Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 5820 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT I Once Was Lost, But Now Am Found
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2010.05.23
Sawyer runs through the jungle to catch up with Jack, Kate and Hurley. He updates them on Faucke's plan to destroy the island and (sit down for this next part) then says, "You were right, Doc." Oh, Sawyer you handsome thing. I'm so proud of you. The Island must be nearly done with you, now. He doesn't have time for my positive reinforcement. He's too concerned that Faucke will find Desmond before they do, but Jack says it doesn't matter. "We're all going to the same place, anyway." Sawyer: "Then what?" ["We saved the world. I say we party." --Buffy] Jack nods for a moment. "Then it ends." When he marches off, his friends wait a moment. Kate falls in line first, then Hurley, and finally Sawyer. Same as it ever was.
Sideways: Dr. Jack Shephard finds his patient John Locke in some pre-op hallway. While they're chewing the fat, Locke asks Jack if he's sure this will work. Jack: "Well, there's always the chance that I could kill you, but I'm trying to make you feel better." Amused, Locke says "Let's do it." Jack: "All right. I'll see you on the other side." Jack, thankfully, has no plans to sucker Locke out of a kidney. Before he leaves, Locke asks if they ever found his father's remains. Jack just got the phone call this morning. Locke: "Well, I hope that brings you some peace." Jack: "If I can fix you, Mr. Locke, that's all the peace I'll need." Oh Jack, if you only knew. Here's hoping the fix is in, in both realities, baby.
Islandways; Dock: Richard and Miles are loading their gear into the outrigger when the writers decide we need more foreshadowing. Richard: "It's going to be a hell of a storm." Miles points to his own head as he non sequiturs: "Welcome to the club." Richard has a grey hair! Miles plucks it out to show him. Richard smiles. "I think I just realized that I wanna live." Huh. A couple of centuries of youth, wasted on the young.
We cut to the guys out on the water. They're startled when a bobbing body smashes into their boat. Damn, he looks like David Fury. Perhaps this is the fulfillment of the fabled master plan False alarm. It's just the corpse of one of the sub crew members. But then a chesty voice cries out to them from a little bit away. It's FRANK, which we knew had to happen. He couldn't have died on the sub; the island isn't done with him yet, because it wants him to fly home those with whom it is done in a non-deadly way. Er... I'm guessing. After they give Frank some water, he asks what they're doing out there. Richard tells him they're going to Hydra to blow up the plane... "because the Black Smoke wants to get off the island. We have to stop that thing from leaving." Frank: "Well, if we leave, that thing won't have a plane anymore." Richard: "Yeah, and how we gonna do that?" Frank: Did you not read what Cindy just wrote...er... "In case you haven't noticed, I'm a pilot." Miles, who has actually flown with Frank, laughs like this is a delightful surprise.