Summary
Desmond, Hurley, Charlie and Jin make their way through
the jungle in the rain. Charlie and Hurley are in the middle
of a discussion over whether Flash or Superman would win
in a foot-race when Charlie steps into one of Rousseau's
traps. He ends up with an arrow lodged in his throat and
dies. We then see several of Desmond's flashes: Hurley
grabbing the cable that originally led him to Rousseau,
a beacon flashing in the sky, the picture of Desmond and
Penney, Jin holding a parachute, and the dangling feet
of a parachutist.
The flashes and Charlie's death are all part of Desmond's
visions. He spots Charlie, still alive, in camp. Desmond
asks Hurley where the cable is. Hurley wants to know why.
"Because someone's coming."
Flash back. Desmond is in a monastery, having just completed
his indoctrinational vow of silence. The monk in charge,
Brother , admits he never thought Desmond would make it,
but he presents Desmond with his robes.
Back on the island, Desmond borrows the first aid kit
from Jack, making up a story about having twisted his ankle.
Hurley's thinks it means that Desmond saw someone get hurt
in his visions and wants to know if it's him. Desmond says
it's just as a precaution. Before Hurley will take Desmond
to the wire, he wants an explanation.
Desmond explains that the flashes he sees are like pieces
of a jigsaw puzzle, only he doesn't have the picture on
the puzzle box so he doesn't know how those pieces will
fit together. He know that the first piece is a vision
he saw of Hurley pulling the cable from the ground. If
he tells anyone the other pieces, it'll change the picture
on the box. Unlike when he wanted to change that picture
with saving Charlie, Desmond desperately wants to keep
this picture from changing.
Sawyer drops in on Kate and catches her changing into
her clothes. He asks if she's told Jack about the two of
them. Because of the Other's cameras, she didn't have to.
With their relationship out in the open, he proposes an
afternoon romp in the hay. Kate brushes him off. He sarcastically
asks if she wants him to make her a mix tape. She tells
him that would be a good start.
To keep the puzzle picture from changing, Desmond needs
to recruit Jin. Hurley comes up with the idea to invite
Jin to go camping on the beach. How, exactly, that would
be different from what they do every single day, I don't
know, but apparently the promise of marshmallows is too
much for Jin to resist. Yes, he'll go camping.
Charlie isn't so easy to convince. He picks up immediately
that this isn't just a camping trip but is related to one
of Desmond's visions. He only agrees to go after Desmond
assures him, falsely, that this vision had nothing to do
with Charlie dying.
The camping quartet find the cable buried in the sand
with Hurley doing exactly what Desmond saw in his vision.
Hurley also reminds Desmond that the last time he followed
the cable into the jungle he almost got killed by one of
Rousseau's
traps. Desmond says they're not going into the jungle,
at least not yet. They make camp for the night.
Flash back. Brother Desmond works in the monastery's winery.
He mentions to Brother X that he finds the choice of names,
Moriah Vineyards, a puzzling choice. Moriah was the name
of the mountain where Abraham was asked to sacrifice his
own son, Isaac. He notes that it's not the most festive
of names. Brother X points out that God spared Isaac. Desmond
counters that perhaps God needn't have asked Abraham to
sacrifice Isaac in the first place. That wouldn't have
made for much of a test of faith. Perhaps, Brother X says,
Desmond doesn't fully appreciate the value of sacrifice.
The two return to their work and a third monk interrupts.
There's a man that's come requesting to see Desmond. The
man steps out from behind the monk and punches Desmond
in the nose, bloodying it. The man crosses himself, apologizes
to Brother X and leaves. Brother X looks questioningly
at Desmond, but Desmond only asks forgiveness.
It's night time on the island. Kate sits in the makeshift
kitchen finishing off a bowl of oatmeal. Jack walks up
and starts preparing some food. Kate tries to make small
talk, mentioning how strange it is to be back and not trying
to find a way out of a cage or go running off into the
jungle. Jack tells her to enjoy it while she can. Something
is bound to go wrong sooner or later. He takes his food
and goes to sit and eat with Juliet.
Kate reacts to Jack's dinner plans by going to see Sawyer.
She lets herself into his tent and essentially jumps him.
He asks her if she's been crying, and she tells him to
shut up. She doesn't have to ask twice.
Hurley and Charlie listen as Jin tells a Korean ghost
story (in Korean, of course). After the story, Charlie
notices Desmond looking at the picture he keeps with him
and asks him about it. Desmond shows Charlie the picture,
and Charlie asks how he managed to leave Penny behind.
"Because I'm a coward," he replies. He tells Charlie that
she once tracked him down and told him that with enough
money and determination, you can find anyone. He likes
to think that she's spent the last three years trying to
find him.
The campers hear a helicopter approaching, but something
goes wrong and it splashes down off shore. Jin spots a
flashing beacon descending over the interior of the island,
another
piece of Desmond's puzzle.
Desmond wants to head into the jungle immediately looking
for whoever jumped out of the helicopter. Charlie recalls
Hurley's warning about Rousseau's death traps and wants
to wait the couple of hours until light. Desmond reluctantly
agrees to wait when Charlie refuses to come along otherwise.
After all, all of them have to go because that's the way
the puzzle goes.
