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 strand-aways reach camp, but there's no beer, no Bernard and Rose, and no whoever else hasn't been offed by flaming arrows. The camp looks beat up, but I can't remember whether or not it should. Locke says, "I wonder how long ago all this happened," and as Sawyer curses the empty beer cans, Locke finds Vincent's homemade leash. Then, Daniel realizes the Zodiac is gone. In its place are two canoes Daniel deems pretty old, but Miles, retrieving a bottle of water from one, begs to differ. Sawyer reads the label: "Ad-jur-ah," but Juliet corrects him. "Ajira -- it's an airline. It's based out of India, but they fly everywhere." The production team has even created a website -- check out the "destination unknown" package, but still... it's no Barney's Blog. The gang wonders if Bernard, Rose and whoever else is left took the Zodiac to flee the canoe people.
Sawyer cracks that maybe Ajira has a flight off Craphole Island -- to Vegas, but I'm thinking it's more likely they have a flight to there -- from LAX. What? The escape-aways have to get back, somehow. He then gestures towards the canoes and asks, "Who came in these -- other Others?" Juliet's all, "Don't look at me," but if I were Sawyer, I'd have at least her, Locke and Daniel up against a bamboo pole right about now, with my gun pointed in their faces, and I'd be demanding better answers -- even if they had to make them up. And they probably would, which is probably why Sawyer doesn't expend the energy. Poor thing doesn't even have a piss warm skunked Dharma beer to quench his thirst. Locke, trying something new, decides to be the voice of reason and suggests that whoever came in the canoes, perhaps it would be best not to wait and find out who they are and when they're coming back. Finally, the entire gang of misfits agrees on something, and pulls the canoe towards the ocean.