Episode Report Card Daniel: B | 240 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Pure guava
By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2005.01.12
Kate's wandering through the jungle, collecting food or something at ground level, which must have grown back since last week, when she was compelled to take to the trees. Jack's wandering by. With the backpack, he looks for all the world, even with the substantial beard he's got going, like he's on his way to school. He spies Kate, and watches her for a moment, until she smiles and says she knows he's there. "I wasn't hiding," he protests, and says he just didn't want to interrupt "whatever it is" that she's doing. She says it's not like it's a secret, and he smilingly says that it's hard to tell with her sometimes, and they're smiling at each other and just in general acting like they weren't practically at each other's throats last week, like did we skip an episode?
She holds out her hand, full of what Jack terms "gross, little greyish-yellow things" and she says are actually passion fruit seeds. He wants to know what they're for, and she says she'll show him, and tells him to follow her. He says he hopes that she's found a "coffee bar," like what kind of Starbucks victim sees passion fruit seeds and immediately thinks "coffee"? Nope. What she's found is Sun working a little garden. And despite the fact that it's Sun digging in the dirt right now, Jack wants to know when it was that Kate did all this. She says it was all Sun, and that she just came across the garden the other day when she was out picking fruit. So Jack praises Sun for her work, opting for the overenunciation-and-volume-raising technique of speaking to someone who doesn't speak the language. Sun smiles. She understands Jack, but he doesn't know that, but it's okay because it's pretty clear from his tone and body language that he's pleased. Kate says she's also started a grove, and Jack calls that smart, since the boar's running out and everything. Since Kate's going to find out later this episode that Sun actually speaks English, I wish we could do away with the shots of Sun furtively glancing around while a couple of others speak English with complete (apparent) privacy. Since she does this spazzed-out shifty-eyed thing every time someone speaks English around her, the big surprise is that no one's busted her yet. Kate floats the theory that the boar isn't running out, that maybe Locke has just decided not to catch it anymore. To Jack, that's crazy, but Kate points out that there are a lot of mouths to feed. "If the boar's thinning out [uh, maybe she should make up her mind on whether it is or isn't] then why should he feed everyone else at his own expense?" Jack considers this. He is wise, and he is Jack, and he will come up with the answer somehow.