follow the wet iraq road...
We’re in a room full of Iraqi soldiers shredding and burning documents, while bombs are dropping outside. Sayid is throwing some folders into a fire while the officer in charge beats a soldier that has stopped, shaken by the bombs, and orders him to continue or be killed. Sayid turns to look as the door is broken down by American soldiers. They force the Iraqis to the ground, but one guy in the back of the room keeps on shredding. Arthur Andersen would be proud. The Americans threaten to kill him if the commanding officer doesn’t come forward and order him to stop. Sayid looks at his CO laying on the ground next to him as the American gives a three count; at two and a half Sayid gets up and tells the shredder they’ll kill him if he doesn’t stop the shredding. The Americans ask Sayid if he’s in charge, and he tells them no, that his leader left two hours ago. “Your English is good Abdul, but you’re lying, and that ain’t so good.”
The soldier knocks Sayid out with the butt of his rifle.
Nice FX shot of a war torn Iraq with a Black Hawk flying overhead. Sayid is handcuffed on his knees with a bunch of other prisoners in a detention area. Two soldiers come and lead him away. One of them is Kate’s dad, San Austen. The other is named Pitelli. Sam asks if Sayid has ever done any translating, and he tells him no, not formally. “Hell, the fact you know what formally means… we’re good.”
Sam seems like a good guy. He tells Sayid they need to know what has happened to the pilot of an apache helicopter that went down two days ago. They know he was taken to the republican guard commander in the area, Tariq, and ask Sayid if he knows who he is. Sayid tells them that yes, he knows him, it’s his commanding officer. Kate’s dad opens the door on a room with Sayid's C.O. in it, tied to a chair.
Cut to present day - as far as we know - on the island, and Ana is rushing up to Sayid, looking for Jack (first time we've seen these two together since the shooting, right?). He asks why, and she leads him into the jungle, where she’s spotted a stranger roaming around with a rifle. It’s Danielle. Sayid tells Ana he’ll handle it, and she should just go back to camp and tell no one what she saw. Oddly, she just leaves… I guess she knows how to take orders from someone accustomed to giving them? He creeps over and confronts Danielle, and asks what she is doing there. “Looking for you, Sayid.”
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Danielle leads Sayid into the jungle, and when he asks where they are going, she tells him to trust her. He tells her the last time they met, she created a diversion and stole Claire’s baby, so pardon him if he doesn’t trust her. She says she is taking him to something that will help him, “…something important!”
As a show of trust, she hands her rifle over, and he follows her as she walks on.
Flashback – Sam Austen wants to know the whereabouts of the captured American soldier, and is using Sayid as a translator. Sayid is translating Tariq’s replies very loosely, as Tariq is busy trying to talk Sayid into stealing Sam’s gun and taking out a few Americans before he is killed. Sayid tells Sam that Tariq doesn’t know where the pilot is, so he warns Sayid that the next guy to ask these questions isn’t going to ask as nicely.
Back on the beach, a loud-ass frog is driving Sawyer nuts. Jin walks by and Sawyer asks for his help in finding the damn thing. Jin, most likely still thinking that Sawyer was somehow behind Suns abduction, brushes past him without a word. Sawyer goes out searching on his own, and comes across Hurley pigging out on a huge tub of Dharma Initiative ranch dressing (DI9FFTR731). “Whadda ya got there, Rerun?”
Hurley jumps and tries to hide the food he’s got by his side. Sawyer tells him he’s gotta refrigerate that dressing after he opens it, and Hurley says the label claims it will stay fresh at room temperature for up to 7 years. He’s got some Apollo bars with the expiration date, peanut butter, and mandarin oranges. I think it was an orange he was dipping in the dressing. Nasty. But then I don’t like ranch anyway. Sawyer agrees to keep quiet about Hurley’s stash, provided he helps him track down the singing frog.
Before reaching their destination, Danielle makes a pit stop to retrieve a homemade crossbow and a quiver of bolts. Sayid can hear someone yelling for help, and rushes ahead to find a man dangling from a net in a tree. Danielle warns him not to believe a word he says, that he’s “one of them.”
