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In flashbacks, we see the prettiest people on the island trying to make a baby, but apparently Sun and Jin have been trying for a year, with no bun in the oven. They should try a car's backseat, which had a pretty high success rate in my high school, as I recall. Sun's not so sure she wants a baby that Jin's never going to see, but Jin figures a baby might convince his father-in-law to give him a safer (or more legal) job. And on the island, Jin's turning into the domineering overprotective husband again, even going so far as to rip up Sun's garden so that she has no reason to be out there by herself. Locke brings Ana-Lucia into the secret of Henry Gale, since he wants Gale out of the hatch -- or, as Locke calls it, "my hatch." He figures Ana-Lucia might be able to get information out of Henry (plus, he gets to do something without getting Jack's permission). Ana-Lucia tries on the "good cop" role for the first time ever, since the last time she had a suspected Other in a hole, he ended up dead. (This is not news that pleases Henry, when she tells him.) But the softball routine works, and Henry provides her with a map to his balloon as proof of his story, which she keeps secret from the power-struggling Jack and Locke, and she enlists Sayid's help (and Charlie's) in going after it. Sun's furtively asking for a pregnancy test is dragged out a really long time, considering it was in the previews last week, plus it was on the anvil they dropped during the opening flashbacks. What's even more unfortunate is that Sawyer sees fit to dis Judy Blume. In flashbacks, we've learned that Sun is learning English from the bald guy that she was set up with earlier. And when a doctor drops the bad news that Sun's endometriosis prevents her from ever bearing children, Jin is a total dick about it. Sun's positive pregnancy test is no cause for celebration, what with Jin being such an asshole right now, and Sun wants Jack and Kate to keep quiet about it, so Sun starts out sticking with the ol' "everybody knows my secret except Jin" routine, which has worked like a charm for her before. But some magical backwards talking by Bernard and Sawyer convinces Jin to fix Sun's garden, and she breaks the news about the pregnancy, as well as the revelation that the doctor later confessed that Jin is the one who couldn't have children, not Sun (the doctor lied to avoid having his practice burned down by a violent Korean gangster). But then how, you ask? Sun swears she's never been with another man, so Jin chalks one up in the "miracle" column. And considering that Sun seemed genuinely shocked by the positive pregnancy test, I currently believe her. We're left not knowing if Henry is an Other or not, as Ana-Lucia, Sayid and Charlie have started looking for the balloon. Meanwhile, back at the hatch, over a healthy breakfast of Dharma-O's, Henry "accidentally" tells Jack and Locke about the map, and casually suggests that if he were an Other, the map just might lead to an ambush. And I believe Ross Geller said it best: "Y-o-u-apostrophe-r-e means 'you are.' Y-o-u-r means 'YOUR'!" Want more? The full recap starts right below!
Sun's standing in a negligee, looking at herself in the mirror. Hell, I would, if I were Sun. We hear Jin call out, in Korean, "Are you coming to bed?" So this looks promising for everybody watching. She seems a little nervous, and says she'll be right there. She steps out of the bathroom, and a shirtless Jin is lying up in bed waiting for her. He takes one look at her, and says, if my Korean lessons are paying off, "Daaaaaaaaaaamn." She seems slightly bashful, but flattered, and twirls for him at his request, while he looks her up and down approvingly. She comes to bed, and they start kissing, and he rolls her over onto her back before asking if she took her temperature. "Isn't that romantic?" she gripes, even though he didn't even say anything like the Korean equivalent of "hot beef injection," and he apologizes, before informing us -- er, "reminding Sun" -- that they've been trying for a year.So he moves in to kiss again, but Sun ain't havin' it anymore. Jin says they should see a doctor about it, and Sun reacts like she doesn't even know what doctors are. Then she asks why Jin cares so much about a baby he won't even see. And they start fighting about his work, which Sun says isn't even work because he comes home with blood on his hands. Can someone give Sun's number to Carmela Soprano? Jin reminds her that he has blood on his hands because of her father. Sun's face crumples a moment after Jin reminds her that her father isn't the most squeaky-clean businessman, and Jin gets up, goes over to the window to give the Seoul skyline an eyeful, and apologizes. Then he lays out his "maybe if we have a baby, your father will want me in a safer job" theory. I'm not sure why Sun's father would care more for the safety of his grandchild's father that he does for the safety of his daughter's husband, but just go with that, Jin. Jin comes back to bed and says, "A baby will change everything." Yup, they usually do. "A baby will make it better." That, on the other hand, is often up for debate; Sun's non-responsiveness suggests she knows that much, even if Jin doesn't.
