Episode Report Card Dan Kwa: B | 139 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT That Girl From Pyongyang (Unfurled My Long Wang)
By Dan Kwa | Season 1 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2004.10.27
Sayid's choppin' wood when Kate and Jack return. The purpose of this shot is so that we won't be surprised when that axe shows up later. (According to people who make things up on the boards, many airplanes have hidden axes stored on them. For fires, I guess. This seems insane.) As the three of them sit and drink, Sayid tells Jack that he thinks Sun knows why Jin attacked Mercutio. Jack tells Sayid he wants to move the camp up to the Grotto. Sayid is upset Jack made this decision for everyone, and asks what happened to "live together, die alone." The castaways need to stay on the beach and keep a signal fire burning in hopes of rescue, Sayid says. Jack counters that all those people sitting in the sun far from water is suicide. Sayid stalks away; "I'm not going to admit defeat," he grumbles. In the jungle.
Midsection Beach. Mercutio watches Walt and Victor play, and then sees Jack talking to a few extras about moving to the Grotto. "I already gave you my statement, Sheriff," he says as Sayid approaches. Sayid tells him he came to apologize. "You were the victim in this morning's attack." Mercutio asks why he really came over; Sayid says he wants to take Mercutio's temperature about Jack's Grotto plan. "I got one priority right now, and that's getting my kid off this island," Mercutio responds. "A boat passes, I'm not gonna be on the hook for missing it."
Jack hands a bottle of water to the still-handcuffed Jin and tells him to drink it slowly. He finds Hurley engaging in some telegenic castaway busywork and tells him he's glad he's coming. "I go where the boar's at," says Hurley. "So," he adds, "what up with you and Kate?" Hurley seems excited to be hanging out with the cool kids. "You guys gonna move into a cave together or what?" Jack laughs and asks if he's in high school. Wait! I got it! This entire show, all this danger and death and monsters and adventure, is actually a metaphor for high school! It's Buffy in reverse!