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Thursday, April 27, 2006

reckoning

thoughts after watching the clips:

the tailie kids will be back before the end of the season, in one way or another

there were a lot of kate and jack scenes... what will this mean?

i think desmond is 'him'. if the guy is getting up every 108 minutes to push a button, why was he spending all that time getting ready down in the hatch, and why was he all grimy once they got down there, just a few minutes later?
i think he was there to set up the button pushing test for locke and the rest of the castaways. the others knew the hatch was about to be blown up, and after desmond ate and showered, he used his dharma initiative makeup kit to dirty himself up and make it look like he had been down there alone for a long time.
they blow up the hatch, he tells them his story and takes off. takes off cause that was part of the plan? maybe he was supposed to infiltrate them, but the computer gets shot, and knowing what will happen if the button isn't pressed he leaves, not wanting to be around for that? once he figures out its working okay, he sends 'henry' back to do the job he was supposed to be doing. or henry is the real boss, and he decides if he wants the job done right, he needs to do it himself?

and maybe the plane 'crashing' is dharmas way of keeping the test running; providing new subjects along with new workers. the 'good ones', the innocents, are abducted by the others and groomed to be replacements on dharma's island skeleton crew - children are most sought after because they will last longer and are easier to coerce, or brainwash; especially if they've never known another life -, while the 'lost' passengers are the new test subjects. once all the test subjects have outlived their usefulness the process begins again.
are there agents around the world selecting people for the test without their knowledge? desmond, the psychic, the healer, people in the government?
they conspire to get the people that they've selected together, aboard a flight, or maybe a cruise. of course there is collateral; spouses, families, etc., who become the new worker bees?
interesting that there weren't any nuclear families among the survivors. Michael, Walt and Vincent are about as close as they got.

ahhhh, i have no idea.
the god voice during these clip shows is cool, though.
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Thursday, April 13, 2006

i'll send an s.o.s. to the world...

Rose is stocking the pantry on the beach with some D.I. green beans and carrots. Bernard is trying to help, but he just can’t understand why she’s not curious as to where the food came from. She was apparently raised never to question her blessings. “I was raised to question piles of food with weird labels that just fall out of the sky, Rose.”
As all kids should be raised, Bernard. After all, you never know when that situation might come up. He’s in culture shock, and still can’t believe how complacent everyone has become on this side of the island. He doesn’t understand why they’ve given up. “Given up? On what?”
On being rescued Rose, jeez…

Under the hatch the clock is ticking down – because that’s what this clock does. Ticks down. Then ticks down some more. Locke’s sitting at the computer desk, trying to recreate the briefly blacklit map of the hatches on the island that he saw illuminated on the inside of the blast door pinning him to the ground. He remembers the ? in the center, and is working on counting how many stations he saw as the timer begins to loudly trumpet the one minute countdown. He pays it no mind – is he so engrossed he doesn’t hear it, or has he been doing this every 108 minutes since Henry told him he didn’t press the button, daring himself to trust Henry, and to try the same (or is it more a question of talking himself out of trusting him every 108 and pressing it)? - Jack pops his head in. “Hey. You gonna get that?”

Locke does. Jack finds Ana Lucia on the couch reading an atlas. He asks about Henry, and she tells him Henry’s gone the past two days refusing food and water, and refusing to speak a word. Jack’s tired of waiting, so he and Ana go in the cell. Is Henry sleeping when they walk in or is he looking intently at something on the floor… maybe using his feet to unscrew something? He’s still not talking, which is fine with Jack, as he's never been that good at the whole bedside manner thing. He changes Henry’s bandages while talking about that idea Henry had to lure them into a trap so a trade could then be worked out.
“Pretty good idea, Henry. And since you are one of them, I thought now might be a good time to use it. I’m going out to the line that we’re not supposed to cross and telling them that we’ve got you. And if they want you back it’s gonna cost them.
And when we get Walt back, you might just have been worth all the trouble.”
Henry snorts as Jack turns to leave.

“They’ll never give you Walt.”



