Episode Report Card Cindy McLennan: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Island's Done With Who, Now?
By Cindy McLennan | Season 6 | Episode 14 | Aired on 05.04.2010
ra. Back to the Templars. Back to everything and everyone he's ever hurt. Yes. Back to...the chicken. And then...KABOOM.Sidebar: Oh Sayid, I find myself happy at your death -- not because I wanted you to die. You've long been one of my favorites. No. I'm happy because you died a hero. I'm happy for your redemption. Rather than taking the lives of others to achieve your own ends, you sacrificed your life for the greater good. May you find 72 virgins waiting for you. Although dude? I'm pretty sure Shannon will not be one of them.
I'm sorry. That last sidebar was a total stall. I don't want to cover this last part. I want to block it out and pretend it never happened. It can be our new and improved tag line: What never happened never happened. No? Fine. Meanies.
The explosion rocks the sub and its occupants. It's taking on water fast. Inside the engine room, Frank stands. He exits the room and climbs down a level, I guess to where the Losties are. I need a map. (And tissues, wine, and cheesecake.) Water's pouring into the sub. There's a creak behind him. Frank turns to see a door buckling due to the water pressure. He squints at it. "Aww, Hell." The door flies off its hinges, knocks Frank down, and the water rushes in and over him (or, probably, his corpse). Oh Frank, I thought you'd stay around at least until the plane done got blown up. Are you dead? You didn't die on screen, but I didn't see you get off the sub. I'll miss you and your Burt Reynold's film extra ways. You totally should have called in drunk to work.
Back in the room where the rest of our fair Losties are, the water is pouring in fast and furious. Jack finally gets to his feet and then leans over and feels around in the water, until he fishes Kate out. She's unconscious when he hauls her to her feet. Sawyer asks Hurley if he's okay. Jin's trying to stand. Sun screams. She's trapped behind an enormous cabinet. Jin (in a wet t-shirt thud) makes his way to her. He can't move the cabinet alone, so he calls upon Sawyer for help. Back in Jack's arms, Kate seems to be coming 'round. Jack yells for Hurley. Sawyer answers Jin's call. Jack hands Kate over to Hurley along with a mini air tank and instructions: exit through the giant hole in the sub, buddy breathe on the tank, and get Kate to safety. Hurley: "I have to go after Sayid." Jack: "There is no Sayid." When Hurley still hesitates, Jack encourages him. "Hurley, you can do this. Okay?" Hurley agrees and takes Kate out. Jack joins Jin and Sawyer's efforts to free Sun. Finally, working together, our three prettiest boys free Sun, but not. She's still trapped behind some metal pipe. WTF? Are you trying to kill me, Show? You're not allowed to kill me and I ain't taking your backpack.
The sub's sinking quickly now, and more things are dislodging, banging around and wounding our remaining Losties. At some point in there, Sawyer is disabled. Jack finds him and holds his head above water. Sun, when she realizes she's caught, tells Jin to go and save himself. Jin refuses. He's going to get her out of there. Jin tells Jack to go, and save Sawyer. Although he argues at first, Jack realizes Jin is right. He starts off, but then grabs another mini air tank and hands it to Jin. "Take this. I can get him out without it." Jin: "No. You can't, Jack." Poor Sun is struggling to get herself free, the whole time. Finally, Jack realizes he must save Sawyer and he must leave Jin and Sun alone in what will surely be their final moments.
As Michael Giacchino's score slays my soul, Jack swims out and up with his best friend, his enemy. Jin stays behind, still trying to free Sun. Ji Yeon is on both their minds, but her name never crosses their lips. Again, all their conversation is in English. Again, I both appreciate and resent that. Sun begs Jin to save himself, but you can see in her eyes that she can't bare to be parted from him again, even in death. Jin does consider leaving, but how can he leave the great love of his life, now that he's finally found her, again? He refuses, and finally, they return to their native Korean. He will never leave her again. They hold onto one another's faces, and then in English, Jin says, "I love you, Sun." Sun kisses him and cries, "I love you." They kiss and gaze into one another's eyes until we cut away, to another horribly ugly shot of the horribly ugly sub sinking into the horribly ugly ocean of the death of love and all things good. Cut back to the interior of the sub: it's completely full of water, now. We close in on their hands. Only once the life leaves their bodies do they let go. 'Til death do us part. Son of a bitch!
Sidebar: A lot of people think Jin and Sun were selfish. I understand that point of view on its face. They have a daughter back home and they've left her an orphan. But, I think there are mitigating circumstances. Sun and Jin, I believe, ended up on the island in the first place, to give them a chance to truly choose to be married -- to be one flesh. They'd left one another, in so many ways, on and off the island -- for so many years. This is the lesson they had to learn. This is the thing they had to fix -- had to overcome. Without them -- there is no Ji Yeon. Now I realize, there already *is* a Ji Yeon, and that's why people are objecting. I can't fully explain Lost, yet. I can't explain it to you, or even to myself. But I understand some of the rules -- not the whys and wherefores of those rules -- just the rules. If you make a promise, you must keep it. Live together; die alone. Okay, they just died together, but we know that Jin and Sun are alive in the Sideways. I don't know how all this is going to resolve, but I truly believe they did the right thing. I think they took an incredible leap of faith.
An orderly is wheeling Locke out of the hospital to meet Helen who'll pick him up. Locke tries to explain that she's probably stuck in traffic, but stammers when he sees Jin Soo Kwon striding down the hall to visit his pregnant girlfriend -- big bouquet of yellow roses in hand. Jin gives him pause only for a second. He then tells the orderly he can take it from there. "I'm pretty good with this." The orderly wishes him best of luck, and leaves. After you're done rewinding this scene to see Jin and his hopefully colored bouquet, rewind it one more time and watch the orderly's face. He's adorable. You know he's just thinking, "Hot damn, I'm wheeling Mother Faucking John Locke down the hallway, and OMG, look, there's Jin! Hi Jin. Please don't be dead. All right, that last part might be me talking, not the orderly.
As John makes his way alone, we hear Jack's "Mr. Locke." He was hoping to say goodbye, but also and mostly, Jack wants to confess that he went to see Locke's father to find out about the accident. Locke is understandably upset at this violation of privacy, but he's so upset that he blurts out the truth. "I was in a plane crash." Jack can't figure out where that second mirror came from, so Locke continues. He had just gotten his pilot's license (and whoa -- funhouse mirror time; we learned in the Pilot that Jack took flying lessons, but decided it wasn't for him) and talked his father into being his very first passenger. Locke still can't figure out what happened. He can't remember doing anything wrong, but the plane crashed, leaving Anthony in his present condition, so it must be his (John's) fault. HOORAY! I mean oh. Locke's too wracked with guilt to accept a chance at a complete recovery, so Jack reminds him of their conversation back at the Oceanic Lost Baggage Office. When Locke told Jack his father was gone it hurt, but it helped. "What happened, happened, and you can let it go." Locke (tearfully): "What makes you think letting go is so easy." Jack shakes his head. "It's not. In fact, I don't really know how to do it, mys