Episode Report Card Daniel: A- | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The hand that Lockes the cradle
By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 18 | Aired on March 1, 2005
Back on the beach, Sawyer's reading A Wrinkle In Time right by the raft construction site, and Mercutio's doing some hammering, much to Sawyer's annoyance, and he says so. "I'm sorry, is my building a raft to get us rescued bothering you?" asks Mercutio sarcastically, and Sawyer gripes that it is. Walt wants to know why Sawyer isn't helping. Sawyer calls him "Short Round" and says he's "watching for arsonists," but it's certainly a good question Walt raises, and you'd think that if Sawyer wasn't going to help, then he'd be elsewhere reading, if for no other reason than the sound of the raft-building seems to bother him. Mercutio's in the middle of siding with Walt when one of the other...stick bundles or whatever falls apart, which sets off an argument between Jin and Mercutio, because Mercutio thinks Jin didn't do it right, and Jin because, well, Jin I imagine has a problem being yelled at in a language he doesn't understand, especially when it's for having problems doing something as a result of getting instructions in a language HE DOESN'T UNDERSTAND.
Kate Beckinsale and Sun are down the beach watching the proceedings, and Sun says that Jin's never going to speak to her again. "He just needs time," says Kate, but she likes to shoot the men she loves, so what does she know? Sun thinks he'll need more than time: "I humiliated him," she says. So, an apology then? Just a thought. Kate has no answer, given that she's not holding a gun at the moment. "When the raft sails, do you think he's going to leave with them?" asks Sun, like how the hell Kate would have any clue I have no idea. Kate just says she doesn't know.