Episode Report Card Daniel: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Dyno-mite!
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 10.11.2005
On the other side of the island, our heroes continue marching through the jungle with some of the other survivors. The woman in front of Michael stumbles, and he helps her, and she introduces herself as Libby. She asks how many of them there are on the other side of the island. "When we left, around forty," he says, and asks how many of them survived the crash. "Twenty-three," she says. End of the small talk.
At the back of the line, Otherbisi asks Sawyer if he's all right. "Now you give a damn," says Sawyer. Otherbisi says he said he was sorry, and that it was a misunderstanding. "A misunderstanding is when you bring me lemonade instead of iced tea," says Sawyer. Or a mint julep. Up ahead, Ana-Lucia snaps that she said "no talking!" "He was talking to me!" says Sawyer, which didn't work for anybody who used it for the last time back in Grade Four. Anyway, they're here, says Ana-Lucia, only there doesn't appear to be anything. Sawyer sarcastically asks if she's going to beam them up, and at some point I have to wonder if Sawyer actually enjoys getting beaned with rocks. Ana-Lucia ignores him, however, and pulls aside some brush to reveal an entrance, not surprisingly, much like Swan Station's. She knocks, and the door is opened from the inside by an older white gentleman, who, due to his skin colour, I'm going to state cannot possibly be Bernard.
They make their way down the stairs into a hatch-hole that structurally is similar to Swan station, but if Swan station had been abandoned and looted years ago. It's dark and empty, with a few people standing around a single light source. Michael looks terrified. "I thought you said there were twenty-three of you," he says to Libby, who quietly says, "There were." Jin and Sawyer exchange looks, because…Jin understands? And Michael makes his horrified face. Do you guys have any follow-up questions you might want to ask before we go to commercial? No? Not curious about anything? Okay then.
Sun's working in her garden when Shannon and Claire stroll up. Book club meeting already? No, Shannon and Claire look like something's wrong. Claire explains that she found something in the water; she told Shannon, and they decided Sun should know. Shannon hands over the bottle of messages. Sun doesn't say anything. "We thought you should decide what to do with it." Sun looks stricken.
Back in the hatch-hole, Locke's checking out the rifles (figures) when Hurley stomps up. "Why'd you tell Charlie, man?" "Because he asked, Hugo," is the reply. Hurley says Locke shouldn't have, and they shouldn't have gone down the hatch in the first place, like Hurley warned, because now everything's changed. Locke tries saying that change is good, but Hurley says people always say that even though it isn't true. And now he has to be the bad guy who won't give peanut butter to the "cute blonde" and her "poor island baby." So his decision is that he's not going to do the job, because he doesn't want to, prompting an old geezer lecture from Locke about how he's had lots of jobs that he didn't want to do but he still did them. "You don't get to quit," he says. "Okay then," says Hurley, sounding like someone who's come up with a better idea.