Episode Report Card Daniel: B+ | 5 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT I was blown up by a pirate ship
By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 24 | Aired on May 24, 2005
Locke yells, "Are we ready?" and then Hurley's telling them to hold on a sec, and he comes back into the clearing. He stumbles slightly (thank God he was a little more graceful while carrying the dynamite) and drops his flashlight by the side of the hatch. Picking it up, he notices the engraved numbers -- 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42. Naturally, he freaks, yelling that they can't do this, that they have to stop, that the numbers are bad, that sort of thing. Locke looks kind of pissed, and looks at Jack, and Jack doesn't know what the hell's going on. And Hurley's running at Locke, who finally is just all "fuck it" and lights the fuse. "Why'd you do that?" yells Hurley, who goes chasing the burning fuse like he's Wile E. Coyote and has just figured out that the dynamite he set for the Road Runner is going to blow himself up instead. Jack chases Hurley down, who's less than successful in his attempt to stamp out the fuse. Locke runs for cover and Jack tackles Hurley, and the two of them hit the deck as the dynamite explodes.
Back on the raft, the blip is closer to them, and the boop boop boop wakes up Walt. "It's closer," says Sawyer, and he asks for the flare gun. Mercutio says he's only got one flare. Jin jabbers away and points at his eyes to indicate that he can't see anything, and Sawyer's all, "No shit, it's night," and then there's some language-barrier confusion as Mercutio and Jin try to figure out whether they should be looking starboard or port, and Sawyer says, "Hey Han, you and Chewie want to slow down a second and talk to me here?" which I can't believe I missed the first time I watched, but which rules. Mercutio doesn't want to fire the flare because they don't know what the blip is. It might be a piece of floating junk, or maybe the radar doesn't even work. Sawyer asks if Mercutio knows of anything Sayid's made that doesn't work, like what is the deal with Sawyer's suddenly unshakeable faith in Sayid? Walt, watching the screen, says the blip's moving away. "Floating junk knows how to steer, does it?" and Mercutio points out that they're the ones moving. Sawyer asks if Mercutio's going to give him the flare gun or if he'll have to take it. "What are you going to do, shoot me?" asks Mercutio, and Sawyer glares at him. "It's almost gone," says Walt. Jin and Mercutio and Sawyer stand there looking at each other. It's Walt's urging, though, that seems to convince Mercutio. "Please, God," he says, taking out the flare gun, and firing it off the side.