Episode Report Card Daniel: A- | 566 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Desmond's got a gun
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 1 | Aired on 2005.09.21
And then everyone's distracted by Locke, who all don't-mind-me making sure everyone notices him gathering cable. Jack wants to know what he's doing, and Locke says, "It's for the hatch. I'm going in." Oh, this will not do, decides Jack, who stomps over to speak a little more privately in front of the Others bait. "Do you really think that's the smartest thing to do right now, John?" he says. He's tres pissed. John sarcastically says that the safest thing is probably to stay there and wait for the Others to show up, wait for the "brave folks on the raft to bring help." Shot of Sun looking forlorn. There's something different about her this season, like a weight change or something that I can't quite put my finger on. "But me? I'm tired of waiting," says Locke, and stomps through the group of people that he didn't appear to have to stomp through on his way to get the cable in the first place. Everyone watches him go. Kate looks back at Jack with a look that says, "Your turn. I already tried to talk to him."
Hey, looks like Dr. Phil cured racism! Awesome!
Jack is giving the Thousand-Yard Stare of Impending Flashback, but instead we get Kate wanting to know if he really believes that everything's going to be okay, and Jack says he does, and Kate says that's a new one from him, being a glass-half-full kind of guy, and how nice this episode has been for Jack with everyone telling him what a humourless cowardly prig he is. And she says it's a good thing, him lying to everyone, or as she puts it, giving them someone to count on, and Jack is clearly thinking to himself, "Yes, she's right. I am a good man." Here's the thing, though: Kate's going with Locke. Jack's surprised. "I understand why you can't go," she says. "They need you here. I get it, I do..." She points out that Locke will be going into the hatch on his own, and if something happens to him, well…and I can't say I fault her reasoning. "Live together, die alone, right?" she says, and Jack chuckles and agrees, and he watches Kate walk away.