Episode Report Card LuluBates: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT What To Expect When You're Expecting Trouble
By LuluBates | Season 3 | Episode 18 | Aired on 04.24.2007
The troops are still gathered around the pilot (who is now muttering in Chinese) trying to decide what to do. Desmond is determined to go for Jack, but Charlie says he can't leave them -- he is forgetting what is at stake! Desmond balks at this because the pilot said his name and was carrying a picture of him and his girlfriend. Their hard-to-follow logic is interrupted by a noise. Something is breaking sticks out in the jungle. It's getting closer, so Desmond draws his machete. The sound is right upon them and the trees split apart. It's a zombie! It's a ghoul! It's Nikki! Back from the dead! Okay, it's not. But it is the recently deceased Mikhail Bakunin (that's Patch Adams to you and me, and the father of anarchy to everyone else) who comes barreling through the woods. As he stares around at the Losties with his one good eye, his thoughts are painted all over his face: Busted! He makes a break for it, not realizing that none of them know who he is. That doesn't stop Jin from chasing him through the woods and taking him down. They fighty-fight and wrestle until Jin gets him in a headlock. Here is something that bothers me about the fight scenes on this show: Does everyone know how to fight before they get to the Island? Or are people's tendencies to be total wusses cured by the Island's magical healing properties? I'm asking because Jin totally nailed Mikhail's ass (well, technically his head) with a roundhouse kick and a clap to the ears. Impressive grappling!
Desmond pries Patch from the headlock to pin him against a tree and point the flare gun at him. He demands to know who he is, but Patch is shy and won't say. Charlie says he's the guy who shot Sayid. Hurley says he thought that Locke killed that guy by shoving him through the perimeter fence. Whoever he is they agree he is definitely an Other. Desmond shoves the gun into Patch's chest and tells him to talk. Patch scoffs because it's just a flare gun, but Desmond points out that a flare gun might hurt too. Patch points out that he was dead not too long ago. I point out that I might be kind of pissed if I was brought back from the dead and still had only one eye, lousy teeth, and the same ugly ass dirty khaki jumpsuit. Jesus at least got nice white robes. The injured pilot interrupts their détente by mumbling some more. Patch looks like he understands, and Desmond asks what she's saying. She's saying that she is dying, in Italian. Is knowing how to say, "I am dying" in a multitude of languages something you can put on your resume? Patch examines the pilot and explains that the branch punctured her lung, which is now filling up with blood. If the lung isn't drained soon, she will die. Oh, the pilot is dying? You don't say. Except when you do. In four languages. Patch offers up his services as a field medic, but only if they agree to "let me walk away as if I never came upon you." Those Others sure talk funny. Desmond agrees to the trade.