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
Desmond ducks under the door back into the kitchen, where Clancy has taken his concoction and paintbrush over to the lowered blast door where Locke saw the map. I guess it's too bad they never figured out how to turn on the black light, huh? I guess they're just assuming this ridiculous inviso-paint is working? Clancy explains that the map was Radzinski's idea; he had a photographic memory. Desmond seems to get all snitty of Radzinski, for some reason, like he's jealous of Clancy's former partner for some reason. "Yet for some reason, you never want to tell me what bloody well happened to him."
Clancy looks up at the ceiling and strolls over towards a dark spot on the concrete. "See that brown stain there? That's Radzinski." Radzinski ate a shotgun one night when Clancy was asleep. So I guess that shuts you up, Desmond. "The bitch of it was," continues Clancy, "I only had 108 minutes to bury the poor bastard." Hey, Clancy, ever hear of making more than one trip?
Desmond mulls this over, and then sensitively says, "Well, if you don't want me to go crazy, next time let me go out." Clancy's gone back to painting his stupid map and asks if Desmond wants to go out there with the quarantine and the hostiles. Desmond says he hasn't been outside in two years (two years? He's not crazy already?), and implies he'll be able to handle himself because he was in the army. Clancy slags off "Her Majesty's Army" and asks why he left "that nice old lady's army" before pretending to just now remember that Desmond was kicked out because he couldn’t follow orders. Desmond angrily asks why Clancy left his army. "Because men followed my orders," he growls, painting again. Then he sarcastically pretends to be thrilled to have joined the Dharma Initiative, and mockingly says, "Namasté, thank you, and good luck!" and starts laughing. Can't wait until Candle sees that impression. Desmond tries pleading to be let outside, just once. Clancy looks at him hard. "Sorry, Des. You stay here. You push the button. That's an order." And now we all know how well Desmond follows those, huh?