Denouement - 
by EdHIll
Over on the other part of the island, Locke is in a secluded part of the woods and crying like a schoolgirl with a scraped knee. The man is blubbering like there is no tomorrow. Baby needs his blanky. Oh Locke, whatever happened to the rough and tumble crippled walkabout guy we all fell in love with? Reduced to tears over a button. Charlie stumbles across him and tells him, in an unbelievably sarcastic and insulting way, that Desmond is back. Since when did the heroin addict, murdering, kidnapping freak start feeling superior to people? I mean sure Driveshaft was a kickass band we can all agree on that, but Charlie is quite the scumbag. And he has bad Scottish teeth. All that rock and roll money and you still have those godawful fangs? Thats the real mystery of Lost.
Don't you just want to punch that face?
When Sayid is getting ready to go on the boat he sees Sun with him. "I'm sorry if what I said was confusing. I asked Jin to come" Ahh, you can take the man out of Iraq but the antiquated sexist morals remain. Still, he can torture real good, and that's become quite a necessity on this island. Sun says that they need her to translate and he also needs at least two people to know how to sail. "Desmond managed on his own" Sayid says. "And look where that got him" Sun replies. When Sayid looks over at Jin, he gives that "Don't look at me, she's the boss" shrug that is universal to all husbands.
How do you say "She's the boss" in Korean?
Desmond is back on the beach having a Tommy Lee moment—meaning he is drinking vodka straight out of the bottle while ogling Claire's baby. When he sees her injecting Aaron with the vaccine, he tells her that it's a waste of time. He did it for three years and it got him nowhere. And now his testicles are the size of raisins. Then he asks about the baby's father and whether he is still around. "He had other priorities" Claire says. And we cut right to the flashback.
It's the night that Desmond and Jack met at the stadium. We see Desmond in the parking lot as Jack pulls up alongside him. Desmond then looks up and sees Penny drive up. "How did you find me?" she says. "With enough money and determination you can find anyone," she replies. A statement that will have even more meaning by the end of the episode. She asks him if he read his beloved book. No, not Everybody Poops, the one that he was saving. The Dickens book. Not yet, he says. She asks him why he didn't write her in prison. Instead of saying that he did, he just doesn't answer. He asks her when she's getting married. She says they haven't set a date yet. "I'll be back in a year" he tells her. "What if you were back right now?" she says with a glimmer of hope. So Penny wants him back. When she asks him what he's running from he says he has to get his honor back. And since the only way a man can get his honor back is through an around-the-world boat race, he's going to be gone for a year. Wasn't this a John Candy movie? Guy needs to win a boat race to get his honor back? Or was this the plot to Meatballs 4? Now I suppose you could be thinking that a way for him to get his honor back would be you know, get a job, buy a house and start a real life again so he and Penny can be happy together. But you have to remember, he's Scottish. They do things differently up there. And why did it have to be a boat race? Couldn't he win the hot-dog-eating contest at Coney Island to win his honor back? Or maybe collect a thousand Coke points and get that sweet Coke NASCAR jacket?
On the beach Desmond is wallowing alone when Locke comes up to greet him. "What if I told you for all those years that you and all the men before you were down there pushing that button. What if I told you it was all for nothing." When Desmond asks him how he would know that Locke tells him about the Pearl station and how it was all a psychological experiment. Desmond can't believe what he is saying. Locke shows him the orientation tape that explains it all. Desmond says that if he's so sure why doesn't he just stop pushing the button. He did decide to stop he says. But someone else decided to start. "So you're gonna sober up. Get a good night's sleep. And tomorrow we are gonna find out what happens when that button doesn't get pushed". A former cripple and a drunk Scotsman vs. a Nigerian warlord masquerading as a priest. It's the ultimate Mortal Kombat. Left-right-up-down-A-B makes Eko use a contraction in a sentence.
That night in the jungle Hurley is sitting by the fire. Sawyer offers him a Dharma nutra bar but he turns it down. It was probably because it had the word "nutra" in it. If it was called a "deep fried bar" I'm sure he would have been all over it. Over on the other side of their hastily constructed camp Michael is stewing alone in his own guilt. And it stinks. Jack comes by and asks him how he's doing. Michael says he's fine and then thanks him for helping him get... HIS BOY!!!!! Sorry, It's hard to resist. "Live together, die alone," Jack says. Then he quietly adds, "Get busy livin'. Or get busy dyin."
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