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
And Jack's thinking the same thing that I was, because he leans in and says, "You talk with Boone, God's Friggin' Gift to Humanity, about destiny?" Locke calmly says, "Boone was a sacrifice that the island demanded." Although he does look as though he's sorry Boone died. He says that Boone's death was part of chain of events that has led them here, blah blah, to this moment. Jack wants to know where the path ends. It ends just as soon as you two SHUT UP AND KEEP MOVING. Locke says the path ends at the hatch, and everything has been leading up to the opening of the hatch. Jack shakes his head. "No, we're opening the hatch so we can survive." "Survival's all relative, Jack," says Locke, and Jack decides to keep walking, saying he doesn't believe in destiny. "Yes you do. You just don't know it yet," says Locke. Man, are you guys as thrilled as I am that they stretched a one-hour episode to two hours by adding a lot of talking and long pointless scenes like Hurley running, instead of answering questions and wall-to-wall action? That's what I figured.
Out on the raft, Walt's managed to get to sleep. Mercutio covers him with another blanket, and goes over to where Sawyer is fiddling with the radar. Mercutio tells him he just had it on a little while ago, and Sawyer says Sayid told them to try it every hour. Well, what he told them was no more than once per hour, and Mercutio points out that they're only fifteen miles out and could be sailing for weeks so they don't want to drain the battery. "Man said every hour," said Sawyer, who always does what he's told, as we all know. They flick it on. "Nothing," says Sawyer, and Mercutio says five minutes, no more, holding his new watch. Show-off. Sawyer says he likes that Mercutio has the patience of a saint, ad Mercutio wonders what makes Sawyer say that. "I've seen the way he talks to you," says Sawyer, who goes on about Walt running around all over the place. The whuh? The kid's what, twelve? He seems generally pretty well-behaved to me, but Sawyer says, "I would have shown him the back of my hand a long time ago." Yeah, thanks for the parenting tips, Sawyer. Mercutio asks if that was Sawyer's dad's parenting style, but Sawyer says his dad never got a chance to beat him, shooting himself when Sawyer was eight years old. And the good vibes from the shared Bob Marley appreciation are completely gone now, as Mercutio asks if that's why Sawyer wants to die. Sawyer doesn't know what Mercutio's talking about, but Mercutio said he was wondering why a guy who only cares about himself wanted to risk his life so bad to save everyone else. "The way I see it, there's only two choices. You're either a hero, or you want to die," he says. Did Mercutio just call himself a hero? Sawyer gives him a long glare, before finally saying, "Well, I ain't no hero, Mercutio." This searing moment of self-awareness is suddenly interrupted by the slow boop! boop! boop! of the radar. They look at it, surprised, and sure enough see a blip on the screen. "Is that what I think it is?" says Sawyer. Either that, or PlayStation 3 really sucks. Jin takes an interest, and they all start scanning the waters, with Mercutio saying, "Something's out there," in case we don't know how radar works. Commercials.