Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Right Round Like A Record Baby
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 01.21.2009
Outside a gas station/convenience store, Hurley splashes Sayid's face with water, in an attempt to bring him to. When Sayid doesn't stir, Hurley borrows some money out of his wallet (with a promise to pay him back -- because moral compass, y'all) and shouts-out to Weekend At Bernie's by putting shades on Sayid's unconscious face. When he enters the store, Cheap Trick's "Dream Police" is playing, which is perfect, really, but I've now been earwormed by that song for 6 days. They're driving me insane. Those men inside my braaaaaaaaaaaain. When Hurley goes to pay for his "I Heart Shih Tzus" t-shirt (oh honey, no; get a more size-appropriate dog on your shirt -- how about a nice St. Bernard?), the clerk recognizes him as the lottery winner and a member of the Oceanic 6, but is blessedly oblivious to the muted TV behind her that is covering the APB issued for Hurley -- who is now the prime suspect in 1, 2, 3 murders (the guy Sayid ganked outside Santa Sosa, and the two he offed at the "safe house"). Hurley's not oblivious though, so he tells the cashier to keep the change and hustles back to the car that shelters sweet, slumbering Sayid. From outside, he throws his stained shirts in the car, and dons the new T. My husband says, "I'm glad we didn't have to see that." I give him a dirty look, because he shouldn't be dissing my Hugo. He knows the look but ignores it. "He might have bigger boobs than you do." I give him a different dirty look, because my bosom is just fine, thankyewveddymuch. He sputters something like, "I said bigger, not nicer, because clearly, clearly you have nicer..." I aim the remote control at him at press the "mute" button, but it does no good, so I tune him out and go back to the show. I'm a parent; it's a skill I've honed with purpose.
Just after Hurley drives out of the parking lot, a silver car drives in. It's Kate! While she's checking out a map and trying to decompress, Aaron whines that he wants to go home. She tells him to look at his book, and he does. Clearly she's magic! He doesn't even cry that he has to pee. Of course that's because there's got to be a bathroom at that gas station. Just you wait until you're once again on the open road with no rest stop in sight, Katie my girl. She opens up her cell phone and clicks to her contacts -- Jack Shepherd tops the list, or possibly is the list. She considers calling him, then thinks twice, and snaps her phone shut. Immediately, it rings. Spooky, Mulder! Although the Caller ID reports the caller is unknown, Kate's response indicates otherwise. "I can't believe it's you. No. Hi, how are you? Wait, you're in L.A.? Of course I can meet. Yeah. What? I know exactly where that is. I'll be there in half an hour." When she hangs up the phone, Aaron asks where they're going. Kate tells him, "To see a friend." Hmmmm.