Flashback – Rose is stuck in some snow and Bernard approaches her car with some suggestions. This is their first meeting… and the second time in two weeks a character has said “All due respect…” You think maybe the writers have been watching the new season of the Sopranos? He gets behind the car to help her rock it out – he can do this. He does, but ends up facedown in slush. Rose gets out of the car (New York plates) and they make some smalltalk before remembering to introduce themselves. After much hesitation on both their parts, due to shyness I think, Rose gets up the nerve to ask him out for a cup of coffee. Of course he agrees. We do kinda know they end up together.

Back at the pantry, Rose is tempting Hurley with a box of Dharma Initiative Dharmalars (huh?), but Hurley’s on a strict fish and water diet. Sounds yummy. Bernard stomps up, a man on a mission. He wants Hurley and Libby to meet him in five minutes, and bring along Jin and Sun, Jenkins, and that frogurt guy, Neil. He tells Rose he has an idea and takes off, recruiting Richard, Bret and Bro? on the way.

Under the hatch, Jack is busy packing for his trip to meet the others. Ana asks to come, but after sneaking a look at Locke in the computerdome, Jack decides it would be wiser for Ana to stay there. We know what happened the last time Locke and Henry were left alone. She hands over the gun with the condition that he not go alone, he needs to find someone to bring with him. Jack agrees.
Kate and Sawyer are doing some weird shit on the beach - picking barnacles or something? - when Doctor Giggles comes over. Kate looks happy to see him. Jack asks her to come with him to talk to “our friend with the beard” about a trade. Sawyer assumes Jack wants him to come to this prisoner exchange as well, since he’s got the gun. But he’s not invited, just Kate, and Jack’s already got his own gun. (but thanks for offering.)

Bernard is rallying the troops - "Two months we’ve been on this island…we’ve got a food pantry…people are taking showers in your hatch. Have you forgotten we all crashed on this island? It’s like none of you want to go home again.”
He asks why they’re not doing anything about it. Hurley says they have, “Dude, we like built a raft! …but it got blown up.”
Bernard’s plan is to construct a huge sign on the beach, one that could be seen by a satellite in orbit – or by a plane like the one that just dropped the food. “We want to make damn sure that they know we’re here; that they know about us.”
He has everyone in the crowd nodding in agreement, but then Rose chimes in. “Maybe we should speak to Jack about this first.”
Jack’s not the president, he’s only a doctor, Bernard points out. Rose, much to everyone’s amusement, rebuts with the fact that Bernard is a dentist. Remember to spay and neuter your husbands, people.

Ouch. He takes her aside and explains that he’s just trying to do something so they can get back to their life.
“Well the only thing you’re doing is giving these people false hope.”
Everyone looks like they’re in one of those ‘wanna get away?” commercials (most of them probably have been…).
Bernard heads back to the group; he’s got a sign to build.

Flashback to five months later (since the last flashback, not the part on the island where Rose just cut off his balls), and Rose and Bernard are having dinner at a nice restaurant overlooking Niagara Falls. Rose is amazed by the natural beauty surrounding them, but Bernard is distracted. He’s busy trying to motion someone over to the table, prompting Rose to ask what god would have to do to get his attention? I dunno, but Bernard knows how to get Rose's; all it takes is two violinists at the table and getting down on one knee. The 56 year old bachelor tells her he’d always dreamed of meeting someone like her, but had given up hope that he ever would. “I know it’s crazy, we just met five months ago…but five months is long enough because I knew after five minutes. Rose, I love you. Will you marry me?”
“Bernard, I’m dying.”
The band plays on while she tells him she’s sick and dying (did these guys play on the Titanic, too?). He has to ask them to leave, then Rose explains; her sickness had been in remission, but now it’s back and she only has a year, maybe a little longer.
“You haven’t answered my question.”
“Are you sure?”
Bernard takes her hands. “Oh, I’m sure.”
“Yes.”

Eko and Charlie ARE building a church, I knew it. Bernard shuffles over. He can’t understand why everyone is building something on the island, while he is the only one working on getting them saved. “People are saved in different ways, Bernard.”
Bernard tells Eko he liked him better when he just hit people with his stick.
“I like you just the way you are,” Charlie assures Eko.

