Dave

Hurley's yelling "Daaaave!" down at the surf. Looks like he's been taking name-screaming classes from Michael. ["Who?" -- Sars] Libby shows up and asks him who Dave is. Hurley's all freaked out, wanting to know what she's doing here, and how she knew where he was. "Jin saw you while he was fishing," she says, and Hurley thinks he's caught her in a lie because Jin doesn't speak English, but Libby offers the very reasonable explanation that Sun translated. She asks Hurley what's going on. He says she's just the part of him that's scared: "You don't want me to wake up. Well, guess what? I'm not scared!" He's not very convincing, especially as he's taking a couple of steps backwards towards the edge. Libby says she "gets" that he's having a panic attack, but this isn't like him. "Like me? You don't know me," says Hurley. Libby says she was starting to. Hurley decides to speed up the process by telling her he's so fat that he's killed two people, and that he has an imaginary friend. I had an imaginary dog once. It ran away. How fucking sad is that.

Libby's worried that Hurley's going to hurt himself, but Hurley says he won't because none of this is happening; he's just imagining it. "Why would you say that?" asks Libby. "Because in real life, no girl like you would ever like me," is Hurley's answer. I suppose this is meant to be heartbreaking, but that assumes that the audience has forgotten Starla, just because Hurley seems to have. The other interesting thing is I guess there are no reruns of The Drew Carey Show where Hurley lives.

Hurley continues: "Remember when I said I knew you from somewhere? Well, maybe it's because I made you up." Libby's all, I'll show you made up. She takes some tentative steps towards Hurley, looking rather nervous at her proximity to the cliff, and asks him what the name was of the man who broke his leg on the other side of the island. Hurley doesn't know. "You don't know. You know why? Because it happened to me. His name was Donald, and I buried him." Then she yells at Hurley because she's buried a lot of people, so for her to say he made it -- and her -- up is insulting. If she doesn't cool down, she might have to bury Hurley, too. Well, as long as she doesn't try the Sgt. Martin Riggs method of jumper negotiation.

Hurley's thinking about this as she lectures him, and once she's done, he says, "When you saw me on the beach this morning, was I holding a slipper?" Libby's kind of surprised by the non sequitur, but she says no, not that she can remember. Then she takes Hurley's face in her hands: "I am real. You're real. The way I feel about you, that's real. The big wet one I'm about to plant on you -- that's real." And then she does that. "And that was real," she says. Hurley says maybe she should do that one more time just to be sure. She smiles, and then asks if he's ready to go back. Sounds like he's ready for something else, if you ask me. They both look down at the surf crashing on the rocks below, and start to head back, holding hands. "Do you really think I can, you know, change?" she says. Yeah, says Libby.

Flashback to the scene where Dr. Brooks plays his little photo trick on Hurley -- only we're watching it from a different perspective, and Dave isn't there; we see Hurley put his arm around nobody while Dr. Mind Games snaps the picture. We pull back over another table, where a woman with disheveled brown hair is sitting. It's hard to tell, but as the camera swings around to reveal that it's Libby, I don't think she's watching Hurley. Her eyes are off in another direction, and at any rate she seems pretty out of it, so I think it's too early to confirm whether she remembers Hurley (who, despite the Dave hallucinations, has thus far seemed fairly lucid and seems to remember most of his institution life pretty well). She's not too out of it to swallow a pill the nurse gives her, but she's pretty zonked (or possibly having a flashback within a flashback).

Before they can kiss, though, Jin and Sun go racing by, Jin yelling excitedly, Sun explaining that "they found something," and then more Lostaways go racing by, all extras, who really make the most of ad libbing as per the director's instructions to "act excited," perhaps thinking this is a good chance to strut their stuff and earn a larger role in Season 3. Fortunately for Hurley, no one notices that the jungle floor looks like the set from Animal House 2: Deltas in Paradise.

