Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 1377 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Live Alone; Die Together
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2009.05.13
Sawyer grabs Phil while Chang disarms the Radzinsky Beast. Because Sawyer has him in a headlock with a gun pointed at his brain, Phil gives the order for the crew to drop their weapons. Once they have, Sawyer tells Jack he can come out, now. And damn it, the Radzinsky Beast isn't even unconscious. Sawyer's down 50 points, now. Kate comes out of the van when Jack appears. Sawyer tells Jack, "Hurry up and do your business." I hardly think this is the time for a trip to the little boys' room, James. Oh, you mean the business of making everything go 'splodey. Well, why the heck not. For good measure, Sawyer orders the workers to turn "that damned thing" (i.e. the drill) off. Chang does the honors and we hear the drill start to wind down and thank goodness, because I'm tense enough without all that extra noise.
Wait. It's still going. Chang yells that it won't shut down. Sawyer asks, "Why not?" Chang says, "Something's pulling the drill down." The Radzinsky Beast sneers, "We've hit the pocket!" Juliet and Kate stand guard as Jack removes the bomb from its spur-of-the-moment, custom-tailored pack. He pauses as he holds it over the hatch -- a fine spray of water baptizes his face, and Sawyer hollers at him to hurry up. Jack looks up at Kate, whose eyes are full of tears. She nods at him. Sawyer throws Phil down and then looks at Juliet, who smiles like she's starting to twig the fact that maybe he likes her a little. You crazy kids. Sawyer closes his eyes as if to say...something. It ought to be, "I'm sorry I didn't kill the Radzinsky Beast," but it's probably more like, "I've got your back, Blondie, but er...I don't know as that I'm all that much protection against this here nu-cu-lehr bomb." Speaking of, Jack lets the bomb fall. We watch it plummet for a moment, before the camera pans to our main characters. Sawyer lowers his head. Juliet cries, maybe joyfully, but cringes. Jack braces himself. Kate closes her eyes and lets the tears fall. They all grimace and brace as they wait for the explosion that seems to be taking forever to happen. Because it is taking forever. It's not happening. Finally, Sawyer breaks the silence. "This don't look like LAX."
The temperature gage has maxed out at 300 degrees. The other meters are still maxed out, too. Steam shoots from the hatch and then everything metal starts flying into it. At first, it's small stuff like Jack's gun and some hand tools. Chang presses the drill's off button repeatedly, but to no avail. Next the metal scaffolding starts getting sucked into the hatch. When it falls, it pins Dr. Chang's left hand. Miles yells, "Dad!" and runs to him. A wheelbarrow flies into the hatch -- then a toolbox, which hits Jack on the head and knocks him out -- on its way. Kate cries out his name and runs to him. Miles frees Chang and orders him to get as far away as he can. The Radzinsky Beast and a couple of Dharma guys hop in a Jeep and try to take off, but their Jeep's pulled toward the hatch, too. YES! When it tips on its side, the Radzinsky Beast is, unfortunately, thrown free. NO! A rifle starts sliding across the ground toward the hatch, but Phil stops it with his foot, picks it up, and aims at Sawyer, yelling, "Hey, LaFleur." Sawyer looks behind Phil and skedaddles away from the scaffolding that's about to pin Phil to the ground. It does, and then Phil is staked with a metal pole. Why couldn't that have happened with Radzinsky? Oh, right. You'd need wooden stakes or a silver bullet, or the like.