Previously, on LOST: Rousseau bemoans her past encounters with the Others, and we look at Claire getting kidnapped, Charlie getting hung, Jack getting attacked by Ethan, Ana-Lucia talking about the Other 48 Days, Eko and Jin running into the Others, Ana-Lucia shooting Shannon, and the Others threatening them.
Flashback: Bombs are falling on a bunker in Iraq, as they attempt to shred files faster, but American soldiers break into the bunker and ask for whoever’s in charge to tell the other men to stop destroying evidence. Sayid finally does it when his commanding officer doesn’t do it, but lies about the commanding officer not being there. Sayid is later hired as a translator, and is introduced to his commanding officer, who they are apparently about to interrogate.
Ana-Lucia comes running up to Sayid asking for Jack, so Sayid and Ana-L go off on their own and Ana points out an Other walking through the jungle. Sayid wants to go it alone, and he eventually comes across to find Danielle. She’s looking for Sayid.
LOST…?
Danielle is leading Sayid to a place where there is something that will help Sayid, so if he still can’t trust her, Danielle hands over her rifle just in case she’s lying.
Flashback: The interrogation begins, and Sayid translates the American soldier’s sentences well enough, but his CO’s responses are translated to an “he does not know,” even though they’re more along the line of calling his mother a goat and asking Sayid to grab the soldier’s gun and kill a few in an attempt to make an escape. Sayid refuses to translate what he hears though, and the soldier knows about it, asking to get Sayid locked up again so that they can get a new translator.
Sawyer is awoken by a series of sounds on the island, but Jin doesn’t want to help him find them, so Sawyer goes off on his own into the jungle. He finds Hurley with a secret food stash, but doesn’t get much time to harp on it, since the noise continues. Hurley identifies it as a tree frog, and Sawyer asks for his help finding it in exchange for Sawyer not tattling on Hurley’s food.
Sayid and Danielle arrive at Danielle’s destination, and Danielle makes sure to tell Sayid to slow down, but he gets a good eyeful of the trap in front of him, a trap that has already been sprung and that has captured a man. Sayid tries to run towards it and then Danielle informs him that it’s one of the Others. Sayid cuts him down but Danielle shoots him through the chest with an arrow. But the man does not die. Sayid takes him away to find a doctor to get him patched up before the interrogation…
Flashback: As Sayid is led to meet with another American soldier. The soldier understands that he has loyalty and other honorable values, but shows him a videotape of a marketplace getting hit with serin gas, and then questions his loyalty. All the soldier wants is his pilot back, and then Sayid informs him that Tariq will never talk–so the soldier gives him a big toolbox and informs him to make him talk.
Locke is awakened in the hatch by Sayid, as they join Henry Gale, still with an arrow in his chest but now they’re interrogating them. Turns out they crashed on the island five months ago when a balloon they were riding in failed to cross the Pacific. His wife died three weeks ago of an illness, and at that point Jack arrives to ask what’s going on. Jack wants to help the man, though, despite him possibly being an Other. “You shot him with an arrow?” “Do I have a bow?” Jack seems ready to treat him, but Sayid wants Jack to keep him tied up.
Sawyer and Hurley are moving through the jungle as Hurley actually corrects Sawyer on one of his nicknames, and Sawyer gets a little too rude for Hurley and goes to walk away, but Sawyer apologizes because this tree frog is killing him.
Jack removes the arrow as Locke doesn’t think there’s any way to get the truth out of him, but Sayid doesn’t find that to be entirely true. He suggests that Locke change the combination lock on the armory, since Jack knows it right now and he’s going to be disagreeing with some of the tactics that Sayid will use to try and get the truth out of Henry Gale.
Back in the hatch, Jack is almost finished patching Henry up, and hasn’t said anything while this has happened since he was in shock. Sayid and Locke want to put him in the armory to get him out of the hatch, and Jack agrees to it, for now. They go to get the cot to make the man more comfortable, but Sayid stays behind and locks the door behind him. Jack notices this and goes to get Sayid back out, but, of course, the combination doesn’t work. Sayid is doing what needs to be done.
Flashback: Sayid has the torture box and begins unloading its contents, with Tariq being a bastard the whole time, until Sayid finally tortures him after spitting in his face. The pilot was executed two days ago and buried in a field four kilometers away. Sayid agrees to take the soldiers there…
Back at the hatch, Jack’s combination doesn’t work, and Locke finally breaks the news to Jack that the combination was changed. Locke says that if Jack is building an army, then they must be at war, and when you’re at war you do certain things to get information. “What if he’s telling the truth?” “What if he’s not?”
Inside the armory, Sayid ties up Henry some more and then tells Henry to get up. Henry tells him more or less the same story with a few extra details–“it started as a fever, she got delirious after two days and then she died!”, and when Henry finally gets Sayid to say something about himself, Sayid ends it with this harrowing sentence. “My name is Sayid Jarahaa(sp?) and I am a torturer.”
Sawyer and Hurley are making tracks through the jungle, and they finally find the tree frog. Hurley suggests that they try to find the tree frog another location two beaches away, but Sawyer’s got a better idea and crushes him in his hand. “I hear with a little ranch they taste just like chicken. Sawyer hands over the remains of the frog to Hurley.
Jack is cleaning up from his arrow removal, as Locke offers to help but Jack says nothing. Until he says “shut up”. Ouch. Turns out the pliers are missing.
Sayid wants to know about the balloon. Henry gives the dimensions, and since he was rich and she thought it was cute, they did it. Sayid asks where she was buried and how far her grave was dug, but Henry can’t give an answer and Sayid thinks he’s lying if he can’t remember every shovelful that was dug for her. Sayid starts punching the hell out of the man as Jack physically threatens Locke to open the armory…as the button alarm goes off. Jack was convinced into hitting the button once, but now if Locke wants to hit it, he’s got to open the armory. He finally does it and scrambles to the computer, but fumbles over the numbers…the alarm hits zero…and the numbers start spinning and stopping on what looks like HIEROGLYPHICS?!?!?!!?!?!?!? Finally it looks like Locke hits some kind of combination like Control+Alt+Delete and the timer RESETS! Jack pulls Sayid out of the armory before he can stomp a mudhole in Henry, and then looks at Henry’s face as the armory door is shut.
Sayid is convinced that Henry is one of them, because Sayid knows. Locke agrees since, to Danielle, everyone here is an Other. It’s all relative.
Flashback: Sayid is being led out to the middle of the desert, and he is left there by soldiers as they are pulling out of Iraq which means that Sayid will likely still be employed by Sadaam. “At least you’ve got a new skill set.” Sayid promises to not use that again as he is cut free, but the commander promises him that there will come a time when he will need to use it to get what he needs to know. Sayid is handed a thousand dollars and they roll out.
On the beach, Sayid sits with the uber-heel Charlie as Sayid informs Charlie of the man in the armory. Why? Jack asked him how Sayid knew, and Sayid knows because he feels no guilt for what he did to Henry Gale. “But there’s no way I can ever explain that to Jack or even Locke, because both of them have forgotten.” “Forgotten? What?” “That you were strung up by your neck and left for dead. That Claire was taken and kept for days during which God only knows what happened to her. That these people, these Others, are merciless and can take any one of us whenever they choose. So tell me, Charlie, have you forgotten?”
