Author: Jason Zingale (Page 134 of 154)

If I was a guessing man, I’d say that Hurley is quite possibly the most important person on the island. He’s also the most interesting too, so it’s not surprising that his flashback episodes always seem to uncover the most secrets, even when they don’t uncover hardly anything at all. This week was a perfect example of that. Sick and tired of sneaking around the other survivors with his horde of food, Hurley finally confesses to Libby of his “problem,” and being the kind person that she is, Libby encourages him to take charge. Of course, opening up all of the food and tossing it around wasn’t exactly the best rule of action. Ya know, you could have just taken it back to the hatch for everyone else to enjoy. Sheesh, the sun must be getting to them…

Anyways, Hurley is back to normal for like… three minutes when he discovers the food replenishments that were dropped down from the sky at the end of last week’s episode. Not reacting well to the news, Hurley begins to walk away when he notices a man in a bathrobe standing in the middle of the forest. Turns out, the guy he’s seeing is David, a “friend” of his from the loony bin who may or may not be real. The audience discovers later that he’s just a figment of his imagination, but that’s hardly important considering the real shocker: Libby was a patient at the very same asylum. Hurley always said that she looked familiar, but I wouldn’t have guessed in a million years that the fanboys would be right about this one.

Other important events in tonight’s episode:

1) Hurley beats up Sawyer after the Ragin’ Cajun refers to him as “deep dish”
2) Creepy Balloon Guy reveals he’s an Other and Ana Lucia saves his life
3) Creepy Balloon Guy also explains to Locke that the Countdown is a hoax

Number one was great, and number two will probably play a bigger part as Ana Lucia and Sayid grow closer, but the third event was by far the most important. If the Countdown is just one big hoax, then does this lend to the idea that the island is an experiment? Also, if Locke is gonna be out of commission for a few weeks with a bum leg, why isn’t he working on getting a closer look at the blacklight map?

Poor Locke! The old dog finally shakes the ghost of his father, and then, after learning of his death via the weekly obit column, discovers that he’s not really dead. To make matters worse, he asks Peggy Bundy to marry him, only to get denied and sent packing. AND THEN… back on Temptation Island (oh wait, that’s a different show), he gets trapped inside the hatch alone with Creepy Balloon Guy, and when they manage to jar open the blast door, it falls right onto John’s legs. Ouch. Meanwhile, the clock is ticking down, and when it hits zero (or does it?), all of the normal lights go out. Then, several blacklights turn on and reveal… a giant map with a big question mark in the middle drawn in pink invisible ink on the very blast door that Locke is trapped beneath.

As Locke waits for help (none of which he gets because Jack and Sawyer are in the middle of a pissing match), Charlie, Sayid and Ana locate the smiley face balloon and the supposed grave of Creepy Balloon Guy’s wife. What the trio discovers, however, is not the body of a dead woman, but rather a dead black man with a driver’s license that reads: Henry Gale, the alias that Creepy Balloon Guy has been using for the past few weeks. Uh-oh! Someone’s been caught with their hand in the cookie jar!