Way down in the hole
Updated 2005-10-03 17:00:00
Let's rewind a little bit and pick up with what happened to the raftaways after the raft blew up, shall we? Sawyer and Mercutio drift together, and bitch at each other, each blaming the other for attracting the Biker Gang Pirates, who kidnapped Walt. Jin's nowhere to be found. In the flashbacks, we learn that Walt's mother took him away. Well, I guess we didn't "learn" it so much as "watched it boringly unfold for the sole purpose of seeing Mercutio give Walt a stuffed polar bear, apparently." Future flashbacks involving Walt will include him watching those Coca-Cola commercials with the polar bears.
And we rewind to watch Locke go down after Kate in the hatch (next week, are we going to rewind and watch Kate enter?) and wind up with Desmond's gun in his face. Down the hatch-hole, that computer with the angry emoticon prompt is used to reset some sort of timer. The PIN? The sequence of numbers you've all memorized by now. Thanks to Locke's quick thinking, Kate's able to untie herself and she's creeping along the air ducts, so she's able to watch the standoff between Desmond and Jack (and almost inadvertently take a bullet), as well as displaying what wasn't so much cleavage as her entire rack. That's a good Alberta girl right there.
Not much more is revealed about Desmond's motivation, just that he's apparently waiting for someone. His replacement? He asked Locke, "Are you him?", and Locke, clearly having seen Ghostbusters, wisely answers that he is, but can't maintain the charade, which is when Jack enters and we stop at the same point we ended last week.
Out on the raft, Mercutio and Sawyer quit arguing like children in order to switch their raft for a bigger raft. Mercutio shoots a shark instead of jumping it (the shark has a logo on its tail that's the same as the one scattered throughout the hatch).
They finally wash up back on some other section of the island, and hear Jin yelling and shouting, and then he comes running up to them, hands bound behind his back. His English is coming along; he croaks out "Others!" who are indeed coming, armed and not so fabulous.