Episode Report Card Daniel: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT If you don't know Des by now, you will never, never, never know him.
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 23 | Aired on May 23, 2006
Meanwhile, Sayid's hit the shore, and he's stealthily making his way along the rocks towards the Others' village. He spies a hut with an open door, and creeps in, and enters. There's no one, nothing. Same with the next hut, and the next one. There's no sign of life anywhere. You know, whether this is a phony village or not, is this supposed to surprise Sayid? It wouldn't be much of an ambush if the Others just hung around their huts waiting for the Lostaways to invade their camp, now would it?
Sayid sees the rectangle-hatch doors, and slowly approaches. He throws open the door and points his rifle in -- but there's nothing there, just the rock face that this hatch entrance façade has been built into. This is not quite what Sayid expected, clearly, and he looks around all concerned.
So Jack, what was that plan of yours? Are we ever going to hear it? No? Thought not. Well, let's hope it works out for you. The five of them are traipsing by a clearing, and clearly not being too observant, because only Kate notices the GIANT PILE OF PLASTIC CANISTERS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE CLEARING. There's also the pneumatic tubing from Pearl station sticking out of the ground, which is where the canisters came from. And naturally, neither Locke nor Eko told anybody else about what they found, or else this might make a little more sense to them. And geez, how far does the tubing run from Pearl station anyway? I mean, I realize it couldn't just run straight up to the surface, because that'd kind of blow the secret for the poor bastards filling the notebooks, but damn. And where exactly are the pneumatics?
Kate opens one of the canisters, and flips through the notebook inside. "It's handwritten. It's all filled, the whole book. They're journal entries." Sawyer finds, folded on top, the map that Locke scribbled and put in the tub, and it didn't blow away or anything. He doesn't know what it is or anything, but still feels the need to show it to Jack. Meanwhile, Kate reads from one of the notebooks: "0400: S.R. moves ping-pong table again. 0415: Takes a shower." What is this?" Early morning hatch redecoration and 4 AM showers? What kind of madness was going on in Swan station?
Meanwhile, Sawyer's looking off in the distance, and he asks Jack what he said Sayid's signal would be "when the coast is clear to hit that beach party," like Sawyer can't ever talk normally not even once. We see, somewhere beyond some hills, the column of black smoke that would totally give the Lostaways away. And does this mean that Sawyer couldn't remember "black smoke" as a signal? Remind me never to go to war with Sawyer. "That's miles from here," grumps Jack, and he stomps over to Michael and asks, "Where were you taking us?" Michael pretends to have no idea what Jack's talking about, and Jack says, "Sayid said that he'd light the signal so that we could meet him at the shore. Why aren't we going to the beach?" Michael says they are. "We're nowhere near the beach!" yells Jack. "Look, I had to," says Michael, and Jack is all outraged that Michael apparently tricked them again, but Jesus, how goddamn stupid is Jack anyway?