Episode Report Card Daniel: C | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT All change, she's having a baby
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 16 | Aired on 03.21.2006
Sun's angrily pushing her way through the bushes to the beach, and needs to grab onto a tree because she's breathing with some difficulty. Bernard and Rose go strolling by, arguing like an old married couple. They spot Sun in distress, and put aside their Lockhorns routine to hustle over and see what's wrong. Sun says she's lightheaded, and Bernard helpfully says she looks as pale as a sheet. Rose tells him to give Sun some water, using her best "you idiot" tone of voice. "Yes, ma'am!" snaps Bernard, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but shut up, Bernard. Turns out Bernard forgot Rose's birthday, but in his defence he doesn't even know what day of the week it is. Rose suggests they get Jack, which Sun vehemently nixes, which doesn't look suspicious or anything. She says she probably just spent too much time in the sun. That's also true of Jin since he got back, you know. Ahem. "Well, you spent a lot of time around the baby, maybe you caught something," says Rose, although Sun's head looks normal-sized to me. She thanks them both and continues on her way.
In her flashback, Sun furtively strolls down a hotel room hallway, then enters a room and puts the do-not-disturb outside on the door handle. Turns out the bald guy from her arranged date way back when is there waiting for her, and there's lots of "does he know you're here?" and "I'm glad you were able to get away" talk. Unfortunately, it couldn't have been more obviously a smokescreen; even if you didn't guess that he was teaching her English, as turns out to be the case, probably no one was fooled into thinking they were doing it (by which I mean sex).
Sun successfully, if haltingly, asks for an iced tea in English, which he provides. Then this guy -- whose name, Jae, I needed to look up -- asks if she wants to talk about whatever's wrong, which she doesn't. He's doing the "available shoulder" routine that I hate to tell him never actually works, even if he blatantly drops the reminder that things with that American woman he was in love with last time didn't work out. He says he thinks Jin would be proud that she can speak English. "And what do I tell him when he asks how I learned? Or who I learned from?" she says. He says that if she's uncomfortable with their arrangement, they can stop. "Is that what you want?" she asks, and he way too quickly says "no!" and then seems embarrassed and covers it with some nonsense about how it's good practice for him too.