On Craphole Island, Sun's working in her garden. A rustling in the bushes startles her, which is understandable given what happened the last time the bushes did that. But she's relieved to see that it's Jin, even if she can't see that he's obviously pissed. He starts yelling her about how long he's been looking for her. This seems kind of odd to me; since he obviously knows about the garden, wouldn't that be one of the first places he'd check? He tells her to come back with him, and she says no, so he grabs her arm, and they yell at each other a bit. "The Others attacked you here! We talked about this!" is what he's saying, and she's saying that she doesn’t need him to protect her. She says she's going back to work in her garden. "'My garden'?" says Jin, who then proceeds to uproot everything, which he then says means she no longer has any reason to be out there. Personally, I think he's created a lot more work for her, so she'll need to stay out there longer. But he's probably not thinking straight, as evidenced by his rocking the Adam Morrison My First Mustache. "Shall we go back now?" says Hurricane Jin, and Sun goes stomping past him.
Ana-Lucia's sprinting along the beach while we surprisingly hear no music from Rocky or Chariots of Fire. She races up to her tent, where Locke's chillin', eating a banana, ready with a quip about how she's running like the devil's chasing her (stealing his folksy sayings from Desmond, I see). Like Mr. T, she ain't got time for the jibber-jabber, and asks him what he wants; she knows he wants something because she's been there a week and Locke hasn't spoken two words to her before now. So Locke gets right to it: "We've got a man locked up down in the hatch. There's a possibility he's one of them, the Others." Ana-Lucia wants to know what he means by "we," and Locke says him and Jack, which is a pretty good example of lying by omission, which Ana-Lucia will humourously find out throughout the episode. Anyway, Locke wants her to talk to Henry: "You have experience with the Others; you were a cop. Seems to me you're the most qualified to figure out if this man's telling the truth." Ana-Lucia asks if Jack knows that Locke's coming to her with this. Locke considers his answer for a moment, before calmly spouting off about how they have a problem and he's doing something about it and he doesn't need Jack's permission and blah blah blah. The key thing is this: "Right now there's a man sitting in a room in my hatch, and I want him out." Italics mine.
Sun's angrily pushing her way through the bushes to the beach, and needs to grab onto a tree because she's breathing with some difficulty. Bernard and Rose go strolling by, arguing like an old married couple. They spot Sun in distress, and put aside their Lockhorns routine to hustle over and see what's wrong. Sun says she's lightheaded, and Bernard helpfully says she looks as pale as a sheet. Rose tells him to give Sun some water, using her best "you idiot" tone of voice. "Yes, ma'am!" snaps Bernard, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but shut up, Bernard. Turns out Bernard forgot Rose's birthday, but in his defence he doesn't even know what day of the week it is. Rose suggests they get Jack, which Sun vehemently nixes, which doesn't look suspicious or anything. She says she probably just spent too much time in the sun. That's also true of Jin since he got back, you know. Ahem. "Well, you spent a lot of time around the baby, maybe you caught something," says Rose, although Sun's head looks normal-sized to me. She thanks them both and continues on her way.
In her flashback, Sun furtively strolls down a hotel room hallway, then enters a room and puts the do-not-disturb outside on the door handle. Turns out the bald guy from her arranged date way back when is there waiting for her, and there's lots of "does he know you're here?" and "I'm glad you were able to get away" talk. Unfortunately, it couldn't have been more obviously a smokescreen; even if you didn't guess that he was teaching her English, as turns out to be the case, probably no one was fooled into thinking they were doing it (by which I mean sex).
Sun successfully, if haltingly, asks for an iced tea in English, which he provides. Then this guy -- whose name, Jae, I needed to look up -- asks if she wants to talk about whatever's wrong, which she doesn't. He's doing the "available shoulder" routine that I hate to tell him never actually works, even if he blatantly drops the reminder that things with that American woman he was in love with last time didn't work out. He says he thinks Jin would be proud that she can speak English. "And what do I tell him when he asks how I learned? Or who I learned from?" she says. He says that if she's uncomfortable with their arrangement, they can stop. "Is that what you want?" she asks, and he way too quickly says "no!" and then seems embarrassed and covers it with some nonsense about how it's good practice for him too.
