Episode Report Card LTG: B | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT How Many Others Are There?
By LTG | Season 4 | Episode 6 | Aired on 03.05.2008
Jack and Juliet are tromping through the jungle themselves. Jack, having waited all night to ask any questions, asks Juliet about the woman they ran into. Juliet tells Jack her name, and then tells him that Harper wasn't her friend, but her therapist. Jack: "You people have therapists?" Juliet: "It's very stressful being an Other, Jack." Jack: "She seemed kind of hostile, even for a therapist." And that's a triple play. Juliet would rather not discuss why her therapist hates her. Jack thinks it's a little unfair, since Juliet has read his file and knows all his secrets. Juliet: "Trust me Jack. You don't want to see my file."
Flashback! Juliet looks through a microscope while Ben looks on. She's looking quite beautiful, and he's looking quite smitten. She's explaining what she's learned about the disease. He looks through the microscope, letting his hand touch hers. She leaves it for about half a second before moving her hand away. As they continue to talk, Goodwin walks into the lab, calling out her name. The music gets all dangerous and stringy. Goodwin tells Ben that he found himself with an extra sandwich for lunch and was wondering if Juliet wanted it. She doesn't, and also she has an appointment with Goodwin's nasty wife in just a few minutes. Goodwin offers Ben the sandwich before heading out. These are three very good actors -- I wish the producers had let us see the tension in this scene through their acting rather than shoving it down our throats with the extremely tense music.
And now it's a therapy session -- perhaps the one mentioned in the previous scene, since Juliet's wearing the same blouse. Harper asks Juliet what she thinks of Ben. This is what therapy must be like in North Korea: "What do you think of the Dear Leader?" Juliet thinks Ben is very smart and intense: "He's been very good to me." Juliet: "Well of course he has. You look just like her." Juliet tries to get an explanation for that, but Harper just moves right on to noting that Juliet and Goodwin have become friendly. So friendly that Harper wants to know when they started sleeping together. Juliet acts all innocent and aggrieved, and Harper is very matter of fact in demanding some answers. Harper tells Juliet that she's seen the two of them together. Juliet gives a quiet apology, but Harper doesn't really care about that. What she does care about is that if the affair continues, Ben might do something to hurt Goodwin.
The Barracks, present day. Locke is outside. He has a big knife in his hand, and appears to be stabbing the toupee they make him wear in flashbacks. Oh, my mistake, it's a rabbit. Claire and Aaron approach. He asks her what he can do for her, and she tells him she wants to see Miles. Locke wonders why; it turns out that Claire has the crazy idea that Locke's "stab the Boaties with knives and shove live grenades in their mouths" policy might be coming off as "hostile." Lousy hippie. Claire thinks a little blonde mommy with a suddenly resurgent Australian accent might be less intimidating than a bald guy who blows things up. Locke tells her to forget about it: "You do remember what Charlie said about these people?" Claire: "All Charlie said was whose boat it isn't. Don't you want to know whose boat it is?"