Under the hatch, Locke is still trying to work out the map he saw. He gets up to tell Ana that he needs to talk with Henry. She tells him Jack has the gun, so the door stays closed, but they can talk through the door if he wants to. Does he want to ask about the map? I think if he got some alone time, he would. As it is, he has to shout through the door for Henry to hear, meaning that Ana can hear everything too. “Henry… did you enter the numbers? Did you push the button or not?”
Locke is getting frustrated. “Henry? I need to know, I want you to answer me. Answer me!!!”
Henry sits silently, smiling in his cell.

Craig, Frogurt, and at least a few others have already abandoned Bernard’s project. A few more disappear after he explains the black rocks they need are at a lava field about a half mile into the jungle, and while everyone is hauling the rocks from there, he’ll be busy sketching out the 40 foot letters in the sand.

Flashback – Rose and Bernard are honeymooning in the middle of the outback. She’s convinced they’re lost, but Bernard knows where he’s going. He’s set up a ten thousand dollar meeting for Rose with some kind of faith healer, Isaac of Uluru. He hands a stunned Rose the brochure. There’s a copy of the National Flash newspaper inside, touting the ‘winning lottery numbers’ and your ‘personal horoscope’. The front page story is “MIRACLE IN THE OUTBACK”

- The picture in Isaac’s pamphlet is of Ayers rock, but it looks a lot like the picture hanging on the wall of the swan station. Maybe just a similar rock? A place of power… the picture in the swan station could maybe be somewhere on the island itself? either way, it's definitely there representing a 'place of power' -
Isaac was born in 1949, and has been a spiritual healer for over 25 years.
The brochure reads:
“Isaac’s Healing Powers:
Spiritual healing is effected by the act of attuning to the life force energy by meditation or prayer
so this energy can be channeled via the agency of a trained spiritual healer
to any person, place, situation, or life form, whether present or not,
via contact by the hands or by the projection of loving thoughts in order to have a beneficial effect on the whole, at all levels of being.
Distinctions of race, class, gender, customs, belief, philosophy or religions are irrelevant
No affirmation of religious faith is required.
Spiritual healing may be given to any person, place, situation, or life form for any illness, injury, problem, or circumstance, at any time.”

- well, that explains the island and why the Hanso foundation and the DeGroots were so interested; is Walt the only person born with the proper gifts to channel the energy of this island? That’s why they’ll never give him back? -

Rose is upset. She “didn’t ask for this!”, and has already made her peace with what is happening to her. Bernard hasn’t. “I can’t just do nothing Rose. That’s not me. That’s not who I am. I have to try. Will you try for us? For me.”

On the beach, Bernard, or Norma Rae (why is Sawyer always calling him a girls name? scrubs reference? Or is it his gaydar?) is lobbying unsuccessfully for Sawyers help. He gives up, and walks over to Rose at the watering hole. He wants to know what’s wrong, why she won’t support him…he’s hurt by this, all he’s trying to do is help, to just do something. Rose tells him to just let things be, he doesn’t always have to “do something.”
“If I didn’t always have to do something, you wouldn’t be here.”
So she did go to the faith healer for him?

Kate and Jack are hiking through the jungle… she finds out she was Jacks second choice, after Sayid turned him down. She shouldn’t flatter herself, he just chose her because the others already had a chance at keeping her and didn’t, so they must not want her. Or him, for that matter. They’re damaged goods. Too true? Hey, even if they don’t say it, at least they want each other. Kate sees a doll lying on the ground and moves to pick it up. Jack runs over to try and stop her, but he’s too late, and they’re both scooped up into one of the French chick’s net traps.

“Sorry.”
It’s cozy in there, and Jack is worried Danielle may not come by for a week. Kate wiggles the gun out of Jack’s pants, and takes a shot at the rope holding the net off the ground. She misses wide, and Jack gives it a try. He’s got a better angle, anyway. He surprisingly makes it on his first shot – something we don’t know about Jack and guns? – and they crash to the jungle floor below, tangled up in each other.
“Nice shot.”

