Back in the woods, Locke, the man who can track anything but a 10 foot tall doorway, runs into Charlie who wants to know what’s in the hatch. Locke, being all Zen-like, simply tells him everything. And also tells him that Hurley has been put in charge of the food. When Charlie later confronts Hurley on the beach, he lets Hurley know that he knows all about the hatch. He wants to know if he can have some peanut butter, or as he says in his increasingly annoying Scottish accent, “pae-nowt bowtahr.� Hurley say’s he can’t and Charlie storms off. This just reminds Hurley more and more of how much trouble it is to have something everyone wants. Believe me, I know how that feels.

In the hatch, Sayid and Jack are trying to find out what is behind the locked door. You’ll remember this is the door that Jack walked by in the first episode of the season that magnetically pulled on the key around his neck. Unfortunately what is behind the door is just concrete. Concrete that Sayid estimates is about eight feet thick. The last time he saw anything like this, says Sayid, was Chernobyl. They instead decide to go under it, seeing a grate on the floor. But once underneath they realize that whatever is behind the door, which Sayid speculates is a geothermal generator, is covered by eight feet of concrete all the way around. Why they feel the need to see what’s there is beyond me. I mean you would think that it being buried under 8 feet of concrete would be a clue that its probably not something good. It's like a reverse piñata. But now we have yet another mystery. What’s inside the inside of the hatch? Later on this season we will find out that inside that will be a mysterious briefcase. What’s inside that? When we finally get to open the briefcase in season four, it will turn out to be one of those Russain Matryoshka dolls. What’s inside them? We'll find out in season five that it’s a key! What’s the key for? You'll have to wait for season six for that one.

Back in the pit, the mysterious black guy throws the rope down and tells Sawyer to get out. Since Sawyer is ever the hard-ass, he still refuses. When we see Michael come into frame and say that everything is OK, Sawyer reluctantly grabs the rope and climbs out. Once he’s out Ana Lucia is there, and let’s just say she acts like her Aunt Flo just came for a visit. She is acting like a bitch with a capitol B. She punches Sawyer in the mouth and when he crumbles to the ground she then steps on his shoulder wound. Now if Michael just said that everything is cool and they believe that they are from the plane, why is she being such a “see you next Tuesday�? Who knows? Sawyer does warn her by saying "if you hit me again, I'll kill you." To that Ana Lucia just smiles. So now we got the dominatrix and the guy who likes to have people pee on him hitting it off. I can’t wait for next week’s episode.

As they head through the jungle, Michael is talking to a girl named Libby who tells them that 23 people survived from the tail section. The six-foot-tall black guy covered in muscles who gets ordered around by the five-foot-tall Spanish chick with an attitude asks if Sawyer is OK and apologizes for the “misunderstanding.� "I said no talking!" Ana screams. Once they get to their destination they see a door in front of them. Ana does the special knock (which is not unlike the classic “shave and a haircut…two bits� routine) and they enter. Inside we finally see that they have been living in an underground bunker with the Dharma insignia all over the place. When Michael sees that there are only a handful of people there, he turns to Libby and says, “I thought you said there were 23 of you?� To which Libby responds “There were.�

Back in the hatch Hurley isn’t looking too good. He looks over at Locke, who's doing some Lockian thing like sharpening a knife or tracking something, and tells him that “everything is going to change.� “Change is good, Hugo� says Locke. But Hurley isn’t convinced. He wants to quit. But Locke won’t let him. You’re just not allowed to quit. Not everyone likes their job but they have to do it. He’s just got to quit being such a quitter. Later we see Hurley walking through the woods until he finds a hiding place and he pulls out….dynamite. Yep, he’s going to blow up the food. Perfect solution. Instead of the possibility of having a handful of people get resentful at the idea of rationing food, he’ll just starve them all. I would just like to say if I was on the island and he tried this, I would stomp his ass down hard. Why is it always the fat guys who act stupid on deserted islands? First we get Piggy in the "Lord of the Flies," now Hurley. Maybe it’s a low blood sugar thing.

Posted by EdHIll on October 13, 2005 3:19 PM