Libby and Hurley follow the crowd, and they come upon the supply drop of Dharma food that Jack, Kate, Ana-Lucia, Sayid, and Charlie all already knew about at least the night before and apparently didn't do anything about; nevertheless, there's Charlie acting all surprised as he digs through the boxes and comes up with Dharma Risotto.

Hurley's dismayed, and so is Libby, since that's going to be an awful lot more food for them to waste. She asks where this came from, and there's Charlie saying that Locke said the blast doors came down last night, trapping him in the hatch, and he instantly theorizes that it was to prevent hatch people from seeing the drop. He asks if anyone saw a plane last night, and Sawyer sarcastically says he did (and he calls Charlie "Tattoo"), and just decided to keep it to himself. If I understand Sawyer's point, it's that Sawyer would never do anything that wasn't in the best interests of the entire group.

Predictably, fights are starting to break out over who gets what, and Sawyer, for god's sake, is the voice of reason, calling for more order. I think they'd all be better served by tying Sawyer up and splitting all the food up amongst themselves. While not quite willing to go that far, Charlie wants someone more trustworthy to take care of things. "Like you, baby-napper?" says Sawyer. No, like Hurley, who did it before!

Hurley vehemently protests, and everybody looks at him, because I'm sure whatever Hurley is saying would be more interesting to the crash survivors than gathering up food. Libby steps in on his behalf, saying she's sure everyone can be trusted to take just what they need, which is awfully naive of her, if for no other reason that nobody knows how long they're even going to be there. Sawyer puts it thusly: "Great plan, Moonbeam. And after that we can sing Kumbaya and do trust falls!"

Hurley's preoccupied, however, because he sees Harry from Sex and the City through the crowd of scavengers. Harry is staring right at him, and he smiles and nods knowingly at him. An apprehensive Hurley makes his way over to the other side of the supply drop, and naturally Harry's no longer there, despite the spin-cam's best efforts to find him. He's now off to the side, grinning at Hurley. Then he turns away and slowly walks into the jungle. After a moment, Hurley follows him. Libby watches him leave.

Hurley breaks into a trot as he tries to chase down Harry, and Hurley's forced to admit defeat when he falls on his face. Lest we're supposed to think this is all in Hurley's mind, right near where he's fallen is a grey slipper, which apparently came off Harry's foot. And the way the music swells and Hurley says, "Oh, man," you'd think Harry's severed foot was still inside it.

Hurley's sitting on the beach, staring at the slipper while he spins it around in his hand. Libby strolls up and says hey, and asks what he's doing ("nothin'"), and who he was looking for up there ("no one"). She does not ask who that guy was that Hurley was following. She does not ask about the slipper Hurley's holding, which the camera very conspicuously follows as he puts it down on the sand beside him. She starts to say that when he ran off, it sort of looked like he was looking for someone. The number of people deducing that Hurley's hallucinating is going up by the second, I have to figure -- if not because of his already-established mental problems, then because of the general hallucinating that goes on on this island. Anyway, Hurley doesn't want to talk about what he was doing, so Libby starts in with how it's like the island doesn't want him to lose weight, since right after he destroyed his stash, they find more food. "How 'bout that," says a distinctly unamused Hurley. Libby says she's proud of him, and he asks why. "For not freaking out," she says. Hurley stares straight ahead as we flash back...

to a psychiatrist's office, with Hurley being asked how the diet is going. "It's going okay," says Hurley, saying he had a chicken breast and some salad for lunch. "It gets easier, I promise," says the doctor, who's probably never bought pants with a waist bigger than 34. The doctor asks how Hurley's visit with his mom went, and Hurley says it was good. "You're not still mad at her," leads the doctor, which Hurley acknowledges, saying he knows his mom put him in there for a reason: the accident (of which we know nothing yet). The doctor asks if he wants to talk about that now. Hurley's reluctant. "Hugo, you've been here almost two months now; don't you think it's time to start getting our hands dirty?"

