Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A | 537 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Double Your Fun
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 2 | Aired on 2010.02.02
Pool area: The clanging of the bell is closer now, and there's hubbub all around. Yoko and Lennon go outside and bark orders at the Templars, who start pouring ash around the borders, putting out fires, and shooting off fireworks into the daytime sky. Hurley observes all this and says to Lennon, "I guess we're not getting out of here, huh?" Lennon says this isn't to keep the Losties in. "It's to keep him out." Hurley asks, "Him...who?" and we cut to...
Four-Toes Base: Ben asks Faux-Locke what he is. Faux-Locke says, "I'm not a what, Ben, I'm a who." Ben says he's a monster, which is the pot calling the kettle, isn't it? Faux-Locke says, "Let's not resort to name calling." He pulls the stake out of Bram and drags his body over next to the bodies of the other goonies. Ben is incensed because Faux-Locke "used" him. Faux-Locke contends that he didn't make Ben do anything. "You should know, he was very confused when you killed him." Ben looks at him in disbelief. "I seriously doubt that Jacob was ever confused." Faux-Locke isn't talking about Jacob. "I'm talking about John Locke. Do you want to know what he was thinking while you choked the life out of him, Benjamin -- what the last thought that ran through his head was?" A beat. "I don't understand." Faux-Locke thinks that's the saddest thing he ever heard but says it's fitting, considering what a sad victim Locke was when he first came to the island. "He was weak, pathetic, and irreparably broken. But despite all of that, there was something admirable about him. He was the only one of them who didn't want to leave -- the only one who realized how pitiful the life he left behind actually was." When Faux-Locke sits back with a satisfied smile, Ben asks him what he wants. Faux-Locke says that's the great irony, here. "I want the one thing that John Locke didn't. I want to go...home." And holy crap, is that the scariest face anyone has made on this island in the past five and a half years? That sucker's going to give me nightmares. Commercial.
Island Reality: Hurley leans over Sayid's body and whispers: "Goodbye, dude. If you ever want to talk -- I'm around." Miles is sitting on the other side of Sayid, just staring and shaking his head. When Hurley asks him, "What?" Miles shakes his head again and says, "Nothing." Across the way, Kate mops Sawyer's brow in the way the Losties do, that never, ever seems to wipe anything off of them. Sawyer blinks awake and asks, "Where are we?" Kate says they're in a temple. Sawyer says, "We got caught by the Others, again." Kate says, "Yeah, only this time, they're protecting us, I think." Sawyer groans as he sits up. Kate looks at him. "I'm so sorry." Across the way, Jack sits alone with his guilt. Kate explains to Sawyer that Jack is just trying to help everyone. Sawyer says, "I ain't gonna kill Jack. He deserves to suffer on this rock, just like the rest of us." Yeah, because he's a murderer like you and Kate and...oh, wait!