Jack's in the shower, and when he gets out he's startled that Locke is also in the bathroom shaving. Well, might as well just measure them and get it over with, eh guys? Jack snippily asks Locke if he couldn't have waited, but Locke says Jack-shower steam opens up his pores, and since he doesn't have shaving cream (yet the hatch has shampoo and laundry and food and all manner of other amenities -- not to mention I don't remember Desmond having a big ol' Grizzly Adams beard), he has to improvise. Locke doesn't actually say that the steam needs to come from Jack's shower, but I'm extrapolating, because otherwise why wouldn't Locke just shave during his own shower? Locke also thinks this is a good time to talk about their little problem. Jack, unlike any doctor worth his degree when confronted in a locker room, doesn't tell Locke to make an appointment. Locke points out that Henry ain't exactly "motivated" to talk to them, which is some kind of casual indictment of torture as an information-gathering technique, and he wants to bring in "new blood": specifically, Ana-Lucia. "Why her?" says Jack, like maybe Claire or Charlie would prove better interrogators than a cop. Locke points out that Ana's the one Jack went to to help him form an army. ["And thank goodness we've seen that plot point develzzzz*#(@." -- Sars] Jack gives his blessing to this arrangement and says he'll talk to Ana-Lucia. Not so fast; Locke already has, and she's in the armoury right now talking to Henry. Jack doesn't say anything, what with his genitalia being sucked back into his pubic cavity and all.
But Ana-Lucia's not in the armoury talking to Gale; it's this soft-spoken woman who isn't sneering at everything. Oh, hold up…sorry. Anyway, he's asking her questions about arriving on the island instead of the other way around, so I guess she's a complete bust as an interrogator. When he makes a sarcastic comment about how fun it must have been to walk all the way from the other side of the island, Ana smiles and says, "It had its moments," like despite the death and paranoia and just general trauma, she still thinks of it like a nature hike one summer when she was a teenager at Camp Cucamonga. She asks Henry to tell her his story, and he starts listing everyone who's heard it, and he knows everyone's name but "the big black guy who cut off his beard in front of" him. Ana-Lucia's quite surprised (nice poker face there, officer) at his mention of Eko and Sayid, since she didn't know those two knew. "So why don't you try me," she says pleasantly. He wants to know why she'd help him. So she gives the Coles Notes version of the story of the Peace Corpse, which unsurprisingly isn't doing much to put Henry at ease. "I was wrong. And now he's dead." Henry looks away, like, "Can I get the big black guy back in here?" But good news! She doesn't make the same mistake twice, she says. So how about you tell me your story, she says.
On the beach, someone's reading a well-worn copy of Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret, inspiration for many a TWoP-recap title (almost as many as Aerosmith's "Janie's Got a Gun" have inspired for me). If an upcoming scene is anything to go by, I've reserved Superfudge for the Hurley-centric episode. Haven't read Are You There, God? myself. I read Blubber, and was quite fascinated by the children whose parents let them swear. Anyway, the book is dropped to reveal Sawyer in his big ol' Harry Caray glasses, and this is where the laugh track would kick in, if there were one, and if this were actually funny. Sun asks him how the book is, and he says "predictable," and all I can say is "ahem" to that. He also says there's "not enough sex," and Sun's eyebrows crinkle imperceptibly, all, "God, what a douchebag."
Anyway, in the very first and certainly unpredictable scene in which a lostaway needs something from Sawyer's stash, Sun asks him if she can look through the medical supplies he has, and Sawyer says no, that she has to tell him what she wants. She tells him to forget it, and starts to walk away. Sawyer, master negotiator that he is, tells her that now he's intrigued, so she can have whatever it is she's looking for, free. She asks again if she can just look. "It's not a drugstore, sweetheart," he says. True. Drugstores don't have guns and ammo. Wal-Mart?
It's been awhile since I've mentioned any commercials, but I'd just like to ask Boston Market if they're aware that the slogan "It's better than you remember" could be read rather negatively?
Jack's listening in at the armoury door. He says he can't hear anything, which may have something to do with Locke listening to the rock 'n' roll music that all the kids are into these days. He's even got a lava lamp going. Pull back with the camera a bit, and I bet there's a big ol' roach clip with some Grade-A Dharma medicinal marijuana. Jack says, "How do you know he hasn't snapped her neck, John?" Locke responds with, "How do you know she hasn't snapped his?" Uh, touché…?
