Ah, finally… an episode of “Lost” that actually had me licking my chops by the end. And since I’m closer to the subject of food, it seems only right to focus on Hurley for the moment, who’s discovered food heaven inside the hatch. But what’s this? Jin and a man in a giant chicken outfit have joined Hurley down in the hatch? And Jin is speaking perfect English? Oh, wait. It’s Hurley who’s speaking the other language (Korean), and it’s only a daydream. But you have to admit that the producers were pretty sly in their preview of Jin speaking English last week, but why would Hurley be dreaming about the Korean castaway if he didn’t have any connection to him winning the lottery?
Remember back to season one when Jin made a short appearance in Hurley’s flashback and think hard on it. Still nothing? Yeah, me either, but at least we got to hear Jin tell Hurley to “have a cluckity cluck cluck day,” and we also got a little more insight into Hurley’s lotto winning days before the plane crash.
But none of this changes the fact that Hurley’s been given the toughest job on the island: inventory all of the food without letting anyone else know about it. So what does he do? He tells someone. But it’s only Rose he lets in on his “little secret,” and probably for the better. Without her to calm him down when he planned to blow the food up with the leftover dynamite, no one would be enjoying a tasty Thanksgiving snack.
Meanwhile, Claire comes across one of the messages in a bottle carried back to shore, which only causes reason for concern from the ladies on the island (Claire, Shannon, and Sun), who fear that everyone on the raft is dead. But more important, Sawyer received yet another beatdown (his third since he reached the island), this time at the hands of Ana Lucia, who is apparently the leader of the remaining survivors from the back of the plane that broke off during the crash. There’s only a handful left, and they’re living more like savages than castaways, but it’ll be interesting to see if the Raft Gang will stay there with them, or bring them back to the original camp. That is if they can even find it.
But by far the best part of last night’s episode – yes, even better than Jin’s “cluck cluck” line – was Charlie’s outward distinguishing between the A Team (Jack, Kate, Locke, Sayid, Hurley) and the B Team (the rest of the major characters) on the island. It’s funny to thing that the same people are doing everything week in and week out while some of these castaways just lounge around all day long. Then again, we’ve seen what happens when a red shirt goes on a mission with the A Team. Better off leaving the dirty work to the people you know won’t die.
