Love Is in the Air - 
by Kat
So this was a pretty good episode of Lost. It moved along nicely, gave us a few thrills, did a little more backstory. But at this point I sort of feel like we're just waiting around to see who else dies this season.
Rose and Bernard are unloading the new Dharma food onto some homemade (island made?) shelves on the beach. Let’s call them the Bickersons! She’s happy for the blessing, but he’s highly suspicious of food falling out of the sky. He even throws out how he traversed the island just to find her, as though she should feel guilty about it. This honeymoon was over fast – quite literally, as we’re about to learn.
In the hatch, Locke is trying to recreate the map he saw on the blast door walls. He’s so into it that he doesn’t even realize the timer is beeping until Jack comes and points it out. I wonder a little if Locke secretly just wanted to test Henry’s assertion that nothing happens if you let the timer run out. After taking care of business there, Jack heads over to change Henry’s bandages. Ana, who’s hanging out with her gun, exposits that Henry hasn’t spoken, eaten, or had anything to drink in two days. Jack tells Henry that he’s calling his bluff – he’s going to trade him for Walt. “They’ll never give you Walt,” replies Henry. I think that if he broke two days of silence for that, he pretty much means it.
In a flashback, Rose is trying to get her car out the snow in an alley, and Bernard is helping her. It’s obviously very recent and we can figure out that this is their first meeting. They get all googly eyed at each other and Rose, modern woman that she is, asks Bernard out. He trips over his tongue accepting her offer. Back on the island, Bernard strides up to Rose, who is trying to unload some “Dharmalars” onto Hurley, who declines due to his diet. Are Dharmalars like Mallomars? That’s pretty funny. And for those of you keeping score at home – and who isn’t, eh? – the number on all the food packages is DI 9FFTR731.
Bernard’s all worked up and sassy and is asking people to meet him at the tree line in five minutes. He has a plan, as he tells Rose with a wink. He seems like a go-getter, that one. Speaking of go-getting (ha?) Jack’s ready to initiate the prisoner swap. Ana gives him her gun to use, but it’s Kate who gets an invitation to go on the sex romp camping trip. Sawyer gets all sulky about this and probably goes off to kick a wall and break his favorite GI Joe.
On a different part of the beach, Bernard’s tying to incite the masses with a rescue plan. He thinks everyone’s given up on being rescued. “How can you say that, of course we want to go home!” says Claire, only she shrieks it, in a way that startled dogs in Australia. Hurley reminds Bernard that a raft had been built and was somewhat less than successful. Bernard makes the excellent point that a plane must have dropped off the food, so they could make themselves visible to other planes. Rose drops by, apparently just to be an enormous bitch – she thinks they need to run the plan by Jack (which, really?) but Bernard counters that Jack isn’t the president, just a doctor. “You’re a dentist,” says Rose. DAMN, woman!
One of the female extras is wearing hoop earrings, which is totally distracting; although I realize later that Rose is wearing them too. Rose thinks Bernard is just giving everyone false hope. Methinks something deeper is going on there. Wonder if the flashback will explain? Well, here Rose and Bernard are at Niagara Falls, and Bernard’s rather distracted. Cue the violins, literally, and Bernard asks Rose to marry him. They’ve only been together five months, but he knows she’s the one. Awww! She tells him that she’s dying. Oh! Bummer. Rose explains that she’s been in remission for a while but her cancer came back, and the doctor gives her about a year to live. Bernard still wants to marry her, though. Schmoopers.
Back on the island, Bernard’s on a mission to get more helping hands, and approaches Eko. “Boy, you bunk with a guy for 48 days, and now he doesn’t call or write,” says Bernard. Nice one. Eko and Charlie explain that they’re too busy building a church to build a sign. I think they’ve lost their damn minds, but then I’m a heathen. Bernard gets angry about people building things on the island when he’s trying to get everyone saved. “People are saved in different ways,” says Eko. Bernard walked right into that one. “I think I like you better when you just hit people with your stick,” says Bernard, which wins awesomest line of the episode. Charlie comes in second with “I like you just the way you are.” Hurley’s got some funnyman competition!
In the hatch, Locke wants to speak to Henry, but Ana won’t let him open the prison door. It doesn’t really matter, since as we all know, Henry can hear everything in the hatch. Locke asks Henry if he really didn’t enter the numbers, and as Henry remains silent, Locke gets more and more agitated and starts yelling and banging on the door. We see Henry sitting in his cell with a smug smile. Damn, this guy – both the character and the actor – is so damn good.
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