The guy in the tree implores Sayid to cut him down, and tells him he’s Henry Gale (Dorothy's uncle?) from Minnesota (or Kansas?). Sayid frees him from the trap and the guy immediately makes a break for it. He doesn’t get more than a dozen feet before Danielle puts an arrow through his shoulder blade. She tells Sayid to tie him up and take him back to the doctor. "then what," Sayid wants to know? “You talk to him.”
As she recalls, that is what he does. She warns him that "Henry" will lie for a long time.
Flashback – Sayid is brought before another American (and another resident of Earth-2). He’s not in a military uniform. Special ops? CIA? He shows Sayid a video tape (eyes only – top secret – property of DIA (defense intelligence agency? ...or dharma intelligence agency?)- reel 23108-42) of a sarin gas attack on an Iraqi village which was supervised by Tariq. He knows Sayid lost family members in that attack. He tells him that loyalty is a virtue, but, “unquestioning loyalty… I don’t think that’s you.” Sayid tells him that Tariq will never talk to him, and the spook, Joe Inman, slides a toolbox over. “That’s why you’re gonna have to make him talk to you.”
Under the hatch, Sayid wakes Locke and tells him what happened. Henry comes to and Sayid asks how he got on the island. Four months ago he and his wife CRASHED in a balloon (and Dorothy got home in a balloon) while they were trying to cross the pacific. He tells them they were staying in a cave off the beach, and she got sick and died three months ago. He sounds kinda like the dying Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs here… speaking of torture. Jack shows up and wants to know what’s going on. Sayid fills him in. Jack asks Sayid if he shot this guy with an arrow. “Do I have a bow?”
He’s getting fed up with Jack. I kinda am too. He tells Jack to treat him but leave him tied up.
Sawyer and “Barbar” are still looking for the frog. Hurley takes offense at that nickname, and Sawyer tells “Hammo” to shut up, or his ranch disorder will be the “new lead item on the coconut internet.” Hugo lets Sawyer know that he doesn’t care if he tells everyone the fat guy has been eating the ranch dressing. “Fat fat fat fat fat. You think I don’t know that? These people like me.”
He turns to leave and Sawyer turns on the charm by calling him Hurley for the first time that I can remember. He pleads with him to help find the frog.
Back in the Swan Station, Jack’s prepping Henry’s wound with some dharma antiseptic. He holds the shaft with a pair of pliers and snaps it off, then uses them to pull the rest of the arrow free. While he’s doing this, Locke and Sayid are discussing what to do. Locke says there’s no way to be sure if he’s telling the truth or not. “That is not necessarily true.”
He tells Locke that they need answers, and Jack isn’t going to like the way they need to get them. He asks how long it will take for Locke to change the armory combination, and Locke tells him a couple minutes, tops. “Then I suggest you get started.”
Meet the new boss. A couple minutes later, tops, they tell Jack that Henry should be locked in the armory for now, just to be safe. The three of them move him in there, and Jack and Locke leave to get a cot. Sayid closes the door and locks himself in with the other. Jack pounds on the door and asks what he is doing. “What needs to be done.”
Flashback – Sayid and Tariq in the interrogation room – with the toolbox. Tariq thinks it’s a bluff. (The DIA is using Sayid’s rage at his relatives death to get them to do what they need him to do; is Danielle somehow doing the same to him now?) Tariq tells Sayid that he is disgracing his father, and the only way he can die with any honor is to take his own life now. He spits on him, and Sayid picks up a pair of nasty-looking-alias-style-tooth-extractor-thingies. A while later he emerges from the room with the location of the pilot's grave and a pair of bloody hands. The CIA/DIA created a monster – Bin Laden lite.
Crazy Jack is emerging again under the hatch. He really doesn’t like not being in complete control, does he? He demands to know why Locke changed the combination. Locke points out that Jack is raising an army, and it’s his business as to why he hasn’t invited Locke to join (ouch). – but the only reason to have an army is if you’re at war, and like it or not whatever Sayid has to do is a part of that too. “What if he’s telling the truth, John?”
