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Thursday, February 16, 2006

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?”

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Thursday, February 09, 2006

you can see his stripes but you know he's clean

- watching this episode the second time through is like doing the same with the sixth sense. It was all right there laid out for you the whole time... the clues and misdirection started right away with the 'previously on lost' scenes; Charlie’s mad at Locke, the others promise not to attack without provocation, and the red herring, Ana Lucia and the army. -

Jack and Locke are storing the contents of the steel briefcase, six guns and a box of ammo, in the armory. Jack notices the Mary’s full of H, and Locke tells him he stored them away here to keep them away from Charlie, and also because the H might “have therapeutic value, if it ever came to that.”
Jack asks if he’s gonna leave it all in the statues. “You wanna break seven virgin marys? Be my guest. I’m superstitious.”



Jack asks Locke for the new combination. Jokingly, Locke tells Jack he assumes he wants to know in case he should fall to his death from a cliff or something; rather than it being an issue of trust. Jack, playing along, points out that there are a lot of cliffs on the island. It almost seems like the beginnings of a friendship here. They agree to consult one another before opening the door back up, and Locke gives him the combo: right 7 left 33 right 18 – Jack has a good memory. Before he leaves he takes the key from his neck and puts it down with the guns. (So far the hatch has enabled Jin to lose the handcuffs, and Jack the key around his neck. The supermagnet down there is slowly collecting all their metal.) Locke tells Jack he should lock up the medicine as well, essentially tattling on Sawyer.

Shirtless Sawyer comes out of the ocean to find Charlie building a tent on the beach, and immediately starts ragging on him. “Ain’t that just like a woman. She gets the house, and you get the cheap-ass apartment.”
That’s the Sawyer we know and love. He’s impressed that Charlie is so hated now, he even got Locke to take some swings at him. “That’s like getting Gandhi to beat his kids!”
Charlie tells Sawyer he should be more concerned with Jack looting his tent. Sawyer runs over and confronts Jack, who accuses him of stealing the pills. Sawyer contends that they were his, and Jack is the one that stole them, while he was on the raft. “Seriously Doc, you don’t want to do this. Give me my pills and we’ll forget it happened.”
Jack does his best cornholio impression and walks off with the pills in hand.
Ominous music.
Angry Sawyer.



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Flashback- and Sawyers in bed with a woman. He checks the clock (1:37), gets up, and starts to pull the same con we’ve seen before. This time he’s busted, she’s completely onto him. She tells him she’s not worth it anyway, if he had done his homework he’d have known she didn’t take anything in the divorce. She wants him to teach her to con… or is she scamming him?

Back to today at Sawyers tent, Kate and he are talking about the pill incident. He tells her he and the Doc are on the outs. Kate brought him an issue of Elegant magazine to pass the time. (The model on the cover looks a lot like Kate with a Farrah wig on.) He asks if she could read it to him, because he lost his glasses during the raft debacle. He’s being extra flirty here... the long con is underway. Sawyer tells her "El Jacko and Ana Lulu" didn’t ask him to join their army, and acts surprised when he sees Kate get upset because she knew nothing about it. “Guess I’m not the only one on the outs with the Doc.”

Hurley finds Sayid shelling (is that what you call it?) coconuts, and asks if he’s “gonna put the lime in the coconut, drink them both up?” Sayid is not amused. at all. Hurley tells him he just came from Rose and Bernard’s (who is a dentist), and he brought the shortwave radio from the arrow station trunk. Sayid tells Hurley it’s not strong enough and it would be a waste of time to try and boost the signal. This Iraqi is in a serious funk. Hurley was just trying to cheer him up. He leaves… and leaves the radio with Sayid. Seems like our boy Hugo learned quite a bit of psychology in the nuthouse.

Ana and Jack are tramping through the jungle. She thinks the reason that no one is joining the army is because they’re not scared enough. Jack insists that everyone is plenty scared. She asks him for the combination to the safe, and then plays it off as a joke when she sees he’s not going to give it up.
Working in her garden, Sun is startled by Vincent. She says something to him in Korean, and he leaves as it starts raining. Oh shit. Someone comes up behind her and pulls a hood down over her head, then ties her up and drags her away.



Kate and Sawyer hear the screams from the beach and dash into the jungle. Shortly thereafter they find Sun, unconscious and bleeding from a wound on her head. Sawyer tells Kate to go get Jack, and he carries Sun to Jack’s tent. Kate shows up with Jack, and after checking Sun over, he assures Jin that she will be okay. Everyone is now gathered around the tent, and Kate tells them they found her out cold with her hands tied. Ana tells everyone, “They’re back.” (at this point I was convinced Ana did it, frigging Sawyer and the writers were conning me too.)

