Episode Report Card Daniel: B | 583 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Dyno-mite!
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2005.10.12
A jubilant DJ Qualls tells Hurley (who he calls "Huggy Bear") that if there's anything else he wants to do, he better speak up, because their day off is almost at an end, and in the morning they're going to have to find new employment. He suggests a couple of places, one of which's main attraction is apparently a chick that Qualls digs. Hurley, enjoying the fuck out of his life, asks Qualls to promise that whatever happens, they'll never change. That this'll never change. You know where he's going with this, but you have to think that when he and Starla settle down to have little Hurley Jrs., he's not going to have as much time to bomb around in vans stealing lawn gnomes. At least, you'd hope not. Qualls thinks he's finally figured out why Hurley's been acting weird lately: he's going to have the stomach-stapling surgery done (nice job in nailing the affectionate teasing that only close friends get to do), but Hurley says he's not having surgery. "Aw, c'mon man, it's cool. I could still be all surprised and be like, 'Oh my, Hurley. Is that you?'" Hurley laughs, but still makes him promise that the two of them will always stay the same, and Qualls drops a little Outsiders on him: "Not only will I stay gold, Ponyboy, I will drink to it." He takes out his wallet, looks in it. "Can I borrow two bucks?" Hurley starts laughing.
Back down in the hatch-hole Costco, Hurley's become quite adept at setting dynamite now, I see. He's sticking the fuse in one of the pieces when Rose comes in. "What have you got there, Hurley?" Hurley can't really come up with a cover story. I mean, it's dynamite. So he just admits what it is. Rose asks what he's doing with it, and he says he's sorry, but he can't let it happen again.
Flashback to Hurley and Qualls pulling into a gas station. "Why is there a news crew here?" asks Qualls, as there is indeed a news crew, if not a full-blown press conference, interviewing the store clerk. Hurley tells Qualls he doesn't want to stop here, and urgently tries to make Qualls leave: "Dude, let's go, they jack the prices here." But Qualls is undeterred, wondering if maybe somebody got shot. He gets out of the van, and a forlorn Hurley pulls the ticket out of his pocket and stares at it.
Back in the hatch-hole, Rose pleads with Hurley, telling him he's going to hurt somebody. Hurley says he'll do it from outside the door and asks Rose to leave. Rose: "No, you hauled me off of the beach and you dragged me into this place -- the least I can get is an explanation before you blow it up." Hurley yells that she doesn't get it, that the food is going to mess it all up.