks when the computer starts beeping. Radzinsky finds the cause: someone tripped a motion sensor alarm in Grid 325. "We've got a hostile inside the perimeter." Jin takes off like a bat out of Hell, and Radzinsky rushes after him, but he does take time to close the station door, which strikes me as sort of darling, even though I hate him. Jin reaches the "hostile" first, but it's not Sun. It's Sayid! He's still cuffed, but is chuffed to see Jin. Jin immediately asks where Sun is. Sayid says he doesn't know, but before he can explain any further, Radzinsky reaches them. Aware of his presence, Jin completely changes his tone toward Sayid, and trains his rifle on him. "Shut up! Say another word, and you're dead." Sheesh, Jin. Do they not wink in your culture? Poor Sayid. Commercial.
VW Bus: Sawyer, Hurley, Jack and Kate head back toward the barracks. Hurley double-checks that it's really 1977 and that Jin and Sawyer are really part of the Dharma Initiative now, and then reminds Sawyer that the D.I. all got wiped out; he saw the pit o'corpses. He asks Sawyer if he shouldn't warn them about their impending demise. As boss man, Sawyer doesn't like being questioned any more than when he was the town heckler. "I ain't here to play Nostradamus to these people." James, do you realize Jin's English is better than yours? He's not listening. He's still explaining the ground rules to Hurley. "Besides, Faraday's got some interesting theories on what we can and can't do here." Jack says, "Did you say Faraday? He's here?" Sawyer looks back then returns his eyes to the road (which is really just grass) and says, "Not anymore." As Zach Oat so eloquently put it in my recaplet, that probably means Daniel has gone "cray-cray." And we cut to...