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A weekly commentary of the television showby Carlos R Savournin
3 - 4: Every Man for Himself
*This commentary contains spoilers. Do not read if you have not seen the above mentioned episode.*
“…here’s a table covered with a red cloth. On it is a cage the size of a small aquarium. In the cage is a rabbit with a pink nose and pink rimmed eyes. In its front paws is a carrot-stub upon which it is contentedly munching. On its back, clearly marked in blue ink, is the numeral 8…”
The passage above is from a memoir on writing by one of the world’s most popular horror novelist – someone who has been referenced in the series at least once before; Stephen King (On Writing).
I don’t know what that means, but I thought it’d be cool to point it out.
In this episode, we learn that Sawyer was in jail and that he struck a deal with the warden in order to ensure his early
release. In typical Sawyer fashion, he cons a fellow inmate, named Munson, into confessing the whereabouts of $10 million that Munson stole. Once he had the info, Sawyer is confronted by the warden who offers him, not only early release, but 10% commission. But Sawyer, being the kind, loving, gentle heart he is, gives it to the daughter he didn’t know he had up until a few days before.
Meanwhile, back on the island, The Others take Sawyer from his cage to perform a little experiment. He wakes strapped to a table and disoriented. Ben walks into the room and places a caged rabbit on Sawyer’s chest (see above description of rabbit). Ben shakes the cage, exciting the rabbit until it falls over on its side, and he explains that the rabbit had a pace maker that made the rabbit’s heart explode when it got too excited, and that Sawyer had the same pace maker placed in his heart. Should his heart rate exceed 140 beats per minute, Sawyer’s a dead man.
Speaking of dead, Other, Colleen, dies from a fatal gun shot wound (courtesy of Sun in The Glass Ballerina) but not before Jack is called in to help save her with nurse Juliet. The two do what they can, but Colleen flatlines and Jack immediately asks for paddles. “They’re broken,” Colleen responds. Um. Really? But your hatches have brand new washers and dryers?? Jack calls her time of death, but not before noticing the X-ray of a spine with a large tumor – and finally, we’re given an answer as to why they need Jack.
In a previous episode, Ben reveals that he has a plan for Jack, and when the time came, should Jack cooperate, Ben will show him the way home. Obviously, this tumor is why they captured Jack, but who does the tumor belong to? Next week’s preview reveals that it’s Ben’s, which really, is no surprise.
In retaliation for his girlfriend’s death, Pickett storms into Sawyer’s cage and beats him to a pulp before Kate while Sawyer’s heart monitor begins to tick like a bomb, and while demanding to know if Kate loves him. With every punch, he demands an answer and finally, Kate gives in. “I love him!” she declares, and Pickett lets up. Crying, Pickett runs off, leaving the two on their own. Later, it’s revealed that Kate only said she loved him to stop the beating, but who knows what her intentions are? There are moments in the episode when it could go either way, and something tells me the delicate flower that is Kate is a pro at the “I love him, I love him not” act.
And finally, at the end of the episode, Ben takes Sawyer to the top of the mountain where several facts are revealed:
1) The bunny lives! There was never a pacemaker in the bunny, nor in Sawyer. “The only thing we put in you was doubt,” Ben told Sawyer, and it was probably the most truthful thing Ben has said since he was first introduced to us.
2) The island that they’re on is not the island they’ve always been on. Standing on top of the mountain, Ben and Sawyer look across the ocean to see the island that the plane originally crashed on. How did they get there? How have the Others been traveling back and forth? Unless my ears deceived me, when Ben discovered of Colleen’s gunshot wound and he ran into Jack’s cell for Juliet claiming, “We have a situation!” – he mentions a sub. Could that be how the Others travel? Is that how they slipped passed Sayid and Jin and onto Sun’s boat?
3) The Others are smart, and not the ones with whom to mess. Aside from many references to Of Mice and Men, they conned a con man and made him the weakest we’ve seen him since the show’s premier.
Of course, I won’t end this commentary without mentioning Desmond, the new psychic. He can see things before they happen now. First, it was Locke’s speech. Then, it was the destruction of Claire’s shelter by lightning. Charlie witnesses his power and so has Hurley. Where they’re going with this is hard to tell, but it’d be nice to have someone around to tell us when something threatening is going to happen before it actually did, wouldn’t it?
One more thing. Next week’s preview indicated that the island itself has been ignored far too long, and it’s time for It to wake up. In the end, we saw a man wearing an eye patch that sent shivers down ever viewer’s spine. Who was he? We can’t say yet, but a bell went off when his face hit the TV screen.
In season two’s story of the Tailies (The Other 48 Days - episode 7), they found a hatch where they sought refuge. In that hatch, they found a locked chest. Inside, there were several items, among them were a bible which Ecko claimed, and some more of the Dharma filmstrip. But there was an item that was seemed so obsolete, almost no one remembers it; A glass eye.
Could it be we’re about to meet its owner?
Guess we’ll have to wait until next week’s episode, The Cost of Living, to find out.
Until next time, Get Lost.
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