“What if he’s not?”
In the armory – the vent is definitely bolted shut. (does showing it here means that’s how Henry is going to escape later?) Sayid starts the interrogation. Henry tells him they “LANDED”- not ‘crashed’ - four months ago, maybe more. They’d been staying in a cave off the beach on the north side of the island, 2 days walk away. He tells Sayid they had an ADF beacon (wouldn’t the jacked up shortwave have picked that up before Glenn Miller?), and asks his name. Sayid ignores him, and asks his wife’s maiden name (Murphy) where they met (university of Minnesota) how did she die? She got sick, it started as a fever, after two days she was delirious. Then she died. He can’t understand why he is being treated like this, why Sayid won’t tell him who he is. “I was 23 years old when the Americans came to my country. I was a good man. I was a soldier. And when they left I was something different. For the next 6 years I did things I wish I could erase from my memory, things which I never thought myself to be capable of. But I did come to learn this; there is a part of me which was always capable. You want to know who I am? My name is Sayid Jarrah and I am a torturer.”
Henry looks kinda scared.
Hurley and Sawyer finally find the tiny loud frog. It reminds Hurley of his old pet turtle Stuart, and Sawyer, seeing a way to toy with him, starts to pet the frog. (I thought the frog was poisonous and Sawyer was gonna pass out here… oh well) Hurley tells Sawyer he can take the frog far away, and Sawyer responds by crushing the frog and dumping it in Hurley’s hand. “Eat it with a little ranch, they taste just like chicken.”
I think that like the boar in the old episode, the frog represents Sawyer's conscience, his Jiminy Cricket. He let the boar live, and went on a nice long sweet story arc. This time he squishes it. I wouldn't expect redemption from him anytime soon.
After telling Locke to shut up, Angry Jack notices the pliers are missing. Behind the locked door Sayid demands Henry tell him everything about the balloon. “She’s 140 feet high, 60 feet wide, and when she’s up in the air, 550,000 cubic feet of helium and 100,000 of hot air keep her up there.” And she’s got a big yellow smiley face on top. PLUR, baby. Sayid's thinking the balloon isn't the only thing full of hot air. Henry tells him he was rich, that this had been his dream, and Jennifer Murphy-Gale thought it’d be neat. When Sayid points out Henry just said he was rich, he gets defensive and chalks it up to a lack of optimism. He tells Sayid his wealth came from selling his “non-metallic mineral” mining company. Then he tries to get cute, and Sayid puts his finger in the pliers. He wants to know where he buried Jennifer. “What?” (say what again, motherfucker!)
He tells Sayid he buried her in the jungle, but Sayid wants specifics, and starts to lose it while remembering burying Shannon. “You would remember what it felt like to place her body inside. You would remember if you buried the woman you love. You would remember… if it were true.”
Henry tries to use this info to turn the tables on Sayid (showing that he has a bit more skill in the art of interrogation than your average rich balloon enthusiast), asking if he lost someone on the island too, and what happened to her? Sayid tells him it was an accident, and the woman responsible thought it was someone coming to hurt her. “Someone like you.”
Hen’s fucked here. Sayid couldn’t take out his rage on Ana Lucia (unfortunately) but here’s a handy substitute. He starts working through some of that rage now.
Jack can hear the beating taking place, and he throws Locke up against the wall, demanding that he open the door. Locke refuses, and the countdown begins. Absolutely Crazy Jack is back (all work and no play, I guess) and he won’t let Locke enter the number until he opens the door. Locke can’t believe that Jack would risk everyone’s life on the island over this, but Jack doesn’t believe in the button. He hasn’t pressed it since that first time. Time's running out quickly, and Locke has no choice. He unlocks the armory then rushes to the computer and starts to enter the numbers. The timer reaches zero and the numbers start to flip, turning into symbols, and slowly lining up like a slot machine. The two second digits are black on red, and the three minute digits are the opposite, red on black. The first one to stop is the first second digit, and it’s a bird. The next is the third minute digit, and it’s something that looks like a campfire? An arrow flips over in the last second spot, and a paperclip looking thing (clippy?) in the first minute digit.
