Episode Report Card LTG: A+ | 2 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT Jarrah. Sayid Jarrah.
By LTG | Season 4 | Episode 3 | Aired on February 13, 2008
After commercials, it's still flash-forward time. Sayid walks off a city street and enters a bustling café. There's frost on the windows. He walks through the crowded room until he comes to a table where a pretty blonde woman is sitting alone. He asks her (in German) whether the other seat is free, and then sits at the table and looks at a map. She asks (also in German) where he's trying to go, and he tells her (in English), "'Is it free' is the full extent of my German." She laughs, and asks him her question again in English. He tells her where he's trying to go, and she tells him he's only a block away. He doesn't get up to leave instantly, so she introduces herself (her name is Elsa). A waiter takes Sayid's order, and Elsa asks him what he's doing in Berlin. He tells her, "I'm a headhunter." And then clarifies that he's a corporate recruiter. Sayid, I'm sure you deal with a lot of ignorance and stupidity as you move around the world, but I'm pretty certain the pretty German woman didn't think you were an actual headhunter. Sayid asks Elsa what she does -- she works for an economist, although her only real duties are to shop for him and to get to him as fast as possible whenever her giant 1982-style beeper goes off. Which only happens once or twice a year. Sweet gig. They smile and flirt across the table, and Elsa asks Sayid if she knows him from somewhere. He tells her that he'll tell her where she knows him from...but only if she comes to dinner with him. She grabs his map, circles an address, and tells him to meet her there at 8:00. And then she leaves.