Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT I Will Be Your Father Issues
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 13 | Aired on 04.15.2009
As Hurley climbs up front, he wonders what they're building and "what's with all the secrecy?" Miles says he neither knows nor cares, yet he doesn't drive off in a hurry. One construction worker asks another, "Hey Glen, what's the serial number that goes on the hatch lid?" Glen reads out the numbers from a list as the first guy stamps them into the lid: "4, 8... 15, 16, 23..." He can't make out the last number; it's smudged. Hurley, quietly, so that only Miles can hear him, says, "42." Glen says, "42," and the worker completes the last stamp. Miles says, "How the hell did you know that?" Hurley says, "'Cause they're building our hatch." Miles asks what hatch he means. Hurley says, "The one that crashed our plane." Dun.
Mainland; Nighttime; 2004ish: Miles leaves La Vida Tacos with a Styrofoam container containing... I'm going to go out on a limb and say a soft-shell taco of some sort. Styrofoam?! He needs Hurley. He's not thinking about the environment. At all. As he makes his way past a hair salon, a van pulls up and Bram (the meathead with Ilana when she brained our poor Frank) calls out the passenger window, "Hey, Miles." Miles says, "Do I know you?" and two masked, hooded men jump out of the back, and grab Miles, knocking his food and that nasty Styrofoam container to the ground. That's not biodegradable, you goons. Also, do not harm the Miles. I love him. They slam the door and the van screeches off. Bram turns around, introduces himself and does a little three-fingered wave, which makes no sense, but sort of makes me reevaluate my "meathead" assessment of Bram. Miles snarks because he is, and is because he snarks, so his only response to all of this is, "You owe me a fish taco." That sounds dirty, Miles. I'm sorry, but it does.
Bram apologizes for all the kidnapping, like you do, and explains it by saying Miles' apartment is being watched. "And we had to try our best to talk you out of working for Charles Widmore." When Miles says he doesn't know who that is (which is at least a little bit of a lie, assuming he remembers his "conversation" with Felix's corpse). "He's the man who chartered the boat you'll be getting on next week. And, my friend, you do not want to get on that boat." Huh. Interesting choice of words there, my friend. Who are you working for, Meathead -- Ben? Ellie? Dharma? Ellie and Dharma? Do Caesar and Bram and/or Ilana know one another? Was Caesar's whole, "Lady, wake up," thing just an act? Do Ben and Ilana know each other? Was their scene a big misdirect? Only (that which lies in) the Shadow (of the statue) knows for sure.
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