Hurry up, Locke!! – he hits execute just before the last one flips to a stop, and they start to reshuffle. What looks like a hieroglyph of a man on his knees (A2 in segment one, page 4) searching the horizon (or wiping his brow? - whew...) briefly pops up in the first minute spot, then they reset to 108:00. Jack has pulled Sayid off of Henry and shut the armory door. He tells Jack that Henry’s lying and that he is one of them. Jack tells Sayid that Rousseau strapped him down and shocked him because she thought the same about him. Locke points out that to her, they’re all others. “I guess it’s all relative, huh?”
Flashback – A convoy is heading out across the burning Iraqi oil fields. Sam Austen is in one of the trucks, looking at a picture of a young Kate wearing a really goofy hat. They slow to a stop, and the DIA agent takes Sayid aside. He tells him they’re pulling out, but with his new skill set, he should be useful in Saddam’s army. Sayid says, “What you made me do, no human being should ever have to do to another.”
Joe tells Sayid, in Arabic, that one day there will be something he needs to know, and now he knows how to get it. Sayid says he will never do that again (we know better), and Joe gives him a few hundred bucks before the convoy moves out, leaving Sayid alone next to a wet road in the desert, superimposed over the burning oil fields.
Now, on the beach… Sayid is talking with Charlie. (I guess everyone figures the junkie will do their dirty work or something?) He tells him what happened, and Charlie wants to know why he is telling all this to him. Sayid tells him Jack asked how he knew for sure the guy was lying, how he was sure he was one of the Others. “I know because I feel no guilt for what I did to him.”
He tells Charlie he cant explain that to Jack or Locke because they have both forgotten. “Forgotten what?”
“That you were strung up by your neck and left for dead. That Claire was taken and kept for days during which God only knows what happened to her. That these people, these ‘Others’ are merciless; and can take any one of us whenever they choose.” (He’s really working Charlie up, but I’m not sure I understand why? To start his own army or something? With Charlie? There’s no way Charlie could get his hands on Henry any more than Sayid could, right? So what good is all this? He’s doing to Charlie what the spook did to him...)
“So tell me Charlie – have you forgotten?”
L O S T
The soldier knocks Sayid out with the butt of his rifle.
Nice FX shot of a war torn Iraq with a Black Hawk flying overhead. Sayid is handcuffed on his knees with a bunch of other prisoners in a detention area. Two soldiers come and lead him away. One of them is Kate’s dad, San Austen. The other is named Pitelli. Sam asks if Sayid has ever done any translating, and he tells him no, not formally. “Hell, the fact you know what formally means… we’re good.”
Sam seems like a good guy. He tells Sayid they need to know what has happened to the pilot of an apache helicopter that went down two days ago. They know he was taken to the republican guard commander in the area, Tariq, and ask Sayid if he knows who he is. Sayid tells them that yes, he knows him, it’s his commanding officer. Kate’s dad opens the door on a room with Sayid's C.O. in it, tied to a chair.
Cut to present day - as far as we know - on the island, and Ana is rushing up to Sayid, looking for Jack (first time we've seen these two together since the shooting, right?). He asks why, and she leads him into the jungle, where she’s spotted a stranger roaming around with a rifle. It’s Danielle. Sayid tells Ana he’ll handle it, and she should just go back to camp and tell no one what she saw. Oddly, she just leaves… I guess she knows how to take orders from someone accustomed to giving them? He creeps over and confronts Danielle, and asks what she is doing there. “Looking for you, Sayid.”
L O S T
Danielle leads Sayid into the jungle, and when he asks where they are going, she tells him to trust her. He tells her the last time they met, she created a diversion and stole Claire’s baby, so pardon him if he doesn’t trust her. She says she is taking him to something that will help him, “…something important!”
