Episode Report Card Daniel: C+ | 2 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT In torture we trust
By Daniel | Season 2 | Episode 14 | Aired on 02.14.2006
So now they're in the jungle, and Ana-Lucia points to a figure skulking through the brush. It is, of course, Rousseau. I mean, "the French woman." Sayid tells Ana-Lucia to go back, and not to tell anyone what she saw. Like anyone would even ask her about it anyway.
So Sayid stalks Rousseau the French Woman until he catches up with her and asks what she's doing there. "Looking for you," she says. Dun dun dun...? I guess.
Rousseau's stomping through the bushes, Sayid following her, and he's doing this weird thing that I'm not sure what it is...oh, he's asking her questions. Although she's not actually answering most of them. Basically, he's wondering why, if she was looking for him, she was skulking around the bushes. He finally just stops and says he won't go anywhere until she tells him what's going on. See, he hasn't forgotten that the last time she showed up, it was to tell them that the Others were coming, except she was lying and it was a diversion to try to snatch Aaron. I suppose it's possible Rousseau has forgotten all this and needs Sayid to recap it all. She makes a face like, "Oh, God, here we go with the bringing up of the baby-snatching." And the upshot is that he doesn't trust her. "This place that I'm taking you to, there's something that will help you. Something important," she says. Well, that clears everything up. And as for trust? She hands him her rifle, which he takes. "If I'm lying, it's yours to use," she says. He checks, rather awesomely, to see if it's even loaded. Satisfied, he asks how much farther they have to go. "Not far," she says.
We flash back to Sayid translating the interrogation of his commanding officer, so we get some of that classic mis-translation humour, the kind where Tariq says, "Tell him his mother is a goat," and Sayid translates it as, "He says he does not know." Kate's dad isn't buying it, and tells Sayid to tell Tariq that if he gives them the location of the helicopter pilot, Tariq can go free. Sayid relays this, but Tariq just says, "You are a disgrace." Sayid seems kind of shocked that his commanding officer is displeased with him. Tariq orders Sayid to take the sergeant's gun and kill him, and he can take down a few soldiers before he himself is killed. The sergeant wants to know what Tariq is saying, and Sayid says, "He says he does not know," which, given that Tariq was yammering away for about ten minutes, doesn't take a cunning linguist to know that Sayid's not being straight up. The sergeant says that if Sayid won't help him, someone else will take over. "And that someone won't play nice at all," he says. Can I just ask why, then, they're wasting time with Sayid in the first place? Sayid apologizes, and repeats that Tariq does now know, and the sergeant gets up and stomps off, saying Sayid had his chance.
We're on Craphole Beach, and we're going to start one of the more pointless (not to mention recycled) B-plots we've had in a while. It's looks like it's the morning, and Sawyer's tossing and turning trying to get some sleep in his tent, but he can't because of a tree frog's insistent ribbiting in the background. He gets up, and angrily stomps out of his tent, and he asks Jin, like the one guy around who doesn't even actually speak English, if he hears the noise. Jin doesn't say anything, not even anything in Korean, and walks away. "What, we ain't friends anymore?" says Sawyer, genuinely surprised that maybe Jin isn't impressed that Sawyer prevented him from going after whoever tried to kidnap his wife. You'd think Sawyer might want to stay away from Jin anyway, due to the possibility of Jin finding out that Sawyer orchestrated the whole thing. NOT THAT THIS IS EVEN MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE, WHICH IS THE ONE RIGHT AFTER WHERE THIS ALL WENT DOWN.