
Locke continues to fiddle with the loudspeaker. "Suck it, Henry!" Locke shouts (not really, but he should have). Henry calls from the armory: "John, John, what's that? What's going on? Oh woe!" A female voice is definitely saying something, but it's impossible to understand the words. He snaps off the hi-fi, then traces the static to a loudspeaker in the nearby hallway. Locke's ears perk up as he hears static and a garbled female voice cut through the jazz song. The music obscures Henry's whimpering it also inadvertently obscures a very important recorded message. While Locke pedals, a funky jazz song blares from the hatch speakers. Locke then uses a time-honored anger management technique to temper his frazzled nerves: he exercises on a circa-1972 stationary bike (slap a banana seat on that puppy and they've got themselves a featured segment on "Antiques Roadshow"). All the while Henry whimpers, "I'm sorry, Gale from his seatĪnd marches him across the kitchen, then slings Gale into the armoryĪnd slams the door shut. Remembered that he' the island's Obi-Wan). Jedi mind trick doesn't work this time (perhaps Locke finally Jack talk to him "that way" (Jack was all huffy toward Locke). Locke's mind and screw with the machinery. With Jack departed, Henry tries to once again crawl into Where things become very interesting indeed. Jack, miffed and pissed and generally upset, huffs off to go doĭoctorly things. 4,200 why Jack and Locke will eventually beat the crap out of one another.) (These antithetical reactions represent reason No. Situation is out of his control, so he's content to let destiny take its course. Wildly around the hatch he looks like a crazed wolf (or a good actor stuck on a family drama with Jennifer Love Hewitt). Got to the location, the trio would already be Other chum.

The balloon group left over a day ago, so by the time Jack Prevent bullheaded Jack from demanding that Henry draw another map to theīalloon so that Jack can go and.

Trouble - but there's little either can do. Gravity of the situation - Sayid, Ana and Charlie could be a world of Scary part of the island on a balloon-finding expedition.Īnd that brings us to this week. Henry's coy little tale holds particular relevance because Sayid,Īna-Lucia and Charlie just happened to have scampered off to a deep, Others and, ultimately, the captured castaways would be used as trade bait to Thisĭoomed group would then run head-long into a snarling platoon of On a wild balloon chase into a deep, scary part of the island.

Was an Other it would behoove him to send a group of castaways Week's episode with a killer curve ball: He suggested that if he Locke, JackĪnd Henry are gathered around the hatch kitchen table, engaged in a We begin exactly where we left off last week. All in all, it was a jaw-dropper a pure, this-is-why-I-watch-this-show, jaw dropper. Hatches and Others and balloonsĪnd fruit gambling (yes, fruit gambling) swirling about in a maelstrom of clues and One simple question: How you like it now? To the constituency who thought last week's episode was a little slow, I ask