As a show of trust, she hands her rifle over, and he follows her as she walks on.
Flashback – Sam Austen wants to know the whereabouts of the captured American soldier, and is using Sayid as a translator. Sayid is translating Tariq’s replies very loosely, as Tariq is busy trying to talk Sayid into stealing Sam’s gun and taking out a few Americans before he is killed. Sayid tells Sam that Tariq doesn’t know where the pilot is, so he warns Sayid that the next guy to ask these questions isn’t going to ask as nicely.
Back on the beach, a loud-ass frog is driving Sawyer nuts. Jin walks by and Sawyer asks for his help in finding the damn thing. Jin, most likely still thinking that Sawyer was somehow behind Suns abduction, brushes past him without a word. Sawyer goes out searching on his own, and comes across Hurley pigging out on a huge tub of Dharma Initiative ranch dressing (DI9FFTR731). “Whadda ya got there, Rerun?”
Hurley jumps and tries to hide the food he’s got by his side. Sawyer tells him he’s gotta refrigerate that dressing after he opens it, and Hurley says the label claims it will stay fresh at room temperature for up to 7 years. He’s got some Apollo bars with the expiration date, peanut butter, and mandarin oranges. I think it was an orange he was dipping in the dressing. Nasty. But then I don’t like ranch anyway. Sawyer agrees to keep quiet about Hurley’s stash, provided he helps him track down the singing frog.
Before reaching their destination, Danielle makes a pit stop to retrieve a homemade crossbow and a quiver of bolts. Sayid can hear someone yelling for help, and rushes ahead to find a man dangling from a net in a tree. Danielle warns him not to believe a word he says, that he’s “one of them.”
The guy in the tree implores Sayid to cut him down, and tells him he’s Henry Gale (Dorothy's uncle?) from Minnesota (or Kansas?). Sayid frees him from the trap and the guy immediately makes a break for it. He doesn’t get more than a dozen feet before Danielle puts an arrow through his shoulder blade. She tells Sayid to tie him up and take him back to the doctor. "then what," Sayid wants to know? “You talk to him.”
As she recalls, that is what he does. She warns him that "Henry" will lie for a long time.
Flashback – Sayid is brought before another American (and another resident of Earth-2). He’s not in a military uniform. Special ops? CIA? He shows Sayid a video tape (eyes only – top secret – property of DIA (defense intelligence agency? ...or dharma intelligence agency?)- reel 23108-42) of a sarin gas attack on an Iraqi village which was supervised by Tariq. He knows Sayid lost family members in that attack. He tells him that loyalty is a virtue, but, “unquestioning loyalty… I don’t think that’s you.” Sayid tells him that Tariq will never talk to him, and the spook, Joe Inman, slides a toolbox over. “That’s why you’re gonna have to make him talk to you.”
Under the hatch, Sayid wakes Locke and tells him what happened. Henry comes to and Sayid asks how he got on the island. Four months ago he and his wife CRASHED in a balloon (and Dorothy got home in a balloon) while they were trying to cross the pacific. He tells them they were staying in a cave off the beach, and she got sick and died three months ago. He sounds kinda like the dying Tim Roth in Reservoir Dogs here… speaking of torture. Jack shows up and wants to know what’s going on. Sayid fills him in. Jack asks Sayid if he shot this guy with an arrow. “Do I have a bow?”
He’s getting fed up with Jack. I kinda am too. He tells Jack to treat him but leave him tied up.
Sawyer and “Barbar” are still looking for the frog. Hurley takes offense at that nickname, and Sawyer tells “Hammo” to shut up, or his ranch disorder will be the “new lead item on the coconut internet.” Hugo lets Sawyer know that he doesn’t care if he tells everyone the fat guy has been eating the ranch dressing. “Fat fat fat fat fat. You think I don’t know that? These people like me.”
He turns to leave and Sawyer turns on the charm by calling him Hurley for the first time that I can remember. He pleads with him to help find the frog.
