Previously on LOST: Locke and Boone had a lot of scenes together.
Tonight we begin with the customary eyeball shot as Boone watches his sister being approached by Sayid. He doesn't look too happy about this. The focus shifts to Sayid who is bringing Shannon a present for helping him translate Rousseau's maps. The present, by the way, is a pair of shoes, complete with box. When he met The Others, they must have had a Lady Foot Locker. Boone is distracted from his leering by Hurley who would like to know why he and Locke are out "hunting boar" every day but never bringing anything back. Boone insists that they are hunting. Hurley insists that they try harder since people gotta eat.
After he goes back to watching Sayid lay the Middle Eastern charm on Shannon, Boone flashes back to his former country club lifestyle, where he played tennis in the sunshine with beautiful women. He answers his cell phone- on the other end is a very distressed sounding Shannon. She tells him that things aren't so good and starts arguing with a man on the other end. Boone, always the hero, says he will come and get her. One guess where she is- if you said, Sydney, Australia- you win.
Back in the present, Boone gives Sayid a "friendly suggestion" to stay away from his sister. Before Boone can give an answer to "What if I don't?", Locke summons him back into the magical jungle. Moments later, as they are walking, Locke tells his young friend to put aside his differences with Sayid. They are going to want him on their side. Boone doesn't think to ask on their side of what. Instead, he brings up the fact that people are talking and noticing that they bring nothing back. Locke dismisses this- there is plenty of other food and what they are doing is more important. Then he uncovers the brush from their new top priority- the metal hatch they have dug up. Cue creepy LOST title screen.
Elsewhere in the jungle, Hurley confides to Jack that he is having some digestive problems. On a fruit-only diet, we can imagine what those problems might be. Jack suggests more protein- like the fish that Jin has been catching. This brings Hurley to his other problem- he feels that Jin was offended by Hurley's rejection of the sea urchin Happy Meal back on Day 1and has made no further offers of fish or even made eye contact. The conversation ends when the digestive matters become more urgent on Hurley's end and he disappears into the jungle with his handful of leaves.
Jack then turns his attention to spying on Kate, who of course, is being very shady about what she is up to as she crouches low to the ground collecting something. She busts him and reveals that she is collecting passion fruit seeds. He agrees to follow her to see what they are for. Kate leads him to a small clearing where Sun has started a garden. Jack congratulates her on a good idea, especially since Locke is no longer providing boar. Kate speculates that Locke is doing that on purpose.
Deeper in the jungle, Boone ponders how to get the hatch open, as it is seriously sealed. When he asks Locke why he is just sitting there mixing something in a bowl, Locke responds with a story about Michelangelo's work habit of just staring at a block of marble for months until he was ready to carve it. He says that is what they have to do with their hatch problem- work it out in their heads first. As Locke continues to ponder the question of how to open a hatch with no discernible handle, Boone flashes back to his arrival at Shannon's front door in Sydney. Unfortunately for him, she has changed her story and tells him to come back tomorrow because she and her man are going out with friends. No one brings up the large bruise on her forehead. Boone glares at them both and leaves quietly.
Back at a more remote beach location than we normally see, Hurley begs Jin, who is making his triumphant return to television, to tell him where he gets his fish from. If Jin is not going to give him any, he at least wants to get some on his own. Jin says something in Korean and walks away. Hurley speculates that it was mean.
Walking back from the hatch, Boone says that they have to tell everyone about their find. Locke disagrees, saying that the others are not ready and wouldn't understand. Boone at least wants to tell his sister. Locke disagrees again, but the young man is quite insistent. After Locke makes sure Boone is aware of the ramifications, he knocks him out with the handle of his knife.
Boone awakens to find himself tied up and begins to plead with Locke to untie him. Locke explains that he is doing all this because it is time for Boone to let go of some things. He takes the contents of his bowl from earlier and spreads it over the wound he created on Boone's head. Then he tosses a knife at his feet and says he can leave any time he wants as soon as he has the proper motivation. Boone shouts for him, but Locke has left. As the camera swirls around him, Boone tries his best to stretch himself within the confines of the ropes and reach the knife.
Boone distracts himself from his own cries for help by thinking back to his visit to a police station in Sydney. He is trying to get Shannon's boyfriend arrested for abuse but there is really nothing to go on. Sawyer has a brief cameo here as he is dragged into a cell screaming that no one wants to hear his side of the story. The officer questions why Boone and Shannon have different last names- it's because they are step siblings- not even related by blood, which makes it even more impossible for the police to do anything with Boone's complaint. Boone tries to get help by dropping his mother's name, but only gets mocked for it. Boone's next move is to visit Brian at the docks where he pays the man off to sever ties with his sister forever. His love is worth $50,000, which Boone promptly cuts him a check for.
Back over in the new garden, Kate is telling Sun about the (probably fake) plans she had for herself until fate got in the way. Sun's smile at Kate's ironic comment quickly turns to dismay when Kate puts it all together and realizes that Sun can understand English. All Sun can come up with is, "Please don't tell anyone".