Inside, Ana-Lucia's going over Henry's improbable story of hot-air-ballooning, wife-dying, and Rousseau-capturing, which he concedes does sound a little silly when it's all laid out like that. She asks him why he doesn't have a beard. Because he shaves. Duh. Like all the men she knows, save Eko. question, Ana? She suggests he draw a map that they can use to find the balloon, but he says that if he screws up drawing the map, then everyone will crucify him. Ana's dubious because he was able to navigate in a hot-air balloon, but he can't draw a map? Apples and oranges, says Henry, essentially, but Ana-Lucia asks if he does or does not know where the balloon is. He says he does, because that's where he went to bury his wife, because that was the closest thing to a home for them. "You people have been looking for someone to punish for everything that's happened to you, someone to blame. And now you've got him." After only three days, sounds like he's all caught up. "It doesn't matter what I do; I'm dead already." Yep, all caught up. Ana tells him to draw up the map, and she'll find the balloon: "But if you don't? Things are gonna play out, just like you said."
Elsewhere on the island, Sun is sneaking through the jungle, looking for some place to do her pregnancy test in peace. And with all that jungle, she just happens to run into Hurley, who's munching on a chocolate bar from his secret stash. They're both freaked out to be caught, even if neither actually realizes the other's up to something secret. Hurley makes up some ridiculous story about finding a chocolate bar in the jungle, and then offers to share. She declines, and mercifully doesn't offer to share what she's got hidden behind her back. She says she was just heading to the beach, and Hurley gives her a "later, dude," and after he leaves, Sun continues to examine the "Widmore Labs" home pregnancy test.
Sun and Jin, in a fancy office. Sun's feet, in impossibly high-heeled shoes, are shaking, so we can take it she's nervous. They're seated, holding hands, facing someone's desk. Behind them, in comes -- OH MY GOD IT'S DR. HANSO! Psych. It's just some regular doctor. He says hello to both of them, and asks after Sun's father, and sends his best. He doesn't ask after Jin's father, or order any maki. Sun pleasantly thanks him for seeing them so quickly, but Jin, again like Mr. T, ain't got time for the jibber-jabber, so he asks if the doctor has the results. "I'm afraid, the news is not good," he says. The ultrasound revealed endometriosis -- scar tissue -- blocking the fallopian tubes. Jin instantly pulls his hand away from Sun's. And that won't even be the least sensitive thing he does this scene. The doctor says that even with surgery, Sun's chances of conceiving are impossible. Sun looks stricken. Jin says there must be something he can do. The doctor says he can't, and he's sorry.
Meanwhile, Sun and Jin aren't looking at each other; Sun actually seems like she's scared to look at him. He's staring at the floor, and without looking up, he says, "Did you know about this before we got married?" She looks at him in disbelief. He says she must have had some idea, and she wants to know why she would keep something like this from him. "Oh, yes. I was trying to trap the son of a fisherman," she snaps. Ouch. Well, Jin started it. And if he can dish it out, I assume he can -- no, there he goes, stomping out the door, after knocking some papers off the doctor's desk. Now how's the doctor going to know whose sperm goes with whose eggs? Sun tries to maintain her composure, even though she's clearly regretting what she just said.
Back in the hatch, Jack's sitting around and Locke's fixing something, looks like, when they hear Ana bang on the armoury door saying she wants out. Jack rushes over to open it, and he and Ana stare at each other for a moment, and then Jack looks over at Henry, who totally snubs him. Look, just because they're holding you prisoner and interrogating and occasionally torturing you, that doesn't mean you can't be friends. And there's no excuse for rudeness.
Ana-Lucia tells Jack and Locke (I will not call them "Jocke") that Henry told her the same story he told them. Locke asks if she believes him, and Ana-Lucia says she wants more time with him. Locke says "he's all yours," but Ana's talking about tomorrow, so Henry has some time to think. Then, to Jack, she says, "If that's okay with you." "I didn't tell anyone, Ana," says Jack, and Ana's all, "No worries, man," and walks off, and Jack checks her out. Locke looks at the two of them, and we cut, presumably before Locke says, "You hittin' that?"