Back in the Swan Station, Jack’s prepping Henry’s wound with some dharma antiseptic. He holds the shaft with a pair of pliers and snaps it off, then uses them to pull the rest of the arrow free. While he’s doing this, Locke and Sayid are discussing what to do. Locke says there’s no way to be sure if he’s telling the truth or not. “That is not necessarily true.”
He tells Locke that they need answers, and Jack isn’t going to like the way they need to get them. He asks how long it will take for Locke to change the armory combination, and Locke tells him a couple minutes, tops. “Then I suggest you get started.”
Meet the new boss. A couple minutes later, tops, they tell Jack that Henry should be locked in the armory for now, just to be safe. The three of them move him in there, and Jack and Locke leave to get a cot. Sayid closes the door and locks himself in with the other. Jack pounds on the door and asks what he is doing. “What needs to be done.”
Flashback – Sayid and Tariq in the interrogation room – with the toolbox. Tariq thinks it’s a bluff. (The DIA is using Sayid’s rage at his relatives death to get them to do what they need him to do; is Danielle somehow doing the same to him now?) Tariq tells Sayid that he is disgracing his father, and the only way he can die with any honor is to take his own life now. He spits on him, and Sayid picks up a pair of nasty-looking-alias-style-tooth-extractor-thingies. A while later he emerges from the room with the location of the pilot's grave and a pair of bloody hands. The CIA/DIA created a monster – Bin Laden lite.
Crazy Jack is emerging again under the hatch. He really doesn’t like not being in complete control, does he? He demands to know why Locke changed the combination. Locke points out that Jack is raising an army, and it’s his business as to why he hasn’t invited Locke to join (ouch). – but the only reason to have an army is if you’re at war, and like it or not whatever Sayid has to do is a part of that too. “What if he’s telling the truth, John?”
“What if he’s not?”
In the armory – the vent is definitely bolted shut. (does showing it here means that’s how Henry is going to escape later?) Sayid starts the interrogation. Henry tells him they “LANDED”- not ‘crashed’ - four months ago, maybe more. They’d been staying in a cave off the beach on the north side of the island, 2 days walk away. He tells Sayid they had an ADF beacon (wouldn’t the jacked up shortwave have picked that up before Glenn Miller?), and asks his name. Sayid ignores him, and asks his wife’s maiden name (Murphy) where they met (university of Minnesota) how did she die? She got sick, it started as a fever, after two days she was delirious. Then she died. He can’t understand why he is being treated like this, why Sayid won’t tell him who he is. “I was 23 years old when the Americans came to my country. I was a good man. I was a soldier. And when they left I was something different. For the next 6 years I did things I wish I could erase from my memory, things which I never thought myself to be capable of. But I did come to learn this; there is a part of me which was always capable. You want to know who I am? My name is Sayid Jarrah and I am a torturer.”
Henry looks kinda scared.
Hurley and Sawyer finally find the tiny loud frog. It reminds Hurley of his old pet turtle Stuart, and Sawyer, seeing a way to toy with him, starts to pet the frog. (I thought the frog was poisonous and Sawyer was gonna pass out here… oh well) Hurley tells Sawyer he can take the frog far away, and Sawyer responds by crushing the frog and dumping it in Hurley’s hand. “Eat it with a little ranch, they taste just like chicken.”
I think that like the boar in the old episode, the frog represents Sawyer's conscience, his Jiminy Cricket. He let the boar live, and went on a nice long sweet story arc. This time he squishes it. I wouldn't expect redemption from him anytime soon.
After telling Locke to shut up, Angry Jack notices the pliers are missing. Behind the locked door Sayid demands Henry tell him everything about the balloon. “She’s 140 feet high, 60 feet wide, and when she’s up in the air, 550,000 cubic feet of helium and 100,000 of hot air keep her up there.” And she’s got a big yellow smiley face on top. PLUR, baby. Sayid's thinking the balloon isn't the only thing full of hot air. Henry tells him he was rich, that this had been his dream, and Jennifer Murphy-Gale thought it’d be neat. When Sayid points out Henry just said he was rich, he gets defensive and chalks it up to a lack of optimism. He tells Sayid his wealth came from selling his “non-metallic mineral” mining company. Then he tries to get cute, and Sayid puts his finger in the pliers. He wants to know where he buried Jennifer. “What?” (say what again, motherfucker!)
