Episode Report Card Daniel: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT I was blown up by a pirate ship
By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.24.2005
Out on the raft, Walt's managed to get to sleep. Mercutio covers him with another blanket, and goes over to where Sawyer is fiddling with the radar. Mercutio tells him he just had it on a little while ago, and Sawyer says Sayid told them to try it every hour. Well, what he told them was no more than once per hour, and Mercutio points out that they're only fifteen miles out and could be sailing for weeks so they don't want to drain the battery. "Man said every hour," said Sawyer, who always does what he's told, as we all know. They flick it on. "Nothing," says Sawyer, and Mercutio says five minutes, no more, holding his new watch. Show-off. Sawyer says he likes that Mercutio has the patience of a saint, ad Mercutio wonders what makes Sawyer say that. "I've seen the way he talks to you," says Sawyer, who goes on about Walt running around all over the place. The whuh? The kid's what, twelve? He seems generally pretty well-behaved to me, but Sawyer says, "I would have shown him the back of my hand a long time ago." Yeah, thanks for the parenting tips, Sawyer. Mercutio asks if that was Sawyer's dad's parenting style, but Sawyer says his dad never got a chance to beat him, shooting himself when Sawyer was eight years old. And the good vibes from the shared Bob Marley appreciation are completely gone now, as Mercutio asks if that's why Sawyer wants to die. Sawyer doesn't know what Mercutio's talking about, but Mercutio said he was wondering why a guy who only cares about himself wanted to risk his life so bad to save everyone else. "The way I see it, there's only two choices. You're either a hero, or you want to die," he says. Did Mercutio just call himself a hero? Sawyer gives him a long glare, before finally saying, "Well, I ain't no hero, Mercutio." This searing moment of self-awareness is suddenly interrupted by the slow boop! boop! boop! of the radar. They look at it, surprised, and sure enough see a blip on the screen. "Is that what I think it is?" says Sawyer. Either that, or PlayStation 3 really sucks. Jin takes an interest, and they all start scanning the waters, with Mercutio saying, "Something's out there," in case we don't know how radar works. Commercials.
I love, love, love the cheap-ass seatbelt campaign commercial, with the guy complaining that he got a $65 ticket. "Man, I gotta work all day to make sixty-five bucks," he says. What? Yeah, that's a lot of tacos, dude. You're what, thirty years old? Get a real job!
Locke's sitting all by himself at the airport, waiting to board. An attendant comes over and apologizes, saying that they don't know where the special wheelchair is that they use to load disabled passengers. Huge airport like this only has one of those, I'm so sure. Nice half-assed attempt to make Locke "almost" miss the flight like everybody else, guys. "There's not another flight until tomorrow," says Locke (which may explain why Hurley was so keen to get on, but I still say he could have come up with something when he has $160 million at his disposal). And fortunately there's a burly flight attendant who suggests Locke suffer the indignity of being carried on. They do so, and she tells him if he needs anything, to press the call button. He says okay, but it's clear this is killing him. I love Terry O'Quinn. He reaches for a pamphlet in the seat pouch in front of him, and it slips out of his fingers onto the floor, out of his grasp. Frustrated, he leans back in his seat.
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