Episode Report Card LuluBates: B+ | 4 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Paging Dr. Freud
By LuluBates | Season 3 | Episode 19 | Aired on May 1, 2007
Aw, you know who the boys trust? Sayid! Yay, Sayid! When Hurley finds him, Sayid is out in the jungle digging a hole for no apparent reason at all. I guess being on a deserted Island gets pretty darn boring after awhile. Hurley watches him for a second until Sayid gets uncomfortable and turns to look at him. Hurley asks if he can keep a secret. Cut to Hurley bringing Sayid to the tent where the pilot is hidden. He asks Charlie, who's standing guard, if it's true they haven't told Jack, er, jack. Charlie confirms it, and Sayid enters the tent. He and Desmond nod at each other. Sayid introduces himself to the pilot and says, "I understand your helicopter crashed on the island." The pilot replies, "No, I crashed in the water." Um, lady? Is this really the time for semantics? Sayid is gracious enough to ignore this and continue his questioning. He finds out that the pilot's name is Naomi, that she took off from a freighter, and that she is part of a search-and-recovery team. He says that he knows she told his friends that the wreckage of Flight 815 was found, but he wants to know if she meant the partial wreckage? No, she did not! They found the entire plane in a trench near Bali. Camera-equipped robots were sent in, and all the bodies were on board. Sayid smiles and says, "Well, we are obviously not dead." Naomi smiles and replies, "Obviously." A giant Anvil of Foreshadowing smashes through my skylight. Oh well, damn thing leaked like it had the holes in this plot anyway.
Sayid asks who she was looking for if she wasn't looking for them. She was hired by Penelope to search for Desmond. Desmond has a big doofy grin on his face, because he's an ex-monk with a hot rich girlfriend who sent a search-and-rescue mission after him and Sayid isn't. Sayid rolls his eyes and asks if Naomi knew about the Island? She says she was given coordinates in the middle of the ocean and thought she was on a fool's errand -- until three days ago, when she was flying back to the ship, the clouds cleared, and she saw land. At the same time her dials started spinning, she realized she was going down, and she bailed from the 'copter. Sayid, being the smart one who may have learned something from their time with "Henry the Parachuter," turns to Desmond to ask if he actually saw her helicopter. He did not. Sayid turns back to Naomi and says, "I assume you have no means of communicating with that freighter of yours." Naomi looks offended and asks his name again. He says it is Sayid. She replies, "Remind me not to rescue you, Sayid," as she pulls a magic box out of her pants.