On the beach, Charlie and Sayid are shopping for bamboo at Island Depot, and Charlie notes that the lengths are a bit large for a dining-room table, and Sayid says, "If we cut them in two, it will suit the purpose."
Ana-Lucia strolls up and asks if she can talk to Sayid. "Of course," he says. After all, it's been a week since she killed the woman he loved. But that's why pencils have erasers! She wants to talk alone, but Sayid says she can say whatever she needs to there. She tries to drop a hint that it's about the hatch, but apparently Charlie is in the loop now too. "You mean the guy locked in the closet there? What about him?" Ana's somewhat nonplussed that she is apparently the last person to know about Henry, but she takes a folded piece of paper out of her pocket and gives it to Sayid. It's the title page from The Brothers Karamazov, and I'm sure Locke's not going to track downThe Standfor you if you're just going to rip them up. On the back is a map, with a route. It ain't exactly Mapquest, with its helpful instructions like, "GO AROUND MOUNTAIN," but apparently it's directions to Henry's balloon. Sayid asks how she got him to do this. "I asked nicely," says Ana. It's amazing what you can get from people when you don't shoot them. Sayid asks if Jack and Locke know about it. "Jack and Locke are a little too busy worrying about Locke and Jack," says Ana, who's picked up on an awful lot in her first week. Sayid looks over at Charlie, who's smirking, like his behaviour's been exemplary. "All I want to know is if this guy's telling the truth," Ana continues. So why come to me? asks Sayid. "Judging from what you did to his face, that's what you want too." There's some scary L.A. cop logic right there. "This is at least a day's walk," says Sayid. To GO AROUND MOUNTAIN? Oh, yeah, pack a lunch. Ana says they should get going then.
Sayid, Charlie, and Ana are hiking through the jungle. I suppose they had to invite Charlie, since he was right there. Crossing a stream, he slips and almost falls in. Ana helps him, asks if he's okay. She isn't even sarcastic or anything. Charlie says he's all right, looking slightly chagrined.
Coming into a clearing, Sayid looks at a cliff in the distance, and sure enough, it matches up with CLIFF on the map. "Score one for Henry," says Ana, and Sayid says, "Pointing out a geographical touchstone does not mean he's leading us to a balloon," which I can guarantee is the first time that sentence has ever been uttered. "Maybe not, but at least we're on the right island," says Ana, mouth twitching like she wants to laugh. Sayid dourly walks off. "Humour's not his strong suit," says Charlie. Ana just kind of stares at him, and Charlie chides himself: "And I'm saying this to you." Snicker.
They continue. Ana, bringing up the rear, seems to be looking at Charlie's rear, which he notices, and asks about it, like he's PLEASED about this. Ana says she's looking at his gun. "Maybe you should give the gun to somebody who knows how to use it," says Ana. Charlie gets his back up. "Maybe I will. As I recall, the last time you had a gun you murdered someone," he snaps, which…is Charlie really that divorced from reality? Sayid has to step in all "that's enough." Charlie takes the gun and holds it out like he's going to give it to Ana, but then he gives it to Sayid. Sayid? Of the three of them, he's the only one who hasn't shot someone to death on the isl-- oh, yes. Maybe Sayid should have it. He says they'll go as far as the base of the cliff and camp there. I guess they'll wait until morning to GO AROUND MOUNTAIN.
Sun and Kate are on the beach, looking at the instructions for the pregnancy test. Guess Sun didn't want to do this alone, or maybe she hated the thought that the only other one who knew about it was Sawyer. She asks how long it's supposed to take. Up to two minutes, says Kate. They sit down, and have a little joke about "who flies with a pregnancy test," even though an obvious answer might be "someone who's trying to get pregnant." ["Or 'contrivance.'" -- Sars] Sun asks if Kate's ever taken one, and she has, so they bond. Sun says, "Thank you for waiting with me, and not asking why you're here and not Jin." Kate smiles and says she's welcome. And then: it's time. Sun looks at the little stick, and sees two lines. "You're pregnant," says Kate, not helpfully, as she kind of laughs, and then nervously looks at Sun, like she didn't clue in that maybe the fact Jin isn't here means this might not be such a blessed event. "Is it 100 per cent sure?" asks Sun, and Kate says there's only one way to find out.
