Episode Report Card Sobell: B+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Married people never talk anymore
By Sobell | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on February 22, 2005
Back on the ship of fools, Shannon is showing Sayid the poles she's lashed down and asking him nervously, "I don't know...do you think this is going to hold?" Sayid replies, "Do you have a past in the Navy you've neglected to tell me about?" Oh, criminy. That's only slightly less cheesy than "I don't know. Let me hold you." Shannon grins nervously at his approval and asks him whatever makes him think that. Sayid replies, "How does a woman like you learn to tie a perfect Bolin knot?" "You'd be amazed what skills you pick up when you intern at a dominatrix's," Shannon says casually. Oh, she does not. I went for the low-hanging fruit there -- we could all see it. I just did something about it. Shannon learned how to tie the knot because she dated a lot of guys with sailboats. Sayid looks bothered by this, but recovers with, "Since you bring it up, I've been worried since I first met you that you might end up being a spinster." Shannon grins with the confidence of someone who's looking at her next boyfriend and says, "Spending my Saturday nights at home alone, tying knots?" "Perhaps with an overweight aunt," Sayid adds gravely. Shannon laughs, and Sayid insists, "It's a very sad image." And a somewhat baffling one, because if the primary criteria for spinster company on this island is weight, Hurley's about to become an aunt. Shannon suggests, "Maybe we should get some rope, spend a Saturday night alone together, and see what happens." Sayid's imagination takes over at that point, using up all the processing power normally assigned to speech. He just gapes before grinning.