A little while later, Locke, Jack, Ana, Kate and Sawyer are discussing the situation. Locke is being rational, pointing out that the others had promised to leave them alone. Ana wants to go check out the area around the garden, “with guns.” Locke won’t have it, he wants to avoid handing out firearms at all costs. They decide to wait and see what Sun has to say, and then they’ll plan accordingly. Sawyer and Kate end up checking out the area where they found Sun. He convinces “Sheena” that the others weren’t behind it. After finding the hood dangling from a branch, he points out that it’s different from the one they used on Kate. He tells her, “It’s all in the details… and they’re wrong.”
The only reason to scare the 46 people left would be to con them into joining an army. He still had me convinced at this point.

Flashback - Sawyer’s teaching “Dimples” how to run a con. “it’s all in the details.”
(I can’t believe they were being this blatant. It should have been obvious- hell it was obvious- that Sawyer was pulling the con all along.) They’re at Eric’s Expert service station, home to J.D. Race Cars and packs of Portsmouth and Bilson (Rachel?) cigarettes. Damn, the gas is only a buck seventy-two! There’s a red GTO looking car by the shop, and a couple of preppy guys filling up their new red mustang. Easy marks, and Sawyer and Dimples pull off the con with no problem. He’s wearing a fatigue jacket with MAG 32 on the back.

At the watering hole on the island, Kate is asking Jack how well he knows Ana Lucia, and insinuates that she may have been the one that abducted Sun. Jack just walks off, shaking his head dismissively. Kate planted the seed though, because later, on the beach with Ana, he seems to be getting suspicious. Ana’s excited because she’s just recruited the big guy that lives behind Sayid and Scott. Jack tells her she must mean Steve, because Scott is dead. (Wait, how did she even know Scott’s name? That’s kind of odd. Did she have a list?) He makes her aware of his suspicions, and she asks him where he would even get an idea like that? - This is like a David Mamet movie at this point. I’m all turned around. Who’s doing what? - Claire interrupts to tell them that Sun has regained conciousness. They rush back to the tent, and Sun tells everyone what happened. Jin wants a gun. Sawyer and Kate are watching all of this unfold from a distance. Ana looks over at them and makes eye contact with Kate, which is all Kate needs to jump to the conclusion that this is Ana’s play to get her hands on the guns. (you’re half right there, Freckles.) She tells Sawyer he needs to go warn Locke that they’ll be coming for the guns.

Flashback – Dimples is tired of the pigeon drop, the Tulsa bag scam, and the looky loo. She wants to pull off a long con. It still seems like she might be setting Sawyer up. He tells her they need real money to pull off a long con, and she tells him she’s been hiding the fact that she has $600,000.00. With that kind of money, Sawyer would rather go find an island somewhere and sit on the beach drinking mojitos 'til they go toes up. Best be careful what you wish for, James.

Under the hatch, Locke is searching through the books. For what, more filmstrip? He's flipping through An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce. “James” enters to tell Locke that the posse is on their way to get the guns because of what happened to “Tokyo Rose”. He knows Locke’s fear of the guns being handed out, and is playing off it. Locke talks himself into hiding the guns somewhere, and Sawyer tells him he’ll man the hatch while he’s gone.

Flashback – Sawyer’s sitting at booth 36, and Kate’s mom, Diane, is his waitress. He’s meeting with a partner that hasn’t been seen or heard of until now, named Gordy. Gordy is very particular about his order, which is a little nod to Seinfeld. The two of them knew about the $600K all along, and have been working the long con on Cassidy (Dimples) for the past six months. James is balking though, he thinks he’s fallen in love. Gordy tells him he can’t back out. “A tiger doesn’t change its stripes, James – it’s not what you do, it’s what you are.” Sawyers not convinced, and he gets up to leave.(is he conning this guy? This part I don’t really get) Gordy threatens to kill James and Cassidy both if he backs out now.

Sawyer wakes up at the computer, with 3:50 remaining on the clock, as Jack and Jin show up. He tells them to hold on a second, because "he’s this close to the highest score on Donkey Kong."
He enters the numbers and the clock resets. “Locke went to the store for some smokes”, he tells them, as they see the emptied-out armory. Sawyer tosses his pill bottle at Jack - and this was the first time it really dawned on me that Sawyer had been pulling the con all this time. The flashbacks were yelling it loud and clear, but I was paying more attention to the story on the island. Misdirection and sleight of hand. Jack goes topside and confronts Locke about the guns, but Locke refuses to tell him where they are. Ana and Charlie are watching closely as a crowd starts to gather. Jack just wants two guns, and they start to shout at each other. Locke feels guilty and accountable for Michaels disappearance and possible death, and he doesn’t want to be responsible for what would happen were the guns to fall into the wrong hands.

Too late.