I don't know why they need Jack's diagnosis; all he says is that the tests are pretty accurate. But hey, the more people who know Sun's secret the better, as she learned with the whole "Jin doesn't know I speak English" thing. Sun says it's impossible. Jack says, "Oh, it's possible. You feeling queasy? Lightheaded?" Sun says "nobody can know." By which I presume she means, "Nobody else can know." Kate, poster child for honesty that she is, is horrified that she's not going to tell Jin. "In time I will. It's just -- it's complicated." Jack pontificates on Jin being the last to find out she spoke English, and then says his advice is to tell Jin, and to also tell him everything, and this is how we get the episode title actually into the episode. To his credit, Jack at least says he's the last one to be giving the advice. Then he says he has to get back to the hatch. "Congratulations, Sun," he says, because Sun is just so overjoyed right now.
Kate all suspiciously says Jack has been in the hatch a lot, and asks if everything's okay. Jack smiles and says that everything's fine. He's clearly lying.
Sun, meanwhile, flashes back to a time she was standing in a hotel room looking out the window at a massive, beautiful painting of the Seoul skyline at sunset. And we've segued from Kate asking Sun if she's okay to Jae asking the same question. Flashback Sun snaps out of her reverie to say she's fine. "You were distracted for our entire lesson. You're not fine," he says.
Sun tells Jae about going to the doctor, and how they can't have children. "I'm very sorry, Sun," he says. "I was glad," she says softly. Jae watches her carefully. Then they switch to Korean. "Why are we here?" asks Jae. You know, this show has a lot of questions to answer before they start asking ones that have mystified philosophers for millennia. It's not because Sun's learning English, Jae posits, because she's been practically fluent for a month now. He asks her why she's learning the language, and she tells him that she's moving to America. He figures out that she's leaving Jin. She says nothing. "I ran away to America for a woman because I thought I was in love. But you can't run away from your life," he tells her. Sun stares at him for a moment, and says, "And Jin? Is he my life? I should stay because --" and he interrupts her, in English: "I'm not saying you should stay for Jin." Seems kind of clear to me that he should have said, "I'm not saying you should stay for Jin." But we'll leave them now, staring into each other's eyes.
Back in the jungle, Sayid's sitting by a campfire. Charlie's asleep to one side. Ana comes up and sits down by Sayid, after asking if he minds. He doesn't, but he advises that she should sleep while she can. She says she can't sleep. Sounds like we're going to get some more of this show's trademark campfire confessions.
And sure enough, Ana begins: "People don't like me." I'm sure that's not true; I think some of the people she's left alive are starting to come around. "I tried to get them to most of my life. I guess I just gave up a while back. I mean, I am what I am." Popeye? Anyway, the point of her spiel is that Sayid actually has a good reason to hate her. Sayid stares at her impassively. And then she apologizes. Heartfelt. I don't think Michelle Rodriguez is a bad actor at all. I'm not saying I'm bumming a ride after the party, but I think she's pretty good.
Sayid looks at the campfire a moment. "You were trying to protect your people," he says quietly. "It wasn't you that killed Shannon; it was them." Hey, Sayid, I've got it on tape. We can check if you like; I'm pretty sure it was Ana. But he's not finished: "And once we find out that he is one of them, then something will have to be done."
It's morning. Ana-Lucia's sleeping by the smouldering ashes of the campfire. Sayid's sitting watching her as she wakes up. "What?" she says. "Nothing," he says. Oh great, now he loves her. Ana notes that it's going to rain, and Sayid says they should get moving, and they do, just in time for a cheery Charlie to come strolling back with some papayas. He's all crestfallen that they're not eating, but I have to admit that I actually haven't felt like telling him to shut up once this episode. Either he hasn't been annoying, or I'm just all out of shut up for now.
So they come into the clearing where the balloon is supposed to be, only they can't see anything. It's now pouring rain. Charlie sarcastically points out the balloon would be really large. "Why am I not surprised?" asks Sayid. Because you've been a humourless stick in the mud just because your girlfriend was shot to death? Try seeing the glass half-full once in a while, Sayid. You'll live longer. Ana says she wants to look some more, because if she's going to "back [Sayid's] play on this," they have to be sure. Sayid considers this, then says he'll divide the area into three grids. Three? Wouldn't one do the trick? "We'll search as thoroughly as you please," he says, and they spread out, which is I guess what Sayid meant when he got all overly complicated with his "three grids" nonsense.
