Summary
Rose and Bernard stack the newly arrived Dharma Initiative
supplies on makeshift shelves on the beach. Bernard notes
how much easier the people on this side of the island have
things compared to what the tailies had to endure. He
tells Rose that constructing a kitchen on the beach is
a sign that people have given up on being rescued. Rose
looks uncomfortable at the mention of the word, "rescue."
In the hatch, Locke tries to recreate the map he saw on
the blast door. Whether he no longer cares or whether he's
too wrapped up in his map making, he almost allows the
timer to count down to zero before Jack prompts him to
enter the numbers.
Jack pays "Henry" a visit. He's on a two-day hunger strike.
No food. No water. No talking. Jack goes to change the
dressing on his wound and tells him he plans to go to "the
line" and propose an exchange, Henry for Walt. Henry breaks
his silence and tells Jack that they'll never give up Walt.
Our first flashback takes us to when Rose and Bernard
first met. He helped her get her car unstuck from the snow,
despite her protestations that she could do it herself.
Afterward, she offers to buy him a cup of coffee. On the
island, Bernard has come up an idea, and he tries to get
as many people as possible to gather around and hear it.
In the hatch, Jack gathers things for his trek into the
jungle. Ana Lucia gives him her gun and offers to go with
him. With Locke acting oddly, he prefers her to stay and
watch Henry. Jack goes to the beach and asks Kate to go
with him. She agrees, much to Sawyer's displeasure.
Bernard explains his idea. The fact that a plane dropped
the food means that planes occasionally fly overhead. He
wants to construct a massive S.O.S. on the beach so that
planes (or even satellites) can see it. Rose undercuts
him by suggesting they run the idea past Jack first. He
says Jack is "just a doctor," to which she replies, "you're
a dentist." He takes her aside, wondering what the big
deal is with making a sign. She tells him he's just giving
people false hope. He walks off to start work on his sign.
Flash back to a restaurant overlooking (presumably) Niagara
Falls. Bernard proposes to Rose, even though they'd only
known each other for five months. Rather than answer his
"will you marry me," Rose tells Bernard that she's dying.
Her doctors tell her she's got a year, maybe more. Bernard
still wants to get married, and she accepts his proposal.
Bernard finds Eko and Charlie working on their own construction
project. He asks for their help in building the S.O.S.,
but they both decline. They're building a church. Bernard
notes that everyone is building something, but he's trying
to get them saved. Eko replies that, "people are saved
in different ways."
In the hatch, Locke gets frustrated with his inability
to reproduce the map. He decides to go back to Henry. Ana
Lucia won't let him open the door since Jack has the gun,
and Locke yells at Henry through the door, demanding to
know whether Henry really did enter the numbers when Locke
was stuck under the blast doors (previously, Henry claimed
he didn't). Locke gets furious when Henry refuses to respond,
and we see Henry smiling to himself at Locke's reaction.
Bernard drags a few huge volcanic rocks onto the beach
where he wants to construct his sign. Already, several
people have decided they're not interested in helping,
and Bernard is down to seven helpers, including Hurley,
Jin and Sun. His plan is to create 40' tall letters, spelling
"SOS." To get maximum contrast with the sand, he wants
to use rocks like the kind he's brought to the beach. The
catch is that the lava field is a half-mile away, and it's
going to take a lot of rocks. Jin isn't too happy about
the idea of dragging the rocks that far. Hurley isn't happy
because Bernard tasked everyone else to get the rocks while
he sketches out the letters in the sand.
Flash back to Rose and Bernard's honeymoon. They're in
the Australian Outback. Rose thinks they're lost, but
Bernard has brought her there to see "Isaac of Uluru,"
a healer. Bernard made a $10,000 donation to get her in
to see him. Rose is ticked, saying, "I didn't ask for this!"
She's made her peace with what's happening to her, but
he hasn't. It's not in him to not at least try, and he
asks her to see the faith healer for him.
Bernard tries to get Sawyer to help with the sign. Not
interested. Bernard tells Rose that she should be happy.
He started out with fifteen helpers, and now he's down
to four. She suggests that he may be losing helpers because
he's got a management problem. He can't understand why
she isn't supporting him when he's just
trying to "do
something." She tells him he's always doing something,
and should try to just let things be once in a while. He
tells her that if it weren't for him "doing something,"
she wouldn't be here. (granted, "here" is stranded on an
island, but still...)
Making their way through the jungle, Kate tells Jack she's
flattered he chose her over Sawyer for the trek. Jack tells
her he chose her because The Others had her and let her
go. They didn't want her. They didn't want him either.
She says they're both damaged goods. Over Jacks objection,
she picks up a baby doll she finds on the jungle floor.
It springs a trap, catching them both in a net and suspending
them high above the ground. Kate manages to get Jacks gun.
She shoots at the rope and misses. Jack takes a shot and
hits, dropping the net to the ground (with them tangled
inside it).
Bernard brings a load of rocks to the beach. He freaks
when he sees that Jin (apparently, his only remaining helper)
has started to place the rocks in a single row. He'd asked
for three rows, so that the letters would be thick enough
to be seen. Jin doesn't take kindly to being reamed, and
leaves Bernard to fend for himself.
Rose finds Locke sitting with his crutches in the sand
near the ocean in "her spot." She's surprise to see him
out
of the
hatch.
He says that he's done with the hatch. Rose doesn't buy
it. She says he be off the crutches and back to normal
in no time. Locke tells her Jack expects that to take four
weeks. She tells him they "both know" it won't take that
long.
Flashback. Rose meets with Isaac. He tells her there are
certain spots on the Earth, like the one they're on top
of, that have great power. The power may be geological,
magnetic or "something else." Whenever possible, he harnesses
that energy and uses it to heal people. He places his hands
on either side of Roses head and concentrates for a moment.
Then his eyes fly open and he tells her he can't help her.
She, of course, didn't really expect him to.
Isaac tells her that there are different places with different
energies, and this isn't the place for her. She asks where
is, but he doesn't know (the island, duh!). He offers to
return Bernard's donation, but she tells him to keep it.
She's going to tell Bernard that Isaac "fixed" her.
Kate and Jack continue their trek. She lets him in on
her secret, that she, Claire and Rousseau found another
hatch, and inside she found The Others costumes and makeup
kits. Jack asks when she was planning on telling him. When
he let her back into the club, she responds. The reach
the clearing where Zeke drew the imaginary "do not cross"
line. Jack starts screaming that he's go their man, and
he'll be right there until they come out and talk to him.
Rose brings dinner to Bernard. He's now working alone
on his S.O.S. She apologizes, not for her lack of support,
but for lying to him in Australia. She tells him that
Isaac didn't heal her, "but that doesn't mean I'm not healed."
We flash back to the airport in Australia. Rose drops
a bottle of her medicine. Locke, still in his wheelchair,
picks it up and hands it back to her before rolling on.
Back on the island, she tells Isaac that it's the island
that healed her. Bernard figures out that she doesn't want
to be rescued because she's afraid if she is, her illness
will come back. He agrees that the two of them will never
leave the island.
Back in the hatch, Locke starts back to work on his map,
this time liking what he's producing.
Out in the jungle, it's nighttime. Jack has stopped yelling,
but only until he gets his voice back. Kate tells Jack
she's
sorry
she kissed him. He's not sorry. The conversation gets interrupted
when a man comes stumbling through the jungle and collapses.
Kate turns him over so that they can see his face. It's
Michael.
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