Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 542 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT I Was Dreaming When I Wrote This
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2009.02.04
On the Island; Time Not Yet Known: Miles fills a flask with water and hustles back to Daniel and crew who are trying to revive the still unconscious-Charlotte, whom Sawyer informs us has been out for ten minutes. Daniel wets a hanky (who carries a hanky these days? I thought my father was the last one, and he's been dead for six years) and starts dabbing the blood off Charlotte's face. Juliet's gaze burns a hole through his skull. "If there's something that you want to tell me Daniel, now would be a good time."
Daniel tries to play dumb, like he doesn't know what she means, but Sawyer will have none of that. "She's asking if you know why your girlfriend had a seizure." Juliet asks Sawyer to give them some space, but our dear James is tired of all the Other and other-Other B.S. "She's like this 'cause the sky keeps lighting up. He knew this would happen and he didn't say squat about it."
If she ever tires of her work as a fertility specialist, Juliet should look into teaching kindergarten, because she has the kind, calm, but stern voice down cold. "James. Go away." Motherless boy that he is, he responds to this better than many men might. He all but mumbles "Yes, mum," before he stalks off to stand with Locke. Quietly, Juliet asks Daniel if he did know this would happen.
Daniel says, "I thought -- I thought it might. I think it's neurological. Our brains have an internal clock, a sense of time. The flashes throw the clock off. It's like really bad jet lag." Oh my word. From which writer's ass did they pull that explanation? The look on Juliet's face says: OMIBBQPOLARBEAR worst explanation. Ever. Dude. And I never explain myself. She points out that jet lag doesn't cause hemorrhaging, and asks if he knows why it's not happening to the rest of them. Daniel LIES that he doesn't, and adds his thanks to God that it's not. Lightning strikes him dead for lying and then invoking the deity. Okay, I made that up, but it totally should. And we close in on Charlotte's face, which, despite minutes' worth of dabbing from Daniel, is still covered in blood. He's not so good at coming clean in any way, is he?