At the SOS site, Bernard is nagging Jin, the only person with enough patience to have made it this far. Even he has had enough by now. Bernard just wants to get Rose home. Speaking of Rose, she’s down the beach a ways, talking with Locke. She tells him Bernard is building a big sign in the sand so a satellite will see it. “The man doesn’t know the difference between an errand and a fool’s errand.”
Our button pushing Locke can certainly relate to that. She asks him what he doing out there, and he tells her that he’s done with his hatch, his fool’s errand. She tells him he’s just frustrated. “You’ll be out of that splint and running around the island in no time.”
“And yet Jack said it’d be at least four weeks.”
“But honey, you and I both know it’s not gonna take that long.”
Rose smiles at Locke knowingly, and he takes a moment to consider before returning the grin. They both look out over the sea.
Whatthefuck?!?!?!?

Flashback – Rose is in Isaac’s ‘temple’; a graveyard of crutches, wheelchairs and walkers. The walls are covered with thank you notes and postcards, letters, and photos.

Anyone we know?
Isaac enters and they sit, Rose asking how it works, does he chant or pray?
“There are certain places with great energy; spots on the earth like the one we’re above now. Perhaps this energy is geological… magnetic… or perhaps it’s something else. And when possible, I harness this energy and give it to others.”
Fucking awesome.
– so does Walt harness it and give it to The Others? This is a huge revelation, as we now know the actual secret of the island, we’ve been told outright twice tonight. It’s a place of power, like an ancient Micmac burial ground, or ley lines
Isaac holds his hands open and places them on either side of Rose’s face for a minute before breaking away. He’s sorry, but he can’t do anything for her. -shades of Claire and her psychic - “It’s not that you can’t be healed. Like I said, there are different energies. This is not the right place for you.”
He doesn’t know where the right place would be, however. Isaac offers to return Bernard’s ten grand, but Rose tells him to keep it.
“I’m gonna tell him you fixed me.”

In the jungle, Jack and Kate are back on the trail. It’s raining, so they must be getting close, right? Kate confesses to her adventure with Claire and Danielle at the other hatch, the empty medical station. “I found some lockers, they had clothes inside, all worn and dirty and they were on hangers like costumes, ya know? And there was a makeup kit and a fake beard.”
Jack is aghast… “When were you gonna tell me this?”
She was gonna tell him once she was let back into the club. She and Hurley need some membership cards or something.
They come across the clearing, which is also the site of a rather large black rock. Jack stands in the middle of the clearing and starts yelling for the others. He has their man, and he’ll wait for them to come and talk to him about it. He knows they can hear him. He’s all yelly and stuff, but he’s rational, not quite the maniacal angry Jack from earlier in the season.

Bernard’s management skills have left him alone on the beach, filling out the enormous letters with lava rocks all by himself. Rose brings him some dinner, along with an apology for lying to him. She reveals that Isaac didn’t heal her. “But that doesn’t mean I’m not healed.”
She tells Bernard that when you’re sick the way she was, you can feel something inside you that doesn’t belong. After the crash, she didn’t feel it anymore. “It’s this place.”
She deceived him so that he wouldn’t spend the time they had left trying to do something. Bernard asks if it could be in remission, if maybe Isaac did heal her, how can she know it’s the island?
“I know.”

Flashback – the gate at the airport in Sydney. Bernard gets up to go take a piss or something, and Rose is shuffling through her purse. She drops a bottle of pills, and they roll up against the wheel of a wheelchair. Locke picks them up and hands them to Rose.

She thanks him as he wheels away. (that explains the look they shared that was driving me frigging crazy!)

“Trust me. I know”
Once Bernard comes to the realization that Rose doesn’t want to leave the island, that she feels she can’t without risking getting sick again, he holds her tight and starts to cry. “We won’t ever leave, Rose.”
He’d offer to take down the sign, but he didn’t get very far. They show an aerial shot of the SOS, and the stacks of rocks along with what Bernard has managed to fill in looks an awful lot like a frowny face.

Locke is back under the hatch, where Ana’s telling him that she pressed his button. “It’s not my button.”
He settles back in next to the button that is not his, and gets to work on remembering the map again. He lost his faith for a little while, but speaking with Rose reminded Locke that the island has a purpose for him, and he believes that it showed the map to him alone for a reason… it also healed him, so the least he can do for it is push a button every 108 minutes.

