Hurley is so disgusted at Michael he says he is going back. Jacks says that he can't. If Michael doesn't show up with all four of them the Others could know they are on to them and kill them all. He apologizes for not telling them right away but he says he never would have brought them out here without a plan B.

Speaking of plan B, we then see Sayid on the boat praying to Allah. Then Sun tries to mess with him by turning the boat around so he's not facing east. Punk'd! Jin sees the rocks off in the distance. The one with the hole in the middle. Was it used as a glory hole for the giant 4 toed statues of yesteryear? We might never know. All they do know is that this means they have arrived at the Others' camp.

In the jungle with Eko and Charlie, Charlie is leading him to the Dy-no-mite pile. Eko is planning on blowing up the hatch blast doors. Eko is unaware of the definition of a "blast door." He must have missed that class in fake priest school. When Charlie tells them what he is doing, Desmond says nothing would be able to blow up that door. When Locke asks him if he is sure, Desmond looks over to a crumpled metal shelf and says "I'm sure." Then we cut to the flashback.

We see Inman mixing some Dharma detergent with a brush. He tells Desmond to get ready. Desmond puts the crumpled metal shelf under the doorway and then goes over to a control panel in the computer room, crosses some wires, and we hear the familiar voice of the woman counting down. It's time for a lockdown.

Once the doors are down Inman starts working on the invisible map, which was started by his first partner, Radzinski. "You should have seen Radzinski do this. He had a photographic memory." Desmond then asks why he never speaks about what happened to the mysterious Radzinski. Inman then walks over to him and points up to a brown stain on the ceiling. "See that? That's Radzinski" he put a shotgun in his mouth when Inman was sleeping. "Bitch of it was I only had 108 minutes to bury the poor bastard." He says as he goes back to his invisible map. Best line of the episode.

Desmond then tells him that he wants to go outside next. It's always Inman who gets to go. Inman says it's too dangerous with the hostiles and the quarantine. Here's an idea: the Others are dressed that way so they look like savages affected by the "sickness" to the people in the hatch who venture out? But if that's true then the plane crash wasn't planned, and if so, how did the Others know everyone's names? This is the shit that keeps me up at night.

Anyway, Desmond tries to argue his point by swaying that he was in the army. Inman shoots back. "Oooh, right. Her Majesty's army, correct? How is that nice old lady's Army?" Oooh, Dharma Snap! Then Inman points out that he was kicked out of his army for not following orders. "And why did you get kicked out of yours?" Desmond asks him. "Because men followed my orders." Then Inman continues his sarcastic rant "Oh, but then thank god I joined the Dharma initiative! Namaste, thank you and good luck!" Inman says that Desmond can't go out. He has to stay and push the button.

Speaking of which, Eko is still working on getting that dynamite to blow the door designed to stop people who want to blow it up with dynamite. Charlie tries to plead with Eko, saying that maybe the whole thing is a joke. Eko stands up, pulls Charlie's belt off and throws it against the far wall, where it sticks to the wall from the magnetism. Then Charlie's pants fall down to reveal his Driveshaft. Underwear I mean. Driveshaft underwear. They marketed more than Kiss. Eko tries to give Locke one more chance, saying that if Locke lets him back in he will "forgive" him. No dice. So Eko then lights the fuse and hides around the corner about two feet away. Another lesson Eko missed in fake priest school. I can't imagine how, the chapter was clearly marked "How far to stay away when lighting dynamite on blast doors that will not be affected by it on mysterious island hatches with a bald guy and Scottish dude who says 'brotha' a lot locked inside." Charlie tries to run for it as the dynamite explodes, but the entire inside of the hatch erupts in a huge fireball.

In the flashback we see Desmond being awakened by the button alarm. He races out and enters the numbers in. It was Inman's shift, so where is he? Then he hears Inman singing. Under a trap door in the floor. He goes down to investigate and sees that Inman is drunk sitting in a corner next to a key switch. Damn this island loves buttons, and now we've added key switches to the mix. I heard next season is all about levers. Oh, but this is a special key switch. It is marked "Caution: System Termination." Which doesn't sound as good as "For free strippers: Turn key." In fact it is quite the opposite. I for one don't want to terminate any systems on this wacky island.

Posted by EdHIll on May 31, 2006 5:28 PM