Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 641 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT I'm So Dizzy My Head Is Spinnin'
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2009.05.06
Their sweet-nothings are interrupted by Ellie. She asks Jack about the man she shot and why he needed the bomb. Jack's all, Lady, it's way too crazy; you'd never believe me. Since bizarre confessions are the island's secret handshake, Ellie spills her own crazy about how when she was 17, she took Daniel to the bomb, he told her to bury it, then he disappeared before her eyes, and now 23 years later, even though the man hasn't aged a day, she's shot him in the back, and listened as he claimed with his dying breath to be her son. She shows Jack the journal and wonders how the inscription is in her hand-writing even though she doesn't remember writing it. Jack explains that she hasn't written it yet, and that killing Daniel was an accident, but there's a way for her to take it all back. "If we do what's written in that journal, none of this will have happened." Ellie asks Kate if Jack knows what he's talking about. Kate frowns. "He thinks he does." Jack tries not to laugh at her, when her faint praise doesn't damn him in Ellie's eyes, but instead convinces Ellie. She'll take them to where the bomb is buried. The only problem is that Dharmaville is sitting right on top if it, these days. Huh. I wonder if that's why none of the modern-day Others can have babies, there. Jack has to disabuse Ellie of the notion that he and Kate have a viable cover with the Dharma Initiative, so the musical director helps him out. Bah bah bah bah Bah Bah BAH! And we cut to...
Dharmaville Security Barracks: The Radzinsky Beast is roughing up Sawyer in an attempt to get him to tell them where Kate is, now. Horace tries to interject some Hippie Love with a side order of "I'm still the man," but he's totally not. Phil joins in, because he's still holding a grudge against Sawyer for punching him out and locking him in the closet. Some people are so touchy. He rolls Sawyer's chair over to the security monitors playing the tape of Kate and Sawyer taking wee Ben out to Camp Richard. The Radzinsky Beast says, "Last chance. You tell me where she is, or so help me God, I will kill you." Commercial.
Juliet watches in tears as Radzinsky tries to beat a confession out of Sawyer. She yells for them to stop, and Radzinsky demands that she tell him what they want to know. Sawyer hushes Juliet. "Whatever you tell 'em, they ain't gonna believe you. It's only going to get more people hurt." Horace again tries to stop the beatings, saying Sawyer will never talk, but Phil says, "I can make him talk." The Radzinsky Beast gives him the floor, so Phil slowly walks up and smacks Juliet right across the face, bloodying her lip. Even the Radzinsky Beast looks a little appalled. Horace tries to quiet Sawyer who, naturally, is yelling, "Son of a BITCH!" He promises to kill Phil before they're interrupted by a lesser Dharma-Goon who brings the sub's manifest from last week, and notes that Jack, Kate and Hurley were all last minute add-ons. While the Radzinsky Beast knows Jack and Kate because they shot at him, he's not familiar with Hurley's name, so Phil sneers. "He's the fat guy," which kills off any remaining sympathy we might have considered setting aside for Phil. Island Rule #257: Good people describe Hurley as big and curly haired. Bad people think he's just the fat guy. And your recapper describes Hurley as LOVE. Because he totally is. Speaking of Hurley, we cut to...