The return of the musical montage! Otis Redding's 'These Arms of Mine' - which was playing in the car when Bernard met Rose - we see Eko and Charlie hard at work on the church – Jin lying next to Sun, caressing her belly – Sun has a horrible look on her face, probably thinking about the whole truth – Hurley and Libby are entertaining themselves with shadow puppets (an old psych ward game, perhaps?) – Sawyer feeding Vincent (Vincent!), probably as a way of making amends to the viewers that couldn’t believe he would squish a harmless tree frog ; ladies, Sawyer loves the animals! – Rose and Bernard cuddling by a campfire.

Kate and Jack have their own campfire in the clearing. She wants to know how long Jack is gonna wait. “’til I get my voice back, then I’m gonna yell some more.”
Kate tells him she’s sorry for kissing him, and Jack tells her he’s not sorry it happened. They lean in, and just as it’s about to happen again they hear someone crashing through the nearby trees. They see a torch headed their way, but before it's bearer can reach them, he collapses facedown. They rush to the body and roll it over.



“Michael?”


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Thursday, April 06, 2006

the lunatic is in my head...

“Isn’t this nice?”
Libby’s trying to hook Hurley on the natural highs of exercise. He’s getting frustrated; he just wants to drop a few pounds. She tells him it won’t happen overnight, that he could just have a slow metabolism… he interrupts before she gets to big-boned, “It’s not my metabolism…I’m sick.”
He tells her he’s got a secret, and she assures him he can trust her… so he takes her to Hurley’s Secret Stash – the dude’s got a shitload of food in there! – He tells Libby the story of finding and distributing the food from the hatch, “…but I guess I kinda kept some of it for myself.”
He wishes he could just get rid of it, and Libby tells him he can. If he wants to change, then change. Food Fight!!

This must’ve been fun… wonder how many takes? – but don’t you think Libby woulda been jonesing pretty hard for one of those Apollo bars or something? – Hurley feels free! Nice hug… go in for the kiss, dude… some Korean shouting harshes the mellow big time, as Jin and Sun come rushing through.
“They’ve found something!”

Libby and Hurley follow them to the Dharma drop site. Hurley can’t believe this shit. Everyone is there, tearing into the bundles of food. Charlie grabs some risotto, and mentions that he heard blast doors trapped Locke in the hatch last night… maybe so they wouldn’t see who dropped it? He asks if anyone saw a plane, and Sawyer tells "Tattoo" yeah, but that he had forgotten to mention it.
Food Fight!!!!

- for real this time. Sawyer tries to restore order, and his integrity is called into question by the “babysnatcher”, who wants Hurley to take charge of the food again. Hugo goes all rain man… “No. No way! Not me, no. Not again, no.”
Libby distracts everyone from the crazed look in Hurley’s eyes by suggesting they all just take what they need. “Great plan, Moonbeam. After that we can sing Kumbaya and do trust falls,” snarks Sawyer.
Hurley notices a bald guy in a bathrobe watching him from across the pile of food. He walks off into the jungle and Hurley follows, with Libby watching. Crashing through the jungle in pursuit, Hugo takes a spill facedown into the dirt. He looks up to see a slipper from the (cinderella?) man in the bathrobe. He reaches out and grabs it, to find that it’s real and tangible.
“Uh oh”



Libby finds Hurley on the beach. He hides the slipper he’s playing with, as she sits and asks what he was running after. He doesn’t want to talk about it. “Pretty weird, huh? That the island won’t let you lose weight? Destroy your stash and then BANG - food falls from the sky.”
“How about that?”
Libby’s proud of him for not freaking out.

