Episode Report Card Daniel: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Make sure your sign doesn't read
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 19 | Aired on 04.11.2006
Down the hatch, Locke is still scribbling away on his map, which must be awful aggravating without the benefit of screencaps or Adobe PhotoShop. He finally just crumples up the paper, and looks like he's going to start again, but instead he grabs his crutches and hoists himself to his feet.
He makes his way over to the armoury door. Ana-Lucia's sitting on the floor, and she's -- what is she doing? Something mechanical, it looks like. There are tools and cables and metal things. Whatever. Locke has to yell over the music that he wants to talk to Faux Henry. "The gun's with Jack. The door stays closed," she says. Locke looks frustrated, but Ana-Lucia says if he wants to talk to him, go ahead.
So Locke hobbles over to the door and knocks, "It's John, Henry." The steel-drivin' man? "Why'd you trade Johnny Damon?" yells Faux Henry from the other side of the door. Or maybe there's no response at all. Locke yell-asks if Henry entered the numbers and pushed the button or not, because he needs to know. He hammers on the door and such.
Inside, Faux Henry listens to Locke yell and hammer, and smiles the smile of the evil.
Bernard, dragging some wood behind him, shows up on the beach to discover that his sign posse has dwindled somewhat. Seems "Craig" and "Frogurt" have left, although if someone kept calling me "Frogurt" I don't know how long I'd help them out either. Bernard says it doesn't matter, and then lays out how to make this big SOS sign, making the letters big and using black rocks for maximum visibility. Good thing they have a leader like Bernard to explain such a complicated undertaking, no? Without him, I imagine they'd make a small sign that said "OK" with small, sand-coloured rocks. "Dude, we're like gonna need a lot more rocks," says Hurley. Brilliant! You can be Bernard's assistant! Bernard says there's a lava field about half a mile inland that's loaded with them, and they're going to haul them out in two-man teams. At this point, some bald guy with a goatee exchanges glances with another extra looking all indignant that this is going to involve physical labour. Bernard instructs them all to double up, while he'll stay behind to sketch the letters in the sand. Sure, take the easy job for himself. Meanwhile, standing behind him is a tall, lanky brunette. Faith Harrington? Or perhaps Cher? Hurley volunteers to sketch the letters in the sand. "Everybody's got a job, Hurley. You do your job, I do my job." Nice response. Jin, in Korean, says, "This is bullshit," judging from his demeanour. Bernard asks for a translation, but it's not like Sun is there, so Hurley's best guess is that Jin's not wild about hauling rocks. Jin makes a face like, "Yeah, what he said." Bernard acknowledges that this will take time, but if this is what gets them rescued, it'll be worth it. What if gets them dead from exhaustion and/or polar bears? So everybody gets to work, and it looks like Bernard's dragging that log behind him to make the giant letters in the sand. He smiles as he's doing it, because I'm starting to think Bernard is some kind of cheerful psycho. Then again, can any of these stupid deserve-to-never-be-rescued Lostaways explain to me just what more important things they have to do that they can't spend a little time making a giant distress sign on the beach? Bernard's being kind of an ass about the whole thing, but being an ass doesn't necessarily preclude the possibility that you might also be in the right.