Episode Report Card Daniel: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT If you don't know Des by now, you will never, never, never know him.
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 23 | Aired on May 23, 2006
He flashes back to himself in a darkened sports stadium, changing into running shorts and tying up his shoes. Beside him, a dark sedan pulls up beside him, and Jack gets out. They don't make any eye contact or anything as Jack just starts running without doing any stretching or anything, so it is no wonder that in a moment he's going to trip and twist his ankle. Another car pulls up, and out gets a woman who looks remarkably like Ellen Pompeo. Which is to say she's pretty cute, but Desmond looks less than excited as they stare at each other. Penny, I presume. He asks how she found him, and she explains that she has a lot of money. Brag about it, why don't you? She says that with enough money and determination you can find anyone. Maybe that's true, but you apparently can't keep Daddy from intercepting your mail. She asks if he's read his "beloved book" yet, and he says he hasn't. She thinks about this, and says she thought he might have read it while he was "away," and he tells her he was in prison, not "away." Eyes shining, she asks why he never wrote her. Desmond just shakes his head, instead of explaining how he feels, and that her father is a dick, and all that, and a single tear rolls dramatically down her cheek, and he just harshly asks when she's getting married. Douchebag. Tell her you love her! She says they haven't set a date yet. He tells her he'll be back in a year, and she suggests he come back right now, and he says he's going to win the race and then come back, and he manfully wipes her tear away with his thumb and turns away to get into shape for the STUPID RACE. She asks him what he's running away from. "I have to get my honor back!" he says. For real, he actually says that. "That's what I'm running to!" And off he goes, up the steps. I have this alternative theory that he's running away from the beautiful woman he loves, who loves him, so he can try to win a race to impress her asshole father for some reason, and will prove such a terrible racer that he will crash his boat on the same island twice, and maybe he should ask himself if that's preferable to being with the woman he loves.