Flashback – Picture of a tropical island, smaller than the island we know and mountainless, hanging on a wall of a doctors office. Senator Kelly is Hurley’s shrink; we’re in the mental hospital. Hugo tells the doc that he’s not mad at his mom anymore for putting him in there; he knows she put him in there for a reason. “What reason is that?”
“The accident.”
It’s been two months and Hugo still hasn’t opened up about it. The doc doesn’t push it, and asks for the homework he assigned, a list of things Hugo likes about himself. He didn’t do it because Dave didn’t do it, and Dave is the sanest guy in the place. Senator Kelly isn’t Dave’s doctor, but he knows that Dave doesn’t want Hugo to change.
Down in the gym, there’s a mental game of basketball being played, where no one is passing the ball to Dave, making him very upset. He doesn’t like to be neglected. Hurley shows up behind him, and gets the ball right away. Gee, ya think maybe no one else can see Dave? Looks like Kareem sitting in the lotus position on the parquet floor. Dave talks Hugo into forsaking his diet for some tacos, telling him not to let the doctor into his head. After all, three’s a crowd, right?

Under the hatch, Locke’s twitching his toes for Jack. As best as Jack can tell without an x-ray, Locke’s got a small hairline fracture in his right leg, meaning he’s got to stay off it for a couple of weeks. Kate shows off her superior bedside manner again, and when Locke bristles at the idea of using a wheelchair (HIS wheelchair), she offers to go find him some crutches – guess they were in the wreckage too. When she leaves, Locke asks Jack why he thinks Henry came back to help him when he had a chance at an easy escape? Jack thinks he came back because he thought his story would check out, and wasn't counting on Sayid digging up the grave. Makes me wonder if that story had been successful before? In the cell, Henry’s now tied up to the wall. He’s explaining to Sayid and Ana Lucia that he was part of a search party that found Henry Gale four months ago, hanging from his basket with a broken neck. He buried him and placed the grave marker, that’s all. Sayid tells the fake Henry that he should have checked the wallet first, because the real Henry wrote a letter to his wife on the only paper he had, a twenty dollar bill.

“Jennifer – Well, you were right, crossing the pacific isn’t easy. I owe you a beer. I’m hiking to one of the beaches to start a signal fire, but if you’re reading this, I guess I didn’t make it. I’m sorry. I love you, Jenny. Always have, always will.
Yours, Henry.”


Fake Henry is sweating now… he swears he wasn’t the one that killed Gale. Sayid wants to know how he knew Henry’s wife’s name, if they interrogated him to get information. He wants to know how many of them there are. “If I told you about them you have no idea what he’ll do.”
Ana assumes the ‘him’ is fake Beardo, or Mr. Friendly. Henry laughs. “Him? He’s no one, nothing!”
Sayid sticks the gun in Fake Henry’s face and gives him three seconds to tell him how many others there are. One second left, and Henry cries, “You can’t do this; I am not a bad person!” - sounds like Goodwin - Sayid pulls the trigger, but Ana is quicker and his shot goes wild as she puts some LAPD moves on him. Jack comes running at the sound, and Locke starts yelling, demanding to know what happened. He hates being immobile again. Jack removes Sayid from the cell, and tells Locke he’s got it covered, not to worry. Ana locks the door on fake Henry, who looks a lot relieved and a little surprised to still be alive.

Charlie shows up at Eko’s construction site dragging the pallet from the Dharma drop, and wants to know what he’s building. Is it a starbucks? Eko won’t tell him what it’s going to be, not right now. He recruits Charlie to help out though, so now are two people in need of redemption building a church? Hurley, back at the drop site looking for clues, finds a box of D.I. fish crackers and tears into them. The boy eats goldfish the same way I do! Dave appears, and Hurley tells him he’s not there through a mouthful of fish, so Dave picks up a coconut and chucks it at Hurley, nailing him in the gut. He picks up another and takes off running into the jungle, with Hurley in pursuit. The chase music here sounds kinda like planet of the apes – nice. He crashes through to the beach, where Charlie and Eko are stacking some Lincoln logs, and asks if they saw a guy in a bathrobe with a coconut run by. Charlie can’t resist, “Noooo, saw a polar bear on roller blades with a mango.”

