Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 1070 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Mirror of Erised
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2010.02.23
Across the way, Hurley and Miles play a homemade toss across/tic-tac-toe game, with leaves serving as the Xes and some sort of giant, mutant calamari rings (or possibly rope circles) serving as the Os. When the game is a tie, yet again, Miles snarks how that's a "shocker" and bows out. Hurley asks if he's hungry. Miles eyes his friend up and down and says, "Hungry?" He doesn't even bother to suppress his smirk, but Hurley ignores it. "I could eat." Stop that, Show. Just stop it.
When Hurley enters the Murky Mikvah Mezzanine, the mikvah steps are empty at first glance, to us, but not to Hurley. He sees a man there, and then we do, too. Hugo asks where he might find the kitchen. The familiar voice replies, "It's all the way down the hallway, Hugo." Hurley stops dead in his tracks to get a good look at this man who is lit by a stray beam of sunlight. It's Jacob! He rises, approaches Hurley, tells him he needs his help, and suggests Hurley get a pen, because he's going to have to write a few things down. "Someone is coming to the island. I need you to help them find it." Okay, Jacob. Someone -- or them? Must we be this cryptic so late in the game? Apparently so, because here comes the title card to ensure we get no more details.
L.A. Reality; Jack's Pad: Jack follows David to his room and tells him he hooked up cable in there so David can watch the Red Sox! David thanks him, as he'd damn well better, because this is 2004, baby. If I may intervene from the future, David, please feel free to skip tonight's game, unless, like your Dad, you think you're the reason we can't have nice things.
Jack notices David has been reading The Annotated Alice and tries to engage him in conversation, but David is a young teen AND a Shephard male, so um... nope. He walks out on Jack, who is trying to remind his son of his childhood love of Kitty and Snowdrop -- Alice's black and white kittens. Out in the kitchen, David grabs a soda, and Jack gestures for him to take off his headphones. "I'm trying to have a conversation with you, David." David says, "Why? We see each other like once a month. Can't we just... get through it?" Yeeowch!