Episode Report Card Daniel: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Good…bad…Ana's the one with the gun
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.22.2005
Back on Craphole Island, Sayid says, "What happened to him?" Did he miss the flashback? Ana-Lucia says McCormack was never found. She gets up and picks up the makeshift machete stuck in the ground. As the music builds, she walks up to Sayid. OH MY GOD SHE'S TOTALLY GOING TO KILL HIM. She swings the machete and…cuts the rope holding him to the tree. Maybe Michael gave her tips on freeing someone in the riskiest and scariest way possible. Then she drops the knife and the gun in front of Sayid. "Go ahead," she says, telling him to pick up the gun. "I deserve it." He grabs the gun and scrambles to his feet. "What good would it be to kill you, if we're both already dead?" Oh look, here comes my lunch back up. I sincerely hope this is a fantasy sequence involving Sayid and Ana-Lucia on Hokey Dialogue Island. No? It's the real deal? He walks over to Shannon's body (he no longer has the gun in his hands), gathers her into his arms, and starts sobbing. Ana-Lucia turns away.
Sawyer's on his bunk, struggling and convulsing, while Kate looks over him. "Hey, can you hear me? You're gonna be okay. You're gonna be all right," she says, stroking his face. "You're home." Sawyer mutters something about the other guys laughing at him for not making People's sexy list. "Even Dominic made it," he whispers, and rolls over.
And now: I will NEVER get tired of this. I hope someday a network produces a show called Extended Dialogue-Free Slow-Motion Musical Montage, and I will step over my own grandmother to recap that show.
Michael strolls up the beach. Vincent sees him and runs over, tongue flapping the breeze. That response right there is why people love their dogs, you know; I can have the shittiest day at the office, and all it takes to make me smile is my dog wagging her tail when she sees me. Of course, there's a huge difference between "shitty day at the office" and "my son got kidnapped by scruffy pirates," so maybe there are some things a dog can't fix. Still, Michael pats Vincent, who either has a secret stash of boar somewhere or just needs to lay off the kibble.
Charlie's got his guitar and is strumming away, presumably working on the next Driveshaft album, when he sees Jin come out of the woods, followed by Bernard and Libby. He runs over. We see Rose notice the commotion. We see Sun doing laundry. Jin and Charlie hug, and they're soon surrounded by other Lostaways all thrilled to see him. And there's Bernard making his way through the crush of people and he sees Rose, her face breaking into a smile that, I have to admit, is giving me a twinge in the ol' tear ducts. She's touching his ring, still on a chain around her neck, and they hug, and they really need to cut away soon before I completely lose it. Hey, guys, Sayid has this totally swingin' pad that he's not going to be needing anymore…