Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 537 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Double Your Fun
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2010.02.02
L.A. Reality: This is the same as the "Plane Reality" except they're not on the plane any more, and I like to be specific. So -- anyhow, Jack gets paged to the nearest courtesy desk. When he arrives, the nervous desk clerk informs him that they've lost Christian Shephard's coffin -- and he uses the word coffin, which, you know, is a perfectly fine word, but people usually use casket in professional sorts of situations, so it caught my attention. Also? Ahahahahahaha. Jack cannot catch a break, can he? The clerk says the coffin was never put on the plane. Jack tells him the funeral is in two hours and wants to know when it will arrive. The clerk doesn't know, "because we're not exactly sure where it is." Nice.
Island Reality; Jungle: The gang reaches the outer walls of the Temple complex. Hurley notes how big it is, and Jack wonders how they'll get Sayid over the top. Hurley somehow knows enough to stroll right over to the hole in which Montand got his arm chewed off (or his body, perspective dependent). "We're not; we're bringing him in through here." They climb down into the hole, and find Montand's one armed skeleton, and a book, Fear and Trembling, by Søren Kierkegaard (written under the name Johannes de Silentio, i.e. John the Silent).
Kate is not compelled to wait any respectable amount of time before rifling through Montand's backpack and whatnot. She finds matches and grabs and lights a nearby torch, while Hurley asks questions: "Who brings a book into a cave? Why is his arm missing?" Jin answers the second. "It was ripped off when he was attacked by the black smoke." They soon start on their way and have to negotiate around a big pit in the floor. Tiny little Kate makes it by easily, but Hurley has to be a bit more careful, as do Jack and Jin, who are carrying Sayid on his stretcher. When they reach the other side, Kate goes ahead, even though her torch is their only decent source of light beside Hurley's flashlight, so her going ahead is just dumb and selfish. YES! They really are back. When he can no longer see Kate, Jack grabs Hurley's flashlight and rushes ahead, leaving Hurley, Jin and the dying man to stumble around in the dark. Oh, Jack. He runs through the hallways in this underground fortress calling her name. Hurley (I think) calls out for Jack, but then there's a smacking sound and unintelligible yelling. Jack yells, "Hurley" and rushes back. Someone calls Jack's name. Jack finds himself at a crossroads of sorts, so he stops to suss out which way he should go. In the background, a figure sneaks by him. Jack whips around, but before we know it, he's grabbed by someone from behind. Someone (else?) punches him in the face. Somewhere, Sawyer thinks, "That's my job." The screen goes black, but then...