Episode Report Card Daniel: B | 240 USERS: B- YOU GRADE IT Pure guava
By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 13 | Aired on 2005.01.12
We're back at the hatch in the ground, where Locke and Boone are having no luck whatsoever getting the thing open. With a homemade mortar and pestle, Locke appears to be mixing something, but when questioned by Boone, just says that it's "for later." Boone's confused, rather reasonably I might add, about what they're actually doing out there, since for two days they've come out here just to stare at the hatch. You guys are just staring at the thing? I'm no expert on hatches or anything, but I may have pinpointed the root of your inability to open the damn thing. And Locke tells this really long story about Michelangelo staring at an 18-foot block of marble for four months. And that statue became David. And now you know the rest of the story. And while I wait for my brain to get over Locke comparing himself to Michelangelo, Boone asks the obvious question. "We're not going to stare at this thing for four months, are we?" Locke laughs in a way that's not especially reassuring to Boone, who asks how they're going to open it. And Locke explains that that's why they're staring at it. Shut up, Locke. Locke asks how one opens something with no handle or latch, "no discernible way of opening it." He asks it like he knows the answer, actually, but is waiting for Boone, God's Friggin' Gift to Humanity, to figure it out.