Flash back. Desmond shows up at the residence of Ruth,
his former fiancee. He's greeted at the door by Derek,
the man that punched him at the monastery. He looks like
he'd like to punch Desmond again, but Ruth calls him off.
Once inside, Desmond tells Ruth that he'd like to explain
what happened with the wedding. Ruth reminds him that what
happened is that he disappeared one week before the wedding,
after everything was bought and paid for.
Desmond tells Ruth that he had a calling. Ruth notes that
they dated for six years and "the closes you ever
came to a religious experience was Celtic winning the cup."
He explains that he'd been nervous about the wedding had
a few too many drinks. He asked himself if he was doing
the right thing then blacked out. The next thing he remembered
was being out in the street with a monk standing over him
offering to help him. At that moment he knew he was supposed
to leave everything important to him behind and go with
that monk to be a part of something greater than himself.
Ruth isn't impressed. She tells him that the next time
he wants to break up with a girl, don't join a monastery,
just tell her he's too scared.
On the beach, Juliet works on her shelter with Jack's
help. Sawyer interrupts them to challenge Jack to a game
of ping pong. Sawyer is thrilled to find a game he can
beat Jack at. He, too, mentions how strange it is to be
back. Jack tells him that Kate said the same thing in the
kitchen the night before. Sawyer doesn't look thrilled
at that bit of news, nor at Jack's telling him that he
ate dinner with Juliet rather than Kate.
Trudging through the jungle, Charlie asks Desmond what's
next. Desmond says that nothing's next, they find the beacon,
that's all. Charlie asks why Desmond is lying to him. Desmond
angrily reminds Charlie that he's saved Charlie's life
three times, and that should have earned Charlie's trust.
They continue on and find a bag that was apparently dropped
by the person that dropped from the helicopter. One of
the items in the bag is a book titled, Ardil-22,
which is the Portuguese title for Catch-22. Inside
the book, Desmond finds another copy of his picture of
him and Penny. Also in the bag is a satellite phone, though
it's battery is dead.
Sawyer gives Kate her mix tape, which is actually a copy
of "Phil Collins' Greatest Hits" he swiped from
Bernard. He asks her whether she jumped him because she
saw Jack
with Juliet. She tells him it's not like that. He doesn't
buy it. He tells her she doesn't have to use him, she just
has to ask.
A storm approaches as the hiking party continues into
the jungle. Charlie asks if Desmond thinks that it was
Penny that jumped from the helicopter. He says that earlier
he hoped it. Now he knows it. Charlie asks why Desmond
didn't just tell them in the first place. Desmond said
he wanted everything to be the same, which Charlie seems
to take at face value. It starts to rain.
Flash back. Brother Desmond has finished off one bottle
of the monastery's wine and is working on a second. Brother
X finds him and tells him that one bottle of wine costs
over 100 quid. The monastery only bottled 108 cases for
the whole year. Desmond apologizes for the wine and says
he'll take the penance. Brother X tells Desmond that he's
beyond penance. He's not cut out to be a monk. In fact,
he's fired.
Desmond protests that he heard the call, which Brother
X doesn't doubt, but he also knows that the Abbey isn't
where he's meant to be. He feels that God has other plans
in store for Desmond, bigger plans. Desmond doubts this,
but Brother X tells him he's spend too much time running
away to realize what he's running toward.
Back in the jungle, Hurley and Charlie finally get into
their Superman-Flash discussion. Desmond recognizes the
conversation and starts looking for the trap. He sees the
arrow pointed in their direction, but says nothing. He
sees the trip wire and again says nothing. Charlie steps
on the wire. At the last moment, Desmond decides to save
Charlie and knocks him out of the way. Charlie sees the
arrow, figures out that Desmond knew it was coming, and
is more than a little bit pissed, though he doesn't say
anything about it. Desmond, on the other hand, silently
worries about how the picture on the
box
has
just
changed.
Desmond and Jin disagree on which way to go to find the
beacon, so they split up, with Jin and Hurley going one
way and Charlie and Desmond going the other. Charlie confronts
Desmond about knowing about the arrow ahead of time. He
accuses Desmond of being willing to sacrifice him to save
his girlfriend. Desmond tells Charlie that if things don't
happen exactly the way he sees him, the final outcome changes.
He tells Charlie he was supposed to let him die. He keeps
saving Charlie, but nothing makes a difference. He thinks
that maybe this was a test like Abraham's, but Desmond
failed because he didn't allow Charlie to die. Their conversation
is interrupted when Jin and Hurley find the parachutist
hanging in a tree, motionless.
Desmond goes to Brother X's office to return his robes.
He tells Desmond that Brother Martin can take him into
town in a few hours if he doesn't mind doing a little heavy
lifting. We cut to Desmond loading crates of wine onto
a dolly. We hear Brother X discussing the wine with a woman
that turns out to be Penny. Desmond loads the wind into
her car and meets her for the first time. They chat a bit
about his being fired from being a monk and she has him
accompany her to unload the wine at her destination.
Desmond cuts the parachutist down, with Jin, Charlie and
Hurley using the parachute to catch her as she falls. The
woman is still alive. Desmond runs to her side and takes
off her head gear to see her face. It's not Penny, but
the woman still calls him by name before blacking out.
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