In shallow water, Hurley and Jin are fishing near each other but not together, one having much more success than the other. Just as Hurley concedes defeat, he steps on a sea urchin and cries in pain from the sting. Jin comes to his aid but stops short at peeing on the big man's foot, even going so far as to shout "No!" which draws a quizzical look from Hurley.
Elsewhere, at an undisclosed jungle location, Sayid is trying his best to coordinate himself on Roussaeu's maps but seems to be having little success. He is startled by Locke, who unconvincingly tells him that Boone gave him the day off. Locke takes an interest in what Sayid is doing and gives him a compass, which heclaims to not need anymore.
All that flashing back with film-like accuracy has caused Boone to fall asleep, but his rest is short lived when he hears Shannon screaming for help. She is also tied up apparently. The trees begin to tremble and roars are heard as GIM (Giant Invisible Monster) makes his presence known. At last properly motivated, Boone struggles to stretch himself out and grasp the knife. He cuts himself free, runs over to cut his sister free and then they duck for cover in some brush as GIM gets louder and draws ever closer.
In a calmer part of the jungle, Sayid presents an interesting phenomenon to Jack. The island is apparently not obeying universal laws of nature since the compass points to North in the wrong direction. Either that or, you know, the compass might be broken. Sayid suggests this, which seems to put some doubt about Locke into Jack's mind.
While we're on the subject of Locke bashing, things have quieted down for Boone and Shannon giving Shannon the opening to ask what Boone did to piss the guy off. She doesn't believe that he would tie her up in the jungle out of boredom. Boone flashes back to his second arrival at Shannon's door- he is ready to take her away from all this. But when Shannon stays rooted in place next to Brian and can't even look her step-brother in the eye, Boone finally realizes that he has been set up. Brian helpfully reveals that Shannon feels screwed out of an inheritance Boone's mom kept for herself. Boone loses his temper and receives a beat down from Brian until Shannon puts a stop to it and lets Boone walk out with just a bloody nose.
Jack finds Locke sitting on the beach watching for ships and sits down to chat with him. Their conversation doesn't delve too deep other than Locke fearing that the boars are migrating away from their new human predators. Elsewhere, Kate agrees to keep Sun's secret, though she cannot understand why Sun wants it that way. Because she loves her husband is the answer. Wasn't it obvious, Kate? You must feel dumb now!
At the beach, Hurley tries to trick Jin into confirming the rumor that he can speak English by telling him his wife is hot, but either Jin is extremely disciplined about his deception or he really just doesn't. Hurley then gets a second chance at sea urchin, but spits it out. Over at the crash site, Jack has moved on to talk to Charlie about how's he doing and what he thinks of Locke. Charlie reveals his first impression that the guy was a psycho, but goes on to say how he saved his life and that Locke could be the one man on the island to save them all.
Over in Cavetown, Hurley returns to find Michael looking into a box of secrets and happily watching his son play with Vincent. Jin brings the big man a fish as an apparent peace offering, then heads over to the falls to be with his wife. Also, Jack has teleported over to hand Kate some guava seeds. There was no importance to this exchange- I just wanted to point out that Jack is the real mystery of this island because he can be anywhere and talk to anyone regardless of continuity. Must have gone to Hogwarts School of Medicine.
Boone and Shannon are now lost in the jungle and as they argue, Boone breaks down and tells her about the hatch. That's just bad island karma, my friend, because no sooner does he get done speaking when a tree behind them is uprooted with monstrous force. GIM is back and the siblings take off running. Unfortunately, Shannon is not quite fast enough and gets snatched off her feet as Boone looks on in horror.
As Boone frantically searches the jungle for his sister, he flashes back to when she showed up at his hotel room door to tell him that Brian took the money and ran. At least he didn't have to shoot a man while robbing his castle. Shannon speculates that Boone brought the money because he is really in love with her- an accusation he denies until she starts kissing him and kissing him and he starts kissing back and, this not being HBO and just a tad bit creepy anyway, we are faded out of the scene. In the very next scene, Shannon has sobered up and tells Boone that they'll go home and pretend that the whole night never happened. Back in the present, Boone finds blood on some rocks which leads him to find Shannon's mangled body on the edge of a stream. He holds her and cries when he realizes she is dead. We are down to the final 45.
I am glad I record until 9:05 EST because we are now into some serious overrun. Boone has returned to camp at night, brandishing a knife and charging toward Locke. Locke fights him off and asks where the blood isif Shannon really died in her brother's arms. Hurting Boone's case even more is the fact that Shannon is standing a few feet away chatting with Sayid at the waterfall. Boone rightfully wants to know what in the heck is going on. Locke asks "Is that what it made you see?" and Boone realizes that Locke may have drugged him with the goop on the head earlier. Locke spins it as an experience vital to Boone's survival. When Boone found his dead sister, the feeling he tearfully admits having was one of relief. Now, Locke says, Boone is ready to let go. And they walk off into the darkness of the jungle at night. Fade out. So I guess we're actually back up to 46 survivors with that classic cop-out twist.
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