Episode Report Card Daniel: B+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT If you don't know Des by now, you will never, never, never know him.
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 23 | Aired on May 23, 2006
Back in present-day Swan station, Charlie's still banging on the door, warning Locke that he's "about to be detonated." It's really too bad that neither Charlie nor Eko seem to have any idea WHY THEY'RE CALLED BLAST DOORS.
Getting no response from the computer room, Charlie instead tries reasoning with Eko, who's still setting the fuse for the dynamite, and asks him what if Locke's right. "What if it's just some colossal joke? You know, it's just some old computer connected to nothing? Maybe it's just a bunch of wire?" Finally too irritated to let Charlie continue living, I hope, Eko stands up, shoves Charlie against the wall and pulls Charlie's belt off. He turns and throws it down the hallway, where it's pulled to the magnetic wall and sticks like a fridge magnet. "Is that a joke?" yells Eko. "I'll see myself out," says Charlie, like his feelings are hurt. He strolls off down the hall and retrieves his belt, while Eko yells that this is Locke's last chance to end this: "Open the door and I will forgive you." Inside, Locke, not unreasonably, wants to know what he's to be forgiven for. So Eko strolls back to the fuse, which he lights with a match from a Dharma matchbook, ignoring Charlie's protests that they're in a confined area.
As the Mission: Impossible fuse burns, Eko ducks over by the wall with the mural, and Charlie says "bollocks" when he realizes that Eko didn't exactly set the longest fuse in the world, and he takes off running down the hall. And finally, finally we have someone being chased by a huge explosive fireball. They should do this every show! How hard could it be to come up with an excuse for that every show? Even if it's, like, Sawyer lighting farts or something!
We come back from commercial in flashback, with Desmond being awakened by the timer alarm going off. He yells Clancy's name, but there's no response, so he himself runs into the computer room and enters the numbers., and watches the timer reset. He hears some singing from behind him, and there's an open trap door or grate or something, an empty bottle of Dharma booze on the floor beside it.
He drops down into a crouch like he's a ninja into some sort of tunnel underneath the computer room. In front of him, a drunk Clancy is dangling a key from his hand, muttering that he couldn't do it. He's lying next to some sort of lidded keyhole thing in an alcove, with Caution: System Termination printed on the underside of the lid. "This is the only other way out, partner," he says, explaining to a confused Desmond that this is the station's "failsafe. Turn this key and this all goes away."