The show starts on the beach where Desmond is sitting stroking his manly Scottish beard. Or as the Scot's would call it , his "bearrrrrrrrrrd" (the whole rolling Scottish R thing doesn't really translate well to a bunch of typed out r's does it?). He looks over at Claire and her island baby. He walks over and starts to talk to her; the battle of the funny accents begins! He tells her that she has a problem with her roof. She is confused as she doesn't see a problem with the roof. Desmond is insistent upon helping her "fix" it however and tells her she would be better off down the beach for a while. While he is talking Charlie comes up, jealous that Desmond a man with more character, ethics and height is talking to his property girlfriend. He puffs up his tiny hest and tells him that he can fix the roof himself. Hobbits are quite handy. Desmond just nods and walks off. Not a good idea since Desmond is now a superhero with special powers of seeing into the future. And retractable adamantium claws.

Then we cut to Jack, and let me say after a week of lame Locke filled dream sequences and cryptic speeches, I'm glad to see him. He is still in his cell/shark examination room, only this time he gets to watch cartoons. The Others have left the TV on behind the glass in the adjacent room. And not lame cartoons like Darkwing Duck, but good old Warner Brothers cartoons from the 40's and fifties. But if you think they aren't torturing them you are mistaken. Jack you see is a big Red Sox fan, and after Ben told him about how they achieved the greatest comeback in sports history against the hated Yankees and went on to win the World Series, the least they could have done is let him watch the games. The cartoons in question involve a buzzard hunting a swan and her babies. Why am I mentioning this? Well, since this is Lost there could be some hidden meaning involved. Rest assured, the intent geeks are on the case as we speak.

As he's watching Juliet comes in with his dinner. Jack asks her if he is still going to be stuck here watching cartoons or will someone tell him why he is there. When she doesn't answer jack says "Should I talk to Ben? Because I'm starting to think you're just the person who brings me my food." Juliet insists that he won't tell him anything to which Jack then asks "Is he your boss?" She persists in saying that he isn't and "things don't work that way around here". Jack responds by reminding her that he had no problem letting her die when he had the broken plate to her neck. Ben then comes barging in ordering Juliet to come with him right now. He needs her. "The sub is back. We have a situation." As Juliet leaves Jack gives her a great "I told you so" look. Nice way to manipulate Jack. God job. He's proactive, as opposed to Locke who locks himself in a tent and mentally masturbates until he sees visions of polar bears. And a sub? The Others have a sub? When they cut to the jungle we see the "situation" is the Other Sun shot from two episodes ago.

In the pens where Sawyer and Kate are kept the Others come to take them out for another day of moving rocks around for no reason. When Sawyer sees the Other whose nose he broke come in he goads him by saying "sounding a little stuffy there Chinatown". God, Sawyer is so much cooler when he is directing his annoying sarcasm at the Others as opposed to the good guys. The Other responds by saying "give me an excuse" to which Sawyer says "I thought I just did. What do I have to do, talk about your mother?" Sawyer really is growing on me.

Then the Other is interrupted by a call on his radio. After some brief panicked talk the formerly bearded other comes from and the corner with the wounded other in tow. When Sawyer and Kate see this Kate says "What happened?" to which Sawyer says with a smile "We happened". Kate asks why he is smiling (and to be honest, I'm smiling too, since I hate the filthy fraking Others) he says that that's their ticket out of there.

Posted by EdHIll on October 27, 2006 1:36 PM