Their argument is cut off by a burst of automatic weapon fire as Sawyer emerges from the jungle with an AK-47. (so who followed Locke? Are Ana and Sawyer in cahoots? I was not thinking of Charlie at all here) Locke tells Jack he didn’t give away the guns, he hid them. Sawyer tells Jack that Locke is just stupid as he is. “You were so busy worrying about each other that you never even saw me coming, did ya?” (nope.)
Shot of a shocked and hurt Kate. She wasn’t the one helping him out. Sawyer’s gonna have his say. He doesn’t like what’s happened since he left on the raft to try and save everyone; all his stuff was divvied up, and Locke and Jack became the men in charge. Sawyer’s not taking any orders. It’s cool though, he doesn’t want his stuff back; he’s got the guns, and they're the only things that matter now. If anyone wants one they have to get it from him. Sayid is glaring at Sawyer, so he tells him he can torture him all he wants, but he’ll die before he gives up the location of the guns, and then everyone would be really screwed. “There’s a new sheriff in town, boys… y’all best get used to it.”



Awesome.

Flashback – Sawyer comes home to Cassidy and a an open briefcase on the table with $600K in it. He tells her his partner Gordy is sitting in a car outside, and is going to kill them if he doesn’t come outside with the money in the next few minutes. She was the long con all along, he tells her, but now they’re gonna die because he told Gordy he wouldn’t take her money. She can be mad at him all she wants later, but right now she has to get out of the house. He starts moving the money from the case to a duffel bag as he gives her instructions. Run through Evan’s yard, there’s a rental car waiting in front of his house. Check into the Sage Flower motel off of highway 29, where he’ll meet her in the morning. He tells her he loves her and sends her off with the bag.

Kate wants to know how he followed Locke while staying in the hatch. “A magician never tells his secrets.”
What kind of person does she think he is, he replies, when Kate asks if he had anything to do with Sun’s abduction. The kind that wants to be hated by everyone. “Good thing you don’t hate me, freckles.”
She asks why he has to do this. “You run, I con. A tiger don’t change her stripes.”

Hurley’s reading a manuscript he found in one of the suitcases, a mystery. “Bad Twin” by Gary Troup (purgatory?) – Hyperion publishing 2004. (life imitiating art imitating life? cool.) Sayid shows up with some huge antenna doodad and a jacked-up shortwave radio. Shades of the Professor, he was even working with coconuts earlier in the show! He and Gilligan turn it on, and almost immediately come across Rousseau’s broadcast. Sayid continues to turn the dial, and Hurley stops him when he hears a short burst of music. “That was the –something-just-something- Duke Ellington and his Orchestra featuring –something- on drums. Up next on WXO(?), the Glenn Miller Orchestra with ‘Moonlight Serenade’.” Hurley points out that the signal is so clear it must be broadcasting from somewhere nearby. Sayid bursts his bubble though, telling him that radio waves bounce off the ionosphere, possibly traveling thousands of miles. It could be coming from anywhere. “Or anytime,” muses Hurley. "...just kidding dude.”




In the deep dark jungle Sawyer is meeting with his accomplice. Out of the shadows steps Charlie. CHARLIE!! Holy shit – he was the one that followed Locke to the guns. Sawyer hands him a statue (just one? So he can have control over Charlie once he runs out? He may have been offering all of them, though.), but Charlie refuses it, telling Sawyer if he’d wanted them, he could have taken them before he told Sawyer where they were. He just wanted Locke to look and feel like a fool. (this is like Shakespearian Mamet on a desert island. One of my favorite episodes so far… the writing should win an Emmy.)
“Sun can never find out what I did to her. Never.”
Holy shit – he was the one that abducted Sun… c’mon Charlie. Ugh. So was the rain just a coinsidence, or does the island always start to cry when evil is afoot?
Sawyer tells him not to worry about it, and Charlie wants to know how Sawyer could do what he’s done.

Flashback – Sawyer watches Cassidy leave through the backyard, then walks through the house out to Gordy's car. He gets in the passenger side, and looks over at the empty drivers seat. (So Sawyer made Gordy believe that he was taking off with the girl to keep all the money for himself, or did he kill Gordy because he pissed him off - like Jack did at the beginning of the episode? I'm still not sure what happened there. If he was just pulling a switch on Cassidy, why wouldn't Gordy be there waiting for him? I don't think Sawyer killed him though, otherwise killing the fake real Sawyer wouldn't have affected him as much, unless it was because that was actualyl an innocent guy...) Sawyer waits for a few minutes, then goes back into the house and picks up the duffel bag with the $600K in it. He pulled the ol’ switcheroo on Dimples, and lays a picture of the two of them facedown on his way out - which make me believe he was in this for the money the whole time, and is pulling a fast one on Gordy as well. It's almost the polar opposite of 'What Kate Did'; this time nature, not nurture, wins.

Back on the island, Charlie is still waiting for an explanation. “I’m not a good person, Charlie. Never did a good thing in my life.”

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