Episode Report Card Daniel: A- | 4 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT First Do Not That Much Harm
By Daniel | Season 3 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2006.11.08
Back in the Mobile Others Surgical Hospital, Jack and Juliet silently scrub up. Finally, Jack tells Juliet that this is a very tricky procedure, and when he tells her to do something, she's going to have to do it, no questions asked. "Is that understood?" he says. "You may find this hard to believe, but I've always been very good at following orders," she says, even though I thought maybe she'd complain about his condescension. "Is that a yes?" he snaps. She nods and says yes, and they head into the operating room, where Ben awaits, lying face down on the operating table. Jack gets on his surgical gloves while Ben asks, "You get nervous before you do surgery?" Jack says he used to, but he doesn't anymore. Through the window, we can see Pickett, Zeke and that other Other who's always around now, observing. "Whatever happens, everything will be very different, won't it?" says Ben. "No doubt about it," says Jack, the same way you'd say to an office co-worker who keeps yammering away at you while you're trying to get some damn work done.
Ben then asks Juliet if Alex asked about him. Juliet says no: "We took her home last night. I don't know where she is now." And then thank god the anesthesia seems to start kicking in, because Ben half-sleepily says, "Well, see you on the other side," and puts his head down. Jack tells him to count down from twenty. Ben goes "twenty" and "nineteen" and then "eight" which is totally cheating, and then he's out. Jack and Juliet look at each other. Jack asks for the scalpel, and she gives it to him, and he makes the first incision in Ben's iodine-swabbed back.