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
Mainland; Current Day; My So-Called Hot Pursuit: Kate and Jack trail Dan "Angela Chase's Dad" Norton to a motel. As Norton climbs the external stairway to his client's room, Jack tries to convince Kate that they won't necessarily know if Norton is meeting with his top seekrit blood-demanding client, or someone else. He also tries to cajole her into abandoning this plan. They can go get Aaron, take him somewhere safe and figure everything out. If you watch closely, you can almost see Benjamin Linus pulling Jack's strings. He's just a wee puppet man, but maybe if he's good he can be a real boy, someday. Norton's client answers her door. It's Carole Littleton -- Claire's mother! Jack and Kate take this in and we jump to... a commercial.
While Norton was in Littleton's room, the skies must have opened up, because he leaves in a torrential downpour and I'm stuck wondering whether there's any connection between the strand-aways' weather and the escape-aways' weather, but that way lies madness, so I back the heck up from the abyss. Jack and Kate watch him leave, and Kate's ready to drive off in defeat, but Jack stays her hand on the emergency brake release. He suggests that maybe they should take a moment and think things through. Maybe Ms. Littleton doesn't know about Aaron, but Kate insists she must. Just in case things aren't quite royally screwed up, Jack decides to go up to her room and talk to her. He thinks he can make her understand why he helped Kate steal the grandchild she didn't even know she had -- the son of her daughter whom she presumes is dead. Oh yeah, that'll work. Jack tells Kate he can fix this, and adds, "Aaron is my family, too." As a means of consent, Kate allows one pretty little tear to fall, while she closes her eyes, and smiles the smile of emotional depth -- or possibly Sun's shoes are giving her corns. Jack and Kate share A Meaningful Silent Moment, and Jack heads out into the pouring rain.