Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 538 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT I Was Dreaming When I Wrote This
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 4 | Aired on 2009.02.04
The beach! Jin's still out cold, lying in the sun (not... oh, you know). He wakes with a start to find himself surrounded by the French castaways, and they're speaking French, like I hear the French do. The painfully young woman comes over to him and asks him a question in French. Poor Jin's like what the heck, I have to learn another new language?! He tells her, "No understand," and the woman switches easily to English. She asks how he got there and he says, "Boat." This sets the French people atwitter and one of the men, Robert -- I think -- asks Jin what boat he means. He says, "It's gone. Sink." The woman figures he was caught in the same storm they were -- the woman figures wrong.
Another of the French men demands to know who Jin is and asks how long he was in the water. Jin says he doesn't know, and the guy says, "How do you not know how you wound up in the middle of the ocean, ah?" The woman barks back at him in French, seemingly in Jin's defense. She then gives some sort of an order to the man named Robert, and removes her outer cloak to reveal her pregnant form. Robert returns with a canteen, and smiling, she thanks him.
The rest of the French men walk away, leaving Robert and the woman to watch Jin chug the water. When he stops for a breath, he thanks the woman. She smiles and asks what his name is. He tells her: "Kwon Jin-Soo... Jin."
The woman smiles kindly at him. "Hello, Jin. I'm Danielle. Danielle Rousseau."
Jin looks as though he's seeing a ghost, because he kind of is. We close in on her earnest young face. She's puzzled by Jin's reaction and we... fade to black.
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