Flashback – “Pretty sneaky, Leonard.”
Crazy numbers Leonard and Hugo are playing a game of connect four – 8 15 16 23 42 while Dave heckles from the sidelines. He makes Hurley steal one of Lenny’s graham crackers, which are much more appetizing than the celery sticks he’s been munching on. “What’s he gonna do, call you a ‘twenty-three’?”
Nurse Lazenby gives Hugo his meds, which Dave says not to take so that they can escape ASAP. Hugo’s on clonazepam. Senator Kelly- Dr. Brooks comes over to snap a Polaroid of Hugo and Dave for the bulletin board. Or to show Hurley later that he’s alone, whichever… You notice Hurley never uses Spanish? This is kinda weird, to not throw in a word here or there when his mom and his grandpa are probably more comfortable speaking it than English. Dave, however, throws Spanish words around like they’re going out of style. It’s the Santa Rosa mental health hospital. Saint Rose? She is one, at least as far as we know. Hugo palms his pills, to Dave’s delight.

“Deep dish” approaches Sawyer, who’s having a tough time eating an Oreo. He fills him in on the proper technique, and tells Sawyer he needs something from him. Sawyer says he’s done trading now that he’s got enough food to open up a mini-mart. “Hey, you think Sayid needs a job?”
Hurley doesn’t want to trade, he wants a favor in return for helping out with the tree frog. He needs some clonazepam – but didn’t Jack win back all the medicine?
“Klonozowhat?”
He explains that he needs it so he’ll stop seeing this guy in a bathrobe. Sawyer points past Hurley’s shoulder, “What, that guy there?”
Hurley looks…“Gotcha!”
He snaps, tackles Sawyer and starts punching him, landing a blow for every degrading nickname: “Jabba” wham! “Stay-puft” pow!
“Lardo” crack! “Kong” whap!
After watching and giggling for a moment, Jin pulls him off of Sawyer. Sawyer calls Hurley crazy and storms off.
“I’m not crazy. I’m not crazy.”

Freckles has found a pair of crutches for Locke, but can’t resist razzing Sawyer before she returns to the Swan station. She says it looks like he got his ass kicked, and Sawyer tells her he doesn’t know why Hurley hulked out on him, but that she should keep away from the crazy man. Said crazy man is packing his bag for a move to the caves where he can become a crazy naked hermit that throws doodie at everyone. Libby can’t stop him and no one can help him. Trudging through the jungle to the caves, his backpack rips and spills peanut butter everywhere. He scoops some off the jungle floor with a leaf, and is starting to chow down when Dave shows up again.

Flashback – Hugo’s done his homework. He likes his grandpa and chicken. Doc Brooks steers the conversation to the accident – Hugo thinks his weight caused a deck to collapse – Brooks explains that there were twenty-three people on a deck meant to hold eight, it wasn’t his fault. But Hugo’s convinced it was. After the accident he became semi-catatonic and stopped going out or even sleeping, while continuing to eat, perhaps as a way of punishing himself. He tells Doc Brooks that Dave told him he’s a quack, prompting Brooksie to bust out the Polaroid. “Dave isn’t your friend Hugo, because he doesn’t exist.”
Hurley looks at the picture, and sure enough, he’s got his arm around nothing at all.
That night, sleeping next to pictures of his Mom and Grandpa on the night table, Hugo is woken up by Dave, who slaps him when Hugo suggests that he’s just a hallucination. “Maybe I just imagined you slapped me?” – like he imagined the slipper and the coconut? – He agrees to leave with Dave anyway, who’s like a caricature of that devil on your shoulder by this point, the guy telling you to just try it once; it’s not going to hurt anyone. “Yo, check it out. Marcus didn’t finish his lasagna. That is a waste, man. One for the road?” (yo, ding dong. ding dong, man.)
They sneak downstairs, where Hugo opens up a window with the keys he stole from Brooks’ desk earlier. Dave jumps out, but Hugo’s become resistant to his cheeseburger wishes and chili fry dreams… “You’re not real. You’re trying to get me to run away and get cheeseburgers because I want to get cheeseburgers.” – does this mean that later he wants to jump off a cliff? -
Dave warns that if he doesn’t leave now, he’ll never get out of that place. Hugo shuts the window and locks it.

“Bye, Dave.”

