Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: C | 4 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT CJ Cregg Bested By Bai Ling
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 15 | Aired on 05.11.2010
Rape Caves; Night: As CJ sleeps, Esau packs a bag and wakes his brother, telling him to come with him. In the jungle, while Esau and his torch take the lead, Jacob asks why he has all his things. Esau: "They're our things. I took them because we're leaving, and we're never coming back." Jacob doesn't understand. Esau tells him they're going to join the Others. "They're our people, Jacob, and we're going to live with them." Jacob: "No. Mother said..." Esau raises his voice. "She lied. She lied about everything -- all of it. I know you don't understand, but you have to come with me. I don't want to go by myself." Interesting. Jacob objects: Mother loves them. Esau says she doesn't, but as he continues to make his case, Jacob's protests grow louder and more furious. Esau: "It was all a lie. [...] She's not even our mother!" Finally, Jacob screams "STOP," and tackles his brother. Once Esau is down, Jacob thrashes the hell out of him, like he'll one day thrash Richard.
Finally, CJ appears, drags Jacob off Esau, and puts an end to the beating. Still in a tizzy, Jacob tries to explain himself as CJ ministers to a bloody Esau. "He's leaving. He's going to them -- to the Other people." Esau rises, spits blood and glares at CJ. "I know, now. There is another place across the sea. It's where I'm from, and I'm gonna go there. I'm gonna go home." CJ wants to know who told him this. Esau is defiant. "My mother!" When CJ says she's his mother, Esau calls her on her lies. "You killed my mother." He trains his gaze on his brother. "Jacob, she was your mother, too. We don't belong here. We don't belong with her. Come with me." Jacob looks from Esau, to CJ and back to Esau. "No." As Esau wipes the blood from his mouth, CJ grabs him by the shoulders. "My love, you need to know this: whatever you have been told, you will never be able to leave this island." Very interesting. Esau pushes her off. "That's not true. One day, I can prove it." Don't tell me what I can't do. And with that, he picks up his bag and walks off, leaving CJ and Jacob staring after him.
Beach; Day: CJ is sitting alone on the log she once shared with Esau and his newfound game of Senet, when Jacob joins her. "Do you think he'll come back?" CJ shakes her head as she fights her tears. "No." Jacob stares out at the ocean. "He said you killed our mother." He turns to the only mother he's ever known. "Is that true?" CJ considers this truthful boy before her. "Yes. If I had let her live, she would have taken you back to her people, and those people are bad, Jacob -- very bad. I couldn't let you become one of them. I needed you to stay good." The boy turns back to her. "Am I good, Mother?" CJ: "Yes, of course you are." Jacob: "Then why do you love him more than me?" CJ is visibly moved by this, but although she utters an oath sworn in truth by mothers since time immemorial, it's hard to believe her. "I love you -- in different ways." She sweeps a finger across his cheek and up to his earlobe. "Will you stay with me, Jacob? Please?" Jacob: "Yes." CJ laughs with relief and rests her head on her boy's shoulder. Jacob covers her hand with his. "For a while." Commercial.