Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 641 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT I'm So Dizzy My Head Is Spinnin'
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 15 | Aired on 2009.05.06
Chang's not done, though. He asks Hurley who was President of the U.S. in 1977. If Sawyer was there, Hurley would hit him and say, "Why don't you tell him, Mr. It's-Not-A-Damn-Game-Show?" but Sawyer's too busy getting the crap beat of him to have Hurley's back right now, so Hurley just says, "All right dude, we're from the future. Sorry." I love how the big charade comes apart in just a few words.
Chang turns to Miles and asks him if it's all true. "You are my son?" Miles confirms that he is, and then Chang recaps Daniel's warning about the soon-to-be massive accident at the Swan. Miles says Daniel's been right about everything so far. "So if he said to get everyone off the island, I'd do it." Chang is convinced of everything way more easily and quickly than I ever expected. I don't know why, but it reminds me of when my cousin fell in love with and married a man from Cancun whose English was, at the time, only so-so, but much better than her Spanish. He said something to her in Spanish once that she didn't understand. When she asked him what it meant, he said, "Your soul knows what I said." They're divorced now, Chang. I'm just saying. He doesn't hear me, because he's a fictional person inside of my TV and more importantly, because we've already jumped to...
1977; Camp Richard In-The-Verge: The camera zooms in on poor Daniel's dead face and then up to Charles who is kneeling over him, wondering aloud to Richard why "this man" looks so familiar. I think Richard must know, but he doesn't say. When Eloise marches out of her tent, her demeanor makes it clear that she wears the pants in the camp. She informs Richard that he and "Eric" are going with her. Charles wants to know where they're going. Ellie ignores him, tells Richard to untie Kate and Jack, and asks for a moment alone with Daniel, or maybe Charles. Let's say both. It's a family reunion, of sorts. And what a happy family it is. Kate wipes a fake tear from her eye as Murderous Mommy closes Daniel's eyes and covers him with a blanket and tells Daniel's Daddy Issues that she's taking their new prisoners to the bomb. They have a whispered conversation, in which Charles says things like that he's worried for her and "Not in your condition." He has his hand pressed to her abdomen the whole time, but Ellie's made her decision.
Looking on, Jack asks Richard who the man with Eloise is. Richard says that he's "Charles Widmore. He and Eloise are...well, let's just say love can be complicated." For a moment, I remember my theory from "Jughead" that Ellie and Charles were siblings, but eww, I'm wiping that from my mind unless and until the show forces it back in there. Kate wipes a fake tear from her eye again, in case we didn't catch it the first time, and considers the complications of love. Eloise says it's time to move out, and we jump to...