Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 964 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Island's Done With Who, Now?
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 14 | Aired on 2010.05.04
Back in the room where the rest of our fair Losties are, the water is pouring in fast and furious. Jack finally gets to his feet and then leans over and feels around in the water, until he fishes Kate out. She's unconscious when he hauls her to her feet. Sawyer asks Hurley if he's okay. Jin's trying to stand. Sun screams. She's trapped behind an enormous cabinet. Jin (in a wet t-shirt thud) makes his way to her. He can't move the cabinet alone, so he calls upon Sawyer for help. Back in Jack's arms, Kate seems to be coming 'round. Jack yells for Hurley. Sawyer answers Jin's call. Jack hands Kate over to Hurley along with a mini air tank and instructions: exit through the giant hole in the sub, buddy breathe on the tank, and get Kate to safety. Hurley: "I have to go after Sayid." Jack: "There is no Sayid." When Hurley still hesitates, Jack encourages him. "Hurley, you can do this. Okay?" Hurley agrees and takes Kate out. Jack joins Jin and Sawyer's efforts to free Sun. Finally, working together, our three prettiest boys free Sun, but not. She's still trapped behind some metal pipe. WTF? Are you trying to kill me, Show? You're not allowed to kill me and I ain't taking your backpack.
The sub's sinking quickly now, and more things are dislodging, banging around and wounding our remaining Losties. At some point in there, Sawyer is disabled. Jack finds him and holds his head above water. Sun, when she realizes she's caught, tells Jin to go and save himself. Jin refuses. He's going to get her out of there. Jin tells Jack to go, and save Sawyer. Although he argues at first, Jack realizes Jin is right. He starts off, but then grabs another mini air tank and hands it to Jin. "Take this. I can get him out without it." Jin: "No. You can't, Jack." Poor Sun is struggling to get herself free, the whole time. Finally, Jack realizes he must save Sawyer and he must leave Jin and Sun alone in what will surely be their final moments.
As Michael Giacchino's score slays my soul, Jack swims out and up with his best friend, his enemy. Jin stays behind, still trying to free Sun. Ji Yeon is on both their minds, but her name never crosses their lips. Again, all their conversation is in English. Again, I both appreciate and resent that. Sun begs Jin to save himself, but you can see in her eyes that she can't bare to be parted from him again, even in death. Jin does consider leaving, but how can he leave the great love of his life, now that he's finally found her, again? He refuses, and finally, they return to their native Korean. He will never leave her again. They hold onto one another's faces, and then in English, Jin says, "I love you, Sun." Sun kisses him and cries, "I love you." They kiss and gaze into one another's eyes until we cut away, to another horribly ugly shot of the horribly ugly sub sinking into the horribly ugly ocean of the death of love and all things good. Cut back to the interior of the sub: it's completely full of water, now. We close in on their hands. Only once the life leaves their bodies do they let go. 'Til death do us part. Son of a bitch!