Episode Report Card Daniel: C | 128 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Digging in the dirt
By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2004.11.03
Back on the beach, Charlie is running past all the non-speaking extras to enlist the help of cast members, including Boone and Mercutio, who yells at "Scott" to come. The extra says, "I'm Steve," and another says, "I'm Scott." Now's not the time, guys. No more lines for you! Boone remembers he has another job to do, so he runs over to Shannon, who's lazily sunning herself. Next to me on the couch, Dan Kwa's attractive lawyer wife says, "She looks way too good for someone who crashed on a deserted island eight days ago." (When Dan Kwa asks you to fill in for him, he ain't kidding.) He explains to her the whole triangulation thing and stresses the importance of firing off the bottle rocket and only turning on the antenna once all the rockets have been fired. She's all, "Who in the what now?" and he urgently asks if she can handle that. She smiles and says of course she can. Look, there's no one else there? With Shannon, I don't think it's a question of whether she can do any given task as much as whether she will do it. And judging by the force with which she's rolling her eyes at Boone as he runs off, I'm thinking her compliance rate with this particular task won't be so stellar.
Charlie's on his way back to the cave-in before he remembers that informing Kate of the accident is much more important than digging the island doctor out from under several tons of rubble. Sawyer, who's shirtless (and those of you who have expressed disappointment at Sawyer's allegedly very ordinary torso have made me very sad, and ensured that once I am done this recap I will spend all my free time doing crunches, preferably on a treadmill, if I can figure out a technique to do both simultaneously), says that Kate and "Moo-hammed" went off into the jungle, and he promises Charlie he'll saunter on after them and let them know the situation. He tells Charlie to get back to doing whatever it is that he does around here. Because Sawyer is such a valuable member of the team, you see.