Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT You Spin Me Right Round Baby
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 1 | Aired on 01.21.2009
Meanwhile, it's nighttime for Sawyer, Juliet, Charlotte, Miles, and Daniel -- and they gaze into the abyss -- that is -- into the crater which contains the remains of the hatch. In answer to Miles' question, Juliet explains that they're looking at what was once a Dharma station, where a man named Desmond lived and pushed a button every 108 minutes in order to save the world. Yep it still sounds crazy, and not just to us, Sawyer and Juliet, but to Charlotte and Miles as well. Daniel doesn't get in the shot, but if he did, I'm pretty sure he'd look constipated. The buzzing sound returns. Everyone grabs their heads and/or shields their eyes -- bracing for the brilliant white light, which soon follows. Once it has passed, our gang finds itself atop the still well-hidden original-recipe hatch. Juliet digs at the greenery until she reveals the hatch door. Everyone takes this in for a moment, then Sawyer takes off for the back door -- to get some supplies. Daniel tries to talk him out of it, but Sawyer resists. "The sky can flash all it wants, but I ain't starting over, Dilbert." Heh. "I ain't rubbin' two sticks together and making a fire, and I ain't hunting damn boar! There's Dharma food, beer and clothing in there, and I'm getting Desmond to let me in -- one way or another." Daniel tries to explain the rules to James. Since Desmond didn't know Sawyer when he first exited the hatch, the two can't meet.
Daniel continues his lecture all the way to the backdoor, but Sawyer could not care less. "That would all be fascinating if I was listening to ya." When Daniel suggests that it might not even be Des who is in there, Sawyer's not deterred, and starts banging on the door, demanding entry. "Yo, open up. It's the Ghost of Christmas Future!" Okay now see, where the banging wouldn't have brought me to the door -- that might have. All the while Sawyer bangs on the door, Daniel lectures him about the rules: if it didn't happen it can't happen; you can't change the past, yada, yada, yada. I don't know about you, but Sawyer doesn't strike me as a Rules Girl, Daniel. Sawyer grabs Daniel by the shirt and growls that everyone he cares about (KATE) just blew up, "On your damned boat. I know what I can't change." Juliet, taking on an air of Galadriel, intones that they should get back to the beach, because it's been a long day. Poor Sawyer's eyes look like those of a wild animal. But maybe he's hoping for a strand of her shiny blonde hair, because he backs off. Miles tries to talk common sense to them -- asking why they'd go back to the beach if there's nothing to go back to, but Juliet simply tells him that he can stay there. Miles turns to Charlotte and Daniel and smiles. "That chick likes me." He follows after Sawyer and Juliet, leaving Daniel and Charlotte alone at Desmond's back door. Charlotte's nose starts bleeding. She shrugs it (and Daniel's concern) off -- saying she hasn't had one since she was a little girl. Daniel covers -- noting that he left his pack back at the hatch crater, and sends Charlotte off after the others. Once she's gone, he runs back to his pack, digs out his journal and looks up something we're not allowed to see...