Episode Report Card Daniel: C- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Jack On Crack
By Daniel | Season 3 | Episode 1 | Aired on 10.03.2006
Then she whips out a Taser or some such and shoots Sawyer right in the neck! Holy shit! Nice shot! Sawyer drops like a Lost plotline and starts convulsing. Then he's dragged by Zeke and this other Other, with that special type of shot where the camera is attached underneath Sawyer, so he's centered throughout the shot but the background spins and shifts. I don't know what you call it. You know, like in Evil Dead. Anyway, Sawyer gets thrown back in his cage, and Juliet gazes in at him for a moment, and we see that Zeke has Chachi too, and shoves Chachi's face up to the bars. "Say it. Say it, Carl," says Zeke (but I will keep calling him Chachi). Chachi's been beaten up since we last saw him, looks like. "I'm sorry. Sorry I involved you in my breakout attempt," he says, and is led away. It's nice to see that they're sticklers for manners here in the Others' prison.
Jack's sulking in his cell. Juliet strolls into the other side, carrying food and water again. She tells him that the drugs they gave him when they brought him here have a dehydrating effect. "Your head is probably sore, your throat is raw. If you don't eat or drink something soon, you're going to start hallucinating." Because she knows what the incredibly obscure condition known as dehydration is, Jack asks if she's a doctor. "No, I'm a repo woman," she says, and they share a smile. She tries again to get him to take some food, telling him that there are no strings attached, that he doesn't have to answer any questions. "You don't have to do anything but sit with your back up against the far wall. Let me open that door, put the plate down and leave." Jack doesn't say anything. He doesn't even look at her. She keeps trying: "I know it feels like you're giving up, like you're losing, if you do anything that I ask you to. But you're not. You need to eat." He looks at her. "What do you say?" she says. He thinks about it for a long while, and finally gets up and walks over to the wall. She thanks him and exits out her door to come around to Jack's side.
Jack's in the hospital, in a patient's room, giving instructions to a nurse. And despite some of the forum chatter about the patient being Zeke, I'm not convinced. "Let's take out the epidural catheter and get him started on a PCA," says Jack, and as the nurse asks if he's sure the patient's ready to self-administer his pain meds, Jack sees his dad out in the hall take a call on his cell phone. He's laughing away, and Jack looks so pissed that he's apparently thinking Sarah's calling to set up another sex-crazed evening with Christian. Hopefully the patient's going to be okay on his own, because Jack is not answering the nurse's queries at all.