On the beach, Jin's fishing. So's Bernard, albeit with a lot more difficulty. He's struggling with the net and muttering angrily. Jin strolls over, and speaks to him in Korean, motioning with his hands, like he's telling Bernard to spread the net out. Bernard tries telling him that the net's not for fish, that he's looking for oysters. He puts his palms together and opens them up, and mimes pulling an oyster out. "Pearl, for Rose," he says. Jin gets it, and then shakes his head, and says, in his best English, "No oyster. No oyster here." Bernard reacts to this as though the fact that oysters don't make their home off Craphole Beach has been designed by nature deliberately to piss him off.
Sawyer strolls up, and calls Jin "Daddy-o" and "Papa-san" and notes he didn't waste much time, and jokes with "Bernie" about being fresh out of cigars. "Sun's pregnant?" says Bernard, who doesn't miss a trick, and Sawyer tells him to "Keep it down there, Suzie," whatever that means, because he doesn't think "Jin Sr." knows yet. To make sure we understand that, we learn that Korean people hear English backwards. Jin is quite confused, and finally says, "This is getting increasingly abstract, but thank you! I do enjoy my job at the bowling alley!"
Now Jin's in the garden, doing his best to fix and replant it. Yeah, classic spousal abuse pattern. Sun strolls up and asks what he's doing, and he says he's fixing a mistake, and he's all apologetic, and he says, "I need you." Her eyes go wide. I hope she's thinking, "Haven't we kind of already been over this?" Then he sort of implies that he's apologizing because he can't understand anyone else, which is kind of unfortunate. She finally just interrupts the never-ending apology by blurting out that she's pregnant. He's stunned, and then overjoyed, and then picks her up off her feet. Wow. He's not freaked out even just a little bit, what with the deserted island, lack of hospitals, murderous Others, and also Ana-Lucia and Charlie? Sun says there's something she needs to tell him.
We flash back to Sun walking her dog along the street, when Dr. Kim pulls up in his car. By the sidewalk, there's a sign with what I presume is a Korean character in the universal slashed-circle prohibition symbol, but at a fleeting glance it kind of look like Seoul has banned sousaphones. Good for them! Sun's kind of surprised to see Dr. Kim, and a little freaked when he tells her to get in the car because he needs to speak to her. She just starts walking away, so he gets out of the car and chases after her, to tell her that he's done something terrible. "It's not you that can't have children." Sun's stunned. "It's him. It's your husband." And he gives this ridiculous excuse about how Jin works for Sun's father (captioning says: "You are husband, he works for your father." Well, technically, it says, "You're husband…" which is the same thing. I'm not going to get too bent out of shape about it, and pretend my writing never has spelling, punctuation, and/or grammar issues, but: Guys. Seriously. Hire a proofreader. We know Disney's got money). Anyway, supposedly, a man like Jin would burn Dr. Kim's practice to the ground if he found out he couldn't have children. I guess he figured that a man that irrational would have no problem with a doctor refusing to try to operate on his wife, though.
Sun wants to know why he's telling her this now. "Because you deserve to know the truth," says Dr. Kim, who might want to consider that Sun is married to this supposed nutjob that he's so worried about pissing off. Sun stands there a moment looking stunned, and absolutely stunning. Fertility complications really suit her.
Back on the island, Jin's stunned (and, to be fair, also stunning). He sits down, and asks why she didn't tell him. "How could I?" she says. With one of the at least two languages we know you speak fluently? But a more pressing issue for Jin is that if he can't, then how? Sun looks at him and swears that she has never been with another man. Given her disbelief when she discovered she was pregnant, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. Throw in Locke walking around on previously useless legs, and I believe her. It'd be nice if we could get a miracle or two explained, though. Jin thinks hard about it for a moment before stroking her hair, then saying, "Then it's a miracle," and they hug. Over Sun's shoulder, Jin's beaming. Over Jin's shoulder, Sun goes through about seven different moods, including anxiety and happiness and possibly constipation, before settling on relief.
