Episode Report Card Daniel: C+ | 248 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Good…bad…Ana's the one with the gun
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 8 | Aired on 2005.11.23
Sayid gulps thirstily at the water Michael gives him. "Who is that woman?" he asks. Michael explains about Ana-Lucia, managing not to use the word "psycho." "Where's Walt?" asks Sayid. Michael gives him the point-form version, which seems to hit Sayid pretty hard. He starts struggling with his bindings, and Michael tells him he'll get out of this.
If they do, it'll interrupt the golf grudge match Kate and Jack have going on. Charlie and Hurley have wisely elected not to watch, likely figuring that all the talk of strokes and shafts and balls and holes would be too much for Kate and Jack to withstand. Kate's got first shot, and Jack makes an ill-advised crack about the ladies' tees being ten feet closer, earning him a jolly "Shut up, Jack" from Kate, who tees up and drops her shot about two feet from the pin. Jack's looking like, I didn't know chicks could do that. "Nice," is all he says, and a pleased Kate tells him he's up. Jack steps up, swings, and judging from his grimace and the way Kate and Jack's heads are swiveling to follow the path of the ball, he didn't hit it so well. In fact, it goes into the trees. "Wow," says Kate, unable to contain her glee. "You really put it in there." Oh, here we go with the double entendres.
So it turns out Jack is one of those annoying golfers who wastes everyone's time by refusing to take a drop and insisting on searching for a long-gone ball that, even if they find it, will be likely unhittable. But apparently Jack has found his ball and he plans on hitting it, soon as Kate gets out of the way. But Kate suddenly can't move, and looks terrified, staring at something behind Jack. Jack turns around, and Eko is upon him, with Sawyer still over his shoulders. Jack raises the golf club in defence, but Eko asks where the doctor is.
Down in the hatch, Locke is working on a crossword puzzle; the clue is "Enkidu's friend," and the answer is "Gilgamesh." The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the world's oldest works of literature, if not the oldest, and was (maybe still is) the first work taught at my alma mater's incomparable Foundation Year Program. Enkidu was created by the sky-god Anu as a rival to Gilgamesh. The Epic may prove the foundation for what we know today as the buddy-cop movie, since Enkidu and Gilgamesh eventually team up. What does all this mean for Locke? Well, he's going to meet Eko in a moment.