He tells Sayid he buried her in the jungle, but Sayid wants specifics, and starts to lose it while remembering burying Shannon. “You would remember what it felt like to place her body inside. You would remember if you buried the woman you love. You would remember… if it were true.”
Henry tries to use this info to turn the tables on Sayid (showing that he has a bit more skill in the art of interrogation than your average rich balloon enthusiast), asking if he lost someone on the island too, and what happened to her? Sayid tells him it was an accident, and the woman responsible thought it was someone coming to hurt her. “Someone like you.”
Hen’s fucked here. Sayid couldn’t take out his rage on Ana Lucia (unfortunately) but here’s a handy substitute. He starts working through some of that rage now.
Jack can hear the beating taking place, and he throws Locke up against the wall, demanding that he open the door. Locke refuses, and the countdown begins. Absolutely Crazy Jack is back (all work and no play, I guess) and he won’t let Locke enter the number until he opens the door. Locke can’t believe that Jack would risk everyone’s life on the island over this, but Jack doesn’t believe in the button. He hasn’t pressed it since that first time. Time's running out quickly, and Locke has no choice. He unlocks the armory then rushes to the computer and starts to enter the numbers. The timer reaches zero and the numbers start to flip, turning into symbols, and slowly lining up like a slot machine. The two second digits are black on red, and the three minute digits are the opposite, red on black. The first one to stop is the first second digit, and it’s a bird. The next is the third minute digit, and it’s something that looks like a campfire? An arrow flips over in the last second spot, and a paperclip looking thing (clippy?) in the first minute digit.
Hurry up, Locke!! – he hits execute just before the last one flips to a stop, and they start to reshuffle. What looks like a hieroglyph of a man on his knees (A2 in segment one, page 4) searching the horizon (or wiping his brow? - whew...) briefly pops up in the first minute spot, then they reset to 108:00. Jack has pulled Sayid off of Henry and shut the armory door. He tells Jack that Henry’s lying and that he is one of them. Jack tells Sayid that Rousseau strapped him down and shocked him because she thought the same about him. Locke points out that to her, they’re all others. “I guess it’s all relative, huh?”
Flashback – A convoy is heading out across the burning Iraqi oil fields. Sam Austen is in one of the trucks, looking at a picture of a young Kate wearing a really goofy hat. They slow to a stop, and the DIA agent takes Sayid aside. He tells him they’re pulling out, but with his new skill set, he should be useful in Saddam’s army. Sayid says, “What you made me do, no human being should ever have to do to another.”
Joe tells Sayid, in Arabic, that one day there will be something he needs to know, and now he knows how to get it. Sayid says he will never do that again (we know better), and Joe gives him a few hundred bucks before the convoy moves out, leaving Sayid alone next to a wet road in the desert, superimposed over the burning oil fields.
Now, on the beach… Sayid is talking with Charlie. (I guess everyone figures the junkie will do their dirty work or something?) He tells him what happened, and Charlie wants to know why he is telling all this to him. Sayid tells him Jack asked how he knew for sure the guy was lying, how he was sure he was one of the Others. “I know because I feel no guilt for what I did to him.”
He tells Charlie he cant explain that to Jack or Locke because they have both forgotten. “Forgotten what?”
“That you were strung up by your neck and left for dead. That Claire was taken and kept for days during which God only knows what happened to her. That these people, these ‘Others’ are merciless; and can take any one of us whenever they choose.” (He’s really working Charlie up, but I’m not sure I understand why? To start his own army or something? With Charlie? There’s no way Charlie could get his hands on Henry any more than Sayid could, right? So what good is all this? He’s doing to Charlie what the spook did to him...)
“So tell me Charlie – have you forgotten?”
L O S T
posted by karmacomedian at 3:54 AM
