Episode Report Card Daniel: B+ | 0 USERS: N/A YOU GRADE IT Shannon's death, take two
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 6 | Aired on November 8, 2005
Meanwhile, Sayid is chasing Shannon through the grass as we get yet another storyline in which Shannon has to act all bitchy while she tries to prove someone wrong about her. Maybe it'll actually work one of these times. "Walt is not out here! You're following a Labrador, not a bloodhound, in an effort to find a boy who's on a raft on the middle of the ocean." She says Walt's not out on the ocean, and breaks it to Sayid that they found the bottle. "The bottle with the messages that they brought with them?" says Sayid. Love that sparkling dialogue. "I know he's out here. I saw Walt. And the raft is gone and he's all alone," she says, and keeps going. Sayid follows, looking a little more sympathetic.
Having rigged up a rather impressive-looking stretcher for a still-unconscious Sawyer, the Tailaways now come to a foreboding hill that they're going to have to climb up. Worse luck, we hear the rumble of thunder. The camera pans over the discouraged survivors faces, each of them kind of looking like, "I don't want to be the first one to suggest we leave Sawyer behind."
So up the hill they go, passing Sawyer in a cello-accompanied portage up the hillside. Even Ana-Lucia helps, and they presently make the summit and pause to rest. Only, where's Cindy? Beats me, she was just here, wasn't she? They call her name, look over the hillside. Libby wonders if "they" took her. Ana-Lucia says she's going after Cindy. Eko tries to stop her, and Ana-Lucia gives him a faceful of "this is your fault" and "this one's on you," and Eko knows she's got a point. "You risked our lives to save him. He's already dead."
And then, the whispering starts. Everyone hears it. "What the hell is that?" asks Michael. A terrified Libby says, "Oh god!" and Ana-Lucia yells, "Run!" And we break for commercial.
So Shannon's packing her things up in boxes. I'm going to presume she got evicted. Boone strolls in through the open door, and flips around a chair so he can sit backwards on it. They exchange "hey"s and then are silent for a moment. Shannon finally looks at him. "She said no," says Boone. "I guess she knew why I asked for the money." Boone and Shannon must think Cruella is as dumb as they are. Shannon asks if she can crash at his place in New York until she gets on her feet, as though Boone wouldn't mind if she were off her feet for a good long while. But as Joey Tribbiani would say, it's a moo point, because he's leaving New York. "She offered me a job," he says. Is it me, or is it weird the way he keeps referring to his mom as "she" and "her" and never "my mom"? Shannon can't believe that he's going to work for his mother. "It's a really good job, Shannon," he says. He looks mildly embarrassed, although I can't imagine why he needs to apologize to Shannon for going into the family business. He withdraws an envelope from his back pocket, and says this is all he has right now. But then his trust fund "kicks in" at the end of the month, and then he'll "absolutely" be able to keep her afloat. She thanks him, but says she'll figure out a way to make her own money. "But who knows when that's going to be?" says Boone. We do! Never! He implores her to take the money, which she takes to mean that he doesn't believe in her. So even her FLASHBACKS now are the same old plotline of nobody believing Shannon can do anything.