Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 1374 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Live Alone; Die Together
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 16 | Aired on 2009.05.13
Back to the accident, Nadia goes flying. Jacob touches Sayid on the shoulder. The hit and run driver gets to the running off part, and Sayid rushes to Nadia's side. The subtitles translate her final words. "Take me home. Take me home." We close in on their left hands -- adorned with wedding bans, and Nadia's blood. Sayid covers her dead hand with his deadly one, and we jump to...
Tunnels; 1977: Sayid wraps the Jughead's core in a canvas carrier that seems custom made for the job. Clearly, they found it stuffed in the back of Daniel's journal, right? He, Jack, Richard and Ellie make their way to just the right spot in just the right tunnel, that has just the right rock -- a triangular one -- which Richard smashes with a sledge hammer that just happens to be lying around. On the other side of the wall is the inside of a Dharma House. Jack's ready to lead, but Ellie reminds him she's in charge and she'll go first. Jack might hesitate to kill anyone who got in the way, whereas Ellie always shoots first and asks questions later, even when her victim is her OWN FLESH AND BLOOD! < /still bitter> While she's still wearing her bossy pants, Richard grabs Ellie from behind (stop it) and knocks her out with his butt -- the butt of his weapon, that is. Jack's all what they hey, man? Richard has to protect his leader at all costs. They've helped Jack and Sayid enough. Now Richard's taking Ellie out the way they came in and Jack and Sayid are on their own.
Our dashing duo enters the Dharma house, proper. We can see a Jenny Lind crib in one room, so my money says this is Horace and Amy's house. Of course, I've already watched the whole episode, but I spotted the crib the first time. Just sayin'... Outside in Dharmaville an alarm continues to sound and someone barks orders over the P.A. system. To get out of the house and over to the Swan, Sayid snags one of Horace's jumpsuits, because he looks just like him, don't you think? They make it about halfway across the quad when we see Phil and I'm sure he's going to recognize them, but no! It's waste-of-breath Roger Linus who spots them, and since he knows Sayid is the man who shot his son, he's ready to return the favor. Sayid is carrying a nuclear frickin' device, so he kindly tries to warn Roger off, but Roger's reflexes are crap after spending the last dozen years in an alcoholic haze, so he shoots, and although he misses the weapon, he gets Sayid somewhere in the gut area. Gut wounds are never good, especially on TV, when the only guy handy who can even stand you is a spinal surgeon without all his operating gadgets on him. Speaking of -- Jack takes aim at Roger, fire and misses, so he fires again and misses and fires willy nilly and still misses everyone, it seems. This is So Not Jack's Day. A whole bunch of people take aim at Jack as he helps Sayid to his feet. They too fire and miss. It's not their day, either. Jack and Sayid hide behind a cabin so Jack can reload his weapon. Things look grim for them (especially Sayid), but they're saved by Hurley, Miles, Jin and a Dharma blue VW bus. They cut to commercial so I can exhale.