But now Dave’s back on the island, and he wants his slipper. He’s sorry Hurley’s freaking out, but warns that it’s going to get a little worse before it gets better. - I was totally expecting someone to come up behind Hurley and clock him here – “You ready, dude?” None of this is real; he’s still in Santa Rosa, which he never even left. “You, me, this island, that peanut butter; none of it is real, man, none of it is happening. It’s all in your head, my friend.”
Hugo’s brain popped a gasket when he closed the window on Dave and he went back to catatonia, where’s he’s remained to this day. “In your own private Idaho inside Santa Rosa”
Hurley doesn’t believe this, and tells Dave what happened after he left the hospital, about winning the lottery. “Whoa, wow. Awesome dude! What numbers did ya play?”
“You seen them around anywhere else?”
“The hatch with the button that you gotta push every 108 minutes or the world ends… and what’s the code for this button?”
It’s all in his head, how else to explain the mega cute blonde chick that magically appeared from the other side of the island. “Who just happens to have the hots for you?”
That finally convinces Hurley, and he gets up to follow Dave through the jungle. Interesting red flowers against the green jungle, it almost looks hallucinatory, like 'what dreams may come'. After telling Hugo that everyone on the island is just a part of him, Hurley wants to know what part Dave is. He says he’s the part that wants Hurley to wake up, as he leads him to the edge of a cliff. The big finale, the answer to all your problems...

vanilla sky? Or, as Dave would probably say, abre los ojos? – all this will be gone if he jumps. (no shit.) He’ll just wake up. “And when you do wake up, come find me. I’m sure I miss ya. See you in another life, Hurley.” –shades of Desmond -
Dave takes a trust fall dive off the cliff to the ocean far below, laughing the whole way down.

Under the hatch, Locke crutches his way over to Ana, who’s guarding the armory door. She informs him that Jack’s on the beach telling everyone about Henry, “…that we’ve got one of them.” Locke wants some time with Henry, but Ana doesn’t think that’s part of the program for today. “All due respect Ana Lucia, but I don’t care what you think…I earned five minutes with him.”
She relents and locks him in with the fake Gale. The first thing Locke asks is his real name, but Henry just wants to be called Henry, he’s gotten used to it. Locke wants to know if he got caught on purpose, “You and your people have been here for God knows how long, and you get caught in a net?”
“God doesn’t know…God doesn’t know how long we’ve been here, John. He can’t see this island any better than the rest of the world can.” (whoa)
John’s convinced the others were searching for the hatch, and that Henry was caught on purpose.
“This place is a joke, John.”
He tells him the timer went all the way to zero, and then some funny red pictures flipped up in its place. “They looked like hieroglyphics, but I’m no expert… there was a loud clunking and a hum like a magnet, a big magnet…and do you know what happened? Nothing happened at all. Your timer just flipped back to 108.”
Henry tells him he never entered the numbers or pushed the button, but Locke doesn’t believe him. Given Locke’s judgment lately, this probably means Henry is now telling the truth.

Libby finds Hurley at the dizzy edge of the cliff, alone above a raging sea. He asks how she found him, and when she starts to say something about Jin seeing him up there, he cuts her off. “Ha! Jin doesn’t speak English!”
She patiently explains that Sun translated. Hurley tells her she’s the part of him that’s scared…she doesn’t want him to wake up. In real life no girl like her would ever want him.
“Remember when I said I knew you from somewhere?”
- Libby looks scared –
“Well maybe it’s cause I made you up.”
Relief washes over her face, and she asks Hurley the name of the man with the broken leg she buried on the other side of the island. He doesn’t know…because it happened to her. “Don’t tell me you made me up, it’s insulting!”
– it’s insulting to the writers that we would think the mystery is all just in someone’s head? Good to know, it’d be insulting to the viewers if that’s all it was too
“I am real, you are real, the way I feel about you? That’s real.”
Big smooch! Awwww
“And that was real.”
– what was the tear rolling down her cheek all about then? –
“Maybe you should do it one more time, just to be sure.”
They step away from the cliff, and a look of disgust crosses Libby’s face while she peps Hurley up with some positive talk.

Flashback –

It’s the connect four Polaroid scene again, but from a different perspective. There’s no Dave in sight as the camera pans over to a familiar face under an unfamiliar mop of dark hair.

“Here’s your pill, Libby.”



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