Boone and Locke have been hiking out into the jungle early every day and coming back to camp late every night. When it started, they claimed to be looking for Claire, but their cover story now is that they are hunting for boar. In reality, they are digging up the hatch in secret. How did Desmond not hear them pounding around up there? Did he have Mama Cass turned up too loud or what? The others have noticed that they never come back with boar, and Shannon is giving Boone some grief for it. Boone wants to at least tell Shannon what they've been doing. Locke wonders why Boone cares so much about what Shannon thinks. He would rather keep it under wraps, and he will go to drastic lengths to keep it that way. When Boone persists in his need to tell Shannon, Locke gives him a nice knot on the back of his head.
When Boone comes to, he is tied to a log. Locke tells Boone that this is an exercise in letting go. And you thought yoga was bad! Locke uses the old parental cliche, this is for your own good and you'll thank me later. He slathers a nice homemade hallucinogenic paste onto Boone's open head wound, tells him the directions back to camp, and leaves a knife a few feet from him. When Boone has the proper motivation, he'll be able to get out of the predicament he's in.
Boone's motivation is clearly Shannon. Flashing back, he flies to Australia when she beckons him. She has invented a scenario involving her current boyfriend that leads Boone to believe she is being abused. He buys the boyfriend off with $50,000, but realizes later that he got scammed. Boone's mother won't give Shannon the money she is owed from her father's death, so Shannon has to con it out of Boone who is her step-brother. This time Shannon got played too because the boyfriend took the money and ran. An inebriated Shannon comes to Boone at his Sydney hotel and says she knew he would come for her since he's always been in love with her. Either out of gratitude or drunkenness she sleeps with him, but quickly decides that things should just go back to the way they were. If you look beyond how kind of icky this is, it does suck for Boone to be in love with someone that can play him like a toy. He has no control in this relationship.
While Boone is tied up and on his own, Locke runs into Sayid on his way back to camp. He is pouring over Rousseau's maps. He has rigged up a MacGyver like compass to assist in his project. Locke gives him the actual compass he has been using since he does not need it anymore. Is this the compass that has passed back and forth between he and Richard so much this past season? Sayid later notices with Jack that it doesn't point North. Not even close. Electromagnetic anomalies would explain a variance in degrees, but nothing as significant as what this compass displays. If only they knew how significant this really was! Can anyone say The Incident?
Whatever Locke put on Boone's head gave him the very vivid sensation of saving Shannon then watching the smoke monster kill her. (Great first look at Smokey.) Believing that Locke has caused the death of his "sister", he jumps him upon arrival back at camp. Locke explains that this experience was not real, but asks how he felt about Shannon's death. He felt relieved to be rid of something that had such a hold on him. Moral of hallucination: Time to let go. CC: Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Sayid. Locke the Leader tells Boone, "Follow me." And to the chords of chilling music, Boone does. This is very disconcerting to watch knowing as we do that this decision to follow Locke will lead to Boone's death. And it hammers home the whole last half of Season 5 when a "resurrected Locke" convinces the Others to follow him as well.
In other island developments:
- Charlie tells Jack he trusts Locke more than anyone else to save them all because he saved him from drug addiction. Charlie may want to get a new sponsor because his hero has taken to making wacky paste that will send you on a strange and scary trip!
- Jin and Hurley make comedy gold with kooky sea urchin mishaps, but that's the only thing that's golden since Jin refuses to pee on Hurley's wound to prevent gangrene. Hurley's name seems very appropriate in this episode with all the digestive issues.
- Though they've had some rocky patches recently, Jack and Kate sow the seeds of forgiveness with all their talk of passion fruit and guava.
- It is mentioned that Shannon was previously married, but we get no more information on the man. Poor bastard.
- Kate discovers Sun can speak English and is confounded as to why she keeps this from her husband. Sun asks Kate if she has ever lied to a man she loves. The question with the shorter answer is whether Kate has ever told a man she loves the truth.
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