Jin and Sun are both working in the garden. If I were Sun, I think I'd be putting my feet up with a big glass of lemonade while I watched my husband fix the garden he wrecked. They're discussing baby names, and decide to use a character from Jin's father's name, and one from Sun's mother. But no characters from any name of someone else they've slept with, right? Jin wants to know if they can tell people. Yeah, this early? No problem, right? Not that it matters, since half the island already knows, she tells him. Jin seems a little disappointed. Then it clicks. "'Daddy-o,'" he says, and nods, smiling. Heh. And he tells her that Bernard knows too. "Are you ready for lunch? Shall we go back?" She cautiously says that she'd like to stay another 20 minutes or so, by herself. Jin looks surprised, and he struggles with it, and she offers up the manhood-salvaging "if that's all right with you." He looks around, and then nods. He looks a little hurt, but then hides it and says he'll see her back at the beach. He starts to go, and then she casually says, "I love you," which stops him in his tracks. She herself seems surprised to have said it, like she hasn't said it in a while, not even when they were having all the hot reunion sex. Jin squats down, and kisses her. In English, he say, "I…love…you." She smiles at him.
Aw. That's sweet. And it's awfully nice that she's standing up for, and he's recognizing, her independence. But this is an island where people are captured, mauled, eaten and killed on a regular basis. So not to put too fine a point on it, but are you fucking stupid? Sun herself was kidnapped (albeit falsely, not that anybody knows that part) just a few days ago! JESUS. You know, if it's me and my pregnant wife on this island, I'm not letting her out of my sight. And if she wants to get all Virginia Woolf garden-of-one's-own on me, that's just tough shit. I'll sleep on the couch if we ever get home. God-damn, you people. IT'S CALLED THE BUDDY SYSTEM.
And just when you're thinking that Sun wants to be alone for some other deceptive reason, like Jae shows up on the island or something, it doesn't happen. She just puts her hands on her stomach and smiles.
Henry's in the armoury, reading, when Jack comes in. Jack asks how the book is. He doesn't ask for an excerpt, but Henry gives him one: "'Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honour those whom they have slain.' So what's the difference between a martyr and a prophet?" And you're thinking, "Well, a prophet is alive," but Jack says, "Either way, it sounds like you end up dead." Was Jack listening in on Henry's conversation with Ana? Anyway, Jack came in to invite Henry out for some breakfast.
Locke's getting out bowls and pouring himself some Dharma cereal. Which -- I mean, wasn't Hurley's whole stupid deal that they should just eat all the food in a big culinary orgy so that no one can whine about the rationing? And here they've got food for themselves down in the hatch (Locke actually says "the pantry's full of food")? Can somebody explain this to me? Oh, and then the writers get all cutesy with Henry asking all kinds of questions -- "What's the computer for?" "Where'd you guys get cereal?" -- that Jack and Locke can't really answer, so Henry makes fun of them. "You guys don't know much, huh? I'd be asking all kinds of questions about all this stuff down here. You guys don't even seem that curious." I don't think we can claim it's shout-out territory, since TWoP's far from the only outlet bitching about this sort of thing. I'm just surprised how many people seem satisfied just that the problem's been acknowledged here. We know they're not curious. How about making them curious?
Anyway, Henry gets all chatty, saying this must be his reward for good behaviour: "I guess I earned myself some goodwill for finally drawing that map for Ana." Jack and Locke are both, whuh? And Locke says, "What map?" "To my balloon," says Henry, and Locke and Jack look at each other to confirm that the other doesn't know anything about it.
Henry acts surprised. "Wow, you guys have some real trust issues, don't you?" he says, as if the bruises and the scars on his face aren't the best indication of that. He starts munching on some dry cereal as he says it makes sense that she didn't tell them, since they're always fighting. Jack and Locke look suitably chagrined. Henry continues: "Of course, if I was one of them -- these people that you seem to think are your enemies -- what would I do?" Wait, don't answer. He'll tell you. Jack and Locke stare at him, transfixed. To be honest, so did I. "Well, there'd be no balloon, so I'd draw a map to a real secluded place like a cave or some underbrush -- good place for a trap, an ambush." Jack and Locke exchange glances. "And when your friends go there, a bunch of my people would be waiting for them. Then they'd use them to trade for me." He chews his cereal. "I guess it's a good thing I'm not one of them, huh?" Jack and Locke don't say anything. Henry looks like he's about to burst out laughing. Then: "You guys got any milk?"
Wow. This is how, after making people sit through a boring episode about a pregnancy test, you guarantee everyone tunes in week. Or whenever the new episode is. June, probably. I mean, they'll screw us over, I have no doubt, but we'll watch.