Hurley says nothing, so the doctor changes gears again and asks if Hurley did his homework. Man, if I were crazy, the last thing I'd want would be for my doctor to give me homework. Hurley didn't do it, though, since he was never any good at it, he says, even if it's something as simple as listing the things he likes about himself. Hurley protests that no one else had to do it. "'Nobody else,' meaning?" prompts the doctor. "Well, Dave didn't do it. He said it was a stupid idea." The doctor says he's not Dave's doctor. "But we have talked about how he can be a very negative influence," he says. I'm kind of on Dave's side here, though, and it's Hurley's opinion that Dave's the most normal person in the joint. But he doesn't want you to change, does he? asks the doctor, and it took me an inordinate amount of time to remember this guy was in the X-Men movies.

Hurley's yelling "Daaaave!" down at the surf. Looks like he's been taking name-screaming classes from Michael. ["Who?" -- Sars] Libby shows up and asks him who Dave is. Hurley's all freaked out, wanting to know what she's doing here, and how she knew where he was. "Jin saw you while he was fishing," she says, and Hurley thinks he's caught her in a lie because Jin doesn't speak English, but Libby offers the very reasonable explanation that Sun translated. She asks Hurley what's going on. He says she's just the part of him that's scared: "You don't want me to wake up. Well, guess what? I'm not scared!" He's not very convincing, especially as he's taking a couple of steps backwards towards the edge. Libby says she "gets" that he's having a panic attack, but this isn't like him. "Like me? You don't know me," says Hurley. Libby says she was starting to. Hurley decides to speed up the process by telling her he's so fat that he's killed two people, and that he has an imaginary friend. I had an imaginary dog once. It ran away. How fucking sad is that.

Libby's worried that Hurley's going to hurt himself, but Hurley says he won't because none of this is happening; he's just imagining it. "Why would you say that?" asks Libby. "Because in real life, no girl like you would ever like me," is Hurley's answer. I suppose this is meant to be heartbreaking, but that assumes that the audience has forgotten Starla, just because Hurley seems to have. The other interesting thing is I guess there are no reruns of The Drew Carey Show where Hurley lives.

Hurley continues: "Remember when I said I knew you from somewhere? Well, maybe it's because I made you up." Libby's all, I'll show you made up. She takes some tentative steps towards Hurley, looking rather nervous at her proximity to the cliff, and asks him what the name was of the man who broke his leg on the other side of the island. Hurley doesn't know. "You don't know. You know why? Because it happened to me. His name was Donald, and I buried him." Then she yells at Hurley because she's buried a lot of people, so for her to say he made it -- and her -- up is insulting. If she doesn't cool down, she might have to bury Hurley, too. Well, as long as she doesn't try the Sgt. Martin Riggs method of jumper negotiation.

Hurley's thinking about this as she lectures him, and once she's done, he says, "When you saw me on the beach this morning, was I holding a slipper?" Libby's kind of surprised by the non sequitur, but she says no, not that she can remember. Then she takes Hurley's face in her hands: "I am real. You're real. The way I feel about you, that's real. The big wet one I'm about to plant on you -- that's real." And then she does that. "And that was real," she says. Hurley says maybe she should do that one more time just to be sure. She smiles, and then asks if he's ready to go back. Sounds like he's ready for something else, if you ask me. They both look down at the surf crashing on the rocks below, and start to head back, holding hands. "Do you really think I can, you know, change?" she says. Yeah, says Libby.

Flashback to the scene where Dr. Brooks plays his little photo trick on Hurley -- only we're watching it from a different perspective, and Dave isn't there; we see Hurley put his arm around nobody while Dr. Mind Games snaps the picture. We pull back over another table, where a woman with disheveled brown hair is sitting. It's hard to tell, but as the camera swings around to reveal that it's Libby, I don't think she's watching Hurley. Her eyes are off in another direction, and at any rate she seems pretty out of it, so I think it's too early to confirm whether she remembers Hurley (who, despite the Dave hallucinations, has thus far seemed fairly lucid and seems to remember most of his institution life pretty well). She's not too out of it to swallow a pill the nurse gives her, but she's pretty zonked (or possibly having a flashback within a flashback).