Episode Report Card Daniel: B | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT I was blown up by a pirate ship
By Daniel | Season 1 | Episode 24 | Aired on 05.24.2005
The grim beach parade has reached the caves. Claire's practically catatonic and is being led by Sun. Shannon's not so happy either, and somehow she winds up bunking down right by the gurney her brother died on. Sun comes and sits down next to her, giving Vincent some food, and telling Shannon that Boone died very bravely, because that's probably exactly what she wants to talk about right now. Shannon thanks her. And Sun asks if she thinks all this is happening because they're being punished. "Punished for what?" asks Shannon. "Things we did before, secrets we kept, lies we told," says Sun. Shannon doesn't answer that question, because she knows that can't be right, because if the punishment were on the basis of all the lies they told, then Shannon's punishment would have been a big ol' nuclear bomb dropped on her head while she was suntanning. Instead, she just asks who Sun thinks is punishing them. "Fate," says Sun, after a moment. And from off to the side, Claire finally speaks up. "No one's punishing us. There's no such thing as fate." They should turn Claire into a total nihilist, if you ask me. But that would only happen if she didn't get her baby back, which we know she will.
And she will because Sayid and Charlie are still scrambling after Rousseau, like so much for catching the woman with the head start, Sayid. And their shadows show that it's much closer to noon than it is to sundown, but that's okay. "We're losing the light," lies Sayid. "Try to keep up!" Charlie says okay. And they run from the rocks into the jungle, with the black smoke seemingly just over the next hill. And here we go again with the requirement of every chase that at some point the runner has to stop in a clearing and the camera spins, and that happens to Charlie here, as he loses sight of Sayid but finally hears him yell "over here!"
He catches up with Sayid at the airplane where Boone and Locke found the heroin, like this episode is some sort of twelve stations of the death of Boone or something, and Sayid says they're going to take a break. Charlie protests, but Sayid says that Charlie's going to collapse very soon, so they need to rest a moment. Charlie looks at the plane. "Is this where Boone fell?" he asks, and Sayid tells him the plane was up higher, and explains that it apparently came from Nigeria with two men dressed as priests, smuggling heroin. He lobs a statue of the Virgin Mary Charlie's way, and it hits the ground and breaks open. "All right," says Sayid, picking up his pack again. "Now we go. No time to fight inner demons." Come to think of it, he might not have said that last part, but Charlie stands there for like five hours looking at the broken statue and all the baggies of sweet, sweet heroin within.
The dynamite dingbats slowly trudge through the jungle, Kate gingerly making her way across a stream. Hurley makes conversation by asking Locke what he thinks is in the hatch, and Locke says, "What do you think is in it?" and Hurley goes off on TV dinners, like if you're going to fantasize about food, how sad to fantasize about TV dinners and Twinkies like Hurley does here. "Twinkies keep for like eight thousand years, man," and they chuckle, and Locke says he likes Twinkies too, only you have to guess that Hurley likes Twinkies a lot more than Locke does. So Hurley asks Locke what he really thinks is inside, and Locke says. "Hope. I think hope is inside." Hope? Who the hell is Hope?
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