Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 868 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Right Round Like A Record Baby
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2009.01.21
Cheech meets up with Jack in a parking garage, transfers a STILL unconscious Sayid to Jack's custody, and gives him what little he knows of Sayid's back-story with the darts and the people who are after him and Hurley. He also tells Jack that Hurley's still at home -- freaking out. Before departing, Cheech tells Jack that when this is over, he'd better stay away from Hugo, which is freaking laughable, isn't it? I mean, as far as Cheech knows, Sayid -- whom he's so bent on helping -- is the three-time killer, while Jack is the doctor who's just trying to help out, at great risk to his person and profession. After Cheech takes his leave, Jack drives up to the front of the hospital, but before he rushes Sayid in, he calls Ben and tells him he's got Sayid and that Hurley's at home. The camera zooms in on Ben's face as the it's-all-going-according-to-Ben's-plan music takes us to commercial.
At Hurley's, his mom wants to know who Sayid is -- she thought he was his friend. Hurley explains he is his friend, but that he's got this double life, and assures his mom that Sayid is a good guy. She's not buying on account of the fact that Sayid's killed three people, since in her book, good guys don't kill any people. Tsk. MA! You're always like that. I'm old enough to make my own decisions. (Sorry, we've got an adolescent in the house.) After some back and forth, Carmen insists that Hugo tell her the truth. And so he does, which is why I didn't include the "Previously On Lost" bits in my recap of episode 5-1.
In which Hurley explains it all: "We lied, Ma... All of us -- the Oceanic Six -- we lied about what happened after the crash... See, we did crash, but it was on this crazy island. And we waited for rescue, and there wasn't any rescue. And there was a smoke monster, and other people on the island. We called them the Others, and they started attacking us. And we found some hatches, and a button you had to push every 108 minutes or... well, I was never really clear on that. But... the others didn't have anything to do with the hatches. That was the Dharma Initiative, but they were all dead. The others killed them, and now they're trying to kill us. And then we teamed up with the Others, because some worse people were coming on a freighter. Desmond's girlfriend's father sent them to kill us. So we stole their helicopter and flew it to their freighter, but it blew up. And we couldn't go back to the island, because it disappeared, so then we crashed into the ocean, and we floated there for a while, 'til a boat came and picked us up. And by then, there were six of us. That part was true. But the... but the rest of the people who were on the plane -- they're still on that island." Oh my word, I need to smish him. Doesn't that feel better, baby? You should always tell your mother the truth. Anyone else need a cigarette? (Don't tell my mom.)