Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: B+ | 900 USERS: B+ YOU GRADE IT John 3:16
By Cindy McLennan | Season 5 | Episode 6 | Aired on 2009.02.18
Raw emotion is written all over Jack's face. "Was it my fault?" Ben takes his glasses off and assures Jack it wasn't his fault. He then leaves his seat to give Jack some privacy. He walks toward the front of first class, but we don't see him take a seat. Jack stares at the envelope for a moment, then taking a deep breath, he rips it open. He unfolds the white-lined paper inside and although none fall, his eyes fill with tears. Again. Oh, poor Woobie. The camera cuts to Locke's text: "Jack, I wish you had believed me. JL" Whosoever believeth in him... Jack leans his head back, and the lights flicker off and on. There's some serious LET-ME-OUT-OF-THIS-DEATHTRAP turbulence. Kate, Sayid, Hurley and Sun all look around. It continues. We cut back to Jack. We see Saïd/Caesar, then Hurley, again. Original recipe Sayid and his Marshall. There's creaking and the sign comes on telling people to fasten their seatbelts, and use their seat bottom as a flotation device. Hurley turns to Saïd/Caesar and says, "Dude, you might want to fasten your seatbelt," then he slides his sleep mask over his eyes, God bless him. The flight attendant struggles down the aisle instructing people to put on their seatbelts. We get a good look at everyone, but I don't see Ben, which seems...curious. The turbulence worsens. Luggage falls from the overheads. The cabin goes dark. The emergency lights come on. There's an alarm, because loud, urgent noises will surely help people stay calm in a crisis situation. The plane is now shaking so violently that the flight attendant is thrown across the aisle. Suddenly everything starts to get brighter, and brighter and brighter and brighter, and we FLASH!
Island; Day; Time Period Unknown For Now: The camera zooms in on Jack's right eye -- mirroring the opening scene of the pilot. He wakes to the sounds of birds chirping, and the breeze blowing, and I can't decide if the whispers I hear are from the show or from the voices in my head. Whatever. Lost put about a third of them in there, anyhow. Jack breathes heavily, because lying flat on your back can leave you winded (if you do it right) and springs up once he lets himself realize he's back on Craphole. He takes a deep breath of crazy island air and reviews a scrap of what we now know to be Locke's (alleged) suicide note which reads, "I wish." I think I hear the island whisper, "Wish granted, John Locke," but I can't be sure, because Hurley is shouting. "Help. Anyone." Dropping the scrap, Jack heads towards Hurley's voice, comes to the edge of a cliff, and finds Hurley holding onto a guitar case, and struggling to stay afloat in waterfall-fed lake below. Jack dives in to save him. I've decided he's well acquainted with this lake, so that I don't have to freak out about a spinal surgeon diving off a cliff into unfamiliar waters. He makes his way over to the struggling Hurley who is freaking. He spots an unconscious Kate lying with her head on a rather large rock. Talk about your Jacob's pillow -- and yet, she's not bleeding. I mean -- not even a scratch. Jack flips her over -- listens to her...throat (what's up with that), and uses all his medical knowledge to revive her by saying, "Kate?" Good thing she has a doctor handy.