Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 1070 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT The Mirror of Erised
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2010.02.23
Jin wakes up alone in Claire's lair, which is littered with all manner of things including clothing, a box of explosives, an oar, and a tacky, vinyl blue and white baby bassinet, covered in discolored tulle. When Jin uses the oar as a crutch to hobble over to the bassinet, he peers inside to find a dead... baby boar's head attached to a body made out of animal fur. Jin takes a moment to let the crazy hit home, but when he hears Claire returning, he throws himself back down to the ground before she can see that he's been snooping. Excellent choice, Jin.
Claire pushes Justin inside her tent, whacks him behind the knees with her rifle and ties him up. She demands to know where he's hiding her son. Justin is not answering, so she leaves him to clean up Jin's wound. "If there's one thing that will kill you around here, it's infection." Oh, Claire. Jin asks Claire if she's been out here all this time, by herself. Claire says, "No, I'm not by myself." I want her to hold up her awesome, homemade baby doll as proof, but she just steps back outside the tent. Justin tells Jin they've got to escape, now. Jin says "It's okay; I know her." Justin says, "No, I know her. If we don't get out of here, now, she's going to kill us both." Raise your hand if you think he's half right.
Jungle: Hurley and Jack plod along until they stumble upon Kate, down by a creek. She turns her gun on them, and when she realizes it's Jack, she... doesn't shoot! Perhaps they'll get back together. She tells him Jin went back to the Temple, "And, um... Sawyer's on his own." Not exactly, Kate. Wait until you see his smoking new mate. Cough. Despite Hurley's tip that there's a secret entrance to the Temple, Kate tells the guys she's not returning. She's going to look for Claire at the beach camp. Jack tells Kate Claire won't be there and that the people at the Temple say something happened to her, but didn't say where she is.